How do you survive the grind from 60-80?

[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.

[nauren01]

I just realized I was trapped in 5box thinking - there are more options for a 10box !

The pet methods becomes 5 boosters + 5 being boosted, not 2+3

this makes me wonder if a low level 10man raid is a good option, e.g. Kara - the 5box 80 team kills, the rest just sits and watches...

that would be good for 10box training on the side as well - ui, I am getting exited now, need to try out quickly

[Kalyse]

What level are you boostees 60-68 right? And the boosters are 80?

[nauren01]

What level are you boostees 60-68 right? And the boosters are 80?

exaclty - it is the team in my sig, will post results tonight

[nauren01]

For the records: I tested the pet method with 4x 80 shamy and 4x65 mixed group.

The shamies burn down the rhinos in two ticks of their totem, you have to be fast to do damage on the lowbies. Just one needs to succeed, but having all try increases the chance a lot. The only limiting factor seems to be how fast you can get to the next rhino group or get respawns.

I ended up with about 50% more xp/h compared to ini boosting with a 80 pala. So yes, much faster, but it still depends on rested xp (without rested xp, questing is faster) and you start dreaming of rhinos at night.

so to summarize: as suggested by many - mixing all methods is more fun and best xp

[Ualaa]

While a 10-box will work wonders, I'm sure, a raid is not the best place as experience is very much reduced in a raid.

[d0z3rr]

I am still working on my second team to get my 10box to 80.

Boosting 1-60 was a breeze, prot pala mania, only limit is 5 inis/hr, /played: 23hr total, really enjoyed it

Then comes 60-65: RAF gone, no more pulls >20 mobs, rested xp becomes really relevant, xp/hr down to 2-3 hrs per level (ramparts, then utgarde).

I even started leveling fishing and cooking to 450 on my main to get distraction - even fishing seems more fun... I might even consider questing, that is how desparate I am now

How do you deal with the 60-80 grind after having brought your first team to 80 ? Some of the seniors here have 4-5 teams, any Über-Tips ?

60-70 is actually very quick, and you make ok gold too. I remember one team I got from 60-70 in exactly one week, all I did was quest, and you can completely skip every collection quest. But 70-80....oy ve.

[Holmeser]

I assume ZooljinX meant to use it in a derogatory way, as in gay meaning crap tv?
Just my thoughts

[kate]

Edit: I couldn't say anything nice, so I'm not saying anything.

[Kalyse]

Thanks nauren01.
So if I was to do it with level 80 Shamans, I would do:

2 Shamans, 3 Boostees
3 Shamans, 2 boostees.

It probably seems better then, just to stick with instances on 5 characters, since the time it takes to do this process twice, would exceed the lower Xp of just instance questing.