If you want to explore everything and have fun doing it, start a new character and level it up following the game progression. If you just want to be powerful and run around exploring older content, start a heroic. If you start a new character, you are going to want to do it on a server that has other players starting new toons (maybe Teek?) if you start a new heroic, pick a busy live server. The downside to this approach is that most of the stuff you can explore and kill anything will not get you much XP (if any) and grouping at 85-100 is not super easy because most of the folks on live servers are 125. That's not to say you won't find folks to group with, it just takes time and initiative - and making friends/joining a guild, etc.

Thanks mate,

Originally posted by F0calBanger:

If you want to explore everything and have fun doing it, start a new character and level it up following the game progression.

How do I find the game progression? It's not super obvious and streamlined like modern mmo's where it's mostly obvious what to do and where to go for your level range. I'm level 15 sk atm, and there aint a whole lot of guidance as to what my path is besides grind random mobs.

Originally posted by Sono:

How do I find the game progression? It's not super obvious and streamlined like modern mmo's where it's mostly obvious what to do and where to go for your level range. I'm level 15 sk atm, and there aint a whole lot of guidance as to what my path is besides grind random mobs.

In game use the /ach command to bring up the achievement window.

On the left side there is a list of sections starting at older/more general from the top and going down to the newest content, mostly broken down by expansion.

For older content, it's spotty at best but you'll level a lot faster than you'll get to experience ALL of the old old content on one toon. However, 3 or 4 tabs down that left hand list is one labeled Hero's Journey. Following the achievements in that tab will direct you to quests in areas appropriate for your level and give you a basic set of gear for completing the achievements. It max look somewhat empty at first but that tab fills in as you level, mostly because the rewards are designed for the level you can see and complete the achievements there.

The last of the achievements in the Hero's Journey tab should be finishing up in the Seeds of Destruction expansion, after that, the expansion specific tabs lower down in the list take over as the source of what to do to complete nearly all tasks in each zone of each expansion.

You'll probably over level most of it if you stick to going in order which can be both good and bad. Bad because a lot of what you're doing will feel easy and the gearing rewards for doing it are going to be lower level than you are. Good because there aren't many people going through those old contents so you'll be doing 99% of it alone and a few extra levels over what it was designed for will be making it much less painful.

You can also type /overseer and do those passive quests for easy exp. Just assign the npcs to the quest and close the tab. In 8, 12 or 24 hours open the tab again and claim the exp reward.