Tortage, a cool place where I’ve done a million times, and I try to power through it now. Ignore this section if you just want to around and like the experience .Anyway, once you walk into the gates/inn, your nighttime (N/T) is began. You will end up at level 9 or around there (ive managed 10) if the NT quests kill everything you see. You can go back to daytime (DT) and run some the beginning quests just outside the inn in Tortage, whether you don’t hit 10
As soon as 10 you can continue the NT quests that kill everything you see and you should manage level 13ish. Head back into DT and down near the harbor is a large boat on land with stairs. Boozed Bullies are level 17 neutral mobs with extremely fast respawn rates.
Return to NT and continue those quests when you are at 15 levels and kill everything blah. You should end up 17 or close to it, then you can start the "End Battle" with Valeria. Don't begin the quest though, its a point of no return. Instead, return to DT and pick up all the quests you can find in the city, then head to the White Shrouded Isle or Acheronian Ruins. Just run through and complete all the quests in each zone, turn them in, rinse repeat a couple times and eventually you'll hit 19 pretty quickly.
Once you are at 19, return to NT and finish the Tortage experience for the last time. You can grind on the mobs in there a bit, because you want to be 20 when you leave or very close to it. The reason being is that once you leave tort age you won't find any sub 20 mobs (maybe a few) but the difficulty ramps up quite a bit. At level 20 you get access to all new armor and weapons with a major dps increase.
Conall's Valley 21-31
You will get ported to whichever mother city your race belongs to; cimmerian -> connarch's village (conall's valley), aquelonian - old tarantia (wild lands), stygian -> khemi (khopshef province). You can find a stagecoach driver or a captain in the cities to get ported to the other areas if you wished.
Run around and grab all the quests in the village. The valley is very straight forward and linear, so just do your quests and by the time you reach the other side of the zone you will be 30, there are some group quests/mobs called Yrmish here.
Wild Lands/Border Ranges 32-39
You have to go to Old Tarantia and find the captain that will take you to Wild Lands.
You are able to use about these 2 ways. You could just start in the town and grab all the quests so that you can gain the chained quests for the higher level areas of the zone or...just head toward the SE corner of map and pick up the quests down there for the Border Ranges, which is an instanced area for solo or small group play.
Only you finished the quests in BR and around that area you should be near 35. Head to the NW part of the zone and get those quests, they will lead you to the far east valley and NE area. You’d better to do the quests and grind here to 38-39.
Noble District 40 lvl.
This is a connecting zone from Old Tarantia.
There are a lots of quests in here, just pick them up and do them. Go to the arena with your friends and do all of your solo quests and the group quests, you get a purple at the end of the group quests. Boss ranges from 40-58, 2 lvls per boss and the group ones are epic bosses.
Field of the Dead 41-50
The zone is located on the far east end of Conall's Valley and easy sailing from here. Just do the quests and the chain quests and you will be 50 by the end of the zone. There was some group’s content here in a small area, also, easy 3 lvls within the first 3 hours of being here.
Eiglophian Mountains 51-60
This zone connects with Field of the Dead on the far east side. Again, just like FotD, though much more linear. You'll hit 59-60 by the end of the zone. I think I grinded a little bit just to hit 60 before the next area.
Aztel's Approach 61-73
In Field of the Dead there is a gate that leads to the Laceish Plains (right next to where you zone in the first time, near the valley), the cimmerian building and resource zone, go through it and in the plains the top NW side is the gate that leads to Aztel's Approach.
This zone is awesome sauce. Quests kind a die off at 70, but there is a few more quest chains that open up is you grind and level else to 72 lvls. There are 2 full group instances here and a raid dragon lair! Massive zone.
Kheshatta 73-80
Pain! Travel to Khemi and find the captain that ports you to the khopshef province, I believe you travel all the south (might be North) to the Purple Lotus Swamp. The only way to find the kheshatta entrance by having a quest that ended in that zone, which you should have gotten in Aztel's. Load up that quest in your tracker and use the map to head in that general direction, the map may be fixed now so this could all be redundant.
Last zone. Tons of quests. Crazy ! Quests run out by around 77-78, its grind or die, or do an instance. There are 2-3 full group instances and like 3 raid instances in this zone. Best place to grind is the Void camp in the SE area.
You will be easy get to 80 lvls if you get though the aoc guide. However, there is more convenient method you can choose that is going to get you to 80.That’s do Age of Conan power leveling. Just need some of your “gold”(it isn’t your AOC gold) that you should pay to such companies.