Honestly, if you want to experience WOLTK leveling play Lord, on icecrown just focus on rushing to 80. Pick up a gathering profession for gold, or beg for it (be polite, ask for a little gold for riding/skills and use proper sentences and dont whisper or spam people, and stop once you have level 20 riding), to get the mandetory skills and riding. Dont learn all skills just the ones you need.
You will have pretty much 0 gear all the way to 58, but depending on your class that shouldnt be an issue. Try to grab quests that give gear but dont worry to much about it, you generally outscale leveling areas super fast so just your higher level makes it easy (and leveling is super easy anyways). And get drinks/food. You can do RDF but its way slower then leveling, but once you are 25 or so its much easier then it was at 15 (because the first levels go so fast you have 0 gear, and the tanks have 0 armour and healer dont regen mana so its a total pita, which gets a lot easier later on). I usually dont bother unless im bored with questing.
Its woltk so it gets a lot easier once your spec start to function which is usually at around 40 or so. And even before, yes you will have to eat/drink after every second mob for some classes, but since one quest equals one level it still goes fast.
50-58 is a bit tricky as you need to get going but after you reach outland it becomes super easy as suddenly you actually get level appropriate gear at every corner.
Dont go to svt/tanaris/ungoror as you will get ganked to much.
If you cant get flying dont despair, just quest all the way to 80 on the ground, gold will come the second you hit 80, one finished quest = 50 gold. Which is also why imo asking for some gold is more then fine at the start, 10 gold mean a lot to a beginning player and its 1/5th of a quest for a lvl 80. If you dont like handouts add whoever gave you gold as a friend and pay it back tenfold once you reach 80. Gold is by far the biggest hurdle to overcome at the start.