How Do Your Talent Builds Figure Into Fast WoW Leveling?

When it comes to leveling your World of Warcraft characters fast, you will probably give serious thought to their path through the game, which locations they visit, how much they'll grind for experience versus complete quests, and so on. This all plays into another subject that you may not have considered explicitly: which talents will your character need to possess to successfully rise to Level 80? That's where choosing an effective Talent Build comes into the picture.

To successfully follow the path laid out for you by a power leveling guide, your character will likely need to develop their talent tree in a manner similar to that of the characters that created the guide in the first place. Say you're trying to level a Hunter, and the Hunter used to create the leveling guide focused on Beast Mastery. You'll get the best results from the guide if your Hunter also focuses on Beast Mastery.

That said, do you have to use the same kind of Talent Build the guide authors used for your character class? Of course not. They may recommend that you use a particular build, but that's all. You might find that completing certain quests is harder when you use a different build, or that things go slightly differently than described in the guide. And who knows. Some stuff might actually be easier, faster, or just work out better with a different build than is used in the guide.

The point is that duplicating the Talent Build someone else used to quickly level a character from your class can be useful, but isn't a requirement. Deviating from your guide's recommended build could slow you down (or in rare cases speed you up) but it won't stop you from following the guide and leveling far faster than you would on your own. You don't have to clone the guide author's Talent Build to level fast.