Ive hit the WOW leveling Wall..

[blbjtb]

Hey guys im level 67 on my 5 shamen and man im really starting to hate life. Im not sure if its because ive been balls to the wall leveling or what but it seems like ive hit the wall Ive been doing the instance grind as that seems like the best way to level. I need something to breath new life in the multiboxing so I can make this final push to 70. Any help would be awesome! Has anyone elese had the same feeling. How did you overcome it? Any kind of advice helps thanks!

[Pyro-San]

Yeah, I'm currently at 67 on my shammy team as well. I rolled a Druid on the same server and gifted it to 60 and I'm now leveling herbing on it just for a change of scene :)

Basically you want a change of scene, if you really want to push to get your shammys to 70 then maybe go 'outside' and do some questing or something :) or maybe queue for some BG and PvP for a night, you will find you learn a lot quite quickly in PvP BG's, at least I did.

[Zub]

go ahead and do all the old world exploration / dungeon master achievements :-)
It's always good fun to blast through low level instances

[elo]

ROFL I hit 67 on my duo this weekend and was just like 'stop already'...

My plan is to build up double XP all through the week, then get a case of beer for the weekend and just wtf-grind-it-out. :)

[Pact]

Yeah i hit that wall around there as well. Best thing to do is take a day off or so then just go nuts questing to 70 until you cant stand it anymore. Then sleep.....

My problem at the moment is i cant get motivated to do do instances or pvp at all now. Luckily fallout came out this week so that should tide my entertainment until the expansion hits

[TheBigBB]

I never instance grind to level. It's a lot more work and, especially for a boxer, you get way more rewards doing quests. Anyway, I've also never burned out doing it this way, so just quit instancing for a while.

[Hachoo]

Yes instance grinding is not only worse XP than questing in outlands, but its also mind numbingly boring compared to it.

At least with questing you can do allthe group quests solo, explore some, kill alliance you see (if you're horde and on a pvp server), etc.

I can't stand running instances more than once every week or so, its just ridiculously boring.

[jurence]

Yeah, 67 was a big wall. I was nagrand through about 66 then BEM to 67 then did 1 level of paladin running me through SH and me healing/dpsing then 1 level in netherstorm. It wasn't too bad. This time around I'm going to definitely be doing more SH.

Chars are atm 48- 2x shaman 2x paladin

[Simulacra]

I didn't notice a wall at all - quested in hellfire/zang/nagrand and instanced until 68. Did a few MT and CoT then went straight to Netherstorm and totally bypassed blades edge and shadowmoon valley, dinged in the village at the far east of netherstorm where you can pick up loads of quests giving you 12000xp per turn in. 68 to 70 took only a couple of days. When I dinged 70 I thought "already?" - great fun.

The netherstorm quests I'm talking about are those ones where you kill the mob and they drop a hat/cloak/sword etc and you have to find where they live and put these pieces back so their soul can RIP. While you do those, kill mana wraiths quest, kill the undead spirits quest, cowbell quest, find the tools quest, kill the name quest, find the mana bomb quest etc etc etc all in a very small area. Questhelper literally lights up like a small city.

[aNiMaL]

I had no wall in outlands on my shammy team either,

I'm running into one with my new team tho (Pal + 4Dru)
grinded from 30-46 passed weekend mainly in ZF (god that was boring) and the last level on some questing.
Swapping to questing was definately what kept me going in the last level.
Keep your play varied and it will keep you going.

[Zaelar]

You could grind on the fast respawning invasion undeads. Get epics too. Don't know how long they'll be available for though. Questing is faster leveling but if you want a break, fill in some gaps, or just the loot then it isn't bad.

[Ualaa]

As of the release of the 3.0.2 patch, level 70's are accruing rested experience.
So ideally, with the expansion coming out in (Thur) November 13th (N.American release date)...
You'd want your toons to be 70th by (Thur) Nov 6th, so they can have maximum rested going into WotLK.

That's two days for three levels. Should be doable, depending on your play time.

[Eldi]

Im only 22 on my mage and priest team and well i thought that playing one char was boring so i decided to 5 box 3500 dollars l8er. but i know maybe take a day or to break thats what im doing. event tho i wanted to be 70 by the 13th. maybe go out and hang out with friends for a day?

[Powerwar]

I did open world questing and almost no isntances till half lvl 67 because it was much faster that way. When I hit lvl 67 I let my toons a couple of days resting in the inn while I played other toons meanwhile.
After about 3 days resting I started running instances exclusively. You get about 1200 - 1800 rested XP per mob on trash, and you can melt low lvl instances trash relatively easy and fast. Managed to run full ramparts in less than 20 minutes at lvl 68. I know it because when I reached the last boss for second time my earth elementals cooldown was not ready :)

At lvl 69 go and make the cyrcle of blood quests if you have not done them and complete some other instance quests. I did the coilfang reservoir quests at that level and dinged from 69 to 70 in just several hours.

[blbjtb]

A very big thankyou to Everyone that has commented thus far its good to see that im not the only one that is running into the wall.. I am going to continue tonight doing quests for a while and then choose the best path for me the way I look at it I have all of blades edge all of neitherstorm and SMV that I can do I can pick and choose my quests and I can get some decent items.... Then I get to boost my pally from 60-70 before WOTLK hahaha.

[Catamer]

I only did the first 4 dungeons once and I've done most of the hellfire quests, 3/4 of zanagarmarsh quests, 3/4 of the TF quests and i'm only about 1/2 the way through Nagrand.
I skip the worst of the collection quests unless it opens up a great quest chain or I only do them on the lowest character.
I'm alliance and I just did the Alterac valley series of quests so I could get the storm pike trinket, there are some 6 quests plus the daily you can get for there . I think there are quests for take a graveyard, take a mine, take a tower and kill the boss. they are easy quests and you can test out your team a little. I thought it was pretty cool to send in 4 pet core hounds to attack people in the courtyard from the safety of the tower. :D

I still haven't done the blood ring or whatever it's called, that series of quests in northern Nagrand ...

[Rin]

With the new reduced exp, instance grinding isn't quite what it used to be. For example, take 1 Sethekk Halls run at 69; you can gain about 4-5 bubbles easily. The run may take you about 45 minutes to complete (once you figure out Talon King Iksis or you could just skip him and reset the instance). Also, there are 2 quests tied to Sethekk Halls, The combined exp for the two quests is about 45k (a bubble and a half or so of exp at 69). It really shouldn't take you longer than 10-13 real life hours to go from 67-70.

On the flip side, you could run quests, but I've found that a lot of the quests have you running aimlessly from point a to b to c, etc. For me, the best experience was mostly instancing, and then running a few quests (Ring of Blood was very good... ~ 75k+ exp in under 1 hr). As others have already mentioned though, it does take a certain mindset to do the instances... usually I just throw on some music, grab a beer, and start grinding. Coming from an EverQuest background where 1 level could take you 24+ real life hours to complete, instances/exp here seems like a breeze :-)

Cheers.

[Trammel]

While instancing isn't the fastest way to traditionally level, I would contend that when rested (assuming you have the ability to accumulate the rest) it is the fastest.

[Dreamtheather]

ROFL I hit 67 on my duo this weekend and was just like 'stop already'...

My plan is to build up double XP all through the week, then get a case of beer for the weekend and just wtf-grind-it-out. :)Now that's a plan!

[Marious]

Oh crap only a week away for the expansion it did not compute in my brain, must be one with the collective of my multibox team, they are only 62-63 and I have a week to get to 70 that will be rough for me. Ah well like I said before on some other thread wont go out there with my team probably until a week or 2 after since they will not be ready yet, and I still need to get 1 more copy of expansion anyways so they would not go as a team regardless.

Yeah I have hit some walls but I push hard and break them down anyway that I can so that I can get to the next level. LIke some have said you might want to grid some on the undead mobs and do the quest for them from AD in Lights Hope Chapel. Well hope you can break down that wall and get to 70 before next week. Good luck!

[Gomotron]

With the new reduced exp, instance grinding isn't quite what it used to be. For example, take 1 Sethekk Halls run at 69; you can gain about 4-5 bubbles easily. The run may take you about 45 minutes to complete (once you figure out Talon King Iksis or you could just skip him and reset the instance). Also, there are 2 quests tied to Sethekk Halls, The combined exp for the two quests is about 45k (a bubble and a half or so of exp at 69). It really shouldn't take you longer than 10-13 real life hours to go from 67-70.

On the flip side, you could run quests, but I've found that a lot of the quests have you running aimlessly from point a to b to c, etc. For me, the best experience was mostly instancing, and then running a few quests (Ring of Blood was very good... ~ 75k+ exp in under 1 hr). As others have already mentioned though, it does take a certain mindset to do the instances... usually I just throw on some music, grab a beer, and start grinding. Coming from an EverQuest background where 1 level could take you 24+ real life hours to complete, instances/exp here seems like a breeze :-)

Cheers.Coming from EQ myself, I'm glad to hear another person that thinks that the instance grind is not really that bad. I actually like it.

Sheesh, I remember grinding in LGuk at the Undead Ghoul King and I'd be sitting my bots in one place for literally hours. Ahh, the memories!

[Multibocks]

Ya but then I had showEQ and another program to run my characters on a script while I was sleeping =)

Before that though.... ugh I think I did sebilis for a day and a half before almost dropping from exhaustion.