Level 70-80 Instance Boosting

[daanji]

Hello all! I've recently decided I want to boost a lot of new teams to at least level 75 and a few to level 85. Here are my main goals in order of priority

1. Level 85 of each Class.

Currently I have a Level 85 Prot Pally with x4 Level 85 Elemental Shamans. I also have another Level 80 shaman, druid, and death knight. I would like to boost the classes I'm missing to level 85.

2. Death Knight Team

I've been craving a melee team and I've decided on DKs. I'd have to create x4 new DKs and boost them to 85.

3. Paladin Team

I would also love a paladin team, but this is low priority

4. Level 75s for Transmutes

Finally, I'd like to boost a bunch of toons to Level 75 so I can level alchemy to do transmutes each day. Currently I have 5x alchemists and that is giving me a good income already. More couldn't hurt :)

So clearly this is going to involve a lot of work and time. I am looking for advice from all the boosting pros out there.

Currently, I am boosting a Level 70 priest, mage, warlock, and hunter with my level 85 Prot Paladin. I"ve been running Utgarde Keep back to back. Here are some statistics


XP Required for 70-71: 1,219,000


XP per run: 107,991


Time to Complete: 20 minutes


Total Runs Required: 11


Total Time Required to Level: 3.6 hours



Does this seem reasonable? Seems a little slow to me. Is there a faster or better way for the 70-80 grind? Should I be questing instead? Or instead of boosting, should I get a tank that is Level 70 and run the instances normally?

Also, here are some facts about my team

Each toon has shoulder and chest heirlooms, yielding a 20% boost in XP


My guild is Level 5 has the fast track perk for an additional 5%. If I hit guild Level 6, I would get Fast Track Rank 2 for another 5% boost.


Total XP Boost: 25%, not rested

[sp0000n]

I have never boosted but I do better than 3.6 hours on most levels wtih my team. Might as well quest and end up with a full team of 85's for the same time required. The gold is way better for far less repetition.

*edit* Oh yeah... for having a 20% XP bonus, I would say that you most certainly are not achieving optimal levelling time.

[daanji]

I have never boosted but I do better than 3.6 hours on most levels wtih my team. Might as well quest and end up with a full team of 85's for the same time required. The gold is way better for far less repetition.

*edit* Oh yeah... for having a 20% XP bonus, I would say that you most certainly are not achieving optimal levelling time.

Yeah, my plan is to boost to Level 80 then quest to Level 85 with a mix of dungeons. Since I have a few Level 80s, I'll drop my Level 85 paladin and pick an 80 replacement.


So how fast can you do the 70-80 grind via questing? How many hours per level on average?

[Shodokan]

Kill converted heroes... you can fly in the air and kill them. Instances are better though for multiple toons. UK is terrible though as far as speed/kill/exp ratio you can solo stuff like gundrak as well on prot pally.

[daanji]

Kill converted heroes... you can fly in the air and kill them. Instances are better though for multiple toons. UK is terrible though as far as speed/kill/exp ratio you can solo stuff like gundrak as well on prot pally.

Thanks for the tip. I moved my guys over here to check it out. This is what I found


Setup: Prot Pally + 4 Level 70s, mage, priest, hunter, and warlock. All dpsed the mobs together


Time Spent: 30 minutes


Each mob were in groups of 7-9 with 12.6K health giving about 400 XP or 3200 XP total


Plenty packs roam about and easy to kill. Never ran out of mobs. Did not bother looting.


Total XP Gained in 30 minutes: 120K


So not bad, a bit slower than instance grinding. I'm going to try Drak'Theron Keep and Gundruk next.

[ebony]

AV weekend :D is the way to level fast!