where to boost @ 40? (with 70 frost mage)

[oMek]

well my team is now 40 and SM cath seems to be getting really slow. only toon i have to boost with is a 70 frost mage.

stay at SM or ?

[krum]

I used my 72 BM hunter w/ gorilla to AoE boost in ZF. I don't know if this would be as feasible with a mage. The first group I got to 50 in ZF, but the second group I got only to 45 and I just ran out of steam and went to Hinterlands.

[Ellusionist]

well my team is now 40 and SM cath seems to be getting really slow. only toon i have to boost with is a 70 frost mage.

stay at SM or ?I used my Arcane-spec'd mage to powerlevel my 5-shaman team to 70 in a month. I took a couple 3-day breaks, though cuz I was getting burnt out. 95% of that entire month was leveling in the Outlands. Pick-up quests KILL me as a multiboxer. I don't have the heart to skip *any* quests!

Here's what I did:
Mage is on account "A".
I had shamans on accounts A, B, C, D, and E.
I took B, C, D, and E through dungeons with the mage, gaining 300% RAF experience.
Because the shaman on account A was behind in levels, I just granted all levels to him from account "B". (B->A)

The order I ran instances was: RFC-->SFK-->RFK-->SM-->ZF. I was gaining around 1.5 levels in the lower dungeons (per run), and it topped off at about 0.75 levels per run when I reached ZF. Then I started questing. The entire team was in their 50's in a few days.

My strategy on the mage specifically was using a down-ranked arcane explosion, running into everything I saw. Arcane explosion, arcane explosion, arcane explosion. Mana gems, pots, and heal the mage with the shamans.

Something I recall that sucked was going back to get all the shamans' totems (quests)! My main has always been the mage. I'd never played a shaman before. Those totem chain quests were a pain to look up!

[oMek]

what level did you go to ZF at?

[Ellusionist]

what level did you go to ZF at?I believe I was in ZF from 40-50. I ran a couple different 4-RAF groups like this, and sometimes I would get bored, "jump the gun", and head into the next instance a little early. So I might have hit ZF around 38.

I can tell from experience though--if you're too low for the instance, your XP gains will be less efficient than running lower instances for your level. Especially since the higher-level mobs will take more to kill with your mage. If you run ZF too early, your XP gains will be low, then they'll start to curve up to a higher number once you're close to the mobs' level(s).

The best thing to do, I think, is to get Cartographer on your main. Then when you open your map, it'll tell you which instances are good for which levels.

If you're getting bored with SM, and you're not doing the Cathedral, try that one. The mobs are very easy to "snipe out" with ice lance to get them all gathered up, then you just burn them down based upon your spec (frost in your case). Remember the last room with the boss? You'll easily get half a level just doing that!

Good luck!

[gitcho]

well my team is now 40 and SM cath seems to be getting really slow. only toon i have to boost with is a 70 frost mage.

stay at SM or ?I used my Arcane-spec'd mage to powerlevel my 5-shaman team to 70 in a month. I took a couple 3-day breaks, though cuz I was getting burnt out. 95% of that entire month was leveling in the Outlands. Pick-up quests KILL me as a multiboxer. I don't have the heart to skip *any* quests!

Here's what I did:
Mage is on account "A".
I had shamans on accounts A, B, C, D, and E.
I took B, C, D, and E through dungeons with the mage, gaining 300% RAF experience.
Because the shaman on account A was behind in levels, I just granted all levels to him from account "B". (B->A)

The order I ran instances was: RFC-->SFK-->RFK-->SM-->ZF. I was gaining around 1.5 levels in the lower dungeons (per run), and it topped off at about 0.75 levels per run when I reached ZF. Then I started questing. The entire team was in their 50's in a few days.

My strategy on the mage specifically was using a down-ranked arcane explosion, running into everything I saw. Arcane explosion, arcane explosion, arcane explosion. Mana gems, pots, and heal the mage with the shamans.

Something I recall that sucked was going back to get all the shamans' totems (quests)! My main has always been the mage. I'd never played a shaman before. Those totem chain quests were a pain to look up!You got 300% XP boosting with all the accounts still linked??? Hang on - I thought that if your mage (A) was RAF chain linked to your shamans (B -> C -> D -> E) , you wouldn't get 300% XP if the mage is more than 4 levels above the shamans?! how did you boost low level shamans (or any toons) with a high level mage and still get 300% XP on your shamans?

I'm just about to hit 60 with my protPally and want to run other teams up, but thought I had to unlink my main account in order for B,C,D,E to get 300% XP. Am I understanding this correctly?

[Ellusionist]

well my team is now 40 and SM cath seems to be getting really slow. only toon i have to boost with is a 70 frost mage.

stay at SM or ?I used my Arcane-spec'd mage to powerlevel my 5-shaman team to 70 in a month. I took a couple 3-day breaks, though cuz I was getting burnt out. 95% of that entire month was leveling in the Outlands. Pick-up quests KILL me as a multiboxer. I don't have the heart to skip *any* quests!

Here's what I did:
Mage is on account "A".
I had shamans on accounts A, B, C, D, and E.
I took B, C, D, and E through dungeons with the mage, gaining 300% RAF experience.
Because the shaman on account A was behind in levels, I just granted all levels to him from account "B". (B->A)

The order I ran instances was: RFC-->SFK-->RFK-->SM-->ZF. I was gaining around 1.5 levels in the lower dungeons (per run), and it topped off at about 0.75 levels per run when I reached ZF. Then I started questing. The entire team was in their 50's in a few days.

My strategy on the mage specifically was using a down-ranked arcane explosion, running into everything I saw. Arcane explosion, arcane explosion, arcane explosion. Mana gems, pots, and heal the mage with the shamans.

Something I recall that sucked was going back to get all the shamans' totems (quests)! My main has always been the mage. I'd never played a shaman before. Those totem chain quests were a pain to look up!You got 300% XP boosting with all the accounts still linked??? Hang on - I thought that if your mage (A) was RAF chain linked to your shamans (B -> C -> D -> E) , you wouldn't get 300% XP if the mage is more than 4 levels above the shamans?! how did you boost low level shamans (or any toons) with a high level mage and still get 300% XP on your shamans?

I'm just about to hit 60 with my protPally and want to run other teams up, but thought I had to unlink my main account in order for B,C,D,E to get 300% XP. Am I understanding this correctly?Because B was partied with C, both B and C got triple XP.
And because D and E was partied with B and C, they all got triple XP.
"A" didn't matter, because once I logged back into the newb shaman (instead of the 70 mage on "A") on that account and granted the levels, they were all the same.

A referred B
instead of A referring C, D, and E: I daisy-chained the referrals...
B referred C
C referred D
D referred E.

Hmm, I hope that makes sense!

[Dominian]

Dont see the point to boost if you have RAF.. i did azeroth in 2 days play and i slacked ALOT + i had ghost wolf untill level 60 instead of a mount. I bet i could have done it in much less time if i REALY pushed it.

You dont have to do a singel collect quest in azeroth with RAF.

Instance grind sucks for me since it feels so slow on the exp bar...

[oMek]

Dont see the point to boost if you have RAF.. i did azeroth in 2 days play and i slacked ALOT + i had ghost wolf untill level 60 instead of a mount. I bet i could have done it in much less time if i REALY pushed it.

You dont have to do a singel collect quest in azeroth with RAF.

Instance grind sucks for me since it feels so slow on the exp bar...so far im lvl 42x3 and have 6 hours played, all from boosting.

[Dominian]

Dont see the point to boost if you have RAF.. i did azeroth in 2 days play and i slacked ALOT + i had ghost wolf untill level 60 instead of a mount. I bet i could have done it in much less time if i REALY pushed it.

You dont have to do a singel collect quest in azeroth with RAF.

Instance grind sucks for me since it feels so slow on the exp bar...so far im lvl 42x3 and have 6 hours played, all from boosting.

wow nice but its still boring as hell :P

[darkxer]

Dont see the point to boost if you have RAF.. i did azeroth in 2 days play and i slacked ALOT + i had ghost wolf untill level 60 instead of a mount. I bet i could have done it in much less time if i REALY pushed it.

You dont have to do a singel collect quest in azeroth with RAF.

Instance grind sucks for me since it feels so slow on the exp bar...Off topic:
------The post i quoted is an excellent example of why people are looking for an xp roadmap.
------"I hit 60 in 2days while picking my nose in azeroth, isn't my post packed with useful info or what!"
------Please ignore these posts as they provide no value.


On topic:
I Boosted from 10-20 in dead mines, 20-40 in SM, 40-50 ZF
For 50-60, I am not sure where to go at this point, I have yet to see a Instance xp plan from 50-60
IMO, instance grinding has been a lot faster. I say this because questing requires a lot of travel time. Instances continuously give XP and allow me to logout / login and pickup XPing.


My setup,
DK58x1 boosting, Shaman50x4

[elsegundo]

if you wanna boost your next step is ZF up to about 50. then you can either do Sunken Temple to 55 then BRD/scholo/strath. up to you on the last three.

[Ellusionist]

Dont see the point to boost if you have RAF.. i did azeroth in 2 days play and i slacked ALOT + i had ghost wolf untill level 60 instead of a mount. I bet i could have done it in much less time if i REALY pushed it.

You dont have to do a singel collect quest in azeroth with RAF.

Instance grind sucks for me since it feels so slow on the exp bar...Off topic:
------The post i quoted is an excellent example of why people are looking for an xp roadmap.
------"I hit 60 in 2days while picking my nose in azeroth, isn't my post packed with useful info or what!"
------Please ignore these posts as they provide no value.


On topic:
I Boosted from 10-20 in dead mines, 20-40 in SM, 40-50 ZF
For 50-60, I am not sure where to go at this point, I have yet to see a Instance xp plan from 50-60
IMO, instance grinding has been a lot faster. I say this because questing requires a lot of travel time. Instances continuously give XP and allow me to logout / login and pickup XPing.


My setup,
DK58x1 boosting, Shaman50x4I agree with you 100%.

Instance "boosting" with RAF is by far the fastest way to level because the only downtime is when you aren't playing. It requires little attention whatsoever. As you pointed out, time isn't wasted traveling around turning quests in, picking them up, or completing the objectives.

I will also agree that questing with the RAF bonus is quick, but not as quick as the instance method. I quested from 55-70, so I know from experience with both methods.

Instances = Fast = Logout in/near the instance = Little Effort (Mindless spellcasting, whatever) = Boring
Questing = Slower = Travel time to-and-from = A tad bit more effort = Not as boring (I definitely wouldn't call it fun, but it's less boring than the zombie method, instancing over and over and over!)