Takes me around three days to get to 80. Done that six times already this year and now on my seventh. I hope to level the seven then to 90 in stages. Dungeons though have gotten a little slow. Fingers crossed it gets better. I did get this char to 83 tonight so just gotta hope. The others are 81 now and I can nudge them all a level by just doing the odd dungeon.
By the way whilst there isn’t any real need for professions now, what with the speed of levelling, it does pay to gather stuff that gives XP or gold. I tend to do mining and leather so I get xp from one and sell the materials with the other. Crafting slows things down so that’s why I gather. And loads of materials appear in dungeons, especially skinning.
You also learn your skills in combat way better doing dungeons. Tonight I was in one of the Panda dungeons, the one with the fighting arena thing and we lost the tank. So we decided to have a go and man was it manic. Did get floored in the end by the boss that seems to send you into a kinda dream state, but the fighting out on the grounds was pretty close to the red wire. Great fun though. Questing is just so dreary in truth… give me a good dungeon run any day.
Also doing dungeons you don’t need to learn to fly. Its gifted to you at 71. The speed at which you get from 60 to 71 is like manic. And 71 is a magical number cus at 71 you can one shot everything in Kalimdor and Eastern so get on that flying mount and trash out the mining nodes, tamers and do the arch and you don’t have to stop for pesky Murlocs anymore.Tamers give you over half a level and don’t burn your rested and can be done between dungeons and YouTube. Plus dig as you fly around. Do that while waiting for dungeons to pop and make some loot on the AH.