How do you boost with a Lvl 70 Paladin ?

[Alptraum]

Ok I've multiboxed on and off, and been away for a pretty good spell from wow, now I want to get back into it, but I have a few questions.

I have a level 70 horde paladin that I'd like to use as my booster toon

I also have 2 lvl 16 druids on seperate accounts that i'd like to have boosted.

a quick search of this board didnt really give me the info im looking for, so I hope some bored soul can fill me in on the pointers of how to do this.

if I wanted to boost in SFK for example...how would I go about it...do I just grab half the zone at a time well dragging my 2 druids around behind me..I had read something about it requiring a mage and droping him from group or something...but thats where my confusion kicks in.

[PzycoDude]

in sfk i would let the 2 stay at the start, grab all from start to the guy that opens the door and then run back and kill them.. then place the 2 characters by the courtyard door and pull the courtyard and so on... but thats only how id do it.. it might not be the best way :rolleyes:

[Alptraum]

in sfk i would let the 2 stay at the start, grab all from start to the guy that opens the door and then run back and kill them.. then place the 2 characters by the courtyard door and pull the courtyard and so on... but thats only how id do it.. it might not be the best way :rolleyes:Well that's what i've been sorta doing also..im getting pretty poor xp though so I figured i'd come and ask on here cause it dosn't seem to be none to speedy...i get very low xp cause of the 70 in the party.

[PzycoDude]

yeah with boosting in those lvls you dont get that much xp per mob, unless the 2 accounts that u boost are linked

[ChaoticMonk]

it gets MUCH quicker when you take them to scarlet M (min level is 20). You can single pull armory and single or double pull Cath then reset and repeat.

[Alptraum]

yeah with boosting in those lvls you dont get that much xp per mob, unless the 2 accounts that u boost are linkedno sadly all 5 of my accounts i owned before that Recruit a friend thing came out so I dont get to enjoy that at all. I read the Zolo boosting thing has now also been fixed so thats a bit disapointed. So Do i just keep my lil druids near my pally and pull the instance back to them and not worry about how crappy the xp is? I figured i was doing something wrong.

[Alptraum]

it gets MUCH quicker when you take them to scarlet M (min level is 20). You can single pull armory and single or double pull Cath then reset and repeat.using the same method ? leaving my guys near the door and pulling half the instance at a time to them and killing em?

[puppychow]

once you practice a bit you can get really good and boost fast. I boosted 2 teams to 60, the first one was about 30 hours total and the second was about 18 hours total.

in SFK just leave the alts right by the entrance, you can run through aggroing everything, go to the door guy (in the prison cell), open it, agro everrrything inside until you are "above" your alts after the 2nd or 3d boss (the guy in the room with the bats), right after his room i stop right above my alts, its all the ghost humans, kill the ~100 mobs or so in 2-3 mins with just consecrate, and blammo, 1 level in 10 mins with RAF 3x (it takes longer without RAF).

At 20, go to SM cathedral, leave alts parked at door, and pull everything outside the cathedral doors back to near your alts (but not too near!) and consecrate down. You can then have your alts follow you inside, park them at the top of the fountain near the back, and pull the boss inside the cathedral out the door and just kill everything off to a side. Should take 10-15 mins per run, and again with RAF you get nearly an entire level every 12-15 mins. All the way to 40, after 40 its frankly easier just questing although you can do brd, lbrs, and strat/scholo after 45.

[Alptraum]

once you practice a bit you can get really good and boost fast. I boosted 2 teams to 60, the first one was about 30 hours total and the second was about 18 hours total.

in SFK just leave the alts right by the entrance, you can run through aggroing everything, go to the door guy (in the prison cell), open it, agro everrrything inside until you are "above" your alts after the 2nd or 3d boss (the guy in the room with the bats), right after his room i stop right above my alts, its all the ghost humans, kill the ~100 mobs or so in 2-3 mins with just consecrate, and blammo, 1 level in 10 mins with RAF 3x (it takes longer without RAF).

At 20, go to SM cathedral, leave alts parked at door, and pull everything outside the cathedral doors back to near your alts (but not too near!) and consecrate down. You can then have your alts follow you inside, park them at the top of the fountain near the back, and pull the boss inside the cathedral out the door and just kill everything off to a side. Should take 10-15 mins per run, and again with RAF you get nearly an entire level every 12-15 mins. All the way to 40, after 40 its frankly easier just questing although you can do brd, lbrs, and strat/scholo after 45.WOW ok thank you very very much that's awesome...now I must try the SFK pull thing..yeah im not RAF..so it'll take longer but I was starting to wonder if there was any point..RFC was pretty sucky for the XP, SM I think will go pretty good, my pally's geared pretty well.

[ChaoticMonk]

yup. I leave my alts at the door and kill the first pull which usually agros at my alts as soon as they come in. Then I just pull the whole instance back to them and kill. If you zoom all the way out on your minimap then zoom in once, if you see your alts in your minimap they will get xp.

Also, you can set look to rare or whatever you like and pass on loot on your pally so he will only see rare drops (or green if you set it to that). Check out the videos (http://www.gamevee.com/user/Stabface) here

[Alptraum]

yup. I leave my alts at the door and kill the first pull which usually agros at my alts as soon as they come in. Then I just pull the whole instance back to them and kill. If you zoom all the way out on your minimap then zoom in once, if you see your alts in your minimap they will get xp.

Also, you can set look to rare or whatever you like and pass on loot on your pally so he will only see rare drops (or green if you set it to that). Check out the videos ('http://www.gamevee.com/user/Stabface') here Awesome ok now this is so what I was looking for, hell yeah this community rocks. :) will definitely check out the videos..wouldn't mine making some of my own once i get this pulling down perfectly. Do we have a established list of instances to boost threw ? I know SM comes after SFK at 20 for my lowbies.

[ChaoticMonk]

ZF 40-45 then you can go to BRD/Strat/Scholo until 58-60 or you can stay in ZF to 50 if ya like before moving on. You could do Sunken Temple but the only rooms thats great for mass pulling seems to be the dragon area. I'd atleast hit all instances at least once for quests as they give a ton of xp.

[Alptraum]

ZF 40-45 then you can go to BRD/Strat/Scholo until 58-60 or you can stay in ZF to 50 if ya like before moving on. You could do Sunken Temple but the only rooms thats great for mass pulling seems to be the dragon area. I'd atleast hit all instances at least once for quests as they give a ton of xp. again thank you for your excellent advice..yeah if i got quests sure i'll grind the instance for that.. what level do you leave SM at ?

[ChaoticMonk]

40. You could leave at 35 and go to ZF but SM seems to be the quickest to 40.

[Vyndree]

Ok I've multiboxed on and off, and been away for a pretty good spell from wow, now I want to get back into it, but I have a few questions.

I have a level 70 horde paladin that I'd like to use as my booster toon

I also have 2 lvl 16 druids on seperate accounts that i'd like to have boosted.

a quick search of this board didnt really give me the info im looking for, so I hope some bored soul can fill me in on the pointers of how to do this.

if I wanted to boost in SFK for example...how would I go about it...do I just grab half the zone at a time well dragging my 2 druids around behind me..I had read something about it requiring a mage and droping him from group or something...but thats where my confusion kicks in.

http://vboxing.net/v/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=14
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nj5x3M2qpYQ

Knock yourself out. ;)

Your pulls will vary since it depends on your level of gear and how much you want to actually have to THINK about what you're doing. The SM pulls in that video are rather conservative -- I like watching TV while I grind, and my pally was (at the time) in various blues.

Make sure to click the link to the video ('http://vboxing.net/v/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=14') to read up the whole pull strat and my gear level at the time of the video.

[Babbaganoosh]

You almost have to feel sorry for the guards in these instances. They are just minding their own business, when essentially a raid boss and his/her low level groupies come running through to slaughter them. It reminds me of that scene in Monty Pythons Holy Grail when lancealot storms the castle. Shameful. But sadly necessary. :)

[suprafro]

I used my prot pally to boost and did:

SFK 15-20
SM Cath 20-40
ZF 40-45
Strath 45-60

ZF wasn't that great, but i'm not sure what would be better 40-45. Anyway strath from 45-60 was awesome, I was getting a level every 20 minutes though thats with RAF. I was also looting everything and came out making decent gold at the same time, on my server greater eternals are 15g, LBS 10g, runecloth stacks 10g...and you almost get a complete stack from 2-3 packs of mobs

Only real key thing is to just make sure you always park your guys somewhere safe, then round up a bunch of stuff and bring it back. Thats why I avoided brd, lbrs, ubrs, etc...too much movement required. Though in your case without RAF you might be well served to run all the instances atleast once for the quests, they are great exp and you won't go crazy from boredom

[elo]

I really haven't been very satisfied with my pally boosting. Pally is Prot spec, Kara ready, uncrushable, 11k HP... er lots of armor, forget how much, but still seems rather fragile. I will readily admit, and actually testify, that I suck with my pally but either way, meh. I'd much rather just follow around the toons I'm raising and heal them. Maybe it's an attention span thing, Iono.

[Alptraum]

Ok thanks to all the advice SFK was a blast from 16-25
25-40 was spent inside SM cath..which was not such a blast..but grinded my way threw it
40-43 at present inside ZF...ugh..so not fun at all.... ok leaving at 45 for Strat sounds like a bonus..zf right now is so buggy u get glitched and cant regen mana or mount again due to some wierd bug..so hopefully strat is way more fun. I may have to change my spec though...and I do not have decent tanking gear..just running in full S2 stuff.