WotLK leveling
Wrath of the Lich King leveling is insanely easy! I started out in Howling Fjord. After I finished that zone, I went to the other starting zone, Borean Tundra, to do the quests there, since I figured they would be easy XP for me.
That was a great idea if I have to say so myself! Last night, I dinged 75 and I still have not finished Borean Tundra. Technically, I’m still in the starting zones!
Leveling was definitely not this easy in the Burning Crusade! I’m sure it’s helped that I’ve done a LOT of the new instances as well. I’ve completed Utgarde Keep four times, three of which I tanked, the Nexus about five times, all as ret and Azjol-Nerub twice, as ret.
Azjol-Nerub is insanely short and very easy. I believe there are only 9 pulls in the whole instance and 3 bosses. I received various gear upgrades for all of my gear sets - dps, tanking and healing.
I’ve been leveling mostly as ret. I did respec for a short time in Howling Fjord so that I could tank Utgarde Keep for the group I was in. I was going to go back to ret immediately after that group but I decided I’d try leveling as prot. It wasn’t bad at all! With Hammer of the Righteous, prot leveling has never been easier. I did go back to ret after gaining 75% of a level as prot, but now that I have Shield of Righteousness, I’m very intrigued and might just go back to prot to level, since I’d be able to tank any instance I wanted to step foot in and tanks are somewhat difficult to find while leveling.
The next zone is Dragonblight. I hope some of the quests turn out to be a little more difficult than the two starting zones.
I’ve got to point out that the amount of healing gear that I’ve accumulated is somewhat maddening! If a quest reward didn’t upgrade my dps or my tanking sets, then I took whatever piece of armor had the most intellect or spellpower, with an emphasis on intellect.