I think the druid is one of the best characters to play in World of Warcraft, and as a hybrid, the character class has a lot of natural advantages. The shapeshifting ability is also great and can get you out of a lot of sticks in the game. While I think the druid is already a decent character to level up quickly, there are a few more advantages you can get by following these druid leveling tips.
Druid Leveling Tips
If this is your first time playing World of Warcraft, stick with PvE. Player vs Environment will give you a lot of interest to deal with and you won’t have to worry about other players coming up and grabbing you from behind while you’re out and about minding your own business. Once you’re more experienced and playing an alternate character, have fun with PvP. You will probably level up even faster.
1. Use the Feral stat tree for your druid.
The wild spec makes the most sense for solo leveling and grinding and is your best bet for PvE. Even though the druid is a hybrid, don’t try to lose your balance. You will end up having to carry a lot of equipment, a lot of equipment that you had to spend money on. Get some healing talent there, but otherwise focus on Feral.
2. Consider an alternate starting area.
Druids typically start in the Night Elf starting area for Alliance and the Tauren starting area for Horde, but just because your race is predefined once you choose Druid, that doesn’t mean your starting area has to be. You can choose another area.
For the Horde, you’ll likely find your level much faster by starting in the Blood Elf zone rather than your own Tauren zone. The missions build on each other naturally, making them complete much faster. For Alliance, try the Draeni zone. Azuremyst won’t necessarily be faster than Teldrassil, but many players find Draeni’s quests more interesting and that will make time seem to fly by.
3. Complete all your missions.
In your druid starting area, don’t leave until you’ve completed all the quests! Levels 1-10 are the easiest and fastest in all of World of Warcraft, and these early levels give you a lot of useful stuff. If you skip a mission here and miss something crucial that you will need later, you will regret it. So do all the quests, get as many spells as you can, get as much money as you can (trust me, you’ll need it!), and make sure you get your bear shapeshifting ability at level 10.
4. Start training for your professions early.
Early training will help you keep the level of your profession on par with your general level. Good druid professions are herbalism, skinning, alchemy, and leatherworking. The leather work will cost you more money to level up, so he may want to skip it.
Combining herbalism with skinning, on the other hand, should be a good profitable combination, since you can sell raw materials and more gold is always better. If you can easily buy the items you need to train, you’ll naturally level up faster as a result.
Hopefully these tips will get you through levels 1-20 in particular very quickly, but there’s more you can do to ensure smooth navigation from one level to the next. You will find that a leveling guide will really help you as it provides step by step walkthroughs for the most efficient gameplay.