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If you’re not a leveling player — and sorry, but that does not include you wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am types zipping up your latest alts — then as I tell my family when they’re hovering around me when I’m trying to write, “I love you; now go away.” Today’s WoW Rookie is all about stuff that matters to players who focus on WoW’s leveling game. If you’ve got the whole leveling thing down pat … if leveling is just a chore to get to the end game, where “the game begins at 80″ … if your pre-80 character is just one among your entire stable of toons … then move along, big guy. Your secret handshake didn’t pass muster at this clubhouse.

For those of us gleefully picking our way through the levels, we’re going to take another look this week at what’s ahead for us in the expansion. First, I’ve got a lead to share on a friendly place to tuck into for companionable leveling. Then we’ll round up a whole collection of facts and developments on how Cataclysm will change the game for players in the 1-60ish range. If you’re an assiduous reader of The Queue, none of this will be new news; we’ve cherry-picked some recent goodies that apply to players in the early to middle levels.

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