Boost grinding a 62 in Northrend.

So I am starting to look to the future and I am not sure what I should be doing next. I currently have 3 level 80 shaman running around in their own group droping magmas and healing every once and a while. My lowbie paladin (soon to be 68) gathers everyone up. The paladin is grouped with another druid (level 66). I don't know if it is me or if the grinding has gotten slower.

To go from 67-68 I am looking at around 2 hours of gameplay. The jump of experience needed from 70-80 makes this type of grinding look impossible. Unless I start getting ~1k per mob then I would think different.

I think once I hit 68 on both my lowbies I am going to do the starter quests in Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord. The two lowbies really need a new set of gear as they have been boosted most of the way.

Once this has been done then the age old question arises once again. What do I do next?

1) AOE grind (once the lowbies are 70 do I put the level 80's in the same group? or Do I keep 2 groups running as I have now)

2) Instance grind. Paladin should be able to tank some content right around it's level. Shaman dps should make running stuff a cakewalk. As long as having 3 80's in my group doesn't kill the mob xp.

3) Quest. This is the way I leveled my org team. I do remember a bunch of collection quests but with 2 toons it should be pretty easy instead of 5.

4) AV grind. I am pretty sure this option is not for me. I don't really care about PVP gear and from the reading I have done it is pretty slow (unless you are constently winning).

I had a long response deleted by my error......:mad:

1 thing to note is that any high lvl in your group will cut xp bigtime......so keep them non-grouped unless you have some quests that you want to do quickly, then just group them together.

Once you hit ~72 with the paladin, you can drop the druid and just tag the mobs with the ungrouped pally........then dps them down with the shaman. Around that lvl, mobs are still green to the lvl 80s and will not take away any xp you would get with the pally. Just dont drop and dps totems, as that would take away xp from the pally.

So,
Pally and Druid grouped..........shaman drop totems.........no xp loss bc of high lvls.......but xp per mob is split between Druid/pally

Pally ungrouped.......shaman dps but not through totems....no xp loss bc of high lvls.....pally gets full xp per mob.

I tried several Aterac Valley with my level 72 shaman. With a little luck you get a winning A/V and I was averaging 425k xp/hr. I was having fun just being a healer. It's amazing what a level 72 can do with a magma totem. I was able to prevent several level 80s from taking a tower by just dropping a magma and hiding behind column, rinse repeat. of couse if any level 80 melee is there I get one shotted but most non-melee classes are idoits when in a tower. I thought 425k/hr was better than if I was questing or grinding but I'll have to try a few rhinos and see.

sorry, I forgot to mention that was rested XP.

My plan is to AV (or other PvP's, but predominantly AV) from 71-80.
I have a team, which did quests and some of the collections are stupidly annoying.

At the moment, I'm working on a mixed team.
I've decided to go with a Mage for the 2nd toon on the team, instead of a Hunter.
So I'm boosting the Mage at the moment.
The tentative plan is to AoE boost to 68 or so.
Then see which is faster Quests or further boosting AoE.
At 71st, I'll move the toon (with 4 others) to pvp's.

If you're winning in AV, and getting 425k an hour, that's probably better then with this.
But, if you're not winning in AV, then this style of boosting is definitely better.
Mix and match, they're both excellent exp's.

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Originally Posted by cmeche

I had a long response deleted by my error......:mad:

1 thing to note is that any high lvl in your group will cut xp bigtime......so keep them non-grouped unless you have some quests that you want to do quickly, then just group them together.

Once you hit ~72 with the paladin, you can drop the druid and just tag the mobs with the ungrouped pally........then dps them down with the shaman. Around that lvl, mobs are still green to the lvl 80s and will not take away any xp you would get with the pally. Just dont drop and dps totems, as that would take away xp from the pally.

So,
Pally and Druid grouped..........shaman drop totems.........no xp loss bc of high lvls.......but xp per mob is split between Druid/pally

Pally ungrouped.......shaman dps but not through totems....no xp loss bc of high lvls.....pally gets full xp per mob.

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Thanks for the information. If I decide to instance with a lowbie paladin and the 4 level 80 shaman how much of an xp cut should I expect. Ideally I would like to get back into instances and try and hone my skills again.

Also what a freakin weird way of designing things that around level 72 no more totems and just dps from the shaman. Where did you come across this at?

I am not sure if these mobs for the Oracles daily give XP but there's a metric ton of them and the respawn is ~90 seconds. I have a 76 alt so maybe I'll fly out and see.

http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=28079

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Originally Posted by Schwarz

Thanks for the information. If I decide to instance with a lowbie paladin and the 4 level 80 shaman how much of an xp cut should I expect. Ideally I would like to get back into instances and try and hone my skills again.

Also what a freakin weird way of designing things that around level 72 no more totems and just dps from the shaman. Where did you come across this at?

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http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...ting_with_Pets
That basicly explains how to use high lvl "pets" without sacrificing xp.

At 80, the lvl of mob that no longer give experience or honor(grey color) is 73 or 72....i think. Its either 73, 72, or 71.... and i am too lazy to log in to find out. If a mob is not "grey" to your lvl 80s, you can tag the mob with your ungrouped low lvl pally, then dps the mobs down with the 80s and still get full xp on the pally. BUT, if you use any type of "pet"...such as a hunter/warlock's pet or shaman totem to help with the dps...it will cut the xp that the pally gets.
The only way "pets" will help and not cut xp is if your pally is grouped with another low lvl toon.

You want to make sure the mobs are not grey to the highest level killing them.

That way you get a lot of exp on the lowbies.

Say a level 70 and a level 60 killing a level 70 mob.

low level gets 60/130th of the total exp, which is really good.

There is more info on this here and boy what a difference this few months has made:

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthrea...oosting&page=1

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Originally Posted by Stabface

I am not sure if these mobs for the Oracles daily give XP but there's a metric ton of them and the respawn is ~90 seconds. I have a 76 alt so maybe I'll fly out and see.

http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=28079

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I checked BTW and these mobs don't seem to give any XP.

Bump. It has been ~ a week since the OP posted this place. I have moved from grinding to questing just so I can gear up my paladin a little bit. I was wondering what you have been doing to level your 5th shaman past level 70?