I thought it’d be fun to try and keep track of how much time it took to reach each level. As I’ve been dinging I’ve been taking a screenshot with the output of /played. With the help of Google Docs’ spreadsheet, we can find the time spent in each level by subtracting its total time played from the total time spent in the next level. Here’s the number of hours that I spent in each level up to 60:
I couldn't get Google Docs to label the values of the X axis. I'll try harder at 80.
I like the surprisingly stable increase in time spent up to level 20. At that point I hit a plateau at almost 3 hours per level, on the nose.
The vast majority of those levels came from running Jame’s Alliance leveling guide. There were a few instances in there, but not enough to matter. I suspect the spikes are from detours crafting or traveling or posing for our fantastic header screenshots.
We’ll see how the graph looks now that I’m making an effort to throw tanking dungeon runs into the mix when leveling from 60 to 80.