Horde Hinterlands - A Multiboxers Questing Nervana

[OzPhoenix]

Hey all,

So my guys are 48 right now (5 Shamans), and I was looking for the next zone to hit having cleared Maraudon out of quests. I decided on Hinterlands and I couldn't be happier with my choice. Every single opening quest - and there were about a dozen of these were kill quests or fedex quests - every last one of them. In the space of an hour and a half I gained nearly two levels, going from 47.1 to 48.8.

I think I'm in a good place for levelling now as finishing out the 2nd round of quests in Hinterlands (except for one, they are again all kill quests) will easily put me on 49 and close to 50, and I still haven't yet been to Searing Gorge, Burning Steppes, Ungoro Crater, Dustwallow Marsh or Western Plaguelands. Hopefully after clearing those out, I'll run through BRD and LBRS, hit 58 and zoom off to Outlands.

So, my question to the community, what other zones have you found to be really multibox-friendly? For me, Hinterlands beat every other zone for ease by a mile, but perhaps others (particularly on Alliance Side) have found other equally happy-hunting zones?

[Greythan]

I'm boosting my team atm in SM, so I don't have anything to add just yet.

That said, this topic should be something to develop and ultimately sticky/wiki. I'll remember Hinterlands for my late 40's!

[OzPhoenix]

Greythan,

Add Searing Gorge to the list then once you're done with Hinterlands. Another dozen (or close to it) kill quests, which my Shammies will plow through in no time. I'll make 50 (that's pronounced fiddy) for sure off of these ones, and then it's off to BRD.

[sparvath]

Greythan,

Add Searing Gorge to the list then once you're done with Hinterlands. Another dozen (or close to it) kill quests, which my Shammies will plow through in no time. I'll make 50 (that's pronounced fiddy) for sure off of these ones, and then it's off to BRD.Where I am too with my little alliance team. Hinterlands was so easy for me too. Only had the Favored of Elune quest as a serious gather quest. But the area with the feathers was the same with tons of Sungrass which my herbalist needed for skilling. So not really an issue.

Off to test Searing Gorge tonight. Then hopefully land in BRD Thursday which is a national holiday.

[OzPhoenix]

Race to 60? Hehe - Monday is a public holiday here in Australia - 3 day weekend. Just have to find some excuse to pack the missus off to the in-laws, out-laws or by-laws (by order of preference I guess) and I'm set.

[Drizzit]

There should be a wiki out there for powerleveling with a 70 in instances.
Powerleveling just instances with same lvl group.
Leveling by quests only.
Leveling by quest/instances.

I can't really give any help here i just started. Got my guys to 36 last night and here is what i have done:
1-8 quest
8-15 RFC
15-19 SFK
19-24 RFK
24-29 SM lib
29-40 SM Cath (Can probably do ZF at 37, planning to stay till 40 but staying in sm cloth. Maybe when i get the first done and tailoring done i might do ZF earlier then 40. Would like to stay till 40 because it will be a long walk.)

[OzPhoenix]

I'm recording the level of each instance I've done - I wish I'd kept a more detailed log of it, because it would have been useful I guess. More importantly still would be zones - some (for Horde anyway) are terrible like Tarren Mills collection quests, while others are a breeze.

[Rangvald]

Greythan,

Add Searing Gorge to the list then once you're done with Hinterlands. Another dozen (or close to it) kill quests, which my Shammies will plow through in no time. I'll make 50 (that's pronounced fiddy) for sure off of these ones, and then it's off to BRD.


"Can i get abouta tree fiddy?" -loch ness monster.

"No, I ain't gonna give you tree fiddy, now go away!"

Couldnt resist, sorry! :D

[Icetech]

I think im done doing instances til outlands... when doing like SM, i get maybe 1/4 lvl.. maybe a little less per run.. in the same time i can do 3/4 of a level to a full level of questing:( i might try like strat though, just for fun:) the trash in ZF kicked the crap outa me at 45 though.. i am the suck:)



P.S. on the upside... 3 lvl 43-45 ally were standing in front of me in booty bay yesterday... all nice and bunched up.. POW... 3 dead ally:)

[sparvath]

Race to 60? Hehe - Monday is a public holiday here in Australia - 3 day weekend. Just have to find some excuse to pack the missus off to the in-laws, out-laws or by-laws (by order of preference I guess) and I'm set.Send her off with your credit cards 8)

[sparvath]

I think im done doing instances til outlands... when doing like SM, i get maybe 1/4 lvl.. maybe a little less per run.. in the same time i can do 3/4 of a level to a full level of questing:( i might try like strat though, just for fun:) the trash in ZF kicked the crap outa me at 45 though.. i am the suck:)Felt the same. I am trying to find quests I never did before. Its quite fun to lookup quests in an area on wowhead and just go for them. (gathering included)

Did mostly DM, Stokade and SM but it got quite boring fast since I had already those those a gazilion of times using my mage to help guildies.

But gonna do BRD, LBRS, Scholo, Stratholme and Dire Maul a lot. Also because I want the pally mount :whistling:

[Greythan]

My team of four is level 28/29 atm.

I've been powerleveling them with my 70 'lock in SM Cath for 6 levels. Cath sets up well for SoC, so I went there instead of library/gy.

Its about 3 - 4 clears for a level. I can clear it comfortably in 20 mins. (I'm sure it can be done faster.)

I can't imagine generating a sustained 10k exp per 20 minute (30k per hour) rate questing at this level. While it gets mind numbingly boring, it sure feels like there's nothing more efficient. (I'm not looting, btw.)

When I get bored, I do some PvP with my 'lock. Thinking I'll do this until SM Cath wears out (38'ish?). I may try ZF, but I'll admit I've not been there in ages and I'm not sure when my 'lock's PL'ing ability will stop working. (I can get owned doing SM if I somehow lose a SoC and get 5+ mobs on me.)

[Drizzit]

At sm cath you get nice xp from 29 - 35 then it isn't that good anymore. When i was 29-34 was lvling every 3rd run. 35-36 now 4 runs. So 36-40 will probably be 5 runs to lvl. The mobs are like 37-39 there and boss is 40.

It takes my rogue about 20 minutes to clear it, with looting and de stuff. As soon as i don't need silk anymore i am out of there. I have grinned that place from so long that i am screwing up pulls. My team almost wiped yesterday because i forgot to kill 2 mobs and when i agro the boss the 2 mobs attacked my team. didn't notice this until i was put asleep. By the time i got to my guys they where all dead but the priest (thank god). They where 35 at the time so there agro range is much shorter now.

[OzPhoenix]

Race to 60? Hehe - Monday is a public holiday here in Australia - 3 day weekend. Just have to find some excuse to pack the missus off to the in-laws, out-laws or by-laws (by order of preference I guess) and I'm set.Send her off with your credit cards 8)

And disable them first? Otherwise, I'll be needing a second (third and fourth) job me thinks.

[Icetech]

I call your hinterlands and raise you a Searing Gorge, i usually HATE searing gorge, but man.. i just did every quest there in like 2.5 hours.. did around a lvl and half of XP.. by far the best zone i have quested in as a multiboxer...



Only quest i skipped was the crystal spider legs...

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The New and Improved (now with lower fat and zero polysaccharides!) Dustwallow series is darned nice.

[OzPhoenix]

Yep - Searing Gorge was excellent.

As to Dustwallow Marsh, I think I outlevelled it - I stopped in Stonard to get my lvl50 skills and there were no non-low-level quests to be had.

[nogbog]

Thanks for this post!!

I do collection quests sometimes, depends what mood i'm in and if i know where i'm going.
I did Hinterlands for like a 2 level increase.
I just cleared 7 quests in searing gorge in 27 minutes. An easy 3/4 of a level.

My locks are now 48�, got anymore hot tips for killing quests zones up to 60?

[OzPhoenix]

Nogbog,

It's amazing - it changed radically from Hinterlands onward. Hinterlands - excellent all kill quests. Searing Gorge - ditto, another great zone. The same goes for Felwood (Horde side anyway) another bunch of excellent quests. Western Plaguelands - brilliant - a small number of long running chains which are all multiboxer friendly and reward a ridiculous amount of XP - the Bulwark quests especially (Chromies quests inside Andorhal are good up to a point but devolve into collection quests pretty quickly). Top that off with a number of the quests in Winterspring and Silithus and from level 48 onwards there's really no reason to do any instances any more. I did BRD but it was a big mistake - it would have been MUCH faster to just quest it all out.

[nogbog]

Horde ftw

Are most multiboxers horde?
I was checking out wowhead and yeah, felwood looks like a goer.
Any word on what un'goro is like? Its been a while since i been there.

So this is the list so far for a good run of kill quests. (I'm still only 48 so feel free to correct me on the level ranges)

45-46 Hinterlands
46-48 Searing Gorge
48-50 Felwood
50 Western Plaguelands
55 Eastern Plaguelands
58 Winterspring
58 Silithus

[OzPhoenix]

Horde ftw

Are most multiboxers horde?
I was checking out wowhead and yeah, felwood looks like a goer.
Any word on what un'goro is like? Its been a while since i been there.

So this is the list so far for a good run of kill quests. (I'm still only 48 so feel free to correct me on the level ranges)

45-46 Hinterlands
46-48 Searing Gorge
48-50 Felwood
50 Western Plaguelands
55 Eastern Plaguelands
58 Winterspring
58 Silithus

Hinterlands 46-48.
Searing Gorge 46-48.
Felwood 47-51.
Western Plaguelands 50-53 (some of the very latest quests are ok for 5 @ 53).
Eastern Plaguelands 52-54
Winterspring 53-56
Silithus 54-57.

The great thing about this is that you'll level faster than those zone levels go up. So, if you're around 46,47 or so when you hit Hinterlands, you'll be 48 before you get to Searing Gorge, 50 before you look at Felwood and 51 before you reach WP. You'll level faster than the zones do. :thumbsup: and it works so well if you're planning an Outlands warp @ 58 instead of 60.

PS: My level ranges there are assuming 5-boxing. Some quests wouldn't be possible for a single player at those level ranges (particularly EP).

[nogbog]

I was intending to not do any quests past 62 in outlands, just because i need to quest gold at 70 to pay for the epic mounts.
It's gonna be a big long grind.

[OzPhoenix]

The other way - but it's slow - is to have a side project.

If you regularly rest your team for 5 days at a time, they'll never run out of rested XP and so they'll hit 70 with three full zones left to clear (Shadowmoon, Netherstorm and Blade Edge or Nagrand). The gold from the quest rewards will get you your epic mounts.

This only works though if you can hold of 'em long enough to let that rested XP build up (my own Shamans will be played full time, so I expect to have a VERY long grind for my Epic Flyers x 5).

[nogbog]

It's a good idea, the rested bonus.
Means i could get up 8 characters (4 boxing)

I was thinking about rolling a few rogues, difficult because of melee range, but possible.

[OzPhoenix]

I briefly toyed with the idea of levelling my all BE team (Paladin, Priest, Mage, Mage, Warlock) while letting rested build up on my Shamans - but I am WAYYYYY to eager to get to 70 for that.

If it means I wait a lot longer before have 32000g for 5 Epic Flyers - so be it :D

[The_Whack]

The great thing about this is that you'll level faster than those zone levels go up. So, if you're around 46,47 or so when you hit Hinterlands, you'll be 48 before you get to Searing Gorge, 50 before you look at Felwood and 51 before you reach WP. You'll level faster than the zones do. :thumbsup: and it works so well if you're planning an Outlands warp @ 58 instead of 60.

Hello..... about lvling faster than the zones, are certain quests just not available until a particular level? Are there enough quests available in each zone to accommodate your lowbie lvl and leveling progression? Will I be grinding a level or two just to make up for it?

[OzPhoenix]

The great thing about this is that you'll level faster than those zone levels go up. So, if you're around 46,47 or so when you hit Hinterlands, you'll be 48 before you get to Searing Gorge, 50 before you look at Felwood and 51 before you reach WP. You'll level faster than the zones do. :thumbsup: and it works so well if you're planning an Outlands warp @ 58 instead of 60.

Hello..... about lvling faster than the zones, are certain quests just not available until a particular level? Are there enough quests available in each zone to accommodate your lowbie lvl and leveling progression? Will I be grinding a level or two just to make up for it?

It was my experience that the higher in level I went, the more I could afford to turn my nose up at any sort of collection quest and still level up faster than I could complete all the zone quests.

Certainly there are minimum level requirements to some quests - and as a multiboxer that's a pain because most of those you could pawn anyway - but that's not a huge problem.

As to grinding, I'm strictly talking about level40 onwards. Prior to that, I found that my zone choices were limited enough that I couldn't just ditch every last collection quest - some needed to be done because they kicked off long and useful chains.

I'd also point out that after BRD I stopped doing instances at all in Azeroth and in hindsight, BRD was itself a giant waste of time.

[Icetech]

Following joana's guide and skipping alot of the gather quests im staying right on track pretty much... in the 30's i had to do some instances to stay up with the guide.. been right on since:)

[Greythan]

Currently level 30 and still grinding SM.

Any suggestions on what level to break away from instance boosting (w/my 70 lock)? What zone to start in?

It looks like we have almost a complete path detailed for a booster:

1-12'ish: Newbie quest grind

12 - 38'ish: Boost in instances

38 - 45: ??

45-46 Hinterlands
46-48 Searing Gorge
48-50 Felwood
50 Western Plaguelands
55 Eastern Plaguelands
58 Winterspring
58 Silithus

58+ Outlands

[OzPhoenix]

Greythan,

I'd include ZF - personally I think it's worth doing. Beyond that looks good.

[wowphreak]

OzPhoenix curious about why yeh feel brd was a waste?

I grabbed just about all the quests I can for brd and gonna run thru it about 3 times to get all the quest done
Some good info on it here http://pc.gamespy.com/guides/wowat60/alliance/brd.html

3 of my chars are going at 51 they might end up at 52 before I get all the pre requisite quests done with another one 70

[OzPhoenix]

OzPhoenix curious about why yeh feel brd was a waste?

I grabbed just about all the quests I can for brd and gonna run thru it about 3 times to get all the quest done
Some good info on it here http://pc.gamespy.com/guides/wowat60/alliance/brd.html

3 of my chars are going at 51 they might end up at 52 before I get all the pre requisite quests done with another one 70

1. So many of the quests were collection quests. After 3 runs I still didn't have 5 lots of all the drop materials I needed to complete the quests.

2. A number of the encounters are designed for a much higher level than the rest of the instance. In particular Command Garshak (presumably its Alliance equivalent as well), Archelmach (the guy next to the Repair bot plans), and the Thunderbrew recipe quest. If I'd been high enough to complete these, I'd have been so high that I'd have been getting bugger all XP from the trash mobs to get to them. Overall I found my XP/hr rate to be miserable inside BRD and not even close to what I was comfortably achieving in outside questing. One good quest for example, the MC attunement, can't even be done till level 55 (at which point most of the rest of the instance is worthless).

With a 70 in the group this might be different because he could presumably burn down the harder quests while the other guys are still getting good XP for it - but with an all 54 group it was a real bust.

[sparvath]

I just started on Outland part 2 days ago and I plan on doing every single Hellfire, Zangarmarch, Terokkar and Nagrand Quest. If I havnt dinged 70 by then I intend to go hide in instances until I am.

Than way I save 3 virgin zones for the mounts

And I dont see why the gathering quests are so scary. I look at it this way. Quest may only be worth 5-10K in XP but killxp is anything from 10-30K added to that. And on top of that nice loot that is shipped of to my AH seller.

Note especially for you guys still in the old Azheroth: "Everything sells" I earned 7K from loot, mining, herbalism and skinning all though Azheroth. And I never killed any grey mobs on my journey.

Just send everything that you wont need yourself to a AH character and you will see the money rain in. Can be a bit hard for us oldtimers that remember a lot of items were worth nothing on AH. Fx. Rugged leather. Pre BC you were lucky if you sold a stack for 2g. Now 20-30g isnt oncummon. Greater Eternal Essence now sells for 20g in my server. I was lucky if I got 4 before Burning Crusade.

[Icetech]

Nogbog, you should look around.. you can find joana's guide for free... no more guessing...

BTW.. i loved silithus this time.. normally i detest the zone.. i did everything there in like 2 hours cept collections.. was awesome:) and that elite spider handed over 5 GREAT daggers.... almost as much dps as the 2 handers my team was usin...

[nogbog]

I followed this guide, it's pretty much spot on.
55 Eastern Plaguelands
57 Winterspring
58 Silithus

I just turned 58 and not sure where to go from here, i really wanted to start outlands at 60.
Might work on my Onyxia key, that should probably get me to 60.

[OzPhoenix]

I followed this guide, it's pretty much spot on.
55 Eastern Plaguelands
57 Winterspring
58 Silithus

I just turned 58 and not sure where to go from here, i really wanted to start outlands at 60.
Might work on my Onyxia key, that should probably get me to 60.

For speed you can't beat Outlands XP - even if you went thru at 58 and did nothing but grind mobs for Thrallmar reputation for 2 levels.

[OzPhoenix]

I just started on Outland part 2 days ago and I plan on doing every single Hellfire, Zangarmarch, Terokkar and Nagrand Quest. If I havnt dinged 70 by then I intend to go hide in instances until I am.

Than way I save 3 virgin zones for the mounts

And I dont see why the gathering quests are so scary. I look at it this way. Quest may only be worth 5-10K in XP but killxp is anything from 10-30K added to that. And on top of that nice loot that is shipped of to my AH seller.

Note especially for you guys still in the old Azheroth: "Everything sells" I earned 7K from loot, mining, herbalism and skinning all though Azheroth. And I never killed any grey mobs on my journey.

Just send everything that you wont need yourself to a AH character and you will see the money rain in. Can be a bit hard for us oldtimers that remember a lot of items were worth nothing on AH. Fx. Rugged leather. Pre BC you were lucky if you sold a stack for 2g. Now 20-30g isnt oncummon. Greater Eternal Essence now sells for 20g in my server. I was lucky if I got 4 before Burning Crusade.

I'm doing much the same. Though I skipped collection quests wholesale in Azeroth, in Outlands I'm doing every last quest there is. Like you, I plan on having at least 3 zones completely untouched before hitting 70 - probably Blade Edge Mountains, Netherstorm and Shadowmoon Valley.

[Greythan]

Update on my progress. (Been VERY leisurely about leveling lately.) ;)

I hit Hinterlands at 46 and was maybe 20% in. Hinterlands kill quests only + (I did do the chain starting with Venom Bottles) netted me pretty much two full levels. My foursome (I'm boosting) has about 70% of 48 left.

I can not give Hinterlands enough kudos. As previously stated in this thread, the quests in this zone are nearly ALL kill quests. If you have a booster its gravy as you can do the five or so quests in the troll city in about 45 minutes.

Although I'm ahead of the sequence summarized in this thread, I am going to his Searing Gorge and just do the easy quests. On then to Felwood and from there, I imagine, the Plaguelands gauntlet.

After boosting in SM to 40, I can say that so far for me the WORST part of leveling was 40 to 45. Ended up grinding it boosting in ZF.

[Greythan]

Anyone who's NOT RAF'ing that can speak to how far I'll get from 66% left in 48 following the list below just doing kill quests? Will I make 58? (Itching to get to Outlands)

Searing Gorge
Felwood
Western Plaguelands
Eastern Plaguelands
Winterspring
Silithus

[Pardall]

WE Plaguelands and Dustwallow were the places I took the most amazing XP. Dustwallow I took 3 levels in like 2 hours. Quests there are damn fast and gives 11-16k XP with the RAF.
WEP? Cauldrons Love.

[Greythan]

Just did the six or so initial quests from Searing Gorge and netted about 65k. Got me to 49 from about 63% remaining. Not as much as I'd hoped. No where near a level here, let alone two.

Again, I'm not RAF'd with this group.

[elsegundo]

Thanks everyone for contributing to this thread! i love it! hinterlands is great, and so is searing gorge. i'll be heading to felwood soon.

I know you gather quests from raventusk village, but there's one you can get from undercity to burn communication documents at the blood elf lodge. so when you pick up the quest to kill 15 rangers/scouts/etc. you can also burn the documents and escort the captive. three quests down all in one place!

[Greythan]

Hinterlands seemed to offer a lot more exp than Searing Gorge. Yes, Searing Gorge's quests are primarily kill-quests, but Hinterlands volume of quests was superior by far IMHO.

Off to Felwood tonight for me. Team is just into level 49 now.

[Hachoo]

I dunno I remember doing at least 8-10 quests in searing gorge, some of the collection quests are easier than kill quests - drop rate was good and dropped for all 5 guys from 1 mob. I did get at least 1 full level from searing gorge, maybe 1 1/2, can't remember. Hinterlands was definitely better but I liked searing gorge. Just make sure to do the quests inside the slag pit also as theres at least 3 quests in there that take a grand total of about 10 minutes to do. and net something like 12k xp each.

[Lyonheart]

You guys just made my mind up for me. I still have a month of RaF left. I will RaF 5 shaman and gift a paly up when i hit 60 8) Did they nerf the cow stomp thingy?

Anyways. I will do this on my realm ( hyjal) Been wanting to level horde to see that side of WoW. I have been scared to make horde, thinking ill like it too much. I have so many toons on alliance 8(

[elsegundo]

I dunno I remember doing at least 8-10 quests in searing gorge, some of the collection quests are easier than kill quests - drop rate was good and dropped for all 5 guys from 1 mob. I did get at least 1 full level from searing gorge, maybe 1 1/2, can't remember. Hinterlands was definitely better but I liked searing gorge. Just make sure to do the quests inside the slag pit also as theres at least 3 quests in there that take a grand total of about 10 minutes to do. and net something like 12k xp each.and in the cave adjacent to it- kill the 20 incendiosaurs for another quest.