This pinned comment is where I'll go over any additional points I forgot to discuss in the video, or where I'll detail any changes that have occurred since the video was posted. Edit 1/24/24: For Horde players, the recent Gilneas Reclamation in 10.2.5 disrupted sections of the Silverpine Forest questline. Everything is still completable, but you'll need to use a workaround that I discuss in this video: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/h3uKfJqLfHiCuX0.html Edit 7/6/23: I got YET ANOTHER World Record run, but this time it was actually kinda ridiculous. I did 10-70 in 4 1/2 hours, and my 10-60 time was only 2 1/2 hours. This new run was also done with Guardian Druid, unlike my two previous WW Monk WRs, and you can watch it here: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/cIl_anqEaqF5kY0.html Edit 2/12/23: Following some recent tests, I've begun including TBC dungeons into the level 10-30 routing as I believe it's faster in specific cases. In this video I discuss all of my research and explain when you should and shouldn't level through dungeons: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/aqFle2NrrGxqxGg.htmlsi=Okwzd0OGA6mI3JoW Edit 12/28/22: YES OK I KNOW THE TOY IS 10K NOT 5K I MISSPOKE IM SORRY STOP LEAVING THE SAME COMMENT 500 TIMES! Also, yes, I'm now aware that the Thrallmar Mage trick is working again. This has been fairly inconsistent, as there was a period of time where the mage was not teleporting people to Khadgar. Good to know it's now working again. Second, if you're behind on experience, just continue following the route and you'll hit 60. The level ranges given in the guide are suggestions, not rules, and if you use absolutely no experience modifiers, you will need to finish in Spires of Arak (as the guide states). I get this comment a lot, but there are way too many variables in modern WoW leveling to predict the exact level that everyone will reach at any given point. Lastly, this should be obvious, but the 3 hours in the title is referencing my world record. The point is to show that this is the time you CAN achieve, but this is with practice and proper planning. A casual time of 5-6 hours with this route is normal and is still much faster than any alternatives. You can't expect to magically match a world record time on your first attempt.

So I decided to follow your guide, I’m not exactly timing it but usually I to wod 10-50 (now 60) and ESPECIALLY for horde, your guide is leaps and bounds faster than starting wod at 10. I just wish it was a separate video for horde and alliance as opposed to back and forth, had a hard time keeping track lol. Either way you’re the best. ✌️✊🏻

Awesome guide, great explaining of every step to follow! One of the best WoW guides I've seen in a very long time! Took me like 8 hours to reach 60, but I took breaks and shit like that. Thanks for the help :D

Thanks a lot Harldan :) I have like a dozen alts waiting at 50 which i leveled using our earlier guide :) super fast and enjoyable.

thank you very much for the written guide you shared! I appreciate the time and effort you put in to it as it's been helping me level my alts!

I followed this guide as i leveled and wrote down personal notes for the alliance side. Took me all day to get from 1-60 but i had hours of breaks in between and i took time and care to understand the routes and intricacies. Next time i lvl a new class i'll optimize my run immensely thanks to this guide and my experience from today. Great work!

Overall a decent VoD! Thanks for sharing the infos with us. Just one thing from me personally, id make 2 separate VODs out of it for Horde and Alliance, because as you did it, it can be a little hard to follow stuff, espacially when you are playing Alliance! Non the less, great job.

I was just about to start a Kul Tiran Monk... This guide couldn't have come at a better time. Thanks!

Thank you for this guide!! You put it in alot of work and we appreciate it!

Congrats on WR! And thanks for the video! Very helpful :)

Thanks for these videos, Harldan!

Guide is a life saver for returning players.

With the new expansion dropping there have been many "first draft" videos being posted. On top of being very useful, this guide is also refreshing in its precision.

I really appreciate this guide i have been wanting to level some characters without buying a boost this made leveling them so easy thank you!

This is perfect I might actually muster the resolve to get all the heritage sets this time.

Thank you so much for your guides! i have so much fun leveling alts in pre patch with your method :-)

wow this is actually the best and fastest leveling guide i seen, thank god i came across this, this is going to save me so many hrs.

This is awesome, and I am very thankful for players like you. I can't do the "skipping." it's completely contrary to my completionist loremaster ways. Keep going after those world records!

Great guide, however its hard to keep track of whats the Horde and Alliance things. Hope you do 2 separate detailed guides for horde and alliance, it would be awesome.

Really appreciate this guide I haven’t played wow since cata and my Fox race starts at 10 so this makes things so quick 😊

as somebody with a bunch of 50s who had played back in WoD (cant do garrison stuff) i used RR, loch, and westfall + pet battle dailies in the area for fast exp. good guide!

I'll admit, I was very skeptical when I got to Spires of Arak and I was only level 46. I followed the guide to a T, not skipping any of the steps. I got a whole whopping 14 levels without even finishing all of Spires. This guide truly does work if you follow it.

I've just levelled a Lightforged Draenei Paladin using this. Had the Darkmoon buff and a few of the BFA exp elixirs. My /played was just over 7 hours on ding 60! Thanks for the guide!

I have this video open for every character I level now. big thanks.

Thank you for the guide! I didn't follow it exactly cause it was my first time doing it and it took about 20 hours. The dungeon finder helped out a lot while doing thise route especially at the end 35 --> 60.

A very good guide to go with. Although, I feel everyone forgets that you can do the quick (at least for alliance, not sure about the horde) quest line in Boralus to open up the portals to the other major cities. It's quite helpful to get to Ironforge quickly.

I also highly recommend using heirloom gear to do this, upgraded up to 5/6. If you can't afford a full set, it is still worth considering buying a 2-handed weapon. Caster-class weapons will give a huge boost to intelligence and for strength/agility classes all your skills damage are proportional to your weapon damage. If your class/spec uses 2 weapons, you'll need to buy only a single one-handed weapon, since they're non-unique (you can use the same heirloom to create two and equip both). This will make you kill normal mobs with 2-3 skills, as well as elites and quest "bosses" with a single rotation, saving you a lot of time and allowing you to tackle those elites and 3-player-quest bosses .

Missed your videos. Thank you for the content

Awesome as usual, mate!

A few more timestamps for those looking specifically for the more Alliance focused parts: 04:32 - Alliance Levels 10-25 07:05 - Alliance Levels 25-35 10:33 - Alliance Levels 35-45 14:15 - Alliance Levels 45-60

In case it helps and depending on if it's useful to the alt one is leveling, before I skip straight to Dalaran I like to pick up all the buffs. Sometimes I also do the quick duel and complete the quest quickly to get the ring reward as I don't have ring heirlooms. The stats on that ring and the buffs are a nice boost to start.

Bro, I have used this guide on 4 alts already, thank you so much!

Just wanna say thank u as a returning WoW player. Last I played was WotLK, so a lot of things are overwhelming, and I've made like 10 characters, so this guide is a savior for my indecisiveness. Finally got a druid to 60, ready for Dragonflight after wasting so much time lol.

Just an fyi, when you finish in Redridge Mountains you don't actually need to go back to the flightmaster you showed, there is one at the camp where you get the Prisoners of War quest as well.

Thank you for this, straightforward and super helpful! I'm gonna see how many I can get done this coming weekend. Are there any variations that include more LFG dungeons? Or is there a specific expansion that's most commonly used for dungeon leveling? Any idea if the XP from the elemental invasion is efficient?

I will try it, really well explained

There are now dozens of people on this route, it took me about 25 minutes just to make one level because the rare mobs are dead (long respawn time) and some of the mobs respawn slowly so I had to criss cross the zone. Great video so I'll wait a few weeks til the hype dies down

the mad lad is back at it again

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this already, but if you pull the big Yeti group quest to the entrance of the yeti cave, his highest damage ability the knock up does no damage

LETS GOOO!! This guide gives me Serotonin 📈

Respect bro, gonna try this today!

It's so weird seeing all these zones jumbled together like that. I stopped playing a while ago before they did away with zone-specific levels and coming back with an alt was a really weird feeling. It's amazin how fast you can get to max level now though. That was mostly what kept me from playing alts at all.

Harldan, thanks for the guide. I am following it and I completed the entirety of the Hillsbrad Foothills and The WoD Intro up to rescuing Olin Umberhide. I am only level 34. Am I missing something? I thought I was missing something at first, but I have the achievement indicating I completed the entirety of Hillsbrad. I have also completed all the hidden quests you recommend. What gives? Thanks!

Awesome job, thanks for sharing it

So well edited!

Very minor, but you can save a few seconds when starting the WoD chromietime by talking to the mage in front of the SHATTRATH portal to tp you directly to the dark portal next to khadgar rather than to the coastline and have to fly over to the portal

Nice man, one thing though, i found it slightly confusing that you kept swapping between ally/horde, maybe should have done one faction 1-60 first and then done the other faction after? I did get lost a few times because you talk fast too, but great vid, im speeding some toons up before launch :)

Superb stuff, appreciate this, as I'm going through vainly leveling classes I never wanted to 🤣

Extremly efficient route! thanks

great guide only thing would be nice if there is a a tab at 14:20 for alliance portion of the 45-60 part for quick refrence

I wish you made this same video but went over the alliance and horde routes separately so I don't uave to watch the part with horde parts to find alliance parts

tysm for this, you're a lifesaver! ♡

I'm looking forward to giving this path a try, thanks!! :D

I'd pay money for a a leveling addon following this

My only issue with your guides was the lack of alliance (in 18 years I've never leveled a horde). You're a godsend, dude. I can't wait to finish this video! Have you released a 60-70 for Alliance yet? I'll go see what you have, just curious. If not, are you considering it? I will have about 14 characters that need to make those last 10 levels for professions xD

Who would've thought that fast leveling includes this much traveling back and forth. Definitely trying this on my next alt.

Over all great video. I did see your pinned comment and it all makes sense now. Obviously, I didn't make it 10-60 in 3 hours or anywhere close for that matter. My two cents, I think a lot of people would just make better time if they stuck to just clearing a timewalking expansion from Chromie and stay there. If you're not familiar with certain things, it's easy to waste a lot of time jumping to new areas, where as if you just stay where you are they guide you all the way through the exp remains constant. Anyways, thanks for the vid! Maybe on my next character I will fair better.

I love the guide and will keep following it, but I seem to have an issue. I’m heavily under leveled even after following the guide. I was only 20 when moving on to Hillsbrand. Finished it at 30. Moved on to WoD and go to 35 after finishing the intro quest you mentioned. According to your progress I should pushing level 45 right now. I have no idea what I did wrong.

3 hours of gameplay and I already reached the lvl 20, very nice!

Alliance. Started the game 3 weeks ago. I dnt have 10k to spend on unlocking flight path maps. Used to just do bfa brainlessly for 3 of my char until I got very sick of the game. I have not unlocked pathfinder so I cant fly. Followed the guide and I have a lvl 60 of each class sitting there at my disposal for dragon flight in a week. Ez peazy. Took me ard 5~7 hours for each(gotta factor in familiarizing each class mechanics as I'm new to the game. Also, some classes are just faster for solo pve) Great guide seriously.

I love videos like this, even if Im the kind of sap that role-plays (in my head) as I go leveling a new toon. Eh, I also took the route of leveling my warrior starting with the dwarven starting zone and just stayed in the vanilla world. Leveling is really fast these days, and you don't even have to jump straight into the later expansions.

Raemother offerings in Spires of arak /way 61.0 63.8 /way 48.3 52.6 /way 48.9 54.7 /way 51.9 64.6 /way 53.3 55.5 Explorers' League Documents (alliance) /way 36.8 61.2 Part I /way 41.3 39.1 Part II /way 61.6 73.1 Part III /way 68.11 66.09 Part IV /way 53.7 38.2 Part V /way 73.1 35.9 Part VI

800 min time stamp its not fly further south its fly west to where talador and spires meet and thats where the bonus objective Zorkas Fall is located.. other than that, super great guide! even if my time is no where near yours, having a smooth clean route that feels rewarding is pog! ty for the content, great vid!!

So I levelled a my first ever character through BFA, hit lvl 60 and then instantly started another character because I wanted to try something different. I knew that I woudn't get anywhere NEAR the 3 hour time but it was a clear route to follow so I dived in. This guide obviously isn't intended for players with 0 game knowledge and there was some stuff I had to figure out on my own/Google lol, but honestly i feel like I learned SO much about the game from this guide. Getting a Dalaran Hearth so I can port around easy is fucking amazing. In the first section with all the zombie peoples you have to run to Silverpine. The area you run through was burnt to fuck though and I kept dying trying to pass it. I'd die, res closer to the other side, inch forwards, die again rinse and repeat. 4 deaths in I saw that there was a random NPC out in the open so I spoke to her and she changed the time of the area and all the fire went away, so I could run to Silverpine without problems. I learnt how to use Chromie, where portal rooms are, more about dungeons, my way around Ogrimarr to get a mount (It's fucking confusing) and just generally increased my game knowledge a lot. I had to google some stuff, but it was all oh, so worth it. I played over the course of two weekends and finally got my lvl 60 in Spires, after doing a pretty fucking awesome quest chain with some big fucking bird spirit who you controlled and went aroung slashing people a few times with your wings. My /played at lvl 60 was over 22 hours lmao. 22 hours well spent though IMO. Thanks so much for the guide! PS the written version of the guide was REALLY helpful.

At the moment camping the elemental event is insane experience. I went from 42 to 60 on my lock in two hours just afk dotting stuff

The horde side part of the guide I think might not be 100%, I followed it specifically to a T and ended up finishing hillsbarad wayyyy under the level the guide listed I should be, that includes rares and extra quests finished in hillsbarad that the guide told me to skip. My solution for this was to actually head back to the snowy area in WOD and do more quests that the guide didn't say to do until I was the proper level to move on to the next step

This is fantastic. 1 small request though. Can you put coordinates please. Flying all over looking for the place you are when you say fly east to such and such takes a while

I don't even play retail, but when Harldan posts a video, i click

It's possible I misunderstood the pathing but I followed this as best I could, and ended HIllsbrad (as horde warrior) at 35.

Not entirely sure why, but I finished all of hillsbrad and the draenor opener by 35

good job dude

Sometimes it's hilarious to see people attempting to give suggestions/ potential corrections that are obvious to a normal casual wow player, let alone to a speed running god. Keep up the great man, love your videos!

Surprised Legion didn't make the cut. Valsharah and Highmountain are great once you have flying. How was the speed on Shadowlands? I assume terrible, what with all the RP.

Switching between alliance and horde screwed me... cant follow your video

Scouting Map was 10K gold for me not 5k, great guide!

leveling in wow is so painful but the various iteration of this guide has made it feel like enjoyable. My in between/pre patch activity

took me about 10 hours, idk what I missed. Druids are pretty fast levelers, lol

chromie timeline not working?

Doing this path and so far it’s awesome! I was curious if you had a video with “things to buy” once you get to the major cities. Like Goblin Gliders, etc. Are there potions you get, enchants, that kinda thing?

really like your guide and its been extremely helpful even for super new noobs like me, however your video was hard to follow which character was which and being a noob I had no clue what areas were horde, alliance and made it difficult to follow where to go next, just tips for next time. cheers.

idk why so many people think they're gonna actually get the exact time of a speedrunner who has been practicing these routes for far longer. Its only natural that people are slower on their first times. Nobody can pull off a perfect speedrun on their first attempt otherwise the top 100 would be filled with almost the exact same times. Edit: Tysm for the guide btw!

gun shoes, u mean business

Hey. Thanks for your great guides. I recently noticed that while in Chromie Time, exploration is giving insane amounts of experience (1k xp per area discovered at lvl 59 which I think needs 80k or so to level). Might be interesting to check it out if you hadn't noticed.

Thank you so much!

3hrs my ballsack

i returned after more than half a decade without playing and I want to experience leveling again, so i wont use this. but that is very impressive it took me mooonths to level my first character to levelcap at the time

3 hrs! No one but you could do it that fast but thanks for the guide it's helpful.

Imma take a look at your written guide.

Some timesaves I can offer -- if you select the Legion Timewalking option from Chromie, you can walk to the nearest Hero's Call Board and accept "Tanaan Jungle" which is effectively the same quest as the intro Chromie Time quest. Also, for Alliance characters, they receive a temporary hearthstone to Stormwind when they accept the Legion quest, which can be used in place of the Dalaran hearthstone (but be warned, it has a 2 hour cooldown instead of a 30 minute one).

I'm not sure if it's any more efficient, but something of note when starting the WoD questline that I generally do since there's like 2-3 quests per and it doesn't take too long (again, haven't done the math) but I generally abandon the quest as soon as I get to Blasted Lands and do the pre-intro quests too. Could probably skip going back to your capital city though and get the proper intro quest back from your journal.

Figured out what I did wrong, didn't have war mode on and accidentally skipped the wod intro, I'll just have to compliment with a bit of something else. Thank you very much for this guide, wanting to level up a bunch of classes to figure out what I want to play.

You are a legend ty friend

I did notunderstand most of this guide. It asumes You already know and played in so much places that I can't find without a route or at least a written guide (the website have no guide, only link to the vídeo lol)

Since the Dragonflight leveling nerf I have leveling up the old BFA alts i left untouched for all of Shadowlands, and been loving your speed leveling videos. I started upgrading the heirlooms even tho when they were changed i felt it was a scam and too much money for very short level brackets. Do you have any recomendations on them? I saw your old video but it was mostly on the rings and weapons. Have you tried the pre-patch heirloom trinket? Is it worth upgrading? I will try to farm it bcuz FOMO

I haven't played in a few patches so my characters are level 45, and when I attempted to skip to that section to Gorgrond the quests gave like 50-500 xp at most and I was one shotting most mobs. I had to do some researching and I'm guessing you're supposed to interact with Chromie to time travel to that part? or is there a better way for returning player/characters to level?

I like this idea. Doesn't matter how you do it, you're definitely going to be under 10 hours which you can probably knock a 60 out in a weekend

Great video

After you get your dalaran hearth and go back to org , do you go back to current time or stay in chromid time from legion?

Maaan thanks a lot for this. Haven't leveled up a new character in ages but this convinced me. Monk is kinda sweet ngl

Just came across this amazing guide! Thanks so much for this. I already chose the Pandaria timeline. I'm level 18 now (Alliance), but I'd like to follow this guide from now. Should I start from Step 1 in the guide or?