As you can see i am not really a newcommer to the game but i am a relative newcommer to playing alliance and just made a night elf which is only level 5. Already though i am finding the experience a bit lacking and could be said frustrating compared to leveling all my horde characters over the years.

It started at level 2....now this won't happen to everyone i am guessing as i am leveling with a friend and i guess it is related to that fact although it is still bad design....anyway at level 2 we had to grind to level 3 to get the next set of quests....

On we go to level 5 and get sent to Darnassus where the problems start again.
First of all guards, the types you can ask directions from, are like rocking horse sh....So there we are wondering around blindly and very slowly on shank's pony looking for the professions trainers as we no idea where we're going and eventually stumble onto some guards.
As there is two of us we deicded on miing,herbalism,skinning and LW to get plenty of gold and maybe make something of use for ourselves along the way.
Skinning and LW was fine, both obvious, both next to each other, as you would expect. But then i'm poking the guard asking where mining is <puts on yokel accent> "mining you say? we don't do mining around these ere parts, thaaats wiiiitchcraft!"
In fact i notice you can't train any mining related professions at all in Darnassus.

So after a quick change of plans i decide on herbalism and alchemy as all those little potions and elixirs are always nice to have. Sounds obvious i'll just go train alchemy and the herbalism trainer will be right next to it...ERR! ERR! Wrong answer!

I find the alchemy trainer by asking the guard, wonder off and train alchemy only to find no herbalism trainer next to him! I start looking around the builings close by (remember on foot still so really slowly wondering around aimlessly). After searching the whole craftsmens terrace, again not seeing a single guard, we wonder off to where we found the guards before only to find out the herbalism trainer is on the other end of the city to the alchemy trainer...... ........ ........

If this was actually my first experience of the game i would have been rather miffed off by now and seriously considering if i should carry on playing this game.