New places to explore

Zones

Four new regions plus reimagined corners of the original world, all inside the level 1–60 journey.

How the new zones fit into the old world

Four regions arrive, and they are spread across the whole level range rather than bolted on at the end: Zephras Isle covers levels 1 to 12 as the Skyborne starting zone, the Riverglades the mid thirties to mid forties with 150 to 200 quests, Shen'dralas sits south of Desolace in Kalimdor, and Mount Hyjal is an endgame leveling zone. On top of that come reworked corners of the original world - new quests in the Swamp of Sorrows, more centaur content with faction rewards in Desolace, extra NPCs and profession hooks in the old starting zones.

The part that is easy to miss: there are no flying mounts and no zone scaling. A zone keeps its fixed level range, which makes the order you take them in a decision again rather than a formality. Three new ship routes shift that order further: Stormwind to Auberdine connects the continents earlier than Classic did, Menethil–Southshore–Auberdine gives leveling some slack, and the third runs from the Steamwheedle Cartel in Tanaris to Powderfuse Port in the Riverglades.

If you want to plan that order, the leveling atlas serves you better than this wall of cards: it puts all 44 zones on both continents side by side with level range, faction and the dungeons inside them - including the ones that have no page of their own here.

The pages below are the four new ones. Each says what Blizzard stated itself and what comes out of the beta. For Shen'dralas that is the least so far - even the level range is missing.