Wow Deathwalker. Ive always liked you from the EQ days and playing with Fires of Heaven etc. Ive read this list so ill have to put my 2cents in but I dont think its anything that hasnt already been said.
First off, Grouping 4lows with a level 60+ to AOE boost with RAF only works in instances, and only if your booster can grab the whole instance and nuke it down in under 10min or so a run. If you need proof, take your 70, group with 4 level 1's and see how much xp they get off non-leet mobs. It will be like this for all 60 levels. Trust me, I just went through this on 2RAF accounts. Level 1, they got 1xp a kill. Level 59, they were getting 90xp a kill. Trying to do it this way is exactly like the south park episode killing boars for 1xp a shot. Only reason the instance boosting works is speed, volume and that eliet mobs give 2x xp per kill. Check out Hobbs AOE grinding videos here, http://www.youtube.com/user/wowhobbs If you cant aoe an instance like that or close to it, then dont bother leveling this way.
It seems like your idea to leveling is based on mob tagging and from what ive experimented with its not going to work, Mobs that are killed by high level people will yeild no xp to the low person that tagged it. Nova totems like pets might be different, but other than the cool factor of having all thoes novas go off its gonna be just like mowing your lawn with scissors.
Next and I think this is going to be the most important factor to consider for ya Deathwalker. Recruit a Friend. You have 3 months of tripple XP and level passups to a maximum of level 60. That one sentance needs to be your primary focus as you level your 25 shamen to 60 EVERYTHING else needs to be secondary, Gold, Tradeskills, (insert non leveling thing here). I completely understand your desire to do tradeskills and the like. My first 'cluster' I had all 5 to tailoring, (1priest and 4 mages), and one did enchanting. It was nice, but looking back now, Other than one enchanter the tailoring was a waste of time and a money sink I couldnt afford.
I just finished leveling a paladin and shaman to 60 on Saturday, the paladin is all I wanted and shes now 63 for my mage cluster, I did this with RAF. It took 46hours played time to get them to 60. I did this completely by questing. I grouped the 2 with 3 of my mages and just blew through quests, They didnt get any real xp from mob kills, but I remember at level 50 something when I finished the Cauldren quests in Western Plaugelands and with the RAF bonus got over 40k xp for the turn in. NOTHING beats that. Every quest you complete is like finishing 3. Do 5 quests and you get the xp of having done 15. Do 10 quests and the xp of 30. I remember getting the Acheivement for 50 quests completed. I may have only done 50 quests, but I got 150 quests worth of xp. It was about 20min after getting the 250 quests complete acheivement that my paladin hit level 60. I ran ZF once to complete like 4 quests I had there, and that was the only time I went to an instance with her.
Hopefuly I as well as others have convinced you that questing is the way to level, let me address what seems to be your other hold up. Money.
Do not let your desire to do tradeskills handycap your ability to level. If you only have 1g and you can either buy the next rank of Lightning Bolt, or a stack of tradskill items. Buy the spell. When I leveled my pally and shaman to 60, the Shaman had about 60g more in training costs than the paladin. I gave each 100g for training and flight path money, At 60, the paladin had about 95g left and the shaman had around 30g. You stated you dont have a sugar daddy toon to hand out money, hell supporting 25 toons is going to be expensive for anyone, so your going to need to budget. My advice is to become a one trick pony. Update your lightning bolt spell and healing spell and thats it chain lightning/healing when you get there. Do you need to buy the 140 other enhancement spells that you never use? When do you get thoes other spells? Level 60 when you can afford them. And thats how your going to get your gold. Dont upgrade these accounts to the burning crusade untill your ready. Once you hit 60, do some more quests and get the ubar coin instead of XP, this is also where I would do the tradeskills that you love so much. I would repeat the gold questing at level 70 too before going to WotLK.
In the end though Sam, Do what you have the most fun with and dont let anyone tell you different.
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