worth noting too that you don’t immediately get the mission table when you show up with an alt. you have to do the first couple of quests and eventually sendrax will send you to the table. (it’s within the first one or two once you arrive at the embassy).
I know that you don’t even really have to interact with the table at all - you can just start doing whatever. The quests to start each zone’s main storyline show up on your map as that blocky campaign quest icon. I believe on my monk I just mounted my dragon and flew straight to valdrakken upon arriving on the boat and just kinda roamed around doing whatever until I hit 70.