How did you guys level to 80?

[Void]

Did you just do all quests even collects or pure instance or mix of both but more of one than the other. I havnt really hit a wall but im sick of every quest i find being a collect and taking 45 min to complete it on 5 chars for 20k exp. is it better to just grind instances or what. Looking to see what people found the most efficient way to get 80 was. Yes im using quest helper but doesnt do anything for crappy collects which this expansion is full of.

[Zal]

still not 80, i'm doing every quest even collection quests and man they suck holy hell.

[Velassra]

The more I hear about the joy of the collection quest xpac, once I get my team to 70 I may stay there and do the old TBC content, probably can get 6 months or more out of that farming heroics. I don't do PvP so I'd be competing w/ no on but myself....idk, collection quests are a pain.

[turbonapkin]

I've decided there's only one way i can get through this coming weekend's worth of collection quests....

ALCOHOL :P

[Fizzler]

I am with you Turbo.

I have to tell you the sheer amount of collection quest I have run into is mind boggling. If the items were 100% drop I would be alright. Most quest are around 20k exp and each mob roughly 450-500 per kill with a 5 top setup so there is some experience to be had but at the same time killing trash mobs in Nexus yield 2000k a kill with 5000k a kill on the big trees but that gets fairly boring pretty quick plus you need to pay closer attention :)

I think I will get at least honored with a few factions that have gear that I want and than find me a warm comfortable spot that has a respawn quick enough to satisfy my AOE tank.

[Meeo]

im cruising through most of the quests, im a level behind what people said i should be for a 5 box, i should be near 77 by the time i get near/end of zul drak, but im only 1/3 into 75, i also skipped about 60 quests in each howling ford and Tundra, but did most in Dragonblight and Grizzly, i may go back and do some more quests in the zones i missed but i have to find the hubs i missed.

I just recently started doing collection quests in grizzly hill, most of the quests i missed earlier were collection quests.

[Los]

some, if not a lot, of times the quests you do open up new ones, and eventually hubs will tell you to go to new hubs. Might have missed something in that department.

[Ualaa]

I'm tempted to just grind while watching dvd's.
Have skinning, mining and herbalism on the team, pick up everything you come across.
Send it all, along with cloth to the auction toon.

Incredibly boring, but that's where the dvd's come into play.
Collection quests make the game mind numbingly boring already, might as well make a ton of gold if that's the way it has to be anyway.

Instances, pvp and quests will make it more fun, but grind as much as possible.
Hmm Disc-Priest's, BM-Hunters, Boom-Druids, Elem-Shaman's and a mixed team for instances.
It's going to be painful to level 28 toons to 80th, but have until the next expansion so no rush.

[Creazil]

I did instance:

70-71 Utgarde Keep
71-72 Nexus
72-72,5 Azjol-Nerub (It was decent exp, but couldn't live without loot!)
72,5-75 Ahn'kahet
75-78 Gundrak (did it around 30 times)
78-80 All level 80 instance.

I did Drak'tharon Keep and Violet Hold aswell, but only 1 or 2 times, but they sucked exp wise so went back to the others.

[Fuzzyboy]

I did instance:

70-71 Utgarde Keep
71-72 Nexus
72-72,5 Azjol-Nerub (It was decent exp, but couldn't live without loot!)
72,5-75 Ahn'kahet
75-78 Gundrak (did it around 30 times)
78-80 All level 80 instance.

I did Drak'tharon Keep and Violet Hold aswell, but only 1 or 2 times, but they sucked exp wise so went back to the others.

I've done mostly instances with quests (non-collection) to break the grind. What dungeons did you find was better xp/hr of the lvl 80 dungeons?