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Note:
This is not a hardcore guide, if you can ding 70 by straight grinding in 6 days /played, go right ahead, youve already passed this stage of your game. If you suffer from the severe case of altaholicisim, then read on, as these tips should help anyone suffering from this problem.

1. Pick a guide

First, if you are just starting out in the game, find a leveling guide. You can find it right here on this website. Leveling guides will show you what to do and will give you a general idea of how powerleveling works in this game. Once you have a few high level chars from following a guide, you may be able to start following your own path and getting all of the quests done on your own because as with everything, all of these guides aren’t perfect, and maybe haven’t been run with your class. For example, I played a blood elf mage right after BC came out, and I found myself dieing a lot on some of the quests because they simply aren’t soloable as a mage where a hunter (the class the guide was written about) would have no problem with it. Making a few tweaks, like instead of doing x quest before you get to level 20 and get your significantly more powerful spells, you could grind it out instead in an area where you were doing other quests.

Another note:
Complete Grinding is not faster than questing, and most likely gets you burned out before you even get close to your desired level. It can take roughly 2 hours of grinding to go from 19-20, but i can quest that in 30 mins. The only exception to this is rouges, and shadowpriests, because with rogues you have 0 downtime and can just bandage up, and shadowpriests with high spirit have spirit tap to minimize downtime. Even though warriors can still bandage up, they kill things too slow to be viable grinders. An arms warrior going through his levels is going to take a good 10 or 15 secs more to kill his mobs to grind, and that adds up. fast.

2. Set goals for yourself

This is an important part. One thing I noticed while leveling a few alts was, as soon as I started the char I would look at the t1/2/3/4/5/6 armor sets on them and be like "wow they look cool i gotta rush to 70 fast". This is a big mistake. One thing I tried to do when I was starting most of my alts was: I would set a goal and say " Wow, there’s this really cool spell at 20 I want (like Ghostwolf, Blink, Aspect of the Cheetah" and I really want to run that instance Deadmines it’s so fun" and in around 5 or 6 hours of /played, I would be at 20 and running deadmines, and I would get a feeling of accomplishment and be proud of myself. Then I would say to myself "Gnomeregan/Scarlet Monastery Library looks fun and Felhunter at 30 looks awesome for PvP" so my next goal would be to get to level 30 and I would get that feeling of accomplishment all over again. Do this, and when you get to the higher levels maybe bring it down to 5, 4, 3 and in Outland, 1 level in a day or two of solid playing is awesome. Most instances in Outland are a lot of fun compared to the Azerothian instances so set goals for yourself that I wan to get to x level so I can run y instance and get z new BC spell.

3. Take it slow and read the quest text

I know it can seem tedious, but reading the quest text really gives you a sense of involvement and it compells you to do the quest to save whatever. When I leveled my first draenei I really enjoyed the starting area’s quest line with the story being that we were crashed on this strange island and don’t know if we’re the only survivors, only to find out later after rebuilding the emitter there were other draenei still alive. I know it sounds boring, but it will keep you from getting burned out and that’s most important.

4. Listen to the music

Ok this is the part that really helps, more than the mods, more than the logical thinking, more than questing. This is what will help you keep your sanity when you play for hours on end, music.
Thats right, it’s proven, music helps you level a lot easier. Not just any music though, music that really gets you going, gets you pumped up, keeps you awake.
A good list was written up by one of the DJs for one of the radio stations I listen to (Which will be mentioned shortly) of decent artists to look into for your grinding needs:

Electronic:

1. DJ Tiesto
2. Paul Van Dyk
3. Ian Van Dahl
4. Orbital
5. Trance Control
6. Infected Mushroom
7. Armin Van Buren
8. Ayla
9. Kimball Collins
10. Kraftwerk
11. Chemical Brothers
12. DJ Oakenfold
13. DJ Sasha & Digweed
14. SaxionPike

Metal & Things of the Rock or Alternative Persuasion:

1. Sonata Arctica
2. Tristania
3. Black Label Society
4. Iced Earth
5. Primal Fear
6. Symphorce
7. Lacuna Coil
8. Within Temptation
9. Dragonforce
10. Nine Inch Nails
11. Drowning Pool
12. Korpiklaani
13. Rhapsody
14. Switchblade Symphony
15. Type O
16. Dimmu Borgir
17. Iron Maiden
18. Epica
19. The Gathering
20. After Forever
21. Nevermore
22. Killswitch Engage
23. Rammstein

Basshunter :-)

1. My Chemical Romance
2. The Used
3. System of a down
4. Sum 41
5. Paul Stanley
6. The Killers
7. AFI
8. Billy Talent

Ok so if you’re not into that kind of music and preffer listening to some radio, look at http://www.wcradio.com, shows every day, good conversations and good music in the preshows and the music breaks, good for people that don’t like listening to music all the time.
Ontop of that if you can’t a break from music, if you’re in a guild or a gaming community that has a Ventrilo or Teamspeak server you might want to go on there and talk with them.
Anything that keeps your mind from all the quests your doing and all the mobs you’re killing. It makes the time pass faster and makes it more enjoyable.

5. Don’t buy off the Auction House if you can avoid it

Unless your gear is extremely crappy for your level, you can get awesome gear from quests that will keep you good until you get to raiding. Buying gear off the AH is pointless and not needed. If you really need to update your gear, take a break from the guide and farm an instance. I’ve never had trouble buying my normal, epic and normal flyer mount ever because i don’t buy needles crap off the AH. Begging makes you look bad and will land you on quite a few peoples ignore lists. Go to the auction house and sell. Never buy, unless you plan on reselling. It’s even possible to go from 1-60 without any gear at all, infact it’s already been done.

If your interested you can check out the Naked Troll Project 1-60 article here:
http://wow.qj.net/Naked-Troll-Project-reaches-its-goal/pg/49/aid/68828

6. If you get bored, do something else!

If you’re not listening to what I’m saying, doing straight grinding, not listening to any music and not getting involved in the game, you will get bored. When that happens, do something else! Farm a fun instance, do battlegrounds, gank lowbies in barrens, raid something. Just take a break and keep on your chosen character. The last thing you want to do is make an alt before your completely done with your character. That sets you on the long, hard path of altoholcisim, a serious problem in America, that leads to car crashes, dead babies, and cancer :-).

7. Join a good guild!

You play an MMO for social interaction, then use it! Good guilds help keep you focused on your character and help keep you enjoying the game. I was completely bored of my first 70 before i joined an awesome friendly raiding guild and I would play for hours on end. Build your social relations in the game, even if you don’t plan on playing to 70, socializing is half of any MMO game.

8. Get a life!

Exploring outside the game is a really good way to keep you interested, it keeps you from playing so much you get burned out fast, and it keeps you from, well, losing all of your friends.

9. Pick the right talents

If you plan on leveling as fast as possible without burning out, then you have to make sure you have the right talents. Spec for the most damage as possible. If you need some good builds, there are awesome ones right here on this website.

10. Don’t be afraid to explore!

Following a guide to every single step gets boring and tedious. Fast. Don’t be afraid to do anything the guide doesn’t tell you to do, go and explore some of the zones you don’t visit, Deadwind pass, even though most of the zone is 70, the early parts look really awesome. Beggar’s haunt in Duskwood, a place hardly known by anyone, is just north of that path and has an area with a cemetary and two dark portal guards next to a waterfall.

11. Always log out in an inn

So you get the rested EXP bonus. The 50% extra EXP only effects creature deaths, not quests. It helps in the long-shot.