This pinned comment is where I'll go over any additional points I forgot to discuss in the video, or where I'll detail any changes that have occurred since the video was posted. Edit 1/24/24: For Horde players, the recent Gilneas Reclamation in 10.2.5 disrupted sections of the Silverpine Forest questline. Everything is still completable, but you'll need to use a workaround that I discuss in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OKYHdTEBQXI.html Edit 7/6/23: I got YET ANOTHER World Record run, but this time it was actually kinda ridiculous. I did 10-70 in 4 1/2 hours, and my 10-60 time was only 2 1/2 hours. This new run was also done with Guardian Druid, unlike my two previous WW Monk WRs, and you can watch it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8YN6DM3kH0Y.html Edit 2/12/23: Following some recent tests, I've begun including TBC dungeons into the level 10-30 routing as I believe it's faster in specific cases. In this video I discuss all of my research and explain when you should and shouldn't level through dungeons: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2q4G-4u69c4.htmlsi=Okwzd0OGA6mI3JoW Edit 12/28/22: YES OK I KNOW THE TOY IS 10K NOT 5K I MISSPOKE IM SORRY STOP LEAVING THE SAME COMMENT 500 TIMES! Also, yes, I'm now aware that the Thrallmar Mage trick is working again. This has been fairly inconsistent, as there was a period of time where the mage was not teleporting people to Khadgar. Good to know it's now working again. Second, if you're behind on experience, just continue following the route and you'll hit 60. The level ranges given in the guide are suggestions, not rules, and if you use absolutely no experience modifiers, you will need to finish in Spires of Arak (as the guide states). I get this comment a lot, but there are way too many variables in modern WoW leveling to predict the exact level that everyone will reach at any given point. Lastly, this should be obvious, but the 3 hours in the title is referencing my world record. The point is to show that this is the time you CAN achieve, but this is with practice and proper planning. A casual time of 5-6 hours with this route is normal and is still much faster than any alternatives. You can't expect to magically match a world record time on your first attempt.
It seems like mob scaling has been altered with the release of pre patch phase 2. I tried running both a WOD intro & invasion farming, and the XP yield from invasion farming was substantially higher than the amount of XP I received from WOD intro based on time spent. This was primarily due to the fact that the mob scaling & time required to clear quest mobs seems off. Perhaps some slight adjustments will increase the efficiency, but as for now, it is my experience that invasions are faster.
@@tornadopip123 Mob scaling hasn't changed at all compared to what I tested it with. If you are personally getting better results with invasions, that's fine, but I can assure you that the route is faster when completed efficiently.
@@Harldan1 Dozens of people on reddit are reporting difficulties with killing mobs, simply due to the fact that the mobs after pre patch phase 2 today, are more hard hitting and tanky than usual. This obviously must impact the amount of time your route is able to efficiently be completed, ultimately deeming invasion XP yields better. I myself have experienced this as well.
@@tornadopip123 This scaling was present in beta, which is where I did all of my testing. It changes nothing. You're welcome to take a look at my recent world record if you want to get an idea of how fast things should take.
So I decided to follow your guide, I’m not exactly timing it but usually I to wod 10-50 (now 60) and ESPECIALLY for horde, your guide is leaps and bounds faster than starting wod at 10. I just wish it was a separate video for horde and alliance as opposed to back and forth, had a hard time keeping track lol. Either way you’re the best. ✌️✊🏻
I'll admit, I was very skeptical when I got to Spires of Arak and I was only level 46. I followed the guide to a T, not skipping any of the steps. I got a whole whopping 14 levels without even finishing all of Spires. This guide truly does work if you follow it.
Yup, that's what a lot of people don't realize. They fall ~5-10 levels behind the guide and immediately start panicking without realizing I've included a ton of bonus zones at the end.
I followed this guide as i leveled and wrote down personal notes for the alliance side. Took me all day to get from 1-60 but i had hours of breaks in between and i took time and care to understand the routes and intricacies. Next time i lvl a new class i'll optimize my run immensely thanks to this guide and my experience from today. Great work!
A few more timestamps for those looking specifically for the more Alliance focused parts: 04:32 - Alliance Levels 10-25 07:05 - Alliance Levels 25-35 10:33 - Alliance Levels 35-45 14:15 - Alliance Levels 45-60
I appreciate this, but keep in mind that the video is structured this way because there's a bit of information overlap between the Horde/Alliance sections. As a result, if you're skipping past either faction's section, you may need to rewind a bit to get the information you missed, especially for the WoD zones.
@@Harldan1 Indeed, but they are helpful for returning back to specific spots after the first time like how one puts bookmarks on a textbook. I did it more for myself to be honest.
I've just levelled a Lightforged Draenei Paladin using this. Had the Darkmoon buff and a few of the BFA exp elixirs. My /played was just over 7 hours on ding 60! Thanks for the guide!
Overall a decent VoD! Thanks for sharing the infos with us. Just one thing from me personally, id make 2 separate VODs out of it for Horde and Alliance, because as you did it, it can be a little hard to follow stuff, espacially when you are playing Alliance! Non the less, great job.
Awesome guide, great explaining of every step to follow! One of the best WoW guides I've seen in a very long time! Took me like 8 hours to reach 60, but I took breaks and shit like that. Thanks for the help :D
Very minor, but you can save a few seconds when starting the WoD chromietime by talking to the mage in front of the SHATTRATH portal to tp you directly to the dark portal next to khadgar rather than to the coastline and have to fly over to the portal
There are now dozens of people on this route, it took me about 25 minutes just to make one level because the rare mobs are dead (long respawn time) and some of the mobs respawn slowly so I had to criss cross the zone. Great video so I'll wait a few weeks til the hype dies down
A very good guide to go with. Although, I feel everyone forgets that you can do the quick (at least for alliance, not sure about the horde) quest line in Boralus to open up the portals to the other major cities. It's quite helpful to get to Ironforge quickly.
Thank you for the guide! I didn't follow it exactly cause it was my first time doing it and it took about 20 hours. The dungeon finder helped out a lot while doing thise route especially at the end 35 --> 60.
Great guide, however its hard to keep track of whats the Horde and Alliance things. Hope you do 2 separate detailed guides for horde and alliance, it would be awesome.
Just wanna say thank u as a returning WoW player. Last I played was WotLK, so a lot of things are overwhelming, and I've made like 10 characters, so this guide is a savior for my indecisiveness. Finally got a druid to 60, ready for Dragonflight after wasting so much time lol.
This is awesome, and I am very thankful for players like you. I can't do the "skipping." it's completely contrary to my completionist loremaster ways. Keep going after those world records!
To be fair, I also recommend everyone do the content atleast once. The reason I got into speedrunning is because I've already done every zone multiple times, and I was looking for a new way to challenge myself while leveling.
Nice man, one thing though, i found it slightly confusing that you kept swapping between ally/horde, maybe should have done one faction 1-60 first and then done the other faction after? I did get lost a few times because you talk fast too, but great vid, im speeding some toons up before launch :)
I did consider this, but the reality is that there's a considerable amount of overlap between the Alliance/Horde route. Splitting it up would force me to repeat myself, and it would turn a 15 minute video into one closer to 25 minutes. That being said, the written guide has dedicated Horde and Alliance sections, if that's what you prefer.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this already, but if you pull the big Yeti group quest to the entrance of the yeti cave, his highest damage ability the knock up does no damage
So I levelled a my first ever character through BFA, hit lvl 60 and then instantly started another character because I wanted to try something different. I knew that I woudn't get anywhere NEAR the 3 hour time but it was a clear route to follow so I dived in. This guide obviously isn't intended for players with 0 game knowledge and there was some stuff I had to figure out on my own/Google lol, but honestly i feel like I learned SO much about the game from this guide. Getting a Dalaran Hearth so I can port around easy is fucking amazing. In the first section with all the zombie peoples you have to run to Silverpine. The area you run through was burnt to fuck though and I kept dying trying to pass it. I'd die, res closer to the other side, inch forwards, die again rinse and repeat. 4 deaths in I saw that there was a random NPC out in the open so I spoke to her and she changed the time of the area and all the fire went away, so I could run to Silverpine without problems. I learnt how to use Chromie, where portal rooms are, more about dungeons, my way around Ogrimarr to get a mount (It's fucking confusing) and just generally increased my game knowledge a lot. I had to google some stuff, but it was all oh, so worth it. I played over the course of two weekends and finally got my lvl 60 in Spires, after doing a pretty fucking awesome quest chain with some big fucking bird spirit who you controlled and went aroung slashing people a few times with your wings. My /played at lvl 60 was over 22 hours lmao. 22 hours well spent though IMO. Thanks so much for the guide! PS the written version of the guide was REALLY helpful.
Just an fyi, when you finish in Redridge Mountains you don't actually need to go back to the flightmaster you showed, there is one at the camp where you get the Prisoners of War quest as well.
Alliance. Started the game 3 weeks ago. I dnt have 10k to spend on unlocking flight path maps. Used to just do bfa brainlessly for 3 of my char until I got very sick of the game. I have not unlocked pathfinder so I cant fly. Followed the guide and I have a lvl 60 of each class sitting there at my disposal for dragon flight in a week. Ez peazy. Took me ard 5~7 hours for each(gotta factor in familiarizing each class mechanics as I'm new to the game. Also, some classes are just faster for solo pve) Great guide seriously.
Harldan, thanks for the guide. I am following it and I completed the entirety of the Hillsbrad Foothills and The WoD Intro up to rescuing Olin Umberhide. I am only level 34. Am I missing something? I thought I was missing something at first, but I have the achievement indicating I completed the entirety of Hillsbrad. I have also completed all the hidden quests you recommend. What gives? Thanks!
It's so weird seeing all these zones jumbled together like that. I stopped playing a while ago before they did away with zone-specific levels and coming back with an alt was a really weird feeling. It's amazin how fast you can get to max level now though. That was mostly what kept me from playing alts at all.
I also highly recommend using heirloom gear to do this, upgraded up to 5/6. If you can't afford a full set, it is still worth considering buying a 2-handed weapon. Caster-class weapons will give a huge boost to intelligence and for strength/agility classes all your skills damage are proportional to your weapon damage. If your class/spec uses 2 weapons, you'll need to buy only a single one-handed weapon, since they're non-unique (you can use the same heirloom to create two and equip both). This will make you kill normal mobs with 2-3 skills, as well as elites and quest "bosses" with a single rotation, saving you a lot of time and allowing you to tackle those elites and 3-player-quest bosses .
In case it helps and depending on if it's useful to the alt one is leveling, before I skip straight to Dalaran I like to pick up all the buffs. Sometimes I also do the quick duel and complete the quest quickly to get the ring reward as I don't have ring heirlooms. The stats on that ring and the buffs are a nice boost to start.
That's a fair point. I used to do this in some of my earlier runs, but I generally found that the buffs don't save any significant amount of time, especially at low levels. I could totally see the ring being useful if you don't already have an heirloom in that slot, though.
@@Harldan1 I thought the same thing as games4kickz, super helpful either way though. I tried opening the written guide and it says page not found though.
Over all great video. I did see your pinned comment and it all makes sense now. Obviously, I didn't make it 10-60 in 3 hours or anywhere close for that matter. My two cents, I think a lot of people would just make better time if they stuck to just clearing a timewalking expansion from Chromie and stay there. If you're not familiar with certain things, it's easy to waste a lot of time jumping to new areas, where as if you just stay where you are they guide you all the way through the exp remains constant. Anyways, thanks for the vid! Maybe on my next character I will fair better.
as somebody with a bunch of 50s who had played back in WoD (cant do garrison stuff) i used RR, loch, and westfall + pet battle dailies in the area for fast exp. good guide!
This is fantastic. 1 small request though. Can you put coordinates please. Flying all over looking for the place you are when you say fly east to such and such takes a while
I wish you made this same video but went over the alliance and horde routes separately so I don't uave to watch the part with horde parts to find alliance parts
@Greenburg22 title is true, he has video proof. Obviously you're not going to make the grind perfect and 3 hours isn't guaranteed, but if you find a better method let us know
@@bongsesh The title isn't true you have to spend alot of time getting the dalanar HS and moving to Silverpine Forest. The guide will help you lvl fast but it wont be in 3 hours
@@Ephidell it takes literally 2 minutes to get the hearthstone. I just teleport to dalaran. Which prompts to leave tutorial. Go to the quest board. Accept the legion quest line. Talk to the ARchmage and he gives it to you. You can do that as soon as you get to ogrimmar.
Doing it in TWW, the 25-35 WoD intro is absolutely real; using the draught of ten lands from bfa as well as the 25% mentor buff and 10% war mode buff I blazed past that bracket in like 40 minutes
Raemother offerings in Spires of arak /way 61.0 63.8 /way 48.3 52.6 /way 48.9 54.7 /way 51.9 64.6 /way 53.3 55.5 Explorers' League Documents (alliance) /way 36.8 61.2 Part I /way 41.3 39.1 Part II /way 61.6 73.1 Part III /way 68.11 66.09 Part IV /way 53.7 38.2 Part V /way 73.1 35.9 Part VI
I love the guide and will keep following it, but I seem to have an issue. I’m heavily under leveled even after following the guide. I was only 20 when moving on to Hillsbrand. Finished it at 30. Moved on to WoD and go to 35 after finishing the intro quest you mentioned. According to your progress I should pushing level 45 right now. I have no idea what I did wrong.
Same issue for me, I think I might have messed up at some point by talking to Chromie and "returning to my actual time" or something... I don't really know what that does or means.
@@CptBark But the leveling now is supposed to be faster than during the winds buff after the xp squish with dragonflight pre-patch a few weeks back. Something is very wrong. I just followed guide as well and finished Hillsbrad at only 32.5. I should be 45 according to his google doc.
With the new expansion dropping there have been many "first draft" videos being posted. On top of being very useful, this guide is also refreshing in its precision.
there’s a quest in Gilneas called what tomorrow brings that I cannot seem to complete without a flying mount... it requires you to examine a telescope that is inaccessible, unless you can fly in to the area, unless I’m missing something - likely due to the newest patch. They fixed a wall that was broken prior.
Yea, I'm aware of this, and you're correct that it's due to the Gilneas Reclamation in the newest patch. I have a workaround for it that I discussed in my discord, but it's really weird since you basically need to glitch yourself up a wall. I'll probably make a short video covering this within the next few days, provided it doesn't get fixed (and it probably won't since Blizz doesn't give a shit about leveling).
The horde side part of the guide I think might not be 100%, I followed it specifically to a T and ended up finishing hillsbarad wayyyy under the level the guide listed I should be, that includes rares and extra quests finished in hillsbarad that the guide told me to skip. My solution for this was to actually head back to the snowy area in WOD and do more quests that the guide didn't say to do until I was the proper level to move on to the next step
Same, my timer is currently at 5 hours and I just finished Hillsbrad barely at the tail end of level 39. I followed the guide to a T. I wonder if experience got nerfed since the video...
I love videos like this, even if Im the kind of sap that role-plays (in my head) as I go leveling a new toon. Eh, I also took the route of leveling my warrior starting with the dwarven starting zone and just stayed in the vanilla world. Leveling is really fast these days, and you don't even have to jump straight into the later expansions.
My only issue with your guides was the lack of alliance (in 18 years I've never leveled a horde). You're a godsend, dude. I can't wait to finish this video! Have you released a 60-70 for Alliance yet? I'll go see what you have, just curious. If not, are you considering it? I will have about 14 characters that need to make those last 10 levels for professions xD
Absolutely, the 60-70 guide is now my top priority, and it's mostly identical for both Horde and Alliance aside from a few quests at the start. I already have a full speedrun posted on my channel if you want to get an idea of what the route will look like, though.
@@Harldan1 I've started the speedrun a couple times. Hard for me to watch a full 3 hour video so I'm just gonna get through the thing in pieces and watch it over and over again. You'll probably have 100 views off me alone over the next 12 days 😂 Thanks for all the effort you put in to these extremely helpful videos
800 min time stamp its not fly further south its fly west to where talador and spires meet and thats where the bonus objective Zorkas Fall is located.. other than that, super great guide! even if my time is no where near yours, having a smooth clean route that feels rewarding is pog! ty for the content, great vid!!
I think Post Dragonflight launch the experience required is a bit more. I basically had to finish Hillsbrad just to get to level 30 before Draenor. Whereas this guide suggests that by the time you finish Draenor and Hillsbrad, you should be level 45. I am level 35. Just a FYI. This was with 4x Darkmoon buffs.
idk why so many people think they're gonna actually get the exact time of a speedrunner who has been practicing these routes for far longer. Its only natural that people are slower on their first times. Nobody can pull off a perfect speedrun on their first attempt otherwise the top 100 would be filled with almost the exact same times. Edit: Tysm for the guide btw!
i returned after more than half a decade without playing and I want to experience leveling again, so i wont use this. but that is very impressive it took me mooonths to level my first character to levelcap at the time
Surprised Legion didn't make the cut. Valsharah and Highmountain are great once you have flying. How was the speed on Shadowlands? I assume terrible, what with all the RP.
A lot of zones are great once you have flying, but you have to compare them against Hillsbrad, Loch Modan, and Gorgrond, which are all extremely efficient zones. I might make a video covering some other alternative zones like WPL/EPL or Stonetalon Mountains in the future, but I wanted to keep this video focused purely on the fastest stuff. As for Shadowlands, it's actually not even working currently on the beta, but it's safe to say that it won't be efficient. Threads of Fate probably still wouldn't have been worth it, but it's something I would have at least considered looking into. The Shadowlands campaign, on the other hand, is one of the least efficient leveling experiences ever designed, so I don't even need to test that to say it won't be fast.
Sorry to hear that, I'd recommend submitting a ticket, hopefully Blizzard will fix it for anyone in a similar situation who attempts this in the future.
@@Harldan1 ... I meant, the fact that in your video sometimes you use an alliance character and sometimes you use a horde character confuses me a lot... I just came back :S
yeah the back and forth between horde and alliance made this difficult to follow for me too, and i didn't skip through it, could have just made two different guides or split the video into two halves, eh ill look for another guide
I did notunderstand most of this guide. It asumes You already know and played in so much places that I can't find without a route or at least a written guide (the website have no guide, only link to the vídeo lol)
Some timesaves I can offer -- if you select the Legion Timewalking option from Chromie, you can walk to the nearest Hero's Call Board and accept "Tanaan Jungle" which is effectively the same quest as the intro Chromie Time quest. Also, for Alliance characters, they receive a temporary hearthstone to Stormwind when they accept the Legion quest, which can be used in place of the Dalaran hearthstone (but be warned, it has a 2 hour cooldown instead of a 30 minute one).
The amount of reading, research and preparation a player has to do to accurately follow this guide kills the purpose of following it at least the 1st time... if you become familiar with it, leveling other alts may get you there but there is a barrier that must be overcome. Great job putting it together though, I am sure it was a lot of effort. Thank you!
I'm curious why you say to skip "Haunting in Hillsbrad," which only requires killing 10 ghosts, but you tell players to accept a quest that takes you out of the way to kill 15 naga? Esp if u have flying. Considering the entire Hillsbrad questline even with Darkmoon Faire buff is barely enough to reach even level 37, players will need to head to Arathi Highlands anyway, which is right by the haunting quest. Perhaps this was because u were killing many rares?
Since the Dragonflight leveling nerf I have leveling up the old BFA alts i left untouched for all of Shadowlands, and been loving your speed leveling videos. I started upgrading the heirlooms even tho when they were changed i felt it was a scam and too much money for very short level brackets. Do you have any recomendations on them? I saw your old video but it was mostly on the rings and weapons. Have you tried the pre-patch heirloom trinket? Is it worth upgrading? I will try to farm it bcuz FOMO
I haven't tested the new heirloom trinket, and likely won't get much time to given my busy schedule over the next few weeks. You should definitely farm it though. As for whether it's worth it to upgrade heirlooms, it depends on how much gold you have and how many alts you plan on leveling. Totally your call.
Oh btw something i tested and was really worth it is Azshara questline, considerably one of the easiest zones, you can do 10+ lvls there in less than 40 minutes too. Maybe not the most efficient, but it sure is a easy replacement
Maybe you mentioned it and i didnt realize or maybe something has changed but after completing the WoD into and hitting 35 when i returned to Hillsbrad i was getting sub par exp, enabling Cataclysm Chromie time fixed that issue.
I just did this with a rogue and I was zooming place to place. Also started at lvl 12 halfway to 13 and I’m only 23 now 2 and a half hours later and I listened and followed the guide to a T.. All I have to say is you must be special to have done it. Still in duskwood…. (I also have heirloom gear) -it’s possible I missed something important idk😮…
Doing this path and so far it’s awesome! I was curious if you had a video with “things to buy” once you get to the major cities. Like Goblin Gliders, etc. Are there potions you get, enchants, that kinda thing?
This video is a bit old, but it still covers most of the important stuff: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6ApsbGOu9YE.html I'll probably make an updated version eventually, but atm I have a lot of other important stuff to cover.
I've seen it mentioned but I think there's an issue with the Horde-side guide here and on your doc. Following it from Silverpine to Hillsbrad, then WoD intro and garrison and intro quests, then back to finish Hillsbrad, I'm done everything in Hillsbrad except for the Haunting quest that you say to skip, and I'm still only level 38.5. This is including using the Darkmoon Faire buff constantly (top hats), and war mode so an extra 20% exp buff. Is it because the Alliance-side guide goes to Spires of Arak as well? Or because the Alliance-side guide goes to 3 zones in Azeroth and Horde-side only does Silverpine and Hillsbrad?
That's fine, just follow the route. I included a ton of buffer zones at the end, so even people who "fall behind" will be fine. In hindsight, I didn't expect so many people to freak out when they didn't meet the levels mentioned in my guide. Those were intended to be general guidelines, not exact measures that you needed to hit.
And here I was thinking that 1-60 in around 20h is already ridiculous fast for leveling, and now you are telling me that I could do that only in a 3 hours.. :D
I haven't played in a few patches so my characters are level 45, and when I attempted to skip to that section to Gorgrond the quests gave like 50-500 xp at most and I was one shotting most mobs. I had to do some researching and I'm guessing you're supposed to interact with Chromie to time travel to that part? or is there a better way for returning player/characters to level?
Hello harldan. Thank you for this great video. Can you tell me which "classic" Areas are the best to level? I ask because I dont want to run every time the same route. Maybe its not so fast like here but have you some good zones as a Horde Gamer?
I mean, literally half of my route uses cata revamp zones. If you're looking for extra ones that aren't mentioned in the video, I discuss that a bit further during the written guide.
@@kallas9318 It may not seem like much, but each one is worth a quest's worth of XP. Considering how easy they are to kill, that amount of bonus XP adds up over the course of the run.
Just came across this amazing guide! Thanks so much for this. I already chose the Pandaria timeline. I'm level 18 now (Alliance), but I'd like to follow this guide from now. Should I start from Step 1 in the guide or?
@@Harldan1 Righto! Your guide has been fantabulous so far. However, I just completed everything in Loch Modan and am only 44 rather than 50. Should I just head back to Draenor now or is there an in between I can spend the next six levels? Edit: I decided to go back to Pandaria because it's a favourite of mine. Will pick up your guide again when I hit 50!
@@ryadaj2220 You can just continue along the route and it will be fine. There's a lot of buffer stuff at the end of the zone in case you fall behind the suggested level brackets. Gorgrond and Talador give a LOT of experience.
Great guide!! I have a problem though, when I get to the end of Hillsbrad Foothills I'm only 36.5, I tried to do the route on 2 different characters and same results. What would you recommend to do from 36 to 45?
