Help requested - I'm in a bit of an annoying pickle.

[Toonarmy]

I'm hoping to get opinions from the community on how to deal with this.

Background
I have 5 accounts (acct1, acct2, acct3, acct4, acct5).

Acct1 - 1x80 Pally
Acct2 - 1x80 Shammy
Acct3 - 1x80 Shammy & 1x48 Shammy
Acct4 - 1x80 Shammy
Acct5 - 1x80 Shammy

Initially I had planned to do PVE (hence the Pally/Shammy split). However I have since become hooked on BG's and have very little interest in doing PVE in the foreseeable future.

Challenge
What is the easiest/quickest/least boring method to end up with a 5 shammy team at 80?

I can think of a few of options. Critique's and suggestions are more than welcome.
1. Instance Boost the "48" using the technique's discussed elsewhere on this site.
2. RAF a new account (acct6) to 60 tied to Acct3 and then use the "grantable" levels to jump 48 to 60
3. Just quest 48 to 60 normally with "help" from a pally/shammy toons.

At any rate I hope that the community can assist with suggestions. Thanks in advance.

[Bot]

i recently just solo quested a pally from 43 to 80 in about 2 weeks of semi casual yet exclusive play. played about 4 hours a night until 70 when i stepped up my game to do a level a day on average until 80. i used tourguide + tomtom and carbonite to fill in the gaps. tourguide ran out in howling fjord though. it was all in all pretty easy to do just took a little dedication, and was not as monotonous as instance boosting imo.

[Toonarmy]

Wow (if you'll pardon the pun). 4 hours a night is casual? Looks like I'm in for a REALLY long grind. Thanks for the quick first response.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Easiest IMO is to xfer the 48 to your main account and solo level it to 80. The rest of your 80s can blow up instances when the quests become available.

[Dawnstrider]

I'd say RAF with another account. Just dont bother upgrading that account to BC or WotLK. Then transfer off of that account and cancel the account before the first month of game time comes due.

[Marathon]

Easiest IMO is to xfer the 48 to your main account and solo level it to 80. The rest of your 80s can blow up instances when the quests become available.

Agreed. Transfer your level 48.

[Catamer]

RAF is only good to 60 so don't bother if you just want one more toon.
transfer the extra shaman to your main account and you can quest the solo character out-of-team to 80, he just needs to tag stuff before your 80s smoke it and you should be able to a lot lower level instances as needed. you could always make him enhancement while leveling for the fun of trying another spec.

[Coltimar]

The thing about RAF is you would have to level a toon 1-60 to get grantable levels. So 1-60 RAF or 48-80 no RAF. Since 60-80 is no RAF bonus anyway it's a simple choice, unless you just want to level up a bunch of other toons.

Just boost your 48 through UD Strat until 55 then Ramps until 60 (or keep going if you get bored). Then just solo quests, grabs some of your group for the group quests. You can start boosting him in UK at 65. I would also recommend that you do some heroics on your main team. Build up Frozen Orbs and nice gems/enchants (if you have those profs) so you can get your 5th as geared as possible when he hits 80. You'll have the cash for any BOE stuff you need if you do.

[Owltoid]

Don't transfer the 48 until he is 80. You can use the others to boost until then, and you may just decide that you're happy with 4 shamans and give up on leveling (I know I would if I was forced to level right now).

[blast3r]

Wow (if you'll pardon the pun). 4 hours a night is casual? Looks like I'm in for a REALLY long grind. Thanks for the quick first response.

sgm

Compared to me that is very casual. :D

[zanthor]

RAF - You would need to level a toon 1-60 to grant 48-60... the obvious choice is level 48-60 and skip 48 levels...

Leave the 48 on the account he's on right now, that way you have 3 shamans to kablam blow stuff up with and 1 tank as needed for harder instances as you approach 80.

[Moorea]

you can quest the solo character out-of-team to 80, he just needs to tag stuff before your 80s smoke it
As far as I know you won't get more xp if you're out of group and most of the dmg is done out of group by a level 80 (or more) than if you were in the group - no ? (and out of group you have the risk to not actually tap and get the mob killed by the wrong side)

[Steph]

Transfer the level 48 shaman to the main account. Level the character solo.

Make sure to use +10% XP shoulders (40 emblems of heroism or 200 stone keeper shards) and the new patch 3.2 +10% XP chest (40 emblems of heroism or 60 champion seals) for a total of 20% bonus XP. This is applied after rested XP, so you will get 240% rested with both items equipped compared to 100% xp non-rested without the items.

Also note that you will be able to level faster with the mount changes. Epic ground mount now, flying in outlands from 60-68, flying in northrend from 68-80.

[Toonarmy]

Thanks everyone. I I think I am leaving the 48 where it is. I'll try the new "level through BG's" approach. When that, inevitably, fails I'll just try normal instance boosting / questing.