Is leveling supposed to be kind of slow?

As a 3boxer, Collection quests weren't so bad...easy to alttab between 3 windows...asa 5boxer though I'm having nightmares keeping straight which window is which let alone whether I've tabbed to that window to turn in quests or not...if you make up for it grinding/instancing later, you can skip the collection quests, pretty much up to you. Doing all teh quests my triboxers kept up with zone requirements fairly well

Also, Knytes, what is the "Athene method?" I've not heard of this...and what 2day 1-60 method is there? seconded for more info :P

I keep track of which window is which when doing collection quests on my 5 shamans by just simply keeping all the windows open at once. Maximizer is wonderful and a must have for multiboxing. Alt tabbing works for 2-3 boxing but anymore than that and you'll have a nightmare trying to figure out which window is going to come up on alt tab next.

I cleared DM last night at level 20. Healing stream totem made the entire place completely trivial. Going to have to do Stockades once for the quests and I'm thinking about doing it sometime in the late 20's.

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I cleared DM last night at level 20. Healing stream totem made the entire place completely trivial. Going to have to do Stockades once for the quests and I'm thinking about doing it sometime in the late 20's.

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Grats :)

Just wanted to chime in on something here, for keeping windows straight, its part of the reason i use WinEQ2, it assigns all the windows hot keys (ctl alt+ number) as long as I opne and log them in the same way each time, I always know which window is which character, makes it a lot nicer... at least to me :D

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[...]Im a real hard ass about not finishing up a zone when I think I can finish it, which usually takes awhile.

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Change that attitude and gain time :P
If you have enough characters you can do instances too. I almost exclusively levelled through instances and instance quests for the last couple of levels (22-28). It takes some time too, but it depends on the instance and your tactics. The loot and money is great though!

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But I guess I'll see, I just get bored easily, maybe once I hit 20 things will kick off.
I would pay another 20$ for a Dual and Multi-Boxing guide rofl.

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Just to reply about collection quests and losing track of which window is which. If you're on a Mac, you can use the Exposé function. I have bound to my middle mouse button (default is F9). So I have my main running along killing things or finding items that have little sparkles, click the middle mouse button and it gives me all five windows. The first window will be your main, and the second will be your last 'viewed' window. Go to the second window and loot on your alt. Middle mouse again, second window which puts you back to your main (since it was the last one viewed). Then you end up just looking at those two windows until your alt has the quest completed, then you move to the next alt. You always want your main to be the last one doing the quest this way you don't miss any loot or sparkles that you would have seen on an alt.

The biggest thing I realized when leveling my mages was.. OMFG my AOE!! Gather em up and AOE. I really had to stop killing one target at a time unless it was a boss. Killing one by one with the mages was really slow. Hope it helps, made my leveling 10x faster once I realized this

Thanks for all the info and thread Hijacking :P
Ill have to try that once I actually get some decents AOE, Ill have to experiment with that minimap ping macro I suppose.

@ Ectolese et al.

The "Athene" method was that used by Athene to pl his paladin from 1-70 in just over a day. The method has been questioned on the CS forum (can't find the link right now) and Belfaire (I think) stated that while it wasn't considered an exploit right now, it is borderline and Blizzard are making a decision on it so he'd suggest people err on the side of not using it. However, since it isn't an exploit right now I will describe it here and Ellay, Keyclone, etc can delete it if they feel it's needed.

1. Have a 70 prot paladin + 70 mage + powerlevelee
2. Zone into instance, paladin runs around and grabs all mobs, pulls them back to zone entrance and other 2 players, proceeds to concecrate/shield block
3. Once mobs are down to a few hp's each the paladin zones out and the mage leaves group.
4. Boostee tags all mobs, mage ae's them to death.

Since the mage is no longer in the group he takes no xp, and the paladin is out of the instance so he gets no xp. The boostee gets max xp from like 50+ mobs 10+ levels above them in a matter of a few minutes....exit instance, reinvite mage, rinse, repeat.

The 1-60 in 1 day 10 hours method is similar in that you just have a 70 mage/paladin grouped up with 4 people to boost and just go grind instances. There was a post on the general forums about it, and the poster posted here too regarding it so it should be easy to find....thread title was something like 1-60 in 1 day 10 hours :D....was started by an orc hunter called Grundawg or similar.

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here is one link but it's 1-60 in 1 day 20 hours, does include links to pull maps though so likely more useful

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...sid=1&pageNo=1

Lvln is kinda slow in the beginning. Until you hit 20 you just have to struggle. I made it from 43 to 51 this weekend and I dont got any 70 that helps me.
I just did quests and instances, avoiding collection quests ofc. Total of 6 days played. So atleast for me lvln is not that slow. I suggest you do what others have told you.
Skip collection quests and dont finish a zone just because you "have" to =).

Best of luck