1-85 /played, no XP bonuses

[jerothas]

Hi all. I saw a video of an individual using a competitor's guide going from 1-85 in about 5d 14h. The video said it was done without heirloom/RAF bonus. So this got me thinking, how fast is the 1-85 path? So I started a char

My Rules:
No XP boost of any kind: no guild xp, heirloom/boa gear of any kind, no RAF.
All money/bags/items must come from solo leveling. No bank chars supplying bags or gold.
No getting boosted through instances. No instances period, for that matter.
Stick to zygor's guide as closely as possible.

With that said, I've screen-shotted every 10 lvls so far with /played time.

Played times:
10- 01h 30m
20- 05h 05m
30- 09h 53m
40- 14h 49m
50- 21h 51m
60- 01d 05h 20m
70- 02d 00h 30m

Will update when I hit 80 and 85.

**The only variation I did from the guide was going to Borean Tundra at 68, then when I couldn't pick up certain quests (was at 69, need to be 70), went to Howling Fjord til 70. Followed ZG for each respective zone.

[jerothas]

More screenshots:


**Edit** Put thread in wrong section. Sorry about that***

[cabby]

You messed up your lvl 70 time when you typed it up there.

[jerothas]

You messed up your lvl 70 time when you typed it up there.

Ha. Thanks. Don't miss a thing, do you? Time for me to scan through your posts and look for type-o's

[cabby]

I'm sure you can find plenty of typos from me here and there.

[ZG Support 1]

Thanks for posting your played time, its always fun to see someone get good use out of the Guides and enjoy playing new characters. We look forward to the 80/85

[Cartman]

I use the addon LevelRecorder to automatically take screenshots on levelup:
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...lRecorder.html
It also puts time and date on the screenshot to remind you you were again playing too long into the night

[kitleong]

hehe~ I tried to play like this too.
just create a new character in other realm to test the leveling guide.

[nin88]

I lvld my pally on my new account with nothing in wotlk and dint hve zygor yet took me 6d 8hrs played time but I also had alchy and herbing maxd when I was 80...and I prob won't be able to lvl a toon from 1-85 by the guide only...I love instance too much and I always have to do a bg almost every bracket :P I think my hunter is lvl 71 with 2days 7hrs played time and that's mostly following the guide with some farming and bg's and instances