After my Shaman hit 84 a couple of moments ago, I noticed that I, like on my Paladin, was automatically following a certain path, or route, through the Cataclysm content.
My way (or the highway, lolol) goes:
Mount Hyjal (80-82)
Vashj'ir to where the Earthen Ring Quartermaster is unlocked (82-82½)
Deepholm + 2-3 dungeon runs (82½-84)
Twilight Highlands (84-85)
ZOMGWTF, yeah, I totally skip Uldum! [:gasp:]
Here's my reasoning:
Mount Hyjal is super fast once you know the drill. You basically move from point to point and deliver/pick up quests. Assuming you start at level 80, you'll get to 82 easily there. It also seems like quests in Hyjal are more prone to give you item rewards, which means upgrades, which means faster and cheaper leveling - hell yeah!
Vashj'ir includes a lot of traveling. Either by swimming, riding on the sea floor, or by humping around on your sea horsie. Lots of cutscenes, lots of traveling, slow pace. I leveled my Druid in Vashj'ir as the first, then leveled my Paladin through Hyjal. Hyjal seemed faster and more rewarding. Plus, the underwater thing gets old fast. It is, however, beneficial to do the zone up until where the ER quartermaster is unlocked. And while there, go to Throne of the Tides and unlock the dungeon.
Deepholm is available and doable at level 82, which is when you should finish Hyjal. The reason I prefer Deepholm is because the zone is very compact, the quests clumped up nicely and the traveling minimal. Your innkeeper is located in the middle of the map and nothing is more than a minute on an epic mount away. And the quests offer you upgrades to your Hyjal gear. Also, like with Hyjal, I found it to hold an overall faster pace than Uldum.
Uldum, while interesting, is very large, very spread out and includes a boatload of cutscenes and flying around. Like with Vashj'ir and Hyjal, I found that Deepholm simply provided faster experience and less traveling. Deepholm doesn't have as many cutesy things as Uldum, but cutesy things get old fast as well. I'll be doing Uldum anyway, for the reputation, but it can wait until I'm level 85 and two-shot stuff.
Twilight Highlands is the natural stepping stone to end-game. The quest rewards in the end are ilvl 333, which is equivalent to reputation gear (honored), so if you're not in the mood to grind reputation, make sure you do all of Twilight. It's also pretty fast (not as fast as Hyjal or Deepholm) and the amount of cutscenes and traveling is minimal and-- oh, who am I kidding, I just love the zone because you get to throw inflatable ponies at drowning goblins and use a machine gun against Alliance scum!
No, seriously, as far as I know, Twilight Highlands is the highest level zone in the game. Not much choice once you hit level 84, unless you want to do some kinky Hyjal > Vashj'ir > Uldum + Deepholm path - like I did on my Druid - which is very inefficient.
Anyway, that's just how I level up. The leveling zones are really starting to bore me, so I tried to come up with a pretty efficient and fast way. Note that I haven't researched the math on any of it, so I might be completely wrong here, but personal experience and feeling says this route is the fastest in terms of zones.
For the record, my Shaman just hit level 84 and I just finished the Vashj'ir part (I did it after Deepholm instead of before). Unless I've completely lost track of time, this character was level 81 some 18 hours ago.
What's your favorite way to 85?
Edit: Title to clarify it's Cataclysm zones only.
Edited, Jan 9th 2011 6:15am by Mazra
Edited, Jan 9th 2011 6:47am by Mazra
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I've typically done a mix of instances and Hyjal to get to 82. Then Deepholm as you need to do the whole zone to unlock Therazane, then from there its onward to Twilight Highlands.
I skip Vash and Uldum. With a return to Uldum at 85 after I'm mostly done with TH. As I need riding camels but getting gear from TH is slightly more important.
The only reason I go to Vash is for ER rep stuff. I dislike the zone.
I skip Vash and Uldum. With a return to Uldum at 85 after I'm mostly done with TH. As I need riding camels but getting gear from TH is slightly more important.
The only reason I go to Vash is for ER rep stuff. I dislike the zone.
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On my Paladin I went Vash, Hyjal, Deepholm, and am currently in Uldum. Next character I level from 80 I'll start in Hyjal first, cause like you said the underwater thing gets old fast.
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I've done 3 characters to 85 but I tried to do some things diffferently.
Druid was first and I started in Vash'ir. Hated it, never liked underwater questing, and this was a zone full of it.. and it was the longest questing hub in Cataclysm for 160 quests to achievement. After this, I following the trail to Hyjal, Deepholm, and Uldum. Before ending Uldum, I hit 85.
On the Death Knight I decided to change things up. Yep, I went first to... Vash'ir. But my reasoning was solid. I didn't like the zone, so might as well get it down and over with ASAP. 160 quests gogogo. I skipped Hyjal as I was near 83 by the end of Vash (large rested bonus and some instances) and finished Deeepholm, than this time Twilight Highlands.
Started the Mage in Vash'ir, and you know.. its my favorite zone now. No, really. Very sceneic and the quests are not boring. I even got use to swimming underwater.
Oh, and let me say this before I forget. Damn you Blizzard, damn you straight to hell. You lead me to believe for 160 quests that I could in fact breath underwater. Then, for some reason, you decided o have a couple of Naga quests at the start of Twilight Highlands (seriously, WTF) and I was so use to fighting these things, I forgot I needed to freaking breath. Good Job.
But to end, I basically took the mage from Vash, to Hyjal, to Deepholm, to Twilight and last Uldum.
Druid was first and I started in Vash'ir. Hated it, never liked underwater questing, and this was a zone full of it.. and it was the longest questing hub in Cataclysm for 160 quests to achievement. After this, I following the trail to Hyjal, Deepholm, and Uldum. Before ending Uldum, I hit 85.
On the Death Knight I decided to change things up. Yep, I went first to... Vash'ir. But my reasoning was solid. I didn't like the zone, so might as well get it down and over with ASAP. 160 quests gogogo. I skipped Hyjal as I was near 83 by the end of Vash (large rested bonus and some instances) and finished Deeepholm, than this time Twilight Highlands.
Started the Mage in Vash'ir, and you know.. its my favorite zone now. No, really. Very sceneic and the quests are not boring. I even got use to swimming underwater.
Oh, and let me say this before I forget. Damn you Blizzard, damn you straight to hell. You lead me to believe for 160 quests that I could in fact breath underwater. Then, for some reason, you decided o have a couple of Naga quests at the start of Twilight Highlands (seriously, WTF) and I was so use to fighting these things, I forgot I needed to freaking breath. Good Job.
But to end, I basically took the mage from Vash, to Hyjal, to Deepholm, to Twilight and last Uldum.
I'm leveling my shaman right now, my second toon to go through the Cataclysm areas. She's been resting since launch, so I did Mount Hyjal till I finished it at 30% into 82. I then did all of Deepholm and 10 quests or so in Vashj'ir (just enough to get my seahorse and swim to the QM), this left her at 96% through 83. After opening up the portals for Uldum and Twilight Highlands and doing the Crucible of Carnage, I am 40% through 84. Since I want the agility head enchant, I will probably go back to Uldum to finish leveling to 85.
Depends
Vash>Hyjal>Uldum(like 25 quests> Twilight
This is my pallys way since he has insciption and THerezane rep is Sooooo boring.
Vash>Hyjal>Deepholm> Twilight
Everyone else
I hate the desert, Ive seen Indiana Jones before the quests are boring.
I like Vash because, It near empty, I like feeling like im swimming in an aquarium. There is color, aka its not monotone.
Also Anyone else find it retarded that Head enchants are BOA but you cant use em if you send them to someone not revered with said faction? I think i heard that it was a bug but still.
Now that my guild has unlocked the BoA capes ill probably skip Uldum too or might even be able to skip Deepholm and Uldum. But I definitely always finish Twilight, Good gear, rep for a decent faction and I hate those dailies more then the Therezane ones. But the worst of the lot is Tol Borad.
Edit: Clarification
Edited, Jan 9th 2011 6:49am by BeanX
Vash>Hyjal>Uldum(like 25 quests> Twilight
This is my pallys way since he has insciption and THerezane rep is Sooooo boring.
Vash>Hyjal>Deepholm> Twilight
Everyone else
I hate the desert, Ive seen Indiana Jones before the quests are boring.
I like Vash because, It near empty, I like feeling like im swimming in an aquarium. There is color, aka its not monotone.
Also Anyone else find it retarded that Head enchants are BOA but you cant use em if you send them to someone not revered with said faction? I think i heard that it was a bug but still.
Now that my guild has unlocked the BoA capes ill probably skip Uldum too or might even be able to skip Deepholm and Uldum. But I definitely always finish Twilight, Good gear, rep for a decent faction and I hate those dailies more then the Therezane ones. But the worst of the lot is Tol Borad.
Edit: Clarification
Edited, Jan 9th 2011 6:49am by BeanX
Mt Hyjal, enough of Vashj'ir to get waterbreathing and the sea horse (you can get to the ER QM without doing any of the quests, but swimming all the way down to Silver Light takes forever, and you kinda need to breathe if aren't a druid/shaman/warlock), Deepholm, Twilight Highlands. Finish up Twilight Highlands while I look for a group for Crucible for my iLevel 333 weapon. Just between rep and quest rewards, I had a high enough iLevel for heroics when I finished TH. I didn't queue for them right away, but I had the gear for it.
I just go with whatever the **** I feel like doing, it's a delightfully relaxing way of leveling.
On my DK I went:
Hyjal 80-82. I did ALL the quest in the zone.
Deepholm 82-83. You could probably get to 84, but I didn't really like the zone :3
Uldum 83-84. Again, I did all the quests. I actually enjoyed this zone.
TH 84-85, all quests done. Was a great zone. I even soloed that last "epic" fight against the Mt. Giant (well with the help of the 3 NPCs). It took me 15min to do it, and it was epic.
Once 85 I went to Vashj'ir to unlock Water mount, to get to the ER QM.
And yesterday I finally finished Deepholm to get all the dailies.
(the only place I have left to quest is Vashj'ir. I may be able to do 130 or so quests today >.>)
If/when I lv my Hunter, I will probably do the same path as DK. I know what to do, so I should be able to do it faster.
As for my Warrior, hopefully he can just Dungeon run again like he did for most of his 1-80 levels.
Hyjal 80-82. I did ALL the quest in the zone.
Deepholm 82-83. You could probably get to 84, but I didn't really like the zone :3
Uldum 83-84. Again, I did all the quests. I actually enjoyed this zone.
TH 84-85, all quests done. Was a great zone. I even soloed that last "epic" fight against the Mt. Giant (well with the help of the 3 NPCs). It took me 15min to do it, and it was epic.
Once 85 I went to Vashj'ir to unlock Water mount, to get to the ER QM.
And yesterday I finally finished Deepholm to get all the dailies.
(the only place I have left to quest is Vashj'ir. I may be able to do 130 or so quests today >.>)
If/when I lv my Hunter, I will probably do the same path as DK. I know what to do, so I should be able to do it faster.
As for my Warrior, hopefully he can just Dungeon run again like he did for most of his 1-80 levels.
Hyjal: The obvious place to start.
Vash'jir: Meh, the long bouts of swimming (and the lack of easy access to Tenebrous Cavern/Darkbreak Cove) make the whole zone a chore. It is OK here and there for achievements, money and just to see it once, but to use it on a regular basis? Not really.
Deepholm: Can't deny this place, the only good, long-lasting 2H Strength weapon I know of is found here. Seriously, I've full-cleared Uldum and Almost Full-cleared Highlands (the stupid Skullcrusher quest won't work; stupid guy keeps despawning), and I've yet to see a new weapon that is good enough to replace that axe from Deepholm.
Uldum: I don't think Uldum is as bad as what a couple others have said, the quests are a bit easier than Highlands' and the rewards (up until the end of TH) are just as good, if not slightly better than. Sure, they might be like 315 instead of like 308 (can't remember exact numbers, it is something like this) and sure you'll gain like 60 Armor, 5 Strength, and 10 Stamina on a plate armor, BUT, you trade 100-110 of Stat A and 80-ish of Stat B to gain 80 of Stat C... eh. I'm losing 200 Secondary Stat points to gain 80?
Highlands: The zone feels epic enough, just did it last night, and... the rewards (at least DPS Plate) could have been better to be honest. I can't comment on the "End Zone" rewards, but through the middle of the zone.... mobs are quite significantly harder to kill and hit harder than they did in Uldum, but yet the rewards are Barely better if better at all, and there are almost no 2H weapons in the whole zone (I've vendored like 3 Daggers, 2 wands, and a couple 1h weapons and a Staff IIRC).
So, that said, leveling path probably looks like Hyjal -> Deepholm -> Uldum -> finish whatever's not done in Highlands.
Vash'jir: Meh, the long bouts of swimming (and the lack of easy access to Tenebrous Cavern/Darkbreak Cove) make the whole zone a chore. It is OK here and there for achievements, money and just to see it once, but to use it on a regular basis? Not really.
Deepholm: Can't deny this place, the only good, long-lasting 2H Strength weapon I know of is found here. Seriously, I've full-cleared Uldum and Almost Full-cleared Highlands (the stupid Skullcrusher quest won't work; stupid guy keeps despawning), and I've yet to see a new weapon that is good enough to replace that axe from Deepholm.
Uldum: I don't think Uldum is as bad as what a couple others have said, the quests are a bit easier than Highlands' and the rewards (up until the end of TH) are just as good, if not slightly better than. Sure, they might be like 315 instead of like 308 (can't remember exact numbers, it is something like this) and sure you'll gain like 60 Armor, 5 Strength, and 10 Stamina on a plate armor, BUT, you trade 100-110 of Stat A and 80-ish of Stat B to gain 80 of Stat C... eh. I'm losing 200 Secondary Stat points to gain 80?
Highlands: The zone feels epic enough, just did it last night, and... the rewards (at least DPS Plate) could have been better to be honest. I can't comment on the "End Zone" rewards, but through the middle of the zone.... mobs are quite significantly harder to kill and hit harder than they did in Uldum, but yet the rewards are Barely better if better at all, and there are almost no 2H weapons in the whole zone (I've vendored like 3 Daggers, 2 wands, and a couple 1h weapons and a Staff IIRC).
So, that said, leveling path probably looks like Hyjal -> Deepholm -> Uldum -> finish whatever's not done in Highlands.
It depends. I haven't done Twilight Highlands at all yet, so I can say much there, but in general; Vashj'ir+instances 'till 83. 83-84 in Deepholm. 84-85 in Uldum.
I've done Hyjal twice on beta and once on live now, and while it's cool and all, it's beginning to bore me. Vashj'ir is just an awesome zone, Deepholm is a bit of an all-round place where there's something for everyone in terms of cutesiness, instances and normal quests, and Uldum just has a great atmosphere. I love those Ramkahen quests.
I've done Hyjal twice on beta and once on live now, and while it's cool and all, it's beginning to bore me. Vashj'ir is just an awesome zone, Deepholm is a bit of an all-round place where there's something for everyone in terms of cutesiness, instances and normal quests, and Uldum just has a great atmosphere. I love those Ramkahen quests.
Lyrailis wrote:
Deepholm: Can't deny this place, the only good, long-lasting 2H Strength weapon I know of is found here. Seriously, I've full-cleared Uldum and Almost Full-cleared Highlands (the stupid Skullcrusher quest won't work; stupid guy keeps despawning), and I've yet to see a new weapon that is good enough to replace that axe from Deepholm.
Perhaps you should do the Crucible of Carnage? http://www.wowhead.com/item=63787 If I remember correctly you're a ret paladin? The haste on the sword is better than the mastery on the axe, plus the sword has more dps, strength and crit.
How to level in Cataclysm:
1) Survey
2) Survey
3) Survey
4) Dungeon queue comes up
5) TP to instance
6) Wipe
7) "L2PLAY #$%^ING NOOBS!!1"
8) Rage quit
9) Survey
10) Survey
11) Dungeon queue comes up: instance in progress, 0/4 bosses killed
12) "No way I'm getting on that fail boat"
13) Decline and leave dungeon queue
14) Survey
15) Survey
16) Survey
17) Ding 85
18) Realize you have no gear
19) Swear you'll run some instances later when your guildies are on
20) Repeat with the next alt
Edited, Jan 9th 2011 12:27pm by someproteinguy
1) Survey
2) Survey
3) Survey
4) Dungeon queue comes up
5) TP to instance
6) Wipe
7) "L2PLAY #$%^ING NOOBS!!1"
8) Rage quit
9) Survey
10) Survey
11) Dungeon queue comes up: instance in progress, 0/4 bosses killed
12) "No way I'm getting on that fail boat"
13) Decline and leave dungeon queue
14) Survey
15) Survey
16) Survey
17) Ding 85
18) Realize you have no gear
19) Swear you'll run some instances later when your guildies are on
20) Repeat with the next alt
Edited, Jan 9th 2011 12:27pm by someproteinguy
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
someproteinguy wrote:
How to level in Cataclysm:
1) Survey
2) Survey
3) Survey
4) Dungeon queue comes up
5) TP to instance
6) Wipe
7) "L2PLAY #$%^ING NOOBS!!1"
8) Rage quit
9) Survey
10) Survey
11) Dungeon queue comes up: instance in progress, 0/4 bosses killed
12) "No way I'm getting on that fail boat"
13) Decline and leave dungeon queue
14) Survey
15) Survey
16) Survey
17) Ding 85
18) Realize you have no gear
19) Swear you'll run some instances later when your guildies are on
20) Repeat with the next alt
1) Survey
2) Survey
3) Survey
4) Dungeon queue comes up
5) TP to instance
6) Wipe
7) "L2PLAY #$%^ING NOOBS!!1"
8) Rage quit
9) Survey
10) Survey
11) Dungeon queue comes up: instance in progress, 0/4 bosses killed
12) "No way I'm getting on that fail boat"
13) Decline and leave dungeon queue
14) Survey
15) Survey
16) Survey
17) Ding 85
18) Realize you have no gear
19) Swear you'll run some instances later when your guildies are on
20) Repeat with the next alt
So ******* true, though I did like half of Vashj'ir/Twilight Highlands and all of Uldum getting my rogue to 85.
I'll probably end up doing very little archaeology 80-85 on my hunter though, since I want to have my pets at an even level with me.
My hunter did, all of Vashj'ir, then all of Mount Hyjal. By this point I was 83 or very close to it. I hit 84 before finishing Deepholm. I wanted to do all the loremaster just straight on through but it was going to take so long finishing Deepholm so I left deepholm. I went to Twilight Highlands and dinged pretty much at the end. Then I went back and finished Deepholm and did the entire Uldum zone to finish my Cata Loremaster.
As for alts, I dinged 81 on my druid just gathering herbs, and then I've leveled it a bit in Hyjal. My mage just leveled 81 skinning crabs in Vashj'ir.
I'm having trouble figuring out which alt I actually want to level since I would like to skin for my main LW for patterns and what not. But it would be nice to have herbs and make flasks too.
As for alts, I dinged 81 on my druid just gathering herbs, and then I've leveled it a bit in Hyjal. My mage just leveled 81 skinning crabs in Vashj'ir.
I'm having trouble figuring out which alt I actually want to level since I would like to skin for my main LW for patterns and what not. But it would be nice to have herbs and make flasks too.
Do enough quests on needed factions to get friendly and purchase tabard.
Then do dungeons.
Yeap, I am lazy and hate questing...
Then do dungeons.
Yeap, I am lazy and hate questing...
devzzz wrote:
Do enough quests on needed factions to get friendly and purchase tabard.
Then do dungeons.
Yeap, I am lazy and hate questing...
Then do dungeons.
Yeap, I am lazy and hate questing...
So what do you do while waiting for Dungeon Finder to come up? I'm going to guess the wait is near the same as NA servers of a 20+min wait for DPS, a 10+min wait for a healer.
Sandinmygum wrote:
devzzz wrote:
Do enough quests on needed factions to get friendly and purchase tabard.
Then do dungeons.
Yeap, I am lazy and hate questing...
Then do dungeons.
Yeap, I am lazy and hate questing...
So what do you do while waiting for Dungeon Finder to come up? I'm going to guess the wait is near the same as NA servers of a 20+min wait for DPS, a 10+min wait for a healer.
My server is heal or tank <3 minutes. All my DPS toons have a farming profession and do that while waiting.
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Vash: Picked this on a whim. It got boring, though; got me to 82.
Hyjal: Since my old method of leveling in Wrath was to do Borean then Howling or the other way around, I decided to give this a twirl, since the quests would be so much easier. Took me to 83
Deepholm: Did these until about a quarter through 84.
Twilight: Rode this bad boy all the way to 85.
Now, it's not that I wanted to skip Uldum, I just saw very little point since I was kicking *** (Hit 85 on...let's see, Tuesday was the 7th of December, 8, 9, 10, so it'd be Saturday, December 11th). If I did it again, I may take the route of skipping Vash and going Hyjal --> Deepholm --> Vash, then finishing up again in Twilight.
Hyjal: Since my old method of leveling in Wrath was to do Borean then Howling or the other way around, I decided to give this a twirl, since the quests would be so much easier. Took me to 83
Deepholm: Did these until about a quarter through 84.
Twilight: Rode this bad boy all the way to 85.
Now, it's not that I wanted to skip Uldum, I just saw very little point since I was kicking *** (Hit 85 on...let's see, Tuesday was the 7th of December, 8, 9, 10, so it'd be Saturday, December 11th). If I did it again, I may take the route of skipping Vash and going Hyjal --> Deepholm --> Vash, then finishing up again in Twilight.
"Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible c*** : me."
Horsemouth wrote:
Sandinmygum wrote:
devzzz wrote:
Do enough quests on needed factions to get friendly and purchase tabard.
Then do dungeons.
Yeap, I am lazy and hate questing...
Then do dungeons.
Yeap, I am lazy and hate questing...
So what do you do while waiting for Dungeon Finder to come up? I'm going to guess the wait is near the same as NA servers of a 20+min wait for DPS, a 10+min wait for a healer.
My server is heal or tank <3 minutes. All my DPS toons have a farming profession and do that while waiting.
If I haven't gotten the gf to tank for me then I am either also on my other account doing something or watching something while waiting for it to pop.
Tellaria wrote:
Lyrailis wrote:
Deepholm: Can't deny this place, the only good, long-lasting 2H Strength weapon I know of is found here. Seriously, I've full-cleared Uldum and Almost Full-cleared Highlands (the stupid Skullcrusher quest won't work; stupid guy keeps despawning), and I've yet to see a new weapon that is good enough to replace that axe from Deepholm.
Perhaps you should do the Crucible of Carnage? http://www.wowhead.com/item=63787 If I remember correctly you're a ret paladin? The haste on the sword is better than the mastery on the axe, plus the sword has more dps, strength and crit.
When I did TH that night, I asked a few times in General and didn't have any luck finding a 5-man group to do the CoC.
I'm aware that sword exists, its just I couldn't find peeps to help me get it.
And as far as what I am, I've got a couple DKs, a few paladins, shaman, etc. lol. I have at least 1 of every class, even. hehe.
1. Vash'jr to get a seahorse mount. I hate that zone.
2. Mount Hyjal (and then Deepholm if necessary) until level 83.
3. Uldum (all of it because the xp is that good.)
4. Twilight Highlands (until 85)
This worked for my shaman, although my druid leveled by doing all of Deepholm and not all of Uldum. The druid also has mining and herbalism, while the shaman has no gathering profession.
I agree that Twilight Highlands has some really nice quest gear.
2. Mount Hyjal (and then Deepholm if necessary) until level 83.
3. Uldum (all of it because the xp is that good.)
4. Twilight Highlands (until 85)
This worked for my shaman, although my druid leveled by doing all of Deepholm and not all of Uldum. The druid also has mining and herbalism, while the shaman has no gathering profession.
I agree that Twilight Highlands has some really nice quest gear.
I am already 83 and haven't finished Vashj'ir yet, maybe I had too much rested. I did do a few Deepholm quests and some fishing/cooking dailies. Haven't made up my mind whether I will go to Deepholm or start on Hyjal next. My first time through so I will likely do all zones for the Cata Loremaster. I think I will do Hyjal next because I'll probably get more quest gold for the higher level zones. On my alts when they come to it I will probably only do the underwater zone for the mount and the Quartermaster unlock then quit it and go to Hyjal. Although the mount is useless outside the zone...I wish they would make it usable everywhere there was water. Pretty similar to what I did in Wrath...both start zones then carry on.
All of Hyjal - Deepholm to 83 - Uldum to 84 - Twilight Highlands to 85
Vash doesn't seem to go as fast as Hyjal.
Vash doesn't seem to go as fast as Hyjal.
1. Vash'jr to get a seahorse mount. I hate that zone.
2. Mount Hyjal (and then Deepholm if necessary) until level 83.
3. Uldum (all of it because the xp is that good.)
4. Twilight Highlands (until 85)
That right there. Vash is, well, a pain in the Vash. Too much swimming, the extra vertical dimension thing sucks, can be hard to find the stupid cave entrances.
I started with an 80 of every healing and/or tanking class, so plenty of instances and some BG's mixed in there. My priest is 83.5 and did just enough Vash quests to get seahorse mount, and has one quest left to finish in Hyjal. Then Uldum 'til 84 and Twilight the rest of the way.
2. Mount Hyjal (and then Deepholm if necessary) until level 83.
3. Uldum (all of it because the xp is that good.)
4. Twilight Highlands (until 85)
That right there. Vash is, well, a pain in the Vash. Too much swimming, the extra vertical dimension thing sucks, can be hard to find the stupid cave entrances.
I started with an 80 of every healing and/or tanking class, so plenty of instances and some BG's mixed in there. My priest is 83.5 and did just enough Vash quests to get seahorse mount, and has one quest left to finish in Hyjal. Then Uldum 'til 84 and Twilight the rest of the way.
On my mage I forgot a quest somewhere in the Hyjal chain and was forced to level in Vashj'ir from 80->82. After that levelling went Deepholme to 83, Ulduum til 84 then hit Twilight Highlands.
On my Prot Paladin I levelled 80->82 via dungeon grind only. Anyone thinking of doing this I would advise to at least quest up until you get the seahorse (someone tell Sebastian that under the see isn't fun when you're lazy Paladin without gills). I completed the main quest chain in Deepholme while continuing the dungeon grind before bailing at 83 to complete the main quest chain in Ulduum. Level 84 is where I spent the most time questing. Followed all the quests throughout Twilight Highlands until the Dragon Queen vs Deathwing cut scene.
Yes, I regret not doing the initial quest chains in Vashj'ir (Or at least buying an underwater breathing potion for my swim in the abyss!). Yes I have my conchy-sea-star breathing apparatus.
No, I still haven't gone back for the blasted seahorse.
On my Prot Paladin I levelled 80->82 via dungeon grind only. Anyone thinking of doing this I would advise to at least quest up until you get the seahorse (someone tell Sebastian that under the see isn't fun when you're lazy Paladin without gills). I completed the main quest chain in Deepholme while continuing the dungeon grind before bailing at 83 to complete the main quest chain in Ulduum. Level 84 is where I spent the most time questing. Followed all the quests throughout Twilight Highlands until the Dragon Queen vs Deathwing cut scene.
Yes, I regret not doing the initial quest chains in Vashj'ir (Or at least buying an underwater breathing potion for my swim in the abyss!). Yes I have my conchy-sea-star breathing apparatus.
No, I still haven't gone back for the blasted seahorse.
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