Northrend

I’ve had some emails and comments on the WotLK Leveling Guide post about web sites that are offering you a chance to start reading about what quests to do and in the best order they should be done. I’ve gone to each of these sites and checked out what ones are the best and what ones are not so good and listed my favourite.

Before getting into that though I should point out that one down fall of the free WotLK leveling guides is that you will have to keep tabbing out of the game to check details. There is one way to avoid this and that would be to get a quest helper add-on. With these online leveling guides and the add on you should find you don’t have to tab out as much. If you head over to Curse you can find a whole load of them but for me the following one is the best.

Carbonite Quest

Carbonite - The first thing to note about this add on is that there is a paid version and an unpaid version. I’ve never used the paid one as the free one is so good and probably the best quest helper add on I’ve  used. Carbonite Quest adds two new windows to your UI, one is an improved list of quests and another minimap. Both of these are customisable to minimise or disappear when in battle but both fade out when you don’t have your mouse over them. At first these two new windows can be a little annoying but you soon get used to them being there especially if you take the time to customise them to what you want.

The improve quest window tracks quests that your on and shows you the top 6 that are closest to your present location. As you move about you will see the quests move up and down the list as you get closer or further away from the objective. The mini map window shows locations of single target objectives or shades areas where you may have to farm items or kills.

There is a 3rd item on your UI which is the directional arrow, showing you the way to your current tracked quest location. Again this is fully customisable from a simple arrow to one that includes distance and time to your destination. By default this arrow is in the middle of your screen but can be moved very easily.

Using only this add on I’ve managed to level a new character to 70 relatively fast as it Carbonite quest add on actually works out the path you should take to the next most logical target. The problem with this is that it assumes you have only picked up the most relevant quests to do and doesn’t take into consideration the crappy ones that take far too long or are group quests. It will still tell you to go do these even if solo, so this is where getting a leveling guide comes into its own, you will know what quests to avoid to help speed up your leveling in WotLK.

Other Quest Helper Add-Ons

If you head over to curse and do a search for free wotlk leveling guides or free quest helper it will return a lot of different choices but many of them are not really that god the following is a list of quest helper hat may be worth a look if you don’t like coarbonite or can’t get it working for some reason.

Get To The Point -Not really a quest helper but it speeds up your questing by auto skipping gossip, complete quests or accept quests. This saves you time scrolling through your quest log to find the completed ones.

Tom Tom _ I’ve heard great things about this but I had major problems when i tried it, it caused too much game lag to have fun so I skipped it.

QuestHelper _ Is by far the most popular add on for getting help with leveling in WoW. This add on tells you how to finish your quests in the easiest, fastest manner. It includes a database of quests, monsters, and items, telling you the exact location of each target item and to speed things up computes the fastest path to complete all your quests.

All these add ons have been developed by people who have used there time to get them to us if you can think about donating a $ or $$ to help them with their time costs.

Free WotLK Leveling Guide Website

A web site you should check out for your free wotlk leveling guide is wtbblue. I’ve had a look at what these guys have done and It is very comprehensive and complete.

The guide is split into two section one for horde and one for alliance. It’s split further into zones, starting at level68, then into simple step by step instructions on what quests to pick up. As a bonus they have even provide links to youtube videos of quests being done just in case you cba reading the stuff.

The videos are a mixed blessing as on one hand they are great to follow and open up in a lightbox that allows you to watch them from the page but for me many of the videos didn’t work. This could have been a problem with youtube at the time but I think it may also be to number of visitors this site is getting. I also found the web pages loaded slowly but the information on the pages is worth the wait even if you can’t get the videos to work.

When I say the “guys at this web site” I am assuming there is more than one person doing this as the amount of information that has been recorded and written would have been a lot for one person to do but I’m sure there are some people out there that do nothing else other than play World of Warcraft and write free WotLK leveling guides, unfortunately I’m not one, it’s the real world 9-5 for me

So far I’ve not come across anything as good as wtbblue for help with wotlk leveling but I’m keeping an eye on wowpro to see when he releases his stuff. Never the fastest at releasing warcraft leveling guides wowpro does have some good information, it can just take you a long time to find it.

If you come across any good add-ons or free WotLK leveling guides then post a comment below and let everyone in on the secret.