600k+ xp per hour while farming

[Drommon]

I wonder if these packs would be any good for a lower level group?

My second "team" is 80/80/77/75/74 - and its just PAINFULL to level them instance grinding (I've given up on quests - between phasing and "lol get me 400 pieces of bear poop" I just don't want to do it)

Hey Fur!

Welcome to my world. I have been leveling a team 80/80/76/76/76. It is a big PITA. Hate quests and barely tolerate instances. I have been mixing it up with AV (for the 76 level toons), instancing and questing. I feel your pain. In NR you are better off leveling with everyone the same level. Sigh... Lesson learned,

[-silencer-]

Ah, the converted heroes looked like a great spot when I was checking areas to grind (the crystallized fire drop cave in Storm Peaks being another..) out to 80 on my paladin/4xshaman team. I'm halfway through 76 right now, and as soon as I hit 77, it's flying time to Icecrown along with the Sons of Hodir quest chain & dailies.

Instance grinding isn't too bad though. I went nearly all of lvl 73 with around half a dozen UK runs on rested xp. A big chunk of level 75 was a couple OK runs. This far along, I'd rather do just about anything but questing.. especially since I'm currently in the mad collection quest zone known as Grizzly Hills.

[thinus]

I was questing in Icecrown last night and did That's Abominable!. Could be a good AoE spot as well. Very fast respawns and clustered tightly. Map.

[Starbuck_Jones]

The mobs you kill for that quest do not grant xp or loot, just like the mobs in sholizhar basin on the ice flow.

[thinus]

The mobs you kill for that quest do not grant xp or loot, just like the mobs in sholizhar basin on the ice flow.

I was looting last night. If you don't tag them and use the abomination to blow them up then, yes, you don't get xp or loot. I rounded up loads with the pally and AoEd like mad and they would start respawning before I could finish looting.

EDIT: Seems like some of them drop loot and some don't going by WoWHead comments.

[Starbuck_Jones]

The ones nearby that wander in are normal mobs, but the ones behind the blockade fence and the icecrown wall do not. I mounted up and gathered like 50 of them, killed them all and got nothing.

This was months ago however, its quite possible im getting alzheimer's or one of the updates between then have changed this.

[zenga]

Tried this last night on my 5 paladins at level 77. It is really hard to pull two groups, never was able to pull 3 at once. Most of the time you're only able to pull one then you get slowed and by the time you make it to another group, the initial one has de-aggroed.

Not to mention it was mind numbing boredom, and the xp wasn't really that fast.

There aint many packs that are really close together to make a successful pull. I don't see the need myself to do massive pulls in that zone, takes about the same time anyways when you have good aoe (4x magma, consecrate & 4x light bolt) does the job in around 10 seconds per pack for me. Occasionally i finish off with a thunderstorm.

Anyways, I use flying to go from pack to pack. There are like 2-3 areas where there are packs close enough to eachother to pull (for me). I have a set a 2nd different key for each toon to mount/dismount. So i fly to 1 pack really low, when i just passed it i dismount one shaman in the flight and spam my follow key right away. I'm flying to the 2nd pack and dismount my other 4 in front of the next pack. So the shaman just pulls the other mobs to my main: aoe & :W. Up to next. I've done this with3 groups as well. It might sound complicated but it isn't once I got the hang of it.

Yeah it's boring as hell after a while. But it's nice easy xp when you just want to Rambo instead of questing for a while.