Cataclysm Leveling Guide - WOW leveling guides in Cataclysm

Well it’s been quite some time since last this site was updated but without further delay let’s get to talking about cataclysm leveling guides and whether or not they are still necessary with the built in quest tracking blizzard provides.

First and foremost let me say blizzard did a pretty good job at marking where quests are and where they need to be turned in. In almost all cases the built in World of Warcraft quest guide is accurate. The benefits of their new system clearly crap on what they previously had...which was pretty much nothing.

The question then is, “DO you need a World of Warcraft leveling guide for cataclysm?”

The answer still remains yes.

The beauty of a World of Warcraft leveling guide was never the map icons. Don’t get me wrong they were/are a great thing and make leveling a breeze. No, what you’re really benefiting from when you get a World of Warcraft leveling guide is the LEVELING PATH; in other words the most efficient way to complete quests in order to level the fastest. With literally thousands of quests in World of Warcraft it’s very easy to simply finish quests after quest and trudge along killing and basically wandering around with no real goal beyond leveling. Don’t get me wrong, you will level you will get gold and you will EVENTUALLY make it to level 85. The issue here isn’t leveling its leveling speed and THAT is what a good leveling path provides.

Now you might have leveled 100’s of characters in the past the difference now is that cataclysm has pretty much changed everything in Azeroth. Cataclysm leveling guides provide you with all new quest paths. Paths that have been tried, tested, optimized and made available for you. Speed my friend, speed is what Cataclysm leveling guides are bringing to the table. After personally using zygor to level several characters from 1-85 and then testing out what a typical no guided run to level 85 is like I can attest for a 4 day play time drop in leveling time.

Only 4 days you say? That’s 96 hours of game time. A little math and that’s 3.2 hours of in game time in addition to the 4-6 days game time you’ll get with a guide. Do you get that. Without a guide you’re looking at roughly 11 days of play time to get to end game activities.

11 days.
That’s 264 hours.
IF you played for 8.8 hours a day you’d do that in 30 days.
4.4 hours in 60 days
2.9 in 90 days
3 months of 3 hours a day to get to level 85.

Now let’s look at the 120 hours you can get safely with a leveling guide.

That’s 4 hour a day for 30 days
2 hours a day for 60 days
1.33. hours a day for 90 days.

In a nut shell you’re leveling time is quite literally cut in half.

Are World of Warcraft leveling guides still relevant in Cataclysm?

Only if you like leveling twice as fast as you normally would.