Leveling Guide - Horde mining tips and tricks

Hello World, you are sort of snowy today, but nevertheless, I managed not to get buried by the snowplows and got back from office just in time to play World Of Warcraft a little bit and share few tips on leveling horde professions - especially, mining.

While many leveling guides will tell you to ignore professions while leveling, I suggest you do not because later on, instead of playing with your friends, you will be forced to come back to low level areas of World Of Warcraft and do this again - boooooooring, and it wont be faster just cause you will have mounts by the time cause you will have to spend all that time travelling back and forth. Since you do all the running now, why not stop and pick up a node or ten *grin* while you are there anyway. Especially, since Cataclysm release you get a bit of experience for gathering materials.

Another good reason to do it - it is a money maker, even if you get to sell low level crafted items to vendors. This probably will not matter if this is your second or third character, but if you are beginner, you will find yourself short on wow gold most of the time.

So, few tips about gathering professions like mining and herbalism. While you are following your leveling guides - int this case, horde, keep in mind, that there are great many competitors for your mining spots. Maybe not in the low level areas, but later on it becomes a real challenge, especially on high population realms. Here is how to make it easier. First of all - get an ad-on called Gatherer - you can download it from curse com and install. What it does? It keeps your mining nodes on the maps. Secondly, search Google for optimal mining routes in your particular area - you will get plenty pictures with nodes and spots - choose one you like and check if its updated. Remember, after Cataclysm release, a lot of things have changed!

So, after you have installed your gatherer add-on and got latest mining routes, think about competition - when is the best time when you can hassle free enjoy leveling horde mining? Obvious answer is - when there are few players playing - during school hours, early morning, very late evening. When it is not a good time to gather herbs and ore - weekends and Friday nights. Your goal is to try leveling your mining or herbalism profession with as little competition as possible while following a decent route. Thats it - only smart thing to do!

There was a very good post about helpful addons for World Of Warcraft on Horde Leveling Guide - I suggest you check it out - can save a lot of grief and mishap.

Well, hope this helps you to be more time efficient when gathering your resources. While you try it out, Im back to reading my leveling guide - horde rocks!

Leveling Horde on EU realms - my experiences

Hello World, just wanted to let you know that after long break I'm back to WoW and started leveling horde yet again. It seems like its never getting old, especially now with Cataclysm released.

Tho I have to say, I think some of the changes Blizz made to the game does not suite me too well, me being all old beardy and hardcore vanilla player. It does seem like with next expansion this game will be made for a 6 year old to play... Khmm.. Now what the hell should I do now with all my fancy excel tables containing my immerse dps calculation specifics and diminishing returns for dodging while tanking? Just a one big Sigh....

One would think that by making game simpler there will be more healers and tanks available, but nop, noone is leveling horde tanks nor healers. Probably never going to happen cause I think most new players got their game for Xmass and OMG do they noob around a lot or no? I mean, I understand I was probably same some time ago, but this is just sad. But seeing all those goo-blins and wolfeys... Allright, I admit, goblin warrior does look kinda cute, in a sick twisted way. But think of it - what will come next? S-prites and b-lizzards as a races? Rite, thats just me kidding around and being a little bit nostalgic about the "good old days back when".

Anyways, back to the fun part - this time I picked a Tauren pally - I think this will make fantastic leveling horde experience. Can you imagine that huge cow running around with a big and shiny 2hander? I mean, this will look nice. I think I will give you one more laugh - think about cute healing pally-cow... Damn, where I was when created my char, I should have made a femme tauren, would be more fun. Holy Cow. Literally, healing female tauren paldin is a holy cow!

Now I beg your pardon, but I just could not resist and post this picture. If the owner feels like offended or something, please drop me mail and I will take it down, but it is just hilarious!!!

Anyway, so far so good, but after all the "ahhs" and "whoaaa" I start to see "zee grind" again. Those of  you who have been in the WoW as long as I have, will probably understand me. And I am starting to feel that I will be needin some leveling guide horde to help me get through this faster.