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I think the 2 pally and 3 warlocks is a solid choice, although I would probably suggest a priest for aoe healing if you are planning to aoe. I don't know if anyone else feels the paladin would be a better healer in this group or not. Either do quests or you could run the fedex route, but honestly I would just lvl and maybe switch from human to dwarf areas. Collections take the longest.

[Mercbeast]

I think the 2 pally and 3 warlocks is a solid choice, although I would probably suggest a priest for aoe healing if you are planning to aoe. I don't know if anyone else feels the paladin would be a better healer in this group or not. Either do quests or you could run the fedex route, but honestly I would just lvl and maybe switch from human to dwarf areas. Collections take the longest.

I did the fedex route on mages, and while it's probably quicker than straight questing. I think that grinding is probably faster. If you're alliance, the spider cave on Darnassus is probably a good place to do a good chunk of that early grinding. If you're horde, northgard keep maybe? Or any lower level hyper spawns you can find. The bristleback areas are good too. The big difference between horde and alliance is, you really need to be 15-18 as alliance to start doing deadmines for most group builds, and deadmines itself a terrible instance to grind. RFC on the other hand can be started at 12, maybe even 10 depending on the group. New team with good green gear might be able to start at 10 in RFC and do the trog area.

The big issue with questing are collection quests, so maybe just skip those unless they are easily accomplished, and allow you to grind quickly in the area.