Where to at 50? Power leveling!

[Mosg2]

I'm using my main to power level 4 toons. I can pretty quickly get any set up to 50 (WC to 15, RFK to 20, SM to 35, ZF to 50) but I have no idea where to take them from there. I've always found ZF/BRD to be too tough, but with 4 healers (they're Shaman) I'm thinking I could just power level all the way to 58.

So... With that in mind, what instance would be best at 50? I can use my Warlock or my Warrior to power level, both pretty well geared. Any suggestions much appreciated!

Tony

[zecaguilherme]

I remember people saying Strat if you have a paladin (only the major pulls in live side/near side entrance); don't know if it can be done with a warrior or warlock thou. 1st rooms in scholo should also good for massive AOE, and both instances can be entered at lvl 45. About BRD, the big room with dwarves and dogs is also worth a pull or 2.
Hope that helps

[Stealthy]

Power levelling slows down a LOT after 50, you'd be better of questing IMO. Hinterlands, Felwood, Ungoro & WPL all have a lot of multiboxer friendly quests...



Cheers,

Stealthy

[Nixi]

I used a terribly geared 70 warrior to PL three of my toons. (Paly, mage, warlock; group total was 4 characters until level 58 when i tossed in my shaman)

At 49 to around 51 I was in Sunken Temple, and then from 51 to 54ish I was in black rock depths. Strat was too hard and I couldn't clear it, but scholo was managable and I stayed there until 56. Then I shoved 10 gold into the hands of the first mage i saw for a port to shattrath and then I started clearing ramparts. I did ramps until all my toons were honored and level 60, then I went to Blood furnance for a few runs. At 61 I started doing underbog and slave pens and my toons are 62 now. I'll be doing underbog and slave pens till they get all the gear and rep from those places before moving to mana tombs.



Fury Warrior (70), Elemental Shaman (65), Holy Paladin (62), Destruction Warlock (62) and Fire Mage (61).

[Mosg2]

Well, my warlock has 10khp and 1300 spell damage roughly... I'm thinking that with the four shaman healing him (I'll spec'em all resto I guess) that he should be able to dot everything and let the Felguard do all the work through BRD and Scholo. If a single warlock can solo it in an hour, it stands to reason that with 4 healers along it goes even faster!

Any other suggestions for where to go/spec involved? Could my set up (using the Warrior I assume) work in Ramparts? Thanks again!

[Nixi]

I was really nervous about taking my level 56 toons into ramps with my 70 warrior. My warriors equip is bad. I'm still in mostly high warlords gear from pre-tbc with some outlands greens mixed in.

You have four shamans? That would be perfect to support him. I just kept my warrior in a fury spec and used whirlwind and cleave constantly. I could hold agro over my lowbies without a problem single target DPSing. Just lightning bolt the crap outta stuff, and if you're comfortable with the way your warrior is holding threat, toss in chain lightnings.

Even though I have a mage and lock, I don't use CC much in ramps. Just take out the big blue guys that mortal strike and drop agro first. Keep the casters focused on you and fight them away from your clones so that when they start casting the AOE only your warrior is getting hit. About 5-6 pulls in, there is a houndsmaster or something with 2 blue guys (destroyers?), just level the beast guy first or you'll get adds. I would pop retaliation there just to ensure my warrior is holding agro and the beast guy dies quick. Now I'm comfortable enough that I don't waste the CD.

The first boss, just kill the healer adds first. I would sheep one healer, but now I don't bother and just kill one, then the other, then take on the boss.

The 2nd boss: Spread your guys out and charge in with the warrior. When the little fiends are summoned in pick them up and kill them. When he kicks your warrior in the air. he's gonna start casting a 1500+ damage spell on one of your shamans. Just spam heal on that shaman while trying to intercept back in with your warrior and taunt. Keep spamming heal on that clone until taunt is off and he turns to the warrior.

The last boss took me a bit to figure out because at the time i didn't have a good movement system for my clones. Now I just spread all 4 clones out on the ramp leading down tothe platform, then when fire hits, i just hit forward with all the clones. I learned that i need to kill the orc rider asap to get the dragon to land. So i pop recklessness here. I can bring the dragon down before it hits any of my clones with the fire. While meleeing the dragon, keep an eye out because he'll still drop a fire bomb on the clones so they have to move. oh, and face him away from the clones!

When i first started doing this with my toons at 56 it was pretty tough, and I wiped a decent amount. However I did clear the whole place with 3 56's and my warrior. Just 4 toons.

As far as advice on specs, I have had 0 problems healing my fury warrior dualwielding with my lowbie pally healer. I wouldn't spec the 4 shamans restro. I wouldn't even spec one resto. Just keep them elemental and have at least 1 or 2 set up to heal. What i mean by set up to heal is have at least one shaman not casting lightningbolts when your mashing the main attack button. I might tie his lightning bolt to another button that your warrior uses, but a little less frequently. (whirlwind). This will keep him throwing bolts, but when you need to heal, you won't have to stop DPS with your main body of clones, just keep mashing your main DPS button and he won't join in, just hit the heals now. (just don't spam your main DPS button and whirlwind when you're trying to heal!)

[Mokoi]

I have 3 lvl 30 warlocks, I have a 70 druid ins very nice gear, but I find it very slow to lv them, maybe after stocks the other instances seem slower because they are less densely packed with mobs, but i found it SO boring doing cath over and over..

how do you guys do SM?

[Majestic_Clown]

I did BRD until 57

at level 57 do all the rep hand ins at Eastern Plaguelands for Argent Dawn, the 1st time you do it you get exp.

[Los]

indeed, save a lot of

1. fronds (the greenie stuff not sure about this name)
2. dark iron scraps
3. skeleton bones (not sure about this name)
4. fiend parts

thats almost an instant new level

[Mosg2]

Nixi: My Warrior is in full S1/Vindicators with the tier 2 BS weapon. I'm still just not sure about the healing though... I guess we'll find out :)

Mokoi: I spec 27/34 or close. I get full Demonic Knowledge and Siphon Life and double dot everything until I hit the Cath proper. Then you can SoC pull most of it and pick up the stragglers with double dots. You never have to heal because of the SL healing. I can finish a run in about 8 minutes if I don't loot anything but the bosses and I don't have to move the bots myself. Moving them myself though takes a lot more time ugh.

Majestic: When did you go to BRD and what was your setup? My Warlock and Warrior are both full S1 with Vindicators but my 'lock also has full Spellfire and Shadowweave, so I'm not sure who's going to do the most damage and still get by on healing.

Has anyone done Silithus around 56/57? Is it *really* faster to power level in instances post 50 when you're leveling 4 toons? I don't care about it being boring, I just care about results :D

Thanks again for all the help!

[Skuggomann]

I foudn teh fasters way was to boost quests wen i hit lvl 50 cuz after that boostign becoems 2 slow to be efisient :S

[Boylston]

Quest from 50-58, in my opinion. The only instances I ran from 50-58 were BRD and maybe one run through Scholo/Strath to complete the quests. I would only do BRD quests again, since I think there were so many of them available that could all be done in 1-2 runs that it was very efficient.

[Mosg2]

Nobody else has anything to add then?

[Suvega]

Nobody else has anything to add then?No.

[Eteocles]

There's really little choice at these lvls, moreso since ST got nerfed with 2.3(though I still haven't run it yet at 54 and need to for my lv50 quest on all 3 druids lol); I ended up starting WPL last night at 53-54 and got my epl fp while I was out, still have a few tanaris and ungoro quests to finish + a good chunk of Steppes to do and BRD's stuff as well, hopefully will last to 57ish so I can do lbrs/scholo

[Jaws5]

I like to go to ST and Hinterlands at 50, also felwood and creater. its up to you . If you can AOE grind then you have more options

[Eteocles]

Felwood that's it...I knew I was forgetting something, and I have a couple quests to go to felwood(oozes on one alt to catch his exp up to the other's), and a bunch of good, not too awful hard quests there too...definently clear it out, since BC came out and they added an extra FP to it it's not the ganking hell it was in the past =x

[Atorifan]

I did BRD until 57

at level 57 do all the rep hand ins at Eastern Plaguelands for Argent Dawn, the 1st time you do it you get exp.I sent two 59's there, and they were neutral rep'd and they wouldn't accept the items. So make sure to have at least started with friendly, though these quests might require honored.

[Mosg2]

Ugh!

ZF got really bad at 47 with 4 toons. Usually I'll only have 2 or 3 for the group xp bonus... With a full group the xp is horrible! LBRS is a blast with four Shaman and my Warrior though. It's definitely faster than hand grinding (255xp per kill at 47 and I'm constantly killing). The only problem is that the spider area is a complete pain... Trying to figure out the best clear path that has mobs the whole way. Jump down to the lava at the entrance and then come up through the trolls? That seems like it'd be fairly quick.

I played around in Scholo, and the problem I found is that there are too many casters. They die easier but they never want to all get grouped up for Cleave and WW. I've yet to try Strath live, I figure that would be pretty smooth too.

What's the minimum level for Blood Furnace? :D

[Osium]

I think that a Warlock in ZF is probably the fastest way to go from 40 till about 51 or 52.

Lock just runs through dotting everything up and never stopping. You heal occasionally if you can heal.

Its about 70k an hour with a decently geared lock.

[Mosg2]

Well, with a 70 and four toons in the group the xp dropped significantly in ZF at 46 and then 47. I went and did some quests and then started LBRS at that point with my Warrior pleveling instead of lock... It went pretty smoothly actually. With four healers and a complete set of melee buff totems I was averaging about 1.5 hours per level on each of the toons... Which I'm happy with. Not great, but pretty good.

I just hit 55 on them. Now we're going to HFP to do some Ramparts with my Warrior :) I'll quest once they hit 60 I think. Maybe. We'll see :)