I think the druid is one of the best characters to play in World of Warcraft, and as a hybrid, the character class has many natural advantages. The ability to shapeshift is also great and can get you out of a lot of trouble in the game. While I think the druid is already a decent character to level up quickly, there are a few more perks you can gain by following these druid leveling tips.

Druid Leveling Tips

If this is your first time playing World of Warcraft, stick with PvE. Player vs Environment will give you plenty of interest to deal with and you won’t have to worry about other players coming up and catching you from behind while you’re out and about minding your own business. Once you’re more experienced and playing an alternate character, have fun with PvP. You will probably level up even faster.

1. Use the Feral stat tree for your druid.

Wild specs make more sense for solo leveling and grinding and is your best bet for PvE. Although the druid is a hybrid, do not try to lose your balance. You will end up having to carry a lot of gear, a lot of gear that you had to spend money on. Get some healing talent there, but otherwise focus on Feral.

2. Consider an alternate starting area.

Druids typically start at the Night Elf starting area for Alliance and the Tauren starting area for Horde, but just because your race is predefined once you pick Druid, that doesn’t mean your starting area has to be. You can choose another zone.

For the Horde, you’ll likely find your level much quicker by starting in the Blood Elf zone rather than your own Tauren zone. The missions naturally complement each other, making them complete much faster. For Alliance, try the Draeni zone. Azuremyst won’t necessarily be faster than Teldrassil, but many players find the Draeni quests more interesting and that will make time seem to fly by.

3. Complete all your missions.

In your druid starting area, don’t leave until you’ve completed all the quests! Levels 1-10 are the easiest and fastest in all of World of Warcraft and these first few levels give you a lot of useful stuff. If you skip a mission here and miss out on something crucial that you’ll need later, you’ll be sorry. So do all the quests, get as many spells as you can, get as much money as you can (trust me, you will need it!), and make sure you get your bear shapeshifting ability at level 10.

4. Start training for your professions early.

Early training will help you keep the level of your profession on par with your general level. Good druid professions are herbalism, skinning, alchemy, and leatherworking. Leather work will cost you more money to level up, so he may want to skip it.

Combining Herbalism with Skinning on the other hand should be a good profitable combination as you can sell raw materials and more gold is always better. If you can easily buy the items you need to train, you will naturally level up faster as a result.

Hopefully these tips will help you get from levels 1 to 20 in particular very quickly, but there’s more you can do to ensure smooth navigation from level to level. You will find that a leveling guide will really help you as it provides step by step walkthroughs for the most efficient game play.