Jame's Horde Leveling Guide
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priceless
These guides makes getting lvls one of the easiest and fastest things in WoW and the addon is just flat out godly of all of the quest tracker addons i have used it is by farthe best.
Last Lovesong
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Love these guides
I love these guides i have got like 7 80s using these guides
i downloaded and put the
i downloaded and put the addons in the addons folder but there is still no button in the character creation screen. can u help me?
Trusted Member
Losing my mind...
Ok, so when I leveled my DK to 80 I used a written guide for ZulDrak. I cant find it anywhere now. AM I losing my mind or was it another site? I have only used this site since WotLK release.
DKs rule...others drool
Revered Member
Probably you have used Zygor
Probably you have used Zygor ZD guide or something other. I've no memories of a ZD guide here on Wowpro, so you must probably remember wrong
zd guide
http://www.wtbblue.com/questing-guides has the zone guides for all of the other zones except IC. jame's guides are much better but if you want to cook off the qwests for the achievements in the other zones this site has the guides. like i said they are alright but this site's (jame's) guides are much easier to follow imo.
Moderator
Must have been somewhere
Must have been somewhere else, because we definitely have no Zul'Drak guide here
Revered Member
Tourguide comes with some
Tourguide comes with some guides already on it, it was probably one of those. It should still be there ... somewhere.
zangarmarsh
my guide keeps saying to go to shat and port to org to talk to thrall for a quest, but i never got the quest and cant find it, the quest was the cenarion expedition
that
that quest starts in thrallmar, from .. nazgrel or whatever (the big guy in the big building)
its called "the assassin" (the first part of the chain)
try looking around on wowhead for follow ups.
it has nothing to do with cenarion expedition
i've noticed a bug in the addon / guides
sometimes it automatically ticks off parts of the guide even though you havnt done it.
so you'll be heading to places you shouldnt yet.
i can remember this happend in a certain place during that salmophlange quest thingie, in the barrens. it completely skipped the part about killing the goblin who has the key..
weird though. i hope that bug is a part of tourguide, and easily fixed (coz fixing X amount of guides can take alot of time
)
Moderator
Sometimes this happens
Sometimes this happens because of an error in our coding (I think the samophlange one was an example of this). However sometimes I truly cannot find the reason for the step skipping, after having checked the coding multiple times.
If you discover any specific instances of this happening, please post here with the details and we'll look into it. Thanks
Recruit a Friend?
I have been using your guide for over two years now, first on Alliance and now on Horde, and have loved it. I recently recruited a friend to warcraft, and would love to recruit him to your guides as well, but I am curious as to how you suggest handling the fact that we will be leveling three times as fast. On top of the fast speed your guide provides, we could theoretically finish in just over a day playtime. Should we continue to follow the 'go until grey' rule, and then just skip ahead to our appropriate level once again? Or skip specific lower exp-rate sections? Or since there will always be two of us, skip to a bit ahead of our current level, skipping any areas that we hate?
Also, I have been enjoying the addon addition of the guide recently, and while, compared to QuestHelper, it is significantly more accurate, there are a few points at which it has either seemed to cause a few glitches, or I have found the notes deficient or absent and have had to resort to using LightHeaded. Is there any way that we are able to assist you with this, or at modify it for our own personal benefit if you have more 'help' than you really need? I could see it being beneficial to many of us, for example, to somehow mark less beneficial quests, or quests that have no followups. But if there is anything in particular that I/we could be of assistance of as far as the addon goes, please tell.
Moderator
For part 1 of your question:
For part 1 of your question: Skipping to higher XP rate sections would be best, but I don't really know which are the highest XP rate. Perhaps I will do a better job of recording this as I level and make a list somewhere, that could be helpful. For now, I recommend skipping any zones you dislike (as long as you don't go above your level in the guide) - this should help you keep pace.
For part 2: You can report glitches/bugs/missing information on our Bug Reporting page. For specific suggestions, you can just leave a comment pretty much anywhere, but the works in progress page would be the best place.
Thanks for the great feedback and questions, hope you and your friend have a great time with the guides!
Latest toon (full wotlk levelling)
Hey, I've played a little paladin on TR lately and I quite liked the playstyle (oh, well, and the OPness
), and therefore I decided a few days ago, my next toon would be one of those. Nice thing is, i didn't have one already, so I could enjoy the whole process of wotlk levelling and so I rolled a paladin and hit 80 at 4d 1h 30min /played (pvp server! 
). (http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6559/69006439.jpg, if you want to see the final score screen^^, yes i have Heartstone keybinded xD )
), and without taglevelling or friends instance rushing me or sth.
) > sholazar > zul'drak (used alliance version of tekkub's guide there, as both zones are completly neutral anyways, sholazar first because well... you never know when Jame might release zul'drak^^)
), all other gear was only questrewards.
))
That is without much rested bonus (I didn't specifically log out in the open world but the char was levelled over a two week span so not much time to accumulate rested exp
Just doing the current hordelevelling guide. Belf start area > barrens and standart horde guide > outlands after western plaguelands (lvl 60) > northrend after nagrand (69.XX
So whag made the time so nice?
- Gear was pretty good: from level 15 onwards I used BOA Axe (enchanted with crusader) and the shoulders (not enchanted due to lazyness
- Exorzism infused paladins are beasts. A complete spike of CS, Judgement, Exorzism and divine storm is usually enough to drop the mob or at least get it in hammer range, if one is on CD, one melee hit will have a similar effect, just takes a tad longer. Regen is not needed at all due to judgements of the wise. Elite quests are easy as hell, just hit it till it dies (or kite with Judgement of Justice, if necessary (Breaking through final boss, Giants in howling fjord, ...)
- I have quite a bit of experience in speed levelling (2 80s, several 6x to 7x on both factions (now 3 80s
Still that time is about 3-4 days faster than I thought I could possibly do, so I decided to share it with you
Revered Member
Awesome post ^^ I also
Awesome post ^^
I also think that your /played is somewhat a record, because it's hell of a short time. You make me want to roll a paladin but sadly I haven't a free slot on my server... so I need to delete one char
).
Also, I like your UI and I'm wondering what kind of addon you're using for player and target frames (looks better than xperl... at least for me
Byee
Moderator
That's an awesome leveling
That's an awesome leveling time, thanks for sharing it with us! Paladins are awesomely fun, aren't they? I'm still working on mine, my progress got slowed down due to school and raiding >_<
I started my first week in
I started my first week in the university this semester quite uhm... relaxed. And I don't raid that much anymore (6 days/week during classic, but sorta burned out, and didn't play much during TBC (just some pvp), and well... the current content is so easy i don't really care about it
), so i had enough free time(4 days of paladin twinking in two weeks equals around 7h/d, which is rather much, huh? ^^)
Concerning paladin: Yes, it is strangely fun to spike mobs/players in 5 to 10 seconds (:
Goodwork
Hi jame, i realy enjoy your guide, making it easier since i dont want to waste time leveling anoter toon to 80. But i was wondering, im always half a lever lower than your guide or so. i guess its not the first time you hear this
,and theres quest in ur guide that have level requierement so what should i, keep going or, grinding or anything else ?
Moderator
Actually, usually people are
Actually, usually people are a bit ahead of the guide. The only time we usually hear that people are behind is if they have no rested XP and don't run instances. If you find yourself behind, I would definitely suggest you try and find a group for an instance at your level. That usually will boost your XP enough to help you catch up, and also help you get some good gear!
problems with guide
hello jame
Thanks for the guide justwondering, i am doing the level 40-41 badlands part of your guide(onlly just started using it) and teh quests inSTV have already been finished by me b4 i used the guide. Should i skip the quests and go to the nxt place and grind at the end if i do not reach the target level?
Moderator
Yup, that's probably the
Yup, that's probably the best way to deal with it. If you can get a group for some instances, that could also help you catch up.
Thankyou
Thanks for the fast reply, i think i may have accidenly posted this 2 sorry.
Member
Thank you Jame and team
I'm a busy student in my first year of college (almost done). All my friends played WoW with more time to play, so they're all level 80. Then I decided to take a break from WoW (3 months). Now i'm back into it but i can only play for a couple hours each day. This is where you come in ^_^.
With only a couple hours each day (if i'm lucky) i absolutely LOVE
your guide. The bursts of circuits are absolutely perfect for me. I'm able to finish one or two circuits each time i get a chance to. You got me from level 21 - 77 in a time i could never dream of doing on my own. The game content that i've seen because of your guide is amazing. Thank you so much!
Every chance I get, i let all my friends know about your guide. I tell people about you in general chat, trade chat, in random groups. I'm sure they love your guide too. Thanks to everyone who have been making this guide, you guys have made my WoW experience a million times better.
I hope all your other projects work out great.
P.S. To all the complainers...
stfu, these guides have brought us 100% further than we'd be able to do on our own. If you say that's B.S. then make your own guides. stop being such ungrateful spoiled little babies.
Member
woops
almost forgot
currently level 77 (still got plenty of circuits in the dragonblight guide)
thanks again ^_^
Moderator
Thanks so much for the kind
Thanks so much for the kind post!
thanks, ive moved on and its
thanks, ive moved on and its working really good now, thanks!
Im finding the guide very helpful, appreciate what you guys have done
One question, if Im a level higher than the guide because a friend ran me through SM, should I do the quests still or should I skip forward to my level? Im only one level higher though atm
Moderator
Jame's advice is always:
Jame's advice is always: keep with the guide unless you are killing mobs or doing quests that are gray. Green quests/mobs still give plenty of XP and you can do them faster since you are higher level, so it makes up for them being a little lower.
If you are only one level ahead, then definitely stick with the guide.
Hmm although the addon did
Hmm although the addon did not direct me to splintertree properly, i continued with the guide, which led me to hillsbrad as well, when i was meant to go to zoram outpost. However, when giving directions to the quest giver, it gave the right direction. Then, when I was meant to collect wraithtail heads, it again headed towards hillsbrad. Upon collecting the 20 heads, the addon correctly lead me back to the quest giver...
I have a problem with the
I have a problem with the tourguide or tomtom addons, the guide tells me to go to splintertree but will point me in the direction of hillsbrad... been trying to fix it to no avail, anyone have a similer problem?
Moderator
Please tell us the faction
Please tell us the faction and specifically which guide it is, so we can look into it.
It is the horde
It is the horde 21-31
Thanks for the quick reply
Moderator
Wow, I feel stupid. Of
Wow, I feel stupid. Of course it's Horde, you're talking about Splintertree Post
I'll look into it, most likely a |Z| zone tag just got left off.
TomTom Distance Estimates
I'm not sure what the problem is but, ever since I started on the lvl 21+ guides, the distance estimates given by the TomTom arrow have been off by a significant margin. For instance, I will be in the entry to the Ruins of Lordaeron, and the arrow will indicate that the UC FP is 3500+ yards away. Around the same time, I will be leaving UC to go to the Sepulcher for the first time and it indicates that, from the entry to the Ruins of Lordaeron, the Silverpine Forest is 3000 yards away and in the direction of Alterac or Dalaran. It would seem that the markers used for estimating distances have to be rechecked.
Moderator
Do they point to the correct
Do they point to the correct location?
If not, it's probably because someone forgot a |Z| zone tag. If they do point to the right place, well then something funny is going on but honestly distance estimates isn't the most important thing about them, it's whether they get you where you are supposed to go
Sad Panda
On my Addon screen (the character one) it says there's a Dependency missing. When I hover over the Guide it says Depencies: TourGuide. Any help?
Moderator
I'm thinking you only
I'm thinking you only downloaded the WoW-Pro guides, not the addon TourGuide that actually runs those guides. Go back to our download page and download TouGuide. You will also need Lightheaded and TomTom.
No, it wasn't that. I
No, it wasn't that. I accidently saved the TourGuides addon to interface, corrected it now. Thanks anyway.
P.S. I've used the Guide for a while and it's absolutely brilliant, nice work.
Moderator
Heh, well glad you figured
Heh, well glad you figured it out, sorry I wasn't of help
Hinterlands
The guide keeps trying to use Hinterlands as a zone and I think it needs to use "The Hinterlands" because it keeps saying it cannot find the zone.
Moderator
This is a known issue due to
This is a known issue due to the naming of the guide, I think there are plans to fix it for the next release.
Tauren
Love the add on. Great guide ! I have been playing WoW for 3 or 4 yrs now and this has been a great help to my lvling. I did notice one thing missing in the Horde add on was a Tauren guide from 1 - 12. I am currently using Shinke's Tauren 1 - 12 guide on my 2nd monitor so I don't have to tab back and forth. But other than that, LOVE this add on
Revered Member
Yup, the addon version of my
Yup, the addon version of my guide is in the process
TzTz is working on it, as well as revising some quest routes, making leveling much more efficient. I can't give you an exact date the guide will be in the addon, but it will be soon.
52-60
Hey, I have been using the Add-on version of your guide and I've noticed there is no guides from 52-60. I don't know if they're not made yet or the update is just missing them. Just letting you know =] (Horde guide btw)
Moderator
They are not written yet.
They are not written yet.
The best
Jame you are the best! Lemme tell you this.... I used to play WoW awhile ago... like pre burning crusade and Wotlk, and I had a Paladin I spent probably two months on to get to level 37.... lets face it <---NOOB .... Well in less than 3 weeks... I have gotten a toon from lvl 1 to lvl 52 and still leveling 2-3 times a day!! Thanks a ton!! You have no idea how STOKED I am to get to level 80 and raid with my friends for once...without using a private server =D
In a word, INCREDIBLE
This is how I felt once I started using your guide. I've started leveling a priest following your Horde guide, and I must say, I've made it to 38 in less that 2 days playing time. My first thought before I began was "Yeah, it's a free guide. It's gonna suck". It came recommended from a friend so I thought I would try it out. Man, I was in SHOCK! For some reason, I must have completely missed that you have an ADDON as well? I was alt tabbing this whole time and I didn't have to? LOL! Incredible. Keep up the good work Jame!
Administrator
Yep, we also have an addon
Yep, we also have an addon version now! It's not finished but we're working hard on it. You can already see the results on my blog and on Jiyambi's blog . The /played speed is already impressive
Guides passed 77
I just hit level 77 and i'm almost done with the grzzly hills guide and was just wondering if theres any guides for 77-80? Is it in the add-on or something? Thank you
Love the guides you da man
Moderator
Those guides aren't out just
Those guides aren't out just yet. Jame's list of what he is working on and the release dates can be found here. For now, he is concentrating on perfecting the addon before writing the later guides. However he does suggest an order to do the zones: After you finish Grizzley Hills, move on to Zul'Drak, then Sholazar, then Storm Peaks, and finally Icecrown. Honestly it should be pretty easy to ding 80, I was 80 *long* before I got to Icecrown. The quests in this expansion are also pretty good at leading you to the next area, you just won't be quite as efficient without Jame's expert advice!
wow very good job , I'm sure
wow very good job ,
I'm sure Jame loves all the support his users give him, thanks for letting him know how much you appreciate the guides!