well i got to 60 on my mage in 15 days 1 hour of playtime... so according to your stats i made it a little faster than 5 days compared to the average. yay!! 8)

ps. love this site, stats rule

Two caveats, though: First, we can't be sure that the current level 60s took as much time getting from, say, level 30 to level 31 as do level 30 players today. It could be the case that the current crop of 60s are better or faster players than the current crop of 30s, on average. At least, we can't rule this possibility out yet. Second, there are significant variations in leveling times by different classes. And for that, you'll have to stay tuned.

now at around 8 days 1 hour on my rogue which is half way through lvl 52. very interested in seeing the brakdown of lvl'n time on a per class basis.

and i'm always waitin for the next post here so staying tuned is no problem heh

My mage is lvl 37 now in a little less than 4 days (i think around 3 days and 20 hours)

According to the stats it should have been 7.1 instead of my 3.8 days, thats 3.3 days _less_.
I don't grind, my rest state gets no more than 10-15% and i really don't hurry. (i just complete quests and sometimes grind the last 10% of a level)

At this rate i should be 60 after 12-15 days played, wich is a way lot faster than i did with my warrior (60 in 20 days, 4 hours) and that was fast according to others i spoke to (my warrior had a lot of resting time)

Can anybody confirm that a mage is a way lot faster in leveling?

All i can say this character isn't doing any instances seriously, since i have many level 60 friends who can run me through the low level instances. WC was done in like 1.5 hours with my mage and my warrior has been there 5 times before completing everything.

I find it really funny, that ppl say that WoW "Steals your soul", and "takes up all of your time". Because i played it for a few days and it really didnt take much time to do anything, but immediately afterwards I look back at my FFXI game (which i went back to after a few days for WoW) and i have over 15 days worth of hours, and my Highest lvl is 29, and I am a very good player in the game. So ill stick with my FFXI thank you very much.

Wow...ur a fucking newb...thank you very much...

Hi! Could you tell me which method is faster for hiting level 60? Is it grinding or completing quests? Also, some of u say that it took them less than average to reach level 60, but how many hours a day u play? ...aproximatly offcourse. 10x

The Blizzard Leveling Contest was a recent promotion by Blizzard to test some of their new server infrastructure. The prize was entry into the Burning Crusade beta (quite a good prize for the real WoW addicts). The contest consisted of being one of the first 1000 people to go from Level 1 to 50.

My brother did it in 5d 4h (of actual played time). I know there were some people that did it quite a bit faster.

Not sure if Blizzard will ever publish any of these numbers, but it would be interesting to see some of that data.

--Uggh, The Dark Carnival
Horde, Eonar

How far can i level a rogue in 20 days without fucking around and getting straight to business?
and how many hours would i have to put in a day to accomplish that??

Where do you get your stats? I know you can look up how long you've played somewhere, but I don't know where. Thanks for your help.

You just type in /played

I got 3 days played now at 35. I got 10 quests completed in my quest log that will net me 23040k (around) and another 5 grind quests. Now am leaving for vacation for a month,which ofcourse will get me full rested (1,5 xp bar), I am pretty sure I can do the remaining 5 lvls to 40 in under 12 hours or max 15.

This will make my played come up to around 4 days at lvl40. Your estimate is 8.5 days?

I expect to hit 60 within 9-10 days, and it doesn't seem to hard to do. The 50-60 lvls can be done in 4 days (max, with some rested I could push it around 2) and 40 to 50 should be done in 2 days.

Personally it's all about how you prefer to lvl. When I grind now I have about 27k experience per hour. But grinding is less effective then questing imo, if you know every quest loacation and how to complete them all pre start playing your char, wow is fairly fast.

I saw a guy do 1-60 in 4 days 8 hours on my new server. He was the first to reach 60 on the new servers so no rested experience. He did most quests, but at some point he started grinding, I PM'd him, and he said he had around 55k/hour while doing the grind. I saw his epic mount too in orgrimmar the day he hit 60.

MAn I am a PvP fiend. I have a little over 18 days play time on my lv 44 hunter. But I am Exalted with WSG and almost through friendly with AB. I am a very slow leveler and PvP is the olny reson I lv basicly. It just goes to show how diffrent people play the game. I personally couldn't imagine getting to lv 60 within 2 months, but I also have my Leatherworking skill to 270 and Skining to 300 at lv 44 on top of my PvP rep.

Im lvl 57 atm, but im nto finding it hard,2 lvl, i play in the afternoons, and on weekends sumtimes, and every 2nd week i dont play, but im lvling 2 lvls a week, imo its not hard to lvl, maybe, time consuming, but not hard, im hoping to be 60 in the next 2 weeks...ive played 16 days btw

pshh i got my priest to lvl 60 in about 11-12 days, and my hunter in about 15, but i guess 20 days seems about right if you do a lot of bg's and such

As a holy pala I'm about to ding 60 just after 16 days play, which I think is fairly average - I've spent a lot of time levelling my BS (300) and a lot of time arsing around helping others through SM etc. I dinged 59 yesterday, and it's probably only going to be 6 hours of play time from 59 - 60. That's on rested XP the whole way, but includes completing the Scholo key quest amongst others, all of which involved a lot of travelling.

people saying how many days ti took them but yah one thing

do you play for like 20 hours a day or 5 really it depends if youhabvea life or spend a day on it

dude i play or 10 hours every day and i do nothing but quest but im still lvl 54 after 6 mothns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF IAM I DOING SO FUCKING WORNG!

Well "wtf" the trick is to grind for max xp not just do quest

***NOTE*** Not a really clean look (math could be wrong; fixing it at 60) but here I started this***

32 priest and lock 1day 18 hours -
30-31priest /32 lock- shimmering flats
31 priest/32 lock- stranglethorn vale
32 priest/34 lock- Desolace
34- 1day 23 hours- lock-
32-33=3.75hours (priest)
33- priest-desoloace
33.5- Tarren Mill- priest
33-34/ 15Kexp/hr priest (2days 1.5hours)
33-34/ 4 hours priest
34 priest heading to Arathi Highlands
34-35- lock/desolace 62.5K exp 20K/hour 3.6 hours
35.75- Tarren Mill- lock
35-36- 3.4 hours lock 2days 6hours playtime
36.5- Arathi Highlands- lock
34-35- 2.8 hours priest
35.5- headed to Stranglethorn priest
36-37- 3.25 hours lock 2days 10hours playtime
37.4 headed to Stranglethorn lock
35-36- 3.5 hours? 2days 8 hours playtime - priest
36-37- 3.5 hours 2days 11hours 20min- priest
36.75- 37.5 Headed to badlands and finished rather quickly with what I could do. It seems at this level it's hard to get from 37-40 easily as it was with past levels. Mainly cause the quests are too high it seems. I suppose I'll try to grind a level or too but talk about BORING! We'll see if the lock is fine.(lock was fine)
37-38 priest this level was a utter wash!! 5hours...28min abouts...2days 16hours 48min
37-38 lock 3hours 45min, 2days 13hours 50min
38-39 lock 5hours 15min, 2days 19hours 5min This level was a wash because I flew around too much finishing the felhunter quest, turning in other quests, and getting new spells; a waste of a level!
39-40 lock 3hours, playtime 2days 22 hours 26min
40-41 lock 5hours 15min, playtime 3days 3hours 18min
41-42 lock (got mount and talents, wasted 55min being dumb and learning tailoring stuff and ganked a bunch in STV) 5hours, 3days 8hours 18min playtime
41.5-42.5 lock went to Stonard/SoS
42.5-43 lockwent to badlands again
42-43 lock 3hours 56min playtime 3days 12hours 14min
43-44 lock 6 hours 24min, playtime 3days 18hours 38min (made dumb mistakes and this level ended up being a wash went back to Arathi and Desolace finished up there and went to Dustwallow) Dustwallow was a good idea though!
44.45 lock headed to Feralas (111K44-45)

Well..

playing a rogue, alliance side.. got level 54 and about 23% Into it.

No BG and little PVP as possible,

proffs: skinning/leatherworking. skill 240.

Grind 10% Quest 90% 6D 15h played time

3 day 5h 60 rogue alli lightning's edge name is ming rank 14 btw

9D 8h played, lvl 35, i fucking hate SV.

Yea.. These tables are way off... i can get any character to lvl 5 in under an hours...

Many players who already have 1 or 2 lv 60's just bot their new characters to 60. Is your survey taking that into account? That would affect the figures significatly since you can go up a few extra levels each night.

I am currently pushing my rogue to have about 5 days played to 60. This is however with a mini guide and twinked out gear at lvl 25, 35, 45, 55 to push it even faster. Pots and enough of all cloth you need to hit 300 with First Aid, and also about 500g so that I don't have to loot anything when questing/grinding.

I already posted in this thread about my mage, who I predicted would have 9-10 days played when dinging 60. I actuelly dinged with 8 days played and hitting rank 7 at lvl 58 I probably could have had even lower if I didnt pvp and grind for the money/going to AH. It's amazing how much time you waste doing none XP.

5 days therefor seems to be reasonable with a ready to lvl rogue.

i have a 33 lock at 2days 2 hours and 23 minutes playtime, my first character in wow. lvling is not hard you just have to think about which quests to drop, and which do to. and you have to make sure you group up quests so all the quests get done in that area.

Maybe I am missing something:

Leveling Time (in mins) = (Current Level x 17.8) - 49

So to go from level 10 to 11

= (10 x 17.8) - 49
= 129

The table has 137 instead of 129

Ah, pesky empirical data does not fit the perfect equation :) Not sure why I thought the table was based on the equation. Need more coffee?

I Have been reading some of the comments and i gota say u guys take really long to lvl i mean i have take 10 days to get to lvl 59 on my hunter and its my first char. i think u guys need to go on thottbot read about the quests then do them it helps so much

My wife and I both started playing again recently on brand new accounts, so no help from 60s, etc. I play more than she does, but here's what we have so far:

Her - 29 Priest with just under 2 days played.
Me - 41 Paladin with about 4 days played (I slack off a lot in game chatting and running to help her and friends with some quests).

Granted we're vet players from PreBC but that was with both of us starting in the elf land and it being all new.

I started an alt orc rogue last night goofing off while watchign a move and level 1-5 took approximately 30 minutes. No idea where these numbers come from. It should not take anyone 21 minutes to go from level 1 to 2.

The beginning quests are: Kill 10 of something turn it in and gain a level. All the critters are grouped near one another and you should be killing them at a rate of more than 1 every 2 minutes.

i have 104 g at lv 27 ftw

Hello is it possible to get 60 in 10 days if you play everyday for 12 hours a day

These charts are not even close. Rested XP etc. are not taken into account, so if one would only play at rested XP, his /playedtime would be a lot less then someone who grinded it in normal XP. There are too many varying factors to give out charts like this. Leveling time is relative to the player and his/her choice of how to level.

PLEASE dont take these charts seriously, because they are flawed. The poster above me is very much correct. My current character is 53 and has done it in HALF the time the table says. LOL look at the time it takes to get to level 2,== 21 min if it takes you this amount of time, your either retarted or playing the game for the very first time.

my 70 has 11 days of gameplay.

questing is the fastest way to level by far.

trust me. try following a questing guide.

since patch 2.3 leveling is about 30% faster through 1-60.

60-70 is about as hard as 1-60 or even harder.

ive been playing a NE druid for 1d 5 hours and im at 19...but i dont even get up to pee, usually 3-4 hrs a day and i also do alot of skinning, mining, and bgs. i was at 15 at 16 hrs

I have a level 70 warrior. 5 days 21 hours. But i am a hardcore WoW addict. i play about 5 hours a
day.

Wow, 5 hours a day, you are really an addict, I play 9-12 hours a day on average, I have 3 level 70's, because I have no life, All of those level 70's hit 70 before a week had passed, except for my undead warlock, due to a glitch where I had no mana for a couple days before the GM's got to me. There is more research needed before charts like this go up on the web.

It is called a mean or average the chart is made by taking the sum of hours played by each character and devided by the amount of chars. So this is called . . . yes thats right basic math.