So slow at leveling with 5 of them!

[Gallo]

My first 4-box setup took me like 19 days /played to hit 70, and I didn't pussy-foot around. I just didn't know then what I know now. Use the available leveling guides, like Jame's or Joana's to increase your efficiency. Also, skip any collection quest that doesn't lead to a dungeon quest or a great piece of loot that fills a gap/need for the next several levels.

I'm at about 6 days exactly on my 5 shamans at lvl 61.75 My friends mage helped me through 20-42 though.

[Oswyn]

With regards to played time it's so far 3 days 22 hours but a good while seems to be spent selling stuff to vendors (I kid you not takes ages to empty the bags)[/font][/color][/size]

If you dont' have one already, create a mule or vendor trash toon so you can dump all your stuff via mail. That way you can just take care of the vendor trash or AH the stuff a few times a week or whenever you get done with your leveling session. I find that this helps keep you in the groove better.

[Tdog]

Well this is what I did...

1-19 questing in draenei area

Dropped one of the shamans and started pwr boosting on my Draenei paladin.

19-25 stockades

25-40 SM armory & Cath

40-50 ZF...

Now I'm boosting my 5th shaman with my human paladin

currently in SM at lvl 38 with my 5th.


Fortunately for my multiboxing purposes I have 2 paladins on 2 different accounts My 4x 50 shamans are at roughly 24 hours played. My 38 is at 13hrs rougly. This is my first team and includes time spent figuring out macros, testing them and such. I might also mention that the 5th shaman is going much quicker than the first 4, of course that's largely due to to fact that I already know exactly how to pull the zones now as I just did quite a bit of trail and error.

In hind sight I think this my of been a bit better for a boosting schedule...

1) 1-15 questing
2) 15-20 Dead mines boosting
3) 20-25 stocks
4) 25-42 SM arm & cath
5) 42-48ish ZF
6) 48-53 ST
7) 53-58 Strat (strat may be a bit slower depending on your gear but it is a gold mine for a disenchanter and orbs)

Around the time you hit ZF I'd probalby start using your alts to help dps if you haven't figured out the macro set-ups already.

My 2c

[Kaynin]

1) 1-15 questing
2) 15-20 Dead mines boosting
3) 20-25 stocks
4) 25-42 SM arm & cath
5) 42-48ish ZF
6) 48-53 ST
7) 53-58 Strat (strat may be a bit slower depending on your gear but it is a gold mine for a disenchanter and orbs)

Interesting, but I would do it slightly different.


Note: This is for Horde side mainly.

I would do this if you 5-box without boosting! Most instances underwent some level nerfs, but the following list will all be doable at the levels with a 5 box.)

1) 1-12 questing
2) 12-16 RFC
2) 16-22 Wailing Caverns Dead mines (18-22 Shadowfang Keep)

3) 22-24 Quest or BFD. Personally I hate BFD so I skipped that. Exp in BFD isn't that great either really. And lower instances won't give much experience anymore by now.
4) 24-29 RFK, Then again, I like RFK. It's easy, doesn't bore as much as most instances and good experience.
5) 29-32 SM Graveyard
6) 32-35 SM Library
7) 35-38 SM Armory + RFD
8) 38-42 SM Cath

If you have a level 70, you can do 3-8 in SM cath by boosting, even for a 5 box boosting 3 chars first, then 2, it's worth it. SM cath will give massive exp when boosting very fast. I, as enhancement shaman, took 6 hours played time to go from 31-40. And that's without AoE! Do that twice, 12 hours, won't beat doing instances as a full 5-box.

9) 42-46 ZF
10) 46-48 Hinterlands quests. (They're lovely.)
11) 48-50 Maraudon/ST I like the setting of Maraudon and find ST very boring, though you would get more exp in ST per hour. Preference though.
12) 50-56 BRD First the prison area and spiral upto arena, and take it a step further as you level and can handle more. Last few levels, farm Bael'gar on the left side. Also quite some quests for good experience.
13) 57-58 LBRS. Really, this instance is pretty awesome for experience, not many patrols and easy pulls. Ideally, clear the way to the ogre. Then do the troll part and then the firebrand legion part. Upto the spiders. Zone out, rinse and repeat. After Spiders the exp per hour won't be that great anymore, and the spiders, even though only a few pulls, are annoying anyways.
14) 58-60 Outlands quests
15) 60+ Outland instances or questing, whatever.

[balrog78]

Questing is still better then doing instance grinding, esp. with level > 30 . Since 2.3 the relationship between quests available and exp points needed is much better. I am level 49 now and making > 40k exp / h since level 47. I also do instances of course but only if I got the quests for those. www.wow-pro.com (Jame's guides) helped me a lot to find all the good quests, just skipped the collection quests and added instances.

[Kaynin]

Questing is still better then doing instance grinding, esp. with level > 30 . Since 2.3 the relationship between quests available and exp points needed is much better. I am level 49 now and making > 40k exp / h since level 47. I also do instances of course but only if I got the quests for those. www.wow-pro.com (Jame's guides) helped me a lot to find all the good quests, just skipped the collection quests and added instances.

I found certain zones worth it, while other zones simply weren't. And it's about 60k per hour in instances with a 5 box without boosting, as long as you can get the will to keep going without clacking that is. But there is usually the problem, grinding can be demoralizing.

For horde for example, Hinterlands is a fun easy level, not too many annoying quests for groups etc.

What I did is, grind instances, do some questing when I am demoralized, grind instances again. That way I could skip all annoying quests.

[balrog78]

You do 60k exp / h in Zul Farrak , Maraudon and Sunken Temple? Without rested bonus? How?

[Kaynin]

One full ZF run is about 80-90k exp. It's easily clearable in 1,5 hour. Open all graves, stuff like that, kill all beetles. Just keep killing and kill all trash. Don't skip trash.

[balrog78]

I finished ZF in 2 hours, was < 30k exp. You always have an exp points / h Addon running? What is your group composition? I am currently at level 49 and if I can boost my exp output by 50% I really liked to know
We (me playing 3, my brother playing 2 toons) got a prot pala, holy priest, 2 frost mages and and an elemental shaman.

thanks!

[Kaynin]

Well, I leveled 75%ish in one ZF run at 42-45 And took 2 hours played time per level. That's all the reference I got. Manually typing in /played before dinging and checking how much my exp increased per run. xP

I just kill all mobs, all bugs, sidetrack too and there's like mountains with x mobs, pull a few together at the same time, etc.

Always have the 'tank' go ahead and pull loose mobs to as much you can handle and keep the DPS at a fixed spot as you bring mobs to them. And move further step by step area for area. Definatly openeing up all graves is good for exp too though. People tend to skip that, but there's like, LOADS of mobs in a very small area, you just have to clikc the darn graves. XD That part exp/hour is probably highest.