Best way to use up rested XP

I have been trying for 2 days now to use up my rested XP. First just from killing mobs while questing then last night killing trash in Utgarde keep. After killing trash and the second bosses in UK for 3 hours last night I only used 11% of my rested XP and still had 139%.

What is up with the first boss in UK? I can't kill him no mater what I try even at level 73 now.

It seems like when I have no rested XP it is hard to get but when I have 150% rested XP I can't get rid of it.

Anybody got any good tips for using up my rest XP?

stop parking your characters in an INN or major city, this will reduce the amount of rested time you get when you are logged off.
I personally think that a dungeon is the fastest way to burn up your rested time.

I hated that first boss too. Last time I beat the first boss i did it by bringing the whole team up to the boss so the concecrate from my pally would help break anyone frozen in ice. I usually drop my fire elementals after the pally has good aggro.

on the first boss, go to the left side around the table and drop totems behind the chairs and run in so you will be between your team and the skellys that spawn, after i started coming in from that way i had no problems.

I have a mixed team with a warrior tank, what I do on the first boss is bring the whole team right up with me so I can clap for the skellies and add a line to my spam macro of /target Freeze (or what ever it is). This way my whole team will automatically destroy the block and I take almost no damage from it. The skellies should be ignored as long as the tank has agro, they do not do much damage and once the last one is killed they will all respawn anyway.

Why are you trying to get rid of it? I simply won't play a team if I don't have rested, and I play as normal if I do. If you have a level and a half of rested and you're over 70, you may not ever use it up unless you play nonstop or do nothing but instances.

This is like saying, "I have too much money. I wish there were more places I could go to spend it faster."

To get rid of it quickly though, run instances. The more XP you get on each mob, the faster it will burn down. And in UK I believe the mobs were giving 2,300'ish XP each at level?

if you spent 3 hours at one place and you've only used up 11% of your rested exp... then thats not exactly the best place to be using it, imo.

With rested exp i burn through 20% an hour in UK. I run the same team as you. And they are the same level. Also the first boss is cake if you use Shadow Aura, Fire Elementals and cast T-Storm when you need to get rid of the block.

So just keep running UK and get through that exp!

I want to get rid of the 150% rested XP so I can build up more rested XP since the cap is 150%. I try to play but am not doing very well in WoTLK, I can't do UK after trying over 100 times to take down the first boss, and the collection quests are killing me. It is taking me 1 day per level /played in this expansion and I'll never get to 80 if I can't maximize me rest XP.

I'm totally confused.

Your problem has nothing to do with needing to gen back up rested exp, it has to do with finding efficient ways to burn through it.

So, find more efficient mobs to grind exp with (burns through rested exp). Most typically, that is found in instances. If you can't clear the boss, you could max your four resets in an hour and kill all the trash up to the boss. Find mobs to grind. Pretty simple. Hell, back down to a heroic BC instance or something if you need to.