Newbie guide/Levels 10 to 20
After completing your starting area, you'll likely find your way to your factions capital city — 
Orgrimmar or 
Stormwind.
Brand new players will be directed to the "Battle For Azeroth" campaign
where they'll continue their adventures on either Zandalar or Kul Tiras.
Experienced players (players with more than one character) can choose to speak to Chromie in their capital city to activate a Timewalking Campaign, allowing them to experience the story of any of World of Warcraft's many expansions.
Brand new players CAN opt out of the Battle for Azeroth campaign by talking to Chromie as well, though it is recommended to follow her advice and have a be following a guide, whether that be a friend or an external resource, as quests from older expansions (like The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King) are generally considered more outdated and potentially confusing.
Specializations and Talents
- Main article: Specialization & Talents
As you have been progressing and gaining levels, you learn many new and exciting abilities. At level 10, you can choose a specialization for your character - this allows them to take on various roles like tanking or healing to help groups of players complete objectives together.
It is highly recommended that as players quest in the world, to use one of their 
damage-dealing specializations to be the most capable in slaying monsters.
At 10, and each level beyond, you can also further specialize your character by investing talent points into talents geared toward different aspects of your character. Feel free to pick whichever talents suit your playstyle most, or use the Starter Build to have talent choices recommended to you.
Your specialization and talent choices can be changed at any time.
Dungeons
- Main article: Dungeon Finder
The Dungeon Finder unlocks at level 15, and allows access to dungeon instances where a group of five players battles their way through various encounters. This allows players to tap into the strengths of their specialization to take down difficult bosses, and support each other by taking on the role of a tank or a healer.
Completing dungeons is the other main method of gaining experience besides completing quests, and allows players to engage in another kind of gameplay that isn't as story-focused.
Reaching level 20
Reaching level 20 marks the end of the Free Trial. In order to continue leveling up, players will need to have active game time on their account. It is normally attained by buying a subscription, which is available on the Battle.net store (US) for 15$ per month, with discounted rates for larger up-front purchases. Subscriptions rarely go on sale, besides promotional bundles (like 1-year bulk purchases).
With active game time, players can level all the way up to the level cap of the second-most recent expansion - currently, that's level 60.
- For example, when the Dragonflight expansion released, it raised the level cap to 70. That means the "previous" expansion was Shadowlands, which had a level cap of 60. As such, the level cap for players that don't own Dragonflight, and just have game time, can level to 60.