New Player Tips: Welcome to the Machine

With the release of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, new adventurers are joining the ranks of the Horde and the Alliance almost every day. Though these players are able to find a lot of helpful information through our in-game tutorials and community guides, when you're learning the ropes, nothing really beats the wisdom of an experienced player. That's why each week we'll be reaching out to all of our veterans for tips, tricks, and trade secrets about a variety of different topics to help put new recruits on the path to success.
To kick things off, this week's inaugural topic is: questing. While questing might be second nature to you by now, we know you've got plenty of advice on how to navigate that big sparkly sea of exclamation points, kill targets, and quest text. After all, when you're questing, you have to consider who to kill, who to save, where to go, what to collect, what to avoid, when to group up with other players, how to manage all that stuff in your inventory, and when to head back to the quest givers -- that's quite a lot to keep up with, even if you're already familiar with the ebb and flow of Azeroth.
If you could provide any advice to new players on how to make the questing experience more enjoyable, what would you say? There's no wrong answer, so share your thoughts in the comments!

Quel'Thalas
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Quel'Thalas
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Quel'Thalas
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Misha
Kael'thas
Get thee to Curse.net and install quest helper or equivalent.
When in doubt, GOOGLE.
Leveling fast will get two results. 1. You won't know how to play your 'toon adequately for higher levels and 2. You won't know the game or instances well. The purpose of leveling is to develop a skill set and explore the game. Even if you use an add-on like Healbot, you MUST know what your role is in a given situation or instance and what you are supposed to do in that role. There is no "bot" to prioritize for you when things don't go as planned.
It's a small world. You aren't as anonymous as some would like to think. Your rep will follow you from questing to dungeons to raids and even servers. So, while it is possible to cheat and lie and scam and generally be mean and inconsiderate of others, karma is compulsory. WoW!
Gnomeregan
Try for some of the harder achievements such as "Loremaster", or "Explorer", and totally disregard those continually strive to level the fastest. After all, in the end, it really is all about the journey, and not the destination.
Farstriders
Hyjal
Tichondrius
Earthen Ring
Cenarius
Muradin
Mannoroth
When you do get into a quest hub and have taken all the quest their are to get what i like to do is make my map smaller by using the arrow in the upper right corner which will situate it in the upper left hand of your screen. On the map you will see red circles with numbers in the middle thes show spots where quest can be complete. now depending on the quest type (collection, kill or whatever) different things happen when you get to the area marked on the map. If its a KIll or Kill and collect quest any mob that is relevant will have its name displayed over his head in red or in the case the mob is passive yellow, this makes it pretty easy to know what to do, as usual pick up items have a sparkle effect to them as well as items that need to be interacted with in some way, also be aware when a quest giver gives you an item to be used and if your not sure how or when to use it just read the quest it will tell you. Also in the case you are killing some sort of named or special mob it will be marked as a skull on your minimap. as a last thought when you see question marks and exclamation points on the mini map and the are dim it means that the NPC is in a building or underground this is annoying in certain places but when you are not in a town and run across this look for caves, and keep in mind the cave entrance could be a good distance from where you are.
Dragonmaw
My advice to overcome some of these limitations. Don't take a crafting profession leveling your 1st character (toon). Instead get mining and herbalism (herbing) gathering professions. They provide extra experience (XP) per node and they will provide you with a viable income when selling them on the action house (AH). These two professions usually provide enough cash flow to allow you to purchase anything you might need through out the leveling process. Skinning is also a profession you can pick up but it doesn't provide external XP separate or in addition to / from questing.
Also grab fishing and cooking professions, these two professions provide 2 extra quest each day and you won't normally have to venture too far from the major city to complete them if you leave at all. That will allow you to keep earning rested XP while also gaining XP from the quest.
The last profession you want is first aide, it does nothing xp wise but it keeps you rolling in your adventuring reducing down time by giving you a self heal out of combat option. Also after you've amassed enough bandages to sustain you most clothes used to make make them will sell for a reasonable amount on the AH.
As stated many times before when questing from a quest hub, take them all and don't go back till there complete, get the next set, rinse and repeat. Keep relevant skills up to date via trainers. Limit travel time as much as possible. Use guild finder if your not in a friends guild already, look for one that openly states they support leveling this will provide you with some "perks" you otherwise wouldn't have.
Mind you all this is just my personal preference (IMHO) so find your groove, find what you like and run with it. Ask people you see, yes some will be dirt bags and make fun of you and some will just ignore you, but many more will take the time to throw you some words of wisdom based on where you are at that point.
TY, and Have Fun out there, in the end that's the whole point anyway.
Dawnbringer
The quests in WoW tell the entire story of how everything came about. A lot of thought and detail went into the quests to give everyone insight to why there are two factions, an Outland, a Lich King in Northrend and an insane dragon named Deathwing. Most players I encounter who have played x years of WoW still don't know the whole story.
Sure you can go on the internet or buy a WoW compendium but the quests tell you everything from what happened in Warcraft I, II, III to the present. For example, why would blood elves side with the Horde over the Alliance? Or why was Cairne Bloodhoof leader of the Taurens murdered by Warchief Garrosh. Better yet who is the boy king Varian Wrynn of Stormwind and why is there an unsteady relation between humans and night elves?
It's all in the quests. Many experienced players don't bother to read the quests at all, instead going for a quick dash to level 10 to start BG then level 15 to do Dungeons until they hit 85. I don't recommend this. Sure the title "Kingslayer" is cool but not as cool as "Ambassador" or "World Explorer" which require real effort.
When questing, pick up all the quests in the area first. You'll find many quests rely on each other for completion. It does become a grind if you only do one single quest at a time. Also play both factions. You will easily learn how the Alliance is always trying to maintain the peace in the area while the poor misunderstood Horde is constantly plotting murder and mayhem against the Alliance. One toon you fight with the forces of Greymane against the invading Forsaken and another toon you murder dwarves turning them into the Forsaken. Play both sides--its more insightful.
Quel'dorei
Rexxar
When you see ALOT of Quest Givers in an area, remember:
NOTHING says you have to take them ALL at the SAME TIME,
and run around like a fool trying to jam them all in at the same time,
...to "save time".
Take the time to talk to all the Quest givers, then see which ones
are more or less similar or complimentary to each other and pick those.
Complete them.
Find the next grouping that make sense and are related, and so on.
I find the game much more enjoyable this way, at this pace.
Take the time to read the FULL Quest dialogue.
It's an unfolding adventure for you, but only if you respect it as such.
If you are frustrated, maybe you should slowdown?
Faster is not always better.
Saurfang
Cairne
Mannoroth
Draenor
Lastly, quest in an area a level or two BELOW your current level. Quests should be yellow or green. You may get less experience per kill but the quest XP should be the same and you'll kill MUCH faster because you'll crit more often because their defense is lower.
Kael'thas
Uldum
Arthas
Quel'dorei
Scarlet Crusade
Muradin
Arygos
Blade's Edge
Haomarush
Argent Dawn
Que for Dungeons as a group while Questing there are new Quests in dungeons as well as quests that have been moved inside to expedite finding them like we used to have to in the old days (Wailing caverns anyone), Not to mention the loot bags with "helpful goods" that some of us would have given eye-teeth for back in the day. Remember to take a break every once in awhile, my friends and I like to PvP to relax from questing / dungeon crawling for a bit and have a little fun ( You can also learn quite a bit about your class PvPing ). To the new people I have met I've always given this bit of advice, Explore, there are so many easter eggs in this game from the beginning til now that your going to be hardpressed to find and visit everyone of them.
Caelestrasz
PS-Alli till I die! (or get really bored) and Please excuse any spelling and grammar errors as this is a forum for a game and not an essay assignment.
and Kirby says, "HI!" <(^_^)^
Kul Tiras
Skywall
I'm not at all suprised by this, it's far more efficient to move on to a higher level zone than to keep plugging away at green or even grey quests. This is even more true today that ever with the features such as Dungeon finder and Battle Grounds granting decent chunks of xp and gear that far exceeds that obtained by quests at the same level, these can and will rapidily leave you with a log full of grey/green quests for which the rewards aren'tworth getting. 1) If you get a quest taking you to a new zone it's a good cue that you should be moving on
2)If you are checking back in at major cities check the boards, they will also advise you to move on (Heroes call). I'd advise doing this somewhat regularly as the AH is much more profitable than vendors! (Alternatively have a lvl 1 AH mule to mail stuff to).
3)Since Cata the "Vanilla" areas are much more steamlined and linear, however Outlands(BC) has a tendancy still to seen you all over the map, sometimes to get something from killing xx number of mobs only to come back and find another quest to farm xx objects from the same mobs you just killed 20 of! So a little research goes a long way to making sure you have all those quests at the same time if possible.
4)TRAVEL TIME IS YOUR ENEMY. So try to knock out the quests close to the quest givers while queing for dungeons etc. Hopefully by the time you are done with those it's time to move to a new hub as a result of dungeon xp rather than spend 30mins flying from point A to B to C to D on some quest chain
final note: Disregard the above if you don't care how long it takes to level, want to enjoy the scenery and lore, and get the most out of the leveling process. For some it's not a race!
Garona
Sen'jin
Draka
Gilneas
Akama
Stonemaul