The experts agree, whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned World of Warcraft vet,
a professional fast leveling guide is your secret epic weapon no one told you existed… until now!
Don’t Just Grind Up
The Leveling Ladder…
Destroy It.
If you want to out-level your friends,
If you want to save time and level fast,
If you want a World of Warcraft character that commands respect,
Then this information might be the most valuable you read all year.
From the desk of Jon Weston
World of Warcraft Addict
Thursday 9:43 p.m.
Dear gamer,
What if you could slash the time it took you to level in World of Warcraft by 50%? What if you could stop wandering around feeling frustrated at all the time you’re wasting? What if the world’s fastest World of Warcraft players could take you by the hand and let you level as fast as they do?
Well now you can. In fact its the reality for tens of thousands of WoW players who use leveling guides, each and every day. To learn how, take a moment to read this short letter. We’ll reveal exactly what makes a fast leveling guide worth your attention, and which ones to turn your nose up at as you walk on by.
Can You Believe The Hype?
If you’re like I was 3 years ago, you’re probably wondering if all the hype is true about leveling guides - can they really level me in a week? Can they really automatically lead me along the fastest possible leveling route? And is there any real “secret” to it?
I’m here to tell you the answer is both yes and no – there are some great guides out there, and there’s also some guides out there that would be better sent around the web as a bad chain email.
But I’m here to talk to you about the great guides.
The best, most professional guides in the World of Warcraft community are like leveling power tools. The authors, players who have been around since the earliest “beta” versions of the game, aren’t just well respected players who pass along their tips, no.
Fast Leveling Keys, Yours.
Those well respected players now let you choose if you want to automatically and easily follow the path that they forged. Its like being the shadow of a perfect player, constantly and effortlessly being carried from location to location, certain that there’s very few, if any way to do it any better, or any faster.
While World of Warcraft is full of great content and good times, there are some drawbacks to it as a massively multiplayer game. The biggest draw back inherit in World of Warcraft is the massive game world, the thousands of quests, and the lack of direction on where best to level your character… and its EXPANDING regularly.
A Super-Efficient Secret
When a speed runner (or “power leveler”) plans out their questing patterns, they do so with the goal of making their leveling speed and their route taken the most efficient imaginable. Each and every location in World of Warcraft is taken into account, along with the time taken to travel there, the time taken to go between questing locations, and even the location of little known quests that occur along that leveling route.
The end result can be seen when you trace the path of these levelers — highly efficient routes which take you along the shortest path that saves you the most time possible, while completing as many quests as possible before its time to turn them in for that big experience hit.
The Star, or “Squiggle” Leveling Pattern
I often explain to friends and visitors that the “average” World of Warcraft player’s route is like a star, or child’s scribble. They head out in one direction, complete a quest, and then back track to another location over the other side of the zone, and so on, until the path they trace resembles a messy squiggle.
If you view the overhead maps drawn up by the best fast leveling experts, you’ll see long arcs, circles and tightly bunched points where they’ve clearly found efficiently aligned questing locations, or groups of nearby, fast to complete quests.
The information I’m referring to above is what you get when you get a professionally formatted leveling guide. Not some fancy tricks, no secrets (well… I’ve found a lot of quests I never knew existed!), no questionable software or “robots” that do it for you.
Just the fastest, most efficient route that ensures you’ll never waste your time in World of Warcraft again, and you’ll never wonder in frustration about where to go next.
What About “Map Mods”?
There is one other important aspect about all good leveling guides – and that is how the guide is formatted. Many guides today are simple e-books, either in Word or .PDF format, which means you need to leave the game to be able to read them, which takes up time that could be better spent leveling.
The best guides, the guides I recommend here, are all in-game guides – otherwise known as “map mods”. This means that you never have to alt-tab to leave the game, and it means you have access at your finger tips to everything you need to know to level fast.
But that’s just the start!
Easy To Use, Smart Navigation
The greatest thing I’ve found about in-game leveling guides is the directional arrow you’re provided which literally points the way to where you need to go next. You don’t need to open up a map, you don’t need to try & work out where a coordinate is – you just select your leveling range, and the guide shows you visually which way to go from there.
Now, I hope all this is sounding good to you, because I’m very passionate about using these guides myself, and I want you to know how fast these guides can get your leveling speeds – not to mention the time & annoyance factor they eliminate.
But there is one small catch amongst all this good news, and that is…
“Which Guide Do You Choose?”
Its no small question – there’s literally dozens of World of Warcraft guides available on the Internet, and its practically impossible to tell which are the good guides, and which are the bad. After all, we’re on the Internet here, not a book store, and we can’t see what we’re getting until we’re using it.
And that’s where I come in!
Steer Yourself Clear of the “Car Wreck” Guides
I’ve played every major leveling guide available for World of Warcraft, and I’ve weeded out the worst and highlighted the best. Why you might ask? Because I too found it almost impossible to sort the good from the bad when I began not too long ago… I found it infuriating choosing a guide which didn’t live up to its hype, and I found it frustrating when I wasted time in-game because directions were incomplete, or just plain wrong!
I’m here to drive traffic away from the banked up traffic of a “car-wreck” guide, and towards the free-flowing fast lane of the good guys. They deserve it!
Lets begin.
Below you’ll find an easy to read, point by point commentary on the tiny selection of World of Warcraft guides that I’ve found to be a cut above the rest. Every guide here is map-mod compatible, which means they’ll show you where you need to go from within the game, and every guide here is guaranteed by the author to level you faster than you ever have before.
None of these guides are “better” than the others. Some are super-easy to use, some have the most diligently researched and efficient questing routes, and others are the best at getting almost every shred of information you could ever need to support your leveling, all in one place.
I’ll let you know which, by taking into consideration:
- What each guide does best,
- Whether the guide caters to Horde, Alliance, or both,
- Whether the guide includes gold making info (having good gear helps you level much faster), and
- Who made the guide?
Good luck, and I hope you find a guide that helps you ignite the leveling ladder!
NOTE: I begin my leveling guide review with Joana’s Horde Leveling Guide for a reason. And that’s because its my personal pick, and its the guide I use when I’m enjoying myself on WoW every day. Its a no-nonsense, no frills guide that’s easy to use, and best of all Joana is a speed running, fast leveling fanatic who has diligently optimized his leveling paths over the years, and it shows.
- Top Attribute: Most comprehensive, all round leveling information in one location.
- The only guide to offer a free trial.
- All in one guide. Leveling, gold, macros, professions, talents, etc are all available as a package.
- In game high quality map mod. NEW: Now Automated!
- Complete with Wrath of the Lich King leveling routes.
- Complete with Burning Crusade leveling routes.
- Combined Horde and Alliance guide.
- Member’s website & forums.
- Player: Dave Farrel.
- Doesn’t claim any specific record speed leveling time.
- Guide is 100% guaranteed.
- Top Attribute: The only 100% automated in-game leveling guide, AND the fastest, most efficient leveling route.
- The ultimate easy to use, lazy person’s guide!
- Complete with Wrath of the Lich King leveling routes.
- Complete with Burning Crusade leveling routes.
- Very user friendly.
- Horde or Alliance guide available.
- Player: John “Zygor” Cook.
- Claims the fastest 1-80 leveling speed in the world of under 7 days.
- Guide is 100% guaranteed.
Check out Zygor’s Leveling Guide info page.
- Top Attribute: Professionally crafted, super fast guides with pro tips and assistance.
- Complete with Wrath of the Lich King leveling routes.
- Complete with Burning Crusade leveling routes.
- Offers a choice between Horde or Alliance guide.
- Seperate gold guide available.
- iDemise forum access where the iDemise team supplies 1 on 1 help if required.
- Players: Team iDemise.
- 1-70 leveling speed of under 6 days, 5 hours.
- Guide is 100% guaranteed.
- Contains some amazing talent guides and pro tips to help you level faster.
Check out iDemise’s Fast Leveling info page.
- Top Attribute: Fast, efficient. No fluff.
- Complete with Wrath of the Lich King leveling routes.
- Complete with Burning Crusade leveling routes.
- Horde only guide.
- Has placed first in a Blizzard speed leveling contest.
- No gold guide.
- Free lifetime updates.
- Brand new in-game guide with map mod.
- Player: Joana.
- Claims a 1-80 leveling speed of under 1 week played time.
- Guide is 100% guaranteed.
Check out Joana’s Horde Leveling Guide info page.



