Well I got my Druid up to 58 now. This is the first time I have power leveled a toon and my /played is at 3 days 23 hours. I know it not very impressive, but there were some things I did that wasted time(not that I regret them) just learning. I pvped some, and I quested up to 18(It took me 18 hours to get to 18, almost no rested). Had some trouble dying and what not. I started a pally did starting zone -11, RFC -> 16, 1 WC run -> 17 and that took 7.5 hours.

I have also charted my progress, and as long as you knock out 3-4 levels per instance it makes the trips between worth it. I ran WC(the second time) because I am levling my JC/Minining, and I was there.

**Rested bonus - I really struggled with not using my rested bonus. Because double the exp is so sweet. Well I took a mage from 1-60, 100% rested just doing quests) pre patch 2.3 and it took 5 days 15 hours. Although once you hit 60 I think it is totally worth waiting on the rested bonus. For instance in SM, you could hit level 35 non rested in 45 mins, or you could wait a week and a half and knock it out in 25 mins. But you would also have to get to an inn and run back to the instance which would take 5-6 mins...

Again this is with an aoe class, pally or mage. I also do all the quests for the zones, because they can usually be found in major cities and my mage can port them.

1->11 Starting zone

12->16 RFC (auto follow spam rank 1 aoe) never stop to loot, except bosses. I really hardly break stride in this instance. At 16 the progress starts to slow.

17->24 SFK (again auto follow spam rank 1) once you get enough hit your higher rank aoe. Again no need to loot unless you loot while the main drinks. With this strat you main should have a ton of mana left over. Also remember the aoe cap is intended to effect when you have 10+ mobs, so if you have 10 or 15 mobs its the same total damage, just spread out over 15 units rather than 10.

25->28 RFK If you are trying to set some record, stay in SM. If you want some varitey and good loot go to RFK. I auto followed, spammed rank 1 aoe.


25 -> 28 SM, because you toon is a lower level, and there is a good aggro/death chance. i reccommend the main round up groups then aoeing. This avoids corpse runs and really doesn't add much time. Also skip graveyard, and only do library as little as possible(I had LOS issues, and missed some guys wich caused deaths).

29->40 SM Back to the cath/armory. Now you can finally wear all the blues that have been dropping.

from a powerleveling perspective you could go to ZF and grind that out. But I found that power questing can move things along very quickly. You need to go to Arathi to level your first aid(knock out some quests there). You might as well take your new mount go to badlands knock out the 4-5 uldman quests(with one more friend), also do the quests in the badland(some you just have to buy some things from the AH).

Arathi/badlands/Ulda->43

or ZF ->40->43

At 43 there is a quest chain that starts on the east coast of tanaris that leads to the ST. get that and go to Feleras.

There are a bunch of quests in feleras(sorry allies) that you can knock out quick.

Next feralas(quests)/ZF/Tanaris(quests)->47

Go to the hinterlands and knock out all the quests for JintAlo... whatever it's called. The MOBs are non elite now, and the quests still give the same rewards.

ST 48->50 This zone is pretty friendly to aoe grinding. I'm sure for a pally it would be much easier. The drops are great and there a some good quests for here as well.

Ungoro Crater 51-52 there are a ton of quests here and with your main leading the way they should be knocked out quickly. The exp from dungeons vs the time it takes just seems to be a waste without quests.

Felwood 53->54 There are enough quests here for 2 full levels.

Winterspring 55->56 More good quests/exp

Well I know you aren't supposed to go to the outlands until 58, but did you know you can get honor earlier?

Hellfire Pennusla, if you are trying to level as fast as possible this probably isn't the way to go, but if you care about honor and being in a good position for tradeskills/rewards when you hit 70 then you may want to follow this.

The path to glory had orcs on it that give 5 honor thrallmar/HH up until 2999/3000 neutral. Might as well have your main grind them while following. this got me to 57,and you'll have some greens to wear.

Zangarmarsh - you need 360 unidentified plant parts fro CE rep to get to honored. you could gind out the bog lord in western Zangarmarsh, they will drop the plant parts AND give sporregar rep. You really don't want to do any CE quests until you do these plant part turnins. It makes hitting exalted much easier.

you should be at 58 now and ready to start knocking out quests. GL and I'll keep you posted on what I learn.