Levelling via LFG

Getting to 80 quickly - plan B.

The Looking for group option provides a really quick way to level - but works best if you sign up as 'tank' or 'healer'. In fact it is too quick to level your standard gathering skills.

So what to do?

If you are capable of being a Healer (Druid, Priest, Paladin, Shaman), or Tank (Warrior, Paladin, Death Knight, Druid), then seriously consider speccing into these options.  If you have a choice of Tank or Healer, tank seems to have the shorter wait time.

But even as a Healer, I dont have time to keep up my gathering professions, so ... plan B.  Seth from one-copper suggests these professions while levelling.

While my levelling toon foostorm (a shaman healer) is taking Blacksmithing and Leatherworking, that is because I already have every other trade skill at max on another toon.  I would not recommend this combination :).

The following things are worth considering.

• A lot of cloth drops in instances.  This means that tailoring and first aid are easier to get mats for.
  
• There are a lot of 'green' quality armor and weapons dropping.  These can be 'crushed' into mats for enchanting.
• There are still quite a few animals in instances - so skinning wont be too hard.
  
• There are more toons levelling by instances.  This will dry up the ususal supply of herbs and ore (there is a huge shortage of iron and silver on my server at the moment).
• Use the 'downtime' between instances to work on your chosen professions.  If you dont have the downtime, consider making it.