Leveling in Northrend
How much instance grinding is necessary to level out here? I've completed virtually every quest available in Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord and I'm about level 70 and a half. Am I already supposed to hit up the next zone?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: I have not done several of the collection quests for obvious reasons unless its a collect off the ground quest.
ouch, that seems a little slow.
I went to north end at 68 with my DK team, did all of the Borean Tundra and I was 70 before I finished.
I was talking my time though, I pretty much didn't play them unless I was fully rested.
they are 71 now and i've done about 1/4 or less of the forde quests... but again. I only play them when rested so I've made 2x the XP for all of my kills.
leveling in Northend prior to 70 seemed really fast because the XP requiremetns prior to 70 were reduced. 70 felt a little like a wall to me.
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Holy crap thats it? I JUST finished borean tundra a few days ago and a few weeks back finished everything in Howling Fjiord, and did the quests for Utguard Keep and Nexus and dinged 76. You can check my armory links in my sig and see the achievements of the quest and exploration accomplishments and for nexus and uk runs.
The only instance grinding I did was to kill the first boss in UK about a dozen times to get each of my druids the knife and hat drops. I think the armory says how many times ive killed him. But its in no way enough to be 5 levels ahead of where you are doing the same thing.
I did do all the collection quests, so if you havent done that, then you are missing out on a TON of quests and their end quest wrapups that give 10G rewards and the like.
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RE: Leveling in Northrend
Originally Posted by 'Tezze',index.php?page=Thread&postID=196609#post19 6609
There are many collection quests that are prereq's to quest chains...if your avoiding them, you might actually be missing out on a lot of quests.
How far are you into the "Nothing boring about the Borean" and "I've toured the Fjord" achievements are you? That will give you a good idea of how many quests you have remaining...
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Indeed, you cannot afford to skip *every* collection quest.
I usually accept every quest, by default.
For collection quests, I just try to get a feeling of how long it is going to take (number of available mobs, drop rate, horde presence, etc ...). if it looks ok, I do the collection. If it looks bad, I check on the net whether the quest opens a chain or leads to some interesting reward. If it does, I do the collection (in grumpy mode, granted).
At the end of the day, I skip very few quests. On my first two groups, I finished
the two starting zones well into level 72 (from 68). That's with basically no instance runs (I do the easy instance/collection quests and keep bosses for later).
Wow. I have to call bs on this one. I did nearly every quest (106 of the 110) in Howling Fjord and got the achievement "I've Toured the Fjord" and went from 70-72 right in that zone. I did run UT Keep once to finish out those quests as well. Moving to borean tundra, I did about 1/2 the quests there and moved on to dragon blight @74, and once I hit 76, skipped right into Grizzly Hills. I'm currently half way through 76 and still have loads of quests left in Grizzly Hills. The only instances I've ran were UT Keep once, Nexus about 5 times, Ajol'Nerub once, half way through Ahn'kahet, skipped and moved on, and ran Drak'Tharon once last night.
For reference, I get about 250 XP / kill which is next to nothing. The real experience gain is from doing all the quests.
Here's my druids for reference:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...Hakkar&n=Larrÿ
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...kar&n=Zappyzap
I went to northrend as soon as I was able to think that was 68 I ended up getting I've Toured the Fjord and Nothing Boring About Borean just barely made 71.
Hit up nexxus and Utgarde Keep till yer about 72 then go to dragonblight do a few quest go The Old Kingdom and Azjol-Nerub
What I started out doing is checking
http://www.wowhead.com/?zones=2#0-2+1
Did the instance in order of level
@Starbuck_Jones this 10 ( 04-17-2009 ) 50 Daily Quests CompleteComplete 50 daily quests. got yeh huge chunk of exp :P
Not all of those daily quests were from Lich King. I had dozen or so PvP daily quests from outlands completed before getting that achievement. Still I did do a lot of them. Each morning I run through the multibox friendly ones that are available to me. But they only net 20100 xp per turn in. Lets say all 50 were from Lich King thats only 1,005,000 xp. Thats 2/3 of one level in the 70-80 range. Also if someone went to Lich King at 68. Thoes last two levels to 70 would have required much less xp as it was reduced in a previous patch. So yes, the daily quests help, but did not put me 5 levels ahead.
With going to lich king at 68 and no dailies or instance runs. I would conceed at most one maybe two levels, not 5. There is no way I can see that I completed 7+ million more xp doing the same content.
Granted I'm just starting out, but I do all collection quests deliberately to make up for the less xp from mob kills. Collection quests mean I need to kill twice as many mobs (roughly) which makes up for the less xp per kill.
Collection quests aren't bad once you get a circuit down. Assuming there is a circuit to run. If there isn't, yeah, like pulling teeth, but generally, I found it to be just laying claim to a territory and nuking any thing that moved.
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