Help with Tri-boxing with RAF level 80

[Arakna]

I'm looking to tri-box with my MAIN level 80 Death Knight boosting through two new level 1s with RAF, what would be the correct way to link the accounts to make sure that the RAF bonus is granted?
Also, what would be the quickest way to level them, IE 10-20 Deadmines, 20-30 Gnomeregan, etc?
Thanks a lot for any help given! :)

[Bot]

i believe it would be to make a new account not linking to anything then make another account linked to that one leaving your main account unlinked to either. but lets have another opinion on that please cause im not 100%.

also i believe the general consensus is screw gnomer and VC and go straight for sfk at 10 then go to SM at 20. gnomers too big and like 75% of the mobs in VC are non elite.

then at 45 or so maybe sholomance, but im not sure about that. maybe someone else can chime in

[Jubber]

if you are purchasing 2 new accts to add to your 80. you can RAF A(80)->B then B->C. Even if the 80 is linked to B. B will get raf bonus from C still. That way when you run B and C. later you can grant levels from C to B then B to A..

[Spirithawke]

I agree with Jubber. Link A-->B-->C. That way you can create new toons on A and level them for free with the granted levels B will accumulate. Also as stated in other places here (Somewhere in the RAF threads) Level any new toons on A at least say10-20 levels before using the granted levels from B. It is very fast to level a toon to say 20 questing, especially if you make a new toon on B to run around with. you can then just delete the new toon on B when yer done with the A toon and ready to grant it the rest of it's levels to 60.

[Bot]

ah i see thats what i wasnt quite sure about thanks for the clarification :)

[Arakna]

Thanks a lot for the great help!
Now just looking for the best instance-by-level guide for the quickest levelling.

Also, Spirithawke ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=User&userID=11452') when you talk about granting levels between the accounts you mean when I'm done with the first two characters that I make right? As in granting levels to new level 1 characters after I've made my initial characters on account B+C?

Also, when I make the original two characters on account B + C, will I have to make a character on account A to recieve the bonuses or for any other reason? (account A being the one with the 80 booster)

[Slats]

Bit late to the thread for this advice but this is how I link my accounts:

Main Account (which happens to be a b.net account) sends referral to my e-mail address. Create new account. Upgrade account. Refer to my e-mail address. Create new account, upgrade account.

So Main -> A -> B -> C -> D.

I use my Protection Paladin to 'boost' my four lowbies. I quested on the 4 lowbies till level 10. Then I ran my Paladin to the entrance of Shadowfang Keep. I then use the right-click summon and summon A, when A lands she summons B etc in a big chain. The only person who cant be summoned is Main but hes the one initiating it anyway.

So here is how I do my instances since flight paths and travel is not a problem (so any trash outside front of instances isn't a drama either):

SFK 10-20:
One huge pull. Takes 5 minutes from start to finish. I pull everything all the way through to just before the big dog boss. I then take everything back to the start and kill it all. Usually make 1 level a pull. Have a few breaks for a drink or browse forums as you will hit 5 instance limit easily.

Stockades 20-25/26:
Pull the entire first wing and the left wing. Leave the right wing alone as those mobs tend to chain stun which I can live through no problems its just annoying walking 3 steps and then being stunned every few seconds. Dont make quite as good xp in here, about 3/4 a level for a full clear. Very very easily hit instance cap here.

SM 25/26 - 40:
Armory: Pull everything in the first room and courtyard. Take clones to near the courtyard door. Run all the way to the end the instance ignoring Herods door. Drag everything back to just up the stairs in the courtyard so that the clones are out of los. Kill it all.

Cathedral: Lots of different ways to do this. You can pull the whole place if you want but sometimes you run into wierd aggro issues with the Cathedral wide aggro and can get your clones killed for no reason. I do it in 2 or 3 pulls and then move my clones up to the Cathedral. You should not run into a reset limit here and can just keep powering on - if you do hit it you can afford to do less crazy pulls and take it a bit slower.

ST: 40 - 45
Just kill all the dragons in the top tier. There is tonnes of them. If you find you are htiting reset limit just go kill the hallways full of trash. Some of it resets and paths wierdly so be careful of LOS. Not somewhere you want to be for long but it beats the crap out of green mobs in SM Cath.

Scholomance: 45 - 60
Some people prefer Strathholme but personally I dont enjoy the insane amount of curses and diseases in there that all last for like 30m - 1hour. I also dont think the trash is that well laid out. So I pull everything in the first room of Scholo up the stairs and AoE it. Then everything in the skellie summoning room. Then everything in the room leading up to the dragon whelps and the door room. Basically just AoE big rooms full of yummy trash. I would loot here for a tonne of Runecloth and just load up your clones bags with it. You'll make some decent cash.

[Gares]

I like this RAF plan.

[EvoX]

I have to say that I've tried questing and boosting in Westfall to get new toons from 1-10, and Westfall wins hands down. I'm by no means fast about this, but with the macro/addon and UI setup time on the four new guys I was able to get them from character creation to level 10 in under 2 hrs. The spot in Westfall is on the NW beach, due north of the letters "AN" in JANGALODE MINE on the world map. There is a group of yellow crabs that respawn faster than you can kill all of them. I just park my newbs on a log thats centered among the crab respawns and take out crabs non-stop. The area of crabs has a patch of murlocs on each side of it, but they're far enough away that the only thing thats ever agro'd my lowbies is a Rare mob (a murloc named Brack). Anyway, huge thanks to Slats for the rundown on Instances. My new guys just hit 20 and I was debating between Stocks and SM.

[Arakna]

Thanks a lot Slats, but SFK is horde only right?
Would DM do the trick as well as SFK do you think?

EvoX, I am only going to be using one level 80 and the two new fresh level 1s, would that plan still be the quickest for me? Do I just kill the crabs with my level 80 and my other characters will still recieve the RAF bonus?

Thanks a lot.

[Kenspeckle]

the A--->B--->C method of RAF invites will work well for you. Remember that C will be granting levels to B toons. There's no way around that aside from moving a toon you want from A to B (which you can do as long as the accts have the same last name) for the bonus levels. It's wise to grant the gift levels to a lvl 30 toon....the run up to 30 is quicker than 30 to 60 and so you take max benefit from the RAF gifted levels.

Here's an excellent guide from boosting. It didn't get a lot of love when posted, but it's been helpful to me in that it's linked to wowhead quests. They are worth doing b/c they give crazy experience for a minimum of running around. My addtional advice is to have your toons stoned to the major cities/different continents and use "summon friend" to move them quickly. That's helped with the travel time.

Here's the guide link: RAF Dual-boxing 'Boosted' Powerleveling Guide for Newbs ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=19585')

[EvoX]

"Thanks a lot Slats, but SFK is horde only right?
Would DM do the trick as well as SFK do you think?

EvoX, I am only going to be using one level 80 and the two new fresh level 1s, would that plan still be the quickest for me? Do I just kill the crabs with my level 80 and my other characters will still recieve the RAF bonus?

Thanks a lot."


Something to clarify: I have a level 80 Pally and a 80 Unholy DK on the same account. I tried each of them separately as the booster just to decide which fit better for me. I wouldn't want to use two boosters at the same time for fear of killing too fast in lower levels and eating up xp .

Either faction can do SFK. On a PvP realm you might run into some level 20's toons but with an 80 you should be fine. When I played on a PvP I dont remember there being much (if any) high level character activity in Silverpine Forest. Its basically the horde territory's version of Westfall. There was a lot more to be concerned with at Scarlet Monestary and getting through Tirisfal Glades, especially near Undercity. My preferred method of travel is to just take my mounted main to the summoning stone at either instance then party the lowbies and summon toon B, toon B then summons toon C... rinse and repeat as necessary. I didn't summon using the stone, I just chose it because the stone is generally in a mob-safe location. I also tried DM this past weekend on another set of toons and although its easy, the levelling was slower and the run back to the entrance got old. SFK just seemed much more compact and easy to develop a method.

You are correct about the crabs. Park the lowbies on the log and kill with the main. Thats all your lows have to do is sit in your proximity and let your main do all the work. Also, the main here doesn't have to be level 80 by any means. I actually did this part for one set with my DK and for another set I used a 58 Druid. They were basically the same output, because Cat form was great in this application. A 1xp per kill difference was all I seen.

Regarding the XP on the beach - it may seem tedious at first, as you'll be getting 6xp per kill at level 1, 9xp at level 2, 12 xp at level 3 and so on (consistently adding 3xp per level). If I had this part to do over again, I'd maybe have the low levels grind in the noobie area to level 3 or 4, then summon the toons to the beach. I felt like that might have reduced the levelling time. Other than that, its been pretty efficient (relative to my normal progression).



EDITS: Grammar & typo correction, added/updated with more info

[Arakna]

I greatly appreciate the help EvoX, thanks a lot!
I will be starting my Multi-Boxing adventures in a few days time, still trying to work out the final decisions on my part though, what classes and what not. I don't really want to go with the standard 5 shammies or something similar to that as the reason I am going to be doing this is to actually get a few more level 80s (eventually) of classes that I haven't really played before.
But I think I will definitely try out one of the 5-classes multiboxing after this plan, but at the moment I think I am going to stick with something such as:
Death Knight - main
Druid
Shaman
Paladin
(Perhaps Warlock as 5th, probably not though)
Would this be way too complicated to multi-box at later levels do you think?

[EvoX]

I greatly appreciate the help EvoX, thanks a lot!
I will be starting my Multi-Boxing adventures in a few days time, still trying to work out the final decisions on my part though, what classes and what not. I don't really want to go with the standard 5 shammies or something similar to that as the reason I am going to be doing this is to actually get a few more level 80s (eventually) of classes that I haven't really played before.
But I think I will definitely try out one of the 5-classes multiboxing after this plan, but at the moment I think I am going to stick with something such as:
Death Knight - main
Druid
Shaman
Paladin
(Perhaps Warlock as 5th, probably not though)
Would this be way too complicated to multi-box at later levels do you think?

I'm sure there are many others here that could answer better than I'm able, but here's my multi-class experience: As long as you plan out the synergy of of your Action bar layout... lead attack being on one key, DPS and AOE attack keys, heals and buffs appropriately keyed for all toons, a Panic button for all (Fear, Nuke, etc) then multi-class isn't too bad. I think the hardest part is suppressing your urge to train every new skill thats available. Keeping it simple is key. Also, plan as much out as you can prior to starting. Team compositions, races, summoning strategy, all of that will help you get the most from your 90 days. Prior to starting I rolled some "dummy" toons and placed them in various spots (SW Bank, Silverpine, Auberdine) to serve as RAF summoners to help them travel from point A to B to C and so on. I even went as far as thinking up some naming schemes prior to rolling this RAF set.. I've always sucked at coming up with good names for them.

My first attempt 5 boxing was a team of Pally, Priest, 3x Hunters. I've ran them up to 65, and I think my main has 14 deaths total (remember, I'm on PvE). The next combo I played to 30 then gifted to 58 was Rogue, Druid, Mage, Hunter, Warlock. That one felt so OP it was unreal. I led with the Rogue equipped with a Crossbow and at times I worried that he wouldn't get his dagger skills built up fast enough as he leveled, because hardly anything lived long enough to get more than one hack in. I used the RAF 1-60 Tourguide found here on dual-boxing forums for both sets.

Good luck to you and enjoy the ride :)

[Arakna]

Cheers for the help again!
When my 3-4 accounts hit 58 and travel to Outland, would it still be a good idea to boost them through the Outland instances with my main?
Or something I was thinking about is to use granted levels to have another 60 on my main account and then multi-box throughout Outland/Wrath instances. Which of the two options would work better? Is option one even viable when the RAF bonus stops?
Thanks :)

[Arakna]

Also, another question:
In the FAQ, it says that characters can only be given 30 "grantable levels", is this overall or from one character?

[alcattle]

Also, another question:
In the FAQ, it says that characters can only be given 30 "grantable levels", is this overall or from one character?No, each toon can grant 1 level for every 2 levels it achieves. That is where the 30 comes from. RAF toon a -> toon B, Toon A is level 1. Toon B is level 60. Now say you level second toon B to 30. That 30 toon can make to A a 15 with no effort on the Toon A's part. Then 1st Toon B can grant 30 levels making Toon A a level 45 without doing a thing but creating that Toon. Soory if it is not clear, but I leveled a friend with 3 of my toons during our RAF. He ended up with 2 60s and I had a 60, 35 or so and a 10~ which was a toon I played when he was not on.

[Arakna]

So if I have two 60's on Account B, I could level a fresh level 1 on Account A to 60 instantly?

[Sychosys]

So if I have two 60's on Account B, I could level a fresh level 1 on Account A to 60 instantly?You can find Youtube videos, I think they take like 3min to grant all the levels :)

[EvoX]

See next post. I need to switch to Chrome. IE is soooo slow on the forums. :)

[EvoX]

Also, another question:
In the FAQ, it says that characters can only be given 30 "grantable levels", is this overall or from one character?No, each toon can grant 1 level for every 2 levels it achieves. That is where the 30 comes from. RAF toon a -> toon B, Toon A is level 1. Toon B is level 60. Now say you level second toon B to 30. That 30 toon can make to A a 15 with no effort on the Toon A's part. Then 1st Toon B can grant 30 levels making Toon A a level 45 without doing a thing but creating that Toon. Sorry if it is not clear, but I leveled a friend with 3 of my toons during our RAF. He ended up with 2 60s and I had a 60, 35 or so and a 10~ which was a toon I played when he was not on.

This really depends on how many toons you would like to have. I had too much trouble granting levels to a character for levels 1-20ish because it takes so little time to get them that far anyway. As I said in an earlier post I have two level 80s, a Pally & Unholy DK. I have 5 accounts and my plan for this is to transfer one level 80 to Acct 5 and stagger the teams with a booster at each end since Acct 5 can't be granted levels. Here's a visual of the scheme:

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/9226/boostingscheme.th.jpg (http://img530.imageshack.us/i/boostingscheme.jpg/)

[Arakna]

Thanks for the help, but I still haven't been able to find the simple answer to my question :P
If I have two 60s on Account B, can I grant 30 levels from each character to a level 1 on Account A and get him to level 60 purely through granted levels?

[Sychosys]

Guess saying it took about 3min to do it wasnt enough of a yes so

YES

hehe

[Arakna]

Haha was just making sure :)
Thanks for the help.

[Sychosys]

No worries, I have a bad habbit in answering in full sentences.. Stupid years of paying attention in English class!

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