Quest vs Boost

[Perrigrin]

Got a war, pri, hun, lock, dru sitting at 71ish; Been leveling them with RAF and the questing, now, I decided that I want the team at 80 more than I want the warrior to 80 - And on that account I have a decently geared prot pally at 80 - Would him pushing the 4 through instances be considerably faster than quest leveling the full 5 box?

Now, so far in Northerend I find it difficult to quest without at least having to do some annoying collection quests....

Opinions please!

[boxblizzard]

leveling up a team is in my opinion hardcore for questing, requires patience and lots of music and food.....

i take pride in my 80 team i have it taken me a while originally to get them to 80 (playing them since tbc) overall its worth doing the quests gets thousands of gold and use that to kit them out when you all hit 80.

instance farming in wotlk sucks for leveling chars as a primary leveling strategy. what i did was quest until i get bored sick to death because of collection quests then do an instance to chill me out.

some collection quests went on for 3 hours+ for 1 quest. hardcore....

welcome :)

p.s i would like to add, boosting from 1 to 68 is viable until northrend, but i would recommend oost 1 to 60 then quest and ocassion do instance like i said above to remove the tension

[Perrigrin]

Yea I got one team at 80 already, which leveled by doing all quests - and it's the memory of that that makes me ask :P

but I guess the gap between 71ish and 80 is to small to make boosting worth it.

[Crel]

Do both
68-70 Uk
70-71 Borean
71-72 nex + Howling
72-74 Dragon Blight and an
74-75 An + grizzly+dailies(10% of a lv a day or so from dailies)
75-77 Drak + schol(although i kinda hate scholazar)
the rest is cake, if you've been switching in instance's during the whole process you should have plenty of quests to fill in those last levels. Dont forget giant chain's like the dead gods in Zul-drak, or start phasing Ice crown and Storm. Worst case just gather some rest and burn it out in an instance. My 2 cents.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Im working in my second team to 80. The first group I ran every quest I could get my hands on. Never again. Currently my method of leveling this team is to hit up Thottbot. Find all the quests in a zone that result in a blue item reward and just do thoes. Hit all the dailies available to me, run AV once or twice. Then an instance or two. (though with the new random normal you can get emblems as well).

My play schedule almost always has me with a lot of rested xp so this method works well. For example I burned up all my rested last weekend, but right now im on a 2 week buisness trip to florida, so ill have full rested when I return during the christmass week.

[Ridere]

Towards the end of your leveling journey (77+) I suggest you hit ice crown.

All starting quests in Ice Crown should be available by 77. Start doing them to unlock the dailies. Once you do that, dailies (combined with the grizzly hills one listed above) will provide you like 30-40% of a level, if not more. So just in the course of unlocking all of your dailies, and doing them, you'll easily make 80.

Also, I found that if I give a team 10 days to get fully rested (working on other teams, or doing other things, in the meantime) is a great way to tackle 70-80.

I do work full time and sleep a decent amount. Given that, when in leveling mode, I do spend the majority of my free time leveling in WoW. Even so, with fully rested exp, I can make it from 70-80 remaining rested the entire time. I don't grind out in dungeons, however, so that may affect things, but if you have the patience for it, I really suggest being productive on another team just long enough to get max rest time on the 68-70 team.

[crowdx]

My two cents is to skip Zul Drak, I just leveled a 4 man team and I skipped it completely. I did Valiance Keep and Borean Thundra, Dragon Blight, Scholo and then Ice Crown once I was at 77, 77 opens all the rep stuff in Ice Crown (Hodir and Ebon Hold).
I actually did not find it too bad, with the extra dps in a team I kinda felt it made the leveling easier.
Also something I found was that a lot of the stuff where you had vehicle quests only one toon needs to complete it, just park the others at the hand in guy and they will all get the quest complete. This is hit an miss but worked with a lot of quests I did. Unfortunately collection quests did not work that way lol
Good luck with your leveling :)

[crowdx]

Last point on rested, I totally agree with Ridere, get all the team fully rested and you will remain rested till 80. If you are questing you do not use rested xp except on kills and so the team should remain rested from 71 - 80, that is how I did it also.

[falsfire3401]

Lol @rested. Since getting to Northrend on my triple-team I haven't even seen the end of my rest XP bar :)

Even after a 3-hour session of leveling, I've only actually consumed about 10% rest xp...95% or more of the XP comes from quest turn-ins.

And yeah, collection quests in Northrend suck. Especially the low drop rate ones. When I see a quest like "collect 6 grizzly hides", I know I'm gonna have to kill 200 of the suckers to get 6 x3 hides. Can imagine it's more than twice as many for a 5-man team.

[Maxion]

Since your team has a tank and healer, you could just run instances over and over and supplement with some quests. I did any non-collection quests I could find, and any instance quests. Rest was just grinding instances.

[crowdx]

I skipped the grizzly hide ones, it is worth checking with some of those collection quests what they open up to :)

[zenga]

When I see a quest like "collect 6 grizzly hides", I know I'm gonna have to kill 200 of the suckers to get 6 x3 hides. Can imagine it's more than twice as many for a 5-man team.

Haha currently busy with this one. I would skip it if i was sure that it would not unlock another chain. Thing is, I haven't found any addon, guide, site with a complete quest chain overview that show the relations.

Personally i don't mind collection quests if they are with red mobs. They can be pulled. The yellow non aggressive mobs on the other hand is a pain.

[Ualaa]

I would personally put the Paladin into the group, since you want the team leveled more then leveling the warrior.

This gets you one toon who can skip every collection, and has done a bunch of other quests already (probably the majority of the quests the team will attempt).

Queue for AV as often as you can stand it.
Paladin will not be in your bracket, so you'd mount up.
And fly straight up on him/her.
And be there, when the PvP ends.
PvP is free experience for your team.
Run them all to a bunker/tower and stay there until it burns; towers and Belinda/Galv are your leveling exp.

Definitely do a lot of instances on the way up.
The tanks gear level, is the largest factor in how easy/hard instance are.
As an 80th, you will outgear almost everything, until the end of the leveling stage.
Even then, normals as an 80th, are all doable.

Mix it up, quest, instance and battleground.
Don't let anything get stale/boring/old.
It might help to have a totally unrelated team, for the odd hour or two play session.

[crowdx]

Something I have not done in a year or more is PvP. How much experience would I get for an AV run ? My Rogue needs to be leveling for his lockpicking :) and so some easy XP would be nice

[Perrigrin]

Thanks for the input guys, haven't started the team back up yet as the LFG tool is keeping me busy on one account atm -- But probably will go for a spree this weekend.