Level 80x4 in 5 days, 9 hours - here's how

Just for the record, I thought I'd put down exactly how I leveled my 4x Ret Pallys to 80. I know almost 6 days isn't setting any records, but I thought some people might find it useful. I started these guys right before x-mas and finished Jan 13th.

It took about 5 days, 9 hours to 80 total. I used RAF from 1 - 60 which took 20 hours total. Without RAF I estimate it would take an additional 2 days.

I also used Heirloom items once I got to 60, which gave me 20% more quest and kill exp. Without these, you can expect to spend an extra ~20 hours. So without RAF and Heirloom it would be about 8.5 - 9 days - at the speed I played.

1-10 questing
10-15 Deadmines - boosted by 80 pally
15-22 Stockades - boosted by 80 pally (about 1 level per run)
22-42 SM - - boosted by 80 pally (a level per run)
42-45 ZF (I just took it slow here) (not quite a level per run)
45-60 Scholomance This was awesome - just sit on the bridge and have the 80 kill everything - 0 wipes
60 Go to Outlands and buy flying mount
60 Say goodbye to your 80 booster, you won't need it from here on out
60-70 quest in outlands - I did 0 collection quests - I skipped everyone that I had to collect more than 3 items.
61-70 Q for AV as much as you can stand - it breaks up the grind
70 Have your mains buy cold weather flying and send them to your alts (Heirloom item)
71-80 Q for AV as much as you can stand
71-78 Quest - the only collection quests I did so far is Wrathgate line
74 - Start doing the grizzly hills PVP quests every day, and continue questings
78-80 Quest in Icecrown and unlock everything- I had to do several collection quests in Icecrown to unlock everything, probably at least 6

When I hit 80, I had about 1500g on each guy - but I loaned each guy 600g for cold weather flying and 300g for spells - so net maybe 600g each. I didn't start looting until Northrend and vendored all unneeded quest items.

I also had 60K honor at 80 and earned a total of about 200 AV badges.

-Kicksome

i think doing randoms from 69-80 would have the edge over questing and you can still use your boosting main if hes a tank

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Originally Posted by simpletom

i think doing randoms from 69-80 would have the edge over questing and you can still use your boosting main if hes a tank

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I have to question this...just this morning I tried to do a random dungeon with my main (80 druid tank) and 4 level 71s. Over and over I got a message of "not everyone meets the level requirements for this instance", or something to that affect.

I got this message regardless of who was leader and queuing the group, and I tried a couple dozen times. Has anyone successfully gotten an instance to fire off using unequal level toons?

I know that when I queue for regulars with my 80, I NEVER get an instance such as UK. It's always one of the level 80 instances, which makes me think that perhaps the dungeon finder looks at the highest level toon and finds an appropriate instance off of him/her.

thoughts?

>zip

Good work. It took me just over 8 days to do 5. I didn't have cold weather flying or heirlooms though.

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Originally Posted by zipzip

I have to question this...just this morning I tried to do a random dungeon with my main (80 druid tank) and 4 level 71s. Over and over I got a message of "not everyone meets the level requirements for this instance", or something to that affect.

I got this message regardless of who was leader and queuing the group, and I tried a couple dozen times. Has anyone successfully gotten an instance to fire off using unequal level toons?

I know that when I queue for regulars with my 80, I NEVER get an instance such as UK. It's always one of the level 80 instances, which makes me think that perhaps the dungeon finder looks at the highest level toon and finds an appropriate instance off of him/her.

thoughts?

>zip

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You can do it by Q'ing up people of the appropriate level then dropping one, and putting in your 80.

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Originally Posted by Kicksome

74 - Do the grizzly hills PVP quests
78-80 Quest in Icecrown and unlock everything- I had to do several collection quests in Icecrown to unlock everything, probably at least 6

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That's like what, 2-3 bars a day? So you did the grizzly hills dallies for like a month?

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Originally Posted by heyaz

That's like what, 2-3 bars a day? So you did the grizzly hills dallies for like a month?

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Sorry, I just meant starting doing the quests at level 74, and continue questing.

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Originally Posted by Kicksome

You can do it by Q'ing up people of the appropriate level then dropping one, and putting in your 80.

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So simple, so brilliant. excellent!

I would flush out the 70-80 range a lot more, this is likely battlgroup specific i am guessing. AV for me was nonexistent and while it seemed to break up the grind it was a set back xp wise.

I am around your timeline just grinding UK->DK->VH->GUN->COS.

Hitting Kirin Tor quests so they can gain rep in COS.

Just curious, but I would think running dungeons from 70 - 80 would lose a lot of quest gold unless you planned on going back and doing those quests at 80 for the extra gold?
Also is it really any faster than questing if you have a good guide for quests and avoid most of the collection quests?
Just wondering :)