Level 80x4 in 5 days, 9 hours - here's how

[Kicksome]

Just for the record, I thought I'd put down exactly how I leveled my 4x Ret Pallys to 80. I know almost 6 days isn't setting any records, but I thought some people might find it useful. I started these guys right before x-mas and finished Jan 13th.

It took about 5 days, 9 hours to 80 total. I used RAF from 1 - 60 which took 20 hours total. Without RAF I estimate it would take an additional 2 days.

I also used Heirloom items once I got to 60, which gave me 20% more quest and kill exp. Without these, you can expect to spend an extra ~20 hours. So without RAF and Heirloom it would be about 8.5 - 9 days - at the speed I played.

1-10 questing
10-15 Deadmines - boosted by 80 pally
15-22 Stockades - boosted by 80 pally (about 1 level per run)
22-42 SM - - boosted by 80 pally (a level per run)
42-45 ZF (I just took it slow here) (not quite a level per run)
45-60 Scholomance This was awesome - just sit on the bridge and have the 80 kill everything - 0 wipes
60 Go to Outlands and buy flying mount
60 Say goodbye to your 80 booster, you won't need it from here on out
60-70 quest in outlands - I did 0 collection quests - I skipped everyone that I had to collect more than 3 items.
61-70 Q for AV as much as you can stand - it breaks up the grind
70 Have your mains buy cold weather flying and send them to your alts (Heirloom item)
71-80 Q for AV as much as you can stand
71-78 Quest - the only collection quests I did so far is Wrathgate line
74 - Start doing the grizzly hills PVP quests every day, and continue questings
78-80 Quest in Icecrown and unlock everything- I had to do several collection quests in Icecrown to unlock everything, probably at least 6

When I hit 80, I had about 1500g on each guy - but I loaned each guy 600g for cold weather flying and 300g for spells - so net maybe 600g each. I didn't start looting until Northrend and vendored all unneeded quest items.

I also had 60K honor at 80 and earned a total of about 200 AV badges.

-Kicksome