Cata is boring so far...

[Negativ1337]

Once you accept the fact that you have to do all the quests, it's not too bad. It only took me like 2 days to get my mage team from 80 - 85.

True story. What i did with my chars and teams is:
80->82 in Hyjal. Once you did all the quest there you have 1/4 exp of level 83.
Skip Vasj'Jir water zone (i hate it)
82-83.75% Deepholme
83.75%->84 Uldum (quests suck here, just do the easy ones untill you get level 84.
84-85 Go to Highland 84-85 zone as soon as you level up and do all the quests here. Most collection quests here drop for the whole party, and you have a nice deck of level 84 greens/blues once you get 85. I also found an epic robe that sold for 8.5k here last time i leveled my 4 dk's.

[Kicksome]

True story. What i did with my chars and teams is:
80->82 in Hyjal. Once you did all the quest there you have 1/4 exp of level 83.
Skip Vasj'Jir water zone (i hate it)
82-83.75% Deepholme
83.75%->84 Uldum (quests suck here, just do the easy ones untill you get level 84.
84-85 Go to Highland 84-85 zone as soon as you level up and do all the quests here. Most collection quests here drop for the whole party, and you have a nice deck of level 84 greens/blues once you get 85. I also found an epic robe that sold for 8.5k here last time i leveled my 4 dk's.

I actually skipped Vasj'Jir too - on all 3 of the groups I leveled up. Although I did go back and get the seahorse at level 85.

[Ualaa]

My druids, with instant Aquatic Form, did Vashj'ir.
The story is good, and it wasn't a pain for them.

My mixed team, for heroics...
Did not like Vashj'ir, and left it less than a third done for Hyjal.
Of course they've not started Hyjal, as the DK's leveled second.

[Daeri]

It's true that Vah'jir quests are more interesting but I found myself so uncomfortable with that aquatic environment that I quickly moved to Hyjal

About phasing, it can really be annoying at times, I've even seen quests were each toon was in her/his own phase, for example killing the same elite mob at the same time. Sometimes only one of them would get the credit in the end so I had to repeat the quest again. This mostly happened in Uldum and twilight highland. What encouraged me to continue questing even after I reached max level were these appealing reputation and blue quests rewards.

[Emo?]

Dunno about Twilight highlands, its good xp and all, but those collectorquests made me whant to kill my self when i was leveling my shamans :P

Also a question, atm im leveling my Dk team and will be gone for a week when i hit 81-82 so when i get home i will have pritty much full rested to 85. What approace should i take to leveling then? Just keep normal questing or is instances / grindspot better?

Thoughts?

[Ualaa]

I had no rested at all.
And was 80th.

Did Vashj'ir with the Druids.
Ended up 81.92, so almost 82nd.
That was a single session of play, no stopping.

If you have any amount of rested...
Either of Hyjal/Vashj'ir will get you to 82nd.
Deepholme will get you to 83rd, unless you do the other 80-82 zone.
Uldum will get you to 84th (or almost 85th, if you did both 80-82 zones).
Twilight will ding you to 85th at some point.

If you have any PvP aspirations...
Consider capping your honor, I believe that's 5,000 honor.
Before 85th.
That will get you a few pieces of the PvP gear.
Being 5x 83's or 84's, will let you dominate the bracket.
A fresh set of 85's, is more than decent because of having five.
But leveling in the PvP is a break and change of pace; and leaves you more quests to do a max level for gold too.

[Emo?]

Yeh gues so, does my rested XP effect the XP gain i get inside Bgs? And its 4000 honor thats the cap afaik.

[Shania]

I didnt mind levelling in cata on my main Hunter, but I dont box that toon, its a pure raid toon, we got to 9/12 fast and booted out a troublesomeo druid we took into our guild, and his mates left with him which was a good thing but being on a smaller pop realm, recruiting any form of skilled raiders isnt easy so only part time raiding and pisses me off to no end, as I refuse to leave my lvl 11 guild my fiance and I working hard on atm. so wish blzz would allow us to transfer our guilds with the perks etc.

Agree i loathe gathering quests as boxing my 5 team through cata, its a pain, and you cannot skip most quests and need to do alot of damn deepholm too get the enchants /sigh

dungeon spamming has helped to get away from some questing.
I skipped water zone, cannot stand it.

My team is nearly lvl 83 actually priest is 83, 4 mages are 81 and 82, the lvl varies because alot of the time I am using 3 mages and a priest in a dingeon and 1 misses out lol.

Still have some RAF left and slowly deciding on the 2nd team but its not something i am to keen on to go through outlands, northrend again and then cata.

But burning raf too make x amount of toons is the plan as they can slowly level there after and I would deeply regret it later on if I didnt use RAF 1-60 advantage.


Cata is more interesting to me then wotlk ever was...

I BGed alot through 71-80, was awesome with 4 arc mages at lvl 77 with full cata greens... loads hps, mass dmg x 4 was GG so easily in WSG only just hit 80 the other day.

Definitely worth keep cata greens 77-79 if u plan too lvl in a BG weekend on a new team too plan ahead, or sell them, on my realm they go for 160-260g each lol

[Nolife]

Vashj'ir is NOT THAT BAD!

It takes few minutes to adapt to water world, but after that it really isn't that bad. If your tank doesn't have revered @ Earthen Ring, you really should consider doing the quests.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Vashj'ir is NOT THAT BAD!

It takes few minutes to adapt to water world, but after that it really isn't that bad. If your tank doesn't have revered @ Earthen Ring, you really should consider doing the quests.

It's personal preference. I didn't find it too terrible the first trip through but I'll be damned if I ever go back.