The purpose of this thread is that you post your best /played times to 80 and a brief story of how you did it, the class and route used, etc. Obviously DKs go on a separate category. The rules I can think off the top of my head are the following:
-No RAF
-No help from higher leveled characters (unless for non-dungeon, non-raid quests that are exceptionally hard or impossible to solo)
-You may do dungeons, but only through RDF or with a group of characters (not necessarily 5) who would be allowed to queue for the dungeon using RDF.
-You may do raids but similar rules to dungeons apply (that means you cannot get carried through AQ20 or something by a level 80).
-You may use heirlooms from level 1.
-You may update your gear every time you so desire.
-You may mail your character quest items only if they require a primary profession to be crafted and are a quest objective(deadly blunderbuss, mithril casing, etc). You may also mail it BoE gear and glyphs, but not consumables such as flasks. Bags are fine as well, as are of course heirlooms and gold.
- (this one is obvious but needs to be said) You may log out and resume your leveling at a later time.
My latest and best time is a paladin whose final time you can see below:
I don't remember much about the Azeroth run, but it was far from being optimal. In Outland things started to speed up and as I went Hellfire Peninsula -> Zangarmarsh -> Nagrand after which I headed to Northrend. In there my path was Borean Tundra -> Dragonblight ->Grizzly Hills -> Zul'Drak -> Sholazar Basin. When I finished Sholazar I was at 92% experience and finally flew to K3 to do a few quests.
As I said, I believe this run was far from optimal but I was pretty happy with my time. I'm pretty sure sub 3 and much lower times are possible. Any personal bests and questions are welcome.
