Quote Originally Posted by cmeche View Post
I had a long response deleted by my error......

1 thing to note is that any high lvl in your group will cut xp bigtime......so keep them non-grouped unless you have some quests that you want to do quickly, then just group them together.

Once you hit ~72 with the paladin, you can drop the druid and just tag the mobs with the ungrouped pally........then dps them down with the shaman. Around that lvl, mobs are still green to the lvl 80s and will not take away any xp you would get with the pally. Just dont drop and dps totems, as that would take away xp from the pally.

So,
Pally and Druid grouped..........shaman drop totems.........no xp loss bc of high lvls.......but xp per mob is split between Druid/pally

Pally ungrouped.......shaman dps but not through totems....no xp loss bc of high lvls.....pally gets full xp per mob.

Thanks for the information. If I decide to instance with a lowbie paladin and the 4 level 80 shaman how much of an xp cut should I expect. Ideally I would like to get back into instances and try and hone my skills again.

Also what a freakin weird way of designing things that around level 72 no more totems and just dps from the shaman. Where did you come across this at?