WoW Private Server Leveling Guide: High Rates

The server seen in this guide is Wowbeez High Rates realm, although the article is intended to be universally applicable for all high rates realms. (They are often identical) (High Rates Xp is defined as around 80x xp, and with a transporter (most cookie cutter ascent realms)).

Say, you have enjoyed leveling your first time on a private server. You'd like to take a fresh new character to 70 now, and no longer want to mess around. To you, you want a straight line towards victory.

Level 70!  Oh yeah!

The Private Server Leveling Guide

Tuned for a typical high rates realm

GOAL: GET TO 8

• Step: Kill a level two. In the event that you are not 8 yet, kill a level 4.

• Step: Use the taxi to train spells. (Often a server will have a mall, with a large amount of trainers and vendors that will allow you to not have to run all over the place to get to them. More often than not, unless specified otherwise in the taxi menu, this area will be Stormwind.)

Learn what your servers taxi looks like. (Taxis are far more common in Ascent Wow Zone servers, while very rare in Mangos style servers). Taxi's are generally picked to be a large, unique, flamboyant character.  In this example, its the blood elf Guitarist.  They will quite often be visible on maps having the same green exclamation mark as flight paths do.

Whoops, someone forget to do all of the boring character customization stuff that unfortunatley comes with creating a new character.  Here is turning on auto-self casting.

An example of a private server "mall ".  All around this area, you will find trainers and vendors. Shown in this picture is the priest trainer

GOAL: GET TO 14

• Step: Use the taxi to go to Westfall. Kill a 10 to the north east side of Westfall. Gradually slide south west, back to the Westfall Tower, continuing to grind, or kill random helpless wildlife until 14.

Use the taxi to Westfall

Head east for the nearest low level Westfall mobs

Grinding away on Westfall mobs

GOAL: GET TO 30

• Step: Do the Defias Brotherhood quest. You should use a taxi to port to redridge, and talk to Wiley in the Lakeshire inn.

Be sure to ignore all party invites.  You are using this guide, you are a pro now, and therefore are too good to toil amongst the companionship of a standard World of Warcraft private server plebian.

The Defias Brotherhood quest.

Redridge taxi

First chain of The Defias Brotherhood quest turn in

• Step: Now (around late 20s) Do the Bellygrub quest.

The Bellygrub quest. Contrary to your new found will to look down upon all else, powered by this guide, let us take a step back, not being afraid to grovel among the filth in order to make sure anyone around you who would like to do belly grub gets in your group.  Bellygrub, on some mildly popular WoW private servers, is a highly contested quest

Note: This quest is known to be camped pretty largely, so if bellygrub has been recently killed with a questionable time to respawn, you have a few choices.

• Alternate step: Your goal is to kill a few level 20s and get to 30. On this particular server, a simple trip to kill a mob or two around darkshire will cover that. Killing humanoids at this point is probably your best bet if you are scraped for cash to train your spells. Check out other ways of getting money here.

• Step: Use the taxi to train spells.

 

 

GOAL: GET TO 42 PLAN A

• Step: Taxi to the Stranglethorn Vale rebel camp. Do Jungle Secrets from Private Thorsen. This should bring you to around 35. Accept the next quest, Bookie Herod.

Jungle Secrets Quest

Note: If you don't find him idling in the camp, check wowhead for his path, or read peoples comments on how he may die occasionally. If he is still nowhere to be found, he may be dead, and rather than wait for him to appear at some unknown time, it may be time to exercise your plan B option. (Do the normal rebel camp quest line until 42)

• Step: Do Bookie Herod. As private servers are rarely coded to have line of sight, getting into the building which contains the objective may be tough. Rather than fighting your way in, you may chose to simply die and run back, rez in the corner of the building, and loot the quest objective box; or simply stealth in if your class permits that. Finishing the quest is instant, not the cog timer type, so you may be able to plow through and finish it before dieing.

Finishing the bookie herod quest

• Step: You should now be around 40. You may chose to accept the next quest in that line, The Hidden Key, especially if you can just stealth in, however, you'll likely reach 42 from the killing a few mobs on the way there, however, it's worth noting that you may be able to pass a great deal of them. If you are short on cash, killing the trash may be a very wise choice.
22-the-hidden-key-quest
• Step: Once you reach 42, die, spirit rez, and take the taxi to Hinterlands.

Die and rez

GET TO 42 PLAN B:

Pass this if you.. are already 42 after doing the GET TO 42 PLAN A

• Step: Coming soon in more detail.  For now, do the 2 rebel quests

GOAL: GET TO AROUND 50:

• Step: Do Featherbeards Endorsement. You should now be 50+.

Featherbeard's endorsement quest

Featherbeard's endorsement quest completion

• Step: Use the taxi to train spells.

 

 

Want to get to 80 even quicker but don't want the noobiness of instant end level servers?  Here is your guide.

GOAL: DOWNHILL RACE TO 70+, oh yeah!

• Step: Taxi to Blasted Lands. At this point, drop down and farm any mobs within blasted lands until they drop an Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment

Looting an Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment

• Step: Once you've acquired the fragment, hand it in. You should now be 58+

Turning in the Imperfect Draenethyst Fragment

From here on out, it should be nothing but instant objective complete quests to 70.


The 3 minute welcome to Outlands questline
• Step: It's now time to do a simple series of 2 second quests on your way to the Honor Hold in Hellfire Peninsula. Head south and do Through the Dark Portal. Go through the portal into Outlands, and head to the bottom of the stairs to finish the quest.

Heading south towards the Blasted Lands portal

• Step: Accept the next quest in that chain, Arrival in Outland, and head south a few steps to the dwarf flight master to complete it.
• Step: Accept and do the next part in the chain, Journey to Honor Hold. You may talk to the flightmaster again to take a free trip to the Honor Hold. As you land, a few yards away, you will complete the quest.e
• Note: If the flightmaster is not scripted to take you to honor hold, and does not know any flights connected to that location, it's time to take the taxi to hellfire ramparts, die, and spirit rez in Honor Hold.

How to get to Honor Hold quick on a private server

• Step: Accept and do the last instant reward quest in this line, Force Commander Danarth. You may be around 60-62 at this point

• Step: Pro tip- right Next to Danath, you will see the NPC giving the quest The Path of Glory. For many ascent servers, this quest's objective will be completed on accepting it, and handing it in will give you a nice level 65-67.

The Path of Glory quest

• Step: If you are 67+ at this point, move on to the next step. Otherwise do Escape from Umbrafen, another instant completion quest. The quickest way to get to her for most servers is a taxi to Terrokar or Shattrath. Once you get to her, you will head to the NPC to complete it with located in the Cenarion refuge, a Zangarmarsh Taxi is generally the quickest way to go about getting there. While in Cenarion Refuge, hope and pray that you don't get absolutely annihilated by any opposing faction members there, with your no gear.

Escape from Umbrafen quest

Exercise caution turning in Escape from Umbrafen, as navigating through Cenarion Refuge on pvp servers. A highly active area, Cenarion Refuge is likely populated by a bunch of savage red plated hellions

• Step: Now that you are 67+, Taxi to Netherstorm
• Step: Head to Mark V, and do the quest Mark V is Alive. Yet another instant objective complete quest, and your hand in for it is right next to him.

Mark V is alive quest

LEVEL 70 BABY

Congrabulations on 70!

GOAL: GET TO 80

Atm, as private servers having fully functional Wotlk content are quite rare, this information isn't available.

YOU ARE NOW 70:GET IN A RAID

If you are still playing on a 2.4.3 server

• Step: At this point, you are probably going to spam the alliance mall or meeting area with LFG ILLIADAN, sometimes mixing it up a little with MANS, GOLD PLS. At some point in time, some moron raid leader will invite you, and you'll have successfully put yourself in a position for your level 40 in disguise to get end game loot.

Do make certain to blend in seamlessly with the server natives by begging and or being as annoying as possible