Before you Enter Outland Guide

Before you enter the Outland and start completing quests the first thing you should do is sit down and think about what you want from your character. What spec do you want to be? What do you enjoy doing? Are you going to focus on Battlegrounds or the Arena? Will you be hardcore PvE? A lot of these questions are hard to answer if you've never had a level 70 character before but still considering these things will help you to get your character to where you want it to be.

Consider Reputation:

It's very important that you consider faction reputation before you enter the Outland. Faction reputation is a major part of the Outland, items, gear, instances, professions, and more require certain reputation standings. Reputation often times takes a long time to gain, so it's important that you know what standings you need with factions in order to achieve your character goals. If you have professions consider what formulas you would like to obtain and list those factions and reputation standings. Consider what pieces of faction gear you would like to get for your character and how much reputation is required. Also, consider what instances you would like to do that require certain reputation standings to enter and consider what reputation increases those instances provide you with. Finally, consider the reputation that is received from quests and keep in mind that you may have to grind in areas for hours to gain reputation. Also remember that when choosing to gain reputation for factions like Aldor and Scryer it can take hours or lots of gold to undo your choice, so choose with some thought.

Consider Quests:

When you enter the Outland you will find that there more quests than you will need to quest until you hit 70. But before you start doing quests there are a few points to consider: gear, reputation, and money. First off you might want to consider the quest rewards for doing certain quests and perhaps make the quests with the best gear upgrades a priority. Or you might simply make sure you do certain quests in instances perhaps because of their quest rewards. Secondly, you should consider the reputation gained by certain quests and focus on doing quests that will increase your reputation. If you really have a good reputation plan in place you may even find that some quests should be completed after you have already gotten your reputation to a certain level. Finally, you consider the fact that any quests you do not complete before you hit 70 can be completed to earn gold. In some cases players find that they can level much of their time instances or by grinding in areas for reputation and save quests for completion after 70 to earn gold.

Consider your Focus:

Before you begin equipping gear decide as best as you can what your focus is going to be, whether it be PvE, Arena, Battlegrounds, or a combination of any. This is of course in addition to deciding what spec your character is going to be. You will find that certain gear is better for certain things, for example, the best PvE gear might not be that great for Arena and vise versa. If you really don't know what your plan is, then no worries, just keep a variety of gear and try out everything until you discover what you really like. And of course many (if not most) players focus on all of these areas and have multiple complete sets of gear. If you are a casual player this might be hard for you to accomplish though, so it's good to have an idea in mind of what you'd like to do.

Consider your Gold:

Last but not least, think about gold before you enter the Outland. Once you go into the Outland you will most likely find that you will make more money that ever, but also that your repairs, consumables, and profession materials cost more than ever. And let's not forget about mounts, whether you are getting a standard epic mount, a regular flying mount, or an epic flying mount you are going to spend a lot of money on mounts and riding skills. How you get gold is up to you, you can quest for it at 70, farm for certain items, sell profession items, and so on. Just be sure to consider that although you might feel like you are drowning in cash in the beginning the expenses your character incurs will start to add up.