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

[pickles]

These forums have provided much amusement during work and great resources for my multiboxing so I wanted to share something in return.

I did not find this technique posted anywhere else on these forums. I am also sure that I did not come up with this technique, just adapted it for my use and wanted to share in case someone wants to get an alt caught up real quick to their group.

That being said, I use my Level 70 moonkin to do this. I only know the levels for Horde instances, and I believe that Alliance has an even easier time with Stockades.

Group with your lowbie once he is able to go into RFC (level 8 ). Have him wait inside the instance at the entrance. Run in with your 70 and dot the elites. Once you are sure they will die to your dots, run out of the instance before they die. I use Insect Swarm and a low level Moonfire in RFC.

Leave your low level in the instance and when the Elites die you will notice he will get all the XP as though he killed them himself.

Now for some reason you will only get about 1/2 xp for any mobs that are NOT humanoids. However 1/2 xp for an elite is still very good.

RFC is where you can start doing this.. Wailing Caverns (level 10) gets a little better especially because the first boss is so close to the entrance. I pull the mobs with either body pulls or faire fire, take them to the entrance, dot them up and run out.

As soon as I can, I go to SFK (lvl 14) just be careful of the mobs that throw up the shield making them immune to magic. I just go ahead and kill them then dot up the rest.

RFK is where it starts getting good because most of the mobs are real close and most are humaniods.

Then of course Scarlet Monastery is even better. This is where you will start to see 1 to 1.5 bubbles of xp per pull (3 or 4 mobs)

Using this technique I level my alts to 40 in about 22 hrs or so.

Some Tips

You can only pull from so far in the instance before the mobs will start to reset. That is fine, just reset the instance and start from scratch. This keeps you from having to run too far.

If I feel like I'm going to get the 5 instance per hour cap, then I will just run through the whole instance with my alt once I am at the point where I can no longer pull them to the entrance. This usually gives me enough of a buffer where I dont hit the cap.

Get the 30 stam lw Clefthide Leg Armor and put it on a lvl 8 grey cloth item that wont become soulbound to you. That way you can reuse it on a future alt.
By using the Leg Armor it becomes very hard for you to be killed after that by an elite that didnt die to your dots.

I only pull 3 maybe 4 mobs in SM at a time because with global cooldown between dots, they will die before you can run out.

I imagine a warlock or shadow priest would have a much easier time doing this than a druid plus you could shield your alt before you run out, or aoe fear.

The easiest time I ever had was with my shaman. I just dropped a stoneclaw totem usually by the time they had killed the totem they were one tick from dying.

Last but not least, I use this technique because I do not have a high level pally or 70 mage to aoe grind the instances.

I hope this helps someone and I look forward to seeing more videos and laughing at the people getting one-shotted.



edited for clarity

[Eteocles]

Interesting...I hadn't considered that. I'll give it a shot later(also a boomkin ;D) though timing the ticks so that you're out + mobs die without killing your alt will be tough...

[Wilbur]

Me and Los were doing this with his Warlock a while back in the deadmines. To be honest, I'd fairly sure its not efficient enough to get decent XP, you'd be far better served using a Mage to pull the Instance and make things go KA-BOOM.

:-)

[Skuggomann]

Well pulling the whole shibang and usign SoC might work well

... i better try this to chek it out btw

[Los]

Well lvl 40 in 22 hours is pretty efficient in my book, its far from what im capable of atm. I'd love to see some footage from these ventures so i can try it myself some time . I am wondering (again) do you log off due to resetting a lot?

[Monkofdoom]

Very interesting approach although it does seem like it would be inefficient (once you've killed a few groups You'd be running back and fourth miles to get out of the instance - but interesting idea.

Although maybe not a preferable method for a lot of people but does the same work if the character dies + releases ? For example if you run through the instance get stuff to low health + dotted and u die, then res your 70 with a char you are leveling. (Yes I know repair bills) but u could in theory make the system more efficient if it works ?

[Eteocles]

Some of us don't have a mage to use/borrow ;p My GM's already pissed at having 2 shamen, a rogue and 2 druids in the guild...he doesn't know about my third Druid yet so that should be interesting >.>

But yeah, thta is true...the efficiency is lost beyond a distance from the portal(Though small instances like SM GY wouldn't be so bad), and it's useless in deadmines since nothing's elite near the portal anymore lol

[unit187]

My GM's already pissed at having 2 shamen, a rogue and 2 druids in the guild...he doesn't know about my third Druid yet so that should be interesting >.>

why would anyone care and even pissed off about a person having more then 1 character in the guild?

I have 7 characters in the raiding guild I am in now and all is fine.

[Eteocles]

He has something against me I think...he won't let me assist in raids half the time even though I'm one of the few that bothers to memorize anything raidboss related and doesn't have to be retold what to do every time and have been in guild longer than he has(leadership change awhile back)

He went on an alt kicking spree recently, which started with just my alts,(Including one I WAS LOGGED ONTO AT THAT TIME) then he kicked some random inactive ones to "support" his statement of removing inactives(again, despite kicking a char I WAS LOGGED INTO and had been for hours) as well as saying "multi-boxing doesn't count, your extras aren't charas" or something equally stupid, till a few others piped up with me who also had alts in guild and basically threatened mutiny if he pulled that shit, 5mins later I got my char back in guild lol

But yeah enough drama venting ;p

[Boylston]

He has something against me I think...he won't let me assist in raids half the time even though I'm one of the few that bothers to memorize anything raidboss related and doesn't have to be retold what to do every time and have been in guild longer than he has(leadership change awhile back)

He went on an alt kicking spree recently, which started with just my alts,(Including one I WAS LOGGED ONTO AT THAT TIME) then he kicked some random inactive ones to "support" his statement of removing inactives(again, despite kicking a char I WAS LOGGED INTO and had been for hours) as well as saying "multi-boxing doesn't count, your extras aren't charas" or something equally stupid, till a few others piped up with me who also had alts in guild and basically threatened mutiny if he pulled that shit, 5mins later I got my char back in guild lol

But yeah enough drama venting ;p

You, sir, need a new guild!