User:Carolingian

My little alliance quest guide
After leveling up a few characters, I found that I really missed a complete quest guide. The quests I did on my first character wasn't quite as challenging and fun the second or third time around. And I really wanted to do all those quests I hadn't done on previous characters. The quest guides I found were either not finished (only covering lvl 1-20), incomplete (skipping a lot of quests in a zone), or required me to pay someone. And they all had some minor errors here and there that I wanted to correct, so here's my try on a quest guide:)

The guide will remain on my user page until it gets some substance.

Introduction
This quest guide will contain links to all alliance quests in the game, and suggestions on the order in which they should be completed. This is not a guide on how to level as fast as possible, although by following the guide you should be able to complete the quests in a zone reasonably fast.

Reputation
Reputation with certain factions is an important aspect of the game, although this is not true for all factions.

You can purchase another alliance factions mounts once you reach exalted with that faction. This guide will show how to reach exalted with each faction by completing quests (At this time I'm not sure this is possible for all factions, but time will show).

Reputation with most of the end game factions is also important because it lets you buy lots of profession recipies, armor and weapons, and unlocks heroic difficulty for dungeons. Gaining reputation with factions other than the alliance factions usually involves killing certain mobs and completing quests. The best way of gaining reputation is usually to kill mobs until they no longer give reputation, and only then complete the factions quests. The guide will let you know which quests give faction reputation and what level of reputation you should be before completing the quests.

The guide will not pay much attention to pre-bc factions (those listed under "Other" and "Steamweedle cartel"), since these factions have become relatively unimportant at lvl 70. If you want to maximise pre-bc faction reputation such as with Timbermaw hold which gives a nice epic trinket at exalted, there are other guides for these spesific purposes.

Converting xp to gold
When you reach the level cap (currently lvl 70), you will no longer gain xp from quests you complete. Instead the xp you should have got from quests is converted to gold. There will always be a lot of quests you haven't done yet when you reach lvl 70, and completing quests after lvl 70 is a common strategy for making enough gold to purchase your epic flying mount.

Lvl 60 quests turn grey when you reach lvl 70, while lvl 61 quests remain green. This means that to maximise the amount of gold you receive from quests, you should not do any of the lvl 61-70 quests until you reach lvl 70. However, for most people this would not be the preferred way to level.

Most green quest rewards in outland are better than lvl 60 epic items. You should complete quests that upgrade your gear even though those quests are lvl 61+ and could give you a couple of more gold at lvl 70. The guide has a list of quests that should be completed for improved gear at lvl 58.

Completing all quests in 2-3 outland zones should get you enough gold to buy your flying mount. You could therefore safely complete the quests in 4 zones without worrying about cash for your mount.

If you want to maximise the gold you receive at lvl 70, the best way would probably be to finish most of the lvl 58-60 pre-bc quests, all the 58-60 outland quests, complete select quests that give you gear upgrades, and grind mobs and run instances the rest of the way.

Zone guides
Ashenvale