Boost grinding a 62 in Northrend.

[Ualaa]

This is a very nice method for me too.

I decided to take a mage and druid, both level 60 (RAF boosted), so almost 61st but no spells etc.
Much cheaper to buy ground mounts in 3.2, which is nice.
Ran them to the AH, purchased anything cheap with Stamina on it.
Trained them in the spells relative to their spec.

For the mage, took the arcane talent to increase chance for arcane spells to land.
Also took the frost talent to increase the chance for any spell to land.
That works out, will probably be 21/50 or 20/51 (Arcane/Frost) eventually.

The largest issue at the moment is running into a group.
Drop a Stoneclaw Totem.
Wait a second for several mobs to come on over.
Spam Arcane Explosion until the Stoneclaw is about to go.
Drop the 2nd Stoneclaw and the three Magma's.
With Target Target on, I'm ready to drop the 3rd Stoneclaw if necessary.
Most often it is not.

Unfortunately with a 61st level toon, 5 or 6 arcane explosions...
Tags anywhere from 2 to 5 mobs, with an average pull of 4-6 at once.

The mobs seem to be 67th and 68th on average, so the exp's per mob won't diminish until 63rd or 64th.
With the bonus that as I gain levels, I'll be hitting more mobs, which should mitigate this nicely.

Had a somewhat annoying time with this towards the end of my first session.
I had a hunter tagging along, who was skinning things.. none of the toons present can skin.
Except he'd send his pet onto one mob in a group and then shoot another himself - just before I got to the group.
Kind of annoying, that basically worked into a 30% exp penalty.
I asked him to stop, but he basically said.. the mobs are free for anyone.
So I said, I had to log for a bit. He did say he leveled skinning from 375 to 448.
But he got annoying at the end, the last 10 or 12 pulls, taking two mobs per pack.

This is definitely faster then questing.
The toons dinged 61st on the first couple of pulls.
They ran out of rested (1.5 levels worth) in under 90 mins.
I'd say I'm averaging 61-62 and 62-63.. maybe 70-75 minutes a level.
It would be faster if I on 5 arcane explosions I could tag more then half the mobs in a pack.
And it would have been faster if the hunter was not stealing two per pack.

Overall a very good experience.
Thank you for sharing.