Update The Wrath of the Lich King is out and for the Horde Joana has released the first Wrath of the Lich King 1-80 Horde Leveling Guide BEFORE the official release of the Wrath of the Lich King addon to World of Warcraft (I’m very impressed).
Now including an ingame map mod like the innovative Team iDemise mod, now there is little between the two World of Warcraft Horde leveling guides other than speed of updates and in this area Joana has come first and so is recommended as the WOTLK 1-80 Leveling Guide to buy for the Horde.
Time to level to 80 and kick some Alliance ass, FOR THE HORDE!!! :)
Quick update: It took Team iDemise two full weeks to update their guides to level 80, so I no longer recommend them. I already have level 80 charachters, this update was way too slow from Team iDemise.
For those leveling Alliance characters there’s an updated guide for Alliance 1-80 leveling for Wrath of the Lich King the day before the update was released!
Update June 2008: There’s a new guide from Team iDemise that’s taking the World of Warcraft leveling world by storm, so I bought a copy (Alliance and Horde versions) and compared leveling speeds of the Joana’s guide to Team iDemise Horde guide and Team iDemise was faster!.
I now recommend Team iDemise Leveling Guide with Joana’s guide a close second. See my Review of Joana’s 1-70 WOW Horde leveling Guide for more details.
End of update.
WOW Horde Power leveling Guide Update
Earlier this month (May 2007) I purchased and wrote a Review of the Ebook Joana’s 1-70 World of Warcraft Horde leveling Guide for just under $40.
From the writer of the World of Warcraft Ebooks site:
My guide contains the same leveling strategies, questing patterns, techniques, and secrets I have used to get the best record time to level 60 on a new server, which is 4 days 20 hours /played! The realm I have achieved this on was the Jubei’Thos server, and I am currently getting prepared to set records for 1-70!
Anyone who spends time playing the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) The World of Warcraft will know to level a character from level 1 to level 60 in under 5 days is an amazing achievement.
Since purchasing the leveling guide I’ve been mostly following the techniques and quest routes laid out in the guide and earlier today reached level 59 – DING!!
Although I didn’t plan on timing this level I realised I’d followed about 90% of the 1-60 leveling guides advice (quest routes) and not wasted too much time on non-leveling activities during this level (did end up in Silithus rather than Winterspring as the guide suggested) so think it’s a good example of how the leveling guide works for a real World of Warcraft player (not a hardcore power leveler).
According to Joana’s WOW Ebook he completed level 58 to 59 in 5 hours and 33 minutes. I leveled my Horde Troll Priest in 6 hours and 34 minutes and took various screenshots to prove it.
Considering it’s the first time I’ve leveled a character this high (next highest is a level 39 Alliance Night Elf Druid) and I have to keep looking at the guide (online since my printer is broken) to see what to do next (will be easier/faster next time) and occasionally check on Thottbot etc… for quest instructions I think taking an extra hour to complete a level is acceptable.
Basically I was just under 1/5th slower to level than Joana for that level, if I could level from 1-60 at the same rate then it should take me around 5 days and 40 mins. If I did level a Horde Priest at that rate I’d be very, very happy :-)
And based on a leveling experiment me and a friend started today at exactly the same time (Hellfire realm was down, so went on a PVP realm for the 1st time) I’m not that fast at leveling: The two of us started a new Horde character at the same time/same realm and are both following Joana’s Blood Elves 1-25 leveling guide (Blood Elves only available to those buying the Burning Crusade addon) and he was about half a level ahead of me by level 7 (I think he cheated :-))
Screenshots below of my Horde Priest reaching level 59, level 60 soon :-)
If you aren’t familiar with played time, type
/played
In the chat window and you’ll see your total played time and your level played time (level you are on).
The screenshot above shows my played time roughly 15 minutes before I reached level 59. You can see I’d played that character over 17 days (this is actual time logged in). Note that when I started this character I didn’t try to power level or care about played time. I’ve spent hours at a time logged in waiting for battlegrounds to start for example while I did other things (like work :-)).
You’ll see at that time I’d played that level for 6hrs 20 mins and need roughly 7,000 experience to level to 59.
The image above shows my character actually hitting level 59, unfortunately it cut off the /played time I’d just activated since it lists new attributes added etc…
The third image shows the final played time, scrolled back up the chat box to the played time missed on the last image. You can see I played that level for 6 hours and 34 minutes.
Now I’m trying to level a new character to level 1-70 as quickly as possible. Will post my results as I find the time to play it: not planning on making it my main character, though it is my first character on a PVP server which should be interesting.
To purchase the Ebook click the banner below or read my Joana’s 1-70 World of Warcraft Horde leveling Guide Review first.
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17 responses to WOW Horde Power leveling Guide Update
lol private server
cool i want to lvl my priest to but its a slow grind cause im a shadow priest and they want me to heal and im not good of a healer.
My main character is a shadow priest and I had the same problem that most players assume Priest = Healer!
I still get it now and I have 1000 shadow damage! I’ll get random whispers asking if I want to do an instance and they always assume I’m going to heal. Errr, nope I’ve healed maybe 5 times in a group since hitting level 70, I do DPS only unless it’s an emergency and I have to drop out of shadow form to backup heal while the group recovers from the loss of a healer or something (we can’t heal an entire 10 min Kara boss fight, we run out of mana after half a dozen heals!).
My advice if you don’t enjoying doing instances as a healer is skip them until you reach level 70. I can count the number of instances I did after using the leveling guide (started level 30 something) because it’s much quicker to level by not doing instances than it is doing them.
When I reached level 70 I found shadow priests to be in high demand on my server for raiding and so almost always had a raid spot in Kara for example (went to Kara within a week of reaching level 70). Doing 25-man raids now and we are just as important.
Your main role in a raid group is to create mana for your group by causing as much shadow damage as possible whilst maintaining vampiric touch. the healing from vampiric embrace is a bonus, but if your healers are good it shouldn’t be needed.
Naw man my buddy bought that and i borrowed it and i leveled a BE hunter to 60 inside 3 weeks, of corse i had school and work and such but the guide works really well.
PS – I was so happy i made another guy and got him up cause it was so quick, hunters still 64.
hey whats the web site called ? i want to play plz tell me mann thanks cya
Sonds like a good job done. Unless it IS a private server. :)
That is a private server you can tell with the mounts you have and 17 days to 59 isnt that great btw… i got 70 in 7 days 3hours and 22 mins with the lvling guide!
Some people are so cynical!
Why would I post a 17 day played time on a private server when almost anyone can get to level 70 in that time on the paid server?
It’s because I was playing the game of World of Warcraft not just mindlessly leveling. Had you read my original review of the guide http://www.morearnings.com/2007/05/16/joanas-1-70-world-of-warcraft-horde-leveling-guide/ you’d know the following this and-
This is my only level 70 character (still is BTW got bored leveling for the test I mention above). I love playing a shadow priest and last week we (raiding guild I’m in) met the last boss in Black Temple :-)
Currently raiding Black Temple (8/9) and Mount Hygel (5/5) 5 days a week. Looking forward to seriously trying the Sunwell (went the first day, got to 1st boss but didn’t kill it).
I was level 30 odd before using the leveling guide, this meant I’d wasted loads of time leveling the hard way. I have given a level example that took me 6 and a half hour which I think is about half an hr slower than Joane’s does that level**. This shows although I’m not as fast as a power leveler I’d get a good time using the guide. Basically if it takes a power lever 7 days to level, going to take me 8 days.
** Note recent patches has made leveling 20-60 far easier, so my times are based on pre version 2.0 leveling times). The Horde leveling guide has been updated, (the new quests added etc…) but I’ve not used it recently.
I spent a long time (and I do mean a LONG time) competing in the 3hr arena (Gurubashi arena) near Booty Bay for the arena trinket (still got it in the bank).
You have to win the chest 10 times to gain that trinket and that can take weeks to do. Each time I’d travel to the arena and compete it would take at least 30 minutes away from leveling, more if after the Alliance stuck around to fight. Add to this I helped others get their trinkets you can see why I took so long to reach level 70 (I was in no rush).
To think I’d post a 17 days played time on a private server is just dumb!
Trelp
Nice work guys I’d be itnerested in seeing your time for 1 – 70. We’ve just done 1 – 70 in 5 days 8 hours which is currently the world record.
Though it is for Alliance not horde, can you forgive us for picking the oh so good side? :P
Hey.. You got some cool add-ons..
where do you download them from ???
:)
is this a PRIVATE SERVER? if not great job.
Wow> Warhammer age of reckoning
It’s not a private server, if it was I’d have said I leveled to 70 in 4 days or something not what I wrote!
Can’t wait for Wrath of the Lich King to arrive, getting itchy fingers :)
David
hmm.. leveling is just a tough task for me, and i doubt a guide will help. i currently have a lvl 60 NE hunter with 29days /played… and i’ve always had the expansion. i’d rather just sit i na main city doign nothing then leveling. leveling is just to repedetive and boring for me, so i dont think a leveling guide would work.. buying a lvl 70 on the other hand might.
ok lol i suck at lvling and i need some tips on how to lvl a frost mage :D:D:D anyone got tips (frost btw)
i leveled from 63 to 70 in 20 hours on my main char
guides arent the best. try learning the best ways to level yourself
since this wasnt a private server anymore tips for lvling a DK
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