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Two Man Instance Farming - Viable XP Gains?
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Capnboomkin
My friend and I are levelling together; he's a prot warrior and I'm a holy paladin. After a BRD run, we needed ~2k xp to ding, so we decided to kill a couple mobs to level. The xp gains were amazing (1k xp for 2 mobs), but we had to pull small, and it took a little bit to kill. Would farming instance trash be viable for xp gains?
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Capnboomkin
The only problem I'm finding is trying to find enough regular mobs to pull! Even with my friend spamming demo shout to pull long distances, the mobs are just too spread out. We manage to pull both instance trash and bosses; it's just really easy with BoA items, and the fact that he does ~225 dps, and I do ~175. Regular mobs are giving us 150-200 xp for a kill. These elites are giving 640-670 a kill, and a lot more drops.
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Mates1500
Grizzly hills you have the troll cave up north east of the zone with insane respawns (nihm, the world first 80 levelled there by grinding):P
Well,that's true,sad that they don't give experience already from patch 3.0.8 or so
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Maulee
My girlfriend and I did this last year. (Prot Pally/Feral Druid)
It becomes more viable the more you do it, but we did classic dungeons/bosses and kept our gear enchanted. We did HFR, BF, and SP but stalled on Underbog because of the nature damage. I imagine it gets progressively harder after that but you might be able to get away with farming trash.
To that, I don't see much of a point now with LFD since questing is probably just as fast or faster and you wont get much in the way of upgrades by doing this.
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ShamrockJimmy
When my brother first started playing his computer sucked, and the only place he could get more than 5 fps was in instances so we did it as a disc priest and a warlock and we leveled very quickly.
Post by
Maulee
It's certainly viable, but you'll probably have better luck pairing a prot spec tank with a DPS-spec healer. I did most of the old world and some of the BC instances 2-man with my enhancement shaman healing a ret paladin. BRD was one of the few instances where he had to switch to prot because I simply couldn't keep him alive.
The problem you run into is insufficient DPS. If you go straight heal spec + straight prot spec it will take you forever to kill anything. A better combination, like I said, would be to go with a DPS spec tank and a DPS spec healer, and if the going gets tough have one switch to full heal or tank spec.
Even so I think this is more a way to have some fun than a viable alternative to normal instance or quest leveling. The experience gains are decent, but there's no way it can compete with standard leveling. You just can't clear quickly enough to make it worthwhile in that sense.
Good advice I think. We did this more for the sense of adventure and the gear than the xp gains. It was fun but not particularly fast in our case because we also did quest chains which took a lot of time.
Post by
Erethzium
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=80021#p855919
That's a list of AoE grind locations for Prot Paladin, you should be able to use them for Prot warrior, too. It's mostly just areas with lots of melee-only mobs.
Post by
Skadja
I found that soloing Nexus was a decently fast way for me to level my DK -- and one of my preferred for a few reasons. Partly that it's a PvP server and I'd prefer it not be, and partly that I always preferred to find ways to challenge myself on my DK.
I started small, killing only the large dragonkin mobs (and the nearest tree mob, pulling him while the keepers/tender were far enough away not to pull with him). These mobs, the first time I did them,
with heirlooms
...were worth 66,000 exp, for each dragonkin -- I
think
I was level 72 but I am not certain. That was several quests worth of experience! Kill all 5 of them, reset, repeat. It was faster than doing an equivalent number of quests, despite deaths.
As I leveled, these kills/runs got faster, and I started going further. I would take time out to go do quests, too, during low pop hours -- get upgrades and do something other than grind. At level 78 I had killed all 3 of Telestra, Ormorok, and Anomalus, who gave about 66,000 experience - though by that time nothing else in the instance did. At that point I wasn't doing it to level, anyway.
However, I had done this through Outland, too -- spending time attempting to solo Ramps. Every time I leveled I'd go in and see how far I got. My goal was finishing off Nazan while he was still worth experience -- and I did, before his disease immunity was removed. But the experience gains vs questing did not really compare to the gains I was receiving in Nexus vs Northrend quest experience.
I absolutely think that grinding things out in dungeons can be viable for some classes -- heck I'm playing around with it with my baby pally, soloing Stocks. But to be a
leveling strategy
it really needs to be at a point where the exp gains are actually potentially a replacement for quest gains, given the same amount of time spent (and the exp for the mobs you kill to complete said quests). And it's very important to go out and make sure you're still getting upgrades.
Still, with a friend along, it's probably going to be a ton of fun for you, and despite the reduced gains, ultimately faster than soloing.
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