73 5x Shaman - Sick of leveling... How did you do it?

[Ualaa]

I pretty much followed a one-boxing quest stacking guide, for my first team.
At about 73 or 74, I subbed out one of my shammies, did an account transfer and subbed in an 80 shammy in Naxx25 gear.
That was one toon who could skip all of the remaining collections.
Leveling was a bit of a pain, but the 80 helped kill things.

Second team, again didn't seem quite as painful.
And only the tank had an experience boosting heirloom.
I really should grind two per toon, the heroic and the wintergrasp.
I had a bunch of computer issues for this team, upgraded to the i7 build but had my ATI card start to freeze slaves, so this bunch took forever, even if it was less time played.
I did a fair bit of AV with this team.

I'm in the process of bouncing back and forth between 5x Druids (64) and 4x Warlock + 1x Priest (13).
The druids dinged 64th in Hellfire (sure they had full rested, but had only done one ramparts and one furnace run for the quests, and nothing yet in Zangarmash), 64 prior to Zangarmarsh seems to be very high; looks like the experience has changed a bit.
I like druids, in that you can auto follow, on the slow flyers, 5 feet off of the ground amidst hostile mobs and do collections without aggro.
The warlocks will be a bit slower, I'm really enjoying flyers on the druids and think Northrend will be a lot faster because of it; unless we can mail BoA cold flying books, the warlock team will be afoot in Northrend...

[Drommon]

Well i tried to skip as many collection quest as possible in NR. I did AV, instances and kill quests. When I got bored of that I leveled gathering skills. When I got bored of that I leveled an alt team. I try to mix it up as much as I can.

Maybe you can solo for a while. Make a DK tank and level it up to 75 then start the instance grind again. I hear that DK + 4x shammys is easy instance mode.

[-silencer-]

Although I had a paladin tank with my 4x elemental shammies, I didn't AV at all and only ran a few instances to get to lvl 77. UK 3-4 times was it. I quested entire BT, HF, and DB.. all on rest xp. That got me to around lvl 75. Then I did some GH (especially the dailies!) and a decent chunk of SB to get to 77, and once you get cold weather flying at 77, it's a cakewalk to 80.
Once you hit 77, do this:
- Get cold weather flying.
- Do Sons of Hodir quest chain to unlock Hodir dailies. (a couple of quests in the chain are a pain in the ass, but they're worth it.)
- Do Argent Tournament quest chain to open up dailies. (these are quick!)

Each day you can do this list of dailies, which provide a bunch of quick XP, gold, and something specific you'll need:
- GH PvP dailies. (I do all except the ones requiring fetching the bomb). XP, gold, and venture co currency for totems/cloaks/trinkets.
- Sons of Hodir dailies. (I do all except the anvil quest - that one sucks) XP, gold, and Hodir rep for shoulder enchants.
- Argent Tourney dailies. (I do them all. The weapon one can suck if you have different races in your group.) XP, gold, champion seals, faction rep.

That's roughly 13-15 dailies at 20+k xp, 7+gold each, and they won't take more than an hour or two max. Once you champion a faction at Argent Tourney and open up Hodir revered quests, you'll be able to do nearly 20 dailies very quickly, provide some easy epics and heirloom gear through champion seals, and get at least 400k XP and 140+g (per character) per day for around 2 hours of work.

70-77 was a long grind. 77-80 was EASY. My next group, I'll skip all collection quests in BT/HF/DB/GH/SB that I can, and go purely for quick quests in *all* zones while focusing on quick dailies first.

Edit:
The jousting dailies are easy once you figure out that you can dps your opponent on foot from your alts while your main does the jousting. You still have to do 3/3 and 4/4 for each character, but at least you can dps from the others. I save these dailies for last if I have some extra time since they are a bit more tedious than the others.

[cmeche]

Im currently at 74-75 on my 4 druids.
Make sure you do GH dailies every day. They are super easy, and majority of the quest objectives stack.
I would also get your guys rested(or not) and go over and grind on the human mobs in the camp a little north of Naxx. Make sure at least one shaman tags all the mobs with thunderstorm and then drop your magmas. Super easy. Plus they drop a decent amount of silver and vendor trash.

AV is not always good for me. During the day, Ally like to turtle it up and we loose with me getting 50k xp over 20 min. I find its way better just to grind unrested on aoe mobs then to keep running AV when it pops. Now if you are in a winnning AV, then obviously you get good xp along with honor.

[wonz]

I did instances with my pala team. As often as possible. No battlegrounds at all.

Currently i am leveling a warrior and 4 shamans, they are 71 now, thats the "bad" part of wotlk leveling. Still i enjoy it, due do the fact i love leveling.

Doing instances as well with them. The warrior is a prot warrior, i always hated my pally tank for being a heavy drinker. The prot warrior does not drink, but lacks of rage sometimes.. Hes a little bit overgeared for the lower 7x instances, bacause it was my main a long time ago.

Up to 69 i leveled 5 shamans, but switched over to the warrior at 70. Funny and interesting. I spent much time in tuning the warrior tank macros. Still it needs much work.

Currently i priorize shield slam > thunderclap > shock wave > shouts > revenge > devastate > heroic strike.. but heroic strike still seems to be used more often as i wish.

[remanz]

All you guys' advances are good and all. But it is mainly for solving the leveling problem in game. Gotta motivate the person himself. I suggest watching heyaz 's arena boxing video more. Motivate the mind. Imagine what you can be once you hit level 80.

Think about what you can be, your current grind is step towards that.

[merujo]

Back in the day there was no BG XP, so it wasn't an option. U also need to have in mind that most already had their teams at 80 when WotlK hit, so we were fresh to start leveling again.
I bet ur tired from a long way leveling, even if u had RAF, leveling is always a bit boring.

Watch some vids of people multiboxing, try to get some sort of inspiration, put some music on and continue the grind.
Also, don't be a maniac about it and take it easy, playing relaxed is the key