Level 5: Leaving the Start Zone

Sometime at level 5, you will finish all the quests in your start zone.  You will be given a request to report to a small town outside a major city.  This is where you will quest from for a while...maybe 10 levels.  At 15 you unlock the Dungeon finder, and your game play starts to include choices of where you want to quest.   The village may be a hike, but stay on the roads instead of heading straight across the map in the arrow direction unless you are not worried about being mobbed and killed.  Advice on travel by foot here.

You can change zones here if you like... I have favorite areas for leveling as do most players.  But if this is your first, you home zone will be fine, and save you from some possible headaches. For example, races that can not be shamans don't have any shaman trainers in the town at this level.

Travel - How to get from city to city

Around level 5, you will head to your second zone, a small town outside your faction's home city.  In this town you will get a quest to buy a ride to the city and make a delivery there.  The gold ? you see when accepting that quest will by the flight master.  You always want to know where the flight master is, so go to your minimap in the upper right hand corner and click on the magnifying glass.  You have an option to click the flight master so one will always show up if near.  (You should also click some other things if you haven't done so, things you will need to find as you level.  I talk about that elsewhere.)  Check the flight master so that even if you don't do that quest immediately, he will always be easy to find when you are ready. 

Alliance ride on giant eagle-like gryphons

Horde fly around on giant bats

You also have ways to travel from continent to continent.  There are boats, zeppelins, and portals.  That's for later.