How did you hit 70?

[Hachoo]

Well right now I'm about 68.33 and I have 6 days 12 hours /played. I will probably hit 70 around 7.5 days /played. That time is with a lot of idling, AHing, setting up macros (my first multibox group 5 shamans) etc, so the actual leveling time right now is probably closer to 5 days /played.

I skipped almost all collection quests except the ones that had single items that dropped for all 5 guys at once. Occasionally if I KNEW it opened up a huge chain or the reward was really good I did a small collection quest that required 3-5 items on each guy.

I only did a bit of instancing pre-60 - the quests with RAF will allow you to get to 60 with tons leftover even without doing a single collection quest. Post-60 in outlands I did all the non collection quests and then padded some XP with instance runs...mostly a few ramps runs, probably 10 BF runs to first boss, a couple of SP runs, underbog once, mana tombs twice, and durnholde once so far. I'm in Shadowmoon Valley now, going to finish questing here and then run durnholde/sethekk halls until honored with both factions to hit 70.

I expect I'll be 70 this week as the wife just left town for a week and took the daughter with her so I'll have not much to do in the evenings/this weekend except level

[Moredots]

I plan on doing all the quests on my team. I know its painful but think of this... you want faction for the pvp blues and heroic keys. If you level up doing all quests in outlands minus SMV and then do the kara key quest you will be keyed for all heroics and have your blue pvp set.

It might take a bit longer to hit 70 but I think the time to 70, keyed and geared in pvp blues is the same.

[Steph]

I did a bit of questing, ignoring the more annoying collection quests. The main xp gain however was from instances. I planned my instance runs around the reputation needed for the starter pvp gear, the sha'tar damage caster head enchant and the totem of the void for each shaman. That means doing some HH and CE dungeons in the early 60s, then covering CoT and LC before swapping to TK for the totems and the head enchant. Worked out quite well for me, with six blue items to equip just after reaching 70. =]