Your favorite leveling zone

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From quests to time and immersion would be your personal highlight when you alt a new character?

For me it is Eversong Woods, Nagrand, Silverpine and Jade Forest.

In hinsight to Horde fans answering. If you say Barrens I know you are lying.

Have fun to debate now.

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in no particular preference order :

  1. Winterspring. I clearly remember the first time I got through the cave and entered this zone. I instantly fell in love with it. Leaving the barren lands of felwood to enter this snowy place… Idk it felt so great, one of my most cherished wow moments.
  2. Nagrand : Going through the dark portal was definitely a huge thing for me, but leaving Zangarmash to go into Nagrand was… amazing.
  3. Grizzly hills : another fan favorite, music plays a huge role in this.
  4. Old Teldrassil : where all my wow adventures began, and where they will also most likely end.
  5. Dalaran : Watching it raised to ashes in WC3, then you enter the city. Magical and stunning music. Rhonin speech in the background during ulduar. I absolutely love it.

Past WOTLK there is no zone I cherish as much, although I must say I loved Zuldazar as a huge dino fanboy, and I also really liked Zereth Mortis. WoD maybe shadowmoon valley, MoP didn’t play enough of it, same for DF.
Edit : Minus dalaran since it’s not a leveling zone.

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These and ghost lands and dragonblight. Valsharah is up there too

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Still some of the old classics, nothing really matched the atmosphere of them. The perfect mix of cozy, dangerous and inviting.

Zones like Ashenvale, Tanaris, Grizzly Hills, Zangarmarsh, Silithus, Duskwood, Stranglethorn Vale and the list goes on.

There are a couple of standouts among the new ones too, Suramar, Val’sharah, Drustvar and the Azure Span for example, but generally speaking, the modern zones feel a little bit too… consciously designed I guess, which makes them feel more like videogame levels, not just places in the world.

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Redridge Mountains, because everything was still shiny and new, but I’d started to at least begin to understand the game by then.

Grizzly Hills because I loved the scenery, the werewolf storyline, and [I can’t believe I’m saying] the music.

Kun Lai Summit as the mountain scenery was beautiful (although the yaks were smelly).

Drustvar, because it was well spooky.

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I can only agree, I love the ones you mentioned for the same reasons :slight_smile:

A slightly more recent one for me is Frostfire Ridge. It’s so bleak, and desolate, and cold. And then with that breathtaking music. Questing there for the first time was one of the most immersive experiences in WoW for me.

I did love the Barrens before Cata btw :wink:

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No one likes the Barrens. It is really the worst zone in the game. Too big, annoying quests and long booty walk paths.

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I did. But I love wandering about, that helps no doubt. I loved the desert feel with the oases, I still go back regularly for fishing deviate fish and get all nostalgic :wink:

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It is a literal barren wasteland without resources and traveling time betweens quests was a pain.

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Eastern Plaguelands, love traveling around with Fiona and her Caravan :smiley:

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It’s still the Forsaken zones for me; Tirisfal, Silverpine, Hillsbrad, Plaguelands. Though I do prefer the original versions and some of the quest lines in Silverpine are very meh, imo. For updating a character that hasn’t been played much I think MoP is very good for a zone or two; you’ll get gear for all your slots, scaled to your level (assuming Chromie time) and thematically consistent if for some reason you don’t transmogrify.

Legion, while great, is horrible for leveling I think because dungeons are mandatory to the story line with follower dungeons not being implemented there yet. BfA is also bad since it won’t give you proper armour for the slots that have azerite armour. That’s less of an issue if it’s a character that’s already gone through an expansion or two though and is decently geared.

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Mulgore and Eversong are my favorites. Original Tirisfal is really interesting too.

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I think you’ll find a lot of people enjoyed it.

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Classic/Vanilla: Mulgore and Barrens
TBC: Nagrand
WotLK: Howling Fjord and Grizzly Hills
Cata: Uldum
MoP: Jade Forest
WoD: Frostfire Ridge and Nagrand
Legion: Stormheim
BfA: Stormsong Valley
Shadowlands: Bastion
Dragonflight: Azurespan
TWW: Isle of Dorn and Hallowfall

I’ve always liked Barrens though, love the savannah setting.

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My faction capital, thanks to the dungeon finder system and getting instant queues as healer/tank.

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Everything from Classic up to Wotlk . Is pure perfection .

I have leveled always(at least ) 8 max lvl alts per expansion since Mop and if you ask me i don’t even know a zone at least in the last 3 or 4 expansions but i remember all the zone from classic up to Wotlk.

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i did. all my horde chars (except BE) levelled there b4 cata. even forsaken.

on topic: jade forest, elwynn, duskwood, shadowmoon (wod), nagrand (tbc) and grizzly hills

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The Barrens for me is a timeless classic, I still hate the Cata changes so much…
Other zones… Mulgore, Winterspring, Feralas, Storm Peaks.

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Duskwood storyline and Drustvar are the most memorable for me.

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ohh legend of stalvan!

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