Should I take my newly dinged 68x5 shamans to Northrend? or wait till they hit 70?

[knopstr]

I haven't finished rep with the consortium and/or done any of the netherstorm/SMV questlines. What are your opinions on the matter?

Thanks.

[Hachoo]

I wouldn't worry about rep but I'd get your shamans to at least 69 in outland - should be easy with the reduced XP and for the next few days anyway you wont have any competition hardly...maybe go to 70 there. Northrend is really crowded and at 68 if you're on a PvP server you'll have to worry about lots of ganking.

[TheBigBB]

I took my second group of 5 out to Northrend at 68ish after I got all the outland flight points and such. I am happy I did so. The items you get questing out a zone in Northrend are really a big upgrade even from Outland questing gear. You also get like 40% more experience per quest than you'd be getting in Outland. 20k is the standard exp for a normal quest there. I think I was only getting 11k at most in Outland.

[suprafro]

If your worried about running out of quests starting wotlk at 68 you can always just quest up to 70, then run UK/Nexus 70-72. With a 5 shaman team you can blast through UK pretty fast, 2-3 runs an hour once you get a feel for the place. Nexus isn't bad eigther though I haven't killed dragon boss yet

[BobGnarly]

Depends on how you feel about story.

If you don't care and are just interested in leveling efficiency, I say get to 70 in BC, then go over and don't do ANY collection quests.

If you're like me and like to get into the story anyway, it's not really THAT much longer to just do all the collections. In that case, you can probably just head on over.

[Jafula]

My five went from 68 to 71 just doing all the quests* in the Borean Tundra plus they got at least 600 gold each. I can now go and do all of the Howling Fjord should I wish, or move into Dragonblight. My toons were rested the whole time which might explain that.

*5 quests to go (I'm not going to pay 350gold for 5xOVERCHARGED capacitors) plus 4 Nexus dungeon quests. I'd say there are about 140 odd quests for Alliance in the Borean Tundra. I got the achievement for 130 BT quests and I was still going with more... [s](wowhead only lists about 153 for alliance?)[/s]

Edit: * no idea what I was thinking about that day ... I think I had done too many quest

[wizofid]

I am confused... wowhead has every single quest in both starting zones as having a level 69 minimum level. How are level 68's questing there?

My whole team is now 68 and I would love to pop over and start northrend questing tomorrow if it will actually work.

[emps]

My DK hit BT last night at 68 and dinged 69 a couple of hours later. There are lvl 68 quests on both HF and BT.

[wizofid]

ok maybe I will try it. There are only 4 level 68 quests in each zone according to wow head... maybe they got it wrong. Oh and maybe this is a stupid question but to get to one newbie zone from the other... do you have to go back to stormwind -> wetlands and take the other boat or can you gwet from one to the other by land? (at level 68)

[Jafula]

Burning Crusade[/url][/i] expansion, players will be able to choose where to enter the continent more freely—both Howling Fjord to the east and the Borean Tundra to the west feature level 68+ content, and it is planned that you can level all the way to 72 without visiting both. The continent is designed to allow players to level from level 68 to 80.