Your Classic levelling route

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What will be your classic levelling route and if you’ve played vanilla before what route did you go your first time through?

Back in Vanilla on this guy I did the human route of Elwynn (with short trips to Dun Morogh for a few quests) > Westfall > Redridge > Duskwood and after that was when I started bouncing all over the place. I wound up doing all the Arathi Highlands quest except the elite ones which I came back much later to do and most of the Desolace quests. I also did a little in STV at various times. I think this took me to around the 40s where I did some of Badlands, Theremore quests in Dustwallow Marsh, and then Tanaris, as well as Hinterlands after that I was in Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes and a bit of both the Plaguelands until I was 60

I also made it a point to try to do the dungeon quests so I ran lots of dungeons on my way to 60. The dungeons I skipped were BFD, RFK, and later on most of Dire Maul (although I did run a few parts of it for quests)

This time around I’ll probably be a gnome mage so I’ll go Dun Morogh > Westfall and then follow the human route especially since I’d rather be on a horse than a robo-chicken . After that I’ll do what I did before and see where quest chains that I want to do and my whim takes me.

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As a human I like to go:

Elwynn => Westfall => Duskwood => Redridge => STV

No idea where I go after STV, though I remember the end I like to go to Tanaris => Ungoro => Silithus.

I also enjoy instancing and doing quests, so I tend to go wherever I can for that.

My alt will be a NElf Druid which will follow roughly the same path :smiley:

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Why do you go to Duskwood before Redridge? Duskwood starts around level 18, but Redridge has as low as level 13 creatures. I guess if you enjoy fighting gray mobs, by all means follow that route.

I normally went Elwynn > Westfall > Loch Modan or Redridge > Duskwood and after that I normally just went all over the place, as I get bored of patterns.

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I assume people will download something similar to Carbonite and follow whatever that tells them to do.

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I may be misremembering? Not sure - it might be a concurrent thing, it’s been a LONG time.

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Mulgore - Barrens - little stonetalon - thousand needles - desolace / swamp of sorrows / feralas - SM - tanaris - ZF - hinterlands - BRD WPL - DME- EPL Roughly. Changes based on player count in zones.

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What were the max level zones in vanilla? It’s been so long I can’t remember.

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Lets see if I can remember…

Eastern Kingdoms: Western and Eastern Plaguelands, Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge (Black rock mountain).

Kalimdor: Silithis and Winterspring

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I never leveled horde toon in Vanilla, so that’s what i’m going to do this time!

Absolutely no clue of the zone path, it’s going to be epic!!

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I think I leveled entirely in Eastern Kingdoms on my very first undead warrior; I couldn’t tell you the exact route because I was all over the place just taking quests where I could find them and running dungeons and hating my life trying to tank them (shut up, you tab-sunder!).

I didn’t level through any of the Kalimdor content until I rolled my orc shaman at the start of TBC.

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Tirisfal > Silverpine/Barrens > Hillsbrad

After that I’ll probably follow Joanna’s Leveling Guide for Horde

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My leveling was not very linear the first time.

It went rogue > 12 > reroll druid > 15 > reroll mage > back to rogue 20 > reroll hunter > 20 > rinse repeat through all classes back and forth.

This time it will be Paladin > 60 while keeping my mage without rest if possible.

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I will be leveling to 10 or 12 or so through quests. And then follow my grind guides that I have saved from 2006 that I found in my email. Once I hit 60 I will go back and steamroll the quests for the increased gold to buy an epic ground mount.

IIRC this was the fastest way I found and made the most money due to the higher chance of loot drops.

Can’t wait

edit* depending on how much time I can manage to find I’ll then level a hunter to farm gold the same way.

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Mulgor and Barrens, but I am gonna mostly level through dungeoning as a healer.

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Half the Dun Morogh quests,
then Loch Modan instant respawns on that southern island in the lake,
followed by gnoll instant respawns at the camps in southeastern Wetlands,
Then I lived in an ogre cave in Arathi Highlands for awhile,
Then grinded troll camps in Hinterlands while moving up to grinding Jintha’alor,
Then WPL and finally restarted questing, til 60.

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My route was pretty generic as a human. Elwynn to Westfall to Redridge to Duskwood to STV. From there, I fanned out a little more in the 40s to places like Tanaris and Searing Gorge. Then the plaguelands. Eventually, I go from 58 to 60 by killing ghosts in Medivh’s basement.

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I plan on not having a plan. Create my character and enjoy playing wherever the game takes me and the savor the journey I take to get there.

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Well, I’ll be rolling a NE first, as I did in Vanilla, and I intend to go with just as janky a route as I did then for nostalgia’s sake.

Teldrassil to Darkshore, to Ashenvale, somehow to the Wetlands (probably to get to IF), to Duskwood, to STV, to really a lot more STV for like a week, to I think Searing Gorge, to Western Plaguelands, to Eastern Plaguelands. With some other places sprinkled in there due to boredom.

I should add that I was neither a quest nor dungeon leveler in Vanilla. A few quests here and there, yes, a few dungeons, but mostly I just grind it out.

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For me its something like

1-12 elewyeen (cross there at 5 on dwarf/gnome)
12-15 early westfall
15-18 loch modan
18-20 finish westfall/dm
20-23 redridge
23-27 duskwood
27-30 wetlands
30-32 ss/alterac mountains
32-35 northern STV
35-36 desolace
36-37 SM quests
37-39 southern stv
39-41 badlands
41-44 tanaris (good chunk of grinding i believe)
44-46 feralas
46-48 hinterlands
48-50 searing gorge
50-53 burning steeps/brd quests
53-55 wpl
55-57 epl
57-60 winterspring/end game dungeons/quests.

Edit: somewhere in there around 34 i do arathi highlands.
Edit 2: depending on how classic releases my grind for reps will change this quite a bit.

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I am 100% going to do that. . . on my second character. haha