Run for the Hills! Another Boosting Question!

[railz]

I'm sorry :( I have a few questions about this. I looked through the wiki and even searched a lot on here, but I cannot find answers to some problems I'm having.

My setup is this:

Main account (with my 80s) ->RAF'D Slaves A, B, C and D

When I run my 5 box (5 druids at the moment) everything is fine. I get RAF experience on all toons. "Great," I thought. "I'll try this instance boosting thingy now!".

Created a party on A,B,C,D. Got them to 10. Went to DM. Added my DK. Killed stuff. No bonus XP?

Am I correct in thinking that the Master Account must have a toon in the party (i.e one of the lowbies) in order to get the RAF boost? If so, how do you instance boost when you've RAF'd as I have? Do I need to move one of my 80s to another account?

How would I go about boosting my 5 team? I guess this is the same question - do I have to move one of my 80s off the master account and onto a new seperate account?

I'm really confused - I'm sorry for the dumb questions. I was under the impression that RAF boosting through instances relied on the master account having an 80 to powerlevel the slaves.

[Smoooth]

The characters that are linked need to be within 5 levels of each other to receive bonus xp. So when you use an 80 you wont get it. If you move your 80 booster to account D, your main acct and slaves A,B,C can get RAF bonus because now they are within level range of each other. Basically you screwed it up. You should have left your main unlinked.

edit: not sure if you move 80 to acct D if your main acct will still get RAF bonus. I think it will because it is still linked with A-C.

[yesyesyes]

You should have linked Master account to A to B to C to D. [ Master -> A -> B -> C -> D] if you wanted to boost w/ your 80. Sorry man, your out of luck with the boosting if this is how you have them linked. But after get a few teams to 60ish don't forget to use your grant a levels.

[slash]

Your boosting main account needs to be un-linked to the accounts being boosted for them to get RaF bonus xp.

[Ejercito de un hombre]

Slash is right.

I have a level 80 friend boosting me from an un-linked account and i´m receiveing raf bonus xp.

[railz]

Ah crap :( So I can't do this?

I can't even borrow an account because then that would be violating the "all accounts under the same name" rule, right?

What if I make a new account with my details completely unrelated to all of the others and transfer an 80 to that?

[Gomotron]

Your best bet would be to create another account, not linked, transfer the 80 to that account and boost your old main account as well as A,B, and C. You could theoretically get rid of D.

The thing that I am wondering is, if you had Main -> A -> B -> C -> D, could you transfer the 80 to account D and still get the RAF bonus by boosting?

[slash]

You could make a new account with correct details, don't Raf it though! Transfer an 80 from your main account to this new account, then use this account to boost your old main account, and 3 of the RaFed accounts.

The 4 accounts being boosted would then get triple xp.

There may be a better way to do this, but that way would certainly work.

Edit: beaten to it!

[railz]

Thanks guys. I think I'll do that.

[RobinGBrown]

The cost saving alternative is to simply quest to 60 with your druids, I know boosting can do it faster but it doesn't take that long to quest there.

[yesyesyes]

Actually, Slash is wrong. Your boosting account can be linked it just needs to be linked in the proper order Booster -> BoosteeA -> BoosteeB ->BoosteeC ->BoosteeD. So it's a daisy chain link instead of all of them linking to the main. The way the OP has it setup is the wrong way for a linked account to boost.

[Oswyn]

Actually, Slash is wrong. Your boosting account can be linked it just needs to be linked in the proper order Booster -> BoosteeA -> BoosteeB ->BoosteeC ->BoosteeD. So it's a daisy chain link instead of all of them linking to the main. The way the OP has it setup is the wrong way for a linked account to boost.

nonono :)

If you are using a booster, then the account that the booster is on cannot be linked. In your example, if your high level booster is on account "Booster", then BoosteeA would not get RAF bonus. However, B/C/D will get RAF bonus since they are not linked to Booster.

[yesyesyes]

Actually, Slash is wrong. Your boosting account can be linked it just needs to be linked in the proper order Booster -> BoosteeA -> BoosteeB ->BoosteeC ->BoosteeD. So it's a daisy chain link instead of all of them linking to the main. The way the OP has it setup is the wrong way for a linked account to boost.

nonono :)

If you are using a booster, then the account that the booster is on cannot be linked. In your example, if your high level booster is on account "Booster", then BoosteeA would not get RAF bonus. However, B/C/D will get RAF bonus since they are not linked to Booster.
Well in my experience as of today - Saturday March 28 2009 - daisy chaining accounts works perfectly for boosting. So the RAF Link goes like this for me Booster(Lvl 74) -> BoosteeA -> BoosteeB. And tonight, on live it works with all the boostees getting RAF experience.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Are you sure of that? BoosteeA should not get raf from what I have read.

Are you sure that BoosteeA was invited by Booster74?

Maybe you get a benifit in that BoosteeA and BoosteeB are linked and that overrides the 74 link to BoosteeA.... interesting if true.

The op set up will do better for granting raf levels though .... although ya daisy is the way to go overall.

[railz]

Tried it last night with an account not linked to the master or slaves.

Works fine. As long as the master toon is in the group with the booster, they all get the RAF experience. Gained 4 levels doing ZF a few times. The only problem is that with a 5-team you have to rotate them in and out to try and keep them within the 4-level limit. Going to slowly summon them all over the Scholo and try there tonight.

To be clear on this: the booster account is not linked in ANY way to the master or slaves, except that it's in my name of course :) Looks like I'll be buying 4 x BC tomorrow.

[Ualaa]

A (80) -Link- B (10)

Grouped together, B will not get any of the RAF experience.
It doesn't matter how many accounts B is linked to, if they're grouped and linked with A.




A (80) -Not Linked- B (10) -Linked- C (10) - Linked D (10).
With A not linked to B, C or D, each of the lower toons gets the RAF exp's even with A in their group.
Linking B to C, C to D, D to E etc, will let you cascade granted levels to grant levels themselves.




Although Blizz has said they will change it "soon" so that everyone has to be within 5 levels in the party for anyone to get RAF.
"Soon" for Blizzard has ranged anywhere from next patch to never.

[yesyesyes]

Are you sure of that? BoosteeA should not get raf from what I have read.

Are you sure that BoosteeA was invited by Booster74?

Maybe you get a benifit in that BoosteeA and BoosteeB are linked and that overrides the 74 link to BoosteeA.... interesting if true.

The op set up will do better for granting raf levels though .... although ya daisy is the way to go overall.
I'm not sure why people don't believe me, it works as of right now. It may be different for a five man group (I don't see why it would) but w/ 3 accounts daisy chained the boostees in the link do get RAF XP. If there was anyway a screenshot could prove it for you guys, I would post them. But people would say that I've doctored the screenshots in some way.

[yesyesyes]

Ok, if you guys don't believe me go test it our yourselves - make level 1 toons (2 of them that are linked) and the booster linked in a daisy chain like structure Booster -> BoosteeA -> BoosteeB. Now bring a booster to the starting area and go wand stuff or whatever... It works, try it.

[Smoooth]

Ok, if you guys don't believe me go test it our yourselves - make level 1 toons (2 of them that are linked) and the booster linked in a daisy chain like structure Booster -> BoosteeA -> BoosteeB. Now bring a booster to the starting area and go wand stuff or whatever... It works, try it.He's right. Being linked to the booster doesn't stop you from getting a RAF bonus, it just doesn't give one. You can still get a seperate bonus if linked to someone else also.

[railz]

I think the confusion is when BoosteeA and Booster are on the same account. At least that was what happened to me.

Switched out one of my DKs to an alt account that is not linked and POW - 120k an hour in Scholo :)