5-Box leveling speed

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4x Warriors alliance side, until level 36, are pretty miserably slow. I hit my stride around 40, and things got really nice and quick after.

Are you doing dungeons or quests or a mix of both to get to 36. My teams are still in the 20's so having abit of a slow push being im on a crowded server

Hello all. New member here - just taking my first dive in to multiboxing with WoW Classic. I mained a shaman back in retail classic, and know the class very well, so I decided to run 5 shamans. I'm not sure yet whether that was a smart move or not ;P. My goal is to farm instances such as Stratholme for Righteous Orbs, etc. I'm looking for some insight tonight about leveling speed. I'm 29.5 and just hitting 4 days 7 hours played. Not all of this time was solely dedicated to leveling, so that's not as important as this: it's taken me about 2.5 hours to get half way through 29. I'm grinding in SM GY right now and I don't have much difficulty with any of the mobs, except for the boss, of course, but I only tried him once. Seems painstakingly slow to me. Is this the pace I should be expecting? 5 hours to go from 29-30 seems atrocious, but if that's classic, I guess I'll just have to keep it up.

TL;DR: It's taken me 2.5 hours to get half way in to 29. Am I doin it all wrong?

I am just curious if anyone has taken a melee cleave team into mid-higher level dungeons yet. I am curious how they find the speed of the comp. I have been bouncing back and forth to mage team and melee team. I favor the melee team when doing outdoor quests due to the 0 down time, but having only done two dungeons so far Stockade and DM. I am wondering how viable multiboxing melee will be at end game.

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Are you doing dungeons or quests or a mix of both to get to 36. My teams are still in the 20's so having abit of a slow push being im on a crowded server



I am just curious if anyone has taken a melee cleave team into mid-higher level dungeons yet. I am curious how they find the speed of the comp. I have been bouncing back and forth to mage team and melee team. I favor the melee team when doing outdoor quests due to the 0 down time, but having only done two dungeons so far Stockade and DM. I am wondering how viable multiboxing melee will be at end game.

I quested/grinded to 18, and then did deadmines.

Once you get whirlwind at 36, things improve. Things took off for me though at 40. I bought plate for my battle/demo shout warriors (the other two run piercing howl) and I did armory until I got 4 ravagers, I was stuck doing armory from 36 I think, until 42, and armory is NOT a melee friendly run due to all the shielded mobs.

I blew through cathedral with the group though, doing 40-45k xp over the course of a clear, real XP per hour lower due to running out, and my xp tracker not tracking across instance runs. I'd guess I averaged 38kish at 42, and probably closer to 45 when I finished at 44. Then I did a full quest run/clear of uldaman, and now I am doing maraudon.

If you're looking for XP per hour. I'd say I did 15-18k an hour from 18-36. It was really slow, like, absurdly slow. The lack of real AOE hurts melee cleave badly. Mages and Warlocks are always going to outperform melee cleave for this reason in terms of leveling speed. Like I said though, SM Cathedral was REALLY good once I had all ravagers on my team. The trick is to figure out how to pull effectively, since it's not easy with 4 warriors and a priest. Mess up and the priest gets insta gibbed basically.

I'd recommend that if you run warriors though, you make sure you get them all ravagers. Then you keep those ravagers, get them the fiery blaze enchant from badlands, it adds a not insignificant chunk of DPS that scales with more targets. Then run a level appropriate weapon when you're single targeting, and when you're fighting > 4 mobs, swap over to ravagers for the proc.

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I quested/grinded to 18, and then did deadmines. ...

What Dungeons do you plan to farm to cap and at what level ranges for each?

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What Dungeons do you plan to farm to cap and at what level ranges for each?

I keep flipping back and forth, because my 2 mages are actually 4 lvls higher than my warriors and while it seems to be a good move. I have to say the warriors i have at least at this point stockades I have less problems with and almost no downtime. Now if i could just get in the game.