YARAF thread (about a boosting problem)

[mlwhitt]

Hi. I 5-box off and on. Lately I had just been dual-boxing but decided to open 3 new accounts with the great news about the new RAF. I have really enjoyed the XP boost but ran into a potential bug last night.

My setup is this:
Account 1 (Vet)
Account 2 ( RAF linked to 1)
Account 3 (RAF linked to 1)
Account 4 (Vet)
Account 5 (RAF linked to 4)

After getting the 3 new accounts set up I 5-boxed some Shaman to 13 or so and decided to use on of my 70s (this guy I am posting on) to boost some thru instances. I decided to move Lato here to Account 3 which was a RAF of Account 1.

Long story short after I got Lato moved to Account 3 and started running thru RFC I noticed that Acc. 2, 4 and 5 where all getting the proper RAF XP bonus but my Shaman Tanga on Account 1 was not.

it looks like there may be a bug if you have an account linked to two other accounts and one of those 2 RAF accounts has a lot higher toon on them after you transfer to the account. That's the only thing I can think of since Acc 2 was getting the RAF bonus XP.

Here is the setup after the transfer that is having the problems:

Account 1 (Vet) - Level 16 Shaman Tanga (NOT GETTING RAF XP BONUS)
Account 2 ( RAF linked to 1) - Level 19 Shaman (Getting XP Bonus)
Account 3 (RAF linked to 1) - Transferred 70 from Account 1
Account 4 (Vet) - Level 20 Shaman getting Bonus
Account 5 (RAF linked to 4) - Level 20 Shaman getting Bonus

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Drizzit]

Account 1 and account 3 are linked. That being said the mobs have to be green to both accounts to get x3 experience. If you didn't move you toon from account 1 to account 3, account 2 and account 3 would not get the x3 xp. What you could do is gift the lvls to account 1 from account 2. If you moved your toon to say account 6 with nothing linked to it, you would get the full x3 xp... Does this make sense?


Edit:
If i was going to create new accounts for power lvling (i might do this depends if blizzard keeps this around). Buy 2 new accounts.
Acc 1 (already have) (has a 70 rogue that i can power boost)
Acc 2 (already have)
Acc 3 (already have)
Acc 4 (already have)
Acc 5 (already have) (has 62 pally, but probably be 70 when i do this)

Acc 6 (link 2)
Acc 7 (link 3)

I could easily get these guys to 60 in about 15 days (i got 2 teams to 50 in about 30 days). Create new alts on the accounts quest them to like 15 (cause first 10 lvls are a joke and maybe 10-15 will be easy) then use my 30 free lvls to get them to 20 power lvl them in cath (it is a joke how fast you can lvl from 20-30). then use the rest of the 20/25 lvls to lvl them to 50/55. Lvl them to 60 then repeat. The down side to side is you have 2 options after the 90 days are done. Either keep the 2 new accounts or transfer all the alts on those accounts to the old accounts. Either way is not going to be cheap. Lets say that you create 4 alts, so you have to transfer 8 total that is $200 (8 x 25). The cost of 1 account for a year is $180. So the boost would be good but the cost to transfer might be a little too high.

[ChaoticMonk]

If you log in to the site with Account 1 and go to the RAF page does it still show that account as being linked to Account 2 & 3?

[mlwhitt]

If you log in to the site with Account 1 and go to the RAF page does it still show that account as being linked to Account 2 & 3?

[mlwhitt]

Account 1 and account 3 are linked. That being said the mobs have to be green to both accounts to get x3 experience. If you didn't move you toon from account 1 to account 3, account 2 and account 3 would not get the x3 xp. What you could do is gift the lvls to account 1 from account 2. If you moved your toon to say account 6 with nothing linked to it, you would get the full x3 xp... Does this make sense?


Edit:
If i was going to create new accounts for power lvling (i might do this depends if blizzard keeps this around). Buy 2 new accounts.
Acc 1 (already have) (has a 70 rogue that i can power boost)
Acc 2 (already have)
Acc 3 (already have)
Acc 4 (already have)
Acc 5 (already have) (has 62 pally, but probably be 70 when i do this)

Acc 6 (link 2)
Acc 7 (link 3)

I could easily get these guys to 60 in about 15 days (i got 2 teams to 50 in about 30 days). Create new alts on the accounts quest them to like 15 (cause first 10 lvls are a joke and maybe 10-15 will be easy) then use my 30 free lvls to get them to 20 power lvl them in cath (it is a joke how fast you can lvl from 20-30). then use the rest of the 20/25 lvls to lvl them to 50/55. Lvl them to 60 then repeat. The down side to side is you have 2 options after the 90 days are done. Either keep the 2 new accounts or transfer all the alts on those accounts to the old accounts. Either way is not going to be cheap. Lets say that you create 4 alts, so you have to transfer 8 total that is $200 (8 x 25). The cost of 1 account for a year is $180. So the boost would be good but the cost to transfer might be a little too high.

[mlwhitt]

I have contacted account admin maybe they can unlink the two for me.