Quote Originally Posted by Wizeowel View Post
Believe me, skip the quests, only do Defias Brotherhood for the blue reward and People's Militia for the tank mace and the wands.

For nostalgia reasons I did all the quests in westfall with a 5 toon group. That's 40 gnoll paws, 40 sacks of oats, 40 goretusk livers and 15 snouts, 15 stringy vulture meat, 15 murloc eyes, 15 okra, 25 flasks of oil, 25 hops, and 75 bandanas. It will drive you to your wits end when one toon picked up 7 okra and you didn't notice for ages because EMA shows 'done' and you are wondering why the other toon is still on 1/3.

At the end I was only level 15 so I'm not convinced it was so great for the XP. It was great for cooking however, and if you like 4-slot bags.
Grinding is typically better than questing for a 5 box in my experience, unless the quests directly align with what you're grinding.

The issue with quests is, you end up with A LOT of down time, even when you're in a spawn killing for the quest. If you just find a spawn that can support your 5 box kill speed, it's going to be faster than questing in almost all circumstances. I did what you did, I leveled to 18 via questing with my 4 warriors/priest group, and it was absolutely awful. Doing collection quests that took 2 hours, because I needed 100-120 drops for 5 characters, and the spawn wasn't able to keep up, both due to my rate of killing, and quest competition.

I remember doing the gold dust quest I think in Elwynn forest the first night, and it legitimately took me 2 hours to complete it. Had I just gone to a spawn where I could have grinded mobs without let up, I would have leveled in 30-45 minutes, but instead I dicked around in a mine for 2 hours and gained like 2 bubbles of xp lol.