With the changes in 3.3 instance boosting still viable?

[Boylston]

I recommend the following:

Quests 1-10
SFK 10-20
Scarlet Monastery 20-35
Zul'Farrak 35-45
Scholomance 45-55
Hellfire Ramparts 55-58 (Blood Furnace is also a wonderful place)

Hellfire Questing at 58-60 to gear out everyone

Either quest or continue to BC powerlevel from there.

[blbjtb]

Thanks Boylston hehe I was thinking that it was gonna be a nightmare to get them gear lol cause all they are going to have when they hit Hellfire is their shoulders chest and weapon hehe. How is your 4 ret and a dk coming along?

[Boylston]

Thanks Boylston hehe I was thinking that it was gonna be a nightmare to get them gear lol cause all they are going to have when they hit Hellfire is their shoulders chest and weapon hehe. How is your 4 ret and a dk coming along?

The team is slowly plodding along. I have 2 small kids plus a newborn, so my playtime is pretty limited these days!

I had a L64 DK from a past powerleveling experience, I made him solely so he could help a single warrior I was powerleveling get group XP bonus. I have played him only very occasionally, but he's standing by to lead the team.

I also have an old paladin from long ago (used to be my Pally tank for the quadbox shamans) that is L70 and geared up in Ret stuff, waiting...

So the three little newbies just hit L55 last night, and I made one quick run of BF with my bear tank to get them a little XP.

Plan is to get them to L58, run hellfire quests to make them not quite so naked and maybe skill them up a little bit, then I will probably merge everyone together and start putting together macros and instance running. Team should then look like:

64 DK
70 Ret Pally, 60x3 Ret Pally

I figure there's no point in doing instances until there is 4xDivine Storm available to heal the DK. Unsure if L70 pally will out-threat the DK tank, but I figure I can always throttle his DPS back with a gimp weapon or something.

I have an option of subbing in an 80 warrior with 232ish gear for the ret pally and instance powerleveling the 64 DK and other pallies, but I think I'd rather quest or do level-appropriate instances than do too much more powerleveling.

I'm excited to be able to catch the new pallies up near the DK and at least try some DK+3Ret battleground action...


So... Long winded answer. Short answer is they still need to be caught up a bit and geared.

[mikekim]

i have just done 63-68 on my locks by running Sethekk Halls 34 times.
the locks only had to be moved once throughout the whole instance (the second location is the 90 degree corridor just before the first boss -Darkweaver Syth) this gives you XP throughout the second half of the instance.
I also managed to get the 22sp ring from 50 spirit shards while doing the grind :P

68-70 will be a case of questing in Northrend. 70-80 will be a mixture of Questing, AV and instances