i just looked through this it seems like a really helpful guide so i went through and made it just a bit clearer on everything just for all y'all

At level 10, I can speak for the "horde" only. So.... "Here's what I did..." I'll take you thru the awkward 10-30 levels... Also to let you know, I was pretty much using "store" bought weapons. At that time the AH was pretty much barren and void of anything decent. You lucky ones who have started afterwards are lucky. Also, keep in mind; I went from level 1-14 in the first day and 14-26 by the second. They were ALL day events, so if you’re not hardcore, don't get hard pressed that you're not at the same pace. The game has a level cap, so don't feel you need to hit it all in one day. Trust me; you have "time" to catch up.

This is pretty much what I did in OB on two characters and finally what I did in retail to level passed others. Also, you should note I pretty much skipped a lot of my quests in the beginning. I feel the early quests are kind of fillers for people who "Only want to quest." The same sort of items if not better can be found outside in the world.

Umm, as the Good people of the church say, "The Lord will provide", in this case, the WOW people. Quests are great for a coincidental XP, but the running around takes away from valuable farming and XP. Trust me, there are plenty of quests, and the early ones are crowded as it is. There will be plenty of awesome stuff to get later, after level 30. So forget those quests for right now, most of it that drops regularly is pretty much better. I'd say if you like a specific item off one of them "do it" otherwise, have faith. Also, a lot of you are going to be screaming about me skipping instances such as the one in the Cleft of Shadows; for those people, I am sorry and wouldn't suggest any instances until you are 20. The XP isn't that great, and you waste time dying a lot. Ok, so here goes....


1. (1st Day) Level 10 - Get to the Barrens - I say this because the quests are pretty simple and best of all, they are all linear (You can do them level by level and not do much traveling). I found being in the Undead area it was kind of all over the place, and I spent more time looking for the 1 quest mob that everybody else was trying to kill. Also, I did play a troll hunter, and found it to be the same case for the Trolls.

2. Level 10 => Level 15 - Discover the Crossroads - Find the inn, make it your new home. You will be spending a lot of time here. Load up on all the quests, you are going to find as you level, there will be some quest mobs that you just run up on. I started with the Plainsrunners and Zhevra's. Till you get some decent gear, stick to your level. I started farming from the bridge that connected (Durotar? Orgrimmar region and the Barrens) and moved south west into the Crossroads. The alligators are around level 10 and have a good chance of dropping decent items. Stay away from the scorpion type creatures and mostly anything that have a lasting poison/effect as it does slow down your farming time. You want to move from there killing Plainstriders and Zhevra's.

***TIP***You want to work in an area that there is no aggressive type mobs, the Zhevra's and Plainstriders are non-aggro and non-social. Killing 2 at once is mostly a death sentence when you're a lowbie, so stick to the area that is lowbie friendly. Again this should be at the camp between Orgrimmar and the Barrens (Crossroads). There is a little Horde camp there that I like. It's the first place you run into west of Orgrimmar. Grind on these two mobs until you hit about 14/15.

3. (2nd Day) 14/15 => 18 - NW Barrens - About this time you are probably finding you can start doing some quests at level 15. Fine, but keep moving thru each mob until you hit your quest mob area. They have you kill the female lions and male lions and all sorts of stuff i.e. Centaurs. If you are grinding more like I suggest, move yourself on the road NW of the Barrens. The plainstriders and Zhevras go up in level, which is nice, because they have a tendency to drop gear and cloth/cotton as well as sticking to "your" level.

4. 17/18 => 20 Ok, stay away from the Centaurs and such as they tend to gang up on you. Stick with north area of crossroads; you almost get close to going into Ashenvale, but "keep west" of that. Ok, this was my sweet spot. I loved this area because there is a hidden vendor back here. If you can't find him, he is in the very NORTH WEST spot of the Barrens. North of the Harpies area and West of the Road leading into Ashenvale. You're going to notice Giraffe’s, Lions, and Aggro-Plainstriders. Ya, its getting a bit tougher, but, the good news is that the mobs are compact here. Compact mobs = High output of kills, i.e... More XP, more chances for items. Also you should see a shop close by, even better, means you can farm 10 seconds away from a shop. PICK UP EVERYTHING and sell it, this is good, because if you don't have a lot of bags or the bags are 6/8 slot bags, it keeps you free from having to STOP and go back to town. Any green items save for the AH, when you are overloaded by the green hearthstone back and travel to Orgrimmar and AH your stuff. Do this until you are 21/22 or until you are bored. LOL

5. 21/22 => 24/25 Ok, now, if you put off doing the quests in the Barrens, great news, you can pretty much burn threw a good portion of them and bang out a lot of XP from doing the quests. Knock these quests out now, a lot of the mobs are still close to your level to give you XP and items. Centaur quests will eventually give you a nice ring (problem you’re first), Ecehyakee or however you pronounce it is a good quest. There are Quillboars (Boar guys) have good quests/drops. Since you are a high level, with increasingly better stuff or money situation they are easy to solo and you don't have to rely on a group to do them or at least only need one friend.

6. 24/25+ => 29/30 South of the Crossroads is Camp Trio - This was my favorite area, put off the quests there for a second. These Thunder Lizards (Big Dinosaur looking creatures) I made a lot of money off of these like 10g in 1/2 hours. One stack of gizzards should net you like 1g. Camp Taurajo is pretty close to repair and sell off things as you go. You can basically start off with the ones that are 21/22 then work your way to about 28. You can also kill the scorpions in this area for the famed "egg" quest and such. Again, I'd postpone your questing for the grinding, but if you need a break from the grind, by all means. There is a special mob Dinosaur (Lighting Lizard) here, kill him, (Owatonna), he gives you a quick 2800xp plus he drops some of the best equipment I ever got until I hit 30+. You can kill him over and over again. Also, around this area has quests from Camp Taurajo, one of the quests gives you the ability to turn in Blood shards, which are used for some real nice buffs, and of course quick xp. There is another Boarman type quest that the mobs drop "weapons" for quest items and also have a good tendency to drop nice rings. This area and the Thunder Lizards were my favorite because of the high quality drops and easy XP. GL there...

7. (3rd Day) Level 30+ (or if you haven't hit it already) - Do the instances you passed up on. By now, you are probably ahead of most people in the area. They will gladly welcome you into Cleft of Shadows Instance or Wailing Caverns. You also want to check back in the Hall of Heroes area, there is a new quest that popped up that sends you into Gnomeregan, which has some excellent Leather/Mail/Cloth reward items (Tripprunner Leather pants I got from this quest lasted till I hit 57). RazorFin Downs is also good around Level 30 Located in Deep South of Barrens.


***Alternate Route - 25+ - IF, you have a good group/clan, start looking to Thousand Needles. There are quests in there have awesome rewards and great XP. I would only suggest these quests if you have a group. It also takes you into contested territory, which I don't suggest you start doing till much later if you are solo.

***A Quick 45k XP for 30+ - Shimmering Flats have a lot of quick quests right in the same area. If you collect all the quests in that area and kill all the mobs it will take you to complete the quest, it will yield at LEAST 45k of XP. Also, you should travel South thru Shimmering Flats and discover Gadgetzan real quick and set it up as your home. Quick and easy to travel from Gadget to Orgrimmar for fast AH needs.


There is a lot you miss out on doing what I illustrate here, Tarren Mill, and a bunch of other stuff. Just giving you an idea of "what" you can do by yourself (solo) without relying on others. Truly I truly feel I was able to enjoy the game/quests after I hit 30, instead of dying a lot in some instance and eventually hating them just to try to complete some quest that didn't give me anything I needed/wanted. I later after 30 starting to play catch-up on the quests, and they were so easy and fast that I caught up in 1-2hours to where everybody else was in the quests.

I have killed probably two dozen of the thunder lizard things and have not gotten a single drop other than the blood for the quest. Have they changed things with the newest patch or do I need to get to the over level 20-21 lizards?

Problems. What if someone doesn't like questing or is just no good at doing most quests in general. Can they skip some quests and just continue grinding outside of Camp T? I'm at level 21 and just can not quest for my life. It seems to take me ages to just finish one. Help please?

This is a really good guide that I will use on my next alt!

The only thing that I feel like adding to it is skip professions! All they are going to do is slow down your levelling progress as you sit there skinning that animal, mining that ore, picking that herb, etc. If you happen to be making an alt you are lucky as you will know what quests are worth it and what are'nt and should also have money on your main to sustain that alt till you get to a sustainable level yourself.

You can easily go back and pick up a profession later on (once you have a mount) and have that profession up to par in no time at all.

Currently 17th and up in the north west corner of The Barrens as per the guide. With the vendor so close the money flow is great and allowed me to get those extra bag slots which will save me so much time later. Green drops not as common as I was hoping for, but exp is steady and killing everything thats even or greater with little downtime and a few good heal meals when required.

After reading a few other guides this one is really working for me as a few people said a warrior cant solo very quickly, well I'm getting more exp/hour following this guide. Skinning skill max'ed and my alt leatherworker is doing good business from it.

Looking forward to moving onto this guide afterwards.


Thank you HiredKiller



Edited, Sun Feb 26 19:47:17 2006

This can be a bit difficult to pull off for Alliance and especially Night Elves but.. do ALL the newbie quests in ALL the starting areas for your faction. Also, knock out all the green quests before attempting the yellow ones (unless it's a class related one like getting Bear Form for Druids.) I headed out to Razor Hill with my lvl 5 orc hunter, finished a few green quests there before heading to Tirisfall Glades.. at this point, as I turned in a set of quests, the next set turned green again and I blasted through numerous ones in no time. I then stopped by Durotar at lvl 10 to do a quest and tamed my first pet before heading off to Mulgore where I was going back and forth between there and Durotar. By the time I finished all the quests in these 3 zones (save the ones in the beginning area in each zone), I was already lvl 15 or 16 (and several quests at Crossroads were already green, thus allowing me to continue this same process over again...)

The point is, doing quests that are meant for people a few levels below you can mean quick experience, especially in the lower level regions where you don't need to run much. Also, if you're looking at getting another faction's mount, you really need to start planning for it at lvl 1 - b/c reputation gained from these "newbie" quests add up but the reputation gains will drastically decrease once they turn grey.. (in many cases, you can probably go back and do a lvl 10 quest at lvl 60 but only receive a tiny fraction of reputation that you'd normally get at lvl 10.)

If you are just starting out and are going to follow this guide, make TWO characters. Make a troll and run him/her to Org and camp near the bank. When you get Green items you are not going to equip, Mail them to this Mule and let the mule store or place in the Auction Hall. Proceeds can be saved until needed then mailed back to the Main. 30cp per mail may be expensive at the lower levels, but thats only 1-3 kills by level 10. It will save you a huge amount of time running back and forth to a bank.

Stacks of Linen and Wool are great money makers for lowbies. Send them to your AH mule also. ANY green item under level 10 sells quick. A lot of "twinkers" will buy their starting equipment, rather than grind for it. 20-50sp means nothing to a level 60 who wants to experiment with a twink. Green items between 10 and 20 also do well, but for different reasons.

The first things you actually need to buy are bags. More bags = less trips to town! You will find bags as you level, but there are never enough. Once you fill your slots and your AH mule's slots, sell any extra. Even 6 slot bags sell well in the AH.

I kinda followed this guide (not knowing the guide at the time), but mixed it up with quests. Started doing the ThunderLizards/Zhevra's/Hyena's west of Taurojo when I was lvl 18 (hunter solo with pet) and took out the occasional lvl 22. Now I'm lvl 20 and my journeys take me more south every hour. I like it here a lot because I can solo AND all the mobs are beasts that are skinnable (skinning nearing lvl 200 :)). I'm planning on staying round Taurojo till I'm 30 and then move to 1000 needles.

I'll defanately try this out on my shaman.. I love to grind! Rock elementals in badlands :P

you must update this camp T now has a flight path this will drop your time by 2 days this way

i have a ud rogue, ud warlock and a orc hunter all are lvl 30 in 7 days

sorry but if you got the time its possible. also.. if your lvl 22-24 and cant kill a lvl 22 thunderhead, delete your mage or priest and reroll someting with more hitpoints or a pet

I'm 31 atm, mostly solo grinding and solo questing. Rep in my birth city is low honored and other 2 low friendly. Don't you need better faction than that to buy a mount? And can you reach the right faction by 40 only by grinding xp?

My gold will be burning a hole in my pocket if I can't spend it on a mount in 9 levels, LOL!

Don't see anyway possible to kill Thunderheads till 30... they're lvl 20-22 mobs. am I missing a higher lvl camp?

I made an Undead Rogue and decided to give this a shot. I got on around 3 PM as 9 about half way through, spent about 2 hours to get 10 and get settled in killing crocs on the river. Then it just flew by killing crocs to plainstriders and zhevras then the occasional raptor. When I got to 14 I decided to try and go to where you said, the NW corner with the aggroing plainstriders and the higher lvl zhevras. After 30 mins that got me about 150 exp and a bunch of dmg to my gear. So then I thought I should kill Prowlers nown in the SW after killing a few easily in the NW. Although there's a sh*tload of aggro down there with the prowlers and they're very grouped, if you're careful with aggro pulling and killing just about everything you find, exping there is pretty good. Took me from 14-15 in about 90 mins. On top of all that, I got about 6 greens in that time, 2 of which were good for my rogue.

I'll continue tomorrow to see how the next steps work. =)

Edited, Thu Jun 16 18:06:02 2005

This guide kinda blows dude. UD place (Brill area) is the BEST place to get to lvl 10-13 fast. I didnt even read the whole thing. Four paragraphs and i knew how retarded u were.

Edited, Tue Mar 29 18:37:09 2005