XP per kill was in the high 700's. My pally takes forever to kill the mobs so I threw in the shammy for dps (magma totem is helpful). I timed the runs vs the xp received and found that it was more efficient to use two 80's.
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I forget in which thread the strategy was mentioned, but you can grind the bottom floor of Underbog (up to the first boss). Reset and repeat. You'll probably gain a lot of xp from 60-65 and it might be faster than boosting through ramps. I boosted my team from 65-68 using that technique. I got about a level every 40-50 mins. You may hit the 5 instance per hour cap doing it, but it worked pretty well for me.
lower floor up to first boss?
i'll try it after i try the sethekk halls method
edit: SH gave me 10% in 15 mins... which is < ramparts in the same amount of time. So i'm going to try out the bottom area of underbog.
edit2: ran underbog 2 times in 10 mins, got 10% of a level. (the bottom part, basically a 1 pull) but that will be a lockout too fast.
Guess it's ramps + looting for 8-10% in 10 mins. 300g per hour while doing this isnt bad i guess.
At this point i'm wondering if it will truely be worth the time put into doing this. I mean i'm looking at... a week of like 8 hours a day of ramps... to get all my teams ready for professions, then using the gold made from that to power level all the alchemy... like... 50 hours of leveling or so. 50 hours of ramps is going to make me want to kill myself. Even @ 300g per hour, thats 3000g per team... 5 teams... 15k gold ish + tons of cloth for the tailoring.
I mean once all my characters are done... it will take me atleast 1 week of gems to make all the money spent back. So i guess after that it becomes very worth it.
That all depends. I once clocked 110 hours in a week on my mage >_>
Edit: 1 group done. TY to finding someone who likes the prospect of 5% of my net income per week for 3 weeks when all my alchemy is done on all the toons. Should have another 2 groups done tomorrow.
Unless I missed something about not questing, you should quest 60-65 in outlands in like 5 hours tops. flying at 60 makes this hands down the fastest way. Otherwise, grind underbog to the second boss.
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=26508
MB friendly quest lists from Hellfire to Blades Edge Mtns.
You mentioned, unless there's a crapton of extra experience for mobs 8 levels higher...
Have to mention the experience cap.
Anything beyond 4 or 5 levels (over you), rewards the same experience as whatever the cap level mob is.
So when you are level 20, a 24th (or maybe the cap is 26th.. not sure exactly) level mob might get you 224 experience (picking a number here, not sure the actual amount). However, if you were to kill a level 44 mob, it won't get you any more experience then the 24th (or 26th) level mob.