A 6th time might be tough. Are there not zones that are you favorites though? And zones you can avoid? I just went through Northrend for the first time with a Shaman, I did the Forjd, DragonBlight, Grizzly Hills and Zul'Drak.


I really liked DragonBlight I would do that again, and Grizzly Hills was short and sweet so I'd do that again. Didn't care for Zul'Drak. I didn't get a chance to do the other zones so those will still be new to me.

 

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I hear that (13 80's now.. shoot me.)


However, there will be HUGE swaths of Outlands that you can just skip. Step into Northrend at 68 and skip some zones there as well. Last couple of times through I know I skipped at least 2 zones, and had a choice of which "epic" quest line I wanted to do in Icecrown. Got to 80 with a full quest log left over and a whole bunch I never even picked up and a lot of missing flight masters.

 

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It's not so bad, going through the 11th? I think time right now on my Mage. Gets boring, but I set goals and take some breaks and it's not so bad...

 

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This is where the OP has the wrong idea of what's going on here. It is not, nor should it ever be, required to complete every quest in every zone in order to level. One has nothing to do with the other. If you feel the need to complete every single quest in every single zone, then your reward for doing so is the achievements or the story/RPG aspects of doing so. Many, if not most, others simply use the quests to advance their character level. Both type of play are fine but should not interfere with each other. Questing is both a means to an end for everyone and entertainment for some that may or may not be related to the end.

TLDR: Out leveling zones before you complete all the quest lines is working as intended.

I should mention that I went from 58 to 68 questing in Outlands as DPS only having done HFP, Zangar, and I believe part of (not the whole) Terokkar forest. That was with the +20% XP deal and doing about one LFD group per hour or so.

 

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I usually do 58-64 in Hellfire, 64-66 in Zangar, 66-68 in Nagrand and head to Borean. Only takes about 8-9 hours

 

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That may be, but what Arc is getting at is that it is worse now in that respect as it has ever been. I've been around since Vanilla WoW launch, I remember what it used to be like to level through the zones and you didn't grey out quests just by trying to do most of the quests in the zone and follow the story line.


There has been multiple changes since then every one of them speeding up 1 to 60 more and more. Now with the Cata quests introduced it is so fast that quests will be green/grey when you are about half way through the zone.


I will admit, it doesn't bother me a whole lot, but that can be considered too fast. It almost feels like we are all on recruit a friend xp now. That was one of my biggest gripes with recruit a friend. For expirienced players its great to smash through the levels, but if you use the program as intended to recruit a new player, they don't understand why mobs are grey in a zone after you've done 10 quests.

 

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I've not completed 1-60 yet in the new content, but I have gone 1-21 so far and Blizzard has done an outstanding job so far of telling you where you should go with multiple options. They lead you step by step, region by region, zone by zone through where you should be leveling. If anything, new players will be upset when they hit Outlands and Northrend. It's likely they'll only need three zones worth of quests in each of those before heading back to Cata. Those areas very likely will seem disjointed as they haven't been realigned at all with the new leveling curve.

This is just one of many reasons why raising the level cap with every expansion is a terrible idea.

Fast is good because it gives you options and different paths to level with.

1 You can do zone quests until they turn green and then move to next zone. Actually that billboard thing in front of the AH kind of encourages that by pointing you to the next zone.

2. You can do RDF and farm mats which give xp while in que.

3. You can combine all of the above so you don't get bored with any one thing.

4. Mix BG to your liking.

Life is good and if it is too fast for you do some grey quests and it will slow down some. Take off your BOAs also.

Leveling is serious business!