600k+ xp per hour while farming

[zenga]

So last night I dinged 80 on my paladin, my 4 shammies were still at 79,5 (7-800k/1.6m). As this is my first wow account I didn't feel like keep on questing to cap my other toons right away, too excited :P. After some sleep I'm really fed up with the questing, for sure cause the ones that are ahead of me are either quests where I have to use a vehicle or collection ones. No, i wanted to ding 80 asap so my first idea was to run them through an instance. I have zero experience with instances and it seems to be a steep learning curver. So i googled a bit on farming mobs and cam across this mob/place. They are called 'converted hero' and are located in the west of icecrown.

They walk into packs of 5+ and are really close to eachother. So i gave it a try and was amazed: in my first 10 minutes i gained over 120k xp. So i kept doing that for an hour and got over 600k xp (was rested). Of course it gets boring after a while, but when you see your xp bar going up this fast this close to the cap ... i didn't bother too much.

I just run into a pack, drop 4x magma, consecration + chain lightening and they die within 10-15 seconds. Kill my totems and up to the next pack.

For me this was the ideal way to bridge the gap to lvl 80. *For me* means: 4 shammy + paladin tank, no xp with instances and in quest green/blues. I must add that i didn't loot the mobs,i just cared about the xp.

Now i know that questing / instancing is the proper way to level, but for any level 77+ boxer with some aoe abilities this might be a nice break away from questing with fast / easy xp.

Thought i'd share this as some might find it useful

edit: forgot to add 2 things:
- they stun you, so for me it was hard to pull multiple packs at once
- you do not want to pull a pack of 80 skeletal reavers, doing nothing and waiting for your totems to kill them, and notice only they are elites with 65k hp once your first guy dies

cheers
a very happy Z with his brand new 80s :P