Leveling 1–60 in WoW Forever: zones, dungeons and XP rules

The tables follow the main questing zone for each band. Overlap is normal: when a zone turns green, move to the next one even if quests are left.

Alliance

Horde

The Skyborne leave Zephras Isle at 12 or 13 on a skycutter: see Leaving Zephras Isle. For the stretch from 20 to 30 in detail, read Levels 20 to 30.

Run each dungeon once, near the bottom of its range, with every quest for it in your log. A second run pays far less: the quests are done and the kills alone don't keep up with questing. The Dungeon quest tour lists every dungeon quest to pick up before you go in, for your faction and level.

Clearing every dungeon on a list also earns Legacy points: six early dungeons for Novice Spelunker, ten mid-level ones for Experienced Spelunker and seventeen high-level ones for Master Spelunker. See Legacy: the fastest 16 points.

Three rules shape dungeon leveling in Forever:

• Dungeon quests pay half their bonus. The extra experience on dungeon quests, on top of a normal quest of that level, is cut by half. They still pay well: take every one before you go in.
• Dungeon kills pay 20% more. Every mob inside gives a fifth more experience than the same mob would outside.
• Each player's own level counts. Kill experience is worked out from your level, not from the highest player in the group. A mob that is grey to you pays you nothing even when it is green to a friend. And a player far above the dungeon's level means no one gets experience from the kills.

In practice: a group of the right level that clears a dungeon once, with all of its quests, levels about as fast as a player questing alone. Running the same dungeon over and over is slower than questing, and being pulled through by a high-level friend pays nothing. Use dungeons as a stop on the quest route, not as the route.

While you are rested, every kill pays double experience until the bonus runs out. Quests pay the same either way. You build rested experience while logged out in an inn or a capital city, slowly elsewhere, up to a level and a half.

Forever adds a faster way to top it up: the camp. Build a campfire with a Basic Campfire Kit (Cooking 1) and up to three players can add a camp feature each. The first camping quest, around level 5, shows you how.

The feature that matters for leveling is the Camp Tent, a Leatherworking feature at skill 20 made from Light Leather. Sit by it for half a minute and your rested bar fills to 5% of a level. It does nothing if you already have more, so use it once your rested bar is spent. All camp features share a one-hour cooldown, which makes it up to 5% of a level of double experience every hour.

The camping page lists every camp feature and the class buff each one overlaps with.

Legacy points are account-wide, and each character spends up to 16 of them. For a character that is still leveling, these are the perks that save time:

• Well Rested: rested experience builds 20% faster at 5/5, and the cap rises by the same amount. Buy it first: the next perk needs it.
• Talented: talent points start up to five levels early. At 5/5 you have every talent milestone five levels sooner, and all 51 points at 55.
• Thrill of Adventure: each kill gives back up to 5% of your health and mana over 10 seconds in the open world. Fewer stops to eat and drink.
• Frequent Flier: half-price flights on a faster mount. It needs Field Guide at 3/3 first, which also shortens your camp cooldown.
• Field Medicine: bandages come back up to 10 seconds sooner, for classes that can't heal themselves.

Well Rested, Talented and Thrill of Adventure at 5/5 use 15 points. Plan yours in the Legacy planner, and see where the points come from in Legacy: the fastest 16 points.

Any class can reach 60, but some get there with less downtime:

• Hunter is the easiest. The pet takes the hits while you shoot, you rarely drink, and Beast Mastery stays safe from level 10 to 60.
• Warlock comes close. Affliction damage over time, Life Tap and Drain Life keep you killing with barely a pause, and the Voidwalker tanks the rest.
• Mage kills groups fastest. Frost pulls a pack, freezes it in place and burns it down with area spells, at the cost of more care on every pull.
• Shaman, Paladin and Druid stop less than most thanks to their heals. Enhancement Shamans, Retribution Paladins and Feral Druids all level steadily.
• Rogue is the slowest on its own: it eats after most fights, and speeds up a lot in a group or in dungeons. Warrior levels well in Protection now that Revenge scales with attack power: a shield lets you take two or three mobs at once and barely stop to eat (see the Warrior leveling guide).

Pick the class you want to play at 60. The difference between the fastest and slowest class is smaller than the difference between a good route and a bad one.

Each class guide has the talent order, abilities by level, rotation and gear from 1 to 60.

Try your talent build in the talent calculator before you spend the points.