Horde Level 6 to 12

Hopefully you camped at the Inn in Bloodhoof village for some additional rest experience.

Pick up the quests Sharing the Land, Rite of Vision and Dwarven Digging from Baine Bloodhoof standing near the totem. Run over and talk to Zarlman Two-Moons to get part 2 of Rite of Vision. Nearby is Maur Raincaller who has the quest Mazzranache. Collect the quest Poison Water from Mull Thunderhorn at the east of the village.

By now you should have picked up one or two 6-slot bags as loot. The following 6 levels should give you another one or two.

Start the Rite of Vision quest first by collecting Well Stones and Ambercorns. As you run around looking for these, kill any mobs in your path and you will find you have complete the three other kill and collect quests from plainstriders, wolves and cougars. As a rule, you should always multi-task on quests. Pick up as many as are available are head out to hunt, returning only if your bags are full.

There are several follow-on quests from these. As you complete the quest, you will be offered another, slightly harder. The higher level quests will start to give less experience, relative to the experience you are gaining from killing the mobs. This is a natural part of the levelling process. Start to focus on killing everything in your path. If a quest is a problem, don't sweat it, just move onto the next.

After the Rite of Wisdom quest, you will be offered Journey into Thunder Bluff. I'm sure you are getting the picture now – more quests in Thunder Bluff. This is also one of the major Horde cities and has an Auction House where you can sell trade skill items for some silver and learn professions. Ask any guard for directions.

If you haven't already, find the first-aid trainer and learn this as a secondary profession. Less necessary for the Shaman, who has a heal spell, but essential for non-healing classes. Select skinning and one of the other gathering professions (mining or herbalism) for these first 20 levels. The gathering professions will make you enough gold for decent equipment at level 20 when it starts to make a difference.

You can complete the Thunder Bluff quests which will take you all the way to level 12. I must admit that I find there's just too much running around on some of these, so I tend to grind the last 2 levels by killing anything close to Thunder Bluff. For a change of scenery, grind on the Harpies close to Orgrimmar.

Once you reach level 12, it's time to head to the Barrens...