| Tips/tricks that will help you level faster: 1.
If your goal is to level really fast, then your gonna have to stop
worrying about professions, they will slow you down if anything. The
only profession I use is First Aid. 2.
Always make sure you have the latest up to date food/drink,
regenerating mana/life faster from eating/drinking is VERY important to
leveling faster. So as soon as you hit 15/25/35/45, upgrade your
food/water immediately. 3.
I strategically use hearth stones through out the whole game, if you
have to hearth and there still is a cooldown, then logging out of the
game, will still make the cooldown tick. This will help you get a
better /played time at the end. 4.
Practice makes perfect, I can’t stress this enough, the more times you
go through the game to 60, the faster you get at it, it's as simple as
that. 5. Plan ahead. While questing, always know what your going to do next. 6. Use Auto-Run a lot, you can still type and do other stuff while auto-running. 7.
If your goal is to get a VERY good /played time to 60, then NEVER do
BGs, NEVER go to the AH (see below), NEVER go AFK, NEVER go to the
ARENA in STV. 8.
You should always have a bank/AH alt on every server you have a main
character on. This is VERY important. I consistently use the mail
system as a "bank", Any time im out questing and find a bunch of greens
or items that will sell in the AH, I DO NOT go to the AH with that
character to put it in the AH, instead I send them all to an ALT
through the mailbox. Then with the ALT, ill put them in the AH. Also, I
strategically use the mail box as a "storage system". For example, I
have a bunch of Silk Cloth in my inventory, that im going to use later,
but not now, instead of it wasting space in my inventory, ill send it
to my ALT, then from my ALT, ill send it right back to my main, so it
sits in my mailbox, when I need it. 9.
Before I go out questing, I make sure I have plenty of
food/water/bullets or arrows/and repaired, so I can last hours before
returning to town. 10.
Don’t think just because your inventory is filled you have to go back
to town to empty it every time, I consistently destroy items to make
room for quest items or items that are more important. 11.
If a quest has you collect "x" of so many items, and you have gotten
all the items to complete the quest, then abandoning the quest will
save room for other quests to get, you can still accept the quest later
and you'll already have the items to complete it. 12.
Don’t loot every mob! If your goal is to level like a madman, then
don’t loot mobs that would waste too much time. Although the higher the
level I get the more percent chance that I will loot mobs. here's a
rough estimate of whether I loot mobs or not: lvl - % chance to loot 1-10 - 97% I loot more here cause I don’t have a pet yet, so the mob drops dead right where im at each time. 10-20 - 70% 20-30 - 80% 30-40 - 87% 40-50 - 95% 50-60 - 98%
How do I determine whether or not I loot? Many factors comes in to
play here, like if my inventory is full or not, or how much time it
would take to go loot a mob then continue on, or if it's a beast type
mob (which don’t drop cloth/money). 13.
Many people have asked me if instances are a waste of time. No, they
are worth doing, but only if you have a good group to do them. I
personally skip instances while racing myself to 60, cause I don’t want
to take the chance that I will have a bad group. But if your just
playing casually, then I recommend doing them. 14.
If your goal is to level real fast then stick with one type of weapon
the whole game. I choose to stick with staffs the WHOLE game, even if I
find an epic whatever, I stick with staffs, cause it slows you down
when you have to level up new weapons. Plus, I get staff quest rewards
along the way. Although if you refuse this tip, then if you want to
level up a new weapon faster, you can use your abilities (which counts
as extra weapon hits), such as disengage/raptor strike/Mongoose
Bite/Wing Clip for melee weapons, which will help level up your weapons
faster. 15.
from my experience gear is overrated, people think gear is too
important for everything (even leveling faster). Well, from my
experience it's not that important, your character does most of it's
damage from it's actual character level and its skills/abilities and
your pet's damage (if your a hunter), and from better
bullets/arrows/scopes. I could use a low level green bow/gun all the
way to 60, or a high level epic bow/gun all the way to 60, and I betcha
my final /played time will hardly be no difference at all. So don't
panic if your stuck with a lower level green for awhile. As a matter of
fact, on Jubei'Thos server (the server I finished with a final time of
4 days 20 hours), I used a level 36 green bow all the way to level 57,
I then found a level 50 green gun at level 57 that I used to 60.
Through out all my speed runs I never buy weapons/armor in the AH to
use, I save my money so I have enough to buy a mount (which I usually
am able to afford at level 45), you’ll find sufficient weapon/armor
from mob drops and quest rewards. The only thing I do buy from the
auction hall is scopes, better bags, better ammo/arrow bags, and maybe
a better bow/gun, that’s it. 16.
I get asked a lot why I choose troll rather than orc for a hunter. The
racial bonuses between orc and troll are pretty much an even choice so
it came down to looks for me. Although I do believe the troll beserking
ability can be a life saver, but the orc’s 5% pet damage is not really
much of a life saver. 17.
Avoid grinding as much as possible, if you want to get to 60 faster,
easier, and with less boredom, then learn to do the quests instead. I
actually spend a lot of time flying/riding around turning in quests or
moving to the next area (which is still faster than grinding). And
while doing all that flying, I take breaks to eat (in RL) or whatever.
If your grinding, you have to be there non-stop. Not to mention,
questing increases your reputations a lot, compared to grinding, which
hardly doesn’t at all. Questing is the way to play this game, not
grinding. 18.
Turn off auto camera and use your mouse to manually adjust your vision.
Also crank up your mouse sensitivity high, so you can look around much
faster. | 19. This is the exact order I distribute my skill points as a hunter, this is a VERY good PvE Leveling build: 10) Endurance Training rank 1/5 11) Endurance Training rank 2/5 12) Improved Aspect of the Hawk rank 1/5 13) Improved Aspect of the Hawk rank 2/5 14) Improved Aspect of the Hawk rank 3/5 15) Improved Revive Pet rank 1/2 16) Improved Revive Pet rank 2/2 17) Thick Hide rank 1/3 18) Thick Hide rank 2/3 19) Thick Hide rank 3/3 20) Pathfinding rank 1/2 21) Pathfinding rank 2/2 22) Bestial Swiftness rank 1/1 23) Unleashed Fury rank 1/5 24) Unleashed Fury rank 2/5 25) Ferocity rank 1/5 26) Ferocity rank 2/5 27) Ferocity rank 3/5 28) Ferocity rank 4/5 29) Ferocity rank 5/5 30) Intimidation rank 1/1 31) Bestial Discipline rank 1/2 32) Bestial Discipline rank 2/2 33) Unleashed Fury rank 3/5 34) Unleashed Fury rank 4/5 35) Frenzy rank 1/5 36) Frenzy rank 2/5 37) Frenzy rank 3/5 38) Unleashed Fury rank 5/5 39) Frenzy rank 4/5 40) Bestial Wrath rank 1/1 41) Improved Aspect of the Hawk rank 4/5 42) Improved Aspect of the Hawk rank 5/5 43) Efficiency rank 1/5 44) Efficiency rank 2/5 45) Efficiency rank 3/5 46) Efficiency rank 4/5 47) Efficiency rank 5/5 48) Lethal Shots rank 1/5 49) Lethal Shots rank 2/5 50) Lethal Shots rank 3/5 51) Lethal Shots rank 4/5 52) Lethal Shots rank 5/5 53) Hawk Eye rank 1/3 54) Hawk Eye rank 2/3 55) Endurance Training rank 3/5 56) Hawk Eye rank 3/3 57) Humanoid Slaying rank 1/3 58) Humanoid Slaying rank 2/3 59) Humanoid Slaying rank 3/3 (These humanoid slaying points are to help out with the final owl grinding that I do.) 60) Aimed Shot rank 1/1 Click Here To See My Full Completed Talent Build! | 20. Here are the times I had for each level during my 4 day 20 hour run on Jubei'Thos:
DAYS:HOURS:MINUTES
LVL - Time - Time to do LVL
10 = 0:02:32
12 = 0:03:50
12.9 = 0:05:13 <->0:55
15.9 = 0:06:34 <->0:42
16.9 = 0:07:34 <->1:00
17.9 = 0:08:17 <->0:43
18.9 = 0:09:12 <->0:55
19.9 = 0:10:09 <->0:56
20.9 = 0:11:21 <->1:11
21.9 = 0:12:49 <->1:28
22.9 = 0:14:10 <->1:20
23.9 = 0:15:20 <->1:10
24.9 = 0:16:41 <->1:22
25.9 = 0:17:55 <->1:13
26.9 = 0:19:15 <->1:20
27.9 = 0:20:55 <->1:40
28.9 = 0:22:39 <->1:44
29.9 = 1:00:20 <->1:41
30.9 = 1:02:12 <->1:53
31.9 = 1:04:12 <->2:00
32.9 = 1:06:07 <->1:54
33.9 = 1:08:13 <->2:06
34.9 = 1:10:21 <->2:08
35.9 = 1:12:02 <->1:41
36.9 = 1:14:39 <->2:37
37.9 = 1:16:55 <->2:16
38.9 = 1:19:27 <->2:32
39.9 = 1:22:04 <->2:36
40.9 = 2:01:06 <->2:02
41.9 = 2:04:23 <->3:16
42.9 = 2:07:22 <->2:59
43.9 = 2:10:25 <->3:04
44.9 = 2:12:50 <->2:24
45.9 = 2:15:30 <->2:40
46.9 = 2:19:17 <->3:49
47.9 = 2:22:11 <->2:54
48.9 = 3:01:17 <->3:07
49.9 = 3:04:26 <->3:09
50.9 = 3:07:27 <->3:00
51.9 = 3:11:28 <->4:01
52.9 = 3:14:07 <->2:38
53.9 = 3:17:45 <->3:38
54.9 = 3:22:20 <->4:34
55.9 = 4:02:06 <->3:46
56.9 = 4:05:38 <->2:32
57.9 = 4:09:36 <->3:57
58.9 = 4:15:09 <->5:33
59.9 = 4:20:49 <->5:39 |
| Hunter specific tips/tricks:: 1. before taming a pet, lay down a frost trap, so the mob freezes solid for a while, instead of having it hit you repeatedly. 2. while drinking, have your pet start attacking something. 3.
Learn to use immolation traps a lot. One method I use through out the
whole game is: lay down an immolation trap, then serpent sting a mob,
have that mob run into the immolation trap, while that mob is taking
damage and im tanking it, me and my pet are killing another mob. 4. If a mob has the ability to heal themself, use Intimidation to stop them from healing. (Or scatter-shot if your MM speced) 5. Use a macro to feed your pet, this saves time and frustration. 6.
consistently use all your hunter's abilities, use BW/Rapid Fire/Arcane
Shot, as soon as the cooldown is up every time. Use a UI add-on that
help you see the cooldowns better (like what I use, which is called
Cooldown Count mod). 7.
Multi-shot single mobs (or even players in PVP). Multi-shots adds an
extra free shot (similar to arcane shot) in the shoot cycle. Through
out the game check and see if your multi-shots are doing more damage
per mana than arcane shots, if so, use multi-shots more often (even on
single mobs). 8.
Use bandages to heal your pets sometimes instead of using mend pet,
this saves your mana, and (depending on the bandage) can heal more HPs
up. 9.
I personally use a cat as my main pet mainly because it does the most
DPS out of all pets. Popular pets such as the Rake are no better than a
regular cat for PvE, but for PvP it can make a slight difference. 10.
Here are the hotkeys I use. I think using hotkeys is more efficient
than pressing icons all the time, so here are the hotkeys I use as a
hunter: "Q" Hunter's Mark "E" Serpent Sting "3" Arcane Shot "4" Multi-Shot "X" Bestial Wrath "2" Raptor Strike "Z" Rapid Fire "5" Viper Sting "6" Flare "H" mount "CTRL+W" Intimidation "SHIFT+F" Immolation Trap "SHIFT+C" Aspect of the Cheetah "SHIFT+R" Aspect of the Hawk "SHIFT+D" Aspect of the Monkey "CTRL+1" Disengage "CTRL+V" Mend Pet "CTRL+SHIFT+V" Mend Pet (1-2 skill levels below my best) "CTRL+E" Concussive Shot "CTRL+2" Wing Clip "CTRL+3" auto shoot "CTRL+S" Beserking (troll racial ability) MOVEMENT COMMANDS: "W" move forward (I also sometimes hold both mouse buttons down to move forward) "A" strafe left "S" move backwards "D" strafe right "MIDDLEMOUSEBUTTON" Auto-run "SPACEBAR" jump ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here are my Warlock hotkeys: "Q" Curse of Agony "E" Corruption "SHIFT+F" Siphon Life "CTRL+F" Immolate "3" Drain Life "2" Shadow Bolt "Z" Life Tap "CTRL+Q" Curse of Weakness "SHIFT+G" Summon Imp "SHIFT+C" Death Coil "X" Dark Pact "CTRL+C" Drain Soul "CTRL+W" Amplify Curse "CTRL+E" Fear "CTRL+SHIFT+B" Create Healthstone "4" Demon Armor "CTRL+G" Summon Voidwalker "CTRL+V" Health Funnel "CTRL+~" Sacrifice "SHIFT+W" Unending Breath "CTRL+B" Create Soulstone "CTRL+A" Searing Pain "CTRL+1" Rain of Fire "CTRL+SHIFT+R" Ritual of Summoning "T" Shadowburn "G" Summon Succubus "I" Eye of Kilrogg "CTRL+3" Drain Mana "SHIFT+D" Sense Demons "SHIFT+4" Banish Rank1 "SHIFT+E" Banish Rank2 "CTRL+N" Create Firestone "CTRL+4" Enslave Demon "SHIFT+1" Hellfire "SHIFT+CTRL+G" Summon Felhunter "CTRL+D" Detect Invisibility "CTRL+SHIFT+B" Create Spellstone "CTRL+SHIFT+E" Howl of Terror "SHIFT+2" Curse of Shadow "ALT+Q" Curse of Doom "SHFT+SPACEBAR" Consume Shadows (VW ability) "TAB" Suffering (VW ability) "SHIFT+Q" Curse of Recklessness "5" Curse of Tongues "CTRL+S" shoot wand "CTRL+2" Soul Fire ------------------------------- Abbreviation meanings: BB=booty bay, FP= flight path, CT=camp Taurajo, XR=cross roads, STV=stranglethorn vale, WC= wailing caverns, SM= scarlet monestary, RFK=razorfen krawl, BRD= blackrock depths
Joana, how long did it take you to come up with these awesome leveling routes? Good
question, I went through 8 different horde characters, racing myself to
60 on new servers with each one, I was the first to 60 every time, but
my main goal was not first to 60 but a better /played time with each
attempt. With each race I basically paid very close attention to every
little detail on the fastest way to do the quests etc.. Then
in-between new servers, I would spend all my time trying to figure out
how to do the next server even faster! I had went through several test
characters to find the best grinding spots, figuring out which quests
to skip and finding more quests I could do (by looking them up on
wow.allakhazam.com or Thottbot.com) Each time improving upon my
memorization of everything, I put a LOT of thought in this whole
leveling process. I spent literally about 6 solid months doing nothing
but coming up with this leveling pattern you have here. What UI Mods do I use? I get asked this a lot! I use cosmos UI (www.cosmosui.org)
but I only use a few mods that come with it, mainly "Cooldown Count"
(the mod that shows the cooldowns of my abilities in yellow on the
action bar), "Bar Options" (the only reason I use this is for the "out
of range coloring" option), "Census Plus" (which allows me to see a
whole census of the current faction side of the server, all the players
and their levels in nice graphs), "PopBar" (this is the UI mod that
allows me to drop spells/abilities/macros in that huge box on the lower
right hand side of the screen, I then have all of those hot keyed for
easy game play), "Scrolling Combat Text" (SCT) (I turn everything off
on this except the "show dodges", this tells me when I can use the
Mongoose Bite ability, since you can only do those after dodges), and a
few other minor UI mods (such as map coordinates etc.). If your into RAIDING you may want to look into other mods that will help you with groups better, you can check out www.curse-gaming.com for all kinds of different UI mods that will help your class or your play style. For screenshots and to get to know Joana/Mancow better you can visit this part of my site here! MORE GUIDES: |
