RAF Bonus with an 80 running instances?

[BigSmitty]

Hey,

I'm not "too" new to multiboxing, but decided to re-investigate it with the RAF (my initial 5 were pre-RAF by a few months). So I have two RAF accounts tied to one account, and I've been chugging along quite happily, going to 24 on my mage x 2 and shammy trio in a little less than 12 played hours. The quest and mob XP bonus is flat out crazy. Now, if I were to take in this intrepid trio to an instance and run them through with my 80 druid (on my fourth account, not tied to RAF), will the three still garner the RAF bonuses? By reading the FAQ as long as the mobs for the RAF linked accounts are NOT grey, then they get the bonus (albeit nerfed by the 80 running them through) but it should still be a nice chunk of XP for say Stockades for the three right now, right?

Also, I found a neat little trick by using a DK on the main account for getting easy flight points. Since DKs have all flight points, and if you need to get somewhere out of the way, like Gadget, then I fly on the DK to Gadget, summon one mage. Log out and log into the shaman (on the main account) and have him summoned by the first mage already there, then use the shaman to summon the other mage. The cooldowns for summoning are tied to the characters, NOT the account themselves. Figured that one out last night.

Voila, no more running for crap like that. Of course, it's an hour later before I can do it again, but it's nice to be able to get them around and get the flight points relatively quickly. Plus by using the Jamba-Taxi, makes moving the team around SO much easier.

On a side note (rambling here), I have a bit of an issue. I already have 5 BC accounts, and made the two RAF accounts to boost up different teams. I'm trying to decide from a cost standpoint if I should just deactivate the other 4 BC accounts (only 1 account is Wrath enabled right now) make 2 more RAF accounts and then upgrade them to BC once the time comes. It's $30 to get the battlechest where I'm at, and I'm trying to figure out with all the character transfer costs that it would become a bit more expensive just transferring off all these guys from the 2 RAF accounts each time they get to 60 (plus the one that's gifted to 60 from the RAF toons).



Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

[Mukade]

3 dings per instance sound good? I got from 10-17 in just 2 runs of WC (the last ding was from the quest hand ins). I've also got 3 dings in SM on a previous RaF pair.

wow.allakhazam.com can show you where to pick up all the quests that can be done in an instance, and they're well worth doing considering the huge amount of XP they give over any normal quest, even if they have a chain to do before.

[BigSmitty]

Thanks, Mukade.

I figured it would be ok, as I was trying to gauge my XP per run based on running 3 mid 30s (no RAF) with a 68 DK through SM, and they were getting an average of 1/2 level per run... With my current group I didn't get out of Elwynn Forest without hitting level 13 which was an eye opener. I've done all the Deadmines quests outside the instance (bandanas, miner's cards and thistnettle) and got a level and a half just off those three quests. I think that I would actually only run the instances for gear for the three, as my XP/hour questing has been pretty good so far.

As far as the quests go, as long as I stay Alliance, then I'm pretty familiar with the instances and quests, Horde side, not too much, but I'm thinking of starting up a Tauren Shaman group if I decide to grab the extra 2 RAF accounts this weekend. I just gotta get my Keyclone windows set up for a 5 man group on my 24" monitor.

[Svpernova09]

Tehtsuo took my new team of 4 to RFC at 8 on his 80 Failadin. I got 2 levels in there in 1 run, we then ran to SFK and did 4 or 5 runs there. We ended the night with all four toons at 16. I was getting 1 full level for approximately half the instance.

[Gearboxx]

over the past few days i have run my RAF duo using purely instance runs from my 80mage. started in deadmines at 10, stocks at 15, SM at 25, then ZF at 35.
currently i sit at 42 with both these toons, the xp was insane and made a quick effortless trip to 40.
for the SM runs i just left the duo standing at the start and pulled the whole thing to the start then just burned them down there. almost a whole level each pull in cath.
i've moved onto ZF for a few runs just to snag some gear to maybe complete a quest or two for some some kicks, then moving to BRD and strat to finish them off.

[Souca]

I got 4 priests from 10 to 20 last night in SFK boosting with an 80 DK. I think it took about 8 runs, but it was only 2 hours. I prefer SFK to WC and RFC, but that's just me. RFC has mobs that stun and that just drives me crazy. I still get lost in WC and I'm not sure I want to deal with the jumps or the entrance way to the instance.

Once I'm 20, it's SM Armory and Cath till 40 or so. I'm going to try using BRD at 40 this time around, since I don't want to deal with the hex in ZF. Might have to try ZF on the druid though, he should be immune to the poly.

One of the things I'd like to do is figure out the exact XP formula with a high level in the party. I'm curious how much I'm losing by boosting level 10-20s with an 80 instead of somethign like a 50 mage. Once I get enough data, I'll let you know.

- Souca -

[olipcs]

Now, if I were to take in this intrepid trio to an instance and run them through with my 80 druid (on my fourth account, not tied to RAF), will the three still garner the RAF bonuses? To answer this originaly question:

Yes they would get the 300% CP Bonus from RAF, because as you described only three of them are linked and most importantly the account of your 80 druid is not linked with one off the RAF-Accounts. SO for all three RAF-Accounts als long as the mobs are not 'grey' they get the 300% bonus.
Only think you must keep in mind, is that because of the level-difference of your 80 to the other 3 the XP they get is reduced (but this is always the case with 80-boosting, RAF or no RAF)

[Kuchsar]

Now, if I were to take in this intrepid trio to an instance and run them through with my 80 druid (on my fourth account, not tied to RAF), will the three still garner the RAF bonuses? By reading the FAQ as long as the mobs for the RAF linked accounts are NOT grey, then they get the bonus (albeit nerfed by the 80 running them through) but it should still be a nice chunk of XP for say Stockades for the three right now, right?
Yes, your linked characters will get the 3X exp if you run this way. I've leveled countless RAF characters through instance boosting, and its very fast. 1-12 I quest, 12-20 in WC, 20-35 SM Cathedral, 35-45 ZF, 45-55 Stratholme and then 55-60 in Ramparts. I've been getting near 16h /played from level 1 to 60 doing that (and using an 80 rogue to do those runs, so your milage may vary).

[Souca]

One thing I noticed last night worth mentioning. I was boosting two sets of linked characters in SM with the 80 DK. The first group was a 22 Warlock on my friends account (he was playing it, I let him refer me to get some bonus out of helping) and a 20 Mage on my account that is linked to his. I also had two 20 priests that were linked on two of my other accounts. So basically we have two characters that are linked, and two other characters that are linked, plus the booster not linked to any account.

My friend had the heirloom shoulders with the 10% xp bonus, so he quickly out paced my mage. At one point he commented on being out of rested xp. This struck me as strange because you don't use rested XP when you are getting the RaF bonus. He checked his logs and he wasn't getting the RaF bonus anymore. He was 29 and the mage was 25. The priests were both 26 and still getting RaF. Since we were still in SM Cath, the mobs were not grey to any of the characters except the booster so they were all getting XP. As soon as the mage hit 26, my friend started getting the RaF bonus again as did the mage. Later on, when he was 4 levels ahead again, the bonus stopped. It seems that being 4 levels higher than a linked character will negate RaF even when the mobs are not grey to either.

Just thought this might be worth knowing.

- Souca -

P.S. He took his shoulders off so he wouldn't get so far ahead and we manage to get the mage to stay pretty close to 3 levels difference till mine were all 30 and he was 32.

[nubScotty]

Ive been duoing with sham/warr while a friend of mine rushed a sham/priest through instances with an 80 warrior.

He went from 10-50 in 7hours played, while I went from 1-23 in the same amount of played. So all in all, RAF XP while powerleveling through instances is amazing, and if done at a decent pace you can get to 60 in a single(extended) playing session.

He did:
10-18 VC
18-26 Stock
26-38 SM
38-45 ZF
45-54 BRD
54-60 Scholo

Believe thats what he did, he flew by me in levels