Azeroth's Plunder

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Aye, for the first portion of our require reading we'll be focusing our strategic and tactical analysis strictly to those which pertain to Azeroth, leaving that fancy-pants Outland nonsense for later.

Now, why would I do that? Well it's simply due to the fact that Outland serves up a much more lavish dish for our leveling appetites. Azeroth on the other hand is a rather bit more stingy about spreading the love(experience.)

To make this easier on myself and you as well, lets illustrate the major points of leveling faster in handy dandy bullet-point style:

Quests, quests, and more quests!
This is primarily a requirement for those of us who happen to favor the slower variety of classes, as mentioned above paladin, warrior, mage, and a few others.

It's also not so much how many quests you happen to pick up at any one time, but rather the magic lies in efficient questing, strategic questing, and so on.

What's strategic questing you ask? It's that rare form of making a pre-planned method of attack upon the vast quest log you've built up, designating certain zones to be completed specifically when you gain the most.

When killing the ogres in (insert dungeon here) you also retrieve the war-banners for quest-B and possibly kill the ogre chieftan for that third quest you picked up back at town as well - this alone will speed your leveling time up immensely.

Never stop, mash them keys!
Well, this is really quite a simple one to explain actually, and it probably only applies to a small number of those reading as most have formed this habit already, but good advice it is nonetheless.

Never stop moving, ever. Now you've killed a monster, finished up a quest even in the process. Don't stand around and check the quest log while the world passes you by, smash that auto-run key like your life depends on it and navigate your way to the next quest zone while you read.

This also applies to any and all other menu's and options. No matter what you may be doing, always be on the lookout, searching for the next kill, quest object, whatever it may be.

 

Laying the groundwork for your success
This ones a biggy, and it's one I often skipped out on myself when leveling my first few characters to 60 and it's all about the flight paths.

Flight paths are crucial to giving you easy access from town to town as you beat various quest chains, always get them no matter what.

Even if it'll take you ten, fifteen, maybe even twenty minutes out of your way to reach a new town/flightpath in the vicinity, grab it anyway, the time lost now is negligeble to the possible lost minutes when you really need to get somewhere.

These three points cover what are likely the three largest wastes of time in any inexperienced players average leveling session. Learn them, live them, love them.

Some other lesser yet nevertheless helpful things to pick up are addons, modifications to the interface, the most popular being Mapnotes, an easily accessed in-game marking system that was notably used for the iDemise Leveling Guides much like you can as well.

Others to look for would be

Now, before we move on to the next section, one last tip. Always check the auction house for any future quest items you'll require, a good example of preparation is the Chasing A-Me-01 quest in Un'goro crater.

Enter unprepared and you'll feel the rage of making a trip to the auction house, a large waste of time, and possibly discovering that the item in question isn't even avaliable!