Best Spec for 80-85 leveling

[Lucifra]

as a protadin I might just random dungeon farm myself up to 85, or aoe farm if there are nice spots and then do the quests later to see how much money I can earn with them:P

[Pullup]

Id say resto.
get a buddy dk/war/rogue doesnt matter any meelee class.
you wont need to stop you wont die
you can do 2man quests and even 5man quests .

[Cearat]

Best - Feral AoE bear farming.
Funniest - Feral AoE bear farming.
Hardest - Feral AoE bear farming.
Coolest - Feral AoE bear farming.
Get the point? (:

[Shiggity]

I think leveling will be so fast come cataclysm, it won't matter much.

Plus doing quests is the fastest exp anyways, not grinding.

[Syph]

Id say resto feral.
get a buddy dk/war/rogue priest/druid/shaman doesnt matter any meelee healing class.
you wont need to stop you wont die
you can do 2man quests and even 5man quests.

Fixed :P healing while leveling isnt as much fun as it can be end-game ^^

[xebtria]

I'll probably level up in dungeons this round. The LFD tool is going to make it incredibly easy as a tank.

better get some buddies and do that with a fixed group all over the day. so you gonna know their playstyle and all that, so those instances are even faster. In Random groups you will have a significant hit rate for douchebags, resulting in slowing you down.

[Orcbert]

I'd say it's pretty darn hard to tell since they plan on overhauling the talent system. But lets assume that they'll be fairly equal, quests will probably be the most efficient way to level, and that you can complete them with whatever spec you prefer to play as.

[phyrix]

Imo, no way to tell what the best leveling spec for any class will be till the 4.0 (aka pre-expansion) patch is released.

Talent trees will look completely different then they do now.

[Cearat]

I think leveling will be so fast come cataclysm, it won't matter much.

Plus doing quests is the fastest exp anyways, not grinding.

Ofcourse, but how many quests did you see in Northrend where you had to kill like 12 Vrykuls?
Done in a minute instead of 3.

[Risura]

After levelling a Mage, Rogue, Hunter, Druid and now a Priest, I would say without a doubt that a feral druid is by far the best and quickest (in my case) way to level, so I will be ditching my offspec boomkin in favour of feral come Cataclysm.

[arel00]

I think leveling will be so fast come cataclysm, it won't matter much.

Plus doing quests is the fastest exp anyways, not grinding.

Actually Blizzard stated more than once that they would like to make every single level after 80 feel like a huge achievement. Personally I expect a loss of speed in Cataclysm.

[xebtria]

I'm expecting something like 4mio XP needed per levelup. and quests remain at roughly 30-40k (including heirlooms) as they are right know. And heavy lore and phasing while leveling.

Another Idea: Maybe they crop out experience at all and make something like level restrictions per zone and only if you have that "loremaster"-like achievement per zone including the achievements for the main quest lines in that zone, you are eligible for the levelup (so heirlooms as they were introduced with lvl 80 at first being useless. would make sense in my eyes...). something like that.
At least it would fit the "huge achievement for every levelup"-scenery. It would also fit the lore which is surely needed for that azeroth-destruction-and-rebuild-thing going on in cataclysm.

however, I wouldn't want to be the/a quest designer if it would go that way. :P

[Cheezee]

They already said heirlooms wouldn't scale after 80 so I rather doubt the xp bonus from them will apply.

[Nollie]

Lets w8 till cata comes then we'll see

[Cearat]

Patch 4.0 decides it all.

[conqq]

There is no such thing as "best." ALL talent trees, glyphs, etc. are having HUGE changes in the 4.0 patch, so we'll all have to wait until then.

[bavarcarus]

with the lgd change I wouldn't expect it to be easy to get into dungeons, I forsee the dungeons commonly being full.

Bliz said they wanted each level to feel like an achievement in the sense that you actually get things that are useful for every level rather than every 2 or 3. Gotta love going back to the trainer as feral when you level and you get new resto and balance spells but nothing useful for feral.

I will probably just level cat, based on wrath's beginning the lvl 78 mobs you'll start on will be 'mangle mangle roar dead.' That and 30% speed increase ftw.