BRD or ST for levelling 45+

[Morx]

My friend and I seem to be crazy, becausewe do all the quests, but we are not boxing, so its easy for us to do collections. We are running the quests as far as we can, and end up being way over level for the zone by the time we are done.

Thing is, a lot of the top quests, give the best exp, so its worth it to run all the way through. Last night, my druid friend, and myself as a paladin just finished STV and left there at level 48.

Headed straight to Searing Gorge, finished those 6 quests or so out of Thorium Point, and the "Caught!" quest on the East side of the zone. Finished "Caught!" line and the others, and had dinged 50 from that. Went to turn in the Thorium Point quests, and that instantly dinged me to 51.5.

Not sure where to go now. Might be Hinterlands, or Tanaris as I hear there is a lot of good quests there. Same with Ungoro Crater I've heard is really good.

Anyone have any suggestions where to go for a 51 Duo that has a lot of quests all packed in? STV was heaven, as the quests never seemed to stop.

[puppychow]

hinterlands has a lot of packed quests for horde, not as good for ally. WPL is good for ally, not so good for horde. Tanaris is more 42-48, at 51 you are a little high but could wrap up a few quick ones (ogres, thistle, etc). Ungoro has a lot of packed quests 51-55, and then Silithus can finish you off.

for scholo, one trick to get inside if you just have a pally - DI someone. I di'd one of my shamans, ran back as a ghost, and rez'd on the other side. Makes it easy I didn't find it great xp/hour wise, I just did scholo once to get everyone their peasant caller trinkets So far the best xp/hour I have found is the baron in strat, but since it takes nearly 2 hours to clear to him its not really for everyone - only those who are going to have a long play session. You also end up with no gold or items from 45-60 (in fact 200g+ repair bills), so the tradeoffs are huge.

[moji]

I just finished grinding SM cath for a set of shields and hats, I think I'm done instance grinding for a bit. Flying to Tanaris as we speak, the quests are a bit more spread out, but easy at my level, then headed to Hinterlands. I think after SM, the instances are probably too rough to 3 man, so I'll probably quest from here on out. Too bad these are the crappy levels to quest .

Anyone have any suggestions where to go for a 51 Duo that has a lot of quests all packed in? STV was heaven, as the quests never seemed to stop.

At 51, I usually head to Felwood. Lotta little quests, but work up your Timbermaw rep, pointless now, but gives you access to Winterspring. Then I go to Un'goro, which you'll love, just keep your eyes peeled for the devilsaurs. Finishing up with a few quests in Winterspring, you'll be 58, abandon ALL your quests, and get thee to outland ASAP. I hate EPL/WPL with a passion, so I avoid them. Some say to stick around in Azeroth and save outland quests till later for more $$, but for me, I never do them all. There's more quests in outland than ever, and you'll have no problem hitting 70. Outland quests give relevant rep and great rewards.

[kadaan]

Searing gorge is definitely nice, easy quests and even the collection ones aren't bad at all. My team hit 57 last night and I haven't touched BRD nor ST. I ran my team through UD Strath a bunch, enough to get my main exalted with AD from the scourgestones (was neutral when I started) and my team is now about 4k into revered. It took me about 35m per run as a 70 Feral Druid, and even though it's a one-in-a-million shot, Baron's mount would have been a HUGE plus for me .

Also you get 8 blues per run, so if you have an enchanter there to DE you can make a decent amount of gold from AH'ing them (~15g each on my server.) Also the belt of valor only drops from aboms there, and gauntlets from rammstein. I sold 7 or 8 belts for 30g per, and three gauntlets so far for 60g per.

[Dor]

just ran brd the second time... dinged lvl 59 and a half 17 hrs 11 mins.. not sure if that's good or not compared to others, but im not really sweating the speed too much. Gotta say Im really enjoying the raf thingy.

[dquill]

I think it depends on if leveling is all you are doing. If you are planning on disenchanting the boss blues, then strat/scholo make a ton more sense. I do brd from 44-50 or so, then strat from 50-58/60. I just hit 60 in over 20 hours, but I lost a couple hours.

If it's just leveling, BRD is still not as good as strat. with the xp bonus, I was getting 130,000+- in BRD at 50, and more like 170,000 in strat. I level using mage aoe, and a healer or two.

[Dor]

I think it depends on if leveling is all you are doing. If you are planning on disenchanting the boss blues, then strat/scholo make a ton more sense. I do brd from 44-50 or so, then strat from 50-58/60. I just hit 60 in over 20 hours, but I lost a couple hours.

If it's just leveling, BRD is still not as good as strat. with the xp bonus, I was getting 130,000+- in BRD at 50, and more like 170,000 in strat. I level using mage aoe, and a healer or two.

Yeh I agree, if youre going to boost, strat makes the most sense (I use a pally to boost that way). Just with the raf quest xp thing, it seems to be faster to forgo the boosting and just power quest instead. I mean using a 70 (or 2 70s ) in grp with the lowbies just to quickly get the quests done (yes I know it kills the xp per kill but the triple xp quest turn in more than makes up for it due to the speed).

[Morx]

I've got all the BRD quests lined up and ready to go, I'm kind of curious how much exp this is going to give when I turn them all in.