Level 70-80 Instance Boosting

[daanji]

Hello all! I've recently decided I want to boost a lot of new teams to at least level 75 and a few to level 85. Here are my main goals in order of priority

1. Level 85 of each Class.

Currently I have a Level 85 Prot Pally with x4 Level 85 Elemental Shamans. I also have another Level 80 shaman, druid, and death knight. I would like to boost the classes I'm missing to level 85.

2. Death Knight Team

I've been craving a melee team and I've decided on DKs. I'd have to create x4 new DKs and boost them to 85.

3. Paladin Team

I would also love a paladin team, but this is low priority

4. Level 75s for Transmutes

Finally, I'd like to boost a bunch of toons to Level 75 so I can level alchemy to do transmutes each day. Currently I have 5x alchemists and that is giving me a good income already. More couldn't hurt

So clearly this is going to involve a lot of work and time. I am looking for advice from all the boosting pros out there.

Currently, I am boosting a Level 70 priest, mage, warlock, and hunter with my level 85 Prot Paladin. I"ve been running Utgarde Keep back to back. Here are some statistics

• XP Required for 70-71: 1,219,000

• XP per run: 107,991

• Time to Complete: 20 minutes

• Total Runs Required: 11

• Total Time Required to Level: 3.6 hours

Does this seem reasonable? Seems a little slow to me. Is there a faster or better way for the 70-80 grind? Should I be questing instead? Or instead of boosting, should I get a tank that is Level 70 and run the instances normally?

Also, here are some facts about my team

• Each toon has shoulder and chest heirlooms, yielding a 20% boost in XP

• My guild is Level 5 has the fast track perk for an additional 5%. If I hit guild Level 6, I would get Fast Track Rank 2 for another 5% boost.

• Total XP Boost: 25%, not rested

[sp0000n]

I have never boosted but I do better than 3.6 hours on most levels wtih my team. Might as well quest and end up with a full team of 85's for the same time required. The gold is way better for far less repetition.

*edit* Oh yeah... for having a 20% XP bonus, I would say that you most certainly are not achieving optimal levelling time.

[daanji]

I have never boosted but I do better than 3.6 hours on most levels wtih my team. Might as well quest and end up with a full team of 85's for the same time required. The gold is way better for far less repetition.

*edit* Oh yeah... for having a 20% XP bonus, I would say that you most certainly are not achieving optimal levelling time.

Yeah, my plan is to boost to Level 80 then quest to Level 85 with a mix of dungeons. Since I have a few Level 80s, I'll drop my Level 85 paladin and pick an 80 replacement.


So how fast can you do the 70-80 grind via questing? How many hours per level on average?

[Shodokan]

Kill converted heroes... you can fly in the air and kill them. Instances are better though for multiple toons. UK is terrible though as far as speed/kill/exp ratio you can solo stuff like gundrak as well on prot pally.

[daanji]

Kill converted heroes... you can fly in the air and kill them. Instances are better though for multiple toons. UK is terrible though as far as speed/kill/exp ratio you can solo stuff like gundrak as well on prot pally.

Thanks for the tip. I moved my guys over here to check it out. This is what I found

• Setup: Prot Pally + 4 Level 70s, mage, priest, hunter, and warlock. All dpsed the mobs together

• Time Spent: 30 minutes

• Each mob were in groups of 7-9 with 12.6K health giving about 400 XP or 3200 XP total

• Plenty packs roam about and easy to kill. Never ran out of mobs. Did not bother looting.

• Total XP Gained in 30 minutes: 120K

So not bad, a bit slower than instance grinding. I'm going to try Drak'Theron Keep and Gundruk next.

[ebony]

AV weekend is the way to level fast!