Quote Originally Posted by thefunk View Post
Rather than getting annoyed at some people, look at the context they are saying their point. I agree with fur on this as levelling 70-80 in a weekend is completely unrealistic to a relative newcomer like me. It took me weeks and weeks to level to 80. There seems to be a little showing off to boot which is also not helpful and should be put in context. How did you do it? Did you have heirlooms/bg's/boosting in dungeons etc... So don't get annoyed if you are brought back in line by the experienced boxers here, regardless of their tone of voice.

To the op. I'm dreading hitting northrend, my second team hitting 62 and going really quickly. Good luck
Pure questing. Heirloom WG shoulders and weapon along with BOA chest from badges. The amount of EXP from bgs and dungeons isn't close to the EXP per hour you can get from questing, especially if you 1 shot every mob in sight (which you should mostly be doing if you have heirloom gear) It also can depends on group makeup, some quests/dungeons might be annoying for some classes where as for others they are not. An example of this is druids in flight form being able to pick up items like siege bombs for the quest in DB (horde) or the zepplin parts near honor hold etc...

I hit northrend and had no rested whatsoever. Most levels should take between 3 and 4 hours with heirloom gear... some a little longer in places that have annoying collection quests like zuldrak and sholozar basin. But you SHOULD be able to ding 80 before leaving ZD with BOA, and after sholozar otherwise. This was over my 10th time through all these quests though so i knew where to go and what quests to do in what order with no help from guides or addons and whatnot. The major time saver is flight form... without it you can take forever to do some of the areas. My shaman were taking close to twice as long per level as my rets/dk are.

Regarding the "newcomer" part... without having the perks of already having 80s yes boxing to 80 cannot be done in a weekend. There isn't enough time in the day to be able to do that. But with heirlooms and regular flying you should be able to do 10 levels in 30 to 50 hours. So i mean it is very possible to do, but point of fact is that many people who multi-box do it because of the freedom it brings. Most seem to have a family, a job or something else they spend time on. Most people cannot afford to or simply do not wish to put 30 to 40 hours into WoW in a three day period. Not to mention that questing for 30 to 40 hours can give you WoW burnout hardcore.