All praise for idea and template of this topic belongs to @Jpy. He is the original poster and all commendations belongs to him.
I will just continue his great work.
- No funds or items can be contributed from other characters
- No auction house use
- Don't abuse rested or partying
- For repack, GM commands are not allowed
- When posting your runs, please include the following:
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1. cauthonluck Shaman 1hour 22minutes 02seconds
2. Roguish Paladin 1hour 25minutes 44seconds
3. Kyn Paladin 1hour 26minutes 27seconds
4. towely Shaman 1hour 26minutes 28seconds
5. Tactics Shaman 1hour 28minutes 35seconds
6. Bathwater Mage 1hour 28minutes 55seconds
7. Sevenleaves Rogue 1hour 30minutes 16seconds
8. Guzu Rogue 1hour 30minutes 30seconds
9. Kyn Mage 1hour 31minutes 12seconds
10. Tactics Rogue 1hour 31minutes 12seconds
11. Yar Shaman 1hour 31minutes 49seconds
12. Sevenleaves Rogue 1hour 34minutes 27seconds
13. Banjaxed Rogue 1hour 42minutes 16seconds
14. Jokerdtv Mage 1hour 46minutes 25seconds
15. Nzed Mage 1hour 47minutes 53seconds
16. Yar Druid 1hour 48minutes 08seconds
17. Ironsides Warrior 1hour 51minutes 29seconds
18. John Mage 1hour 55minutes 55seconds
19. Bornlesszero Druid 2hours 04minutes 09seconds
20. zicki Warrior 2hours 13minutes 11seconds
21. IOExceptional Priest 2hours 43minutes 20seconds
22. jagersmash Paladin 3hours 45minutes 18seconds
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2. zeroji Hunter 6hours 45minutes 54seconds
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4. Ahmp Hunter 7hours 05minutes 18seconds
5. Goetia Warlock 8hours 20minutes 32seconds
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2. zeroji Hunter 0day 18hours 33minutes 48seconds
3. Goetia Warlock 0day 22hours 07minutes 23seconds
4. Colerogue Rogue 0day 22hours 56minutes 29seconds
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2. Ashkandi Mage 1hour 30minutes 17seconds
3. Jokerdtv Mage 1hour 30minutes 36seconds
4. Ichinoze Mage 1hour 31minutes 12seconds
5. phi Warlock 1hour 36minutes 29seconds
6. dqlol Mage 1hour 44minutes 10seconds
7. Redzy_TV Mage 1hour 44minutes 13seconds
8. Wolf Druid 1hour 52minutes 47seconds
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2. Aramed Mage 1hour 45minutes 40seconds
3. Stattick Warlock 1hour 49minutes 46seconds
4. Kup Rogue 1hour 57minutes 19seconds
5. Caspus Paladin 1hour 58minutes 29seconds
6. Jalapeno Warlock 2hours 04minutes 36seconds
7. Dankmandan Hunter 2hours 09minutes 27seconds
8. Escalotes Hunter 2hours 15minutes 33seconds
9. Alenya Hunter 2hours 24minutes 45seconds
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2. Colroyds Shaman 1hour 14minutes 46seconds
3. chazhk Hunter 1hour 16minutes 34seconds
4. Jokerdtv Mage 1hour 19minutes 47seconds
5. Akkon Shaman 1hour 21minutes 39seconds
6. YaBoi Mage 1hour 24minutes 05seconds
7. SlyngeL Hunter 1hour 26minutes 37seconds
8. Est Warlock 1hour 27minutes 19seconds
9. Aegnor Mage 1hour 29minutes 08seconds
10. Nivek Shaman 1hour 29minutes 16seconds
11. Bornlesszero Druid 1hour 31minutes 04seconds
12. Sheep Warrior 1hour 31minutes 40seconds
13. Aegnor Hunter 1hour 32minutes 18seconds
14. Est Mage 1hour 32minutes 28seconds
15. Ahmp Hunter 1hour 33minutes 22seconds
16. Karmond Hunter 1hour 34minutes 25seconds
17. Tactics Rogue 1hour 35minutes 14seconds
18. Vemp Paladin 1hour 35minutes 38seconds
19. Xinergy Warlock 1hour 36minutes 08seconds
20. Sterics Mage 1hour 36minutes 13seconds
21. Yeyeftw Hunter 1hour 36minutes 34seconds
22. Teriko Mage 1hour 36minutes 43seconds
23. Goetia Warlock 1hour 37minutes 33seconds
24. Jpy Hunter 1hour 37minutes 37seconds
25. Timberfist Mage 1hour 38minutes 21seconds
26. Warcrazy Shaman 1hour 38minutes 27seconds
27. Berg Hunter 1hour 40minutes 36seconds
28. Warcrazy Warrior 1hour 40minutes 49seconds
29. Warcrazy Warlock 1hour 42minutes 12seconds
30. oddiz4u Druid 1hour 44minutes 08seconds
31. Zephan Warlock 1hour 44minutes 28seconds
32. Timberfist Paladin 1hour 47minutes 32seconds
33. Grav Warrior 1hour 47minutes 49seconds
34. Massivechonk Hunter 1hour 48minutes 56seconds
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36. Sams Warrior 1hour 53minutes 24seconds
37. Vemp Hunter 1hour 57minutes 05seconds
38. Xinergy Priest 1hour 59minutes 36seconds
39. Xin Warrior 2hours 00minutes 36seconds
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1. SlyngeL Hunter 6hours 40minutes 20seconds
2. Est Mage 6hours 44minutes 01second
3. Jpy Hunter 6hours 54minutes 10seconds
4. Blendio Hunter 6hours 58minutes 58seconds
5. Yeyeftw Hunter 7hours 02minutes 16seconds
6. Aliencowfrog Hunter 7hours 02minutes 58seconds
7. Berg Hunter 7hours 03minutes 12seconds
8. Jokerdtv Mage 7hours 38minutes 34seconds
9. Massivechonk Hunter 7hours 40minutes 18seconds
10. Warcrazy Warlock 7hours 48minutes 45seconds
11. Tactics Rogue 7hours 50minutes 15seconds
12. Judgement Paladin 7hours 52minutes 03seconds
13. Goetia Warlock 7hours 52minutes 26seconds
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1. Fred Hunter 16hours 03minutes 13seconds
2. Soyoen Hunter 16hours 37minutes 48seconds
3. Berg Hunter 17hours 42minutes 08seconds
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Ravenheart • Syturio • yeyeftw • Vemp • Massivechonk • Goetia • Timberfist • Tactics • Judgement • Zazou • Xinergy • Aliencowfrog • Yar • Garth • Selexin • tygoro • ClassicRaids
Ooh a competition! WHAT DO I WIN.
Jk lol. Sounds cool man - do we just screengrab our character at level 20 and /played time? Actually a really cool idea that I would definitely be interested in - I actually have a client set up now and a LH account so would be all for it :)
Not sure how realistic prizes are as there’s no way to actually make sure everyone didn’t get help along the way. Bragging rights will be your prize, and knowing that you’re that much better prepared for classic launch. I don’t plan to have a limit, so you can play to beat your previous time too.teebling wrote: ↑6 years agoOoh a competition! WHAT DO I WIN.
Jk lol. Sounds cool man - do we just screengrab our character at level 20 and /played time? Actually a really cool idea that I would definitely be interested in - I actually have a client set up now and a LH account so would be all for it :)
What are people’s opinions on rested? Obviously someone making a point to maximize rested will come out ahead on /played, and Northdale is 2x vanilla rested accumulation rate.
Well I've already started a 1-20 run for jokes and, I'm sure you will all be happy to hear this, it is going very very slowly at the moment 
Was awesome though. So started off Orc Warr username 'teebling', all the first quests swooshed by pretty quickly. When I got into that first cave with all the imps/felhounds I was in a few groups. Unfortunately took a while before I could tag Yarogg Baneshadow for his medallion so I just stood around chatting to people nearby as I waited for him to respawn:
Finally got a group together with four of us and we took him down just before some other people turned up. Northdale is busy! The same group I was with we all stuck together and went across to Sen'Jin Village to start the Echo Isles quests there. This is when they dying started - we were all like level 5 and fighting level 10 bosses and lots of mobs
I eventually died too many times and my buddies finished their quests then politely fucked off leaving me on my own being corpse camped by a group of angry trolls on the isles. Right now I have three big quests which are all one or two items/mobs away from being completed and ressed back at Sen'Jin. This game is beautiful by the way.
I think what I'm going to do now (and should have done before) is run to Razor Hill first to pick up Skinning - this would have been very very nice indeed after all the tigers/saurs on the isles and will keep this in mind for my next run. You learn something new every day I suppose 
Enjoying myself but I think I gave up on the speed run aspect a while back ahaha! I'm currently level 5 (one bar from 6).
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Jpy • fendor • Stfuppercut
@teebling glad to see you getting your feet wet on Northdale!
You should check out Vanilla Guide as it gives a much better base route to improve on than just following the quests as you come into new areas. For example, for Orc/Troll you would do some Razor Hill quests before the ones on the Echo Isles so you end up level 8-9 when you do those, it’s much more efficient as those quests are ideal with a group even at 8-9.
Shiiiiet I'm looking forward to classic, it's gonna be so great!
As for leveling competition, it sounds damn fun, but I'm currently in a no classic/hype building mode (would hate burning out!). My schedule doesn't allow for nolifing the great way when classic launches, so I'm taking the smell the flowers route anyway; no need to optimize any part. I am considering waiting a week after launch and THEN take a week off to nolife and then return to the schedule. We'll see.
Any and all people participating in the thread I will be cheering for though.
GO TEEBLING \o/
I hope you lot will have a lot of fun. I don't think I will take part (at least this time around) since I have many other games to play and finish before early summer 2019.
Though I do get the urge to level a class in the way of the old days.
Still leaning towards Shaman, but Paladin and Priest still interests me.
The adventure continues...
...so I ran up to Razor Hill to find a Skinning trainer and found nothing there. Went all the way to Org in the end to get that trained. Also trained Mining. Once this was done I headed back down to the Echo Isles to finish off those quests which were nearly complete. Managed to do everything without dying and found this weird Cheshire Cat statue.
Headed back into Sen'Jin and did the Centaur quest quickly before heading back up to Razor Hill. I struggled with the quests again and it was slow going but with a little help from some randomers I made it through. As the AH stuff got sold found myself with about 50 silver so decked the badboy out with some white gear. Looking hot:
On the way back from an AH visit at Org I met that goblin dude outside the canyon entrance going south and picked up a Harpy item-finding quest. Met this troll shaman dude called 'Whereyaat' who was a level higher than me and clearly doing the same thing. Eventually ended up playing with this guy for like 2 hours as we quested together. He was healing me throughout and we shared chests, loot and bags that dropped. Really cool guy - I obviously had to tell him about the site so what's up @Ctreadwell92! 
Whereyaat went to go do his Shaman class quest as he had already hit level 10 and I went up to Org to hand in some letter to my boy Thrall. The original gangster was right there with all the homeboys around him looking chill as fuck. He asked me to shank some guys outside Org so naturally I obliged. The real warchief.
This had me hit level 10, which I was really happy to get :) First talent point spent (on the wrong thing haha) and feeling pretty good. Was talking to Whereyaat and he said he found this way more fun even if it was slower and no quest markers around etc. Have to say that finding stuff was really tough - you had to pay attention to quest text and directions like 'North West of here' and stuff. Was pretty awesome tbh.
Time played to 10: 5 hours, 48 minutes.
I'm really glad I took skinning early on - it was a trek to Org that early but it was so worth it. Got lots of Light Leather and now I'm ready to train up Journeyman skinning. Finding ore nodes was a bit tougher but I did have the immense satisfaction of finding a node already being mined by another noob who kept on Failing, and I just started mining the same node and got some ore first go round. He must have been pissed
Anyway, I think that's it for /played competition for me - I join another ship in a few days and don't think I'll have time to make it to 20 before I have to leave. It's been a lot of fun and will continue playing my Northdale warrior until I do eventually have to return to real life. Hope you guys enjoyed reading this mini chronicle!
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Jpy • Ravenheart • Aegnor • Beosaeviio
@teebling loving the walkthrough style posts about your journey on Warrior. Be careful with your gold, though!
E: Get First Aid!
If we get enough interest I will post an official thread with a table with everyone’s progress. Have not started a character for this yet but coming up on 4 days off in a row!
Okay so I just did a really fast run to lvl 10 on a Hunter!
Time: 3 hours 4 minutes - half the time it took on the warrior.
So much quicker and easier to level - even without a pet all the way to lvl 10. Loved it so much! I followed Joana's guide which was very well laid out and is like an optimal speed run route for Durotar. There were even a few times where you kill yourself just to teleport back to town quicker. I changed the ending order a bit to rush for the level 10 ding - otherwise was to the letter. Fucked up on one quest - could have saved another 5 minutes easily (and been sub-3 hours) but oh well. I didn't take any professions apart from First Aid.
So who's going to try and beat me? 
@teebling nice time for level 10, curious to see what you can make of 10-20!
I’ll be revising my 1-10 route over the next few days, will post some results soon.
This is a cool idea but like we were talking about in that 'preparing for classic wow' thread I think you'll find a few people don't want to 'spoil' Classic by playing pservers. Nothing against them personally but do bear that in mind.
teebling wrote: ↑6 years agoWhereyaat went to go do his Shaman class quest as he had already hit level 10 and I went up to Org to hand in some letter to my boy Thrall. The original gangster was right there with all the homeboys around him looking chill as fuck. He asked me to shank some guys outside Org so naturally I obliged. The real warchief.
Well I finally quit procrastinating and gave a timed 1-10 a good run. I hit 10 at 2 hours 27 minutes /played. I think I can get it below 2 hours with some luck and less mistakes.
Nicely done mate, you beat me by a country mile!
Come February I will have my revenge 
Finished up 10-20, putting total /played at 11 hours 47minutes.
Again, good bit of room for improvement and mistakes noted. Sub 10 hours seems feasible at 20 for a very efficient run with practice.
Dang, Jpy! I just checked Joana's guide, and you're pretty close there! :D
FuriousPaul did it in 10 hours 7 minutes, so sub 10 might be doable indeed!
GO JPY! \o/
Great job! Sub 10 would be a real achievement. I’m liking your google doc as well with all the notes. A potential future guide?
Maybe so, will probably add my 5-12 route sometime today.
It’s worth noting that IIRC he played on a fairly quiet fresh launch server for his record run back in the day. There are a LOT of people on Northdale (fluctuating from 5-9k over the last couple months, depending on time of day) so for example I had to wait about 4-5 minutes for Sarkoth and Yarrog alone. My time at leaving Valley of Trials was 30 minutes, that was ~16% of my entire starting area run just waiting. There were much worse scenarios of waiting (I’m not afraid to grind Beasts like a mad man, so not really too bothersome for me personally) from 10-20 because it’s a longer process.
Anyway, here’s the recording of my 1-5 for the run posted here:
Always room for more!
Level 30 @ just under 29 hours
Thoughts: Honestly I think this could be shaved down to as low as 20 hours with a very polished run. My skinning is 225 as of hitting 30. In hindsight I don't think Skinning is an efficient investment considering the time added for Hunter in particular (and Warlock, Shaman, Druid, Paladin for that matter as they all have either hefty movement speed increases or free mount at 40). You won't be hurting as much by not getting that mount right at 40. I'm also thinking that not investing in ranks of Bite (only Claw) could be potentially more efficient looking at DPS meter at various levels. Spirit/Intellect can be seemingly just as viable as Agility due to lessening downtime for food/water (and consequently reducing the cost by needing to buy less), I'd focus on whatever leather piece gives more overall stats and if it's close between two pieces then just pick your poison.
I plan to finish leveling this Hunter to 60 to practice Maraudon farm before Classic launch and to also improve my 1-10, 10-20, and 20-30 times.
I'd like a sub 2 hour level 10, sub 10 hour level 20, and sub 25 hour level 30.
Awesome work. Interesting to see you are considering spirit and intellect - this would help weapon skill-up times after each ding as well meaning more hit and more dps theoretically.
I’d also scrap skinning seeing as with a hunter, there’s the extra running time between your ranged position and the corpse itself. Not to mention limited bag space and the time taken to dispose of grey items before you can skin.
I’ve heard also that Hunters make good DM farmers doing princess only runs for gold etc. Definitely something I am interested in for future income.
Kind of awesome that you have turned yourself into a speed-runner and great to see some real thought going into these runs. Will be great to see the run honed over time so I can steal your strategies!
Really though awesome work:
@teebling Dire Maul Tribute is the pinnacle of Hunter gold farming but Maraudon is the start (also Princess is Maraudon) as you can do it with essentially leveling gear. You need to invest gold and time in your character to be able to handle DMT and we’ll have to wait and see how Blizzard handles Dire Maul itself (many private servers added or changed mechanics because they felt the farm was too strong).
Sub 22m Valley of Trials tonight (my 2h 27m level 10 was 30 minutes for comparison). Unfortunately I got stuck in the loot bug (character stuck in looting animation and you can't loot anything) around Sen'jin so I had to call it before I could try pushing for a sub 2 hour level 10. :/
