WOW FOREVER · 1 TO 60
Leveling in WoW Forever
Getting from 1 to 60 takes the same 4,084,700 XP as in Classic, but Forever changes how you earn it: more quests, dungeon leveling built around quests, campfires and cheaper mounts. These tips will save you the most time.
8 tips for faster leveling
- Do every dungeon's questsIn Forever, almost all of a dungeon's XP comes from its quests. Pick them up before heading in; running it again without quests gives very little.
- Group with players your levelPlaying with higher-level characters penalizes your XP more than in Classic, and dungeon boosting is no longer worth it.
- Learn Cooking earlyAround level 5, you'll get the quest “The Great Outdoors”: it teaches you to build a campfire. Well Fed food also gives +5% XP for 15 minutes.
- Log out somewhere you can restAt an inn, in a city or with the Cozy Sleeping Bag (earned through a quest chain), which also gives +3% XP per kill.
- Fight enemies your levelExploring just for the sake of it gives little XP. Head to the right zone for your level and stay on track.
- Gather to fund your mountOne or two gathering professions and the auction house will pay for your level 40 riding.
- Travel to dungeons on footThe group finder doesn't teleport you: you have to get to the entrance. A Warlock can summon the group at the meeting stone.
- Alliance: Hall of ThanesIts five quests, beneath Ironforge, give you a nice boost between levels 13 and 18.
Tips to get started
Tips for every class that save time and gold from day one: where to learn each weapon, how weapon skills work and how to get bags early. Anything that comes from the beta (level cap 30) is marked as such.
How weapon skills work
Each weapon type is a separate skill. Your race and class already know some; the rest are taught by a capital-city Weapon Master: 10 silver each from level 1, and polearms 1 gold from level 20. Wands need no training: mages, priests and warlocks have them built in. Check what you know in the character window's Skills tab, which lists every weapon with its value. A newly learned skill starts at 1 and rises on its own as you hit things with that weapon, up to 5 per level (5 at level 1, 300 at 60). With a low value you miss more and deal less damage, so before taking a new weapon into a dungeon, level it up a bit on easy enemies. In Forever no race raises weapon skill: Blizzard confirmed the old weapon specialization racials (Human swords, Orc axes…) aren't coming back.
Which weapons each class can learn
Warrior: everything but wands. Paladin: one- and two-handed axes, maces and swords, plus polearms. Hunter: bows, crossbows, guns, thrown, daggers, fist weapons, one- and two-handed axes and swords, staves and polearms (no maces). Rogue: daggers, fist weapons, one-handed maces, swords and axes (axes are new in Forever) and every ranged type. Shaman: daggers, fist weapons, one- and two-handed axes and maces, and staves. Druid: daggers, fist weapons, one- and two-handed maces, staves and polearms (new in Forever). Priest: daggers, one-handed maces, staves and wands. Mage and Warlock: daggers, one-handed swords, staves and wands. Each class guide tells you which ones to learn first.
Bags from level 1 with Tailoring
Learn Tailoring from your city's trainer: the apprentice rank costs 10 copper. In the beta the Linen Bag pattern (a 6-slot bag) cost 1 silver and needed only 5 Tailoring. Each bag takes 3 Bolt of Linen Cloth (2 Linen Cloth per bolt, so 6 cloth) and 3 Coarse Thread, sold by the trade goods vendor. Linen drops from humanoids in the starting zones, so within a few levels you can fill all four bag slots. If you don't want the profession later, you can unlearn it.
Bags from the bag vendor
If you'd rather not craft them, capital cities have a Bag Vendor. In the beta, in Orgrimmar: Small Brown Pouch (6 slots) for 5 silver, Brown Leather Satchel for 25 silver, Heavy Brown Bag for 2 gold and Huge Brown Sack for 10 gold; the pricier, the more slots. Early on the 5-silver pouch is already worth it: sell what you don't need and buy one on your first trip to town.
Flights: stopping halfway can be cheaper
A direct flight isn't always the cheapest: prices go by leg, and some long routes cost more than their parts added up. In the beta, Thunder Bluff to Ratchet cost 2 silver 97 copper direct, but 2 silver 9 copper if you flew to The Crossroads first and took a second flight from there. Early on, when every coin counts, check the flight master before picking a destination. Seen in the beta: prices may change.
Weapon masters: where to learn each weapon
| Stormwind Alliance · Woo Ping | Crossbows, daggers, one- and two-handed swords, staves and polearms (from 20). Trade District, inside the Weller's Arsenal weapon shop. |
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| Ironforge Alliance · Buliwyf Stonehand | Guns, fist weapons, one- and two-handed axes and maces. Military Ward, in the same shop as Bixi Wobblebonk. |
| Ironforge Alliance · Bixi Wobblebonk | Crossbows, daggers and thrown. Military Ward, in the Timberline Arms shop, next to Buliwyf. |
| Darnassus Alliance · Ilyenia Moonfire | Bows, daggers, fist weapons, staves and thrown. Warrior's Terrace. |
| Orgrimmar Horde · Sayoc | Bows, daggers, fist weapons, one- and two-handed axes and thrown (some sources add staves). Valley of Honor, in the Arms of Legend shop, next to Hanashi. |
| Orgrimmar Horde · Hanashi | Bows, staves, one- and two-handed axes and thrown. Valley of Honor, in the same shop as Sayoc. |
| Thunder Bluff Horde · Ansekhwa | Guns, staves and one- and two-handed maces. Lower Rise. |
| Undercity Horde · Archibald | Crossbows, daggers, one- and two-handed swords and polearms (from 20). War Quarter, on the inner ring. |
Sources: Warcraft Tavern: maestros de armas y armas por clase en Forever · Warcraft Tavern: habilidades de arma en Forever · Warcraft Wiki: maestros de armas.
Addons that guide you quest by quest
A route addon tells you which quest to pick up, where to turn it in and which zone to head to next, step by step with an arrow. That's different from Questie, which only marks quests on the map. Forever changed a lot of quests and added new zones, so Classic routes don't work as they are. As of October 30, no guide has a tested 30-60 Forever route, because the beta stopped at level 30. Here's what works today and what's still missing.
| Questie Free. | Shows on the map and minimap where quests are, who to turn them in to and where the objectives are. It doesn't give you an order or a route. Works in Forever It has worked on the Forever client since late September and gets updates almost every week: it already has Forever data, Zephras Isle fixes and the new dungeons in its journal. Even so, some new Forever quests are still missing or misplaced. Many route addons rely on it, so it's worth keeping installed. |
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| Polestar Guides Free and open source. | A guide addon built just for Forever: 1-60 routes for every race and faction, an arrow that follows real paths, a travel planner, class quest guides, professions 1-300, reputations and a dungeon journal. Available in Spanish. Tested in the beta Covers Zephras Isle (the Skyborne starting zone). Its own authors say it's in beta and that routes were tested in a simulator, not played on Forever. The new 30-60 content (Riverglades, Shen'dralas, Mount Hyjal) isn't in its data yet; they plan to add it after launch. |
| RestedXP Guides The addon is free and includes the starter routes for free (roughly up to level 20-22, Zephras Isle included). The full Forever guide is paid: about $30 per faction or $45 for both, according to affiliate sites. Check the price in their store. | A polished step-by-step guide built for fast leveling: arrow, steps that complete on their own, routes with or without dungeons, and reminders for trainers and hearthstone. Works in Forever It's the furthest along on Forever: its own routes up to about level 35 plus a dungeon guide. From 35 to 60 it uses Classic routes for now, which skip the new zones; Forever routes for that range come after launch, with no date. Updated almost daily. |
| Zygor Guides Paid, through the Elite subscription: $15 a month or $40 every three months (prices from their site). | A full in-game guide: 1-60 route, arrow, dungeons, professions and travel. The best known of the paid ones. Tested in the beta The Forever guides arrive on launch day, not during the beta. They promise routes through the new zones (Zephras Isle, Riverglades, Shen'dralas, Mount Hyjal, Dalaran) and nine new dungeons, but warn that the 1-60 may be incomplete at first because of the beta's level cap. |
| Guidelime Free (both the addon and the community packs). | A guide reader: it shows the list of steps, marks them on the map and adds an arrow. Routes aren't included: you install community guide packs separately. It also comes with an editor to write your own guide. Tested in the beta It has supported Forever since version 6.000 (September 24) and its page says full support is coming. Coverage depends on the pack you install: some cover the starting zones and up to level 30, written during the beta, with 30-60 still to come. Best used together with Questie. |
| WoW-Pro Guides Free. | Step-by-step guides made by volunteers, with an arrow and steps that tick off on their own. Includes leveling and dungeon routes. Tested in the beta It has a Forever version and new Zephras Isle guides (1-12, both factions). The rest of the 12-60 routes are adapted Classic ones and don't go through Riverglades, Shen'dralas or Mount Hyjal, so they may break further along. |
| Joana's Guides Unknown: the CurseForge download doesn't list a price. | An in-game leveling guide with steps that advance on their own and a minimap arrow. Works in Forever It has a Forever file (October 9), but it only covers the starting zones, levels 1-12. It's unclear whether it includes Zephras Isle or anything past level 12. |
| TourGuide Unknown. | A classic leveling guide addon, one of the first ever made for WoW. Unconfirmed We couldn't find a Forever version or any recent updates. Better not to count on it. |
Our advice: Our pick today: always Questie, plus a route guide. If you don't want to pay, use RestedXP's free starter routes for the first levels (the most tested route from the beta) and Polestar after that, which is also available in Spanish. If you want a paid guide, RestedXP has the most Forever-specific route written right now; Zygor can't be judged until it comes out on November 4. None of them is ready for 35-60 yet: in the new zones, rely on Questie and the in-game map until they catch up.
The 5 experience boosts
They stack with each other: with all five you level noticeably faster. See also the Legacy page and Professions.
1. «Well Fed» food +5 %
Almost all Cooking food gives the Well Fed buff: +5% experience from kills for 15 minutes. Learn Cooking early (around level 5, the quest «The Great Outdoors» teaches you to build a campfire).
2. Cozy Sleeping Bag +3 %
Rest inside the bag for a minute and you get +1% experience from kills; it stacks up to 3 times (1 hour cooldown). It comes from a six-quest chain from level 14: the Horde starts in the Barrens (46,74, south of Camp Taurajo) and the Alliance in Westfall (Alexston Farmstead, 37,50). It is harder for the Horde: better at level 30 or higher.
3. Camp Tent (Leatherworking) rested
Leatherworking camping item (skill 20): next to a campfire it gives rested experience to you and anyone nearby, up to 5% of your level. It shares the one-hour cooldown with the other camping items.
4. Log out in an inn or capital +100 %
While logged out in an inn or a capital you build rested experience: your next kill experience counts double until it runs out. Logging out in the open builds much less.
5. «Well Rested» Legacy +20 %
In the Legacy Adventure tree: each rank makes rested experience build 4% faster and raises its cap by 4% (up to 20% with all 5 ranks). Legacy points are earned little by little as you play.
Mounts and travel
| How it works | In Forever, learning to ride is the expensive part, not the mount. Mounts are sold separately and are cheap, and the same mount goes slow or fast depending on your riding skill: pack mounts work too. |
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| Level 40 | Slow riding (+60%): 100 gold. Vendor mounts: 20 gold. |
| Level 60 | Fast riding (+100%): 1,000 gold. Vendor mounts: 200 gold, though the 20-gold one already goes fast. |
| Discount | Cheaper once you're Honored with your faction. Paladins and Warlocks get theirs through their class quest. |
| New travel routes | A boat from Stormwind Harbor to Auberdine, a Menethil–Southshore–Auberdine route, a boat from Tanaris to Powderfuse Port (Riverglades) and the Valanaar Skydocks to the Isle of Zephras. |
No flying mounts or level scaling.
Zones by level
| Level | Alliance | Horde |
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| 1-10 | Dun Morogh, Elwynn Forest, Teldrassil | Durotar, Mulgore, Tirisfal Glades |
| 1-12 | ★ Isle of Zephras (Skyborne) | ★ Isle of Zephras (Skyborne) |
| 10-20 | Darkshore, Loch Modan, Westfall | The Barrens, Silverpine Forest |
| 15-27 | Redridge Mountains, Stonetalon Mountains | Stonetalon Mountains, The Barrens |
| 18-30 | Ashenvale, Duskwood, Wetlands (★ new quests) | Ashenvale, Hillsbrad Foothills |
| 25-35 | Thousand Needles, Hillsbrad Foothills | Thousand Needles |
| 30-45 | Arathi Highlands, Desolace, Stranglethorn Vale, Alterac | Arathi Highlands, Desolace, Stranglethorn Vale |
| 35-45 | ★ Riverglades, Dustwallow Marsh, Badlands | ★ Riverglades, Dustwallow Marsh, Swamp of Sorrows |
| 40-50 | Feralas, The Hinterlands, Tanaris | Feralas, The Hinterlands, Tanaris |
| 45-55 | Azshara, Blasted Lands, Searing Gorge | Azshara, Blasted Lands, Searing Gorge |
| 48-58 | Felwood, Un'Goro Crater, Burning Steppes | Felwood, Un'Goro Crater, Burning Steppes |
| 51-60 | the Plaguelands, Winterspring, Silithus, ★ Mount Hyjal (60) | the Plaguelands, Winterspring, Silithus, ★ Mount Hyjal (60) |
★ = new in Forever. All other zones keep their Classic level ranges. Shen'dralas is also new, but Blizzard hasn't announced its level range yet.
Sources: Blizzard: Forever deep dive · AlterTime: riding prices · Warcraft Tavern: experience · Warcraft Tavern: camping · Warcraft Tavern: mounts · Warcraft Wiki: Forever. Data checked on October 15, 2026; subject to change before launch.