60-68 Multiboxing Leveling Tips?

[wootipwn]

Anyone got any 60-68 multiboxing leveling tips? (EZ MODE) I wanna do this quickly and as smoothly as possible with the number of characters to maintain.

Do I need to rely on boosting? Grinding? Quests? Instance runs?

In other words, what is everyone doing now with their fresh 60's from RAF to make them 80? The surplus on 60's is just insane, so any help would be really sweet. I really hate to see fresh 60's looking blankly at me at the character select. :cursing:

[Multibocks]

Seems kill quests are the best idea. Skip anything that requires looting or other weird requirements. I did 60-65 pretty fast doing Hellfire, Zang and then Terrokar. I did not collect anything and rarely looted (I want this to go as fast as possible, so sick of the TBC content.) Nagrand should easily get you a couple levels+

Another idea I had was that since I bought the heirloom weps and shoulders for my DKs I thought maybe I should just instance grind. I get 10% more xp and I dont have to deal with 80s trying to gank me and I avoid doing lots of running around. However Im sure that would get old fast =/

[gitcho]

i agree ... i just hit 70 with all 5 of my toons. I tried many different things to make 60-70 go as fast as possible over the past month, but questing was by FAR the fastest route. I've got a decent instance running team (1xpally, 1xpriest, 3xmage) but could not nearly match the xp of questing - maybe others who know the instances well, and have more experience can, but I couldn't come close. I even tried AOE grinding, but unless you have a ton of rested xp and a large group that repops fast, its no good either.

/agree with multibocks - Skip collection quests - they are a MAJOR pain with 5. I would suggest doing them with 2, "maybe" 3, but it's still a time waster, as there are other quests that will level you faster. When i lvl my other team from 60-80, it will be all questing.

You need questhelper and tomtom addons for sure. go to a new area, grab all the quests, then use quest helper and tom tom to plot your route on the map efficiently.

[glo]

With the xp reduction you can safely skip the collection quests in outland. The same cannot be said for northrend. In wrath it seems a collection component is mandatory for every major quest chain including the mandatory ones to open the rep dailies.

I suggest questing in Outland until at least 70, 71 preferably if you can stand the wait to get to northrend. There are plenty of non-collection quests to do in Outland that this is not even as irritating as it sounds and it will let you skip all but the essential collection quests in Northrend. If you do both start zones, all the zones in the middle and both end zones you should level fast without fear of running out of quests even if you have to skip large sections of quest chains because of the collection component.

[echo]

mmm, for me, i actually had fairly good results with instance grinding. (keep in mind, I only did this when I had fully rested xp bars, but as I was juggling half a dozen teams at the time, I always had at least 1 or 2 teams that had a full bar of blue xp) on average it took me about 35min to 1 hour for a run, depending on the dungeon, and I usually got anywhere from 1/3rd to 2/5th of a level per run. Combined with doing the xp from doing the quests for the instances, I usually averaged a level every 4 to 4.5 hours after factoring in time to repair, sell, and run to where I needed to go.

To put it in perspective, I was usually getting on average of 1k xp per kill, groups of usually 3-5 per pull. killing a group normally took about maybe a minute including setup time. for the most part I chain pulled needing no time to drink or rest (pally group, dk group, shammy group, I'm looking at you guys ) So was getting something like maybe 20k xp every 10 minutes sustained. (looting slowed me down) This is all going off memory so some of the math might be off. All I knew was that usually when i looked at my /played I usually dinged next level well before the 5 hours mark.

It's probably not the fastest exp/hour, but it's easy and mindless and it's a nice supplement to doing all the easy kill quests.

good luck!

[Tonuss]

Instance/quest grinding should both be pretty fast. Quest reward experience was boosted prior to WotLK release, so that Outland quests that used to reward ~9000-12000 exp now give you ~20000-25000+ experience. Skip the ones that take too long (collection quests, obviously) and grab as many kill quests and quests that the group completes at once (such as escort quests).

Instance grinding is also good because the exp rate is pretty high compared to grinding on non-elites, plus you're not interrupted (which is of particular concern on a PvP server). I think some people used Blood Furnace to level to 68 since it's a pretty fast and pretty easy instance to run, but I haven't tried it as a level-appropriate group (I've been PLing with my 80 hunter).

[Hachoo]

Instance/quest grinding should both be pretty fast. Quest reward experience was boosted prior to WotLK release, so that Outland quests that used to reward ~9000-12000 exp now give you ~20000-25000+ experience. Skip the ones that take too long (collection quests, obviously) and grab as many kill quests and quests that the group completes at once (such as escort quests).

Instance grinding is also good because the exp rate is pretty high compared to grinding on non-elites, plus you're not interrupted (which is of particular concern on a PvP server). I think some people used Blood Furnace to level to 68 since it's a pretty fast and pretty easy instance to run, but I haven't tried it as a level-appropriate group (I've been PLing with my 80 hunter).

This is false. Quest XP in outland did not change, the requirements to level from 60-70 were lowered, thats all. You will still get 10-15k XP per quest in outland and 20-25k xp per quest in northrend. Based on this and the fact that the mobs will give more xp in northrend and you'll get more money and better rewards from quests, you will still level faster in northrend from 69 or so up even doing collection quests then you would doing kill quests in outland, and you'll get more money and rewards to boot.

[genocyde]

I would have to say stay in outlands as long as humanly possible. The XP / hr of northrend didn't start competing with outlands until 72. Northrend has a very annoying habit of making you do 2 quests at a time to unlock the next two. Theres not much "pick up the whole town's quests and go" This bottlenecked me pretty bad until I hit 72 and the XP just outscaled outlands all together. I was getting 400k+ /hr not rested in netherstorm and it dropped to about 350k avg in howling fjord.

[Boylston]

Instance grinding with Rest is pretty competitive with Questing in Outlands for 60-70. If you know the TBC quests super well and you don't run into PvP issues, you can probably eek out more XP/hour questing. Blood Furnace is a spectacular instance to grind in, as previously mentioned. I'd personally recommend:

• doing the easy Hellfire quest chains,
• spending some time in Ramparts/Blood Furnace to knock out the juicy Dungeon Quests associated with them'
• continue questing in Zangarmarsh (which I hate) or run Blood Furnace until you hit your mid-60s
• quest in Nagrand, the mother of all kill-quest zones,
• try another quest zone or start farming Mana Tombs, if your team can take it (I like mana tombs for its low-HP caster mobs and relative ease... it's great XP/hour, like Blood Furnace)
• stay in Outlands to quest as long as possible to avoid PvP, or jump to Northrend at 68 to start questing

Northrend instances may be tough at first for a team of 68-70s with non uber gear. (This depends on your group makeup, however)

I really, really, really liked instance runs for levelling in WotLK, but I play on a PvP server and don't like being interrupted when I'm trying to level. I probably did 50/50 questing/instances from 70-75, and leveled almost exclusively in instances from L75-80. (I am questing with my team at L80 to rake in cash for mounts, now). Upside of instance running is that you can pick and choose which instances you want to run and accumulate a pretty good set of blue dungeon drops for your team. You have the flexibility to farm only the bosses you might need-- I ran Halls of Stone 30-40 times and just killed the first boss or two until my team of hunters all had the gear drops they needed, can't do that in a normal group so easily...

[JasonB87]

I can't really give you a comparison or even try to offer advice since I've been instance grinding since RFC but I'll give you an Idea of how things are going for me.

I've been doing strictly instance grinding since hitting Outlands minus the instance quests that I've grabbed and it seems pretty decent. It slows down once you hit 66ish which is were I'm at right now. For me It usually takes 2-3 wipes to learn how to box the bosses once I get that I start speed runs. I'm running crypts right now which is a little below me and have been getting ~700xp per kill. I'm getting ~7-8 percent of my level per run. Gear wise some of my toons are still sitting in gear from SFK and other pre tbc instances.

I'm not sure I'd consider this the easiest way to 68 but it is a lot more fun than questing for me. Oh I did do the intro quest minus collection quest when I hit hellfire for some starting gear.