World of Warcraft (or WoW as it is sometimes called) Can be a very time consuming game, players can spend countless hours and make absolutly no progress. While other players can max out their character and progress in to the endgame content. The key to Advancing in your fight across Azeroth, Is to find the balance Between the three major aspects of the game, this includes choosing professions, leveling your character and, And preparing for the future. It makes sence to choose professions that match your charecters class and needs, This allows you to craft items that you may use. However this is not the most logical choice. Choosing two gathering professions (such as herbalisim, mining, or skinning) early on Provides you with lots of gold which can be used for learning new skills, and abilities, and mount riding abillities. Choosing two gathering professions, and selling the materials to other players on the Auction House, will even provide you with enough gold to save for endgame. After you create your character, you start at level 1, But you want to hit level 85, so you can experience all that Wow has to offer. The fastest and most benificial way to level your character is to accept every quest that you can find and complete and turn them in 4-6 at a time, Untill you hit level 10. Once you make it to 10, start doing Battlegrounds. Battle grounds are where Members of the alliance, and members of the horde, Battle for controll, some of the battle grounds require players to capture a flag and return it to their base, other battlegrounds, are fights to the death, or secring areas and killing intruders. Battlegrounds are a great source for gaining experience points, needed to level, as well as Honor Points which can be traded in for PvP (player verses player) gear. PvP gear is special weapons and armor designed for PvP. From level 10 to level 15, Just keep doing Battlegrounds, if you get bored with them, go ahead and do some questing, however if you do you will be slowing down your progress. Once you hit level 15 a new feature opens up, Random Dungeon Finder. From level 15 to level 80 Use this tool to grind dungeon after dungeon. At lvl 60 you can start to Raid as well as dungeons, but finding a good raid group is time consuming, I find it a lot easier and more beneficial to not worry about raids untill later. If you don’t think aboult the future end game content getting to 85 will do you no good, At level 80 it is best to turn off leveling for a while. If you are alliance this can be done in Stormwind City, For Horde this can be done in Orgimar, the cost is 10 Gold. There are a ton of dungeons that can only be done at level 80, and for each one you get lots of justice points, All justice points should be saved until level 85, unless you accumalate 4000( 4000 is the current cap on Justice points). If you feel you have to many Justice Points spend 1900 on a mount in Dalarion. Justice Points can be traded for legendary weapons and armer, That is neccasary in order to defeat Deathwing. After completing ALL the 80 only dungeons turn leveling back on at the same place you turned it off. Form level 80 go to VashI’jar and quest untill you hit level 81, this shouldn’t take more than an hour of questing. At 81 you can do more random dungeons, for gear and JP, or you can quest at Mt. Hyajal. At 82, Moove on to deephelm, At 83 Uldam, and then go back to Random Dungeons untill you reach 85. By the time you reach 85 you should have plenty of Justice points to get a start on your legendary gear, you should have plenty of gold for potions. Now is also a good time to drop one of your gathering professions and pick up a crafting profession, Blacksmithing, goes with mining, leatherworking goes with skinning, etc. Go gather all the mats you can and get your skill level to 525 in your new crafting profession at lvl 85 this can be done in a couple hours of searching. Now you can craft the high ticket items and sell them for thousands of gold pieces giving you virtually unlimited gold. At this point you should have a fair amount of legendary gear, PvP gear and tons of gold. With the ability to make more gold as needed. As you continue to do dungeons and replace your Gear with even better stuff, even more dungeons become availible and the game truly begins. With new dungeons being added all the time and new continents becoming availibl about once a year it is virtually impossible to beat the game but using my stratagies you can play through to the endgame fast and be ready for the new stuff as it becomes availible.