Faster From 1 to 80 – Dominating Leveling
Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Lawbringer under Addons, Alliance, Efficiency Tips, Exploits, Faster Leveling, General Tips, Gold Building, Healing, Heroics, Horde, Instances, Leveling, Low Level, Mods, News, PVE, Power Leveling, Powerleveling, Raiding, Resto, Tank, Tanking, Tips, Tricks, World of Warcraft, WotLKRefine Your Skill And Hit 80 In Record Time
We’ve been hinting at this for weeks now. Gavin and Law have been testing out a new way of leveling from 1 to 80 and it has exceeded our expectations. There comes a time when you just have to admit that you have to really stay on the front end of the curve in order to keep dominating, and this time it wasn’t us.
The new dungeon finder system brings the power of instance leveling to anyone and everyone. And even without the RaF bonuses, it’s faster than leveling solo. Plus, as we mentioned yesterday in the article “How to NOT be a Nub”, you’ll end up being a far better player on your new level 80 toon if you level in instances than if you go the solo route.
Leveling solo can leave you with a lot of bad habits as a DPS; and for tanks and healers it’s even worse.
You will hardly ever see anyone leveling in a healing or tank spec, so you end up with a level 80 toon that you have no idea how to play as a tank or healer – having been DPS the whole time up to 80. But that has changed and the days of the solo leveler have become obsolete, even if you don’t know it yet.
Oh yeah, you can scoff if you like. When the car was first invented, folks laughed too. But in just a few decades the horse drawn carriage went from being the primary form of transportation to something you do out of nostalgia. the dungeon finder system has made solo leveling something that is just far less efficient and it won’t be long before most players figure that out. You can get on the cutting edge now, or be left in the dust. And WoW changes and moves a whole lot faster than RL.
Besides just being faster, as well as letting you play your desired spec (such as prot or resto) instance leveling also gives you far better gear and a lot more gold as you level up. The rewards from instance quests are far better than those from solo quests. As a matter of fact the xp per quest is about double and you can do quite a few that have blue gear as rewards. Throw in the extra gold from those quests as well as the enhanced loot from mobs and bosses in instances and you’ll be richer and far better geared when you hit 80.
That means you won’t be the dude starting heroics in quest greens doing pathetic DPS or struggling to keep people alive or hold threat. Most of your items will be blue at a minimum and the whole term “quest greens” will be far below you. You will go right from leveling straight into heroics and be able to hold your own while you rack up the 232 level epics and beyond.
Now, if you’re going to do instance leveling, you still need to do it the right way. And it’s not enough just to queue up the random dungeon finder and hit it that way. The ONLY way to use instance leveling is to combine the randoms with the dungeon quests as well. That’s where the real speed comes in. The problem is that those instance quests are scattered out all over the world of Azeroth and you could reasonably spend hours looking them up and chasing them down. But that’s where our test comes in.
Our good friend Dugi has developed the first instance leveling guide. If you’ve used our horde leveling guide before you know how much easier it makes everything. People tell us all the time they miss the guide being there to tell them every little step once they hit 80, that they almost feel lonely without it. Dugi’s dungeon leveling guide uses a version of the mod we used for Gavin’s guide, with a few neat perks of his own.
Dugi’s mod is highly refined with a slick UI. It makes moving between guide segments really easy, it’s quite a step above all of the other guide mods on the market. But once you get past the ease of use, you get to the real meat of Dugis dungeon leveling guide.
The guide will lead you all the way from 1-80 doing only instances and their quests. And trying to do it without a guide like this would be mind-boggling to say the least. Most instances will have quests from several different zones, or even continents, and the quest givers are typically in out of the way places and give you prerequisite quests that are hard to chain without a lot of time spent on Wowhead. Forget that, I have better things to do with my time, like level fast, and Dugi’s guide does all the heavy lifting for you.
And if you do happen to go ahead and do a RaF account and use Heirloom items, you can just move forward into the next dungeon segment if you find yourself doing dungeons several levels below you. So this is the one guide on the market that will work for anyone, at any level – it leaves no one out in the cold to fend for themselves.
So that’s where we’ve been the last few weeks, testing Dugi’s awesome dungeon leveling guide. At first, we were both a little skeptical to say the least. We’ve been leveling toons for years and Gavin broke the world record using our horde leveling guide, and we’ve both fiddled with powerleveling in dungeons. While powerleveling works like a charm, it’s also kind of a pain – not to mention a bit of a bore.
But after just a few dungeons we knew Dugi had hit the nail on the head and made our solo guide virtually obsolete. He’s even got some special bonuses in store for those of you who want to upgrade from Gavin’s Horde guide (which will no longer be available) to the new dungeon leveling system. It takes a lot to impress Gavin, but once you try dungeon leveling with all the dungeon quests built into a guide – there is just no way you’ll ever go back to solo hacking your way to 80.
Maybe the best part is really getting to know your new toon. Playing all the way to 80 as a healer and a tank has been a nice change of pace. Sure, some groups are a little lamer than others, but that’s to be expected. Some solo quests suck more than others too. None of this would be possible, of course, without the random finder. Just last year this would have been silly to even try. Putting together a group for Maraudon? Forget it, it aint happening – but the random dungeon finder can set it up.
I almost forgot another bonus. One of the reasons people don’t mess with the old world dungeons much is because they never did them and don’t know their way around. Dugi went above and beyond on this one. Dugi’s dungeon leveling guide includes a map for every single dungeon in the entire game. Plus, each map has very clear markers for boss locations and quest item mobs and pickups.
The maps alone are worth the price of admission for me. WC is a pain in the fiddle faddle even if you’ve done it several (hundred) times like I have. Throw in all those instance quests all over the world and make it easy for me to pick all those up, now we’ve got a winner.
Now I know what some of you are thinking: “I’m not going to spend money on some guide!”
And I used to be the same way, I know exactly how you feel – at least I used to. But then WoW became a real hobby. I have other hobbies, like golf, that cost me a TON just to get started. Then there are green fees ($50), a new putter ($150), some sweet shoes ($125), but shooting in the 70’s? Priceless.
I can’t directly attribute a better golf score to the shoes, but it certainly seems to help. Most hobbies are like that, you spend a lot of money because whatever it is you are buying increases your enjoyment in some way. I know this dude who plays paintball and he’s always getting some new gun or gear, but I have no idea if it makes him a more [deadly?] paintball player.
A guide for WoW is no different – or is it? The very first money I ever spent on WoW that didn’t go to Blizz went to Dugi. I had long since gotten over being cheap about my hobbies. And I used Dugi’s original guides for quite a while until I met Gavin. And I can say from personal experience that the fastest way from Nub to Pro starts with good information.
Without Dugi’s guides it would have taken me much longer to become Lawbringer. We surpassed some of that original advice, but frankly I never level without a guide of some kind running – which is why we built gavin’s guide in the first place. Gavin and I both wanted an in-game interface that reminded us what to do next. Even Gavin is human and you can’t memorize the entire leveling process – a guide helps even the best levelers stay on the right track.
So, if you really enjoy WoW, Dugi’s dungeon leveling guide can actually make leveling a lot more fun. You’ll level faster, get better gear and never be stuck wondering where to go and what to do next. You’ll have more fun leveling your toons, which is never something I look forward to all that much unless I’m vegging out, and leveling while brain dead is awesome with a guide.
So when you’re ready to Dominate leveling – there is no better or faster way than instance leveling. And Dugi’s dungeon leveling guide is the only one of its kind. It’s slick, easy to use and will have you going from 1-80 faster than ever before. It’s not easy to impress Gavin when it comes to WoW, but after using Dugi’s guide we are firm believers that there is no other guide out there that even comes close, not even ours.
And to sweeten the pot we’re going to throw in a couple of bonuses of our own. For a limited time we’re going to throw in a copy of Gavin’s Horde leveling guide for those times when you feel like going solo, or if you’re DPS waiting on a dungeon queue. We won’t be selling Gavin’s guide alone any more, so this is your last chance to get it.
But the big bonus is Gavin’s Auction House Mastery guide. That’s right, while you are dominating the leveling scene, you can also learn how to completely pwn the auction house, making more gold in less time than ever before. Hundreds of other players have used Gavin’s Auction House Mastery guide to blow the roof off their earnings – and you can do the same.
Here’s what you are getting when you order Dugi’s Dungeon Leveling Guide right now:
- Dugi’s Dungeon leveling Guide 1-80
- Gavins Horde Leveling Guide ($20 Value)
- Gavin’s Auction House Mastery guide ($30 Value)
That’s three completely Dominating guides for the price of one. No other offer for your favorite hobby even comes close to this kind of value. You’ll have more fun, level faster and make more gold. And it’s all just a click away. Use the link below for the Gavin Garrett bonuses when you order Dugi’s Dungeon Leveling guide right now.




















Do you have an upgrade option if we already have Gavin’s Horde Guide?
I’m just starting out on leveling up a priest since my guild could use some more healers.
this is so true about leveling thru randoms/instances. i’ve been playing since pre-bc, and i had my certain ways of lvling up. one surefire way of hitting 80 within a 10 day /played time is rolling a healer/tank. my shaman [without RaF] went from 1-80 in barely over 6 days played. my pally was even faster, being tanks usually que almost instantly.
thanks guys.
What if i already have the auction house mastery guide and Gavin’s leveling guide?
The dungeon levelling guide sounds great, but it’s no reason to give up on creating solo guides!
The main reason I don’t level in instances is because I rarely have enough time to run an instance as I tend to multi-task with other my priorities. I may need to go AFK at any time, and you don’t have the freedom to do that when you’re in an instance.
How do the people that order Dugi’s get the Gavin Guides? I see no info for this on Dugi’s site.
I purchased the Alliance and Horde Dungeon leveling guide only a few moments ago. I can’t find download links for his Dungeon Guide, only his Viewer and Installer. These work fine, but no guide appears in his dungeons tab.
And I see no links, etc., for Gavin’s items.
His add-on Installer is a pretty nifty program that appears to work for other addons, not just his. I used it to install lasted version of Tom Tom with no problems.
If you’re looking for the bonus guides we mentioned you will receive them shortly. We are processing those manually and you will see an email from us soon with everything you need to download your bonus guides.
All bonuses have been distributed up to this moment – you will receive an email from us with username/password information. If you have super-heavy duty spam filters and our email got munched, go to http://gavinsguide.com and follow the instructions to recover your password.
Thanks. I did get the e-mail for those later in the day.
As for the other part, it took awhile to actually figure out Dugi’s page and the links, after linking from members page.
So, all is well. Looks great so far, looking forward to trying it out.
I leveled my pally in dungeons as a tank. I leveled so fast I actually skipped dungeons using the random thing. Took me 7 days and a few hours to get to 80 and that is doing it without rested xp gains.
Lee
hi i just bort the guide but i use me new e-mail account to do it not the one i am a member here with can i still get the free guides or have i stuffed it up ?thxs rising
holy shit. people really charge money for providing a guide that essentially tells you what you already knew! Sign me up!
Let’s get real. I’m not really surprised that someone is trying to sell these ‘tips’. So what exactly seperates this guide from any other FREE website, nothing. This guide essentially tells you about as much as wowhead does.
So I am sorry to see you guys have let this web site go. It was a great place for tips and things. Oh well guess you found a new game to play hence the Starcraft 2 guide advertised here.
2 days and no relplies to my comment about the site not being updated.
Take care I will stay subscribed just in case anything new gets posted but after over 2 months of nothing ………. what are the chances.
Is this blog done? If so, I will remove from my RSS feed.
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