Quote Originally Posted by 'thinus',index.php?page=Thread&postID=30297#post30 297

Quote Originally Posted by 'Knytestorme',index.php?page=Thread&postID=30281#p ost30281
If I am 5-boxing and not doing collection quests then I am going through the kill quests 5x faster than expected so my xp will be less (eg if I have to do a kill 10 mob quest but all characters get credit for each kill then rather than killing 50 mobs I only kill 10 and each char only gets 1/5th the xp the guide expects) so perhaps the tedium of the collection quests makes up the lost xp since I then have to kill 5x as many mobs as I'd have to to get the drops....but even then, if I am only getting 1/5 the xp per kill I'd still only get the equivalent of a full kill per mob by the end so I'd still be down xp from where I expect to be and I dont think the group bonus will help :/
You will run out of mobs very quickly.

Grinding instances is a LOT more efficient than grinding non-elites for quest drops.
correct, however just general grinding you get more experience for each item in the following order. Quests>grinding elites>grinding non-elites. This wasnt always true really but the change sin 2.3 and others for pre 60 questing made a huge difference to this. Personally I grind instances with a few quests smattered in (mainly the instance quests)