Finally hit 70 :-)

[Nachtkinder]

I hit 70 this weekend with my 5 Shammys on (A) Nathrezim (Reckoning BG). Took me 5 days 4 hours. Would have been a little quicker if I didn't PvP so much, but still wasn't bad at all.

Their Names are:
Nachtkindar
Nachtkinder
Nachtkindir
Nachtkindor
Nachtkindur

I'm using Keyclone, running all five of my dudes on a single computer.

I'm running:

Vista Premium 64-bit
Dual-core 3.0 Ghz
8GB DDR2 800mhz Ram
Nvidia 9800GTX+ 512MB
80GB 10k RPM HDD (only WoW and photoshop installed on it, everything else on another HDD)
850kw PSU

At level 65 or so I upgraded to this PC. All together from Newegg.com it cost me about $1400.
I have my slaves running at 10/30 FPS, with my main at 20/50 FPS. Only place I don't get full FPS is Shatt (about 40 on main there).

1-60:

These levels really are easy. It took me less than 2 days /played with RAF. Follow the guide thats posted on these forums and you'll be there in no-time.

60-70: I didn't really run instances until 66 when I got the Earth Elemental. It really is just a pain to do some bosses without it. *Note* After level 64 or so I didn't have any rest xp (except what I got while at work/sleep).


Hellfire: 60-61 All the quests got to me to like 61.3. I did ramparts except for the dragon boss a few times to get myself 62.
Zangarmarsh: 61-62.5 Decent amount of quests here, lots of them are collection quests though.
Terrokar: 62.5-64 Tons of quests in this zone. Was probably the easiest 2 levels of the grind.
Nagrand: 64-66 Bunch of quests here too, though you have to run your ass off. I did ramparts a couple more times here just to break the monotony.
Blades Edge: 66-68 Sooo many kill quests. Twas quite nice. I knocked out a few runs of SP while here. I tried UB, but the huge mobs hit like bosses but only give elite xp, so it didn't make it worthwhile. I also did the quests for Mana Tombs and Seth Halls here.
Netherstorm: 68-69 Quests got me most of the way there. Towards the end I did a few MT runs.
SMV: I did about 10 quests here at 69, but there were way too many horde to make it worthwhile. I went back to Mana Tombs and grinded from 69.2 to 70. Took about 5 hours of running the instance constantly. (No rest xp) The reason I did MT instead of Seth Halls is because there are just too many annoying pulls/mobs in SH to make it worthwhile. The mobs in MT only give about 110 less xp per.

As you can tell as I got closer to 70 I was getting really tired of quests. If you have rest xp instances are without a doubt faster than questing. Without it, I'd say the two are about even (perhaps a slight edge to questing if you've done the quests before).


Now that I'm pvping I find that I suck. When I last played wow before this I had a priest who was a S3 gladiator. I think she could take more of a beating than these 5 guys combined ;-). WTB gear :P.

[Gares]

Grats yeah my Horde 5 shammy team is sitting at 68 (Full Rest XP by now) and I think I am just going to grind out Mana Tomb for the rest of the time. I find that Mana tombs is probably the easiest instance to do full runs of with no trouble. I attempted Seth Halls but I found I just wiped too much near the end of the instance due to the 4+ mob pulls.

I never set foot in BEM but I guess I really should have. I pretty much just grinded through Nagrand/Instances and left all of Netherstorm, BEM, SMV full of quests.

As for my Alliance set of Shammies they are sitting at 58 ATM. Both sets really only took me /played of 2 days to 60. I think my alliance are a little faster because I knew what I was doing.

[Nachtkinder]

Grats yeah my Horde 5 shammy team is sitting at 68 (Full Rest XP by now) and I think I am just going to grind out Mana Tomb for the rest of the time. I find that Mana tombs is probably the easiest instance to do full runs of with no trouble. I attempted Seth Halls but I found I just wiped too much near the end of the instance due to the 4+ mob pulls.

I never set foot in BEM but I guess I really should have. I pretty much just grinded through Nagrand/Instances and left all of Netherstorm, BEM, SMV full of quests.

As for my Alliance set of Shammies they are sitting at 58 ATM. Both sets really only took me /played of 2 days to 60. I think my alliance are a little faster because I knew what I was doing.

I agree completely about MT being much easier than SH. With full rest xp you should be able to get to 70 in less than 8 hours.

Good luck

[pixelimp]

Congratulations

And it's always nice to see people sharing how they are leveling to give the rest a hand :thumbup: