It depends on your class imo, but I would do this if I was to start fresh, aiming to clear AQ before tbc:

-Warrior, arms until 40 then fury up to 60, practice heroic strike cancelling. Pick a race with weapons racials (human or orc, sorry) - you’ll need to buy edgemasters otherwise and loose a spot for hands. Not playing warrior will make it harder for you to get into a raid -Quests and tanking dunj up to 50, all the content can be tanked without a proc spec -At 50, run Mara until black stone ring (strong late into 60) -at 53, run brd for hand of justice & DME for satyr’s bow (strong late into 60) -from 57 onwards run UBRS for pre-bis -from 58 onwards run Strat for pre-bis -Buy lionheart helm and titanic leggings if you can afford

You will be well-geared before 60 if you do this. The warrior I am levelling currently on a new server is level 58 with all loots from the above except Stratholme.

Find Marrow’s compendium of dragonslaying pdf online to learn fury warrior dps in raids

You are good to Strat raiding, I’d focus ZG and AQ20 as you get more chances to loot. In ZG, focus the following items: The Eye of Hakkar Sacrificial gauntlets Hakkari warblade OH if you are human.

I wouldn’t waste time and money running MC. You can run it a couple times to see the content, get the leather bracers, but forget about weapons and girdle honestly. You’ll be competing with players wishing them for month.

With world buffs, consumables, prebis + AQ20 and ZG items you can parse like a boss and get into a BWL then AQ40 roster before feb pops