How long 1-60?

[Trindy]

Took me just over 6 days as a shaman. Ran every dungeon once and a few twice. Got first aid to 300 but ignored other professions

[BoxerBriefly]

As a warlock, it took me nine days played, which, as it turns out, was exactly five calendar weeks. I quested, did most dungeons at least once, and leveled two crafting professions, one of them to 250 plus, before sixty, and, just to give you a better idea, I played on average about 3-4 hours per day, and maybe a little more on the weekends.

I really tried to stop and smell the roses, and get the full experience, and, I think I achieved that. Personally, six or seven weeks would have been more comfortable for me, but my guild was excited to start raiding asap, so I put in a little more time than I normally would.

[Mozz]

It depends on what experience you want at the end of the day. I'm able to play between 2-3 hours an evening if I can be bothered. I'm at 46 in I'd say 4 and a half to 5 days at the moment as a mage.. I'm hoping another 24-36 hours played will be enough.

I have no interest in enjoying the leveling so to speak. 60 and on to end game is the goal asap.

[Mdmadam]

Are you asking played time or real world time?

I'm still not 60 and have been playing since launch, but besides working full-time I also don't JUST play this game. I rotate my games so I don't end up over playing one and getting sick of it, which happens very easily with MMOs.

Remember to shower, socialize with actual humans, eat actual food (not Hot Pockets), shave and change your clothes.

[Toshu17]

I generally hop on this game and only this game around 5 ish central until about midnight

[Xethra]

Hey guys

Just a quick thought - wanted to know how long it would take someone who works an 8-5 job monday - friday? I play until about midnight each night and am masking some decent progress.

Also how long did it take you personally?

Any ideas/tips would be much appreciated

Thanks!

Toshu War/Lock

I worked from 8-5pm M-F as well when leveling my character. I started my character on November 4th, and hit level 60 on November 20th. I played roughly 8 hours each night (went on a 4-hour sleep schedule for 2 weeks), and 12-15 hours on Saturday and Sunday. I think I was 7d 1h playtime at the end. I leveled skinning and herbalism throughout it, as well as selling the random things I found on the Auction House through a bank alt. I ran most of the dungeons one time. Some of them I ran multiple times, just depending on whether I was burnt out from questing or not.

It all just depends on how much effort you put into it. In the end though, just have fun. You don't have to rush to 60. In my case, I just really wanted to get back to raiding so that was my motivation to go so hard. I'm definitely scaling a bit back on how much I play now though so I can enjoy it as a game, and not as a second job.

[Toshu17]

Final time played was 7 days 12 hrs again thanks all for the much needed assistance!
Did 2 raids in MC as my lock

[TOVAR]

As many people already said, no need to rush to 60. Keep in mind, the current state of the (vanilla) game has very limited raiding playgrounds: MC, Ony, and that's about it, for some quite long time, the devs will respect the scheduled content release. So, if you mostly enjoy raiding, and if you start now, by the time you are 60 with your main, with a bit of luck you will join a solid guild that already has all the raids on farm and mostly raid-log once a week and that's about it, plus some consumable farming with your main or your alt, depends if you want only crafiting or also gathering professions. Then the urge to join the bandwagon of wailers/moaners that want "moar raids NAU!" will be strong and you will end up annoyed and bored. Happened to all of us sooner or later. But, if you also enjoy end-game PvP on PvE servers, which means duels (lol), BG, AV etc, then you will be able to squeeze some more 'juice' from the game.
As for instances, i believe most of the pre-raid BiS items are found in instances, some can be crafted, a few can be bought, a couple can be rep-farmed for. Then, Strat-Scholo-DireMaul-BlackRock mountain.So, no way to evade a lot of instancing, it really is a vanilla server: bitch. moan, curse..and get on it with the grind..

[Ragstal]

if u mean 8-5 at morning and dedicating atleast 5 hours per day maybe 10-15 days if u following a guide and not spending 5 hours or 3 in early dungeons like wc ulda and such things, reduce the back and forth travels and always remember the FP and the HS on each area u are questing and if u see any mage start beg for portal better get something less frustrating than warrior something like either priest full spirit and heal so always ppl need to inv u or if u are gonna make tank prepare to see ur nose bleeding a few drops, and better make alchemist and grab herba or skin lw and literally toss everything to the vendor when the sales are down wish best of luck

[ninjacarldk]

Be aware that the people posting in this thread are probably faster than average. According to nost' own statistics, the average time is 10 days and 19 hours. I had a guildie who took 13,5 days, which really isn't particularily long. My advice would be to relax and enjoy the ride. Remember that the leveling content is what took up most of the devs time, not end game raids or battlegrounds.