I mean zones that give a decent amount of quests for both factions to level in (So don’t say something like Westfall for Horde please lol). I was playing in Stranglethorn Vale as a Horde and there are so many Alliance players, I am guessing its because its so close to Stormwind maybe. Is Stranglethorn Vale a bad leveling spot for Horde?
I always skip ashenvale. The zone is too long
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STV and Hillsbrad Foothill have a lot of overlap. Then most endgame zones like Tanaris, Un’goro, and Winterspring, where you straight up share 90% of quests. But for lower levels maybe Ashenvale and Stonetalon as well.
If you are talking low levels being flagged next to a end game leveled zone then nothing beats Redridge Mountains.
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Hmmm, for me the game picks up when you venture into contested zones. =)
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I think this is only true when the zones are fun, like STV on a fresh! Redridge when there are 60 rogues corpse camping level 14’s doesn’t make the game more fun for the levellers. My opinion of course. I did my fair share of random end game pvp questing lol, especially in Silithus, Felwood, and Winterspring, during 2019 classic run when I could play on OCE servers.
Not as fun with 300ms getting charged and none of your spells register before you die
Well, I am taking into account it’s a fresh server. On a mature one with bored 60’s… all contested zones will be rough and not fun. heh
stranglethorn, hillsbrad, searing gorge, and wpl.
STV was always rough, Burning steppes, Tanaris (iirc?), ungoro, uh… the zone above ungoro (can’t remember the name right now), plaguelands, felwoods all come to mind off the top. Been years tho for me
On era, my experience has been Hillsbrad and Tanaris for horde. They both are largely dominated by over-leveled ally ganking levelers and camping questing areas.
There’s a little back and forth between horde 60s and ally 60s in these zones but not nearly an even amount. The worst area I’ve seen so far is the zf entrance and the northern mountainside between it and gadgetzan, and also gadgetzan for that matter. ZF and the area between it and gadg are almost constantly camped by ally 60s.
I leveled this hunter from 46-51 doing gy solo farms so I did somewhere around 30 runs. There were a handful of times where no one was ganking it and only twice did horde have control over it but with far less numbers than ally usually did. When running from gadg to zf I had to start running a good ways south, enough that I wouldn’t render to anyone remotely close to the mountains, then straight north to the entrance only to be killed by the raid of ally 60s camping in the ruins. It’s reasonable to expect at least one death going to the dungeon.
Gadgetzan is also a crap show. It has a bit more back and forth than the zf entrance did but, again, not nearly to the point of being even. For some reason it’s the ally hangout spot for 60 mages and they constantly gank from the safe spots.
STV was a far more balanced experience for me. There was a very even number of players and horde 60s actually show up. STV was peak wpvp and definitely lived up to it’s reputation.
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It’s so weird that you have this question and that nobody has mentioned it yet.
But STV is much better set up for the Horde who have an actual town and flight path that is perfectly situated in the zone.
If you’re talking about like PvP wise it’s got to be STV and Tanaris.
Hillsbrad can be hit and miss but the first time around those flightpaths were highly contested. Its not so bad anymore i dont think. STV would probably be the most contested since their are a bunch of quests for both factions.
Stv and Hillsbrad.
There have been times I would wake up early to quest in Hillsbrad just to get it over with. Stv I usually avoid altogether.
I’m all for wpvp but sometimes you just want to progress
lol they had a whole raid of trash at the ZF entrance there like a week ago. Lol literal bottom of the barrel type players. I’d suicide and take out several to try to let our lowbies get in the instance.
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