Boosting experiences

[mikekim]

below is a brief schedule of my boosting experience with the new raf, it might be of some help

boosting was done with a lvl 84 mage:
essentially run through instances spamming arcane explosion & arcane barrage. arcane blast and missiles for the bosses. higher level instances pop mirror image to tank

1-11 starter quests

(pickup tabards for factions - running instances will get you exalted with at least 4 of the 6 factions)

11-21 Shadowfang Keep (port to location with have group will travel) - you only need to do 4 runs so dont have to worry about the 1 hour lockout for instances)
21-41 Scarlet Monastery (cath and armory - doing other other two instances when the quests become available - run of both is just over 12min)
41-45 Scholomance
45-48 Stratholme 1 run live and a couple of undead
48-58 Upper and Lower Blackrock spire (3 runs) - takes 40 minutes per run but great xp

58 first couple of quests in HFP (kill the demons, destory the gateways and the 2x bombing runs) which opens up the weaken the Ramparts quest
58-64 ramps and blood furnace - including the omninous letter q, weaken the ramps and blood is thicker q's
64-68 sethekk halls and 2x quests
68-69 shadow labs including 4x quests (this took up pretty much the whole of the level (around 90%)
69-69.5 Ring of blood questline.
69.5-70 sethekk halls (stayed here as it is essentially an easy autopilot boost) - at the time didnt have wotlk, otherwise would have gone to Northrend. (it was only 2 runs anyway.. each kill was still giving around 1400xp)

with raf questing is a joke in Northrend 80% of BT gets you to from 70 to 76, basically pick and choose your fav quests. i decided to quest rather than boost so i had some money on the toons to go towards the 8k flying costs

70-76 Borean tundra questing - (including one run of the Nexus and the 4 quests) - skipping quite a few of the collection q's
76-78 Scholazar Basin (nessingwary's bascamp and freya Questlines)
78-78.5 Ampitheater of Anguish in Zul Drak
78.5-80 Icecrown (argent crusade start bit)

/played time is averaging around the 32-34 hour mark to 80