Boost grinding a 62 in Northrend.

[cmeche]

I am bringing up a shaman(will be #5) on my 5th account. Never realized boxing pvp would be this much fun, I just figured a tank on the 5th account would be all i needed. Now after the long grind from 1-62 with no raf....I headed out to northrend to see how grinding on the rhinos would be with my team helping.

Setup:
3 lvl 80s dropping magma, rotating on stoneclaw
lvl 62 shaman grouped with a lvl 72 junk priest that i have(need to be grouped to take advantage of non-party totems)

Basicly i have everyone follow the priest....priest hits 1-2 holy novas to tag the mobs.......magmas are dropped at same time i pw:s the priest.......about 5 seconds later,.......5 dead rhinos and hardly any loss of mana. Stoneclaw really helps for this type of grinding too.

With heirloom shoulders/chest, shaman was getting around 500xp per mob unrested. My preist with no heirlooms was getting 700-800xp as rested. After my fist hour of grinding, i was easily staying around 250k xp per hour on the lvl 62. I am guessing this is alot faster than questing in BC? What do yall think?

[Ualaa]

Interesting idea.

It depends on how many mobs are in the area, and if you will run out of stuff.
Competition for the rhino's could slow you down at times, but still a very good idea.

[cmeche]

Interesting idea.

It depends on how many mobs are in the area, and if you will run out of stuff.
Competition for the rhino's could slow you down at times, but still a very good idea.

True, if there is even 1 other person/group grinding on the rhinos.....xp would drop bigtime. But if you can find a good time(for me its early morning at work ) when you have them all to yourself....it will be a nice xp boost.

Only problem is the boing repitition. Questing in Nagrand would be so much more entertaining, but yeild far less xp.

[Sam DeathWalker]

This is the kind of thing I been doing for the last 6 months and everyone say I am stupid ......

Its called Tag Boosting.

Wish I was in Northend, still doing like 20 BC mobs per pull is nice (at the black temple training area).

[Smoooth]

This is the kind of thing I been doing for the last 6 months and everyone say I am stupid ......

Its called Tag Boosting.

Wish I was in Northend, still doing like 20 BC mobs per pull is nice (at the black temple training area).

I think this method is a lot more viable at 60+ since it's only effective while rested. Since you get a % of level rest per day and the levels get longer and longer the higher level you are the longer it takes to go through the rest.

Getting 1 level per week at 60+ is pretty decent but in the lower levels is pretty bad.

Why don't you go to northrend? Go outside warsong hold in the starter area and have your "xp group" macro shocks to get the tag while the rest lightning bolt. You should be able to 1 shot them still and the spawns there are way fast. If your guys are still under about level 62 you might want to wait a bit.

[Ualaa]

I find a lot of the leveling aspects of the game to be extremely monotonous.
The cure for this, is to have a partial distraction while playing.

My mixed group will be AV'ing for 6-9 levels (depending on the toon).
They'll all be in the same pvp's until the last one dings 80.

For the most part one AV is the same as another.
Rush to Drek/Belinda, kill him/her.
Then either guard a tower/bunker, retake a tower/bunker or continue with the swarm.

I can have a dvd playing on my screen (love a 30" widescreen)...
Enough attention on it, to distract me from the fact that I've done the same BG 599 times this month.
But the game is right there in front of me, so I'll notice right away if someone comes into my tower etc.

Questing is similar.
The first couple of times, a zone was interesting.
Leveling a few single toons with my girlfriend to 80th was fun.
Then add in leveling a team to 80th.
Then the prospect of four more teams to go.
Well the quests aren't as interesting now, and will be really boring for the last team.
But a distraction while its going, helps immensely.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Why don't you go to northrend


WotLK X 36 ..... $1000 ....

[Ualaa]

Absolutely and utterly hate all the collection quests my shammy/pally team had to do.

Just about anything as an alternative is better.

Pure grinding all the way is probably the only thing worse.
If there was an option to grind on level 90 mobs, with level 100's supporting me....
That would be very attractive.

The number of collections, which open kills, is horrendous in Northrend.
It sometimes takes 90 minutes of grinding on mobs, to get 12 drops (which is actually 60 drops).
Fifteen minutes of grinding is tolerable with one toon; 90 minutes plain sucks.
And that's not an isolated incident.
Sure there are plenty, where everyone can loot, and kill quests too, or Fed Ex quests.
But there are numerous collections which are so monotonous.
Especially after having done them with 4 solo toons and a boxed team.

[Marious]

I am wondering if you would get similar XP if you just went into say BWL or any of the lv 60 raids, AQ, ZG, I will have to give this a try since you can get a bunch of the mobs in there and bring them to your group, there is a ton of areas that have lots of mobs like the troll area.

[Schwarz]

I am wondering if you would get similar XP if you just went into say BWL or any of the lv 60 raids, AQ, ZG, I will have to give this a try since you can get a bunch of the mobs in there and bring them to your group, there is a ton of areas that have lots of mobs like the troll area.

Taken from http://www.wowwiki.com/Formulas:Mob_XP

Mobs in 5-man instances give slightly more XP, but mobs in most raid instances give no XP. Raid instances that DO award XP include Upper Blackrock Spire and Zul'Gurub.
(elites in instances give 2.5 * XP when solo-ed; untested for normal mobs in instances - Stilpu) (confirmed zero XP at lv 58 in Molten Core, at lv 69 in Karazhan and Zul'Aman. confirmed XP gain in Zul'Gurub when a lv 56 dinged 57 but exact amount earned is unknown - Ishotala) (Some monsters, like in the Amphitheater of Anguish, give the doubled exp PER player. If you do those quests with less than five players, you'll get more experience than this formula. The total amount of exp they deliver is 10 * normal_XP. Has to be confirmed, through. pikachuyann)

I haven't boxed in a while. I have been thinking about coming back. If I did I would be in a similar situation as the OP. I need to level a toon from 60 to 80. I am not sure but I think it might be easier/faster to level just the one character. I think alot of people fall into the trap of thinking "I have 5 accounts. If I don't play them all at the same time then I am wasting time". I know I used to fall into thought. Let me know how fast levels are coming for you.