Should a beginner do this...Follow

I just bought WOW after finally getting a new computer and I just wanted to know if a beginner like me, that just installed the game should buy a good guide, so he can level up faster and not get depresed and lose a lot of time.

What do you guys think?????

You aren't advertising are you?

Anyway, No. Anything in print or on CD is out-of-date by the time it's published anyway, also linear quest lines and dungeon queues mean there's not much of a reason for a leveling guide anymore.

I don't think it's a matter of difficulty, but more a matter of efficiency and speed.

I blame sugary cereals.

I liked Cranky...

Edited, Jun 12th 2012 9:49am by someproteinguy

Leveling is super easy right now. You don't need any kind of guide. Your map shows you which zones are appropriate for your level (for questing). There is a dungeon group finder that will automatically and (fairly) quickly put you in a group for an appropriate level dungeon and even teleport you there. The same with battlegrounds, the locator will queu you up for one and teleport you there after a few minutes have passed. (And you can work on quests while you're waiting for a dungeon or battleground queu.) You automatically learn all of the flightpaths appropriate for your level. The experience required for each level has been drastically reduced (other than 80-85), so you will be able to skip many, many quests and zones as you level.

None of these things used to be true. Leveling a character to maximum level used to be something of a challenge. Now it is incredibly dumbed down.

You definitely don't need a guide. I promise.

What Mental said...
To worry about getting depressed if your levelup takes some minutes/hours longer is just wrong. In my book your priority system is seriously messed up.

WoW is a complete game. There is a ton of content to be experienced while leveling and you can level several characters to cap without having the same leveling experience if you choose not to. Sure, there are a lot of things to do at level cap but there are also a lot of things you can do until you get to that point.

Enjoy the complete game. Don't cheat yourself out of content by racing as fast as you can to the level cap (or at least make an alt or two to level more slowly so you get the full experience rather than just a blur of levels and then level cap activities).

Sort of true.

You run out of options the third time through, though. There's never/rarely more than two zones to choose from at any given level and once you hit high level Cataclysm content, it's pretty much just bunny hopping from one zone to the next, doing the same quest chain you did on the previous two characters.

Sure, you can choose to level up a character by picking flowers and digging for relics in the ground, but for 85 levels? And take it from someone who leveled up a couple of characters by running instances only... that **** gets old faster than leveling. The amount of retards out there who want to run dungeons with you is just staggering. I was ready to leave the planet by the time I hit level 60.

Pretty much, I was figuring two to three zones to choose from per level (up to 60) - plus you often skip zones because you gain experience so quickly even without heirlooms so you could try skipping different zones each time - plus the whole leveling in instances and leveling through battlegrounds methods that many use - plus leveling a character on the opposite faction also provides a different experience even when you are doing zones you previously did on your first faction. Some zones are more faction split than others but you will get a different feel from many zones.

The Outland and Northrend levels offer less choices but with the faster leveling, you can still skip entire zones. You could do Howling Fjord and then Grizzly Hills and then jump into Icecrown or you could do Borean Tundra followed by Dragonblight and jump over to Zul'Drak or possibly even straight to Storm Peaks depending on how many levels you get from the lower zones. Once you get to 80 and the Cata zones, you are more limited though it's still easy to level by hitting up either Vash'jir or Hyjal and then hitting either Deepholm or Uldum next or even just do half of Vash'jir, jump to Deepholm and then to Twilight Highlands. Plus you still have the options of filling in experience from dungeons and battlegrounds.

Yeah, the 'gimmick' leveling (only gathering or only doing Arch or no killing or no quests), can be fun too but those do take a lot longer and aren't for people who want to get to 85 in a reasonable amount of time.