If You Were a Casual Gamer...

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Out of curiosity, when people play different races, do they generally skip the other starting areas, starting are not only being the newbie part but general area (like Dun Morogh (?) if you are not a Dwarf/Gnome)? I personally try to do all and everything (on the other hand I tend to stick with perhaps just one char (or possibly a few at low level and then stick with on). Sure, that might be "booring" sweping through a newbie area at level 20 or whenever you have time/opportunity for it, but I hate not completing everything and every quest :)
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In general by the time you move through your own starting area and get to the point where you are moving around the map more most of the quests in the other starting areas don't give xp rewards or any real item reward (although there are some which offer recipes etc.) so i think most people skip over other starter areas. The only reason to do it would be if you wanted to get a larger feel for the lore of the area, but then you could easily just go to a higher area and get the lore of that area and also get xp and items. It's also a little discouraging to have your quest log filled up with Gray'd out quests and run into a couple new quests that would actually give a reward. There's also nothing wrong with going back when you are bored and knocking out a few lowbie quests when you got nothing else you want to do at the moment.

And something that other people haven't mentioned about Paladins but i think bears mentioning is the cost of their skills. Paladins have, in general, many more skills purchasable at each level than other "casual" type clases. The prices of each skill however are much cheaper from what i've seen. My 24 paladin pays 45s per skill while my friend's 24 hunter has to pay 60+s per skill. This is even further enhanced by the fact (as a previous poster mentioned) that many of the paladins skills aren't really necissary for the classes overall ability to level or kill effectively. The end result is that paladins can get away with a lot less cash flow than other characters and can invest much more of the money they do get into keeping their armor/weapons up to speed.