Boosting 60/70 and then 70 to 80. Advice Please.

[Ualaa]

You can try to avoid the collections, but most of the Northrend chains alternate kills - collections.
Sometimes you get 2-3 kills before a collection, but then you can get a 2-3 collections before the next kill stage.

If you can look at the collection stage as a mini-grind, mindlessly killing mobs - with the bonus of a quest reward over and beyond the grind, that can help with the collections. I was so sick of collections, for a week or so I basically did mindless grinding on a team, while having 95% of my attention on my dvd player and went through most of a season of CSI. Collection quests is essentially the same thing, except there's a reward at the end, plus they can open the kill quests too.

If you don't want to do collections at all, you'll quickly run out of quests to do.
As an alternative to collection quests, you can move to another zone and do the kills you can find there.
But you'll reach the same point in a bit.

Instances are the equivalent of the grind, except there's a pattern of where to go next.
You'll generally gear stronger in instances, but wipe a lot more too.
Quests will make you a lot more gold, unless you have an enchanter to DE all the crap you get.

You can also level fairly well in PvP battlegrounds.
It's not as fast as it was, but its still decent.

Mix it up a bit, don't get burnt out; take breaks when you need to.
It helps to always have rested, but not sure that you have enough toons/teams to alternate.

[Mooni]

You can also level fairly well in PvP battlegrounds.
It's not as fast as it was, but its still decent.

Mix it up a bit, don't get burnt out; take breaks when you need to.
It helps to always have rested, but not sure that you have enough toons/teams to alternate.

You are so right on the second part. Burnout is our number one killa, I think. I realize what's doing it to me is what happens when we come down from the thrill and status of soloing heroics, or running new 80s through them because we're such cool and friendly multiboxers... we come down to doing quests for 2% of a level a pop.

Varying my routine greatly; I really want to get back up where we belong. (the one alt is 77, the other are pushing 68... running around digging through Candy Buckets for XP right now)

As for what you said about BGs, I hear ya. I never got in the pre-nerf BG XP, so all I know is a run of AV is worth about 6-7% of a level on average, but obviously takes less time out of your day.. That's the same as running an instance. I know the relationship is gone, and will never be what it once was, but I still LOVE Alterac Valley. I have ever since we first met back in 2005. I queue up while questing, and when I don't feel like listening to the QQers: I don't queue up. It's confusing to constantly jump back and forth and come back to where you left off, but you can't argue with the XP