Fast Powerlevelling (quite possibly the method Athene uses)

[Semtex_Jack]

This method will get you from level 15 to level 70 in no time. However it will be tricky if you are not levelling a paladin, or you do not have some kind of aoe ability. I'm going to divide it into sections by levels.

First things first, for the 1-55 guide, you will need a level 70 class on another account that can dot in some way. Shadow priests and warlocks work best, although i'm sure other classes can do it just as well. If you don't have one yourself, you'll need a friend.

For the 55-70 guide, you need a warlock friend to summon you to outlands, and a prot paladin and mage friend to powerlevel you. If you are not playing a healing class, you may need a healer too. Athene powerlevelled paladins and druids.

so to start:

1-15: Just do your normal starting area quests, it doesn't take that long, you shouldn't need help with this.


15-30: Stockades (If you are a horde character, you're kinda stuffed, although you may be able to replicated it in SFK).

Invite your alt to group, and both you and your boosting warlock/SP enter the instance. The warlock then pulls the first room on left, first room on right, and any in the corridor. The boosted character must then run into one of the rooms the warlock has just pulled. The warlock then dots every mob he pulled, and runs out of the instance before they start dying. The alt then just needs to stay alive until all the mobs die, if one somehow survives you can just run out of the instance, but for every mob that dies, you'll get 500-700 xp unrested.
Basically you repeat this, with the warlock/sp pulling 5-8 mobs to the instance entrance, dotting, then running out. Make sure the alt you're boosting gets in combat, the mobs just need to run past him to get him into combat, so i often stick him in the corridor then run into a room. This works very well when levelling paladins, because if you spec prot, you can normally just bubble, consecrate, and finish off any mobs with a sliver of health left.
It's not a good idea to pull the right corridor, because many mobs stun, and will screw you over. Just pull the first corridor and the left corridor, then go outside, reset instance and repeat.

25-40: Scarlet Monastery Cathedral
Basically it's the same as above, except this time, you will want to KILL any casters before you get to the instance portal. The casters have awful habits of switching targets, which will kill your alt and cause long corpse runs. But again, you just pull 5-8 MELEE mobs to the instance portal, alt runs to a safe spot, then you dot them and run out. Again the alt will get a significant amount of xp each time. Do NOT pull from the cathedral, just reset instance and start afresh. Healing mobs will really screw up this method.

38-50:Zul'Farrak
Same method again, except this time, you'll want to nuke the witch doctors and shadow priests, because they will screw you over. At this point it becomes a lot harder, it's best if you're playing a warlock, so that you can pull the mobs with one cast of siphon life, and that should keep you alive until you reach the instance entrance. This is a lot tricker to pull off, but it's doable with practice. It may better for you if you just boost your character to 50 normally, with only the 2 of you the alt will get good xp.

50-55: Blackrock Depths, Stratholme, or Scholomance.
At this point it will get increasingly harder, but you only need to get to 55 (58 if you're wanting to level in outlands normally). Basically just find an instance where you can pull off the methods above, it varies depending on class and person, but you should have had plenty of practice with it by now. Again, you may find it easier just boosting your character through blackrock depths with a warrior or something, so it's up to you whether you want to continue using the hard method.


55-70: Slave Pens
This is where it gets interesting. You'll need a 70 prot paladin, a 70 aoer (warlock or mage), and a healer (which can be the alt you're boosting). Now, the mobs in slave pens are level 62-64. This means that a level 70 would still see them as green. So this is where the method changes. Your boosting alt needs an aoe ability, i'll assume you're levelling a paladin like athene was.
Take the alt, the mage, and the prot paladin into the instance. The prot paladin should pull 2-3 packs, basically as many as the mage can kill in one minute (this is important). It's important that the paladin and mage don't use any abilities to damage the mobs in any way while pulling them, body pulling is safest.
KICK the alt out of the group, the alt should use their aoe ability (consecration for example) as soon as they are kicked. This will tap all the mobs. The prot paladin must then instantly drop consecration to take aggro from all the mobs, or the alt will be in trouble. The mage then has 1 minute to kill all the mobs before the alt is kicked from the instance. As soon as they're dead, reinvite the alt.
Because the alt is within 8 levels of the mobs, and so are the people assisting, the xp penalty for assisting with the kills will be very small, so the alt will get an insane amount of xp for every pull like this (imagine that you pull 12 elite mobs - the alt would get xp for 6 elite mobs or so).
The better geared the paladin and mage are, the better the xp.

This levelling method isn't easy all in all, but it will level you extremely fast.

[Semtex_Jack]

Btw if you want an indication of how fast this is:

It took me 12 hours(including travel time and some afk while waiting for instance limit to come back up), to get from level 15-40. 15-30 i was getting one level every 10-15 minutes. 30-40 was taking me a bit longer - about a level every 20-30 minutes.


I'm currently using it to level other alts, so i'll have more numbers for the later levels for you, but i can't tell you just yet.

[Messages]

Saw this last week, then it was removed. I tried it yesterday, in RFC as a Horde at level 8. And it works like a charm. 300 EXP each kill, got 7 bars in 1 pull. It's very cool.

+rep.

[pewpewlazerz]

this has been posted many times.

Athene's way is to go tap something and have a friend outside of your group(who is withing the targets level range, meaning that it is green to him) and then you get full xp without doing much.

[Firespy]

Lol, did you read his post?

[Karozza]

this has been posted many times.

Athene's way is to go tap something and have a friend outside of your group(who is withing the targets level range, meaning that it is green to him) and then you get full xp without doing much.

Yes...But only God knows how many ppl you'd need to help u for that (i.e it's not practical for everyone).

The instance method is more practical for a larger number of ppl, as u only need one m8 to help u out till 50-60 (or your own main).

[Semtex_Jack]

The slave pens 55-70 method is the method athene uses, i'm 99% sure of it.

What i know:

Athene enters slave pens and basically doesn't do a single quest in outlands or any other instance until he hits 70.

Athene enters slave pens with a paladin and a mage, with himself as a paladin, healing.

On some screenshots, the 'you will be teleported to xxxx in 60 seconds' message has been visible, which means that removing him from the group is part of his method.

So yeah, read the 55-70 slave pens guide, that is at least 99% surely the method that athene uses for those levels.

[eduuu]

Sorry to interrupt the OP but this is not the way athene lvled.

I have had plenty of conversation with Navarlól ( mage friend of athene ) and I can confirm you that his trick works 100x better and faster. This trick killing mobs while you leave the instance is plain stupid since you can never pull more then 5 mobs each time. about the 55-70 part is plain stupid, athene lvled a druid aswell and druids are not really the class to AoE with. Also, how the hell do you want to AoE 65 elites if you are lvl 55? you will resist all and get one shotted every pull believe me.

If you want detailed instructions on how to powerlvl the way athene did then PM me and tell me what you can give me for it.. I can 100% assure you that this is the trick he used. I will guide you the way of athene did 1-70.

[Semtex_Jack]

He used a prot pallie instead of a shadow priest or warlock.

The prot pallie pulled half of the mobs in the instance, took them down to low health, dropped a consecration then jumped out of the instance, the paladin he was levelling bubbled and dropped their own consecrate finishing off the mobs.

Yeah. I don't know what he used my ass.

Consecrate is one of the only aoe ability spells not to be affected by aoe damage cap, so you can basically pull the whole instance, use lower ranks of consecrate to take the mobs low, then use one big consecrate before jumping out of instance, with the idea being that itll kill the mobs before the 6 seconds of the lower level paladins bubble/BOP is over.

[Firespy]

And how did he level the druid then?

[eduuu]

wont work with a druidd.....

[eduuu]

:wave::wave::wave:

[xsx]

just curios how can you outland whit the 58 limit cap .... or maybe you can teleport directly to .. shatt but there isnt a instance level cap that you can enter?

[Semtex_Jack]

You get a warlock to summon you in.

And Slave Pens, Hellfire ramparts etc. have min level entry requirement of 55.

[Nekris]

Just The Dark Portal is locked for levels lower than 58. And You wont get quests with a lower lvl. Instances have their own lvl requirements