Pally and Mage for super quick SM clearances.

[shaeman]

I had the privilege of having two guildies run my 3 alliance characters through SM last night for a bit of XP.

It was amazing. Unfortunately having 2 70's in the group nerfed my RAF bonus a big chunk, but it was worth it.

Full SM library clear in around 4 minutes - timing provided by remainder of paladins sanctuary buff . 3 pulls. lower courtyard. Upper courtyard. Then pull the entire cathedral by aggroing the boss.

Pally would gather aggro and the mage would flamestrike then blizzard. Took me longer to loot.

Armory runs went pretty quick too.

[Haruko]

I strongly feel SM is hands down the best & fastest way to boost on any scale. glad things worked out for you.

[JonnyB]

If there aren't any more nerfs to it, I think priests might just be the best class now for powerlevelling through those zones with Mind Sear. I copied a premade over, ran into ZF, and rounded up about 40 or 50 mobs and just mowed them down.

I was overall not thrilled with all the changes in Wrath but my pally + 4 shadow priest group looks like it may be a lot of fun if I make it to 75. I believe a blue said on the Blizzard forums priests might just be the best aoe class going forward (subject to nerfs of course). I'm still thinking I'll have to make 1 priest holy, or perhaps swap in one of my shamans as resto for healing duties. (Pally + priests @ lvl 51 currently, my 5x shaman are at 61.5)

[Naysayer]

Rogue- unfair advantage

probably clear SM armory in 1 pull and with sprint it will probably take less than a minute.

[Sanctume]

I had the privilege of having two guildies run my 3 alliance characters through SM last night for a bit of XP.

It was amazing. Unfortunately having 2 70's in the group nerfed my RAF bonus a big chunk, but it was worth it.

Full SM library clear in around 4 minutes - timing provided by remainder of paladins sanctuary buff . 3 pulls. lower courtyard. Upper courtyard. Then pull the entire cathedral by aggroing the boss.

Pally would gather aggro and the mage would flamestrike then blizzard. Took me longer to loot.

Armory runs went pretty quick too.

My prot pally clears ALL mobs in SM in 2 pulls within 6 minutes. Then 2 pulls Armory (except Herod sucks for xp) in another 5 minutes. By then you have 1.5 minutes to zone and reset SM and can be non-stop without hitting instance cap of 5 per hours.

Sometimes, if the clearing exceeds 12.5 minutes, you can skip Whitemaine after killing his boyfirend the first time around--just start running to the zone and head to Armory. 1 mob exp sucks compared to AoE deaths.

SM can be one pulled but needs to open cath door, then hit onces every mob from courtyard 1 and 2 and into inside the cathedral. Can't be done in 1 minute since Whiltemaine will sleep you for 10 seconds.

[ChaoticMonk]

I clear SM armory and Cath in with 1 pull for each (dont pull boss in Armory and dont kill the healer boss in Cath) but never timed myself...might have to give that a go with the next group I'm leveling.

[Sanctume]

I do Armor in 2 pulls, but I skip Herod (waste of time in terms of xp/hour).

1st pull: all the courtyard.

2nd pull: 1 hit every mob, (mana tap, consecration rank 1) all the way to Herod's door, then run back to the hallway arch to los and start your consecrate/colusus/aoe silence.

In my multi-box setup, I hotkey follow on the 2nd, and I manually move the 2nd using stop points and auto run. Remember XP range is only within 1 less zoom of the minimap.

Also, looting is a waste of time in terms of xp/hour.

[ChaoticMonk]

I still dont have colussus (9runs and counting) I do however have loot set to show me greens+, they sell for a ton on Draenor.

[Sanctume]

I still dont have colussus (9runs and counting) I do however have loot set to show me greens+, they sell for a ton on Draenor.

It took me 25 runs to get it finally. I got everyone to revered

[Caspian]

I just do Cathedral in 2 pulls, both courtyards then the cathedral. XP per hour looting is not worth it. gold per hour it is. I have made well over 3k gold + an asinine amount of enchanting mats, probably worth another 3-4k plus more silk to craft and DE with then I know what to do with plus all the coin and grays. The coin and grays paid for mounts and training for each group I ran through. It takes me 15 minutes for a full Cathedral including looting everything. About 12 minutes if I skip looting, the extra 3 minutes is worth it.

I can single pull armory on my prot pally. It usually bugs and mobs reset but I have done it 2 or 3 times. Cathedral is faster overall though. Library is the suck. I did get the epic ring though, that was cool. I usually do it once for the quest and to get the dudes the key.

I have pulled Cathedral almost 100 times and have about 8-9 more runs to go then i am NEVER EVER going back there.

I only use my poorly geared prot pally.