Who made this leveling guide? The vanilla WoW Horde leveling guide you see on this site was originally made back
in 2006 by Joana (AKA Mancow, or FuriousPaul). The guides have been
tweaked many times over the years to make things "faster". The leveling guides were
made because of all the messages I got from people asking me how I was able to
level up so quickly on new realms. I was first to level 60 on 7 different
realms (3 with Mancow and 4 with Joana), even winning Blizzard's "First to Level
50" contest they held back in 2006.
I am a video game speedrunner. My
true gamer name is FuriousPaul,
while Joana is the name of my WoW character. I will stick with Joana for
all my WoW stuff.
What Am I Working On Now?
As of January 2018 I am now
back on Vanilla/Classic WoW full time! I will
most likely be on this project full time for many years to come.
Do I stream?
Yes!
I joined twitch in 2013 with the gamer name of FuriousPaul and I streamed
speedruns of the classic Castlevania games full time from 2013 - 2017. Lately my streams
have died down quite a bit due to working on Classic WoW leveling guides every
day. My channel is now twitch.tv/Joana.
I will be doing a speedrun for Classic WoW once it launches, so be sure to
follow my Twitch channel.
More about this guide
The leveling guides on my site are essentially speed leveling guides.
My leveling guides are the same guides I use myself to speedrun to 60 on new
servers. I
list many occasions where I tell the player to "die on purpose" to go faster.
I tell the player to skip certain quests, because some quests are just not worth
the time/XP. I list tricks and shortcuts to go faster so you can reach
level 60 much quicker. I am still constantly going through them over and
over again perfecting the guides to make them faster and easier to follow. For the most part, the guide can be followed without the need from
other player's help, as the whole guide was made from a solo run anyways.
Although I do list quests that can optionally be done if you have a group.
My leveling guides also work great for duo leveling.
Class Steps
All starting zones includes all class steps. The 12-60 Horde contains all
the Hunter, Warlock and Warrior steps. The 12-60 Alliance contains all the
Hunter steps right now. You can still get a LOT of use out of the leveling
guides even if your class's steps are not implemented yet, you will just need to
do those few class steps on your own for now.
Videos
Currently, all videos are linked to my
1-60 speedrun that was
done back in 2006 on the official Blizzard vanilla WoW realm Jubei'thos (patch 1.9.2).
The video is known as the only fully recorded 1-60 speedrun of vanilla WoW and the
fastest known time done
in 4 days 20 hours played time and first level 60 on the realm.
Before Using the Guides, Read This:
Before reading the guide, it's recommended that you view my
speed leveling Tips/Tricks
page first to know basic tips on how to level up faster.
Quest Log Management
Through out the game, the quest log will be capped to 20 many times. The
guide makes use of maximizing the total amount of quests you can accept at once.
Because of this it's important to follow the guide exactly and only accept
quests if the guide tells you to so you won't run into issues not being able to
accept a quest. If you do accept a quest that is not listed in the guide,
write it down because you may need to abandon it in order to keep following the
guide if your quest log is full.
Guide Rules
To help you better understand the terminology in the guide and allow you to
follow it more effectively it is important to understand what it means when the
guide says the following:
Do - This means to do a quest and to finish it entirely before moving on.
Do part of - This means to only do a certain portion of a quest
according to what the step says to do.
Start working on - This means to simply start working on a quest,
but you don't have to finish it yet and you can move on to the next steps.
This usually means to kill certain mobs while on your way to the next step(s).
Continue working on - This means you were previously working on a
quest and the guide is telling you to continue working on it but you do not
have to finish it before moving on to the next step. This is similar
to "start working on".
Finish - This means you were previously working on a quest and
the guide is telling you to complete the quest before moving on to the next
step. This is similar to "do".
":" - Any time a step ends in a ":" instead of
a "." means that the next step is part of the current step you are on.
This generally means the next step should be done while working on the
current step. This means every "start working on" or
"continue working on" will end in a ":". But this is used with
other occasions as well, so keep this in mind.
Note about Escort Quests
Escort quests can take awhile to do. I have thoroughly tested all the
escort quests in the game for time/xp. Most are worth doing, but as long
as you are able to actually do them without failing. Most require you to
pay special attention to the escortee as most are fragile and will die easily,
so do your best to keep mobs off of the escortee during escort quests. The
longest one in the game is the Tanaris chicken escort. The chicken escorts
are only worth doing if you were able to do all 3 of them, as if you do, you
will be able to turn in an additional easy quick XP turn in quest at BB, which
makes them worth it.
Also if the escort is not there when the guide tells you to do the escort
means that someone else is currently doing the escort and you would have to wait
until the other player is finished first. In this case, I recommend
skipping it and moving on with the guide and consider coming back to do the
escort if its on the way.
Making bandages during an escort is a good way to save time building up First
Aid.
Skipped Quests
Some quests in my guide are marked as "SKIP" and colored in red. These
quests are simply either too hard to solo or not worth the XP/time and are
skipped. My
guide will only list SKIPPED quests if the quest is a direct follow up
after completing a quest, not one that you have to click the NPC again to get
it. If you hover over the skipped quests, it will give info on why it is
skipped in the guide (unless that info is already listed directly in the guide
text).
Keep an eye out in the AH through out the game
for these items:
Purchase these items when you find them with your Bank/AH alt, then send them
to your main so you can use these items to level faster. Please note that my guide will tell you when to get these items out of
your bank.
Horde & Alliance:
Swim Speed Potions
(used especially at lvl 37 for Faldir's Cove in Arathi Highlands and lvl 57 in WPL).
Try to get multiple stacks of these. I also recommend keeping a stack
of these always in your bags. You will frequently pass rivers and
lakes and can use these potions to pass them faster through out the guide. Please note that these potions do not
stack with Druid's Aquatic Form and Glyph of Aquatic Form.
Gyrochronatom
(used at level 41, Badlands). The Alliance has several NPCs they can
purchase this from and my guide does tell players to see if this can be
purchased through out the guide.
Bronze Tube (used at level 28 Duskwood) for this
quest.
If you cant purchase this from the AH, there are various venders my guide
will have you check to see if they are selling them. This item can be
hard to obtain so keep checking the AH and the engineering vendors often
until you get one!
My guide makes getting friendly with The Argent Dawn mandatory.
There is multiple reasons for this. One is so you can purchase
Enriched Manna Biscuits,
and two so you can accept a handful of easy quest turn-ins at Light's Hope
Chapel at level 59 that you will be able to start obtaining the items for in the
late 40s. These items & quests are:
30 Savage Fronds for "Savage
Flora": These are obtained from the
Bloodpetel mobs
in Un'Goro Crater (lvl 51-52).
30 Dark Iron Scraps for "Binding
the Dreadnaught": obtained from Dark Iron dwarves in Searing
Gorge (lvl 47) and from the Ogres in Burning Steppes (lvl 53).
30 Core of Elements for
"The Elemental Equation":
obtained by many different elementals, such as fire elementals in Un'Goro Crater (lvl 52),
water elementals in Eastern Plaguelands (lvl 57) and wind elementals
in
Silithus (lvl 58).
You can purchase these items from the AH too, but I really only recommend
seeing if you can get some extra
Crypt Fiend Parts, Savage Fronds
and Core of Elements
from the AH, as the others can easily be grinded out during the guide.
My step-by-step guide will remind you to get these items, when to put them
into your bank and when to finally get these items out of your bank at the end of the 58 Silithus section to turn them all in at once.
Please note that Classic WoW may not have these Argent Dawn Turn-Ins at launch,
if not, please ignore all this in the guide.
News / Updates
NOTE: Please follow either my
Twitter or
Facebook for some of these news
alerts as well:
July 16, 2019
New guide feature: Targeting buttons ( ) for various named mobs/NPCs and some
normal mobs. Simply click the button to copy the /target NPC to
your clipboard, then paste it in the game to quickly target the mob/NPC.
June 9, 2019 RANDOM UPDATES:
In-Game Addon Version of My Leveling Guides: As of June 6th
the In-Game Addon version of my leveling guides has began construction!
It will be a long road before it's finished completely, so I cannot
guarantee how much of it will be ready for Classic Launch but there is a
decent chance that some starting zones will be complete for it by then.
It will be full of features, including: waypoint arrows, automatic
updating, and much more. More features will be available for it
overtime too.
1-60 Alliance Guide: My 1-60 Alliance guide (web version)
will be fully available for Classic launch.
Members Area: My members area will launch one week before
Classic WoW launches. At this time I am unsure of how much content
will be in it. I suspect it will be about the same price of a Twitch
sub (of only about $5 a month or so). The members area will support
the ongoing efforts to improving my leveling guides over time. There is a lot
more content planned for the future, including remastered TBC leveling
guides (even if Blizzard does not launch Classic TBC). And remastered
WOTLK leveling guides. I plan to continue to make leveling guides for
WoW full time for many years to come!
I will be Speed Leveling for Classic Launch! Yes I will be
devoting 100% of my time for the first week of Classic launch to do a
speedrun from 1-60 and my goal is to beat my personal best time of 4 days 20
hours. You can watch this live on my
Twitch Channel, so be sure to give
it a Follow! This also means I will be unavailable to do email support for
my leveling guides on the first week of Classic launch. So I highly
recommend if you plan to use my guides to get members access prior to
Classic launch to make sure you can login with no issues.
June 5, 2019
My 30-40 Alliance guide is now available for testing, please report any
errors or suggestions to me, thanks!
May 17, 2019
I got into the beta and will be testing both the game and my guides! You
can watch me do this on my Twitch Channel.
Also my 12-30 Alliance guide is now available for testing, please report any
errors or suggestions to me, thanks!
May 10, 2019
The Warlock steps are now fully implemented into the 1-60 Horde leveling guide.
This covers getting all Warlock Minions (except Infernal) along with all the
other Warlock quests throughout the game including the level 40 Felsteed mount.
April 13, 2019 Upcoming: The
Fastest 1-60 Classic WoW Launch Levelers! <--- Remember to keep this
page in mind and report to me the results of the fastest Classic launch 1-60
levelers across all classes and all realms. I am looking for the best
/played times along with server firsts to level 60!
March 21, 2019
New guide feature:
Warlock Summoning
System. This is currently only for the Horde side.
February 27, 2019
The starting area guide for the
Dun Morogh
(Gnomes & Dwarves) now covers all class quests / steps.
February 26, 2019
I just added a special new Tier to my
Patreon! A signed copy of
the very first ever leveling guide for WoW that I will send to your physical
mailing address! Go
here for more
details.
February 22, 2019
The starting area guide for the
Night Elves
(Teldrassil) now includes all class quests/steps.
February 18, 2019
The starting area guide for the
Humans
(Elwynn Forest) now includes all class quests/steps.
February 13, 2019
The Warrior steps are now fully implemented throughout my 1-60 Horde leveling
guide. This will make it a lot easier to follow my Horde guide with a
Warrior. The guide also fully covers getting that powerful
Whirlwind Axe at level 30.
More step-by-step class guides are coming soon!
February 7, 2019
The
starting zone for the Undead has gone through a major improvement with the
addition of Silverpine Forest. The guide will now get you from 12-15 by
doing a good chunk of the Silverpine Forest quests. The guide also blends
in better with the Barrens guide.
January 21, 2019
Numerous quest additions/changes for the 30-40 Horde guide. Added in the Faldir's
Cove quests in 37 Arathi Highlands and some optional group quests. Some
changes to the STV sections: added in the "Supply
and Demand" questline from BB. Also moved the elite quest "The
Vile Reef" from lvl 34 to lvl 39, so that should be much easier to do now.
January 12, 2019
Small update with the checkmark system: you can now click anywhere on each step
(besides the links) to activate the checkmark.
January 10, 2019
I have now been on Vanilla WoW full time for an entire year! Started back
January 10th of 2018. I accomplished a lot in one year but there's still so much
more to get done for my speed leveling guides. Here's to another great year of
WoW!
December 24, 2018
I made some adjustments to my Hunter talent distribution points on the
Speed Leveling Tips &
Tricks page. Basically I am obtaining Improved Aspect of the Hawk rank
4 & 5 much sooner than my last build.
Also the 12-60 Alliance leveling guide is coming along very nicely and I
would say it is on par with the same quality with my 1-60 Horde leveling guide.
It is nearing completion as I am doing some final testing/tweaking on it.
It should be ready for Classic WoW beta!
November 11, 2018
The checkmarks will now save if you leave and come back to the site. There
is also checkmark removal buttons on all the guides now.
I made some route changes to the Horde levels 43-44 sections. I have
swapped 44 Dustwallow Marsh with 44 Desolace (the entire
sections). This allowed me to do Deadmire (at lvl 43 instead of 38) and then go
stop at TB to turn in Deadmire + The Black Shield at the same
time, then fly quickly to do the Desolace stuff. Doing 44 Desolace is now
mandatory because I think its faster with the new routes. This will also make the level 53 grind much shorter. I think
these were great changes.
October 30, 2018
JoanasWorld.com is looking for help with the 12-60 individual class steps (for
Horde right now). If you think you have what it takes, you can get more info
here on how to apply.
October 29, 2018
The 1-12
Tirisfal Glades
leveling guide now includes ALL class steps. Simply pick the class you
are playing at the top of the screen and the guide will now dynamically update
all the steps and images in the guide for your chosen class.
October 26, 2018
The 1-12 Durotar
leveling guide now includes ALL class steps. Simply pick the class you
are playing at the top of the screen and the guide will now dynamically update
all the steps and images in the guide for your chosen class.
Also, I did not have time to fully test all the new class steps in the
Durotar guide. As you play through the guide, please report any errors to
me and I will get them fixed ASAP. Or if you have any suggestions send
those in as well. Thanks!
October 25, 2018
Updated the homepage of my site to show all the new improvements and features
for my new Classic WoW leveling guides.
September 10, 2018
Step-by-step class guides are on the way! The
1-12 Mulgore Guide
is the first guide to get all the individual class steps. At the top of
the guide, simply select which class you are playing and the page will
dynamically update all the steps in the guide for that class (both text and
images). The rest of the guides will be slowly updated overtime to include
all the class steps, but you can see how it's going to work with the 1-12
Mulgore. I want to thank crazyK and his
Placeholderguild for helping me
out with the individual class content. They are allowing me to get the
1-60 Alliance guide done while also getting all the class steps done at the same
time, so everything can be ready for Classic launch (hopefully).
Also, the Alliance guide is coming along well, I am up to level 28 with a
rough draft right now, but I still need more time before I release any of the
12+ content.
August 18, 2018
The 1-12
starting area for Gnomes / Dwarves (Alliance) has been completed! This
guide includes Dun
Morogh and Loch Modan to get from levels 1 - 12. I will be working on the
12-60 content next, starting with Darkshore.
July 8, 2018
The Horde levels 50-60
guide has been rewritten and revamped. My 1-60 Horde leveling guide is now
completely updated for the 1.12 Drums of War patch. As you can see it is about 15% larger than the 40-50 guide
(single largest guide page yet).
There is also a lot of route changes. I moved the entire Silithus section
from level 55 to level 58, which allowed me to include a lot more quests for
that zone. There is also a lot of other improvement to the route,
including adding a lot more quests into the guide, mostly
from Moonglade, Silithus and Eastern Plaguelands. This will make the final
level 59 grind much shorter.
June 5, 2018
The Horde levels 40-50
guide has been rewritten and revamped. This was the largest single guide
page I have redone yet, which took longer than I thought, but should be a much
better overall guide than my previous version.
April 19, 2018
The Horde levels 30-40
guide has been rewritten and revamped. Lots of improvements to the routes,
images, and info.
April 8, 2018
New guide feature: You can hover over skipped quests (colored in red) to
see the reason why it is skipped. Please note that this has only been
updated to level 40 right now, the rest is coming soon.
April 4, 2018
I have uploaded a very old version of my horde leveling guide to view for
nostalgic value,
check it out!
March 30, 2018
The Horde 20-30 guide
has been rewritten and revamped. Major changes to the Hillsbrad section.
March 18, 2018
Updated all the links in my guides from wowhead to TwinStar Vanilla. This should
provide more accurate info for all the quests, items and NPCs.
March 17, 2018
The Horde 12-20 (Barrens + Stonetalon Mountains)
guide has been rewritten and revamped. In addition, there has been
numerous tweaks to the speedrun route to make things faster and easier to
follow. Also, in case you haven't noticed I am now adding about 40% more
info per step and redoing all the images. Unlike with my previous vanilla
guides, I am now giving a brief explanation of where to go and what to do with
each step along with any other helpful tips.
March 10, 2018
The Orc / Troll starting area has been rewritten and revamped. Also, eventually I will be covering ALL
class steps throughout the entire guide, but this will come later.
February 26, 2018
As of today, my Twitch handle has changed from twitch.tv/FuriousPaul to
twitch.tv/Joana. Please follow
my twitch channel to be notifed when I go live. I plan to do WoW 1-60
speed runs when Classic comes out, you don't want to miss it.
February 19, 2018
I now have a Patreon Page where
you guys can support me while I work on Vanilla WoW leveling guides every day.
I appreciate all of you who support me on there, it means a lot to me right now.
Doing this full time is taxing on my financial situation. My goal is to
make the best Vanilla WoW leveling guides on the web and the donations keep me
going at it healthfully. There is also cool rewards you get in return for
donating. Thanks!
February 15, 2018
JoanasWorld.com has gone through a site template overhaul. Everything
should be easier to navigate and more compatible with all devices.
January 10, 2018
I start working on Vanilla WoW full time (again)!
The vanilla WoW Horde leveling guide you see on this site was originally made back
in 2006 by Joana (AKA Mancow, or FuriousPaul). The guides have been
tweaked many times over the years to make things "faster". The leveling guides were
made because of all the messages I got from people asking me how I was able to
level up so quickly on new realms. I was first to level 60 on 7 different
realms (3 with Mancow and 4 with Joana), even winning Blizzard's "First to Level
50" contest they held back in 2006.