If you want access to every quest in future, you have to do them all. Jade forest is the WORST zone, if you can get through it, everything later will be much easier. BUT, if you want to, once you get the cookie crumb quest to go to Valley of the Four Winds, you can leave (providing you are 86 I'm pretty sure). You will just have to mount it over.
There are 2 crumb quests to VotFW, one is for the normal questing route, and the other is some cooking themed quest, but that will take you to a major quest hub.
Good luck
PS: My goal this xpac is to do EVERY quest in the new zones x4, it will be a mission lol
EDIT: In valley of the four winds, you can get a cookie crumb to go to kun-lai summit (I highly reccomend just going there as soon as you get it), then when you hit 88, just go to the north west of kun-lai and through a big gate into townlong steppes or w/e it's called. The quests there will give minimum 215k xp and 414ilvl rewards. You will kill the mobs slowly at first but it won't take long to upgrade and start smashing your way through them. Don't need a cookie quest to go there either. The start area for townlong steppes is the Longying outpost, will only be 1 quest there to start with but more will open up
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