Most efficient dungeon leveling progression order?

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Preraid BiS gear comes from quests or drops that can be farmed from level 50-ish.

You not only want to look at your XP/h but also where you can find upgrades. Farming those while you're leveling will save you time in the long run.

Agreed.

I documented both pre-Raid (preR) Best in Slot (BiS) gear and relatively easy to obtain alternatives that you should work on between 50-60 in my spreadsheet on tabs as follows:

- Class.... : Spreadsheet Tab;
- Warriors: 'Warrior PVE preR BiS' (has gear options for both Horde & Alliance);
- Paladins: 'Paladin PVE preR BiS' (Alliance only);

For Warriors there are also Pre-Raid BiS tabs for each content patch level that is planned to be released:

-Phase 1 (1.2x): 'Warrior PVE preR';
-Phase 2 (1.4): 'w1.4 PVP';
-Phase 3 (1.6): 'w1.4 PVP';
-Phase 4 (1.8): 'w1.8 PVP';
-Phase 5 (1.10): 'w1.10 PVP';
-Phase 6 (1.12): 'w1.2 PVE';

Multiple of the best items are from 10man raids so having relatively easy to obtain alternatives was helpful for me and putting it into a spreadsheet allowed me to list the alternate sources for easy reference. Spreadsheet form also lets me track progress when I obtain an item on each character.

I also put a blank template out there for other classes on a tab named 'TEMPLATE preR BiS'. I used that to create a tab for my 'Druid Flag Runner preR' but haven't filled that out yet as I don't need my Flag Runner until Phase 3. People are welcome to make a copy of the entire spreadsheet including that tab and use it to do something similar to what I did (but for their class). There are lots of lists of BiS gear out there for class/role but most of them are just simple lists in web page form and I think spreadsheet form allows for both the listing of sources and alternates as well as actual progress tracking.

Note that if you do make one in that format for a new class please link me a copy and I will add it to the master spreadsheet...