At first, power leveling services look like a great deal. For a few hundred dollars they will level any character for you from 1-80. They claim to be able to do it much faster than all but the most hardcore can. And they throw in a load of freebies. But they come with a hitch.
The speed that they can power level your character is amazing. They claim to be able to level most characters in 8-20 days depending on the service. What they do not tell you is that it will take multiple people knowing your account information to make this happen. The fastest (non-Athene) power levelers in World of Warcraft currently can pull times of 7-8 days of /played time. That is total time in game, not how many days. For the services to do it that fast, they must level in shifts.
China and Korea are popular places to outsource this type of work, as the cost of labor is generally cheap. Cheap labor still must sleep, which means more than one person has your account information. One person for each person playing, a manager at the plant where they do the leveling, and the person you paid to provide the service. That is far too many hands on your account information, each link in the chain is the potential for your account to end up banned or stripped.
You also can not play your account in order to guarantee the times they quote, so those Children's Week achievements you logged on to do will push your time back by a day or two.
There is an option out there that can help you level as fast as those World of
Warcraft power leveling services promise.
Zygor Guides will show you the secrets of leveling quickly... but please don't forget to sleep!
