That leveling guide page, it’s been taunting me. I promised I’d write this, and I have to start sometime. My original plan was to level a warrior alongside this guide, but I am full on characters on Bronzebeard and don’t feel like picking another realm. I have leveled three warriors, so I should be able to do this, right? 
All the information I am posting here will be compiled on the guide page.
The premise: you want to level a warrior. Your endgame goal might be tanking or DPS or PvP, but you want to reach 70 the fastest you can.
A problem: warriors aren’t that easy to level. They have very few skills that make soloing easier. They have no pet, no stealth, no heals, no totems, nothing to drop aggro once they have it. All a warrior has is a weapon (or two), a relatively large health pool and bandages.
Tradeskills: First Aid is a no-brainer, you have to be on your road to trauma surgeon right from the start. Same for cooking. As warrior, you go through food like crazy, and you will appreciate buff-food from the get-go. As leveling cooking is easiest when combined with fishing, another no-brainer. Yes, I know, fishing is kinda dull, but it’s good free food. Okay, we’ve covered the secondary skills.
Primary trade skills are a bit tougher. At the moment I would totally recommend alchemy as the trade that has to offer a warrior the most. Health pots, guardian and battle elixirs, later flasks. Easy to max, invaluable while leveling. Blacksmithing might seem the logical choice, but in reality, you will not really use much of the gear BS can make until Outland. The top of the line weapons that axe/sword/hammer smiths get are awesome, as is the top-armor that armorsmiths can make (though totally not worth it for tanks). It’s excruciating and expensive to level past 350. If your endgame goal as warrior is DPS, being a weaponsmith can be beneficial. If you intend to be a tank, not worth it. Your mileage may vary.
Another option would be engineering. Free ammo, bombs, explosive sheep, and goggles. Everyone loves goggles. Also, at level 70 you get a roflcopter + ezmode mote farming. Not a bad option.
For professions I always recommend mining and skinning. They are easy to level without going out of your way and the bring in the gold. The gold in turn enables you to get the best gear on AH as well as potions, bags or whatever. Later on, if another profession like BS or Alch is desired, drop skinning and power level the new profession. Mining just brings in too much gold to ever drop, IMO.
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With engineering at higher levels, you can also make things like Potion Injectors, which save you lots of bag space for raids, and Jumper cables on the off chance you survive a fight and all your ressers don’t. (This almost never happens to me. The tank is usually the first to go!) If you go gnomish, you can make Gnomish Remote Controls and have fun with Fel Reavers!
And the goggles are really, really nice.
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@Nagna – I just power-leveled engineering on my rogue because I wanted the goggles. It took me about a RL week to hit 350 as I farmed everything myself. There were very very few things aside from ammo and guns that I could see myself actually using as leveling warrior. But it’s relatively easy to power-level if you have a miner.
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@Tankette – That’s exactly what I did with engineering on my rogue, powerleveling. It was a bit painful, and yeah, I dropped skinning for it. I just know a lot of people who dig professions while leveling, and if that’s the way to go, I wholeheartedly recommend alchemy.
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