Is it better to Quest or Grind while multiboxing?

[Totemall]

I know it sounds stupid but what would go faster? If questing is easier please let me know how I can get my clone to loot or do I have to click on his screen.

[Oatboat]

Quest but skip collections.

Depending on your setup. if you have only 2 toons you can do collections easily. What are you dualboxing with? Software/Hardware?
Set up interact with target and assist and you've got a looter for slave.

[Starbuck_Jones]

RAF - Grind
Rested xp - Grind
no rested - quest

[Sam DeathWalker]

[quote='Starbuck_Jones',index.php?page=Thread&postI D=203326#post203326]RAF - Grind
Rested xp - Grind
no rested - quest[/quote]

If I said the same thing there would be 5 pages of people saying how stupid I am.

Assuming rested or Raf:

Instance boosting is actually the best if you have an existing high level account. But its "not working as intended" so do you want to learn a techniqe that will be nerfed at some point?

Then tag boosting if you have more then say 8 accounts, over 10 accounts then for sure.

Then normal grinding, for sure levels 60-69, although some say quests for 1-59 and 70-80 is best but I have to question that.

[url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=199155&highlight=deat hwalker+raf+fastest#post199155']Fastest RAF method for 5 boxers[/url]

Tag Boosting

[Jafula]

Quest but skip collections.

This. I think.

I don't understand the merits of grinding. You get so much xp from handing in quests. If you are RAF'ing 3xQuest XP is worth it. Plus with grinding, I'd get bored real fast.

Having said that, AOE grinding fast respawning mobs might be lucrative if you can find suitable mobs at your level.

You could also try following some levelling guides (even if they are not built for multiboxers).

[mikekim]

They only way I have ever found grinding to be feasable is when you have a higher toon to kill quickly and normally you are boosting in instances to offset the xp reduction from the boosting toon.

as for normal world grinding (non instance) I would not even consider doing this past 60 and onto 80 as this would take forever (bearing in mind that 90% of the kills i have made in Northrend starting zones only give between 430-550k per kill), but the main turning point would be that without questing none of the dailies would open up at later levels

[Dominian]

If you happen to know were to go and what level to go there i would say questing is on par with boosting from 1-60, and sure hell WAY less boring.

I got to 60 without doing a singel collection quest, just kill quests. (well i did thoose who drops one item on all chars) I think it was done in 24 hours played but i wasted lots of time on the totem quests and not having mounts before i got to 55. (used ghost wolf)

I quested myself from 60-80 and outlands is actually quite fast now after the xp nerf, i think i did 2 levels per day on my last team there.

70-80 is slow and i spent about 10 hours per level but when you look on the big picture that means 20 hours from 70-80 and you have to be pretty hardcore to reach that with 1 toon. This was WITHOUT epic mounts wich means the 3 last levels could have been done way way faster.

[matexoza]

every post people have putt in to this is dead wrong leveling is a to each his own kind of thing no 1 persons way of leveling will ever work work for u find what u like me myself i use a mix of both grinding and questing if i can solo an instance that gives good xp and i have rested
i instance grind if i dont have rested i quest or if i need money i also quest lol

[Ken]

There are far too many collection quests in Northrend to just skip them all in my opinion.

What I did:
- Do quests but skip only the nasty collection quests. Some quest chains are really worth finishing, even if they have slow collection quests.
- When you have built up enough rested experience, go into instances but avoid the ones that give low XP due to having fewer mobs (e.g. Violet Hold and Azjol-Nerub).

[Sam DeathWalker]

At level 60 I get 5,000 exp per pull X 4 (raf) with about 2,000 exp for non rested non raf leader, at the seige engineers in epl. So 22,000 total exp for under 1 minute, tag boosting. Mobs repop in like 7 or so mintues but by the time you loot and drink it goes fast. I maintain between 60-70Kexp/hour without any problems.

But it does come down to what you really like, if questing is like a job then why do it, if grinding is like a job why do it?

I like killing mobs lol.