Survey - What do you think is important to be mentioned in a leveling guide?

[Oltier 471]

The title states my interest!

What do you think is very important to be mentioned in a leveling guide?

So far, I could think of

• Best specialisation choice
• Professions
• Races
• Gear (What kind of items you should wear with what stats)
• Heirloom items, and what enchantments you should apply onto them
• Character resourse explanation (ie.: mana, combo points etc.)
• Experience Bonus gains (ie.: Elixir of ancient knowledge, rested bonus)
• List of abilities, and what rotation, abilities you should use while leveling.

If you could add anything to this list share it with me, please! It will be appreciated.

[Elro 47]

If you feel up to it, you can always include a few options on where to go to level when you hit certain points, but it's not necessary. With the boards on the cities giving you new zone intro quests, people could manage without it.

[Storm 426]

it would be pretty cool to have a (free) step by step power leveling guide for each race. at some point they would all converge into the same guide. It would take too much time and effort to build a free guide of Zygor quality, but a brief outline of what to do at each level would be nice.It could basically be something along the lines of

Human Mage:

Level 1-5

Quest in North Shire

- Quest Hub located at Northshire Abbey

Level 5-10

Quest in Elwynn Forest

- Quest hub's located at Goldshire, Eastvale Logging camp, and Westbrook Garrison

Level 10-15

Quest in Westfall

- Quest hub's located at Jansen steed, and Sentinel Hill

Level 15

Queue for Deadmines, and Wailing caverns

- Complete each dungeon once and turn in quests.

Edited July 7, 2013 by Storm

[Oltier 471]

it would be pretty cool to have a (free) step by step power leveling guide for each race. at some point they would all converge into the same guide. It would take too much time and effort to build a free guide of Zygor quality, but a brief outline of what to do at each level would be nice.It could basically be something along the lines of

Human Mage:

Level 1-5
Quest in North Shire
- Quest Hub located at Northshire Abbey

Level 5-10
Quest in Elwynn Forest
- Quest hub's located at Goldshire, Eastvale Logging camp, and Westbrook Garrison

Level 10-15
Quest in Westfall
- Quest hub's located at Jansen steed, and Sentinel Hill

Level 15
Queue for Deadmines, and Wailing caverns
- Complete each dungeon once and turn in quests.

Mmmh. This is an interesting idea but would require too many efforts from me at the moment, when I start working. I could however, do something that would not require much effort and would help a lot as well in the leveling

The current design of my leveling guide is something like this:

4. Levels 20 to 29

So far, your gameplay should be as follows:

Spam Frostbolt.

Use your Water Elemental's Freeze to generate Fingers of Frost charges or Frost Nova, followed up with a Frostbolt will hit your target for an increase critical hit chance.

Use Arcane Explosion in AoE situations.

You should also be making frequent use of Blink and Blazing Speed to move around.

Make sure that your Water Elemental is summoned. If it is not, use Summon Water Elemental.

At Level 20 you can learn Apprentice Riding in every major city for 4. You can also buy your first mount for 1 in the same town. Worgens are automatically granted Apprentice Riding at Level 20, as well, due to their racial ability Running Wild. This ability will allow you to ride mounts, increasing your movement speed by 60%.

At Level 22 you gain Ice Lance, that will be useful at later levels.

At Level 24 you gain Fingers of Frost. This is a passive ability. Your successful Frostbolt casts have a chance to trigger a Fingers of Frost charge, up to the maximum of 2. You should always use these charges with Ice Lance, but you should never use Ice Lance without these.

At Level 25 you unlock a Major and Minor glyph slot.

We suggest taking Glyph of Momentum as a Minor glyph. This allows you to Blink in the direction that you are moving, instead of where you are facing.

As a Major glyph, you should take Glyph of Ice Lance which will cause your Ice Lances to hit an additional target, allowing you to kill multiple mobs faster.

At Level 26 you gain an active Ice Block, which is an excellent survival cooldown. It will make you immune to any damage for 10 seconds and also removes any debuffs from you. However, you cannot move or act while you are inside the block. Be prepared to spam Blink when it is about to expire, if you are planning to runaway from your opponents.

Alternatively, you can use Ice Block to jump down from heights that would otherwise kill you, you will take no damage.

At Level 28 you gain Cone of Cold. This spell reduces the movement speed of every enemy target by 60%, in front of you for 6 seconds. Use this, to move away from opponents.

At Level 29 you gain Remove Curse. Use it on yourself or on your Elemental of you get a Curse debuff.

What if I add that: "At level 22 you are given the "Hero's call: Burning Steppes" quest in main cities, meaning that it is the most efficient to start questing in that zone."?
This is just an example ofc.

[Shine 144]

Mmmh. This is an interesting idea but would require too many efforts from me at the moment, when I start working. I could however, do something that would not require much effort and would help a lot as well in the leveling

The current design of my leveling guide is something like this:

What if I add that: "At level 22 you are given the "Hero's call: Burning Steppes" quest in main cities, meaning that it is the most efficient to start questing in that zone."?

This is just an example ofc.

This is kinda what I'm was looking for 4 years ago. however, it does solely focus on abilities a class gets at certain points. I would like to see some advises as to where to level and what dungeons might have good gear for certain levels.

I know that gear may not be the most important thing during leveling but maybe you could add something like:

- Lvl X

• You gain ability X
• You gain a Talent in Tier X
• Dungeon X is now available

then as a header under each level (or level range, such as 20-29)

- Other suggestions

• Dungeon X drops a couple of cloth items with intelect crit and haste
• Dungeon Y has some interesting rings
• Looking for resources for proffesions? Dungeon Z has some good Cloth drops/Leathers from skinning/Mining spots.

I realise this must be alot of work, especially to do for every class, keeping every spec and proffesions in mind. Yet it might be something to start adding to the regular guide in due time.

oh, and I have seen a couple of times where I hit lvl 80 (for example) and my il was not yet enough to do cata normals. maybe you could direct people to some good ways to get nice gear at these points. (I beleive the il requirement starts from 80, so that would only mean a short section for 80, 85 and 90)

Hope my feedback helps

Edited July 8, 2013 by Shine

[Oltier 471]

This is kinda what I'm was looking for 4 years ago. however, it does solely focus on abilities a class gets at certain points. I would like to see some advises as to where to level and what dungeons might have good gear for certain levels.

I know that gear may not be the most important thing during leveling but maybe you could add something like:

- Lvl X

• You gain ability X
• You gain a Talent in Tier X
• Dungeon X is now available

then as a header under each level (or level range, such as 20-29)

- Other suggestions

• Dungeon X drops a couple of cloth items with intelect crit and haste
• Dungeon Y has some interesting rings
• Looking for resources for proffesions? Dungeon Z has some good Cloth drops/Leathers from skinning/Mining spots.

I realise this must be alot of work, especially to do for every class, keeping every spec and proffesions in mind. Yet it might be something to start adding to the regular guide in due time.

oh, and I have seen a couple of times where I hit lvl 80 (for example) and my il was not yet enough to do cata normals. maybe you could direct people to some good ways to get nice gear at these points. (I beleive the il requirement starts from 80, so that would only mean a short section for 80, 85 and 90)

Hope my feedback helps

These suggestions are excellent and I must thank you for it!

You gave me lot of work at the moment, but I strongly feel that what you suggested (most of them) are essential and should be included.

I highly doubt I will include the gear section, because with the existing number of heirlooms and the bag for random dailies, those random items from dungeons are... well you can live without them. However, if I see something notable that might be fun at level 90 as well, I will include it for sure. (Like that trinket from Stratholme that makes everybody dance, and you will not have to come back there to farm it)

The professions are focused on how useful they will be for a new level 90 and there are also links to the existing profession guides. I also noted, that if this will be your first character, you should pick up mostly gathering professions.

Additional note about the gear, you made me remember about those traveling vendors in pandaria, who sold green quality items in every slot. And if I remember well, a same vendor was also added for Cataclysm in Mount Hyjal.

For now, this leveling guide will only be for frost mages. Later I might expand it to all 3 specialisations and if I really have THAT much free time some other classes might get some attention. :D

Once again, I thank you very much for your feedback! Keep them coming if you have anything else in mind!