Best way to multibox through outlands/northrend...and how fast is it?

[elremir]

hey guys,
I'm a new member to multiboxing, only just started last week, i got through 1-60 easy with 5 chars using raf, but once i got to 60 i realised it's not going to be that easy. What i'm wondering is, is it easier to quest and do collection quests etc, or would it be faster to farm my own instances. Ihave a perfect group make up and yea im good to go. But how much exp would farming outland and northrend instances actually make per hour. It would be faster than most groups because you can control when to go, and it would most likely be more xp because you are all the same level.



Please post here on your opinion, or past knowledge on this matter.


EDIT: By any chance could you post a rough ammount of xp you think i could get per hour in outland/northrend.
EDIT2: xD Also by chance would it be an idea to just do the killing quests? because the idea of picking up 12 things on 5 different characters could be largely annoying and very time consuming.

[Redbeard]

I think technically questing is faster, but for me personally I like the ease of instances and its a great way to gear your people up as you level.

Most people probably do a mixture of both.

[Siaea]

Unfortunately, I've found that you pretty much need to do at least most of the collection quests in Northrend (and there's a lot of them). Not doing them you will lose out on a lot of quest lines that will be opened up.

[Ogloo]

outlands i did both. I knew nagrand had a lot of killing quests where u had to kill like 25 of each guy, then 25 of the higher guy , then the boss.. this was done 4 times over... Then the arena quest and all that.. I personally liked the outland quests, they all made sense. But Northrend is very into intergrading the new ideas into wow, where there are ships and objects u havee to use or loot to like make the quests more interactive, or more of a story line, this makes it very hard for multiboxers to complete. Outlands, I quested where i knew it would work, then from there on I really only did instances.. Anything other than that was just a pain

[falsfire3401]

Unfortunately, I've found that you pretty much need to do at least most of the collection quests in Northrend (and there's a lot of them). Not doing them you will lose out on a lot of quest lines that will be opened up.

/agree


I've quested solo two toons through Northrend, one horde one alliance. So I'm not sure about the boxing aspects of the collection quests, I can't remember if there were any with low drop rates, or low mob spawn rates or hard to find/massively spread out mobs. So I'm not sure how that will work out when I get there.

I'm also not sure on how the vehicle quests work when boxing...do I just for the most part leave my slave on their epic mount (or flier in 3.2 with the new Bind-to-Account cold-weather flying tome buyable by level 80's to send to alts) and on follow.

I know alot of the vehicles give you a huge health boost that you need to survive the waves of mobs, and I know some are phased so you gotta do it once per toon, and some (like the one on 'the avalanche' in sholazaar) I've never managed to solo so it'll be nice to figure out how to box it and complete it using two toons to dps the named mobs.

[Ualaa]

In Northrend, I absolutely detest a few of the vehicle quests. There's some where you can get into a vehicle/mount a dragon, and although target - follow does not work, focus follow does. There are others, where I cannot get any form of follow to work. Best case scenario then is fly them a bit at a time, towards the location and then do the quest on one with the others nearby.

For the most part, the Northrend collections are at least an extra reward for a grind session. Generally grind sessions are the least painful with a distraction like a dvd going, with half your attention on each. I battleground like that too, enough attention to notice anyone coming into my tower, but a distraction so sitting in a tower until it burns is not too boring - especially when you end up guarding the same 1-3 towers a BG for a score or three of BG's.

In Outland, I used the Brian Kopp leveling guide. It's a quest stacker, and very easy to follow. He actually sold it, pre BC and as promised all future content for warcraft was free. Unfortunately, with Wrath, he said Warcraft + Warcraft Burning Crusade is one game, but Warcraft Wrath is another. Shame that his word is basically meaningless. If you want to go with a guide, the James (or is it Jamie's) guide is free and almost as good.

I'm using the Extreme Leveling guide in Northrend, and pace wise its a faster stacking method then the Kopp guide, but the instructions aren't nearly as good; without quest helper/wowhead I'd be lost a few times going strictly by this guide. For me, Outland was 100x better then Wrath, I actually quit wow, or took a break if you prefer, twice for six and two weeks, because the Northrend quests can be such shit for boxing.

Definitely consider instances as an option anytime questing gets boring or feels slow. I found Outland to have plenty of quests to get you to 70th (Northrend at 68 is faster), even skipping an entire zone and avoiding the slower collection quests. Unfortunately, without extensive instancing, you need to do a ton of Northrend collections. Even if you do instances, the collections open kills which lead to collections which lead to kills, eventually opening up extremely lucrative dailies for boxing. Basically, you'll want to do them, to get to the dailies.

[Agent 0013]

I agree that Northren isnt as good for Multiboxing. I have been slowly grinding my way to 80 on my Pally/Druid pair. I have been doing gathering quests because i need the xp, and its not too bad with only 2 toons. And to comment on /follow issuses, follow strobing from Jamba works just fine in all the vehicles i have been in so far. I beleive this is because it is targeting the toon, not the vehicle. My guild has used this same idea to make the Malygos fight easier, targeting one of the other players who takes care of the movement, while the rest of us nuked the boss. If i were fiveboxing, i think i would still level with quests. i would think that you would be getting more gold, which is never a bad thing, and is quite useful if you dont have your epic flight yet. Although if you want to skip some gathering quests, maybe look them up on wowhead and see if they are part of a chain, and if not, move on to something else.

just my thoughts!

[Ughmahedhurtz]

As noted above, the collections suck but are required to open up the rest of the chains. The upside is that if you do all of the quests, you'll hit 80 on your 5-man group in Zuldrak or Sholazar, which means you'll have all of storm peaks and icecrown for making cash, so getting 5 epic flyers is stupid easy.

If you just wanna get there fast, grinding in instances is the fastest, though you'll have shite for faction for any of the dailies and probably have to go back and do the quests anyway to open them up.

[Kang]

I'm leveling through Outlands now. I did the starter quests in HFP, but then exclusvely worked through Ramps and BF (just cleared BF last night for the first time). I would probably get more XP doing quests, but I really like working my way through the instances. It helps me refine macros, and techniques, and helps me get the hang of the finer points of 5-boxing. I will most likely be doing a mix of quests and instances from here on out. I really like the Nagrand quests and the coilfang instances.

[Negativ1337]

WOTLK is a pain in the ass. Take a spoon, bite on it 70-80, bite on it harder every time your accept a collection quest.

Just do all kill quest and when you run out of quests see wich collection quest unlocks more ez kill quests.