In World of Warcraft, there are many ways to try to level your character, but one way stands above the rest for leveling speed. This World of Warcraft Leveling Guide will show you the fastest way to level your toon to 70 - whether you are interested in the current endgame content or you just want to be ready for the coming Wrath of the Lich King Expansion.

I'm sure most people level their first character pretty much the same way. You talk to that guy with the little yellow exclamation mark over his head and let him lead you where to go. I'll tell you what, that's the way the game is meant to be played.

The secret to leveling in WoW is to quest. Often times people are lured into grinding for levels. Not only is that signficantly slower than questing, but it's also considerably more boring and you don't experience all the fine content Blizzard has developed for you.

At some point, you might be stuck for where to quest next. You might feel that all the quests are either above or below your capabilities. That's probably when you'll feel compelled to just grind for levels - at least for a while. Don't give in to that impulse.

There's a reason that the fastest speed levelers all quest in their race to 70. If you quest with a plan in mind, you will level so much quicker than someone who just grinds or quests at random.

The author of Joana's 1-70 Horde Leveling Guide for World of Warcraft has won numerous leveling contests on new servers for WoW. As a matter of fact, he claims to have the record leveling from 1-70 in 4 days and 20 hours played. He quests 90% of the time and generally the only grinding he does is when going form one area to the next.

Brian Kopps, author of Brian Kopps' 1-70 Alliance Leveling Guide, also quests with a purpose to speed level his toons. One reader of his guide hit 70 in 8 days, 20 hours, and 38 minutes. Again systematic questing is his key to leveling.

If you're like I was, you're skeptical. How can people possibly level that quickly? Well, after using these guides, I can tell you it's certainly possible to level very quickly. I got Joana's World of Warcraft Leveling Guide first because I was playing Horde at the time and everything was laid out step-by-step that I needed to do. Everything!

Then, I wanted to try out some Alliance content and decided to try Brian Kopps' World of Warcraft Leveling Guide, and again every step is laid out for you from level 1 to 70. And almost everything can be (and should be) done solo. Also, both guides link directly to Thottbot for all quests. These guides are top-notch.

So, if you're in a hurry to get to 70, make sure you're questing. Questing with a purpose is the best idea of all which means using a World of Warcraft Leveling Guide. Keep grinding to a minimum, avoid pickup groups, and ignore instances. If you do that, you will level much more quickly. Most importantly, have fun!

One of the cool things about Joana's World of Warcraft Leveling Guide for the Horde is that one of the authors speed runs is have been uploaded as a video as part of the guide. Above is a small sample of what you get with Joana's 1-70 Horde World of Warcraft Leveling Guide.