Efficient ways of levelling teams from 60 to 80

[neoflo]

Thanks for the insight Oz.

[OzPhoenix]

Thanks for the insight Oz.

Anytime.

Hopefully, someone else will have a viable alternative. The last time I leveled 68-80, I stopped playing WoW for a couple of months I was so bored with the quests. That won't happen this time, but still, it's a measure of how mind-numbing it can be having to collect 75 Ears for example, just after you collected 60 Shields and realise you've spent 2 hours doing 2 quests.

[Feehza]

Three problems with that in my opinion.

1. Northrend is made up of so many very very long quest chains. Skip an opening collection quest and you could be skipping a dozen follow-ons.

2. Some quest chains open up phased areas etc, which you'll need later on for chants and such.

3. Blizzard annoyingly made most quests in Northrend collection rather than kill, and stupidly made all but one of them (one in Borrean Tundra) single drop rather than group drop (ironic that an MMO penalises group-leveling).

My current team is 2 levels off Northrend now, and if there's a faster way to level beyond just sucking it up and wading through mountains of boring collection quests, I'm all ears.

Indeed, in Northrend you have very long questchains. But some collection quests are negligible.
I assume you wont use wowhead all the time to find out if that collection quest have a long quest chain and its worth to do it.

So you have to appraise, if a quest is part of a big story or is it just a "Collect 20 fish, cuz iam hungry".
I skipped all collection quest which seems to be unimportant or important quests with more then 15 items.

A substitution for skipped collection quests are instanceruns.
Dont forget to do the daily quests. I am 75 atm and i do 5 daily quests per day.

PS: For essential boring quests say following to you: "I will take hours, it will be shitty, but i will do it via the relaxed way". Watch TV or Movies, do phonecalls per skype.

[Drommon]

I am in NR now with my 5xpally team. I do collection quests. Why? Because they open chains of other quest that can be done very very quickly. IMO so far it has been an even game. I mean to say that all the time put into collection quests go away after you do the follow on chain of quests in 15 minutes. Last night I did a collection quest that led to 4 more other quests that were done very quickly. The collection quest took me 31 minutes to do and the 4 follow up quests took me 12 mins. So about 45 min for 5 quests. I also do them for the trash loot. My pallys leveled from 68-72 have collected 12000 gold so far. IMO its worth doing the collection quests. There are however the the really bad ones that I will skip and only if it doesn't lead to a quest chain. Also I do the dailies that I open up to make up for the collection quests I decided not to do. Dailies are also very fast and provide gold and xp. I will say that a 5xpally team is very easy to run and they move very fast this has made leveling easier. My original team, a mix team was much harder to level through NR. I do now think that group composition plays a role in leveling speed.

[Mercurio]

I leveled 4 mixed teams to 80 by questing as horde.

I recently leveled 2 mixed teams to 80 by questing as alliance.

It is amazing how many more collection quests there are for horde. Leveling 68-80 as a boxer is 15% or so faster as alliance than horde just based on the difference in collection quests. With the number of hours invested, 15% is a lot of time.

But yeah, push to 74, then do all the Griz Hills dailies every day - big help.

[Seldum]

If it haven't been said already.... flying mount, flying mount, flying mount.

[neoflo]

Thanks guy for sharing your experiences and providing me with all this great information.

Its a nice to know that many of you have already done what I'm about to do, it just makes it seem a whole lot easier for me psychology, and in practice as well with all the tips.

I've been taking my pally set through the bc dungeons now far cry from when it was all raf'd but moving along at a decent pace.

[Seldum]

For me personally I got fed up with doing quests at around 74. Stopped playing on my team for a month, and leveled my main using the random dungeon tool. I had so much fun he dinged 80 soon after.

So I haven't done all the quests in WTLK. Currently i'm leveling my team through the random dungeon tool to gear them up and to gain some exp in the instance running. At some point I might go back to doing the quests but atm i'm tired of doing quests.

I did the wrathgate quest chain because I read it was one of the most epic questchains in wow to date.
After doing this quest chain I have to agree.