I’m considering rolling an Alliance alt, since I never actually did that in Vanilla. What would be some stuff to make sure I do while lvling?
Things that come to mind from what I’ve heard are the Ony attunement / BRD questline, Duskwood, and Darkshore. Anything else?
Also, are there any class quests that are noteworthy on the Alliance side (excluding paladin)?
(Alternately, is there some stuff best saved for later, or outright skipped?)
Duskwood.
Do every quest, read Jitters’ diary.
Redridge and Westfall are actually kinda fun, also rather enjoy Lochmodan.
I really enjoyed the feel and questlines in redridge on my paladin.
The Stormwind questines, Defias/Missing Diplomat/Ony attunement, are probably the most fleshed out in Classic.
Duskwood is great. I enjoy Westfall and Redridge but they are chill…not super-serious stuff. Duskwood plopped right in between them is super srs stuff.
been playing for 15 years. never did elf or dwarf starting zones. i love human area.
Duskwood and Ashenvale are 2 of my favs.
Roll a human and do all the story/chain quests in Elwynn, Westfall, Redridge and Duskwood. You’ll get a great sense of what’s happening lore-wise before you hit level 30.
I agree! Duskwood and Ashenvale are the best! Horde has Ashenvale though, they know all about it.
Personally, all my alliance toons are gnomes, because I like them (and my guild doesn’t allow night elves or humans), but I go to the night elf 10-20 zone darkshore as soon as I hit 10, it’s the most fun of the 10-20 zones. Loch Modan is ok and Westfall is really dull imo
The ony attunement is actually cool, unlike horde. Dwarf/gnome quest line into wetlands is legit imo.
I always do the quests for the furbolg staff when I hit 24.
Do the hinterlands quest chain that leads to saving sharpbeak.
The human zones for the first 20+ levels are representative of the Alliance, including the full questline through the Deadmines and Stockades. Also trying to get a group together to finish off the orc kill quests in Redridge, then dying mercilessly to them, is pretty iconic.
Definitely need to do all of Teldrasil on a Night Elf character; it’s a totally different vibe on Kalimdor but also very memorable, though prepare yourself for lots of running. And also the den of wakening will destroy you.
Furbolg staff in Ashenvale and Sharpbeak in Hinterlands necessary. At high levels, the Pamela Redpath questline and the Nathanos Blightcaller raid are key open world raids, the Onyxia attunement for sure is epic and exhausting, and probably the most Alliance thing you can do is join a dungeon group as a Paladin and get yelled at every 5 minutes about what buff each party member wants while you slowly lose control of your sanity.
The entire human part of Eastern Kingdoms is great. The Defias Brotherhood makes for one of the best plot lines in the game, and it got edited out during Cataclysm. Kalimdor is rather annoying for Alliance, at least until you get your mount.
And most if it has been removed since Cataclysm!
I did both factions (way more alliance) then and doing both again now. From my experience on alliance side, Human is the least tedious. The 4 zones are all pretty packed together, you can fly from Darkshire to Sentinel Hill and access the western Duskwood quest chains faster than walking through Duskwood. Whereas flying Darkshore to Astranaar has a pretty annoying, winding flight path.
Just in my opinion, Horde gets the better perspective/playability from Desolace, Stonetalon, Ashenvale, and Badlands, the Ashenvale alliance city is super inconvenient, and as an ally you forget how annoying it is to not have a flight path in classic to the northern camp in STV. Grom’Gol is really convenient. Also, all the alliance quests in Felwood are in the south, and the nearest flight paths are also a good walk away. I also just feel like horde just has more zones geared toward them than alliance has, as an ally even bouncing from zones I always seem to be running out of quests.
All the other zones I think are pretty equally in terms of a hub city or questing. I do enjoy playing alliance more, though.
I haven’t done Darkshore since 2006, I may revisit soon. Duskwood truly is the best zone thematically though, it’s like playing another game inside of WoW.
Loch Modan is super underrated