Originally posted by: Concillian
After you get out of Ashenvale, it's not bad if you don't like the forest. I really like Stonetalon and Desolace, completely different style. I don't know about the alliance side quests in stonetalon, but the horde-side quests in stonetalon are fairly straightforward and compact. There are also areas where you can get several done at once, provided you have enough bag space to carry the junk back. It's a little spread out, but overall a pretty efficient place to quest (for horde anyway).
Teldrassil is horrbile, I hated that place. Those magic lamps or whatever they are that hum as you walk by them annoy me to no end.
Besides, if you are NE, you have to get up to honored with the elves sometime so you can get a 10g discount on your mount purchase. When I played my NE, I went through the early quests until I got honored, then trekked it out to Westfall.