First time i play wow. I started as gnome mage and i am very confused now. There is no one direction now. I went on stormwind and there are some quests, but need more time, then i tried to go on Deadmines, but i find it only by help, but noone wants to go with me, i must level up, now i am on westfall, dont know what to do. What quests to do. Where do i go? WestFall, Wetlands, Redridge Mountains? And why? What send me there? Aren’t quest connecting each other?
Install the addon questie so you can see the quests on your map. It helps a ton with direction.
Edit: If you need help with installing addons you can do so by installing the twitch app and going in the addons section for wow.
The leveling experience in vanilla WoW is not streamlined. Zones intentionally have lead quests to other zones so you are driven towards them. However, it is up to you to choose the zones.
Does the lead quest sound interesting? Is it in your level range (yellow or orange, not red)? Is the zone close? Maybe you want to intentionally travel far?
Classic WoW is a true MMORPG in the sense that the experience you have is entirely based on your choices, not on some lead quests that you are fed down your throat from a pop-up on your screen the moment you reach the zone’s level (like BfA).
To give you a little help - Redridge has a lead quest to it from Westfall which is connected to Westfall’s Deadmines dungeon, so you will want to go there. Wetlands is a bit far and is kind of a depressing zone by Alliance standards (it’s also 20+). Westfall is 10-20 and Redridge is 15-25.
I hope this helped 
Yours truly
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There are usually referal quests between zones that will indicate which zone to move to next. And you will be travelling between zones questing in multiple zones at the same time, If you’ve finished with Loch Modan and Westfall, you should be going to Redridge first, then a bit back and forth to Darkshire. At level 20+ you can pick up the referal quest from Loch Modan to Wetlands and start questing there as well.
It’s not always evident what zone to move to next, especially if you miss the various referal quests and what not, that’s part of that classic experience. Quest addons help a lot, and if you search for “classoc wow zone map” or something like that, you can find maps with the intended level ranges indicated on them. There are also leveling guides available on pages like wowhead etc.
Wetlands isn’t far, cause i am gnome class and my hearthstone connected with thelsamar. So i can go to wetlands. Now i do the last quests on Westfall, some are grey though…
Yeah, the referral quests sometimes can be easily lost… You have to revisit towns each time you gain some levels… This is hard.
Yesterday I was doing quests in Barrens, Ashenvale, Stonetalon mountains and even Hillsbrad foothills because I had quests to go each of the zones and found (or well, knew they were there) more quests appropriate to my level there.
I know it’s nowhere near optimal but I like hopping between zones alot since it usually allows you to always do yellow or even green quests. I like my questing relaxed and easy instead of struggling with orange or red quests.
To OP: You can follow leveling guides and/or get the questie addon to show locations for quests.
Hey man even with addons and stuff I always get confused levelling 15-25ish on Alliance side, because us Horde have a noobproof stuck in the barrens experience
Edit: there’s nice options but they’re all at a distance from eachother. Good luck choosing.
An undead helping a Gnome. It’s remarkable. Never thought I’d see such a thing.
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Skinny cattle makes for bad steaks.
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I have 4 horde chars and 4 alliance. I don’t care about the factions. I just want to finish the game and uninstall. 
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There is no such thing as “finishing the game” in WoW (or in any other MMORPG). The closest you will get to this is clearing out Naxxramas, which will not be released any time soon.
Even after that, Blizzard will likely release raids that it couldn’t finish in the old times and will also likely move on to a re-launch of The Burning Crusade (the first expansion of the game). Classic is already more successful than WoW’s current expansion so there is a lot of reason to believe that Blizzard will now switch focus to it.
One doesn’t finish World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft finishes you!
Whole idea of classic is to adventure around and finding quests and things to do. While it might feel confusing not to have streamlined quests bringing you to right places, i hope you will find out the joy of adventuring around. So don’t feel confused, just go to the world, travel and explore. There is lot of guides available if you want to look up for example what level different areas are, altough part of the fun is to wander to too high area and run away from red mobs. 
My first character ever was a human warrior, I still remember. I was 14 at the time. When I reached Goldshire and cleared out the kobold mine for the quest there, I wandered south and beyond the river. I ran into a dark forest with ugly ghouls and scary skeletons that had skulls instead of levels. I died several times trying to escape from all the bad things that were chasing me, even though I felt like I was only running deeper into the forest.
Just as I was losing hope, some tall, heavily-armored night elf charged in and killed the undead that were chasing me. He was a complete total hero to me and I thanked him like a peasant thanks you for rescuing his chicken from bandits or whatever. I then asked him for directions and he taught me what a Hearthstone was and how to use it.
That’s the last time I saw that guy, but I still remember everything 15 years later.
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You can look at this article
https:// classic. wowhead. com/guides/horde-leveling-classic-wow
if you have alliance you might find the same article for them from the left menu.
In WoW Classic it is you who chooses your direction. You need to explore to get quests. Also don’t be affraid to roam to other zones or take up quests that ask you to travel completely elsewhere.
If you want to run Deadmines, make sure to take up the questline Defias Brotherhood from Sentinel Hill and work it including the quest with Defias Traitor. There will be a nice quest reward at the end for you. Also there should be some other DM quest available somewhere in Dwarven District of SW.
You are playing the wrong kind of game my friend!
I still remember the wolf with skull that killed me when fresh level 2 crossed the river between elwynn and duskwood. And it was 13 years ago. Good times…
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I’ve got quests split between BFD, Stockades, Ashenvale, Redridge and one in Darkshore (goshdarn tower of Althalaxx) right now. A lot of these zones do tend to lead onto another; Elwynn feeds into Westfall, which has a link to Redridge, which has a link to Duskwood…
But it’s often hard once you get past the initial opening zones to just complete an entire zone in one go. When you first go from Westfall to Redridge, some of the quests will be Orange or even Red. So you do what quests you can, then you roam to another zone. Say, Wetlands, or Western Ashenvale - quests there will be yellow, with some Orange and Red just like Redridge. But doing these yellows as well will level you up, so those Oranges become Yellows and the Reds become Orange…
Basically, it requires a vague understanding of the equivalent zones in the world and the ability to follow your feeder quests onto the next hub. It takes a bit of work, and its far from streamlined, but it’s do-able. And as people have said, Questie can be a huge help if you’re really struggling (even if I think it’s cheating 
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This has happened to me too. 
They should put warning sign on that river. But the worst thing is now in classic i just HAD to go peak over the river again “because now i know better so surely can avoid getting killed”. Splat. 
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did yesterday when with my 10 lvl pally. “i can heal myself with this 15 lvl spider will be a jok…” dead.
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