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Most of the time you dont need to worry about progression as the quest lines will have you movning on to the next highest zone.

As for a hunter not being able to find a group, you just need to be a good hunter, and get a rep with people, when I want to do an instance, I never have a problem finding/ putting together a group. You need tpo build a friends list of people who know you and what you are capable of.

There are several charts that will show you the general level of each zone. Here’s a link to Blizzard’s:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/regionlevels.html
I’ve made use of that many times myself.

For new characters I like to jump around the various racial areas. For the alliance the night elf area is a bit out of the way for a new character, so that just leaves the human lands and the dwarf/gnome lands. I’ll do what quests I can in one zone and the do the quest of the same general level in the other racial area. For example: I’d do the quests around the dwarven town of Kharanos and then do the quests around the human town of Goldshire. Then I’d do quests around the Loch and then do quests around Westfall.

You don’t have to do all the quests in one area before switching. Do the quests you can manage, then do the same in the other lands. By the time you finish those you may have gained a level or so and the quests you skipped might be easier to do.

Don’t be afraid of green quests or even gray quests. Unless you are making a mad dash to level 70, which I would discourage for your first character, there is much to be gained by doing these quests. You get to enjoy the quests themselves, and there are some fun ones out there. You get full reputation rewards even for gray quests now. You’ll get the quest xp even if the mobs that you are killing are gray. If you can’t use the quest rewards you can sell them for a bit of coinage. And some gray quests lead to higher level quests.

About the time you hit Redridge this racial system comes to an end. Instead of separate racial questing areas there are now just general zones, some alliance controlled, some horde controlled and some truly contested. But the same thing can still hold true. If you run out of quests you can do in one zone look around for another. You can come back and do those harder quests once you’ve gained a few levels.

Thank you all for your informative posts. One more question to ask about professions. I originally was told to eng/mine, however after thinking about it I'm not gonna be too much into engineering. Some might say that might hurt me but I think I'm gonna try/do herbalism/mining.

One is it prosperous?
Two is it the right fit for the soloing hunter? (even though I think I know the answer!)

This game does blow my mind. I don't ever know if I'll go back to eq even for a nite and I was raiding 2 nites a week and finally getting to those "good" levels.

Another addict is born! LOL

You can switch to engi later.

If you keep mining, engi can be leveled up really fast. You either buy the copper and whatnot you need on the AH to lvl it up, or you go mine it yourself. Trade skills are very easy in WoW compared to EQ (where they are too hard, too tedious, imho).

Mining/skinning Herbalism/skining are good money makers. So is fishing (catch fish that make potion ingredients, oily blackmouths, stonescale eels, etc.).

You could even go mining/herbal, but the minimap ability to track nodes would be in conflict (you'd have to switch back adn forth, it's a pain).

As for the fate of higher lvl hunter: make friends. Yes, some WoW guilds and even pugs are run in an obnoxious, FFI fashion. Everyone's been unceremoniously booted from a tier __ PuG (pick up group) so they could bring in a *slightly* better class for the raid - booted without so much as a "sorry" or even an explanation (usually happens while the raid is forming). This has been rare for me.

So again, counter it by making friends and getting into the right guild for you. Be generous. Help others. If someone is an enchanter, send them an "of spirit" item to disenchant for free. In instances, when an obvious caster item drops - be the first to say "I'm passing - this looks like an item for mage or priest." Network a little, and once you find quality people who see you as a trustworthy, quality player - you will be included.

People who have the hardest times at high levels are the "lone soloist" who never talks to anyone, has few friends in game, is in a loner and virtually inactive guild ... etc. In WoW people don't just pick you for an invite because of stats - it's also "do they know you," "do they like you," "do they trust you," "are you funny," "do you do a good job as your class," and so on. Hunters who make friends and who are trusted can get raid invites.