Fastest way to level (requires a lvl 70 class with Dots)

[Eteocles]

Heck no I love the rest of 'em, one guy on a powertrip ain't gonna scare me off ;p And the real GM's still there just not leading or super active right now

[ngilbert]

same technique works in everquest, just have to hit the mob once for it to count (before they zone out)

[Lokked]

Everquest Powerleveling was all about using the bard's Charm spell to cause mobs to kill each other.

Then just have the lowbie whack the almost dead mob once, then finish it off with another charmed mob.

The lowbie would get full XP because mob-on-mob damage doesn't count at all!


Anyways....going to try this out on a lvl 6 shaman with my 70 lock in RFC

[pickles]

Just wanted to post a screenie. Keep in mind the 1.5 hours at this level (35). I have quit leveling this guy and just mess around with him in undercity. So at level 35 each level takes about 30 mins or less so I would be level 39 or so in 22 hours.
This pally was also the first one that I used this technique with, so it took a bit of tweaking to get it right.

Also to answer some of the posts above.

A mage/ pally aoe grinding would probably be as fast if not faster, I however do not have access to either of those.

As far as having to run a lot. You can't run very far in and expect them to follow you back to the entrance. They will reset. However you do not need to clear the entire entrance out each time. Just to the point where they stop following you back to the front, then reset the instance.

I also just started to run into the 5 instances per hour cap, but only because I finally got my technique down. I just run him through the entire instance at that time to get myself below the 5 instance per hour since it takes a while to do the whole instance with a Moonkin.

[Monkofdoom]

Failing images

[vultuk]

Twas me that posted this here originally!

Efficiency wise you'll find it's quite efficient! Pulling the whole instance with a pally/mage yes is fast but gives not as much XP. Also, on instances like Stockades where you can basically single pull the whole instance you'll realise it becomes less efficient.

You can only reset an instance a maximum of 4 times in every hour, so pulling the whole instance, killing them (in stockades at least) takes less than 15 minutes making downtime much harder waiting the extra time for the instance to reset.

The way I (and the OP) suggested means you can spend 15 minutes pulling dotting mobs and leaving the instance and then reset the instance, this means lots of XP and less downtime.

[Otlecs]

I tried this last night in the Stockade, with my lock. He's not ideal for the job, being only T4 and demo spec rather than affliction, but I thought I'd give it a go.

For me, personally, the mage AoE fest is a much better option. As soon as my lock walked out of the instance, the rest of my team was set upon by the very upset gang of mobs, and died in seconds - long before most of them succumbed to the DoTs.

Perhaps there's some technique to be learnt in making this effective, but I'll stick to the mage for now

[vultuk]

Well it requires a Dot class to work as the OP says. But, the optimal class to do this with is a Priest

Advantage being as you run out of the instance you simply shield your lil low level character. The shield should hold up against most mobs.

You also have a nice advantage if your low level alt is a pally and you can just Bubble, but that does of course slow you down with having a 2 minute CD.

[Otlecs]

I don't boost single characters, so a single target shield wouldn't work for me either. Now, if we had Prayer of Shielding.....

Even then then shield would be downranked for being cast on a low level character.

edit: I just re-read the strategy, and realise that the failure is in my execution of it. Specifically, I missed the fact that each pull consists of only three or four mobs when using this method.

I was still doing a three-pull clear in Stockade.

ops:

[kadaan]

Really wish I had a Pally. I've got a T5-ish mage that I've been using to try and power level a priest. Only level 23 with 9h /played . It would be much better if I filled the party up for the group bonus instead of just mage+priest, but recently I've just been doing one or two stockade clears on my lunch break.

The right wing of Stockades sucks. The Convicts sometimes spam backhand (2s stun) which makes it difficult.