How do you plan on leveling in Wotlk?

[Hachoo]

I don't think you'll have to worry about collection quests at all. From what I hear the # of quests in northrend is much higher than it was in outland, so you should be able to skip all collection quests and still make it to 80 with minimal instancing.

[Griznah]

Elite mobs gives way over 1k xp rested atleast

I'll try to do some instances, atleast for quests.
Btw, Howling Fjord has 110+ quests and Borean Tundra has 140+...

[Niley]

instance grind, basically this is what i posted in my guild forums:

I'm posting this for people that actually would want to get a group together and powerlevel like this, its about 3 bars of exp per clear, clear takes about 15 minutes, this video was taken on sep 29th after all the exp changes were done.
http://files.filefront.com/PremoUtgarde ... einfo.html


basically its 7 clears for 70-71(2h), and about 9 for 72(2.5h).

This is hardcore clears, with no looting at all, other then bosses for shards.

Now this is based mostly on having strong dps, and well geared tank that doesn't require spam healing(so around 16k+ unbuffed, 490 def and tons of dodge), when i did utgarde on my pvp s1 geared huntard, with similar geared group, i took us almost an hour to clear.

[Lyonheart]

I plan on being steady with my leveling, but i will go through instances at a medium pace. I will loot everything and I don't care if I'm first to 80. I just want to be 80 in a decent amount of time.

[ss2]

I plan to buy the game at midnight and haul ass to 80, using whatever is fastest.. Being the first 80 would be great, but one of the earliest 80's is much more likely. I prefer non-collection quests, but if there's 20 people for every 1quest mob spawn then I'm going to hide in instances until they go away or I outlevel them.

and 300exp per elite mob? shenanigans, get your brooms..

[Schwarz]

So there are 2 starter zones that they say you should be ~68. Could us multiboxers head straight to the level 71 zone. Half the problem with questing isn't actually doing the quests but dealing with everyone else in the zone. This won't work for me b/c i don't plan on getting Wotlk until lunch on thursday.

I think alot of people are going to Instances from the get go b/c of all the lag that will be happening from all the people stuck in one zone.

logged into my guilds website and saw this posted

Utgarde 70-73 [14 minutes; 89k/run]
Ahn Kahet 73-75 [17 minutes; 93k/run]
Gundrak 75-77 (very good xp, short way to exit) [15 minutes; 94k/run]
Stone 77-80 [16.5 minutes; 98k/run]

This being with a group of full SW equipped people.

Using XP/Level at Formulas:XP To Level - WoWWiki


Utgade Keep
Level 70: Utgarde. ~17.1 runs. 3.99 hours to level.
Level 71: Utgarde. ~17.3 runs. 4.04 hours to level.
Level 72: Utgarde. ~17.5 runs. 4.08 hours to level.
Total: ~12.11 Hours in Utgarde

Ahn'Kahet
Level 73: Ahn'Kahet. ~16.9 runs. 4.79 hours to level.
Level 74: Ahn'Kahet. ~17.1 runs. 4.84 hours to level.
Total: ~9.62 Hours in Ahn'Kahet


Gun'Drak
Level 75: Gun'Drak. ~17.07 runs. 4.26 hours to level.
Level 76: Gun'Drak. ~17.24 runs. 4.31 hours to level.
Total: ~8.57 Hours in Gun'Drak.


Halls Of Stone
Level 77: Halls of Stone. ~16.7 runs. 4.59 hours to level.
Level 78: Halls of Stone. ~16.9 runs. 4.64 hours to level.
Level 79: Halls of STone. ~17.05 runs. 4.69 hours to level.
Total: ~13.92 Hours in Halls of Stone.

Grand Total: ~44.23 hours to level.

[Millz]

I'm leveling my main warrior solo first to 80 doing everything, all quests and instances.

Then i'm leveling my 5 shamans through kill quests, and where there aren't any (or i've ran out/cba with them), instances.

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Utgade Keep[/url]
Level 70: Utgarde. ~17.1 runs. 3.99 hours to level.
Level 71: Utgarde. ~17.3 runs. 4.04 hours to level.
Level 72: Utgarde. ~17.5 runs. 4.08 hours to level.
Total: ~12.11 Hours in Utgarde

Ahn'Kahet
Level 73: Ahn'Kahet. ~16.9 runs. 4.79 hours to level.
Level 74: Ahn'Kahet. ~17.1 runs. 4.84 hours to level.
Total: ~9.62 Hours in Ahn'Kahet


Gun'Drak
Level 75: Gun'Drak. ~17.07 runs. 4.26 hours to level.
Level 76: Gun'Drak. ~17.24 runs. 4.31 hours to level.
Total: ~8.57 Hours in Gun'Drak.


Halls Of Stone
Level 77: Halls of Stone. ~16.7 runs. 4.59 hours to level.
Level 78: Halls of Stone. ~16.9 runs. 4.64 hours to level.
Level 79: Halls of STone. ~17.05 runs. 4.69 hours to level.
Total: ~13.92 Hours in Halls of Stone.

Grand Total: ~44.23 hours to level.

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Wow Thanks for this but I have got to say running an instance 17 times and I think I would have to really murder some people. that being said It seems like thats VERY VERY good if you want to stimulate your XP

[Schwarz]

I was thinking about this and unless they really really really reduced the number of trash mobs in instances I don't see how you are going to complete an instance in ~14mins. 17 runs of an instance isn't that bad. Ya gotta think that you will learn new things that will make it easier and easier every time. Running some 50+ times will get you pretty familiar with the instance and should be a good instance to run on heroic if you get all the tricks down.

As far as times I am thinking it might take double what they say. As far as the last boss in Utgade Keep not sure if he is going to be doable.Maybe staggering earth elementals in the 2nd phase of him will be the trick. But I don't know how any team is going to survive at 20k aoe effect.

[Kicksome]

Quests will give more exp/hour without a doubt. The only problem is ganking or too many people doing the quests so you can't get your spawns.

I think it'll probably end up being:
Prime Time = instances
Off hours = quests

My guess is that Thursday during the day you can do some of the quests. When school gets out, the quest areas will probably be flooded. Same thing for Friday. If by Friday after school gets out, you aren't out of the newbie zones you're going to be in for a slow weekend.