Fastest Leveling

[Coranthium]

Planning to take the plunge and start leveling groups for a 10 man team. I already have a lvl 80 dk and lvl 70 hunter, and some mid-level chars that, withe the bonus levels from RAF, will mean I can get 10 chars to 60 with just lvling 5 RAF toons.

My question is, which would be quicker-boosting or using the multiboxing leveling guide I saw here? My dk is tank specced and with frost presence/blood spec can easily solo all the way through ramps (highest instance I've tried without a healer), so boosting wouldn't be a problem for me. If the answer is that boosting is fastest, I'll probably level 8 RAF chars since I'd have to split them into 2 groups of 4 anyway, with the fifth slot being the dk.

[Sychosys]

Is there any reason you can not use two RAF'd account sets with the leveling guide and use the DK to boost em through it? That would probably be hands down the fastest unless you are trying to level all 5 characters at once.

[Coranthium]

Wait...you're suggesting using the guide to quest and having the dk help them quest instead of running them through instances?

Would that be faster than boosting through instances?

[Smoooth]

That wouldn't be any faster. If you have a 5 man team and you are questing you are going to 1 or 2 shot anything anyway. There's no need to use an 80, it wouldn't speed it up at all. 99% of the time spent quest leveling is running between places or looting things for collection quests. Your fastest way would be to use your 80 to boost in instances. Since you can only boost 4 at a time you may have to do multiple groups depending on how many you still need.

[Mosg2]

With my DK I can boost from 1-60 in 6 hours if I don't dick around and AFK while I'm logged in. It'd be ridiculously faster to boost three sets of four than hand level two sets of 5.

[Sychosys]

Wow, 6 hours to 60 eh? I would def not mind a list of instances to drag people through to be able to do that IS the general idea 'as soon as a higher level instance becomes available, do it'?

[Mosg2]

1-10 Hand Grind
10-15 Wailing Caverns
15-20 RFK
20-35 SM Cath + Armory
35-45 ZF
45-55 LBRS
55-60 Ramparts

Questing and WC are self explanatory. RFK you can go straight to the last boss, drop off the ledge behind her, and then kill boars all the way to the zone and reset. With my DK I can clear all of Cath and Armory in about 8 minutes, so I usually take a break for a few minutes so I don't cap the instance per hour. For ZF also you can make a huge circle and kill mobs the whole way. LBRS I zone in and move down to the first area where you see the ogres on your right. I jump down to the lava area and then clear up back to the entrance from there. Ramparts is the same where you can do the whole zone in under 10 minutes, including bosses.

[Starbuck_Jones]

6h? I would like to see some vids of that.

[Mosg2]

I should clarify.

7 hours and about 12 minutes is my fastest RAF boost time from 1-60, but that included a Warlock summon chain so that it was pure instancing the whole way with no training or running around. That includes the 1-10 by hand, which takes an hour or so. I could probably shave a half hour off of that time if I ran my DK and had someone else MB the alts so I didn't have to worry about them.

[Sychosys]

Despite optimal conditions or not, I think the community in general here could benefit from a set of vids showing a single run through each of the dungeons. The server I am on I could make a 58 DK, I assume you are using a level 80DK with some nice gear?

My problem is I do not want to waste RAF time getting to 80 so I will be looking to get one of each character type to 60 before this ends.