Grinding Guide 1-20 The Efficient Way (Strategy guide)
In an attempt to share my experiences and maybe help some others level a bit faster I will share what I done to get to level 50 in about 2 weeks real life. I couldn’t tell you how much played time it is cause I leave my character logged on for hours while Im afk. But I do know that I was gaining levels very fast when playing. At 40+ I had gotten at least 2 levels a day.
Keep in mind this is for Alliance as I have never played a horde so some of these areas you will be able to grind with both some you will not.
First and foremost Iv said this before and ill say it again GET FAMILIAR WITH www.thottbot.com and use it constantly, it is your best friend for grinding. Learn how to use the quest finder to your advantage. When you walk into a new area go to thottbot.com and select find>> quest then check quest starts in and check your zone and your side. If you like you can check your level. Now browse through these quest and soon as you find one you will be doing click on it and it shows a name of the npc giving that quest, check the map button beside him and it shows his spawn location. This will make it easy to find him. Browse through the quest seeing which ones you will be grabbing and go get them all. Now determine where you need to go to finish those and do them at same time while your heading out. If you don’t know where an item of objective is located for a quest don’t worry thottbot.com shows you that also. For example we will take a look at Buzzbox 411 [url}http://thottbot.com/index.cgi?q=447. Now you can see that you need 3 thresher eyes so click on the blue text that says thresher eyes http://thottbot.com/index.cgi?q=447 . Now your looking at all the creatures that drop this quest item but pay attention to the drop rate. Notice the higher level ones do not drop this item because it is intended to be done at lower levels so find the level range that has the highest drop rate and then click on the blue text map beside the name and now you have spawn points of the creatures you need to kill to get this quest item. If your quest objective is say to find something like Washed ashore http://thottbot.com/index.cgi?q=238 no sweat because you use the same technique to find out where the bones are located. Click on the blue text “Sea Creature Bones:” now it will bring up a list of things keep in mind some of these are from the beta and are no longer in the game so look at kills , this signifies which one is being used the most lately this push. Now click on map beside it and you have the location of this item. I know some of you already know this but I just wanted to explain to those who didn’t. Please learn to use this because its very important if your trying to fly through quest fast.
Levels 1-10: Ok this is a no brainer and should only take you 4 hours to get level 10. Start out by doing the “Kill this # of creatures then come back” kind of quest. No matter what just do those grinding quick quest until level 5 and head out to next town. Don’t stick around to finish those other grinding quest at the starting locatin because your only getting minimal exp for doing it and mob level is so low its not worth the time past level 5. At the 2nd town grab your next set of missions and start grinding them, it should go pretty fast and you should be 10 in no time. Make sure to use thottbot,com ahead of time to make sure you get all the quest you can in the area to make it go faster.
Level 11-17 Ok you have many options to zones and where to level but I like to go to auberdine. Auberdine has some great quest here that can be done fast by doing many at the same time while grinding through mobs. You will basicly make a big circle around a few times getting you to level 17 fairly quickly and getting you some decent items and money.
Here goes… Grab these missions first in auberdine.
10 Return to Nessa Alliance – this one is the 2nd in a line of quest you actually get that in Rutheran village in darnassus so head there first get it fly here turn in get this one fly back and finish for easy 2000k exp.
10 Buzzbox 827 Alliance
12 Bashal’Aran Alliance
12 Tools of the Highborne Alliance
12 Easy Strider Living Alliance - believe you need to be cook to get this, easy 1000k exp
12 The Red Crystal
13 Washed Ashore Alliance
14 How Big a Threat? Alliance
14 Plagued Lands
16 For Love Eternal Alliance
16 Beached Sea Creature Alliance
17 Cave Mushrooms Alliance
Ok this should be all the quest available in town upon landing there. Grab them all and you can start doing them all at once while making your rounds grinding on mobs. Check thottbot and get an idea where each quest requires you to go. The first one you will do is Buzzbox 827 and Beached Sea Creature Alliance cause they are both little south of auberdine. Finish those 2 and head out on dock , face west and run off the dock that heads to Menethil harbor and swim straight forward and grab the bones for the 2nd quest in the Beached Sea Creature series. Now turn that in and head north you can finish the next buzzbox quest , Bashal’Aran at the same time. And before coming home grab a rabid thistle bear and turn that quest in. Now go ahead and finish The Red Crystal quest series as its very easy to do quickly, its located directly east of Auberdine , check thottbot.com for locations. Great now head south a bit and do the first quest in series of How Big a Threat? There is a furlbolg camp directly south of Auberdine. After doing that head on south till you reach Ameth Aran. Grab the 12 The Fall of Ameth’Aran quest and head on in and finish these quest while you’re here… The Fall of Ameth’Aran , For Love Eternal, Tools of the Highborne, Bashal’Aran(burn the ancient moonseal while you’re here). Now head back to Auberdine and turn those in. Now grab 15 The Cliffspring River if you don’t have it yet and head out north. While your going start doing the next buzzbox quest by killing collecting Moonstalker teeth and kill rabid bears on the way to complete that quest. After doing the buzzbox quest and getting all the bears killed and water head back to Auberdine. Now get the quest 18 The Tower of Althalaxx and 18 The Blackwood Corrupted , fill up the bowl with moonwater and head up north to the river. Just north of the river is the tower , you can now talk to they buy by the big rock by the road and finish that quest, head south a bit afterwards and east along the river you will find a cave, finish the 17 Cave Mushrooms quest. Now head out and south a bit further you will be at the furlbolg camp and you can finish The Blackwood Corrupted quest. After doing that quest you can now head south just a abit behind one of the camps to the east is a cave up on the mountain where you can finish the quest 18 Tharnariun’s Hope and kill the Den mother. Great now you have got all those done head back to Auberdine , turn them in and grab the Quest 17 Onu and head down south to the Grove of the Ancients. Speak to Onu and grab the quest for Twilight Camp, this is by the way one of the easiest quest iv ever done, and you get a huge chunk of exp for this. Head south west a bit start killing grizzled bears on the way to finish the last of the buzzbox quest series and head on south west until you reach Twilight camp, run down by the table place the scrying bowl ,finish that quest and then grab a page from the book on the right and head out around the building you will see a dryad hiding in the bushes, help you escape for another easy quest and once your back on the road finish buzzbox on the way north its located right south of bridge near Grove of Ancients. Turn in the page to Onu and he will give you another quest which you will not be able to do until 20. At this point you will have done most quest you have and should be around level 17-18 and you want be able to do any more quest around here because they are all around 20.
17-20 For the next part in our leveling we will head on over to Loch Modan so head to Auberdine, catch ship to Menethil harbor and fly to Loch Modan or Iron forge and walk there. Once your there head to Thelsanaar. Once there grab 15 Excavation Progress Report Alliance and head over to the Excavation site. This site is a great place to grind it out until 20. Go ahead and finish that series of quest there and just camp that place and grind it out till 20 or Head south east to the lodge and do those hunting quest for some nice experience. Either way this will get you to 20 fairly quickly and we are ready for the next set of quests.
Ok for now this is all I will do, ill try to get a 20-30 up soon but I hope this helps for now. Using just this techinique you can do this in any zone really, just remember to use thottbot.com if your in hurry to do quest fast.
One of the most important things you need to remember is don’t be in such a hurry to do quest that you dodge mobs on the way. Take your time walking through quest and kill everything on the way. Make efficient use of your time, if your walking to a quest make sure you getting experience for it. Get experience while getting the quest done by grinding out mobs and then bonus experience for turning it in. After you have done all the quest in an area , don’t be afraid to grind out a few levels so you can get the next series of quest started. Some people walk for hours looking for quest to do when they could have leveled by then grinding on mobs, and getting some good money at same time.
So until next time I hope you all enjoy this tutorial and hopefull it helps out some people. I will be doing a series of these all the way to 60.