Our newbie zone doesnt suck, its just not the best in the game. Getting to level 5 is easy. It used to be a hell of alot harder to get much past 5 in Ferrott, but since Luclin came out they added bears to Ferrott, which is nice since you can make armor out of it that you can actually wear. The bears and skeletons can get you to 12 or so easy, but ( for shamans anyways ) you can leave this area at 9 when you get SoW to go elsewhere easily. Beware now that what used to be inside of Cazic Thule temple is now outside, so dont journey over that bridge. Yeah it can be confusing to get around in at first, so I'd advise using sense heading as much as possible ( and true north as a shaman ), and write down the coordinates to the Oggok entry ( around 1400, 900 if I remember correctly ).
54 Ogre Battlemystic on Luclin--Aggrok