Fastest Leveling Method for my situation

[thehordemage]

I have a level 56 Warrior (currently spec'd Prot, but can change specs) in full heirloom gear. I need to hit 80 by late Saturday night at the absolute latest and would like to know the fastest means of leveling. I have done thorough research on Prot tanking, but have no experience in Arms or Fury (which I can read up on). I have not leveled through Northrend since Blizzard nerfed the experience requirements from 68(?) to 80.

However, I do have a very good recollection of the quests in Northrend so I plan to quest there from 68 to 80 and do each dungeon once for their quests. Is Fjord -> Grizzly -> Sholazar the best questing pattern now? And more generally, between questing, BGs, random dungeons, or getting boosted through Outland dungeons by level 85 friends, what would you say is the fastest method from 56 to 80? Thank you for any help.

[Jekdin]

I don't understand whats so hard about leveling.


Queue as a tank in LFG, instant queue, enjoy being 85 in like 1-2 days.

[Holian]

Normal FAST dungeon runs (ie a group that can handle chain pulling without drinking etc) > Normal questing > Getting boosted below 78,

After 78, you can do cata dungeons and will receive full xp from mobs, at that time boosting becomes better.

[dirtyjokes]

keep on questing and do bgs on weekends for extra honor. I wouldnt recommend dungeons, for they can be quite time consuming

[Durmindo]

Be carried is always good, if you are tank you can try do dungeons all the time, but if you get sick of it ou can try quests i prefer: Borean tundra, Dragonblight, Zul'drak, Sholazar and storm peaks.

[terrih91]

you have 2 options really in my eyes.

First: stay prot and spam the hell out of dungeons with your fast Qs and just farm farm farm farm them hardcore.

Last: Go Arms for questing (best leveling spec imo) and Q up for dungeons in the mean time while you quest its really good exp and one of my personal favorite ways to level.

[JohnnyBravoEU]

Dungeouns as prot indeed.

[darkhybridx]

As a tank you'll have insta queues. When I lvled my pally I lvled as prot (although with a friend lvling a priest as holy/shadow). What we did was run every instance once for the quests. Then we'd just quest till the next set of instance quests opened up for us (used wowhead to see what lvl the quests were). This worked great because even questing was fast. Since I was prot I would just round up mobs and he's DPS as shadow. When we both lvled DPS toons we did pretty much the same thing except since queues were longer we would quest while queuing.

Word of advise though if you're going to lvl and tank as prot. Wait till your lvl is in the mid range of the instance before you queue so you're not tanking mobs at the end that are 4-6 lvls higher then you. It will make things a lot eaiser. Also if you have friends at max lvl (we would just switch to our mains) I'd do the long runs like BRD and the 3 Dire Mauls duo with a person running you. They're very long and with groups they can end up taking a long ass time.

[Bigbazz]

Keep leveling as prot, arms and fury are terribly gear reliant and won't give you much of an advantage for questing, and you will lose survival. As prot you will be able to solo most of the group quests while leveling up with relative ease, this helps. I would go Borean > Dragonblight > Sholazar > Icecrown, not to forget that you have to be level 80 before you can start Cataclysm questing zones, not 78 as the traditional pattern would suggest.

Dungeons can be fast but are not always the fastest way, I would suggest a bit of both. I don't like grizzy hills because you spend a lot of time running around and just traveling, not gaining exp.

[Veliane]

Keep leveling as prot, arms and fury are terribly gear reliant and won't give you much of an advantage for questing

I agree he should have Prot as one of his specs, for fast queues and group quests, etc. But Arms is amazing for blitzing mobs and it doesn't take that much gear these days.

Specially at 80+ where you can charge from mob to mob shit on them and victory rush for high ammounts of health.

[Omgarsh]

I leveled a warrior similarly a few months back when 4.3 went live. Just tank some randoms with your heirlooms, especially for outland (by far the fastest way although it gets repetitive at 65+) and when you hit 68 go to northrend and quest up until you hit 71. From there you should be eligible for both Nexus and UK in LFD, and then you can do those once for the quests, probably level up enough for AN at 72-73 or keep questing until you are around then and queue/quest until you are up to 80. It's good to do both, although I mostly just queued. You also don't have to do a random queue if you want to do dungeon quests. The random completion exp is good, but doing a dungeon's quests will give you more exp and frankly the 12 JP isn't worth caring about.

Also yeah, Arms is awesome for leveling. Even when it was worse dps than Fury it was still better for leveling just due to charge and juggernaut letting you go from mob to mob quickly.

[namtlade]

Tanking dungeons is even more viable for levelling through the 68-80 level range now. In 4.3 they added/moved quests for the TBC/wrath dungeons to the entrance of the dungeon so you don't even need to set foot in northrend/outlands anymore.

[Poundmax]

yeah, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. chain pulling dungeons with a competent healer is the way to go, and all the dungeon quests they've implemented/moved just make it a huge added bonus.