Change of Pace Leveling 77-80 Icecrown (~600,000XP/hour)

[Captain Bad]

EDIT: IMPORTANT NOTE... Once you have turned in this quest, you can NO LONGER do it. Ever. Do NOT turn in the quest if you wish to use this method of leveling.
Edit: Woops. My mistake. This is a daily repeatable quest so... go crazy. You can turn in the quest and it will be available to you again the next day.

I hope this isn't a repost since I haven't contributed anything in a while, but here it goes.

This method of grinding can net you roughly 600,000XP/hour. This isn't the best method in the world, but it's fast, changes the pace of boring instance grinding/quest grinding and I personally like aerial vehicular combat.

Pros:
Faster than average XP gain. (For me anyway)
Absolute minimal downtime. (talking 3-4 seconds here)
Available to both Horde and Alliance.

Cons:
It's a grind.
You gain no loot. (Without taking a hit to your XP/hour ratio)
Requires Level 77 and a completion of a question chain.

The Quest Itself and what you need:
No Fly Zone - Quest - World of Warcraft
This quest provides you with an item called "Bone Gryphon"
It's a very fast mount and has a sprint type ability that makes you even faster.
Heirloom items. I would have not been able to net this XP gain without the two bonus XP heirloom items. Without them I would only be netting 480,000 xp an hour. Still decent but not as good.

The Trick:
A lot of vehicles don't yield XP to the player when they get a kill using it. The thing about this vehicle is it both yields XP and a lootable NPC body. This item that provides you with a Bone Gryphon flying mount can kill ONE mob and ONE mob only called the Onslaught Gryphon Rider which is located here: Onslaught Gryphon Rider - NPC - World of Warcraft

Basically, this mount gives you the capability of absolutely obliterating the mobs. This is especially handy if you're a melee class without a self heal.

The Method:
Not very difficult here. Just run around with your bone gryphon shooting down every single gryphon rider you see. There are SO many of them that it is absolutely impossible to run out and if you end up in a place that doesn't have any left, just use the vehicle mounts sprint ability and you can be in a populated area with tons of mob in seconds.

Now the problem is, you can't loot the corpses. Well you can, but if you want to max your XP at 600,000/hour you'll have to skip looting corpses. On top of that they're a pain to loot since many times they'll fall into the water or ontop of mobs that you cannot kill with your vehicle mount.

I hope this helps a few levelers out there. I know it's not the most awesome method in the world, but it's faster than what I know a lot of players are used to in terms of XP/hour wise.

An Extra Hint:
If someone out there, I know there is, is capable of creating a little autoit or macro or something that pushes the number "1" automatically for you repeatedly, it will definitely cut down on the button mashing. All you'd have to do is fly around and point your gryphon in the right direction while the macro autospams its main attack.

[Sneakylemons]

This method of grinding can net you roughly 100,000XP/hour.

The title says 600,000 ex peas, im lost..

[Captain Bad]

Haha, woops I'm sorry. I grind in 10 minute intervals and that's how I timed myself. 6*100,000XP/hour = 600,000. My mistake, I'll fix that.

[olsson818]

nad this is Live at 3.3.5 ? right?

[5m0k3e]

This works, doing it now, not sure how much exp/hour but it seems to be going fast and its a nice change from questing

[Pain21]

SHADOW VAULT Quest Tree From Whiterock

1)It's All Fun and Games{H}
1)I Have an Idea, But First...
1)Free Your Mind
1)If He Cannot Be Turned{H}
|->Blackwatch*
|
Orgrim's Hammer(H)* 1)The Shadow Vault{H} The Skybreaker(A)*
| / | \ |
Opportunity(H)* | Exploiting an Opening(A)*
1)The Duke
| |
2)Eliminate the Competition 2)Honor Challenge---->2)Get the Key
3)The Bone Witch 2)Shadow Vault Decree 2)Let the Baron Know
|->3)Reading the Bones |____________________/
| R)Reading the Bones |->3)Vandalizing Jotunheim
| |->D)Leave Our Mark
|->4)Deep in the Bowels of The Underhalls |->3)Crush Dem Vrykuls!
| | D)Vile Like Fire!
|->4)Revenge for the Vargul |
| N)Vaelen Has Returned
4)The Sum is Greater than the Parts 3)Ebon Blade Prisoners
| |->D)Shoot 'Em Up
3)The Art of Being a Water Terror |
| N)To the Rise with all Due Haste!
3)Through the Eye 6)The Story Thus Far...
| |->D)From Their Corpses, Rise!
3)Find the Ancient Hero |->7)Blood in the Water
| | 7)You'll Need a Gryphon
3)Not-So-Honorable Combat | D)No Fly Zone
| |->D)Intelligence Gathering
3)Banshee's Revenge +7)The Grand (Admiral's) Plan
| 7)In Strict Confidence
5)Battle at Valhalas 7)Second Chances
5)Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes 7)The Admiral Revealed
5)Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master
5)Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn
5)Battle at Valhalas: Carnage!
5)Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow
5)Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge
Quest zones:
1)Shadow Vault_____2)Savage Ledge_____3)Jotunheim_____4)The Underhalls_____5)Valhalas_____6)Death's Rise_____7)Onslaught Harbor
D)Daily_____N)Not-needed_____R)Repeatable
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
The Icecrown is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Icecrown zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking.


Copy&Paste from wowhead.

[Awakke]

SHADOW VAULT Quest Tree From Whiterock

1)It's All Fun and Games{H}
1)I Have an Idea, But First...
1)Free Your Mind
1)If He Cannot Be Turned{H}
|->Blackwatch*
|
Orgrim's Hammer(H)* 1)The Shadow Vault{H} The Skybreaker(A)*
| / | \ |
Opportunity(H)* | Exploiting an Opening(A)*
1)The Duke
| |
2)Eliminate the Competition 2)Honor Challenge---->2)Get the Key
3)The Bone Witch 2)Shadow Vault Decree 2)Let the Baron Know
|->3)Reading the Bones |____________________/
| R)Reading the Bones |->3)Vandalizing Jotunheim
| |->D)Leave Our Mark
|->4)Deep in the Bowels of The Underhalls |->3)Crush Dem Vrykuls!
| | D)Vile Like Fire!
|->4)Revenge for the Vargul |
| N)Vaelen Has Returned
4)The Sum is Greater than the Parts 3)Ebon Blade Prisoners
| |->D)Shoot 'Em Up
3)The Art of Being a Water Terror |
| N)To the Rise with all Due Haste!
3)Through the Eye 6)The Story Thus Far...
| |->D)From Their Corpses, Rise!
3)Find the Ancient Hero |->7)Blood in the Water
| | 7)You'll Need a Gryphon
3)Not-So-Honorable Combat | D)No Fly Zone
| |->D)Intelligence Gathering
3)Banshee's Revenge +7)The Grand (Admiral's) Plan
| 7)In Strict Confidence
5)Battle at Valhalas 7)Second Chances
5)Battle at Valhalas: Fallen Heroes 7)The Admiral Revealed
5)Battle at Valhalas: Khit'rix the Dark Master
5)Battle at Valhalas: The Return of Sigrid Iceborn
5)Battle at Valhalas: Carnage!
5)Battle at Valhalas: Thane Deathblow
5)Battle at Valhalas: Final Challenge
Quest zones:
1)Shadow Vault_____2)Savage Ledge_____3)Jotunheim_____4)The Underhalls_____5)Valhalas_____6)Death's Rise_____7)Onslaught Harbor
D)Daily_____N)Not-needed_____R)Repeatable
*Click to see more info about that quest-line.
The Icecrown is done! Leave your comments/sugestions at my comment in Icecrown zone. Thanks everyone who helped me to make it via comments on wowhead and in-game pre-quest tracking.


Copy&Paste from wowhead.

Wait so I don't get what you're trying to show here.. sorry.. just lost..

[Mikeylol]

Anyone willing to make a bot / script for this?

[inGo]rangensaft]

is this still working?

[jljarrar]

I like it!

[sloppie_00]

I did for 2 hours from 79-80 . Quite impressive with the amount of experience. Grinding can be really boring but this one wasn't so bad.

[corrupter]

tried it for a while its sick exp + rep



look at the top left for exp info

[Captain Bad]

I personally think this is a great way to level alts that have been sitting around level 77 or so gathering dust/rested XP.

I wasn't kidding when I said this method can net over 600,000XP an hour and with rested XP... 1.2 million XP an hour for a full level and a half.

[Demonizer]

Nice trick

[kevinhunter]

This isn't the best method in the world, but it's fast, changes the pace of boring instance

Can anyone show me any faster way than this?