That’s generally my MO. I clear every ! on each zone before I move to a new one. The race to max lvl isn’t as important to me as much as making sure I’ve done every quest in a zone.
How about you?
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Sometimes. I used to feel like a completionist, but lately I’m just kind of floating around doing what ever comes to interest me.
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Absolutely, but only on my main. Once I’ve done it all on my main I will skip around more on alts.
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Usually complete all the quests in a zone. at least over time. I won’t necessarily stay in a zone until it is 100% complete. I follow the breadcrumbs and go back to side stories I missed.
The only expansion that I didn’t was Shadowlands. Should go back and complete that one day.
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Yup, this is how it turned for me.
Although I do find myself exploring more lately than I used to. Idk if it’s zone design or maybe just that DF was out of the “Dark and Broody” era so the overworld was more peaceful this go around.
See what happens in TWW. I’ll for sure do all the main objectives and some side stories on the first run. Eventually I’ll get it all.
It’s okay to let those go. They weren’t really worth doing. 
I used to to do that but now I just do quests until I tire of the zone and move on.
Once I hit max level I stop questing so if I do every quest I don’t see much of the final zone.
Quests and stuff yeah
But ill never care about random achievements to pet the squirrels etc
Yes.
I used to, but stopped part way through SL when I realized I would hit max level way before I even got to the final zone. I stick to the main campaign when leveling and go back to the side quests at max level.
Sometimes, I didn’t do it in BFA, it had a looooot of side quests.
Yup.
Even when I’m bored of a zone I force myself to finish it before I’m “allowed” to move on. I don’t know why. 
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If the game creators took the time to design the quest and bring a story with it, then I am looking forward to doing it all before I move to the next questing area. Sometimes I understand that some quests don’t open up to later and it helps that had done the quests in that area previously to find the newer content.
My problem is I memorize as I go, so when I replay the content on my next character, I get faster and faster. Eventually I hit max level quicker and then don’t hit the later zones on later play through characters. Example my main hit ever quests in the 4 zones in main Dragon Flight story, but my next 23 characters only hit Waking shore.
Now my understanding, read it someplace, that the upcoming expansion if you were to only do the campaign, you won’t hit max level so you will need to do side quest content. Some players will choose the alternative pathway, which is just dungeon spam, which is in itself another story.
I try at least with one character to get what I paid for and experience the complexity of the game in all its expressions.
I completed that story 4 times once for each covenant. On my next characters I just couldn’t do it, and just did bare minimum with side quests mostly and never committing to a covenant. While I generated lots of anime, I need another 3000 grateful offerings to finish buying cosmetic gear which I just can’t bring myself to do.
Pbfft, no. I do the zone’s MSQ, till I hit the point where I’m allowed to move on, then I’m out. On to the next.
I do precisely the opposite of you.
For the most part. The main quest is top for first toon. The second one does all the sides.
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Eventually I’ll do all the quests for the lore master achievement for the zone.
But that happens slowly over the course of the expansion.
I usually focus on the campaign quests first. I might pick up an occasional side quest, but I usually save those and come back to do them later. It’s nice to have quests to come back for if I get bored with max level activities.
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I do on my main character then ignore it on any and all other characters unless I’m specifically driven to do so on a character-by-character basis. It’s more compelling now with the expansion achievements like Back from the Beyond and A World Awoken.
Usually, yes. DF is the exception because I really don’t care much about Centaurs or the walrus people. I tried to get into it and I know a lot of people like mundane quests about every day life and such, there was just a bit too much of that. Then we got the mole people and their romantic dramas and I just gave up lol. Fortunately I never did the Aberrus quest line, did it recently, and it pushed me to max Niffen rep!
SL oddly enough I was intrigued by most of the individual zone stories – just not the culminating grand storyline.
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For the most part, yes. Exploring the zones and experiencing their stories while leveling is the fun part of the game for me.