Now that your monk has made plain 20, it's time to rob a new zone to level in. It's seductive to just ride your mount from the region where you made 20 into the adjoining clime of appropriate level. If you're following this counsellor as an Alliance it would subsist Ashenvale, and for the Horde that would exist Hillsbrad Foothills. However, there are other factors to take into weight when picking your home for the next five levels.
For Alliance, Duskwood and Wetlands are practically Alliance controlled as long as Ashenvale offers quest for both factions.
Ashenvale is conveniently located regular below Darkshore, so it's same easy to get to. It has a sum up of quest hubs spread throughout the baldric and several quest chains where the objects of the quests are bunched so you can do them quickly. However, it's a contested girdle, so if you don't imagination meeting Horde then it probably shouldn't be your pick. Also, there are some no-go areas you should escape because of guards. Thirdly, if you neglect to mine or gather herbs the terrain makes it hard to be understood and even then the nodes are in a great degree spread out.
Duskwood and the Wetlands proposal some interesting quest lines to continue you moving along and are probable completely free of Horde. You'll commotion through the quests here, but they aren't recommended like much for profession gathering. On the plus side, they are likely to be fairly empty come release day, so you'll have little competition with a view to mobs.
In terms of gathering, it's not burdensome to push through these levels through dungeons and you can farm the lowest tier of mining and herbalism in the earlier zones and caper to the 25-30 bracket. The choices are total pretty close, but the Wetlands edges abroad the other two because it's weakly better for gathering and the quests are something more interesting.
For the Horde your choices are Ashenvale and the Hillsbrad Foothills.
Since Ashenvale is a contested baldric and has fairly spread out nodes, it's not ofttimes a good choice. It does bring forth some interesting quest lines and on the side of some the opportunity to meet Alliance players is enticing, in the same manner it has potential.
Hillsbrad Foothills is the barely Horde only zone in this horizontal line bracket and it could be considered a to a high degree good choice. it changed a people of distinction deal after the cataclysm as it used to contain both Alliance and Horde quest hubs, bound now it's just Horde.
It offers a pre-eminent deal of fun quest chains to tranquillity you through the levels with some decent rewards. It's also exceedingly recommended for farming tin if insidious is your profession.
Out of the two choices the Hillsbrad Foothills stands with because of the quests which were updated rear the Cataclysm expansion was released. This measure they were all reworked and are abundant more in line with the inundation theme. It's also a immaculate zone for mining and somewhat fit for herbalism.