When to head to Outlands?Follow

I thought I'd add her Armory link to make it better.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Justinera

Going at 58ish makes sense, in my view, to do the first 5-6 quests to upgrade your gear (or several pieces of it) to Outland greens. That's just a flat out character power upgrade, and it's worth doing imo.

After that, my view is that it's best to go back to Azeroth and do quests there until you hit 60 or even 61. You will (1) have an easier time with Outland quests at a higher level), (2) progress to 60 plenty fast due to the increased quest XP in Azeroth and the lower threshold for 60 and (3) save Outland quests so that when you hit level cap, you will have more quests left over that you can use to grind cash for an epic flying mount or whatever else you want cash for at level cap.

I would have to say 58 as well. You can't get any quests until that level, so I don't see much of a point in going there before 58. If you wanna try to run Ramparts before 58, and find a group for it, that'd be different (if you can make it work, would be nice XP), but fully transitioning to Outland pre 58, I'd say forget it.

I'd hit OL at 58 as protection and grab the first few quests there and flightpaths to Shat. Switching to holy at 58 will still make getting to 70 slow, even if all you do are instances. I switched to holy from protection at 70 (unless you want to do some end-game tanking).

Personally, I went to Outland at level 56. I was an enhancement shaman so even in mail AND getting up close an personal with the level 59 pigs I was doing fine. Keep in mind I didnt have awesome gear for my level. I would say it was about average.

I say with plate armor and protection spec 56 is a very real goal. It was easy for me. I leveled from 56 - 58 in less than 24 hours. I was in rested and getting over 1k exp per kill.

I assumed he would take a long time to kill things as prot. I also assumed that he would know this. I'm saying the extra mitigation and armor values (given the pally will be in plate) will grant him much more survivability than I had wearing mail and dual wielding.

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Edited, Dec 5th 2007 11:22am by Serevixx

Main heal? I'd say maybe. The issue you'll most likely face in places like Ramps will be mana. Outland has plate healing gear that is a major step up, so if you're coming in with stuff from pre-BC, you might (and I say "might") be limited. It also depends on your group make-up. A Shadow Priest may help aid your mana/health regen. Worse case, you find out you can't and you come back at 60 which, with the XP in Outland, can be reached in about 27 seconds.

Leveling to 70 can be two-fold: 1) grind like a champ. The Hellboars in HP are okay, but I enjoyed grinding the Orcs above the Path of Destiny (the ones actually down in the Path of Destiny hit pretty hard till you're closer in level to them). The respawn rate is okay. So are the Undead in the armory south of Honor Hold and the bugs along Razorthorn Trail. At 57, though, you may want to carry some extra water and food since you'll take a bit of a beating. At least I did.

The second method is doing quests which, combined with grinding, is probably the fastest. Some people prefer to head to Outlands as soon as they can and hold off on quests until they hit 60 (so that when they hit 70 they have more "left-overs" for earning gold for that epic riding mount) while others start immediately. It's entirely up to you, but there is some decent pally plate to be earned from the initial quests.

Anyway, just some thoughts. My guess is you'll be hitting 60 before you know it and then it's off to the races for your gf's pally. Best of luck with the leveling!