I’m gonna keep this post short and relevant. By this time you probably know I’m following and reviewing Brian Kopp’s Alliance Leveling Guide.

Since the last update I’ve done 3 more levels in 22 hours, which felt kinda slow at times. There were a couple of reasons for this.

First, at one point in the guide, when I was 25-30% into 65 and right on track with the amount of XP I should have, there were 5 quest turn-ins and then the guide said you should be 40-50% into 65. Well, if you do the math on that one, those 5 quests would have to give 120k XP, if they were to take you from 27.5% to 45%.

Needless to say, they didn’t.

From that point on I was behind 120k XP or so which I had to catch up to before I started on the level 66 part of the guide. Luckily, in Nagrand in Outlands there are a lot of group quests and I ended up doing about 8-10 of them. I’ve learnt to always pick up the follow up quests, even if the guide says to SKIP them because you need a group, because you never know if you have the opportunity or the need to do them later. And if you don’t, you can always abandon them.

Now, that was the goof up on Brian’s part. The first real one in the 60-70 guide. I can’t imagine the beta XP rates would have been THAT much higher, because all the other XP rates in the 60-70 guide have been accurate.

As for my own goof up, it involved dying three - count ‘em THREE - times in a cave far, far away from a graveyard. It’s in Blackwing Coven in Blade’s Edge Mountains and you literally have to corpse run for 6 minutes if you die. And that’s if you’re a night elf. Any other human race would face about 7-8 minutes of running. Have fun.

I also find Outlands getting harder. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to use feign death, healing potions and let my pet die to survive.

By the way, speaking of pets, there are no instructions in the 60-70 guide on when to tame pets for new abilities at the moment (hopefully Brian will add that in time) but my cat "Iddqd" is doing good anyway. I’ve given him everything from the 1-60 part of the guide, but nothing else.

I got my epic mount at level 64 when training skills in Darnassus. Base cost is only 600 for riding skill and 100 for mount now, instead of 900 / 100 earlier. And now I already have 1100 g again which will pay for the flying mount at level 70. The amount of money you earn in Outlands is insane when compared to Azeroth. Not complaining though.

Proof: