There are a few tricks these guides simply will not teach you that can enhance your play greatly, and make your trip from 1-80 much easier. Making mules, or alts that store your loot will speed up your play a ton. Let me define what a mule is:

Mules, by pure definition, are beasts of burden that are used to carry things a normal person simply could not.

A mule in World of Warcraft is a character, usually not one that is regularly played, that is used to carry things the primary character cannot.

Mules hold a valuable place in any role playing game, especially a massively multi-player game such as World of Warcraft. You need to create one for yourself to reduce the time spent running between a city and the area you will be leveling at. Most players level zone by zone, meaning that you will clear out one zone of quests before moving onto the next. The best time for these players to head to a city is between zones, but that is not always easy.

Mules can make this much easier, as most zones will have a mailbox that you can access. You simply park your mule near a mailbox and send her all your extra loot. You do not need to log on your mule immediately, just do so when YOU have the time… not when your inventory tells you to.

You should be sending every extra drop to your mule whenever you are near a mailbox. Anything that is not grey should be sent, as everything else has a value. This will serve the double purpose of saving you valuable time to do more quests, and make you more money as you are not simply selling most the drops to the nearest vendor for much less than the auction house value.

In short, every player should have a mule character in order to maximize their World of Warcraft Leveling speed. You should also buy a copy of Zygor Guides to further speed up the process.