RAF boosting in SM - no RAF xp

[blast3r]

This is a bit weird. I recently boosted my mages and warriors up a bit in SM and was getting RAF XP. However today I was just getting regular XP which did include rested xp for a bit. The main account I used each time is not linked to the RAF accounts. The only thing I did different was update my credit card information on my main account. Has anyone else noticed a change?

[Nitro]

Has your 90 days run out?

[Caspian]

Has your 90 days run out?Yeah go kill something with just your RAF team and see what Kind of XP you get. Also take a peak at your combat logs.

Head over to the CS forums and see if there are mass complaints. Blizz has always said that 3rd party boosting was not what they were intending for RAF. Maybe they finally fixed it with a server side hotfix.

[blast3r]

I still have a couple of months or so left on RAF. It is still working. This evening I'll go back and try again. My lowbies were level 20 so maybe that has something to do with it. They are 23 now.

[Enndo]

I'm not positive but, i think if your toons are too low for the instance the xp will be cut.

[stoat]

You scared me!

It still works. Unless of course they only nerfed it in SM, but it seems like if they did it they'd blanket fix it for all.

http://stoat.org/rafworks.jpg

[CavScout]

I was boosting last night and everything worked fine xp wise.

[David]

SM cath allways gave me RAF bonus at 20. Seems like this is some other problem. Maybe the RAF service was down for a while.

[geoffdavison]

I've boosted all of my toons at SM cath starting at level 20 never had issues.... you sure you have your RAF link set up right?

[blast3r]

I've boosted all of my toons at SM cath starting at level 20 never had issues.... you sure you have your RAF link set up right?

Tried again and still no RAF bonus. Very strange! I think I will try using one of my other accounts and see if that works. There is no reason my main account should be linked (even checked in account management and it is not linked). I had my account2 send the invites. Account1 has nothing to do with any of it.

[Caspian]

What exactly is your set up? Does the same grouping work outside of SM?

[Sam DeathWalker]

are ALL yur lowbies within 4 levels of each other?

[blast3r]

I probably shouldn't have put SM in the title. Actually when I use my lvl 80 main with the team they do not get RAF xp. Just normal XP.

And yes, the toons are within one level.

[falsfire3401]

I'm following this with interest, since when my pally reaches 80 (probably bout a month or a bit more, I don't play much) I'll be wanting to instance-boost two pairs of toons with RAF.

[Sam DeathWalker]

My guys is working fine, they group with a level 57 Pal on unrelated account, they are level 60/56/56/56 and everyone cept the Pal is geting raf exp, and they are getting out of group healing big time. Im not doing instances though.

Can all 4 of yur lowbies summon one other?

You have read the combat logs and it says "rested exp" and not the raf bonus? Assuming they are rested.

If you did a star invite and the invter isnt in the group that could be a possible oversight.

A invits B
A invits C
A invits D
A invits E

if you run the group with b/c/d/e and unrelated they won't get raf, "A" has to be in the group.

[Allestaria]

I am boosting 4 sets and they are getting all the Raf xp. I do sfk at level 10 till 20 then 20 to 40 in Sm.
Useing a level 70 druid not linked to the accounts. Haven't had a problem.
At level 20 they do only get like 200+ xp per kill and it goes up as they level to what I think is a maxed at 384 per kill. Might be 484.

[Zaelar]

As of about 10 hours ago I'm not having any problems, but I wasn't level 20. Can anyone confirm that it isn't a change if the mobs are skull/too high of a level compared to the levelers?

[Maxion]

Don't forget that they should all be the same level to get the most out of the RAF bonus.
If one character is a level higher than one it is linked with, they will not get the RAF bonus.
(unless they changed it to be 4 levels, but I don't think so)

[Zaelar]

I'm not sure how far apart your level can be but you definitely don't need to be the same level.

Also I can answer my own question, skull level mobs are still giving me raf exp. Whether there is a limit even further than that(possible but unlikely) remains to be seen, but the longer this thread gets the more it seems like it's either an error or an oversight on blast3r's end.

[Smoooth]

I have tested this out level by level.

If the linked characters are 3 levels or less difference from each other they will both get RAF bonus as long as the kill isn't gray to either.
If they are more than 3 levels apart the LOWER level character only will get RAF bonus as long as the kill isn't gray to the higher level character.
This also applies to quest RAF xp bonus. As long as the quest isn't gray to the higher level character the lower level will get the bonus regardless of the level difference.

An example of a test I personally did was take an 80 unlinked with a lvl 20 linked with a lvl 40 to SM. The lvl 20 received 3x XP with RAF and the lvl 45 received 2x XP with rest until it ran out then it was 1x XP.

[Maxion]

Thank you for that info Smooth. :)

[falsfire3401]

My buddy recently started RAF instance boosting after I talked about doing it when my prot pally/holy priest duo hits 80 (since I want a prot pally to boost with).

He already has an epicced L80 prot pally so just RAFed in the two accounts (A->B->C) and hit the dirt running.


Some lessons learned that many may know but others may not:
* Trying to pure grind 1-8 with the two toons that you're going to boost is painful and slow. Sure the first few levels go fast but after a bit you're killing slowly and the XP takes forever to come in. So when I do my first pair, I'm going to setup only one thing: interact with target and assist macro on the slave. Then I will do quests, probably just doing the 1-6 noob zone quests at triple XP will get me to L8

* RFC: You just can't pull the whole instance at once. There's orcs at the end that, when you have enough of them on you, will chain-shieldbash you into the ground. It doesn't do much damage but it prevents you from doing *anything*. It was a long, slow, agonizing to watch death for his 25k hp prot pally but he couldn't do anything to stop it, he never had even a half-second where he could cast or do anything.

* SFK: Be careful not to get your slaves stuck. There's lots of corners and tight spaces they can get stuck in when you're trying to follow-drag them to the next spot where they'll wait. If you don't notice a stuck one (he didn't have jamba to warn him of follow broken), then they fall behind on xp

* SM Lib: Dunno why but he had a real hard time with it with his alts getting aggroed. I told him to leave them at the entrance and pull back to them, casters will follow you when you break LOS. He had to run it to get the key.


Then, something that happens often on my realm happened just as he was about to do armory:


Transfer aborted. Unable to launch additional instances

That happened to me when I was trying to 'dry run' some of the higher instances with my 80 hunter to see how viable she'd be as an RAF booster. (realized it just won't work, UD Strat took me 38 minutes from zone-in to zone-out, ready to reset, and actually came close to dying a couple times when I did big a$$ pulls of stuff like the abominations outside baron's house) Thank gawd for a crab pet, who although he's not great at holding aggro off my full-epic hunter, can stand up to one helluva punishment and from HIS talents gets better HOT healing from my mend pet than an epic druid can provide lol (1500/tick). And I'm not even BM spec...I'm SV main and MM offspec (used MM for testing, for uninterruptable volley).