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[gitcho]

thought Id share a little lvl77+ XP gold mine Ive only just found.

Halls Of Lighning Xp/Speed Runs!!

XP @ lvl77 = 231k Per hour (not rested)

After running the full instance a fair few times it became apparent that once u get past the 2nd boss XP per hour drops a load, mainly due to 3rd boss taking a while/being a pain etc and the trash upto to him being small anoying pulls.

what we've been doing is fast pulls till we down 2nd boss run and reset. heres a bit more detail for those that hant done the instance...

Our Group
Dk tank (Gf plays tank with me on the rest)
frost mage
boomkin
ele sham
Disc priest (the main char i sure, rest are slaves, suggest resepecing disc if you use a holy priest for healing for this, its much much more mana effecicient and will save loads of drink breaks)

The Run

1) kill trash in first room till 1st boss (ltheres 2 paths to the boss leave 1 full of trash to kill on the way back)
2) kill first boss - kill the 2 adds 1st, we dont worry about him having lighting(extra DPs buff) hes pretty easy
3) move through rock elemental room thing - I just shield all, run threw to stairs then aoe on stairs.
4) kill all trash in the room
5) 2nd boss - all stick tank, tanks uses a aoe macro to gather the adds that spance and just DPs boss down.
6) run back to entrance using the other path in the 1st room to lear the rest of trash.

Runs are taking us 25-30 mins @ 7% of a lvl per run.

Hope this helps.

Effex

Thanks Effex - would love to be able to do this, but I'm just not sure I could do it with a pally, holy priest, 3x frost mage team. My pally just dinged 77, and the rest are 50% to 77. HOL looks like a lvl 78-80 instance that I would get smoked in ... havent t run HOL yet, but from youtube it looks like you get the standard 2-4 pack of mobs. Would love to do this, but not sure if it's viable. My mages are currently run about 1000dps at lvl 76 as full frost, but i'm willing to respec if necessary. Did you CC the extras and burn down 1 at a time? or did you grab whole packs and AOE them down while spamming heals on the tank?

[Effex]

we went at lvl77(ya need flying to get there) with a 78 shammy. didnt use any CC just DK tanks them all. dps assist DK and single target them down. priest spam heals DK.

when we first went we took a few whipes at 3rd boss as hes movement intensive and still a pain when u get th tactics down thats why i prefer going to 2nd bosss only.

only thinkg i wwould suggest and i really cant stress this enough is to respec the priest to disc. i had major mana issues when we went as holy not only at bosses but having to drink after a couple of trash pulls screws your xp/hr .

penance an amazing ST heal for tank and for AOE heals i use a glyphed holy nova and POM.

oh if u do try a full run on last boss forget running when he aoe's just dps and spam nova threw it.

[gitcho]

we went at lvl77(ya need flying to get there) with a 78 shammy. didnt use any CC just DK tanks them all. dps assist DK and single target them down. priest spam heals DK.

when we first went we took a few whipes at 3rd boss as hes movement intensive and still a pain when u get th tactics down thats why i prefer going to 2nd bosss only.

only thinkg i wwould suggest and i really cant stress this enough is to respec the priest to disc. i had major mana issues when we went as holy not only at bosses but having to drink after a couple of trash pulls screws your xp/hr .

penance an amazing ST heal for tank and for AOE heals i use a glyphed holy nova and POM.

oh if u do try a full run on last boss forget running when he aoe's just dps and spam nova threw it.

Thanks Effex - good info. Do you have any idea what your dps is/was at? I'm at 750 on my pally and about 850 on my 3xmages as full frost at lvl 76 which i think is a bit low ... was considering switching to arcane ... thoughts/suggestions?
U mind also linking your armory page pls - wouldnt mind checking your build ...

[Effex]

sorry didnt check dps though had recount on dmg and can say my mage was just below the dk most of the time(DK is aoeing so understandable) i used frost spec again for mana efficiency and the fact is easy as hell to macro.

best thing to do is give it a try, sure youl be able to do trash and thats where the xp is anyway

[moji]

I should probably ask how people are questing ... i'm simply using quest helper, gathering all the particular quests at a given hub, and following the QH arrows. I'm not really leaving any quests out (except for dungeon), just bascially following QH till I get to the next quest hub.

Are most doing it this way? Is everyone here using a free/paid guide?

Jame's quest guide is good, but it's sort of long. He goes through everything, not just what you need to level. did 2 toons solo to about 77 using his guide, but with rested XP and a few instance runs I hit 77 in dragonblight on green quests. I'll prob keep going and finish it out to just get the gears and money, but I'd start the Sons of Hodir questline the minute you hit 77. You need to do it anyway, for the shoulder enchants, and the dailies take about 30-45 min a day to solo, idk how long they take to box, prob an hour if you do all of them.

Mostly I just quest away hub to hub. QH running and just go to work, but I'm weird, I like leveling.

[nomenquis]

thought Id share a little lvl77+ XP gold mine Ive only just found.

Halls Of Lighning Xp/Speed Runs!!

XP @ lvl77 = 231k Per hour (not rested)

After running the full instance a fair few times it became apparent that once u get past the 2nd boss XP per hour drops a load, mainly due to 3rd boss taking a while/being a pain etc and the trash upto to him being small anoying pulls.

Since I've also done that I just wanted to add that one more or less has to run this instance on normal anyway to get the trinket from loken (and perhaps the tanking 1h from the 2nd boss). Crit immunity is a huge lot easier with this trinket
And don't forget to get a tabard, since hol normal will give rep

kind regards

[jono]

70-75 i ran UK dragon rooms runs, more or less u kill upto first boss rinse repeat. was getting over 400k/hr rested doing that. boring as hell but these things must be done. after that i just did grizzly 7 dailies and ran dtk(nice to be proficient in running here as its a emblem mine at 80).
Probably not the best way but its what i did. Hope it helps.