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Been readin through this thread at work the past few days and trying some of the tips at night, and I must say, thank you for everyone who posted! Id like to share now and ask a question or two.
I have a 70 prot pally (t5/ZA gear) and i had a level 34 warrior id been leveling for fun. I found SM to be incredibly fast, if you stand outside SM for about 5 minutes you can get 2-3 level 30 ppl to join you for cath runs (i did it for free usually, unless ppl offered gold. it boosted my xp so i didnt really care). Using just the prot pally i was able to clear the entire instance in 4-6 minutes every single time, depending on runners.
Some tips for this... try to get about 300+ spell damage unbuffed, you dont need to many defensive stats because if your even close to being able to tank Kara level content u will have 100% dodge/parry/block rate against SM mobs. That being said, if you use Sporegar shield w/ a spike on it you will add alot of extra damage. The other big tip for this i have is be careful of the mage mobs, if there are 2 or more chars withen about 5 yards of them they will cast AE, which will devistate any alt (theres usually 8+ of them doing this, will kill ur alt in seconds).
My alt is almost level 50 now (34-45 in SM took about 3 hours /played), and im running Stratholme with him and my pally. I do two pulls in the place before resetting, prbly about 60 mobs or so (many of which are non elite) but my warrior isnt getting very good xp from it. the xp is much better than it would be questing, but its not even near the amount of XP i was getting in SM (SM gave me about 150,000 xp/hour using /played time). not sure what Strath is exactly but its no where near that for me. I *think* i heard somewhere that if your char is 5 levels or more below the mob level they will get severly nerfed xp from the kill, is this true? If so I guess the XP should pick up when i get to 51 or so?
thnx for any response
PS: I don think this was mentioned before, but the 5 instance lockout is NOT by character, it is by account. Not something huge but just something to keep in mind... i got screwed out of running a heroic because of running my warrior in SM and getting his whole account locked out
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