How many evenings does it take to reach level 60 WoW Forever? Nobody knows yet, and the sites that give a number say so themselves. The beta stops at level 30, so nobody has timed a full 1-60. What we have are estimates, ranging from 50 to 200 hours depending on who writes them, and a simple calculation to turn them into dates.
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Every number below comes from third-party sites, and several of them sell boosts or guides. I quote each one with its date and its limit. As for the leveling itself, its dungeons and its surprises, I covered those in my beta report on leveling, so I won’t repeat it here.
Estimated hours for level 60 WoW Forever
The most quoted figure comes from LFCarry, updated on September 30: about 150 hours of play for the 1-60 following quests. The site breaks it down as 20 hours for 1-20, 50 for 20-40 and 80 for 40-60. From level 50 on, each level would cost about 4.5 hours. It also says a good Classic player reaches 60 in 100 to 150 hours: the low end you see sold as an « optimized route » comes from there, not from a measurement on Forever.
LFCarry sells boosting, and it covers itself: « Nobody has a measured Forever 1 to 60 yet. » The other estimates are less careful.
- wowforever.games (September 17): 100 to 120 hours for a first character, 60 to 80 for an experienced player, 50 to 65 for a speedrun built on dungeons. The site calls it a « theoretical analysis ».
- ExpCarry (September 19): 80 to 130 hours for an experienced solo player, 130 to 200 for anyone who wants to do everything. The site calls them « editorial estimates, not official Blizzard figures ».
- wowforeverguides.com publishes no duration at all.
The 50-65 hour speedrun dates from before October 1, and it counts on dungeons. Yet Blizzard cut the bonus XP from dungeon quests in half that day, according to Classic WoW Forever. I file that number under optimistic, nothing more.
What speeds up leveling
There is no global XP bonus. According to Classic WoW Forever, the 1 to 60 experience curve stays the same as Classic, after a comparison claiming otherwise was retracted. A few levers remain.
- Rested XP: it builds up when you log out in an inn or a capital city, and each monster you kill then gives more until the pool runs dry. The Well Rested legacy talent, visible on our legacy tree, fills the pool faster and raises its ceiling: 4% per rank, up to 20% at rank 5.
- Food: 5% extra XP on monsters killed, not on quests, according to WoW4EverNews (September 25).
- The cozy sleeping bag, from level 14: 1% per minute of rest up to 3%, for two hours, after a three-minute break.
- The camp tent, reserved for leatherworkers, which fills the rest pool up to only 5% of a level.
- A single run through each dungeon in your level range, then back to quests, as LFCarry advises.
The order of magnitude matters more than the list. To reach level 60 WoW Forever, these bonuses add up only at the margin: WoW4EverNews points out that neither the tent nor Well Rested forms a permanent multiplier. Classes weigh more. LFCarry puts the mage and the hunter about 8% under the average time, and the warrior about 12% over it.
What slows you down
The first brake is the pace Blizzard wants. According to Timesaver.gg, a solo fight is tuned to 10 to 15 seconds per monster, and there is no group finder and no paid boost at launch. The site concludes that Forever is not faster than Classic. The 1,000 new quests open more routes, not less XP to earn.
Then the curve steepens. The 80 hours of the 40-60 stretch weigh more than the first 70 hours combined, and that is where the rested XP pool pays off most: save it for that stretch if you level several characters. Then there is launch, when everyone hunts the same monsters. Full servers cost time, and no estimate puts a number on them. The October 1 patch also showed that these rules are still moving, as detailed in our article on level 30.
Your arrival date at 60 based on your pace
Here is the raw calculation for level 60 WoW Forever, with no breaks and no queues: you play the number of hours per week shown, starting November 4. The columns use three durations: 150 hours (LFCarry), 100 hours (the low end of the Classic range) and 60 hours (the optimistic speedrun). Dates are accurate to within a day.
| Your pace | 150 h | 100 h | 60 h |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 h per week (1 h a day) | April 3 | February 12 | January 3 |
| 14 h (2 h a day) | January 18 | December 24 | December 4 |
| 21 h (3 h a day) | December 24 | December 7 | November 24 |
| 35 h (5 h a day) | December 4 | November 24 | November 16 |
| 56 h (8 h a day) | November 23 | November 17 | November 11 |
One landmark: again according to LFCarry, raids open on December 9. At 3 hours a night and 150 hours, you hit 60 on December 24, two weeks later. To arrive ready for the opening, you need to aim for about 35 hours a week, or a 100-hour route played 21 hours a week.
What a route guide changes to these dates
I found no measured figure on how much time a route addon saves. What it removes is wasted time: looking for the next NPC, hesitating between two quests, backtracking. If you play 3 hours a night and lose half an hour finding your way, your date moves by several days. That is the ground covered by RestedXP WoW Forever, whose contents, prices and limits I detailed in my article on the leveling guide.
It is no use if you want to read every quest text, or if you play one hour a day: the time saved finding your way would be drowned in an already slow pace. And its Forever routes for 35 to 60 will come out after launch. To prepare the rest, our dungeons and raids page lists the beta instances. LFCarry plans to revise its figure on October 6 and 22: read it again after the beta ends on the 21st.
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