World of Warcraft Exposed: Making the Grind Work For You

[’World of Warcraft Exposed’ is a weekly column by Michael Zenke about the culture and experience of the globe’s biggest online game phenomenon, the ten million subscriber-strong World of Warcraft. This week’s column is a straight-up how-to on getting to higher levels as fast as possible.]
World of Warcraft’s success stems from a number of different sources, as we discussed in this series’ very first article. One of the strong pillars of that success, without a doubt, is the ability to treat WoW like a single-player game. You can make it to max level quite effectively without the help of a single other person. That’s not to say soloing to 70 is enjoyable, merely that’s it’s possible.
Even with the help of other players, making it to the top is long road. That journey is one to be enjoyed, as leveling a character in WoW is (for many people) the real game. […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (mzenke) and software by Elliott Back