How do you survive the grind from 60-80?

[Kalyse]

Nice contributions so far.

I currently have 3 teams of 60 that I need to level and anticipate I will have 8x 5 groups of 60 that I need leveling up. I would really appreciate some indepth guides on the best ways to go about speed leveling them.

I can rotate them if possible to maximise rested efficiency... or I can do BCDE then A boost... I just dont know the best ways.

Zenga's post has been the most useful. Paths and zones to stay in and avoid would also be very helpful.

Thanks.

[suicidesspyder]

Yea collection quests do suck but you know what. I still do them why cause i can one shot nething so its not a problem. By the time a solo person kills 1 ive killed 4. So to me im getting more exp faster as it is. Say im rested all the way to 80 atm.

I kille 4 thats 2k-2500 exp just killing they get 800 solo. So per time im making off with over a 1k exp more then them, So its not really a grind to me yea it gets redundent but meh.

Just suck it up grin and bear it and think yea it doesnt seem like much but your making more gold and exp in the long run, Plus at 78 mix in pvp and deff wg at least once a week for the dailies a nice extra 150k exp is nice.

[nauren01]

thanks for the replies - I guess I will try the quest hubbing thing, just bought flying mounts for all...

burning crusade quests have not many optional routes, so I will have to watch TV on the side, but I didn't do any questing in northend yet (only leveled through inis), so that might actually be fun again

and like suggested: I will just take it easy and mix it up a bit - that might actually be the best survivial trick

[blast3r]

Well yea, thats true, i just suck it up and watch a episode of some gay show while grinding :P(i try and skip most of them, but as you said some are in chains and are nice if you get done) it comes down to how much you can/like to grind, if you have a Tank/heal in the team you could go instances but thats just as boring as collection quests.. after 2 clears or so hehe..

You like to watch 'gay shows'? Which 'gay shows'?

[zenga]

You like to watch 'gay shows'? Which 'gay shows'?

This reminds me to a few years ago, when I got myself a digital TV decoder. It comes with all kind of paid services (channels), but the first 4 weeks you get everything for free, as a teaser, like 300 channels. Upon installation you get to scan/initialize all the channels, happens auto but takes ages. After waiting 10 minutes I went upstairs to do some work. Forgot about the decoder and 2 hours later I return downstairs to check. Now it was dark outside, and my curtains where still open, so everyone that walked by had a pretty view into my livingroom and my tv.

It turns out that the scan was finished, and paused at the last channel it discovered: some heavy (at least in my book) gay porn paid channel. So everyone who walked by for about 1,5 hour could enjoy that show. Nothing against gay people, it's just that I have a gf. Then again, I wasn't too worried about ppl that walked by ... if the grandmother of my girlfriend back then wasn't living across the street and has a pretty view into my living room. Got a couple of strange looks the next day from neighbors when I was walking with my gf on the street....

[outdrsyguy1]

that's hilarious zenga :P

[riffraff]

I'm finishing up team 5. 1st team was shamans which let me do 60-68 on each of the other teams using the totem-pet technique on the rhinos.

So 60-68 Rhinos in northrend, seperating into 2 teams (1 team of 2, 1 team of 3)
68-80 Questing.

I don't do any dungeons but Drak Keep sounds like a good idea actually.
I don't like BG's but they work well from what I hear.

The collection quests while questing are brutal, I try to avoid them if possible of course.
68-72 - Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord, avoiding some quest lines.
72-74 - Dragonblight almost all the quests here.
74-76 - Grizzly Hills and part of Zul Drak (OMG Pa'Troll)
76-77 - Sholazar Basin (as soon as you hit 76 .. come here. You will hit 77 before you are done with zone)
77-80 - Storm Peaks / Icecrown.

I want all of my guys in the same phases in Storm Peaks and Icecrown so I do pretty much every quest in these zones to clean them out.

This is probably not the absolute best way to level but so far it's worked for me. 74-76 is the worst stretch IMHO.

[Kalyse]

I'm finishing up team 5. 1st team was shamans which let me do 60-68 on each of the other teams using the totem-pet technique on the rhinos.

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What is the totem pet-technique?

[Ualaa]

Basically you need those who are boosted to be in a group, solo does not work. When I did this, I used two toons being boosted by three toons doing the boosting.

The boosters have to be pet classes or shamans (as totems count as pets).

If pets deal all of your damage, then you take no experience from a group. However, if your pet does 95% of the damage with a solo character doing the damage first, the solo only gets 5% of the experience.

So the process is like this:
a) Group your boosting toons together, slave following leader.
b) Group your boosters together, all following the leader.
c) Round up a lot of rhinos, with the lead booster (AoE class works great).
d) Have the pet classes kill the mobs with their pets only.
e) Receive exp on anything you managed to hit, with the boosting classes.

I had all three shammies drop Magma Totems, with the Stoneclaw (Taunt + Stun) totem on round-robin. So press 1, was Stoneclaw (A) and 3x Magma. And press 2, was Stoneclaw (B) and 3x Magma.

It helps to take your AoE (being boosted) toon to the Auction House, and buy every +Stamina piece you can find.

[riffraff]

Yep.. Ualaa's technique here works very well. The rhino meat was a good bonus as it sells well (not so much now that the expansion is almost here) I have about 400 stacks of rhino meat right now lol.

These toons I used for the initial AoE damage:
Paladin - Concecration
Druid - Hurricane
Hunter - Explosive trap (damage cannot "miss")
Priest - Holy Nova
Mage - Arcane Nova

Also, I would not do very big pulls. The rhinos come in packs of 5 with the odd aggressive grey one. I'd try to get these 5 or 6, then drop the stoneclaw, then use my aoe damage. The idea was to not take so much damage on the toons doing the aoe.