Help requested - I'm in a bit of an annoying pickle.

[zanthor]

RAF - You would need to level a toon 1-60 to grant 48-60... the obvious choice is level 48-60 and skip 48 levels...

Leave the 48 on the account he's on right now, that way you have 3 shamans to kablam blow stuff up with and 1 tank as needed for harder instances as you approach 80.

[Moorea]

you can quest the solo character out-of-team to 80, he just needs to tag stuff before your 80s smoke it

As far as I know you won't get more xp if you're out of group and most of the dmg is done out of group by a level 80 (or more) than if you were in the group - no ? (and out of group you have the risk to not actually tap and get the mob killed by the wrong side)

[Steph]

Transfer the level 48 shaman to the main account. Level the character solo.

Make sure to use +10% XP shoulders (40 emblems of heroism or 200 stone keeper shards) and the new patch 3.2 +10% XP chest (40 emblems of heroism or 60 champion seals) for a total of 20% bonus XP. This is applied after rested XP, so you will get 240% rested with both items equipped compared to 100% xp non-rested without the items.

Also note that you will be able to level faster with the mount changes. Epic ground mount now, flying in outlands from 60-68, flying in northrend from 68-80.

[Toonarmy]

Thanks everyone. I I think I am leaving the 48 where it is. I'll try the new "level through BG's" approach. When that, inevitably, fails I'll just try normal instance boosting / questing.