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Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Chapter I (21-31) (old version)

Chapter I (21-30) - Journey from the Barrens to the Thousand Needles

Introduction

This guide starts at level 21, if you need guides for any other level range (from 1-21 for example) please take a look at this page.

This guide is optimized for FAST leveling with a minimum of grinding sessions. Quests are important, they give rewards and faction and are less boring than pure grinding, BUT sometimes some quests are really a time waste and we will skip those and replace them by good grinding session when it is necessary.

Some people say that grinding is always faster than questing, this is true in theory when you don't know which quests to take and which to avoid, and what is the best order to do them. With this guide, questing will be very efficient and much better than pure grinding. Follow each instruction carefully and you will see for yourself.

The quest choices and order to do them are optimal so that you run as few as possible while doing the most possible and then turning several quests in at the same time. This guide will be very useful for both veteran and novice players. I try to keep the amount of information as short as possible. So even the guide itself is optimized for the minimum reading possible, to save time! Let's get started immediately then! Everything described in this guide can be done solo (besides when I say otherwise). However you can follow this guide while duoing, grouping, it's not a problem, it works too.

Basic rules

While traveling, kill everything that is on your way and gives experience (Yellow mobs preferably, but greens are ok if they are just 3-4 levels below you, not more).
Spend your talent points so you do the most damage possible. (e.g: Priest should specialize in Shadow Talents, Warriors in Arms/Fury, Rogues Combat/Assassination, etc).
Don't waste your time trying to find groups for questing, you can solo everything that is described in this guide. Only group with someone when it's not gonna be a waste of time (e.g: meeting the person at the other end of the map to show him the way to where your quest is, that is a waste of time)
Try to always log out in an Inn or in one of the major cities when you take a break.
If I don't mention a quest, it means I consider it a waste of time, so don't take it thinking I forgot a quest here and there, I didn't. Also don't abandon a quest unless I say you should.
Sometimes I will be making lists of quest you should have before starting with an area, that doesn't mean I will list the whole quest log, JUST the quests that interest us for the moment.
When I say you should bind (make an Inn your home location) somewhere, it's for a good reason, and it will save you much time. Don't change your home location until I say so.

Useful Addons

Something that's amazingly useful is the Ace2 updater. Download and install it and the program will present you with a list of addons which all use the same library (hence they consume very few ressources). From that list you can choose addons that interest you (I downloaded Fubar quest mod, Fubar location, Cartographer, Bartender and a mod to make my UI look better) and the program will install all the addons for you. Furthermore you can run the program every time before you launch WoW and choose to update all installed modules for you.

Side Note:
If your addons are not being loaded when you enter the game you might need to log out to your login screen and click on "Addons" in the left lower corner. Tick the box that says "Load out of date Addons". Relaunch WoW.

Shopping List:

Deadly Blunderbuss (will be needed at level 26 for a quest). Buy it at the Auction House or bring the materials to an Engineer and ask him kindly to craft it for you.

The Guide:

Level 21

If you followed hosho's guide, you should be level 21 now, and in Orgrimmar or Camp Taurajo. If you are in Orgrimmar, bind in Orgrimmar now before you do anything else. If you can get a group to the Wailing Caverns, do it, it's a nice little instance and the main quest rewards are really good for this level. If you can't get a group, don't waste your time, just fly to Camp Taurajo and let's get going with the guide!
In Camp Taurajo, get the quest [20] Cry of the Thunderhawk, get out of Camp Taurajo and look for a Thunderhawk, there are easy to find all around the camp, kill them until you get Thunderhawk Wings. Go back to Camp Taurajo, turn the quest in and get the quest [20] The Ashenvale Hunt. Hearthstone to Orgrimmar, or fly there and set your hearthstone there. It's very important that your hearthstone is set to Orgrimmar, will save us a lot of time.
If you haven't turned in [19] Samophlange Manual and/or haven't learned your new skills yet, do that. [19] Samophlange Manual is turned in at Rilli Greasygob in the Valley of Honor, in the engineer house.
Once you are ready to go again, fly to Splintertree Post (Ashenvale), you should have the flight path if you followed Hosho's barrens guide. In Splintertree Post, turn in [20] The Ashenvale Hunt and talk to the same NPC again, get the quest named The Ashenvale Hunt again and complete it. This enables you to do 3 hunting quests, which we will be doing soon.
Fly to the Zoram Outpost, get the following quests [19] Naga at the Zoram Strand, ignore the other quests for now. Now comes a grinding session, for those who went to Wailing Caverns there will be very few grinding to do or no grinding at all if they are already 22. Grind on the Nagas and the crabs at the Zoram Strand until you hit level 22. They are easy kills, perfect for your level and this area is very rarely crowded. To open the clam shells faster use [Shift + Right Click] on them. If you find any Shredder Operating Manual pages, keep them.

Level 22

For those who were 22 before the grinding session, you still need to kill Nagas until you have 20 Wrathtail Heads. Once that is done, go back to Zoram Outpost and turn in [19] Nagas at the Zoram Strand.
Hearthstone to Orgrimmar and get your new skills, sell / repair, restock food / drink and buy some healing potions. Put your Shredder Operating Manual pages in the bank.
Get out of Orgrimmar and take the Zeppelin to the Undercity. For those who never took the Zeppelin, just go left when coming out of Orgrimmar, you'll find a tower with two goblins atop, talk to them to know which of the Zeppelins goes to the Undercity (the other one goes to Grom'Gol, in Stranglethorn Vale, a level 30+ zone).
Get off the Zeppelin in Tirisfal Glades and go to the Undercity if you don't have the flight path (that will most likely be the case if you aren't an Undead). Once you have the Undercity flight path, get out and follow the road west. Follow it until you enter Silverpine Forest. In Silverpine follow the road until you reach a fork at (51,36), go west here and get the flight path at the Sepulcher, also get the quests [20] Journey to Hillsbrad Foothills from Apothecary Renferrel and [21] Beren's Peril from Shadow Priest Allister. Get back on the road, go south and follow the road until you are approximately at (58,77), at this point go northeast to Beren's Peril, stay close to the mountain which should be on your left hand, kill any Dalaran dude in your way. You''ll quickly find a narrow path towards the mountain at (60,74), go this way and you'll find the entrance to a cave as well as Ravenclaw Drudgers and Guardians, kill 6 of each to complete [21] Beren's Peril.
When done, get back on the road, go east until you enter Hillsbrad Foothills.

In Hillsbrad Foothills, follow the road, you'll quickly come across a guard tower to your right, get the quest [20] Time to Strike from Deathstalker Lesh there. Then get back on the road and keep going east until you get to another guard tower and a crossroad (57,36), go north to Tarren Mill. In Tarren Mill get the flight path, turn in the 2 quests we had and get the following quests:

[22] Elixir of Suffering
[24] Elixir of Pain
[24] Battle of Hillsbrad
[22] The Rescue
[22] WANTED: Syndicate Personel (from the poster infront of the church)
[28] Dangerous! (from the poster infront of the inn)
Head east/southeast, from now on kill every bear and spider you see on your way. You should soon find Durnholde Keep, the main entrance is on the south side of it at (76,46), go there. Inside the keep, clear the way over the bridge, then follow the small path up and then left. To the right you should see an orc npc in the distance named Thog'thar, he's chained and needs a key to escape. You will have to find Jailor Marigen and kill him to get the key. Start killing everything in the area until you find Jailor Marigen, loot the key and free Thog'thar, you just need to right click the iron ball.
You should also find Jailor Eston in the area to get the key for the other prisoner, Drull, but if Jailor Eston isn't there he is probably in one of the houses on the lower level of the fortress, and we're going there now.
Once you are sure that Jailor Eston isn't in the area (or have already found and killed him), move back down to the bridge and past it, if you look to your left and down you should see a few wooden houses in the lower court. Follow the ledge until the end and jump down there carefully and start clearing the way to the wooden houses carefully, watch out, mobs run away here. Drull, the 2nd prisoner, is in one of the two wooden houses. Free him and then get out and start killing everything on your way until you complete [22] Wanted: Syndicate Personnel.
We're gonna stay in Durnholde Keep until we hit level 23 as well. It's a good spot, there's plenty of mobs, they die fast and respawn fast, drop cloth and money.

Level 23

Get out of Durnholde Keep and start going back towards Tarren Mill, kill as much bears and spiders as possible on your way. Keep doing that until you complete the quest [22] Elixir of Suffering. This might take a while, the Creeper's Ichor is kinda rare. When done, go back to Tarren Mill and turn in the 3 quests. Take the follow up from [22] Elixir of Suffering, and turn in the quest at the little frog named "umpi" right next to the Apothecary. Restock food/drink, sell junk, repair (there's a weaponsmith on the other side of the field south of tarren mill).
Head west towards the Hillsbrad Fields, kill every Starving Mountain Lion you find on your way, don't worry if you don't get the 10 lion blood, we'll finish this quest on the way back. We'll first focus on the field which is to the northeast, you should see a small house, a tower-like structure and a medium sized house which looks like a barn. Before you start killing stuff, be mindful that every of those humanoids run in fear, so use snare abilities like hamstring when they get low on health.
Clear the way around the small house and inside you should find Farmer Getz, kill him (If Farmer Getz is not in his house, he's either in the field right next to it or in the barn). Then go northwest towards the next field, next to this field you'll find a medium sized house, with a dog named Stanley infront of it. Clear the way inside this house and on the 2nd floor you'll find Farmer Ray, kill him (Farmer Ray can also be found on the first floor of his house, and also around it and in the field next to it). Now just go out and start killing Hillsbrad Farmers and Farmhands in the fields until you have the [24] Battle of Hillsbrad quest finished. Avoid Hillsbrad Footmen, they might be too difficult for your level.
Once that is done, head east back to Tarren Mill, and kill as much Starving Mountain Lions as you need to finish the quest [24] Elixir of Pain.
Go back to Tarren Mill, turn in [24] Battle of Hillsbard, get the follow up [25] Battle of Hillsbrad. Turn in [24] Elixir of Pain and get the follow up. Now a new quest should be available to you from Deathguard Samsa, [25] Souvenirs of Death.
Head back to the Hillsbrad Fields, to the house next to the northern field with the dog Stanley infront. Make sure you are full health before turning in the quest to Stanley. Kill Stanley once he transforms, you get 1100 xp or so just for killing him. Now we're gonna head to the southern field, there are many Hillsbrad Peasants in it and also Farmer Kalaba. Kill 15 Peasants and Farmer Kalaba, be careful with runners. If anyone else is killing those peasants you should group up, as they don't respawn that fast, better not fight over them.
Once done with the 15 peasants go grind until you are about 1 bubble (about 1500xp) away from lvl 24, if you aren't that close already. Go grind on the northern fields, they are easier. Don't bother finishing [25] Souvenirs of Death, we'll do that when we come back to Hillsbrad in a couple of levels.

Go back to Tarren Mill, turn in [25] Battle of Hillsbrad, get the follow up [26] Battle of Hillsbrad. Get the new quest from Apothecary Lydon, [28] Elixir of Agony. Grats on lvl 24.

Level 24

Take a bat ride to the Sepulcher, turn in [21] Beren's Peril. Hearthstone to Ogrimmar. Learn new skills, check the Auction House, we're gonna need that Deadly Blunderbuss soon. It's also time to upgrade to bigger bags, 12 slots at least if you can afford them.
Time to go back to Ashenvale, go to the bank and get all the Shredder Manual pages you have. First fly to Splintertree post, get the following quests:
1. [26] Satyr Horns
2. [25] Stonetalon Standstill
Get out of the village, southwest until the guard tower where you will find more quests:
1. [24] Ashenvale Outrunners
2. [27] Warsong Supplies
Follow the road a bit further southwest, to the left you should see a small encampment, get the quest [30] The Lost Pages. Now you can bind chapters together when you have the right pages, it will free some bag space.
Go back to Splintertree Post and fly to Zoram'Gar Outpost.

Take the quest [23] Vorsha the Lasher from Muglash, he'll walk to the strand, follow him. He'll stop on a small island with a brazier atop. Click the brazier when he tells you to do so and get ready for 3 waves of monsters, you don't have time to loot in between the waves, you just have enough time to drink/eat:
1. 1st wave: 3 Nagas, they are green to you so not so hard, but it's still 3. Let Muglash tank one while you kill them one by one. Muglash is level 25 and can easily take one or two on his own. Try to save your long cooldown abilites and potions for the last wave if possible. As soon as the 3 nagas are defeated, eat/drink fast before the 2nd wave.
2. 2nd wave: 3 nagas again, one of them will be a naga priestess, kill that one first and try to interrupt her heals or you'll be in trouble. Use potion/long cooldown abilities if you have to but try to keep it for the next wave. Let Muglash tank as much as possible again. eat / drink fast right after the nagas are dead.
3. 3rd wave: a level 22 Hydra named Vorsha will spawn and attack you, the hydra hits rather hard for a level 22, so use everything you got. If you die don't release, Muglash should be able to finish off the hydra if you did enough damage to it before dying. Wait until you get the (complete) message, then release and run back to your corpse, go to Zoram Outpost and turn in the quest. Get the quests [24] Between a Rock and a Thistlefur and [24] Troll Charms.
Time for a little walk, go to Thislefur Village (30,45), follow the path shown on map.

Kill Furlbog Avengers and Shamans until you complete the first quest, then go north following the path inside the village and pass the wooden gate, then a bit futher along the path you'll see a stone arch if you face north. Go through this arch and you'll soon find the entrance to a cave. Enter the cave and explore it, kill stuff in there until you find 8 Troll Charms, which are in Troll Chests you can find scattered everywhere in the cave.

There is also an escort quest in the cave but it's too hard if you are solo. If you're not solo then go ahead and do the escort, it's a nice little exp boost.
Once you have 8 troll charms, get out of the cave and head back to Zoram'Gar outpost. Turn in the 2 quests, don't get the follow up.

Fly to Splintertree Post.

Start of XP Rate (This means that from here on I start to measure the XP over time rate with the Titan-Panel addon):
Go directly south of Splintertree Post, and on the other side of the road there's an area with Rotting Slimes, that's where you'll hunt for a while, but it's Ashenvale Outrunners you must find, and they are stealthed. Go around looking for them, kill a few slimes in the way. They shouldn't be hard to find, use TAB key while running around to find them, they are mostly next to trees anyway.
Once you are done with the [24] Ashenvale Outrunner quest, go west to (68,75), you should see an orc named Torek, with 3 raiders. DON'T take the quest now, just remember where he is, go further west on the other side of the road you should find a path to Silverwing Outpost (66,73). Kill all the nightelves on the path and inside the house, as soon as this is done, sprint back to Torek and start his quest. The way being clear, he'll directly run to the house. When inside 4 elves will spawn - let the orcs tank them and focus on one, Torrek must survive so kill as fast as you can, and use all the abilities / Consumables you have.
Note: If you are a healer this should be easy, you can heal the NPCs.

Even if you die you'll still get the complete message if torrek survives and wins the battle, so don't release immediately if you die. If you fail the quest just wait for the NPCs to respawn and try again, it took me 2 tries to get it down with the first character I did it.
Now you should be pretty close to level 25 (if you're not close, it means you are not killing enough stuff on your way) so we are gonna grind on the night elves at the silverwing outpost until level 25. There are plenty of them all around the house as well.

Level 25

Go west across the river, and further west until you hit Mystral Lake (52,70). Start killing Befouled Elementals there, be very careful with your breath as they like to frost nova you while you are under water, so stay close to the surface as much as you can and pull them with a long range attack. Besides killing 12 Befouled Water Elementals you must also find and kill Tideress, a level 27 elemental who roams from the island in the middle of the lake to the eastern tip of the lake.

He's slightly bigger than other elementals and is green instead of blue. Make sure you get him solo and have your cooldowns up or at least a potion ready. On Tideress' corpse you will find a Befouled Water Globe, right click it to start the quest [27] The Befouled Element.
Go to the island in the middle of Mysral Lake and walk around the gazebo structure until you get the objective complete message for [25] Stonetalon Standstill. Kill the remaining Befouled Water Elementals you need to complete the quest and then head to the western tip of the lake.
Now we're gonna look for a named lvl 25 bear named Ursangous, just go to the spot shown on map (40,65). Ursangous always roams around this area, so just kill bears and stags while waiting for him to show up. Kill him and loot his paw. Right click the paw to start a quest.
Now go east then slightly northeast (be careful to stay away from Silverwing Refuge's Guards) until you reach Greenpaw Village. Kill all the furlbogs on your way until you get a Logging Rope for the quest [27] Warsong Supplies, that's if you don't have it already. In any case, grind until those 2 objectives are met:
1. Get the logging rope
2. Have at least 5 bubbles in level 25.
Once that is done, get back on the road to Splintertree Post and turn in the quests:

[23] Ashenvale Outrunners
[24] Torek's Assault
[24] Ursangous's Paw
[25] Stonetalon Standstill
[27] The Befouled Element and get the follow up [27] Je'Neu of the Earthen Ring.
Fly to Zoram'Gar Outpost. Turn in the quest [27] Je'neu of the Earthen Ring. Hearthstone to Orgrimmar.

End of XP rate.

Sell/repair, check the auction house. Buy the shredder pages you miss (if you still miss any), they go for 15-20s buyout usually, and sell the extras.
Note: Be careful to bind your chapters before you put extra pages on sale, because let's say you have page 8 on sale at the auction house you won't be able to bind chapter 2 (page 5,6,7,, since the game will try to use the page you have at the auction house instead of the one in your backpack.
Also check for a Deadly Blunderbuss, we're gonna need it soon, if you can't buy it, find an engineer who will do it for you, bring him the materials and give him a tip. Restock food/drink and potions and then fly to the Crossroads, take the quest [22] Egg Hunt then fly to Camp Taurajo.

In Camp Taurajo get the quests:

[25] Betrayal from within
[24] Weapons of Choice
[27] Mahren Skyseer
Head south to the field of giants, look for Silithid Mounds

clear any bug around it and then click them to gather Silithis Eggs. Rinse and repeat until you have 12 eggs. Then head south staying close to the mountain on your right hand side until you stumble across some quillboar camps. You have to kill Razormane Warfrenzies, Seers and Stalkers until you get a wand, a shield and a backstabber. (The stalkers are stealthed but shouldn't be hard to find at your level). Warfrenzies drop the shield, Seers drop the wand and Stalkers drop the stabber.
There's also 4 nameds you must find, the first one is Lok Orcbane, and you can find him on top of a slope at (41,80). Kill him and loot his skull.
The 2nd one is optional, it's a Thunderhawk named Wasthe Pawne.

He roams in between 2 quillboar camps at (42,80), kill it and loot his feather. Right click it to start a quest. If you don't find him immediately just find the other nameds first then come back and grind in the area while looking for him. If after 15 minutes of grinding you still haven't found him, just forget it and move to the next step.
The 3rd one is Nak, he's further south in between two mountains (43,83), kill him and loot his skull, be careful with all the stalkers in this area, they tend to add while you are fighting Nak.
The 4th and last one, Kuz, roams around the middle camp and a tree with a painted stone at (45,80), kill him and loot his skull.
When done with quests [25] Betrayal from within and [24] Weapons of Choice, go east until you hit the road. Then follow search the road north and south until you find a tauren npc named Gann Stonespire, he walks up and down this road, from the fork that leads to Dustwallow marsh to Bael Modan, you should find him without problems, get his quest [23] Gann's Reclamation and head southeast to Bael Modan. Enter the excavation site by the slope on the southern side of the site (46,84). Kill 15 Excavators, 5 Foremans and Prospector Khazgorn who should be at the far end of the excavation site, loot his journal.
Head out back to Gann, turn in the quest and get the follow up [26] Revenge of Gann. This time head to the dwarven fortress which is just north of the excavation site. Kill dwarves there until the following two objectives are complete:
1. Complete the [26] Revenge of Gann quest
2. Be level 26 and have at least 1 bubble of exp in. (Actually grind 2 bubbles if you didn't find the named thunderhawk: Wasthe Pawne)

Level 26

Once that is done, get back on the road and find Gann, turn in [26] Revenge of Gann and get the follow up. Go back to the excavation site, but this time your target is the Helipad with the Gyrocopter atop. The Helipad is midway down the slope going to the excavation site (46,85), go up the helipad and right click the Flying Machine to destroy it, then go back to Gann for the last time and turn in the quest.
Run back to Camp Taurajo and turn in the quests:

[24] Weapons of Choice, get the follow up [29] A New Ore Sample
[25] Washte Pawne
[25] Betrayal from Within, get the follow up.

Fly to the Crossroads, when there turn in:

[22] Egg Hunt
[25] Betrayal from Within

Fly to Ratchet, if you don't have that flight path just run there (and get the flight path when you are there). From Ratchet go south along the Merchant coast until you get to the area named the Tidus Stair, turn in [27] Mahren Skyseer and get the follow up [27] Isha Awak.
Go south along the merchant coast until the Northwatch Hold, take a dive and the Isha Awak (some big aquatic dinosaur) should be there underwater at (63,53). It should be an easy kill, loot his heart and run back to Mahren Skyseer, turn in [27] Isha Awak.
Run back to Ratchet, take the boat to Booty Bay. In Booty Bay, on the docks you should find a crate named "Warsong Axe Shipment" close to Wharfmster Lozgil, loot it. Then go get the Booty Bay flight path, it's on the top floor of the Inn. Once you have the flight path, hearthstone to Orgrimmar!

Sell/Repair, check the auction house for missing shredder pages (you must complete the shredder page quest now before leaving Orgrimmar) and take your Deadly Blunderbuss with you. Go learn new skills and restock with consumables. Take about 60 food/drink with you, this will be a long session.
Fly to Splintertree Post.

Turn in the Deadly Blunderbuss at Pixel to get the Warsong Sawblades. Then get out of Splintertree Post, go southwest and then further west along the road until you find a small encampment to your left. Turn in [30] The Lost Pages. Keep going west on the road, at the first fork go west and at the 2nd fork go west as well until you reach (56,59). At this loc, go north and then right until you stumble across an area with Laughing Sisters in it (centaur chicks) (58,55). Start to grind on the Laughing Sisters around this spot, you will soon or later find a named cat, Shadumbra. Kill it and loot its head, right click it to start the quest. Then stay in this area and grind on Laughing Sisters until you reach level 27.

Level 27

Get back on the road (avoid Raynewood Retreat's Sentinels carefully though), then go east, stay on the road and then go north until you reach Satyrnaar (81,52).

Kill satyrs there until you finish [26] Satyr Horns and also find a Warsong Oil, they can be found inside various satyr camps and look like this:

If you are unlucky, you won't find the Oil anywhere in Satyrnaar and will have to go check out Xavian, the other satyr camp just north of Satyrnaar (78,46). To access it you have to get out of Satyrnaar, follow the road west until you hit the river, then follow the river north and you'll find Xavian to your right after a little walk. There should be plenty of Oil in Xavian, so you won't have to stay there long (mobs can be level 30 there so you better get the oil and go away as soon as possible).
Once you're done, get back on the road south towards Splintertree Post but we have one last thing to do before going to there, when you reach the fork close to Splintertree, go south to the Forsaken Camp (75,71). Now you're gonna search around this camp like shown on the map for a level 31 Hyppogryph named Sharptalon. Yes you read correctly, it's level 31. We theoritically can't kill that. But there's a trick. So keep killing stuff around the Forsaken Camp and once you spot Sharptalon keep him in sight and wait till he is close enough to the Forsaken Camp, pull him with the lowest aggro spell you have (a simple bow shoot or a rank 1 nuke) and bring him to the Forsaken Camp. Do nothing, let the npcs there aggro it and take it off you. Once they have Sharptalon down to 90% start attacking him again, you must do as much damage as possible but don't use high aggro spells like Earth Shock for example, help them finish it off. You should normally be able to loot him, and get his claw, which starts a quest if you right click it. Sharptalon roams but he always passes by the Forsaken Camp. If you don't manage it the first time its ok, stay in the area, kill Oozes and Elves while waiting for Sharptalon to respawn (about 10 mins).
Go back to Splintertree Post, turn in the following quests:

[27] Shadumbra's Head
[30] Sharptalon's Claw and now Selani should have a new quest up for you named "The Hunt Completed". Turn it in immediately.
[26] Satyr Horns

Sell junk at Splintertree Post to make bag space cause there's a small grinding session to come.
Go down the road out of Splintertree Post and turn in the last quest, [27] Warsong Supplies.

Now you should be about 7 bubbles away from lvl 28, we're gonna go back to the Laughing Sisters Camp and grind them there.

Level 28

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar. Learn new skills, check the auction house, repair and restock consumables etc.

Get out of Orgrimmar, take the Zepellin to Undercity. From the Undercity fly to Tarren Mill.

Start of XP rate:
After landing, head west to the Hillsbrad Fields, this time go to the forge house, which is west of the southern field. Kill 4 Apprentice Blacksmiths and Blacksmith Verringtan, he's inside the forge. Once the forge is clear go inside and loot the "Shipment of Iron", which looks like a big crate. Once that is done, head back to Tarren Mill, don't forget to kill stuff which is on your way.
Turn in [26] Battle of Hillsbrad and get the follow up.

Go back to the Hillsbrad Fields, this time we're gonna go to the City Hall (31,42), it's right next to the forge. Clear your way to inside the house, and clear the first 2 rooms. The 3rd room is much trickier to clear solo, you must pull very carefuly. First pull the 2 which are on the left inside the room, go back to the first room and hide behind a wall so that the Councilmen cannot nuke you from a distance but instead come to you. Kill them both then get back to full health. The next pull will be 3 mobs, and you will prolly need a potion so make sure your timer is ready. You just have to slightly peek into the room and they will aggro you, run back to the first room, hide behind a wall. Kill the Peasant, then the caster, then Clerk Horrace Whitesteed. Get back to full health, go to the 3rd room, pull the lone Councilman to the left, he should come solo, hide behind the wall in the 2nd room so that he comes to you. Kill it and get back to full health. Now only Magistrate Burnside should be left, kill it and then destroy the Hillsbrad Proclamation

and the Town Registry (a big blue book on the floor).

Clear your way out of the house, kill the remaining Councilmen you need for the quest, and also look for Citizen Wilkes if you haven't killed him already. He wanders to the City Hall and the Forge, so kill stuff around those two areas until you find him. Also complete the [25] Souvenirs of Death quest if you haven't already.
Head back to Tarren Mill, turn in the quests [26] Battle of Hillsbrad, get the follow up. Turn in [25] Souvenirs of Death as well. Sell/Repair and restock up to 2 stacks of food/drink. Make sure that you've got the follow up of [28]Elixir of Agony, from Apothecary Lydon.
This time we're gonna go to the mines which are just southwest of the Hillsbrad Fields, on the other side of the main road. There are two entrances to the mine, a lower one and an upper one. We'll enter through the lower one (26,58). After a while you'll see a fork, to the left are Foreman Bonds and Miner Hackett, but for now we're gonna go right and kill the Hillsbrad Miners there so that we'll have 9 or 10 kills of those. Note: Miner Hackett can spawn at various places in the mine, so if he's not where I said check every other area of the mine, it's a nice place to grind anyway so don't worry if it takes some time to find him.
Then go back to the fork and this time go towards Miner Hackett / Foreman Bonds, you should find the remaining Hillsbrad Miners you need on your way to them. Miner Hackett can be pulled solo and is an easy kill, kill him first.
Foreman Bonds is a different deal, the problem is that at 20% health he summons 2 dwarves to guard him and it's very unlikely that you can kill all 3. If you are a rogue it's easy, kill Foreman Bonds and then vanish. For other classes, clear the way behind you towards the exit right before engaging Foreman Bonds, finish him fast and then run for the exit, the 2 dwarves will eventually give up on you. If you die it's not that bad, what counts is that you get the kill on Foreman Bonds.
Anyway, once you have killed 10 Miners, Foreman Bonds and Miner Hackett, get out of the mine and back on the road and follow it eastwards until you cross the bridge over the river which splits the zone in two. Right after the bridge turn south and head this direction until you find a field with Mudsnout Gnolls in it (65,60). You have to gather the mushrooms in that field, they're called "Mudsnout Blossoms" and look like giant white/blue mushrooms. Gather 6 of them and then go back to Tarren Mill. Turn in the 3 quests and get the 2 follow ups: [30] Battle of Hillsbrad and [28] Elixir of Agony.

End of XP rate:
Hearthstone to Orgrimmar then. Sell/Repair, restock food/drink and consumables.

When you're ready to go again, fly to Camp Taurajo. Take the quest [30] Melor Sends Word. Go south/southeast until the Great Lift (32,22).

Get the quest [25] Message to Freewind Post and go down into the Thousand Needles.

Start of XP Rate:
Follow the road south a little while and then east, you should soon see a silver arrow on the minimap showing Freewind Post, following it until you reach it, there is a lift to access it on the east side of it.

In Freewind post turn in [25] Message to Freewind Post and take the follow up [25] Pacify the Centaur. Also take the quests:

[29] Wanted - Arnak Grimtotem from the Poster next to the Inn.
[26] Alien Egg
[29] Wind Rider
Also take the new flight path. Get back down off Freewind Post, no northwest until you find the Centaur Village. Kill centaurs there until you have the list of [25] Pacify the Centaur completed. Then go east, stay along the mountain to your left until you find a slope going up at (54,44). Up the slope you'll find a cave, enter it and get the quest [26] Test of Faith from Dorn Plainstalker. He'll teleport you to the top of a peak, look for two wooden planks and jump off from them. Don't worry you won't die from falling, Leeroy Jankins watches over you. You should re-appear next to Dorn, turn in the quest and get the follow up [30] Test of Endurance. This should make you ding level 29, or you should be very close.

Level 29

Now we're gonna look for an Alien Egg

It can be at 3 different spots, and it's always an area crowded by those weird flying serpents. The first one is directly south at (56,50). If it's not there, the next spot is directly south, at the zone wall, you should find a weird hole in the wall, and if you're lucky an Alien Egg close to it at (52,55). If the Egg is not there it will be further west against the zone wall at (38,55). Once you got an Alien Egg, go back to Freewind Post.
Turn in [25] Pacify the Centaur, get the follow up [28] Grimtotem Spying
Turn in [26] Alien Egg, get the follow up [26] Serpent Wild

Sell/repair, get back up to 2 stacks of food/drink.
Get back down off Freewind Post, head west until you reach Highperch (12,32). Get up there and start killing Wyverns while searching for eggs. Keep doing this until you have 10 Highperch Wyvern Eggs. Once you have done that, head to the southeastern corner inside Highperch, you should find a narrow path going up to another plateau, at the end of this plateau you should find a tauren named Pao'Ka with a quest. Take his quest [29] Homeward Bound and escort him out. It's a pretty simple escort quest, shouldn't be any problem. After you complete the escort, go east to Whitereach Post (21,32). Turn in the 2 quests you have here and get the follow up [27] Sacred Fire and get the other quest [30] Hypercapacitor Gizmo.
Go directly east to the small lake you can see on the map, called the Boiling Pool (33,34). Once you are there you must look for plants named Incendia Agave,

they can also be found inside the water.
When done with that, get out of the lake and to the western side of the big peak marked on the map as "Darkcloud Pinnacle", you'll find a narrow path going up at (31,36). After crossing 3 wooden bridges you'll be on a plateau with 2 choices, east or south. Go south, cross the bridge and you should be on a large plateau with a mini village with a big totem in the middle.

Go to the Northwestern edge of this plateau, where you will find another wooden bridge, cross it and you'll reach a small plateau with a "document chest"

on it, this one contains he Secret Note #1.

Go back to the big plateau, now on the southern side of this plateau enter the main house and inside you should find another "document chest", inside it you'll find the Secret Note #2.

Finally go to the eastern side of this plateau and find another wooden bridge going east, you'll reach a plateau with the last document chest inside a house, this on contains Secret Note #3.
Now get back on the big plateau, take the northern wooden bridge back to the plateau where we decided to go south last time. This time we are gonna take the wooden bridge going east. We'll reach a plateau with another double bridge choice, we'll choose the one going northeast this time. After crossing the bridge go left, there you should find Arnak Grimtotem, you normally should be able to pull him solo if you wait for the right moment, he will have another tauren close to him, so you might pull him with an add but this should still be manageable, use a health potion and long cooldown abilities if needed. Kill Arnak and loot his hoof.
Next to where you kill Arnak you should see a tauren named Lakota Windsong with a quest [29] Free at Last. You must escort her out. It shouldn't be a problem, Lakota is level 30 and does almost fine on her own. The only risk is that 2 extra taurens spawn to ambush her everytime she reaches the middle of a plateau, so you're safer if you pull the static spawns to her before she reaches the middle. Other than that, it's an easy escort. Once you complete it, run back to Freewind Post.
Turn in all the quests you have, there are no follow ups.

End of XP Rate:

Sell/repair, restock food/drink. Now you should be pretty close to level 30 and here is what we're gonna do:
1. Go grind on the Harpies if you are a melee class. (Vibrant Plumes sell nicely btw and can be traded in at the Darkmoon Faire for nice rewards)
2. If you are a caster and don't like to be silenced, go grind on the wyverns at Highperch.

Level 30

Go to the northwestern part of Thousand Needles, enter Feralas and get on the road, be careful to stay as far as possible from wolves or bears in Feralas, they are way too high level for us. Follow the road until you reach Camp Mojache. Get the flight path and fly to Thunder Bluff.
In Thunder Bluff, first go to the western plateau, next to the lift there is a tauren sitting under a tent, named Auld Stonespire, take his quest [34] A Vengeful Fate, this is the main quest for the instance Razorfen Kraul (RFK), and I will soon recommend to do that instance. If you don't want to do it, there will be a rather long grinding session.
Go to the Hunter Rise (southern plateau), turn in [30] Melor Sends Word and get the follow up [30] Steelsnap.

As last thing, go to the elder rise (eastern plateau), turn in [27] Sacred Fire and get the follow up [28+] Arikara.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar, train new skills, check the auction house, sell/repair, restock consumables.
Now you have two choices:
1. Get a group and do the instance Razorfen Kraul, follow my Razorfen Kraul Instance Guide.
2. Grind your way to level 31. I recommend two spots, one is the yeti cave west of Tarren Mill in Hillsbrad Foothils, it's a great spot.
  The other good spot is the Harpies in Thousand Needles, this spot is great but might not be so good for casters because the harpies cast silence. So it's up to you, happy instancing or grinding!

Level 31

End of this guide, stay tuned for chapter 2!

Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Chapter II (31-40) [old version]

Chapter II (31-40) - Journey from the Thousand Needles to Badlands

Introduction

This guide starts at level 31, if you need guides for any other level range (from 1-31 for example) please take a look at this page. This guide is a follow up of the previous chapter of my horde leveling guide, where a lot of pre-questing and flight-path gathering has been done already (especially for Blood Elves).

This guide is optimized for FAST leveling with a minimum of grinding sessions. Quests are important, they give rewards and faction and are less boring than pure grinding.

Basic rules

As soon as you see that you start to lack experience compared to the progress described in the guide start to kill everything that is on your way while traveling and that gives experience (Yellow mobs preferably, but greens are ok if they are just 3-4 levels below you, not more).
Spend your talent points so you do the most damage possible. (e.g: Priest should specialize in Shadow Talents, Warriors in Arms/Fury, Rogues Combat/Assassination, etc).
Don't waste your time trying to find groups for questing, you can solo everything that is described in this guide. Only group with someone when it's not gonna be a waste of time (e.g: meeting the person at the other end of the map to show him the way to where your quest is, that is a waste of time)
Try to always log out in an Inn or in one of the major cities when you take a break.
If I don't mention a quest, it means I consider it a waste of time, so don't take it thinking I forgot a quest here and there, I didn't. Also don't abandon a quest unless I say you should.
Sometimes I will be making lists of quest you should have before starting with an area, that doesn't mean I will list the whole quest log, JUST the quests that interest us for the moment.
When I say you should bind (make an Inn your home location) somewhere, it's for a good reason, and it will save you much time. Don't change your home location until I say so.

Useful Addons

Shopping List:

1x Strong Troll's Blood potion - Needed at level 34, you can either buy it at the AH or buy 2x Bruiseweed 2x Briarthorn 1x Leaded Vial and tip an Alchemist to combine for you.
2-5x Elixir of Water Breathing (or the greater version) - Needed at level 39, unless your character is an undead or a class which has an underwater breathing spell. Technically only one is necessary but if you die you might need a few more, so I recommend getting 2 or more.

These might not always be up for sale, so start checking early.

Color Code:

Quests
Items
Locations
Quest objectives to kill
NPCs
Locs

LEVEL 31

Let's get started! Make sure you're stocked on consumables (food/drink/potions) and fully repaired, keep your hearthstone set to Orgrimmar.

Your quest log should look like this if you followed Chapter I of my guide.

Fly to Freewind Post in Thousand Needles.

1. Get down the lift and follow the road west until Darkcloud Pinnacle, find the slope going up on the northwestern side of the peak (31,36). Go up and across 3 wooden bridges, you'll end up at the top of a peak with 2 bridges, take the one on your left (going east), at the next peak there will be 2 bridges again, take the one on your right (going southeast).

2. You should arrive on a last peak, with a bonfire in the middle named "Sacred Fire of Life". Clear everything on the peak, get back to full health/mana, make sure your health potion timer is up and if possible your long cooldown abilities. Right-click the bonfire, it will summon Arikara, a level 28 Elite (green to you), definitely manageable. Kill it and loot "Arikara Serpent Skin".
Go back the way you came from, until you get off Darkcloud Pinnacle. If you are solo skip the next paragraph, because you can't kill the enraged panther alone at this level. If you're 2 or more, you can.

3. Optional
Go northwest until you find a destroyed caravan (22,24) with a panther in a cage in the middle. Open the lock and kill the panther and loot the Hypercapacitator Gyzmo, then go south to Whitereach Post.

4. Go west to Whitereach Post (south if you did the enraged panther quest) (21,31). Turn in the quest [28+]Arikara and [30+]Hypercapacitator Gyzmo if you did it, if not you can abandon that quest.

5. Go west/northwest, we're now gonna look for a named hyena named Steelsnap. Go to the area which is north of highperch, Steelsnap always passes by that spot. Just kill everything in the area while waiting for Steelsnap to show up. I generally find her at (13,28). She's a level 30 hyena with two hyena guarding her. Just kill her quickly and run away, that's the easiest option, but any class can manage it with a bit of strategy. Loot Steelsnap's Rib.

6. Go southeast along the mountain until you reach the harpy cave. Clear your way inside the cave until you reach the bottom, you should see some wooden crates in the corner. Don't click them yet, you must first know what's gonna happen if you click them.
4 waves of harpies are gonna come flying towards those crates, you can't do this solo normally, but there's a way. It's too complicated to describe so I made a video of it. Watch it and you'll understand, it's low quality but you can view it instantly without any downloading:

Test of Endurance Video

See it's not easy, but definitely possible. I didn't even use Sap, Thistle Tea or vanish, so I still had some margin of error. And the gear of that rogue is really nothing special, green items of average quality. What really matters anyway is that you get to the end of the script and loot Grenka's Claw quickly, even if you die it's no problem as long as you loot the claw before.
If you really can't manage that part, just abandon the quest, it will mean a little more grinding to do for you. Now you should be getting close to half way in level 31 normally. And we're gonna grind on those harpies (or you can go grind on the wyverns or centaurs in thousand needles if you prefer) until we are 4000XP away from level 32.

7. When that is done, travel east to the Weathered Nook (54,44), go up the slope and inside the cave to turn in the quest [30]Test of Endurance. Don't get the follow up.

8. Run back to Freewind Post, fly to Thunderbluff. In Thunderbluff go south to the Hunter Rise and turn in the quest [30]Steelsnap, get the follow up [37]Frostmaw, you can destroy the Kodo Skin Parchment you just got from this quest. Congratulations on level 32.

LEVEL 32

Train your new skills, you can hearthstone to Orgrimmar if you wish. Check the AH, restock consumables, repair. Once you're ready to go again, fly to Freewind Post in Thousand Needles.
Go east until you reach the Mirage Raceway in the Shimmering Flats(80,77). Get the following quests there:

[30] Hardened Shells
[30] Salt Flat Venom
[30] Load Lightening
[31] Rocket Car Parts
[31] Hemet Nesingwary
[33] A Bump in the Road
[36] Wharfmaster Dizzywig

You can find everything needed to complete those quests all around the raceway, do long circles all around it and kill everything on the way. Keep doing this until you complete all the quests and get 10 Turtle Meat. Avoid the level 35 turtles, they are orange to you and might be a little too hard, find the lower level ones on the northern part of the Shimmering Flats. Grind on turtles mostly if possible, they drop scales which sell nicely. Don't sell the Turtle Meat, put them in bank or somewhere in your inventory.

Turn in all the quests and get the follow up quests :

[37] Goblin Sponsorship
[35] Martek the Exiled

Now you should be getting close to level 33, so we're gonna grind in the area (turtles, vultures, etc) until we hit level 33.

LEVEL 33

Before we leave, go south and zone into Tanaris. Go to Gadgetzan and talk to the Wyvern Master in front of the gate. Fly to Ratchet, talk to Gazlowe (in one of the houses northwest of the wyvern landing spot)and get the follow up [37]Goblin Sponsorship. Go to the peer and talk to Wharfmaster Dizzywig, turn in the quest but don't get the follow up. Then take the boat to Booty Bay.

In Booty Bay on the docks, talk to Wharfmaster Lozgil and get the follow up [37]Gobline Sponsorship.
Go to the Booty Bay Inn, on the 1st floor, get the quest [35]Singing Blue Shards.
On the 3rd floor get the quests [32]Investigate the Camp [35]Bloodscalp Ears [36]Hostile Takeover. Turn in the quest at Baron Revilgaz and get the follow up [37]Goblin Sponsorship. Take the flight path if you haven't already (we did this in the Chapter I of my guide).
Get out of the Inn by the other door on the 3rd floor, facing east. In the 3rd house to the left you should find another quest [31]Supply and Demand.

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar.

Repair, sell, restock consumables. Get out of orgrimmar and take the Zeppelin to Grom'gol.

In Grom'Gol get the following quests:

[34]Bloodscalp Insight (added recently)
[34]Hunt for Yenniku
[37]Bloody Bone Necklaces
[37]The Vile Reef (Elite)
[37]Trollbane

From now on, whenever you kill something in Stranglethorn Vale, you might find "Green Hills of Stranglethorn" pages, make sure you keep at least one of each pages.

1. Exit the camp from the east side, follow the path until you reach the road. Follow this road north, cross the 1st bridge, and keep going until you reach the 2nd bridge, don't cross it, go directly north downhill until you find Nesingwary's Expedition Camp, next to the river (35,10). Turn in [31]Hemet Nesingwary then talk to the other dwarf, get his quest, turn it in at Hemet again. This should unlock several other quests. Get [31 Panther Mastery [31]Tiger Mastery and [34]Raptor Mastery. No need to get the Green Hills of Stranglethorn quest yet, it's the page quest and you only need to take it once you have gathered enough pages to complete the chapters. Let's start hunting!

2. Kill River Crocolisks which can be found all along the river in northern Stranglethorn Vale until you find 2 Large Crocolisk Skins. While you search for crocs you can also kill Young Tigers close to the river for Tiger Mastery.

3. Then kill 10 Young Tigers (or as much as you still got left)
Tigers can be found mostly south and around the Nesingwary camp.

4. Kill Young Panthers, they are mostly found on the other side of the river to the east (41,10).

5. Once you have finished the above quests, go back to Nesingwary's Expedition. Turn in Tiger and Panther mastery, get the follow ups [33]Tiger Mastery and [33]Panther Mastery.

6. Go west until you reach a plateau (30,9). Up there you can find Panthers and Tigers. Kill 10 of each.

7. Further southwest on the plateau you should find Stranglethorn Raptors, kill 10.

8. Go south and down the plateau until you find the troll camp at Bal'lal Ruins (29,20). It should take a while to get 15 Bloodscalp Ears, 9 Bloodscalp Tusks, 1 Bloodscalp Totem and 25 Bloody Bone Necklaces, but it is a nice grinding spot anyway. If you don't have enough trolls there is another camp northeast at the Tkashi Ruins (33,15).

9. Once you've collected all of that, go west to the shore and move along the shore towards the north until you find Crystal Spine Basilisks. If you run short on Basilisks, there is more on the lower plateau to the east along the shore. If there aren't any basilisks just go kill some trolls until they respawn. Kill basilisks until you get 10 Singing Crystal Shards.

10. After that go take a swim until you reach the loc (24,22), right under you should be some ruins guarded by elite murlocs. Against one of the outer walls of those ruins you should see a big tablet, if you put your pointer over it the cog should appear and it should say "Gri'lek the Wanderer". Dive and click the tablet to loot the Tablet Shard, you should be able to do that without aggro'ing any murlock.

11. Go back to Nesingwary's Expedition. Turn in the raptor, panther and tiger mastery quests, get the follow ups.

Now you should be about 4 bubbles away from level 34, if you are not it means you didn't kill enough stuff on your way. So go kill some trolls until you are 4 bubbles away from 34.

When that is done, go directly to Grom'gol base camp. Turn in:

[34]Hunt for Yenniku, don't get the follow up.
[34]Bloodscalp Insight, don't get the follow up.
[37]The Vile Reef (elite)
[37]Bloody Bone Necklaces, don't get the follow up.

Fly to Booty Bay. Turn in the 4 following quests:

[31]Supply and Demand, get the follow up [36]Some Assembly Required
[32]Investigate the Camp
[35]Singing Blue Shards, don't get the follow up
[35]Bloodscalp Ears

Congratulations on level 34! Hearthstone to Orgrimmar, visit the class trainer, repair, sell, visit the auction, etc.

LEVEL 34

Before leaving Orgrimmar, make sure you have a Strong Troll's Blood Potion with you, or buy it now. We're gonna need it in the quest [28]Elixir of Agony. Another last thing before you go, if you don't have the cooking profession yet, go learn it. Talk to a city guard and ask him for a cooking trainer. You don't need to level cooking up, you just need to train and to become an Apprentice Cook, it will unlock some cooking quests for some easy XP. Grab the 10 Turtle Meat you saved when we were in the Shimmering Flats, and you're finally ready to go again.

Take the Zeppelin to the Undercity. In the Undercity next to the Bat Handler you should find a quest [36]To Steal from Thieves. Then go to the Apothecarium, find Master Apothecary Farell, turn in the quest [28]Elixir of Agony and get the follow up.

Fly to Tarren Mill, Hillsbrad.

Get the following quests:

[30] Humbert's Sword (Elite)
[32] Stone Tokens
[32] The Hammer may fall
[34] Helcular's Revenge
[34] Infiltration
[34] Prison break in

1. Go inside the Inn, and get the quest [31]Soothing Turtle Bisque from Christophe Jeffcoat, also buy 1x Soothing Spices from him. Turn in the quest immediately. While you're inside the Inn, set your hearthstone to Tarren Mill.

2. Head southwest until you hit the Western Strand (36,66) with the Murloc Camps. Kill murlocs until you get 5 Torn Fin Eyes.

3. Go northeast to the Yeti Cave (46,30). Kill yetis until you get Hercular's Rod, which is kinda rare, so just kill a lot of yetis. Once you have the rod, get out of the cave.

4. Go southeast and across the river, then go south until you hit the shore, you should find nagas there (58,64). Kill nagas until you have 5 Daggerspine Scales.

5. Hearthstone to Tarren Mill.

Turn in [34]Helcular's Revenge and get the follow up.
Turn in [30]Elixir of Agony and get the follow up.

Sell/repair/restock food if needed.
Note: I highly recommend to duo the next part, it will be much easier. However it is definitely soloable, as I did it with 3 different characters, but you really need to be careful and there's a high chance you'll die a few times.

6. Go southeast to the Dwarven Fortress of Dun Garok (69,73).
The dwarves are elite, but they are all green to you, so you should be able to manage them if you pull them one by one (even 2 at the same time if you use long cooldown abilities/bandages/health pot). However if you don't manage it, I highly recommend you go grind in the yeti cave and try to find someone willing to go with you to do this quest, if you don't find anyone, grind until you hit level 35, and it should be easier by then. The good news is that they can almost always be pulled solo if you are careful.
Tip: pull the mountaineers first, they are the easiest and they actually come to you instead of range shooting. Also make sure you use a snare type ability on all mobs, as they run when below 20% health.

Your first task will be to make yourself a way inside the fortress and find a Keg of Shindigger Stout, They can mostly be found on the side rooms down the stairs.

Then the hard task will be to kill Captain Ironhill, he can spawn a various locations:

On the top floors, which is good because he can easily be pulled solo there.
On the big middle room down the stairs, this is where it gets tough. I suggest you try to find a partner to kill Captain Iron Hill if he's in the main middle room, because it's too hard solo. Not impossible but just very hard.
After you've killed Captain Ironhill, keep killing dwarves in the fortress until you've completed the kill list of [30]Battle of Hillsbrad and gotten Humbert's Sword, which is a rare drop from any of the dwarves.
If you can't find someone to group with and can't solo those dwarves, abandon the Battle of Hillsbrad and Elixir of Agony and Humbert's Sword quests, you will have to grind more, that's all Eye

7. Get out of the Dwarven Fortress, get back on the path going northeast and then east into Arathi Highlands.

8. Stay on the road for a while until the location (30,50), north of that point you should see a mound with some ogres, this area is called Boulder' gor. Kill ogres in this area until you complete the kill list from [32]The Hammer May Fall.
Note: Boulderfist Enforcers can only be found inside the cave, which can be entered from the east side of the mound.

9. Get back on the road, follow it eastwards until you reach a crossroads, follow the smaller trail going northeast, until you reach Hammerfall, the horde outpost.

Further inside the village go up the stairs and turn in the quest [37]Trollbane, don't get the follow up.
Turn in [32]The Hammer May Fall, get the follow up [32]Call to Arms.
Get the new flight path
Sell, repair, restock food/drink.

10. Head out, go south until you find Witherbark Village (69,60). Kill trolls in there until you finish the kill list of [32]Call to Arms and then grind here until you hit level 35. If you find a necklace named Pendant of Myzrael, click it to start the quest, and you may equip it too if you don't have a better necklace.

LEVEL 35

Hearthstone to Tarren Mill. Turn in the 3 quests, get the follow ups:

[30] Elixir of Agony
[32] Battle of Hillsbrad

Go to the Inn, on the 2nd floor there's a room with Captured Farmers inside, and a "Dusty Rug" on the floor. Click it and complete the quest for an extra 3650 exp.

Sell, repair, restock food.

No map for this part, just follow the directions carefully.

1. Head west to the yeti cave. Go inside the cave, and look for the 2 braziers named Flame of Azel and Veraz. Right click them to turn them off.

2. Get out of the yeti cave, go north and slightly northeast, find the plateau named Corahn's Dagger (48,18). You'll find a syndicate camp there, kill those humanoids until you get a Syndicate Missive.

3. Once you have the Syndicate Missive, go west, you should quickly stumble upon a camp with alliance npcs, don't get too close or they will aggro you and you'll die quickly. To the north you should see a narrow path to Alterac Mountains (42,77). Before you go through this pass, kill some lions in the area until you get a Fresh Carcass (if you didn't get one already that is).

4. Once you have a Fresh Carcass, go through the snowy path, you should be able to locate a yeti cave soon at (37,68). Clear yourself a way inside the cave, then click the Flame of Uzel.
Then get back to full health/mana, and check if your potion timer is ready, cause we're about to summon a level 37 yeti, Frostmaw. When ready, place the Fresh Carcass on the Flame of Uzel and wait a little bit, frotmaw should show up within the next 20 seconds. Kill it and loot "Frostmaw's Mane".

5. Exit the cave, go west back to the plains area in Alterac Mountains and then southwest until you find the Lordamere Internment Camp (21,82).
Kill everything in the camp, including the non agressive undead npcs. You can get stone tokens from the Dalaran Guards and Theurgists, and the Bloodstones from the undead npcs: Ricter, Alina, Dermot and Kergan Darkmar. Kergan is in the other house, on the 2nd floor. He's guarded by a level 36 mob, Warden Belamoore so kill this one first, then kill Kergan and loot the last Bloodstone. You don't need Belamoore's Journal for anything, it is just lore, you may destroy it.

Once you got the 4 bloodstones and 10 Stone tokens, hearthstone back to Tarren Mill.

Turn in:

[34]Infiltration, don't get the follow up
[34]Prison Break In, get the follow up [35]Dalaran Patrols
[32]Stone Tokens, get the follow up [34]Bracers of Binding

6. Now is the time for one of those missions: impossible. Head southwest to the river and follow it until you have the alliance town of Southshore in view. Not too close or you'll get aggro from the guards, they'll see you from very very far. (55,52) is a good spot.
With maxed clip plane you should see Helcular's grave, which is at the eastmost tip of the southshore graveyard. Wait till the 3 guards patrolling close to this area are as far as possible then sprint for the grave, right click it, complete the quest log which just showed up as quick as possible and then run for your life, back the way you came from. You will most likely get aggro and die, but it's ok!

If you have troubles doing this part, I made a quick video of it here:

Helcular's Revenge Video

This made me hit level 36. If you are still not 36 at this point, it's not a problem, we still have 1 quest to turn in the Undercity. So if you are lacking less than 2500 xp, don't worry about it, just go back to Tarren Mill. If you are lacking more than 2500 xp, go grind on yetis, lions or syndicates until you fill up the gap, then go to Tarren Mill.

Fly to the Undercity, go speak to Varimathras, he is in the same room as Sylvana, the banshee queen. This room is behind the Apothecarium, you have to use the gate of the Apothecarium to access it.

Turn in [32]Battle of Hillsbrad, also get the quest [42]Into the Scarlet Monastery while we're here. Congratulations on level 36.

LEVEL 36

Sell, repair, restock consumables, visit your class trainer (certain classes might have to go to Orgrimmar).
Fly back to Tarren Mill.

Go west and then north into Alterac Mountains, as if you were going to the Lordamere Internment camp. However this time go further north towards those rubbles around the big purple dome of Dalaran (20,77). Kill elementals and the dalaran humanoids in this area until you complete [34]Bracers of Bindings and [35]Dalaran Patrols.

When done, hearthstone to Tarren Mill or run there if it's still on cooldown. Turn in the 2 quests.

Sell/Repair, restock food/drink.

Fly to Hammerfall, Arathi Highlands.

In Hammerfall, turn in [32]Call to Arms and get the follow up.
Talk to the innkeeper and set your hearthstone here.

Also get the quests:

[33] Foul Magics
[34] Raising Spirits

**If you have 225/225 in first aid, you may go to the house which is to the left after entering the Hammerfall, the trauma surgeon there will give you a quest to become an artisan in first aid. The quest is done immediately, you have to bandage injured soldiers as fast as possible, prioritizing the most injured ones. It's also an easy 3900 xp. If you fail it, abandon and re start the quest.**

Time to hunt!

Kill all the raptors you find on your way, you need 10 Highland Raptor Eyes.

1. Head west to the Dabyrie Farmstead (57,41).
Fardel should be around the field.
Marcel should be in the stables.
Kenata should be in the small house on top of the hill.

2. Once you've collected the 3 heads, head west to Northfold Manor (35,30). Kill the syndicates there until you have 10 Bloodstone Amulets.

3. Head back to Hammerfall, make sure you get the last Highland Raptor Eyes you need.

Turn in the following quests:

[33] Foul Magics, don't get the follow up
[34] Raising Spirits, get the follow up and go talk to Gor'mul in the northwest corner of the village, turn in the quest and go back to torgan, turn in the quest and get the follow up [37]Guile of the Raptor.

Sell, repair, restock food/drink.

4. Head southwest to the opposite side of the zone till you find the Boulderist Camp (52,72). Kill the Ogres there until you finish what's on the kill list of [38]Call to Arms.

5. Then go to the plains north and west of the Ogre caves, all over the plains there you'll find Highland Fleshstalkers, you have to kill alot of them until you have 12 Raptor Hearts. Consider this as a small grind session, just grind on everything in the area, till you get 12 Hearts.

After that, go grind on Ogres or Trolls to the east, until you are about 10000xp from level 37.

6. Hearthstone back to Hammerfall, turn in [37]Guile of the Raptor.
Go to Gor'mul (the npc close to the forge), turn in [37]Guile of the Raptor. Wait a few seconds then he will have a quest up for you, take it and go back to Tor'Gan, turn in the quest [37]Guile of the Raptor again.
Go up the stairs in front of the inn and turn in [38]Call to Arms.

Fly to the Undercity, when there, turn in the quest [36]To Steal from Thieves, right next to the Bat Handler.

Get out of the Undercity, go take the Zeppelin to Orgrimmar.

First thing you do when in Orgrimmar is set your hearthstone at the Innkeeper.
Then go to the Cleft of Shadows, and find Craven Drok, an orc NPC who roams in between the two slopes there. Get the quest [30]Alliance Relations from him.
Go to the western exit of Orgrimmar, in the last hut before the exit turn in this quest and get the follow up.

Sell/repair/restock consumables.

Fly to Thunderbluff, go to the Hunter Rise and turn in the quest [37]Frostmaw, don't get the follow up.

This should make you ding level 37

LEVEL 37

Your quest log should look like this at the moment:

[30]Alliance Relations
[42D]Into the Scarlet Monastery (Dungeon)
[35]Tiger Mastery
[36]Hostile Takeover
[36]Raptor Mastery
[36]Some Assembly Required
[38]Panter Mastery
[35]Martek the Exiled (Complete)
[37]Goblin Sponsorship

Fly to Sun Rock Retreat in Stonetalon Mountains, and go to Desolace. If you don't know the way, here it how:

After entering Desolace, go south and slightly southeast to find Kormek's Hut (62,38), get the quest Bone Collector from Bibbly F'utzbuckle.

Go west to the big tower named Ethel'rethor, next to it you'll find a human npc nmaed Azore Aldamort(38,26), get his quest: [33]Scepter of Light.
Then go southwest of tower, along the coast you should find a book on a planck, the book is named "Rackmore's Log" (36,30), click it and get the quest [36]Claim Rackmore's Treasure.

Go southeast until Ghost Walker Post's main entrance (56,56), a bit to the south you should find 2 NPCs next to a small hut, get the quest [33]Gelkis alliance and [35]Khan Dez'hepah.
A little to the north get the quest [37]Catch of the day from Nakata Longhorn.
To the west you'll find the last quest giver of Ghost Walker Post, Takata Steelblade, turn in [30]Alliance Relations, get the follow up as well as the other quest [33]Befouled by Satyr.
Talk to Maurin Bonesplitter who should be right behind you, turn in the quest [33]Alliance Relations and get the follow up [33]The Burning of Spirits.

Go south till you hit the road and then follow it until you get to Shadowprey Village (25,75).

Get the quest [38]Hand of Iruxos from Taiga Whitemane, who should be standing on top of an earth mound, to the right after a couple of huts.
Go down to the pier and get the quests [36]Other fish to Fry and [35]Claim Bait.

Go to the end of the pier and get the new flight path.

1. From the pier, dive into the water, look around at the bottom of the sea for Shellfish Traps

Keep doing this until you have gathered 10 Shellfish.
When you have 10 Shellfish go back up to the pier and talk to the troll named Jinar'Zillen, turn in 5 Shellfish twice to get 2 Bloodbelly Fish(put those aside in your bags, make sure you don't eat them).
Sell, repair, restock food/drink. This is going to be a long circuit.

2. Get out of the village the same way you came from, follow the road eastwards until you reach Magram Village (66,68). Time to slaughter some centaurs! Kill Magram Centaurs until your reputation with the Gelkis Centaurs is Friendly. That means you need to kill 50 Magram centaurs, check your reputation tab ("u" key) to see your progression. Stop killing them once you are friendly with the Gelkis.

3. Go northwest to Scrabblescrew's Camp (60,61), get the quest [34]Kodo Roundup. Find the Kodo Kombobulator Rod in your bags and put it on a hotkey. Go west to the Kodo Graveyard and use the rod on any Ancient, Aged or Dying Kodos, when you got one following you, bring it back to the goblin who gave you the quest, he will say something about you needing to inspect the beast, right click on the kodo you just brought and you should get a quest update. Repeat this step 4 more times and the quest will be complete. Turn in the quest.

4. Go back to the Kodo Graveyard, look for kodo skulls on the floor, they are labelled as "Kodo Bones" on your tooltip. Gather 10 kodo bones, watch out though, clicking the skulls sometimes spawns a Kodo Apparition, which are easy to kill at your level but just don't click a skull if you are low on health.

5. Go east to the Kolkar Village and find their chief, Khan Dez'Hepah (73,47), who stands in one of those high tents. Kill him, loot his head.

6. Go to the horde camp just above and around the Kodo Graveyard, turn in [35]Khan Dez'hepah at Felgor Twocuts (56,59) and [37]Catch of the day at Nakata Longhorn just a bit further north.

7. Go northeast to Kormek's Hut (62,38), turn in [39]Bone Collector.

8. Go northeast to the Satyr Village of Sargeron (75,28), kill all the satyrs you need to complete the quest [33]Befouled by Satyrs.

9. Go west to Thunder Axe Fortress and enter by the main gate (56,29). Look for a "Burning Gem" in your bags, and put it on a hotkey. When you kill the burning crusade npcs in the fortress, use the gem on them when they are about to die (10-20% health left or so), you will gather infused burning gems that way. You need 15 burning gems in total, and you will probably gather them while we reach the other objectives for other quests we have to do here.
Go inside the main building right infront of the main gate, clear the way to the central room, inside of it you should see a big red crystal. Clear the whole room before you touch it. Save your long cooldown abilities and have your potion timer ready too. When you are ready, click the crystal, a Demon Spirit will spawn, it's lvl 37 but kinda hard for this level, so use everything you got if needed. Kill it and loot the Demon Box.
Get out of this building, and go to the guard tower just next to the main gate, clear the two npcs on each side of the hut on the top floor of the guard tower, then get full health before you go in, because 2 npcs are inside. Kill them both and loot the Rod of Light from the seer.
Before you leave the fortress, kill mobs until you get the remaining Infused Burning Gems you need for the quest [33]The Burning of Spirits. You should already have found a Flayed Demon Skin on one of the burning crusade npcs you killed, if you haven't stay in the fortress and kill everything until you get one. Right click it to start the quest [33]The Corrupter.

10. Get west to the tower of Ethel Rethor (38,27), turn in the quest [33]The Scepter of Light at the npc Azore Aldamort. Get the follow up [38]Book of the Ancients.

11. Go west to the shore, follow it south until you see the mast of a wrecked ship, sticking out of the water at (33,31). Take a swim, all around this ship you'll find Giant Softshell Clams, open them to find clam shells, which you need to open to find meat inside.

You need to gather 10 Soft-Shelled Clam Meat that way. Also in the same area you'll find those giant lobsters named Drysnap Crawlers and Pincers. Kill those until you find a Silver Key (takes me 10 kills on average, depends of my luck).

12. Go north of the sunken ship until you find nagas, kill them until you find Rackmore's Golden Key. The key can drop from any naga in the area, it takes me about 10 kills each time depending of my luck.

13. Once you've got the key, swim northwest, kill any Slitherblade Myrmidon, Naga or Sorceress you find on your way, this is a long swim. Keep swimming northwest until you reach Raznajar Isle, and step on the isle by the eastern side of it (30,9). You should find Rackmore's Chest here, at the base of a tree.

Click on it and complete the quest.

14. Go to the northern tip of the isle, you should find a Serpent Statue. Clear the few nagas around it, get full HP/MANA then go click the statue, this will spawn Lord Kragaru, a level 38 naga. Kill him and loot the Book of the Ancients from him. Now you should be getting close to level 38, or at least be 4 bubbles away from it. If you are not that close, stay on this island (good grind spot) and kill nagas until you are 4 bubbles away from level 38 or less.

15. Swim southeast, back towards the tower of Ethel Rethor, kill the remaining Slitherblade you need on your way back, make sure you complete the quest [36]Other fish to fry before you go.
Go to Azore Aldamort (38,27) and turn in [38]Book of the Ancients.

16. Go southeast to Ghost Walker Post, find Maurin Bonesplitter and Takata Steelblade (52,53). Turn in the 3 quests, do NOT get the follow up form [33]The Corrupter, but get the other follow up: [33]Alliance Relations.

17. Go south, back on the road and follow it south then west, until Gelkis Village where you must find their chief: Uthek the Wise (36,79), turn in the quest, don't get the follow up.

18. Go to Shadowprey Village, turn in the last 3 quests:

[35] Claim Bait
[36] Other fish to fry
[38] Hand of Iruxos, don't get the follow up.

Congratulations on level 38.

LEVEL 38

Hearthstone to Orgrimmar, go turn in [33]Alliance Relations at Keldran (in the last hut close to Orgrimmar's west gate)
Go visit your class trainer, sell/repair, check the AH, restock consumables.

Take the Zeppelin to Grom'gol base camp. In Grom'gol, take the following quests:

[36]The Defense of Grom'gol
[36]An Unusual Patron (added recently)
[37]Headhunting
[38]Mok'thardin's Enchantment
[42]Split Bone necklace

Your quest log should look like this now:

Time to hunt!

1. Go southeast, stop at (35,35), you should be close to the Master Tribal Leatherworker npc, all around this area you need to find Shadowmaw Panthers, they are stealthed. The best method is to run around killing everything in the area while hitting "tab" key alot to target any panther you find on the way. Keep doing this until you have 10 Shadowmaw Panther kills and 8 Shadowmaw Claws, and also a Pristine Tigress Fang. This may take a while so just kill everything in the area until you're done.

2. Go northeast along the river, you'll find Snapjaw Crocolisks soon (39,31). Keep going north along the river to find more crocs, kill them until you got 5 snapjaw crocolisk skin. If you run out of crocs to kill, you can go further to the north and kill the venture co. goblins while waiting for the crocoliks to respawn.

3. Go north to the Venture co. Base Camp, clear yourself a path to the top of the oil rig, which you can access at (42,18). Find Foreman Cozzle at the top of it, kill him and loot his key. Get off the oil rig and go to the small houses just a little south of where you are, inside you'll find Cozzle's footlocker (42,20)

Open it and get the Fuel Regulator Blueprints. Get out and kill Venture Co. Geologists until you have 8 Tumbled Crystals.

4. Go west/southwest to the area which is north of Grom'gol base camp (30,23), you'll find plenty of Lashtail Raptors there. Kill 15.

5. Move north to the Nesingwary's Expedition Camp, on your way you need to kill 10 Elder Stranglethorn Tigers (31,19). When done with that move further north/northeast until Nesinwary's Expedition camp.

At Nesingwary's camp, turn in the 3 mastery quests and get the follow ups:

[37]Tiger Mastery
[40]Panther Mastery (elite)
[41]Raptor Mastery

6. Go southwest around the plateau and then west until you hit the coast. Continue northwest along the coast until you find the ruins of Zuuldaia (20,12). Kill every troll in the area until you have 20 Shrunken Heads.

6.5 (added recently) Go southwest and swim towards the island with water elementals on it (20,22), find the Altar of Naias and use the Gift of Naias which should be in your inventory. Naias will spawn, kill it and loot the Heart of Naias.

7. Go back to Grom'gol base camp.
Turn in:

[37]Headhunting, get the follow up [41]Bloodscalp clan heads
[36]An Unusual Patron
[36] The Defense of Grom'gol, get the follow up [37]The Defense of Grom'gol
[38]Mok'thardin's Enchantment, get the follow up [41]Mok'thardin's Enchantement

8. Go east to the Ruins of Mizjah (37,31), kill 10 Mosh'ogg Brutes and 5 Mosh'ogg witch doctors.

Go back to Grom'gol and turn in the quest [37]The Defense of Grom'gol.

Fly to Booty Bay, turn in the quests:
[37]Goblin Sponsorship, get the follow up.
[36]Hostile Takeover
[36]Some assembly required, get the follow up [38]Excelsior

While you are in booty bay, check the AH to see if there is any Stranglethorn Lost Pages you miss for sale. The next time we come to Stranglethorn Vale will be the last, so you better make sure to have all 4 chapters complete as soon as possible:

1. Chapter I: page 1,4,6,8
2. Chapter II: page 10,11,14,16
3. Chapter III: page 18,20,21,24
4. Chapter IV: page 25,26,27

You should be rather close to level 39 now, and you have two options: