I have tried and tried and tried. Currently sitting at 6 toons of different classes at between 60 and 65.
I just can not seem to bring myself to finish questing in Outlands or Northrend.
Anyone have any horror stories about grinding through these zones?
I just did it after the buff to XP. Wasn’t as bad as before, I actually think 80-90 is worse now lol.
I find Those easier. Vanilla i personally find boring.
Their old, cold, and covered in mold.
It’s the biggest blemish on levelling right now, theirs a reason it can be called the “killer bracket”, because lots of alts stop their and die.
the xp-per-level was nerfed recently, but yeah…outland and northrend are just awful zones in general.
edit: meant as a normal reply.
Hellfire Peninsula is the bane of my existence. It wasn’t so bad during BC and Wrath but I got so tired of it that it took me longer in real time to force myself to level through it than it did the rest of Outland.
80-90 is a freaking cakewalk compared to 60-80, and it’s not just because it’s 10 levels shorter.
Went thru their recently on a alt, and in full heirlooms I blasted thru the Jade Forest in 6 hours flat, and that’s at a lazy pace.
60-80 takes forever due to quest design and flow being super out of date compared to newer stuff.
Outland and Northrend are the horror stories OP 
Personally I just dislike all of the questing in Outland and Northrend. There is just such a drop in zones you can actively quest in that it makes me dread when I close in to 60.
Personally I think I can get to 40, after that point the quests get to me, everything is the same and has zero impact, meaning etc that I just wish for pre-7.3.5 times to just power lvl again.
I broke down at level 58 hunter. I couldnt do the fetch quest kill 5 mob 3 button rotation any longer.
Outland was pretty good, I liked it. I was just questing and spamming TBC random dungeons for that sweet XP.
60-80 I usually do hellfire while also doing dungeons I haven’t done before. If I finish hellfire I go into Zangarmarsh. I’m usually at 80 without completing Zangarmarsh. Then I find the next best place for me isn’t Mt hyjal.
I did Northrend and it wasn’t bad. I never got out of Borean Tundra. I did use Darkmoon Fair and War Mode buffs. I also go to stormwind and do fishing/cooking dailies every day which takes ~10% off a level.
Sitting at 78, no problems with it so far.
I just hit 80 on my LF shadow priest. The only zone I finished was Howling Fjord and 2 or 3 dungeons. Full rested for a portion of it & a full set of heirlooms, it’s been sped up a ton since the last time I leveled through it.
In conclusion it’s not much of a grind at all imo.
After having done it on this guy a day ago I find doing the borean tundra mixed with some BC dungeon queues to be a good way to keep it going. It isn’t as bad as it used to be thankfully.
I figured out what bothered me so much about 60-80. WHen leveling it dawned on me, 150% flying in those massive zones of Hellfire/Borean/Howling Fjord just seems so friggin slow in 2019. Give me 280% at 60 and it would be better.
Don’t know why you would stick with 150% speed all the way to 80. You can get 280 at 70 lol
Yes I don’t know why but the leveling is soooo slow at those levels. Once you get past it, leveling will fly by. But I have a lot of characters sitting at that level range.
Just wish they would open up cata mists and warlords at 60 as well. Let me do other zones to fill the gaps.
My bad on the wording. I meant to say that I realized it wasn’t as bad at 70 when I bought 280%. It was the 60 -> 70 part of the 60 -> 80 that was most miserable to me.