What Is The Best World of Warcraft Class To Powerlevel?

April 6, 2007 by Apadwe  
Filed under WoW Powerleveling

A lot of my friends level up way faster than I do. Granted they have no lives and play all day everyday but it still is frustrating not being able to play with them since i’m a way lower level. My question is which World of Warcraft class levels up the fastest?

In your specific case I would just focus on leveling up your highest level character and have it hit level 70 as soon as possible instead of creating a new character and starting all over again. Anyway, you want to know which class levels up the fastest and i’ll let you know.

Hunters level up the fastest in World of Warcraft. How do I know this? Firstly, my first character was an Alliance Night Elf Hunter which made it to level 55 before I switched over to playing Apadwe all the time. Secondly, just take a look at which class was the winner of the leveling contest Blizzard had on a test server a while back….yep, you guessed it. It was Joana which was of course a hunter. Click here to learn more about Joana’s accomplishments.

What really makes the Hunter the fastest leveling class? In my opinion it can be summed up by two words….range and pet. When playing a hunter having a pet is like having another character level with you and as long as your pet can hold aggro you really have a tanking machine and can easily take on mobs that are way higher level than you are.

Not to mention that Hunters are an extremely easy class to play. So if you are looking for a class to level up quickly your best bet would be to use a hunter. There has been tons of people who have leveled to 60 in around 4 days and 20 hours but that was only possible using a hunter.

So if you do decide to start fresh on a new character, be sure to choose a hunter and also I highly recommend using either this Horde Leveling Guide or this Alliance Leveling Guide. They both are focused on using hunters and are the best guides I have seen when it comes to powerleveling.

Comments

17 Responses to “What Is The Best World of Warcraft Class To Powerlevel?”
  1. Priest Man says:

    Holy priest because they can heal and they can build in smite to which is also good for pvp. And also if you go into shadow its all about damage which it mostly depends on your talents how fast you level but don’t go hybrid try going holy for once. And the hunter thing i have a 43 hunter there really nice but few close range abilities it should Expand with it there like the best. But if you need a time to heal take the Holy priest for a change.

  2. Tom says:

    i think warlocks are they have minions and doesnt have to feed them and they can just summon them they can also create healthstones which can heal them.

  3. Tom says:

    i also have a hunter i leveled up with him slower than with a warlock i timed it did the same stuff with both of them and the warlock just wen up faster because i had to keep getting food and asking people for some food my warlock could keep on running instances and didnt ave to stop at all. :)

  4. Rafael says:

    If your smart chose a Paladin ,1 because the weaponary is tight and very powerful.2 The magic will blow you mind away.3 the Paladins armor is so powerful that it will protect you from any beast or atacker that will try to atack you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Choose the Paladin dude or dudet,,,do it.

  5. Jeremy says:

    Today the fastest leveling character in the game is Mage. Yep, that is true! Talents in the arcane tree will help you greatly here. Get presence of mind, evocation and my all time favourite, improved arcane missiles for some really cool channeled damage. Spend your remaining talent points on fire talents. Trust me on this one!

    Frostmane,
    Ɓtreyu,
    if you got any questions.

  6. afed says:

    I agree : hunter and then mage ( the difference is about 7-8 % )

  7. Demfise says:

    Mages are the fastest, becuase they can Teleport to any major city making it quicker to get to a sertain area… BTW go fire that’s the hardest hiting spec… i got from lvl 37 to 70 in two weeks, and u can do it too

  8. djbungo says:

    The problem with most classes is they are very gear dependant, i.e. if you don’t have the best up to date gear it is slower to kill things or you die too easily. Rogues need up to date weapons or fail in the DPS stakes while Warriors require up to date armour or are too fragile.

    Caster classes such as Mages and Priests may do nice DPS and kill things quickly but there is a lot of down time to drink and get mana. Warlocks have Life Tap and can get mana back off their pet so this is lower in this class and again Paladins, while great to play, until the recent patches were very slow and heavy mana users.

    Hunters are the best solo class as you effectively have your own tank/dps second player with you all the time….and with the recent changes your pet is even better at holding aggro allowing you to sit back and do damage, or take on 2 or 3 mobs at once (if you can trap and kite effectively). Hunters may not be too far in front of mages in time anymore but they are so much easier to level fast than a mage.

  9. huoa says:

    paladin is the strongest and most damaging class in the game.

  10. Tommy says:

    I leveled my feral druid from lvl 30 to lvl 70 in about 2 1/2
    It just depends on how effectively you play a certain class, and how punctual you are when pertaining to instances and obtaining XP/Gear

  11. daniel says:

    I really think that the rogue is a very high damage class but they are restricted to melee and leather armors while hunters have an very BUT VERY high damage to but with an ranged attack.

  12. arthur says:

    I have a holy/discipline priest now (i’m 80 healer), but i leveled very fast with my priest as discipline/shadow.

    With shadow you do much dmg
    With discipline, you regain much mana/health in a short time; SPIRIT.

    The combination gives you the ultimate damage dealing, but still you do not have to stop to drink or to eat !!!

    PS: Hunters not only need food, they always have to look on AH or go to an instance(where most of the time, other people already have a DPS or 2) to find some new gear/weapons.

  13. tom says:

    For all of u out there, try balance druid! may sound crazy but once u get past he first 20 lvls its easy from then on. once u get to 40 moonkin form kicks ass as ur armour is increased to almost that of a warriors and ur spells crits increase. capable of huge pulls and hardly any down time.

  14. nic says:

    I personally say hunter, but I tried what you guys said, mage, and I’m level 5 with a good guild already! Mage is getting close to passing hunter to me :)

  15. deathknight says:

    deathknight is awesome and fast to level

  16. Gwynevere Eredar says:

    I feel like druids are a good class to level. with the medium armor you can deal well. You can heal yourself too. I reccomend leveling balance, you can heal dungeons with the random dungeon finder and the spells are good for questing. once you hit 40 i reccomend getting restro as a dual spec. you will get almost instant queues as healer when you hit outland.

  17. gthm says:

    Why do you tell ppl, that this class is better because you lvl up quick. When U hit bg or arena U’ll crash faster than U can spell hun-ter, or paladin. Im max lvl on many realms for 85% of time it took me to get to max lvl. And only the right class will make your play better. Always choose the class that is the best class for you.

    Whats the point of beeing the fastest hunter that got max lvl if U play lame, because rogue would be better class for U…just an example. So consider many option and choose wisely, because U’ll loose a lot of your time plaing.

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