Do yourself a favor
 

and don't go to LOIO @ 18 or whatever level people go at. Just go to Upper Guk instead. You'll thank me later.

yea, i just got 19 on my shammy (did snout mm turn ins from 14-19, bam! wicked awesome experiance!) but i am looking forward to doing lake of ill omen, but in my search yester day of /who all 17 30 iksar, i saw alot going to upper/lower guk, guess to slaughter the dreaded frogs we so hate

I expected it to be more populated also. The exp was pretty slow in comparison to boot, back to the old world I go ;).

it's just WAY better EXP. I always prefer to EXP in dungeons anyway.

People should also probably go to Mistmoore instead of The Overthere(ughhhhhhhhhhh)

My enchanter has been camping out in upper guk since level 16 (close to 20 now), soloing when I can on and off. I agree, I prefer places like uppers and mistmoore instead of LOIO and the overthere.

Now that I actually look into the math of a few things, I fail to see how LOIO is so popular. Its one of the few zones in classic with a negative ZEM (80%), unlike the similar level range UGuk with its 200% ZEM (is it really that high?).

Sortable ZEM chart

Note the base is 75%, not 100%, so take the mod from the first column, divide by 75 and that is the true ZEM.

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LOIO was always bad exp, people went cause it was outdoors and easy.

Same with Overthere and Dreadlands, although those places aren't as bad exp, you're better off doing an old world dungeon.

And here I thought maybe one or two players might just like to play in new content rather than level up in Guk for the 7th time.

If you're leveling your 7th alt instead of getting to 60 on your main, you probably don't care about getting the fastest exp anyways.