I went alliance, regret it, I was completely unaware that alliance has no level equivalent dungeon to RFC in vanilla! Overall I've probably had "good" luck. I got all 5 characters into the game about 3 hours after launch. Good news. Bad news is my old setups from 2011 which I haven't MB'd since didn't want to work. So I spent a few hours getting set back up. Just as I got things to decent level, 1 character crashed when I logged out at an inn to relaunch the team to fix character names in the team. Into the queue. Oh, I'm on herod. So 25k queue. Then the entire server is disconnected. I lose 2 more characters as I was unable to get them logged back in quickly enough. Good news, my first crash victim went from like 25k in queue, to about 13k, and my other two reconnects about 15k. So I duo'd 2 warriors (team is 4 war x 1 priest) to level 8 in a couple hours while the rest of my team got through the queue.

Rest of the team got in around midnight pacific? I was paranoid about leaving the two level 8's alone and just jumping them while trioing (didn't want to get reported or a GM to bump them off for being standing around, likelihood like 0, but hey I didn't want to be at the back of a 20k+ queue just in case ! :P ). The 5 man questing has been brutally slow. Layering hasn't really benefited the 5 box as much as it is benefiting lone/duo questers. Never enough mobs to satisfy the kill speed we're capable of. My lack of 1-15 alliance knowledge is also killing me for grinding potential. I've only really ever leveled up as alliance solo grinding 1x, back in 2005, and I did not remember any of it. Had I gone horde, I know exactly what spawns I would have just grinded my levels out on, with almost zero questing. Anyways, I'm sitting in queue right now, 800ish in queue, level 18, about to dip my toes into deadmines, after an abortive attempt at 15 with mostly grey gear . Once I can start grinding the dungeons, the speed will pick up, I could have risked a run to WC to get started at 15, but, it's a pvp server, and I was pretty convinced I'd end up corpse camped if I got caught out in the Barrens.