You guys are lost. Let me make it very easy. Level 1-10 do Level10 macro or go kill in n00b yard. Once you are level 10 you can now use the Golden Pick. Take SK, cleric and bard to The Grounds. Bring the n00bs. Pull 20-30 mobs and put your back to them with Wurmslayer.
/Macro Hitall on the n00b. Probably 5-6 pulls of that until you are level 70. Cheers!
I'll definitely give this method a shot. i expect my experience will be a bit less dramatic since the toons are primarily 40+ with the exception of 2 or 3.
What i've done so far is i've tried 2 different teams:
Team 1: mid 40s -- all melee team (warrior, ranger, rogue, and bard), rounded up Giants in Gorakar Mesa with the SK, used the mass agro spell every time it was available. Had the bard play the level 2 damage song. At first the dying was slow using just the SK damage shields, so after the 3rd group of Giants, i had all the melee's start pounding on the giants to not only keep skills up but speed up the killing. In about 2hrs time, i gained about 4 levels on each toon which was so/so.
Team 2: low to mid 70s -- mixed team (Enchanter, SK, Monk, Cleric, Ranger and BST), grouped them with the SK and tried taking them to The Grounds. Admittedly i did zero research on the HoT zones, so the team (minus the SK) died about 4 times just trying to get to various killing spots. Figured out what i was doing wrong but decided to move the team to an high 70s/low 80s area for some fast killing. Headed to loping plains, fired up /mac pocketfarm and let the team go to work. They were killing everything in sight pretty quickly, even when forgetting to refresh DS on the SK. Ended up at the zone in for the Castle thing in the lake (forget the name) and kept pocketfarm going. After about 2 hours of killing in Loping Plains and adjoining 'dungeon zone', i had gained about 3 levels on each toon, almost 4 on the BST who was the lowest level at the start.
All and all, it wasnt that bad but i did expect faster leveling for both groups, but i think trying out the quoted method above for my lower levels is the way to go and for the 70-80s toons, just doing what i did with Loping Plains -- follow the level of mobs of the group i'm leveling and let the SK do her thing. I also learned to do my research for these zones -- i research everything IRL, but just dove head first into the EQ zones and that was my fault. I'll be better equipped with knowledge the next time, that's for darn sure.