Notable Alliance areas and quests Below are listed a few Alliance - favoring area s and quest s you might want to visit and do while leveling . Why ? Simply because in these areas and for these quests either the rewards are really big , the quests are really easy , the quests are really close together , or you can get several quests done by killing the same group of mob s . Certain areas are also really good for a specific professions , or rare drops . This article is intended as a leveling guide . This article is not intended as a Places to Farm list to get certain materials however when certain creatures listed in these quests give notable items , for example the elemental earth in badlands , it is helpful for some players to have it included . This article is not intended as a list of places to grind . Basically , If you ever thought something like " wow , i wish i knew beforehand that i could do ' this , this and that ' < here > together " you probably found a notable area and you ' re encouraged to expand the list . 1 to 10 . The beginning areas are rather simple and well - defined . The Night Elves have Teldrassil ( the big tree ) , the Humans have Elwynn Forest , the Draenei have Azuremyst Isle and the Dwarves / Gnomes have Dun Morogh . The questlines are very straightforward , beginning with the person right in front of the newly created character and continuing with a few added quest lines from there . Levels 1 - 5 can be finished in under an hour even by the most inexperienced player and should involve few , if any , deaths . It is highly advisable to do these quests as well since they give basic money and the opportunities to both a ) learn the game and b ) the chance to gain slightly better armor than the starting gear . One note , however , while the starting gear is enough to level to about level 5 it is quickly replaced . Most toons are very poorly equipped to begin with ( although the creatures they are fighting are equally as weak to reflect this ) and the gear that they pick up along the way - even such basic gear as grey " vendor trash " - is an upgrade ( albeit not fantastic ) . For starting players : grey gear is called vendor trash because it is generally sold to a vendor right after it outlives its usefulness ( or in some cases is never used because it has inferior statistics , but is worth cash to vendors and can help the players pay for repairs and other things ) . White gear is better than grey gear because it ( usually ) has better statistics . Green gear is known as uncommon gear and some green gear is fabulous , while other green gear is not very good . Typically it depends on the toon ' s level , with each toon getting better greens ( and blues etc . below ) as they gain levels . Blue gear is rare gear and generally has either a ) some kind of rare quality that makes it exceptionally good ( such as very high statistics , a lot of damage or healing or occasionally the ability to do something special ) or b ) it sells for a lot of gold . The first pieces of blue gear are available in dungeons known as " instances " and are available for use around level 12 - 13 or so . Purple gear is called " epic " gear and is generally only available to really high level toons . It is considered the highest quality gear and often is the best in the game , but requires quite a bit of time to be able to get . Also , occasionally a toon has " gold " gear which is a Bind to Account item , which means that they have a high level toon ( usually maxed out ) feeding them . This gold gear is the equivalent of a blue item and it levels as the toon does . 10 to 20 . There are a couple of areas that are for levels 10 - 20 . The Draenei can continue in Azuremyst Isle / Bloodmyst Isle ( they are connected ) up to level 24 or so , or they can go to Darkshore ( a zone they share with the Night Elves ) . There is also a boat for the Alliance to take to Stormwind if they should choose to go to the human zone of Westfall ( where some very powerful Alliance only items can be obtained through a series of quests ) . The dwarves can continue to Loch Modan , or they can catch the tram connecting Stormwind to Ironforge and go to Westfall as well . Also , The Redridge Mountains are connected to Elwynn Forest on their eastern side . This zone is for players level 15 - 25 and can supplement those toons who are questing in Westfall . Notable Westfall quest items : The Tunic of Westfall , The Staff of Westfall or The Chausses of Westfall