Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

Been playing mostly horde on PvP server but started on the PvE server on alliance side.

First thing I noticed when playing Horde is that dungeons not only start earlier (RFC), but seem to overlap better, are easier to reach and have more quests available.
Instances like: RFC, WC, SFK, BFD, RFK, SM, RFD are all close to Horde FP's
Where alliance only has VC, Stocks, Gnomer that favor them.
Or am I wrong here?

I checked vanilla-wow.wikia for this

What dungeons are best questwise to do as alliance, starting with Deadmines?

Warmani wrote:
What dungeons are best questwise to do as alliance, starting with Deadmines?

It's good to do most of them, at least once. Gather up all of the quests for a particular dungeon, and go knock em' out. You can find a list of dungeons here: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?zones=2#0+2+1 And, a list of the associated quests here: http://db.vanillagaming.org/?quests=2#0+2+1

Horde do have it more convenient with the exception of Deadmines, even with Gnomeregan. (Stockades doesn't count, as RFC is the Horde equivelant of a City-dungeon.) They have one real quest to kill the last boss and can use a teleporter to get there. But since we're on a PvE server, it doesn't matter.

But it balances out in Alliance's favour come Endgame. If you park yourself in Ironforge, BRD, UBRS and LBRS are one zone away. You can catch a boat from Menethil up north to Theramore for easy Kalimdor and Onyxia access, and MC/BWL are both in Blackrock Mountain. It becomes much more convenient for Alliance by the end.

Had a look at the links BoxerBriefly posted and made my schedule as follows:

DM (VC)
BFD
Stockade
Gnomer (lot's of Alliance quests it seems)
RFD
and then
ULDA, MARA, ZF, ST (maybe, since not many people seem to run this), BRD ...

I miss Ironforge

Warmani wrote:Had a look at the links BoxerBriefly posted and made my schedule as follows:

DM (VC)
BFD
Stockade
Gnomer (lot's of Alliance quests it seems)
RFD
and then
ULDA, MARA, ZF, ST (maybe, since not many people seem to run this), BRD ...

Don't forget SM ! Not a lot of quest but there is nice gears to get there and a full run give a descent amount of xp

Id always hit a quest gap at lvl 28 on alliance and then end up having to do the 30 zones early and then being behind later anyway. With horde it feels like theres more quests and instances are convenient.

For horde @ 14 RFC is right inside org, 18-20 WC right next to XR, ~22-24 SFk short run from UD town, BFD 24-26 not that out of the way bcuz theres a quest area ppl go to anyways right next to, and to top it off RFK 28-30 again very horde convenient. Not to mention gnomer 31-33 is only a boat away and the entire SM 30-40 dungeon is right outside undercity.

With alliance its a different ballpark. Altough VC/DM is a GREAT dungeon it only takes you so far, After that theres BFD but most of the time you have to pull teeth to get people to run all the way to menethl and then all the way to astrannar-ish to get the flight path. Stockades at 27 is notable but the dungeon is so short after the quests are over theres really not much to go back for. Then you have Gnomer which is pretty close to IF but if you don't know what youre doing it can be a headache and you need to be ~31 which is right where the alliance 30 quests become doable so you just have to hope people are in the mood. And SM is a lengthy run and usually 2-3 people haven't even been to SS yet so its basically running from menethil harbor to UC.

Also Desolace/STV is wayyyy accessible compared to the journey it requires for alliance.

Just my two cents but for all the bitch moaning and complaining about barrens chat, horde have it pretty good and ive enjoyed the experience a lot better. Lvl 32 almost even before any lvl 30 zone quests without any grinding or multiple dungeon runs.

Edit: Alliance do have it easy with MC/BWL basically being downstairs from IF but AQ/Naxx for horde is pretty close.

I think a lot of the headaches stems from ally not having a flight path in the middle of STV.

Sorry but that's nonsense.

If you do all Darkshore/Ashenvale/Stonetalon Mountains quests you're easily at 31/32 and you're next door to Desolace. BFD groups aren't as plentiful as Deadmines/Stockades/Gnomer groups but there's sufficient numbers of people leveling in Kalimdor for you to get a group.

If some quests are too annoying for you or you don't want to do them for some other reason, you can hop over to Southshore and do Hillsbrad/Alterac/Arathi quests instead to get over that late-20s and early 30s period.

There are no quest gaps in WoW, regardless of how persistent this myth is. Use a database or a guide to find quests if you think you're stuck.

Garfunkel wrote:There are no quest gaps in WoW, regardless of how persistent this myth is. Use a database or a guide to find quests if you think you're stuck.

Well it does depend on the player leveling, if he only kills the quest mobs and do tons of orange quests there might be a very small quest gap of ~1 level along the road. Usual problem areas are around 17-18, 29-30, 38-40, 46-48, 59-60.

Garfunkel wrote:Sorry but that's nonsense.

If you do all Darkshore/Ashenvale/Stonetalon Mountains quests you're easily at 31/32 and you're next door to Desolace. BFD groups aren't as plentiful as Deadmines/Stockades/Gnomer groups but there's sufficient numbers of people leveling in Kalimdor for you to get a group.

If some quests are too annoying for you or you don't want to do them for some other reason, you can hop over to Southshore and do Hillsbrad/Alterac/Arathi quests instead to get over that late-20s and early 30s period.

There are no quest gaps in WoW, regardless of how persistent this myth is. Use a database or a guide to find quests if you think you're stuck.

Ya that's just as much nonsense. Who goes to those places besides night elf. Nobody!