Druids are a fun class to play with. They rule in PvP. Rogues are often called the best class for PvP, but druids are also a force to be reckoned. There is a downside by choosing druid as your class. Druids can be extremely slow to level. Luckily it is easy to speedup leveling your druid if you know the right way.

1). Don’t die

When you try to fight mobs as a druid, you will fail ‘epicly’. The reason that you will die is that you will attract attention of too many monsters. When you get surrounded by a lot of monster there will be almost no way out. Even if you get out, it will cost you a lot of health and mana. This immediately bring us to the second point.

2). Invest Your Gold Wisely

At low levels, you will not need many gold. You don’t want to buy good gear. If you save for a bigger bag first, it will be very profitable. Bigger bags allow faster leveling and more gold. Having a bigger bags allows your druid to pickup more loot before you have to return. You will be saving time and money. You should get your flying mount as soon as possible. It gives you access to area’s that are great for leveling. It also cuts the traveling time. The importance of cutting down traveling time is well known. Combine that with taking all quest in a specific area and complete them at the same time.

3). Good Training Locations The one most important tip : ‘Choose your grind location wisely!’ To large mobs or to strong monsters and you will die easily. Too few or to weak monster will not give you enough experience to level fast.

The race to power level your newest character is on. On average you can expect 8-10 days of play time. Or 192 hours of time you need to spend killing and questing at a rate of 4 hours a day this can take quite a bit of time to completely get a character from level 1 to 70. While it is possible this task is not an easy one.

So what can you do to give yourself a little edge? Simply follow these few hints to help you cut that playing time down.

Questing is by and far the fastest way to power level a character. This might seam like common sense, however there are some people that refuse to do it. The reason questing is so beneficial to leveling is because of the massive boosts in exp you get in one shot. In addition to the one shot experience you get for completing a quest; many of the quests require you to kill things…which also give exp. These are the best quests to shoot for as they can be done in groups and NPC’s are easily killed when 1-3 people are killing them.

There is of course a flip side to this. On quests where you have to gather items NPCs drop it is NOT wise to work in a group on these as you’ll have to loot double the corpses to get the same amount of items as the drop rate does not increase but stays the same.

For questing it is important to remember this: Killing quests good with groups. Gathering quests best if soloed.

One could take the approach of running around wildly completing quests in a random pattern with no real goal. One could also take a hammer to their skull. I don’t recommend either.

The greatst part of power leveling through questing is that you can often complete several quests at once or in a close proximity to one another, further cutting down the amount of time you need to level your character. Rather than completing one quest, then running back to complete another, why not complete three quests in the same general area and then turn all three in, effectively eliminating 2 extra trips.

Finding these paths is not that hard if you simply read the quests and generally you can find many of the quests in the same location. There is of course a much simpler way of organizing your quests and streamlining your questing route. Zygor Guides, which provides an in-game tool to help chart a course that will yield the best possible return on your time.

In addition to setting a course you can see on your map, Zygor Guides provides crucial help in completing quests. Can’t find that book in that cave? Zygor Guides gives you detailed instructions on where to locate it. Don’t know what direction to walk? Zygor Guides provides you with a taxi cab like arrow to point you in the right direction.

Leveling from 1-10 is typically the easiest thing to do as it requires little grinding and all the quests are centrally located in one specific region. Not until you get to higher levels will you start to experience having to travel for 10 minutes to compete a quest and another 10 to get back to turn it in. This leads to one crucial questions, what quests do I do then.

Ideally you’ll want to quest in an area your level or slightly lower. Slightly lower because you will tend to clear the quest quicker. It does not make much sense to spend 45 minutes on one red(high level) quest and get a slight boost to experience, when you can spend the same 45 minutes completeing 15 quests and get a HUGE increase to your exp.

Rested experience is also a must for anyone looking to power level.

Rested experience is a small bonus you get for NOT PLAYING. When you’re in a capital city or in an inn and you see “zzz” below your character icon this means that you’re recieving Rested Experiences, which is 1.5 times experience. ALWAYS make sure you log out in an inn or a capital city as you can accumulate rested experience when you’re not playing. You can identify your rested experience by looking at the experience bar right below your aciton bar. If it is blue you are getting 1.5 times your normal experience for killing things, if it is purple you’re on normal experience.

With the release of WOTLK looming, leveling your new character to 70, or at least to death knight status is a must, and with these few hints and tips is capable of being accomplished by anyone.

Happy Hunting.

Zygor Guides Alliance and Horde Leveling Guide is now available for the newly released World Of Warcraft Expansion pack WOTLK. Now the Guide in itself will take your leveling, to unrecognised heights, but there are quite a few things that you can do to help the process along. By adding and following these few tips you will shave even more off your leveling time.

1. Never waste your time traveling to the bank or auction house. Make yourself, what is called a bank character, don’t level him up get him out of his starter area and to a city and just locate him between the bank and the Auction house. Supply him with goods that you do not require and he can sell via AH and make sure he has gold so that you can then makes purchases from the Auction house for your main. Then simply mail these items to your main character. This will save you an immense amount of time.

2. Never pass a mailbox without emptying your bags. Send everything that you do not need to carry to your bank character. This frees up your bags and also saves you having to return to a city or town to empty your bags.

3. Get the biggest set of bags you can as soon as possible. 16 slotters should be top of your list of things to get, while your following Zygors Guide your gonna be getting a lot of loot.

4. Kill everything on your travels to maximise the XP you will get during your quest chains.

5 Make sure that everytime you visit a city that you have no skills that require leveling up. If any can be levelled then do it whilst there to save on wasted time traveling.

6. Make sure you start saving for a mount from day one and aquire them at the appropriate times. However if for instance your a sharman don’t worry about getting your first mount, 2/2 Ghostwolf form is not that much slower (5% to be exact)

7. Always log out in a tavern. You aquire what is called rested XP. If it is viable and does not involve you traveling to far you can log out in a cities tavern, here you receive 4x rested XP bonus. Just a note here sometimes it is not viable to log out in a tavern. This happens when the time it takes to travel to and from the tavern out weighs the rested XP aquired. But as a rule, you normally log out in a tavern.

8. Now this is one which I personally don’t do, but if you have enough gold already or your one and only goal is getting up through the levels. Don’t take a gathering skill, some don’t even loot. I myself don’t do this but the amount of time you can save by not looting or gathering is huge. However the downside is you can miss lots of goodies, so it’s a choice you have to make. This is viable to do when at the lower levels but to be honest you can miss some really awsome drops once you start to get higher up the tree.

9. Another thing is don’t group. Keep your leveling a solo affair. I have only grouped up with people while using Zygor Guides 1 to 80 Alliance and Horde Leveling Guide, if I am looking to help them. I never group to try and maximise my XP.

10. Upgrade your characters equipment at least every 8 levels. Some people do it earlier but it can be a waste of both gold and time.