Cataclysm multiboxing 80-85?

[Mercbeast]

How are people planning to level? I've got about 6-7 hours tonight I can play then I have to shut it down until Thursday night/friday due to exams.

I'm thinking I might do quest chains just to get my guys geared up then switch to instances.

[Ualaa]

Have mailed everything I want to list for the first seven days, to my AH toon.
Setting up Auction Pro Master, with all the items.

Not sure that I'll bother now, but was planning on have all the Icecrown Dailies done, and ready to turn in.
That's supposed to be a third of 80th, at least in beta.

I'll be bound in Stormwind, either starting there or hearthing after quest turn ins.
Purchase the new food/water.
Take the bread crumb quest for Hyjal, quests are supposed to be more densely packed.

Thinking quests... because the gear is supposed to be a huge jump up... similar to that of Classic >> Burning Crusade.
And that should be a huge advantage compared to not doing that, for instances or pvp leveling.
Chances are I'll pvp, a good chunk of the weekend.. for whatever BG is the honor weekend bonus.
Might try for herb nodes, as that is supposed to be exp's too, and I have 29 alchemists to level.

[Toned]

i played from like 12:30 - 4am PST and was able to get 81 and like 4 bubs in. I also dc'd twice and my LFD instances reset so I missed out on 100k exp there. I was also experimenting with skipping bosses to just complete LFD for the 50k exp bonus. The down side is Raz no longer helps you and you have to clear the elites on your own. This method ended up slowing me down (only did 1 run this way).

The fastest way to lvl in BRC is to clear all the trash around the bosses and then pull the boss. Soon as that boss dies just run don't loot it. "Tag" all the mobs that Raz fights first and you will get full exp. After Raz despawns go loot the boss and continue on. There were people from the top guilds on my server doing instance grinding together who were 82 about to hit 83 when I went to bed, so they were just grinding their ass off.

A couple guildies were questing at the sametime that I was online. Their exp gains seemed to be similar to what I was getting 5 boxing in LFD dungeons while they were solo questing. I think if the mob competition is relatively low and you know the quests then questing on a single toon will be faster, but I still believe dungeons to be the best way for multi-boxing. I'd suggest @82 to go to deepholm and quest so you have better gear. Otherwise you're going to start struggling if you're still in T10 in the lvl 82-83 dungeons.

[Toned]

That is debatable.

The mini-map has an arrow for the currently selected quest.
Once you get into a rough area, that arrow disappears, leaving you wandering in a 200² yard area.
The zone map, will actually take you to a more precise location than the mini-map.

From a one quest at a time perspective, a guide is not worth the price.

But if you've ever played with one, you'll know they have you take quests in one area.
Move to another area and kill one thing.
Move to another area and take more quests.
Move to another area and kill things for two quests, loot things for one quest.
Move to another area, turn in one quest and take the follow up.
Move again and do three quests.
Go back and turn in the first set.

Which means, unlike blindly taking a quest here and another there.
You only kill/loot mobs in a given area the minimal number of times, with the most quest stacking for efficiency possible.

Whether that is worth $30 or not, is also debatable.

The quest flow and quest layout is more streamlined this time around, so you can basically just take the quests and follow them they built in a natural flow.

[Tyval]

I tried to do some quests last night but as expected it was a bit dense, I basically turned in my dailies I had saved up and then went on to Hyjal. It was kind of nuts there, did the first few quests, but just didn't have the energy to fight the masses so went to bed (had to work early AM so probably for the best)

I'll log in today and if it is playable I'll do some more quests, if too packed I'll just go the dungeon route.

Wonder if the water area is less crowded...

T

[pinotnoir]

Anyone know a good resource for learning how to do the new 5 man boss fights? I really don't want to mess with the mass of people in the starting areas.

[crowdx]

I have been doing some leveling this morning and although I am in no big hurry, it does feel quite slow. Quests are giving 27k XP with no heirloom bonus, I am only about one third of the way into 81 at present
This is on a full team, so I would expect single to be much faster, I saw a single player ding 81 at the last quest hand in I did so that might be a good indicator if you are soloing.

[Toned]

Anyone know a good resource for learning how to do the new 5 man boss fights? I really don't want to mess with the mass of people in the starting areas.

Fight them figure out what you did wrong and kill them.

The bosses in BRC are ridiculously easy I was rather disappointed in the difficulty being too low in this instance. It's a good first instance though they added a lot of new fight mechanics.

I haven't tried the 2nd one yet I'll do that tonight when I get home. Over in the PVE Tactics and Discussions I believe some one already started threads on the new bosses.

[Tonuss]

How are people planning to level? I've got about 6-7 hours tonight I can play then I have to shut it down until Thursday night/friday due to exams.

Since I'm on an EST server, Cata would go live at 3am local time, so I just went to bed and woke up about an hour earlier than normal and was able to play for ~90 minutes before leaving for work. My rogue had 25 northrend quests queued up for turn-in, the real gain from that was that I had done a bit over 800k guild experience by the time I was done. Edit: I don't mean when I was done with the 25 northrend quests, but when I was done for the morning, which included a number of Cata quests as well.

Even at 5am server time the new zones were pretty busy, but I was able to do some of the starter quests within a reasonable time. I figure that for the first few days the crowds at prime time will make things pretty laggy, so I'll probably keep doing northrend quests. Mob exp is cut down to almost nothing, but quest reward exp is not, and I think that provides two benefits right now:

- Nearly all of my experience gains also go to guild leveling.
- I will use up almost no rested exp while doing this.

Within a couple of days the rogue will be 81, have a fair amount of rested exp, and should be able to quest without so much crowding in the new zones. I plan to level my shaman as resto with my friends whenever they log in to quest. If things are still busy in the new zones after a couple of days, I'll probably just level one of my teams, or get my fifth hunter the last level and a half that she needs for 80. Still not sure how I'll proceed exactly, and I do want to spend time just flying around Azeroth and seeing everything from the air. Lots to do, and plenty of time to do it in.

[Sanderu]

I started level my team at the EU launch. So far I've only been doing quests and played for about 17-18 hours done the underwater zone (can't spell) and am currently in Deepholm just dinged 83 on the team. The questing is not bad at all. Most quests have good respawn rates (although there are a few exceptions) and even though I'm on a PvP realm I haven't had much trouble with the other faction at all. There seems to be enough room for everyone to level.

I am not much of a fan of dungeon leveling hence why I picked the quest approach. Level 80 to 81 went a bit slower than I expected but 81-82 was very fast. 82-83 is a long run but very doable with the quests in Deepholm.