I have been adding a lot of different guides that I have found to be very useful to many of you. I have been getting a lot of requests for new wow guides specifically powerleveling guides. I have been searching the internet a whole lot and I have found this short guide to be extremely helpful, especially to new players that can't wait to get to level 60.

This guide was found on the internet and most of the points made here are really good but I want to make sure that everyone understands that I do not agree with point #4.

I don't recommend botting as a good way to powerlevel any character and that is what I feel as the only way to really cheat at world of warcraft. I feel that if you think you have to run bots to play then you shouldn't be playing world of warcraft at all! This is my little disclaimer about botting. :)

Main Principle In Power Leveling

DOWN-TIME is your enemy! Down time is defined as either sitting around waiting for manna, waiting for health, or running to and from the graves. How do you minimize down time? By killing that which is WEAKER than you and thus the numerous smaller XP gains will rack up faster than the slower, bulky XP gains. Read on for more.

POINT ONE: QUESTS ARE BETTER THAN NOT!
This has been a big debate in this game. Some people just want to kill and grind without bothering to do quests. But I disagree. I believe that quests are an important component of powerlevelling as they give additional EXP, money, and items. BigDwarf starts the game in Dun Morogh, near an icy field full of lvl 1-3 wolves and such. He immediately runs to the field and starts hammering wolves. He gets to level 3 fast enough, in about 40 minutes, after killing dozens of wolves. He then starts talking to the NPC's nearby that have Yellow "!" (exclamation marks) on top of their heads (a yellow ! means the NPC has a quest for you)

So BigDwarf talks to an NPC who gives him a quest to kill 15 wolves, and when he does he gets extra exp and extra copper. The problem is, of course, that now BigDwarf has to go back to the fields and kill wolves again. Had BigDwarf taken the quest at the start, he would have greatly increased the efficiency of his character gains and would have the quest completed! Grinding is always good, but the benefits of questing is that you get additional exp for finishing a quest, and cash or valued items. Read more here.