Wowhead's Leveling Guides for Battle for Azeroth

Live Posted 2018/08/19 at 8:47 AM by Neryssa

Battle for Azeroth Leveling Tips

Check out our Battle for Azeroth Leveling Tips and Consumables Guide!

Recommended Zone Orderpersonal preferenceexperience

The most efficient zone order for Alliance is Drustvar > Tiragarde Sound > Stormsong Valley.

The most efficient zone order for Horde is Vol'dun > Zuldazar > Nazmir.

BFA Leveling Tips

Don't vendor green or better gear! Even if you're not an enchanter, you're able to scrap BFA gear for reagents and, more importantly, Expulsom. Expulsom is the Battle for Azeroth version of the Blood of Sargeras, used in many 120 crafts. For more information on how to activate the scrapper and use it, check our Scrapper Guide!

Enable War Mode! War Mode is a new PvP setting introduced on the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch, that flags you for PvP. In exchange, you will receive 10% more experience from monster kills and quests. Unless you start the War Campaign, you won't leave your faction's continent, so you are not very likely to find yourself in PvP situations, at least in the first couple of days. For more information about War Mode, check our War Mode Overview!

Class Leveling GuidesLegion Legendaries (from the Warlock Guide)Wakening EssenceArcanomancer VridielDalaran

Sephuz's Secret: Movement speed is all you're looking for while leveling. Faster movement means you get from point A to point B faster, meaning you level faster. Easy stuff.

Kil'jaeden's Burning Wish: Decent stat stick and on use for big pulls, and can be used even after the effect is gone for its stat stick effect.

Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus: You should probably be wearing Heart of Azeroth for the free itemlevel. You don't really need the shield from Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus to not get dazed, since you can just spec into Demon Skin for the same effect.

Sephuz's Secret: Movement speed is bae while leveling. The faster you move the more efficiently you will get from mob to mob, quest to quest, etc.

Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus: A decent option but nothing amazing.

Kil'jaeden's Burning Wish: A great option to have while leveling as it provides you the option to run around and gather a ton of mobs then activate the trinket and pretty much instantly kill all of them.

Soul of the Netherlord: Not the worst, not the best. If you were planning on swapping around legendaries based on cooldowns/etc. This is an alright option.

Wilfred's Sigil of Superior Summoning: Will continue to be a mainstay legendary while leveling. Having your large cooldown available almost two times as often is amazing.

Feretory of Souls - Throughout all of Legion this has consistently been one of the strongest damage legendaries and that doesn't change when it comes to questing! The extra Soul Shards you'll gain from using this legendary should really help with speeding everything up!

Sephuz's Secret - Is also a strong competitor, since Warlocks now baseline has Shadowfury which is also very useful when pulling big packs in dungeons and while questing.

Wakener's Loyalty/Lessons of Space-Time/Reap and Sow - Since Artifact Weapons have been removed these 3 spec specific legendaries have all been changed to grant you a 3% damage increase. More damage when leveling is always good.

Kil'jaeden's Burning Wish - Last, but not least! A 1 min, 15-second cooldown when questing means you'll be able to do very big pulls very often and benefit a lot from this trinket.

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Allied Race Leveling GuidesDark Iron Dwarf Mag'har OrcElf and Old God themed leveling zones (from the Void Elf Guide)

Before level 60, check out The Hinterlands and Eastern Plaguelands for some minor High Elf presence. You can also check out zones with Twilight's Hammer presence like Loch Modan, Thousand Needles, and Silithus.

Outland focuses more on Blood Elf lore, especially in zones like Terokkar Forest and Netherstorm. Northrend has a bigger focus on Old God lore, with Twilight's Hammer being present in Dragonblight, and Old God lore is directly found in Howling Fjord, Grizzly Hills, and The Storm Peaks.

If you want to follow more Old God lore, Cataclysm zones are perfect - Vashj'ir, Deepholm and Twilight Highlands are brimming with Old God lore. Pandaria has also some Old God lore with the Shas in all it's zones, with a bigger and more direct presence in Dread Wastes.

Although there isn't much lore on Old Gods and Elves in Draenor, you can learn more about the powers of the Void with the Shadowmoon Clan in Shadowmoon Valley.

In Battle for Azeroth, you can see a lot of Old God influences in Stormsong Valley. The lore of the zone focuses a lot on the effects of the Old Gods on the Kul Tiran fleet. Although not directly Old God influenced, Void Elves can also feel at home with the dark vibes of Drustvar and its death magic themed storyline.

Lightforged Draenei Leveling 20-120

Void Elf Leveling 20-120

Dark Iron Dwarf Leveling 20-120 (Coming Soon!)

Highmountain Tauren Leveling 20-120

Nightborne Leveling 20-120

Mag'har Orc Leveling 20-120 (Coming Soon!)

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Comment by KolikovThank you kindlyComment by ShaedxWell, I guess I'm going to do Stormsong Valley -> Drustvar -> Tiragarde just to avoid the mass of people doing the zones in the order you recommended.Comment by CondeNoMuertoNice! Excited to begin a new expansion, as always!Comment by duni50more levels and more levels and leveling is so so slow....Comment by Maulis425Snowball's chance in hell that I'll enable war mode - the chance of being ganked overrides the small benefit gained from the XP buff. Also, I'll vendor the useless greens to get gold, because the gold from Expolsum -> gear will assuredly be less, especially with the litany of mats necessary for the crafts. I'll be selling every single crafting mat I come across, let the gold flow!Comment by PapanurglleWith how the instancing works, you'd probably experience the same amount of people regardless of where ya go lol.Comment by Papanurglleyou literally can't be ganked in your leveling areas.Comment by SunmaneExcept the chance of running into the opposing faction while everybody is still leveling is super low. There's not going to be hardly alliance in Zandalar, for instance. It's basically just 10% less work you have to do. Once you're 120 just turn it off. Clearly you're free to do whatever you want, but really I don't expect to run into any alliance while questing with the Zandalari.Comment by Maulis425Except the chance of running into the opposing faction while everybody is still leveling is super low. There's not going to be hardly alliance in Zandalar, for instance. It's basically just 10% less work you have to do. Once you're 120 just turn it off. Clearly you're free to do whatever you want, but really I don't expect to run into any alliance while questing with the Zandalari.Comment by PandaferaDuring the alpha I did tiragarde first, just because of the plot envolving the proudmore family. "oh, lets organize our capital and then go to other places". But Drust-Tir-Storm makes sense, too. I liked the Drustvar plot a lot. =p

I'll use Aggramar's Stride and Tyelca, Ferren Marcus's Stature.
The necklace with shield sounds good, to.

I play both sides, so Its much more fun doing different maps during the leveling. :DComment by Kozziedon't be Sheep - be the Shepherd...Comment by kcinliveThanks for the guide. My only thing is I tend not to level quickly in an expansion. I prefer to take my time. Unlike some people I like doing quests, leveling, and enjoying the story. At least the first time. After that, I do just want it done as fast as possible.Comment by dragonbane1976I think Zuldazar should be either first or last. It takes the longest to get through, because the quests have you running up, down and all around the temple to complete. Plus there are a lot of quests that have a lot of grinding to finish. Vol'dun and Nazmir are pretty fast and straightforward, with not a lot of backtracking.Comment by JaiieDuring the alpha I did tiragarde first, just because of the plot envolving the proudmore family.Comment by AlbinohornsSnowball's chance in hell that I'll enable war mode - the chance of being ganked overrides the small benefit gained from the XP buff. Also, I'll vendor the useless greens to get gold, because the gold from Expolsum -> gear will assuredly be less, especially with the litany of mats necessary for the crafts. I'll be selling every single crafting mat I come across, let the gold flow!Comment by SielinthStormsong Valley has a major phasing bug for the second last quest in the main quest line chain
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I have no doubt blizzard will fix it since it blocks progress (and maybe they've already have, just bugged characters on beta aren't getting a fix) but if you don't want to risk your main character, you should at the very least do Stormsong Valley main quest line firstComment by westomoprestoyou literally can't be ganked in your leveling areas.Comment by Voodikso where we start, Undercity or Silithus?Comment by Jaiieso where we start, Undercity or Silithus?Comment by SenjimI wonder how many people turned back and ran when they read "Turn on Warmode"

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