When can a 5box hit OUtlands

[schlange]

What is the recommended level to be before hitting outland quests for a 5 box team? Since the outland gear is far better than the gear from Strat and Scholo, I was gonna to skip all the 5m instances and just head to outland as soon as I can.

I am currently grinding away on WPL quests and then will move to EPL quest and follow up with Winterspring quests if I need to. I can spend a level or two in BRD to get some better gear, but then I wanted to hit outlands. Currently the team is at lv 53

[Zutok]

Well, since most of the gear come w/ the quests... and you can't quest there until 58, I'm gonna have to recommend 58 on this one! If not, you'd be stuck "grinding"... good luck w/ that. You're much better off staying in the old world and questing until 58. Once you hit the Outlands, 58 to 60 should be EASILY obtainable in a single day!

[Skuggomann]

no sooner than 58, a good thing to do in some cases is to go there from 58 to 60 and then go back and finish the Quests in Azaroth with wtf inba gear.

[kllrwlf]

Personally, I went to Outlands when I was 60 or 61... don't remember which. I finished up WPL, EPL, Silithis, Winterspring, all of those old places before hitting the Outlands.

I ding 70 when I finished Nagrand.

Finished Blade's Edge and Netherstorm and now have 2500 gold (AND a regular flying mount) on each of my toons from questing. About to head into SMV soon after finishing up some of the Ogri'la quests.

I would suggest this to make some easy gold from quests. If you hit Outlands right when you hit 58, you'll finish up a lot of the quests and have to rely on dailies for most of your gold for the flying epic.

[Vyndree]

If you start hellfire quests at 58, be prepared to instance grind before you can go to Zangarmarsh -- you won't be high enough level for the level prerequisites in the next area.

People will also tell you that Nazan in HFP is a pain in the rear.

Keep that in mind when making your decision. I waited until I was 60 to go to hellfire, and since most of the pre-BC level 58-60 areas are completely deserted, I had no problems finding quests.

[Bigfish]

no sooner than 58, a good thing to do in some cases is to go there from 58 to 60 and then go back and finish the Quests in Azaroth with wtf inba gear.

This, more or less. This is what I did, although I didn't wait until 60, I just hit up enough quests to upgrade most of my slots, and went back to Azeroth to finish out most of the level 60 stuff. One method that is very VERY good for XP is to get your shiny Outland gear, and go back and grind out all the instance quests. They offer about 50% more xp than is typical for a normal quest that level, plus you get to grind on elite mobs and fill out any slots you may have missed in Outland with decent enough blues. Given that you can run scholo, strat, DM E, N, and W, that's a hefty chunk of XP if you do all the quests available. On my group I just hit 60 with, I hit 58 running them through Strat, and then hit 59 on just quest turn ins.

[Evilseed]

I've done it at 56 on 2 5 boxing groups of mine. The key is to go to the expedition armory area and just grind grind grind. The kills are extremely fast, the drops are nice (even boe blues) and the xp is great!

[Lyonheart]

what i plan to do ( and already am doing ) is use my current lvl 70s to buy my 5 box team full greens from outlands for lvl 58+ or lower if i can. That way I will be set until 60-61ish doing old world quests and instances in UBAH green outland gear 8). i think the lowest level outland greens are 58.. might be lower. But the greens at level 58 are equal to some rare/epics in the old world. As far as main stats/armor and HPs. They are just missing bonuses and extra stats like the Tier sets would have.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Old world xp has been bumped up so much that there's no reason to skip the easy ones. I'd pass the collection quests in WPL/EPL/Sillythus/Winterspring/etc. but the quest xp there is very good and boxers simply annihilate stuff in old world.

[Stealthy]

I hit outlands at 58 for the gear upgrades then went back to Azeroth and kept questing until 60.

However - with the increase in dailies from 10 to 25, and the shattered sun dailies which don't require a flying mount, it probably doesn't really matter which way you do it now...



Cheers,
Stealthy