Quote Originally Posted by 'Greythan',index.php?page=Thread&postID=154682#pos t154682
Title says it all.

Curious what my plan should be as I close in on 68. Should I spend time in Outlands getting to a certain level of 70 gear or head straight to Northrend and begin quest/drop gear upgrading in expansion? While slow, I am a leveler by nature so my bias would be to move straight to expansion. However, if a basic geared group (i'm doing a combination of quests/instances for my leveling to 68) would be really disadvantaged starting out in Northrend, I'd like to know.

Thanks.
Nearly all the starting zone quests in Northrend are designed as solo quests, so you should have no problems with them at 68 as a boxer. Quest rewards are comparable to level 70 blues so that will clearly be an immediate upgrade path for you. Mobs are 69 or so so you won't have significant hit issues.

I have a 5 man shammy group at 73 in Northrend and a mixed group (DK/pally/mage/druids) at around 65 in Outlands. The shammies were at 70 when WOTLK came out, but I have a similar situation to you for the mixed group. Although from a gear perspective taking them to Northrend at 68 is clearly the way to go, I'm a little concerned myself over leveling speed in Northrend, and I'm thinking about trying to get to 70 in Outlands. This is particularly because of the phasing issues people have mentioned later in Northrend, given that I want to equalize the teams and give myself the opportunity to mix-and-match the teams.

That being said, it's gonna be pretty hard not to head to the North as soon as my second team dings 68.