How do you survive the grind from 60-80?

[kate]

What about doing the whole "camp out by Freya in Sholazar and slaughter the instantly respawning undead" option? I'm sure that there's a way to turn that to an advantage for boxers, and it also makes it easy because there'd be no real competition, since those things come back immediately.

[Kalyse]

Are they summoned? You no longer get XP from summoned mobs any more. I don't know who Freya is... so I may be wrong that they are summoned.

[zenga]

if that is the quest where you have to go up on the mountain in some sort of vehicle/giant ... those mobs don't yield xp if you kill them the normal way

[Buetzel]

i think kate meant the mobs around freya a little southwest to the avalanche with the giant-riding-quest.
directly around freya a lot of undeads spawn. but I'm at a loss if those yield xp....
afair those mobs are not summoned (at least there is no npc summoning them) - they just crawl out of the ground real fast to attack freya.... if that worked it would be the perfect continuation of valgarde keep (for alliance)... hm. gotta try that when my third team hits that level range...

[kate]

Yes, the ones right by Freya. I know they yield xp because I sat there for 2 hours with my DK grinding my last level on them.

[Ualaa]

When I did the Rhino slaying, I used a Mage/Druid and 3x Shamans. The Mage would run around and Arcane Explosion for quite a while, I think one of the shammies did Earth Shield on the mage too.

Then have the totems slaughter a lot of the rhinos at once.

Was not much of an issue in having the lowbies need to hit mobs quickly, as the killing totems were not dropped until I had gathered a bunch of the mobs up.

Incidentally, it was the quickest I've ever burnt through full rested with toons, 1.5 levels of rested in just under 20 minutes. I initially gathered a lot of the rhino meat, and had my auction toon (via Quick Auctions) keep 5 stacks of meat (whatever number the cooking daily requires) up at all times. I sold the meat for 1g each, and it took several months to sell it all.

[nauren01]

Final report

Here are my rates, all at least after 1h played (don't get fooled by the xp spikes....) and without rested xp:

# Method _____________Team ________________xp/hr @ 68 _____Gold________Feeling__________________________ _____________
1) Rhino Mania_________4 Shamy 4 Bostees______250.000 xp/hr___ low_________Rhino nightmares, need therapy, all the little calves...
2) Utgard ini boosting: ___1 pala 4 Boostes________200.000 xp/hr___medium _____Utgard phobia, see doctor soon
3) Questing: ___________4 Bostees_____________180.000 xp/hr___good________ok, at least a change from time to time
4) Raiding Kara: ________10box with 5 Boostees____59.000 xp/hr___great________exiting, this is WoW at its best

Seems well balanced againt the criteria, I guess that is how the blues intended it.

PS: Kara was like therapy - highly recommended if your past exposure was PuGs back in the BC times...

Edit: need to learn html.... spacing is for pros