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Almost a year to hit 80? With Bind to Account gear? Naaaah. It takes maybe 1 to 2 1/2 months to hit 80, playing 4-5 hours a day. Once you hit Outlands, your leveling speed will just scream, until Northrend, which is a huge slow-down compared to Outlands.
I would not recommend only doing dungeons, though. Not doing quests cuts a big chunk out of your EXP. Just quest while you're in the LFD queue. You're not completely powerless, in Resto spec.
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Hello, thanks for checking this out. I'm leveling a Druid at the minute, about to hit 15. She has Shoulders from Wintergrasp and normal heirloom Staff and Chest. I want to level 15-58 purely through healing instances, maybe playing an average of 4/5 hours a day because I'm a proper geek.
How long do you think it would take to hit 58, and maybe keep going until 80 if I'm feeling it?
I am doing the same thing with my Resto Shammy. (My first
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In the last week, with queueing (for randoms) while questing, I've gotten up to 32, (5% to go, to 33!) on top of playing my main each day for 1-2 random dungeons. I expect that'll slow down in the late 40s-50s, but it'll pick up again in Outland.
If you're healing or tanking, your wait in the queue will be MUCH shorter than if you are only DPSing. (Though, I sometimes also check DPS, hoping for an even faster invite)
A few things to be aware of:
- People say you can Tank or Heal the lower-level instances without being spec'd for either role, but I'm noticing a SIGNIFICANT difference when people are spec'd for the role they're taking. (Including, when I have DPS'ed and had someone healing who wasn't spec'd for it) Healers run out of mana, and just can't put out the healing well enough. Tanks can't gain and keep aggro. Especially, AoE aggro.
- Be prepared for people who are not serious about things. One tank in a random, yesterday, hadn't even assigned any of his talent points! (And, he was level 26) I politely asked him to do so, and things went much, much better after that.
I also have had some insane Tanks who want to speedrun everything, ditching their team, running around corners, etc., and then blaming everyone else. Maybe they have seen level-80 tanks, in proper tanking gear and with all of the available abilities and talents, and with experience at their job, and they think they can do just as well as these true Tanks, immediately. We level up in order to learn. And, we improve our toolboxes as we level up, so that we don't get overwhelmed too early on.
I have also had some insane DPSers (more Rogues than anything else, for some reason) who think they can go ahead and attack anything, and then expect their Healer to heal them through anything. When people are being stupid, I'll ask them nicely to let the Tank tank, to stop endangering the group, etc., and then I'll eventually refuse to heal them.
I'm telling you horror stories, so you'll know what you're in for. But? All of this has gotten better by level 30. People are getting more serious. People are learning their toons and their roles. And wipes are now rare things. In fact, because several of us had gotten VERY sick of the Scarlet Monastery Graveyard? We decided the best way to stop seeing it was to level up, and get past it. And so, we would stay together, as a group, (several players, from different servers) and requeue from one dungeon to another. Because we had a full team, we'd almost immediately get started again. We decided to start timing ourselves, and taking on bigger and bigger groups of trash-mobs. We finally wiped, on the last run, when we were trying to beat all of our prior times, but we were having a helluva lot more fun in an instance which had previously been dreary, drudge-work.
Best of luck!
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