Boosting In Northrend?

[Lyonheart]

I started leveling my druid. I found that tagging works well if the mob is 72 or higher. I tag it with my druid and kill it/them with my shamies. What I'm wondering is if anyone has dome this yet and have you found a good spot for 70+ where the mobs are plentiful. I find myself running out of mobs fast. hehe.. I need a steady supply. They have to be 72+. I know of some great spots post 75..but none 70-74ish really.

[homerjunior]

Look for a place in gundrak, The world first 80 grinded there search for "nhym"

[mmcookies]

Look for a place in gundrak, The world first 80 grinded there search for "nhym"i believe that place has been nerfed

[Lyonheart]

I found a great spot tonight. I'm getting 3100exp per mob ( rested ) and pull up to 15 at a time, at the onslaught camp in dragonblight. Just a tad north of nax. 5 camps of humans. Just enough time to kill/loot before the first camp refills. PERFECT! not sure how long it will last. I am already 70% in level 70 and will be 71 soon. The mobs are 72-73, so I'm sure its going to be great exp,even non rested, until 73/74. Then its time for a new spot.

[suicidesspyder]

i wonder that spot ur talking about not trying it tonight to tired if you can still get good exp with 5 in your grp same level if not i guess my dks are boosting my shamans when dk's hit 80 in like 2 weeks grrrr. 3 weeks to get dk's to 80 lets see if one and a half for shamans lol.

[Lyonheart]

i wonder that spot ur talking about not trying it tonight to tired if you can still get good exp with 5 in your grp same level if not i guess my dks are boosting my shamans when dk's hit 80 in like 2 weeks grrrr. 3 weeks to get dk's to 80 lets see if one and a half for shamans lol.

I was getting 2k + 1k rested bonus. When I ran out of rested it was a flat 1k. 1/3rd. I think this area would still be good exp. That works out to 35k+ rested and 12-15k unrested per camp ( one pull per camp ) I tried doing a few rounds without looting and the mobs are not up yet in the first camp I clear. With looting, the camps re spawn. SO if there is a spot where you can kill non stop ( no looting) It would be better then this. I'm not sure you could find a spot where you can kill 15 mobs at a time non stop anywhere.

That being said. Quest boosting is nice when not rested. I can knock out all quests so fast ( even collection ) when i can one shot everything ( well two shot...tag with lowbie, kill with 80s ) And will be able to do all instance and group quests easy.

[Maxion]

i wonder that spot ur talking about not trying it tonight to tired if you can still get good exp with 5 in your grp same level if not i guess my dks are boosting my shamans when dk's hit 80 in like 2 weeks grrrr. 3 weeks to get dk's to 80 lets see if one and a half for shamans lol.

I was getting 2k + 1k rested bonus. When I ran out of rested it was a flat 1k. 1/3rd. I think this area would still be good exp. That works out to 35k+ rested and 12-15k unrested per camp ( one pull per camp ) I tried doing a few rounds without looting and the mobs are not up yet in the first camp I clear. With looting, the camps re spawn. SO if there is a spot where you can kill non stop ( no looting) It would be better then this. I'm not sure you could find a spot where you can kill 15 mobs at a time non stop anywhere.

That being said. Quest boosting is nice when not rested. I can knock out all quests so fast ( even collection ) when i can one shot everything ( well two shot...tag with lowbie, kill with 80s ) And will be able to do all instance and group quests easy.

Just so you know, when it says 2k (+1k rested), the 1k rested is already calculated into the 2k.
This means you got 2k per kill. (easy to figure out, since rested doubles your xp)

[suicidesspyder]

Yea im just thinking cause i got my 70 shaman grp that comes next but i have a 70 druid that i deff have to boost. Cause i really dont wanna quest again after doing it with those ten.

[Kicksome]

I took my 4x DKs and 1x shamans to right outside of Valgarde where all the mobs run to the entrance of the town, guards attack them etc...

You can stand in 1 spot and wait for the mobs to attack you, (mobs are level 67-69). I just spam my macro that:
/targetenemy
/castrandom spell1, spell2, spell3 etc...

I can do it all day long. They don't drop loot but give about 250-400 exp in a group of 5 level 68-71ish players. (non-rested)

And you only need to spam 1 key, pretty mindless.

I think I'll hang out there till level 72 or so, see how it goes. Right now my guys are 69-71 atm.

[Lyonheart]

i wonder that spot ur talking about not trying it tonight to tired if you can still get good exp with 5 in your grp same level if not i guess my dks are boosting my shamans when dk's hit 80 in like 2 weeks grrrr. 3 weeks to get dk's to 80 lets see if one and a half for shamans lol.

I was getting 2k + 1k rested bonus. When I ran out of rested it was a flat 1k. 1/3rd. I think this area would still be good exp. That works out to 35k+ rested and 12-15k unrested per camp ( one pull per camp ) I tried doing a few rounds without looting and the mobs are not up yet in the first camp I clear. With looting, the camps re spawn. SO if there is a spot where you can kill non stop ( no looting) It would be better then this. I'm not sure you could find a spot where you can kill 15 mobs at a time non stop anywhere.

That being said. Quest boosting is nice when not rested. I can knock out all quests so fast ( even collection ) when i can one shot everything ( well two shot...tag with lowbie, kill with 80s ) And will be able to do all instance and group quests easy.

Just so you know, when it says 2k (+1k rested), the 1k rested is already calculated into the 2k.
This means you got 2k per kill. (easy to figure out, since rested doubles your xp)



rofl, I feel stupid. Your right 8\ Well, the exp rocked. 8) so at 15 pulls it was still 30k. I had a few pulls of 16. and Most around 13. So 15 average. Someone just go try it!

[Lyonheart]

looking for a good place to boost from 73 on.. it slows down at Onslaught camp after 73. Needs to be melee mobs and lots of them 8)

[Ualaa]

Whoever tags the mob for damage first, gets looting rights and experience (if any) from the kill.
If a higher level toon or toons assist in the kill, depending on their level in relation to the taggers level, they can steal some of the experience.

For both Classic Warcraft and Burning Crusade, the magic level was 9.
At lower levels, the magic number was actually higher then 9, but 9 quickly becomes the magic number and maintains being the magic number from a fairly early point.
As in, if you're 10th level and someone 19th level or lower assists you, in killing a mob you have already tagged, you receive full experience.
If the helper(s) are 20th or above, you receive a percentage of experience equivalent to the percentage of damage you (or your group) did.

I'd assume the 9 level differential is still in place for WotLK.
Once you're 71st, your 80's can do any percentage of damage to a mob, with the tagger getting full experience.
Even prior to 71st, quests will be dramatically faster with the mobs dropping so quickly.

The caveat is to not do this in instances, as in drop group and kill after it is tagged, and then regroup to avoid being booted.
Someone did this during the first day of WotLK and had their level reset to 70th shortly after dinging 80 (12 hours earlier then of the Warlock who had the pocket priest).

[Lyonheart]

Whoever tags the mob for damage first, gets looting rights and experience (if any) from the kill.
If a higher level toon or toons assist in the kill, depending on their level in relation to the taggers level, they can steal some of the experience.

For both Classic Warcraft and Burning Crusade, the magic level was 9.
At lower levels, the magic number was actually higher then 9, but 9 quickly becomes the magic number and maintains being the magic number from a fairly early point.
As in, if you're 10th level and someone 19th level or lower assists you, in killing a mob you have already tagged, you receive full experience.
If the helper(s) are 20th or above, you receive a percentage of experience equivalent to the percentage of damage you (or your group) did.

I'd assume the 9 level differential is still in place for WotLK.
Once you're 71st, your 80's can do any percentage of damage to a mob, with the tagger getting full experience.
Even prior to 71st, quests will be dramatically faster with the mobs dropping so quickly.

The caveat is to not do this in instances, as in drop group and kill after it is tagged, and then regroup to avoid being booted.
Someone did this during the first day of WotLK and had their level reset to 70th shortly after dinging 80 (12 hours earlier then of the Warlock who had the pocket priest).

thx mate for your tips.. but if you read the content in this thread you will notice that i know the ins and outs of how boosting works lol. I'm not asking HOW to do it, but where some good spots in Northrend are. I have just boosted at the onslaught camp from 70 to 73 and am ready to move on. Ill repost if i find a good spot. Was hoping someone has good locations they can post about to contribute to this thread. It is about where..not how 8)

[Maklar]

From Switching out a mage for a shaman, or, how do I boost a lvl 63 shaman to 80? ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=17486')

68-71ish the Rhinos in BT. Easy to kill and quick respawns 5-6 in each pack pull 2 packs at a time. They are yellow so you will have to do a little work but still easy.
71-72 Iron Dwarfs in HF along the edge. There are about 20 of them, by the time you kill them all they refesh.
71-72 BT some frog looking things along the coast.
72-75 Northeast of Wintergarde, there's a large encampment of Onslaught mobs
that are purely melee. there are so many groups here that you can have
a field day with multiple pulls and respawns will occur when you go
back to the beginning.
74-75 Mustangs Grizzy hills
75-76 The entire Venture Corp Encampment on the northwest side of the
Suntouched Pillar is made of melee mobs. Plan out your pulls, and be
sure to stay a safe distance from the "boss" mobs. They're not elite,
but they have some nifty ablities that can throw off your pull by a lot.
77-80 Skeletal Runesmiths, Icecrown as soon as you can fly.

[Lyonheart]

From Switching out a mage for a shaman, or, how do I boost a lvl 63 shaman to 80? ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=17486')

68-71ish the Rhinos in BT. Easy to kill and quick respawns 5-6 in each pack pull 2 packs at a time. They are yellow so you will have to do a little work but still easy.
71-72 Iron Dwarfs in HF along the edge. There are about 20 of them, by the time you kill them all they refesh.
71-72 BT some frog looking things along the coast.
72-75 Northeast of Wintergarde, there's a large encampment of Onslaught mobs
that are purely melee. there are so many groups here that you can have
a field day with multiple pulls and respawns will occur when you go
back to the beginning.
74-75 Mustangs Grizzy hills
75-76 The entire Venture Corp Encampment on the northwest side of the
Suntouched Pillar is made of melee mobs. Plan out your pulls, and be
sure to stay a safe distance from the "boss" mobs. They're not elite,
but they have some nifty ablities that can throw off your pull by a lot.
77-80 Skeletal Runesmiths, Icecrown as soon as you can fly.

Sweet Info! thx! I had posts in that thread but forgot about it lol.. damn i feel shameful 8( When i searched for boosting I did not find it, i could have just looked at my own posts rofl.

[Owltoid]

77-80 Skeletal Runesmiths, Icecrown as soon as you can fly.Last night I was extremely bored of questing and just wanted to kill things. I found this area (I think) and was amazed at the number of mobs. I would not try AoE grinding here with any less than three toons, but with my three druids I was able to take on between 15-20 mobs with starfall pulls. It was a hell of alot of fun. I think this area could actually work for Sam's massive totem strategy, though I doubt he ever gets to 77.

[Maklar]

That's a semi-popular area for tankadins to grind as well. I know I did it some when I hit 77.

[Stabface]

Well if you have a group of toons that have not completed these quests then you can use them to summon a bunch of mobs that you can endlessly grind for XP.

From 72+ you can do this quest in Dragonblight: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12261
You can use the Destructive Wards every 1 minute to summon a crystal that mobs spawn and run up to and attack (all melee mobs). The more crystals you have out the more mobs that spawn, although there is some limit it seems. Each person on the quest can have 2 crystals out, in a group of 3 with 2 on the quest, we grinded a level in just under 3 hours here (rested). Doesn't seem too fast but I bet in a full group of 5 with 10 crystals out it would go quick, especially if you're mobtagging to level just 1 char up. Probably faster than the Onslaught camps!

and from 77+ this quest in Icecrown: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=13295
Just use the spinal fluid, kill the mobs, and fail the quest.

[echo]

"From 72+ you can do this quest in Dragonblight: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12261"

I tried doing that quest and each kill was only netting me about 60 xp on average at level 72. Did they nerf the exp for this quest or am I missing something?

[Pact]

That dragonblight quest got nerfed within a day. For that very reason.

[Gares]

Whoever tags the mob for damage first, gets looting rights and experience (if any) from the kill.
If a higher level toon or toons assist in the kill, depending on their level in relation to the taggers level, they can steal some of the experience.

For both Classic Warcraft and Burning Crusade, the magic level was 9.
At lower levels, the magic number was actually higher then 9, but 9 quickly becomes the magic number and maintains being the magic number from a fairly early point.
As in, if you're 10th level and someone 19th level or lower assists you, in killing a mob you have already tagged, you receive full experience.
If the helper(s) are 20th or above, you receive a percentage of experience equivalent to the percentage of damage you (or your group) did.

I'd assume the 9 level differential is still in place for WotLK.
Once you're 71st, your 80's can do any percentage of damage to a mob, with the tagger getting full experience.
Even prior to 71st, quests will be dramatically faster with the mobs dropping so quickly.

The caveat is to not do this in instances, as in drop group and kill after it is tagged, and then regroup to avoid being booted.
Someone did this during the first day of WotLK and had their level reset to 70th shortly after dinging 80 (12 hours earlier then of the Warlock who had the pocket priest).

Hmm this was really what I was looking for. I guess I need to level my DK to 71 before I really can take advantage of boosting him quickly.

[genocyde]

Anyone have a clever way to tag aoe groups with say... a rogue? My rogue hit 73 yesterday, I'm leveling him with a group of 3x mage 1x priest in tow and was getting close to 1.3 million XP/hr I hit 72-73 in like 1.5 hours or something rediculous at that onslaught camp by naxx. The problem is rogues are the only class I'm aware of with ZERO AoE abilities pre-80 and it is kind of a pain to individually tag each mob with a melee hit. I'm about ready to buy up all the E Z throw dynamite I can find just for tagging purposes.

Anyone have a better solution?

[welwyn]

rogues with on AOE what are you talking about! it may be on a 2 min CD but just hit blade flurry then killing spree while in the middle of a group of mobs. if thats not rogue AOE i dunno then lol

[genocyde]

rogues with on AOE what are you talking about! it may be on a 2 min CD but just hit blade flurry then killing spree while in the middle of a group of mobs. if thats not rogue AOE i dunno then lol

Thats what like a max tag of 10 mobs on a CD cast. Not to mention it not only breaks follow but removes my rogue from my other toons /focus (ya, that blows btw). I've definitely done this more than once when i pull so many I know I'll die before I solo tag all of them but I was hoping for a reliable solution :thumbsup:

[puppychow]

at 71 couldn't you group up and still get full XP?

[Lyonheart]

at 71 couldn't you group up and still get full XP?

nope

[Lyonheart]

I ended up getting to 73 boosting. After my rested exp ran out I just quested. It's sooo fast and easy with just one! I used my team to "quest boost" so it was easy mode. He is 78 now 8)

I have been bored lately. I have all the badge loot I wanted ( could still use a few savage items ) But this patch is looong over due and content is old and boring. I might fire up my WAR acnts for a few months. or try Darkfall.

[minty]

Anyone have a clever way to tag aoe groups with say... a rogue?

This is what my rogue AOEs with: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42641 =)

[cmeche]

The onslaught camp is a really nice spot to aoe grind. There are 5 large camps close to each other. And like a previous post sugested, by the time you complete the 5th camp the 1st camp will have allready spawned.

The Venture Co. mobs by the Suntouch Pillar(or where ever) seemed alot more spread out and they didnt give too much more xp compared to the onslaughtcamp. Anyone else find a good ginding spot around lvl 76?

[Gares]

I tried the Suntouched Pillar place and it seemed slow respawn.

I like the Onslaught Camps in Dragonblight but during busy times the pulls get mess because of others there and the xp goes down.

[Tonuss]

I ended up getting to 73 boosting. After my rested exp ran out I just quested. It's sooo fast and easy with just one! I used my team to "quest boost" so it was easy mode. He is 78 now 8)I get the impression that Blizzard wanted to make mob-grinding less efficient than straight questing. Quest reward experience isn't astronomically high, but you get lots of quests that can be completed quickly and often piggy-backed in an area. So you kill 10 of mob A, collect three pages for a book, kill named mob B, and poison a food platter... presto 80,000-90,000 exp from rewards and it took about 5-15 minutes to complete, and now you have two other quests in that area that will each give 30,000 reward exp and an item. It's pretty sick. For a multiboxer that means that you don't even worry much about how much exp-per-mob you're getting, you just want to blow through the quests and suck up the reward exp.

I'm looking forward to my team hitting 68 and just heading straight to Northrend for quest grinding to 70/71.

[cmeche]

I got a lock to summon my team to Icecrown to grind on the Skeletal Runesmiths. My pally is 80 while my 4 shaman are 66-67. Problem i am running into is that even with rested xp, I am only getting ~360xp per kill on each shaman(this is with the pally in the party). Tonight Ill try to see what happens with pally out of group.

My plan has been to round mobs up with my pally and just mass aoe with the whole group. But how can I do this with the pally out of group? Chain lightning only taps a certain amount of mobs...maybe 1/2 of the pull. So how can i get my shaman to tap all the mobs then get the pally to pull aggro?

Also, any idea why the xp for the Runesmiths are so low? Will the xp increase as i get closer to 80?

[Lyonheart]

I got a lock to summon my team to Icecrown to grind on the Skeletal Runesmiths. My pally is 80 while my 4 shaman are 66-67. Problem i am running into is that even with rested xp, I am only getting ~360xp per kill on each shaman(this is with the pally in the party). Tonight Ill try to see what happens with pally out of group.

My plan has been to round mobs up with my pally and just mass aoe with the whole group. But how can I do this with the pally out of group? Chain lightning only taps a certain amount of mobs...maybe 1/2 of the pull. So how can i get my shaman to tap all the mobs then get the pally to pull aggro?

Also, any idea why the xp for the Runesmiths are so low? Will the xp increase as i get closer to 80?

That spot was the best grind spot for exp and cash for a few weeks after wotlk went live. It got smacked hard with the nerf bat.

[cmeche]

Well, anyone know of any other high lvl spots to grind? I guess once i get all to 77 and have the money to fly, then Ill start with the icecrown/stormpeak quests.

[Taliesin]

All the easy grinding spots have been nerfed now. Now there's just mediocre grinding spots where the respawns are slow or the mobs are spread out enough that its hard to pull a lot at once. Herds of shoveltusk in Fjord or rhinos/mammoths in Tundra isn't too bad, and has the benefit of getting you lots of leather, assuming one toon is a skinner.

If not, then you may want to check out the east side of the island off the west coast of Fjord (drawing a blank on the name of the island). There's not a ton of humans over by the ship, but at least in the past they respawned awfully quick, and has the benefit of cloth drops. These will just be level 70ish mobs, however.

My suggestion, though, is not to wait too long on doing Fjord and Tundra, as the quests should start going grey when you're close to 80. Might as well knock them down for the full xps, get the gear, and then do more of the boosting when your toons are about 72ish and the pali stops wrecking any xp gains for the lowbies.

[Lyonheart]

I have 3 toons now that I am boosting. I did my Druid like i have explained. And I am working my hunter and mage now. I AE boost them at onslaught camp until 73. I then quest boost to 80. Dragonblight is where "most" mobs are 72+ with some scattered 71s in there. I use one pal and 3 shaman. I have a hotkey that I use to invite my hunter ( or whoever I'm boosting ) When he joins the same button is pushed to make him the focus. I only group him when i have to run between quest objectives ( crusader aura ftw ) SO I tag any mobs i need to kill for the quest and kill them with my Shams. I am getting the full exp for the mobs I kill and doing the quests solo with the Power of Five 8). It really is super fast!

note: For the hunter at onslaught camp. I simply run him into the center of a camp, and do a 360 tagging single mobs or multishotting some if they are close, when they all are in melee I drop explosive trap and then blow them up with TS. I Put Earth Shield and Riptide on him before I pull. 8)

[Taliesin]

I have 3 toons now that I am boosting. I did my Druid like i have explained. And I am working my hunter and mage now. I AE boost them at onslaught camp until 73. I then quest boost to 80. Dragonblight is where "most" mobs are 72+ with some scattered 71s in there. I use one pal and 3 shaman. I have a hotkey that I use to invite my hunter ( or whoever I'm boosting ) When he joins the same button is pushed to make him the focus. I only group him when i have to run between quest objectives ( crusader aura ftw ) SO I tag any mobs i need to kill for the quest and kill them with my Shams. I am getting the full exp for the mobs I kill and doing the quests solo with the Power of Five 8). It really is super fast!

note: For the hunter at onslaught camp. I simply run him into the center of a camp, and do a 360 tagging single mobs or multishotting some if they are close, when they all are in melee I drop explosive trap and then blow them up with TS. I Put Earth Shield and Riptide on him before I pull. 8)

Have you done the Onslaught Camp in the last couple weeks? I thought they just nerfed that spot?

[Brandish]

Well, crap.... yeah I need a spot to grind... I'm trying to get to 80 for the Elder Title achievement and they threw this 10 hour downtime into the middle of things....

I can fly, I'm at 77+, any spot remotely good for AoE grinding? I'm torn now between sticking with normal quest route, grinding an instance, or finding a grind spot.

Cheers :)

[vaatha]

hey brandish,, i just got second team to 80 by questing useing brian kopps and tourguide with suvega addon. im a slow leveler so i was only avg 100k to 130k xp per hour questing but it beats grinding for me. i hit the basin a couple bubs from 77 then left same from 78 then quested in storm peaks till i was 2 or 3 bubs into 79 then hit icecrown. there are a few collection quests to do but there not that bad to get to the next quest

[Lyonheart]

If the nerfed the onslaught camp. I am not aware. I think it was less than two weeks ago when i did it last. Ill check it out tomorrow.

[Taliesin]

If the nerfed the onslaught camp. I am not aware. I think it was less than two weeks ago when i did it last. Ill check it out tomorrow.

I knew it was popular for grinding cloth drops. Maybe that's the only part that got nerfed.

/shrug

[Lyonheart]

I was doing quests in the area today and tested the Onslaught camp out. You still can tag and get exp like normal, the drops seem to be the same as well. So the exp part is still good. I only cleared it two times and looted to see if loot got nerfed. It does seem they drop less cloth. But i did this for the fast exp and that still works. I did get some cloth and a few greens in two full clears though. It still a great place to boost from 68-73/74