Multi Boxing RAF 1-60 Leveling Guide (updated)

[alcattle]

I am reposting the guide's info as it has not been updated. I am hosting the files and will be adding things when I see something missing.
from the sticky:


Horde and Alliance Multi Boxing RAF 1-60 Leveling Guide. No boosting. No twinking. No grinding. Just quests.
Everyone should be using this. It takes all the guess work out of Multi boxing toons to level 60 while on the triple xp. It�s the best format for a guide (IMO). It's in game.
I didn't do any collection quests (I'm 5 boxing). I didn't do cloth turn in quests. When your 5 boxing 6+ teams it's not possible to get all that cloth. I didn't put in some zones because I out leveled them. The quests were grey. There are so many quests that are not collection, that there is surly many ways to get to level 60. This guide is 'one' path to level 60. I put in many hours making this guide. I want everyone to know about it.
I would like to give credit to the people who got me started on this. See this post by Mendicant . Thanks to Mendicant who got this started. Also Thanks to wougoose who made the first TourGuide files. Because of wougoose I was introduced to TourGuide. I totally got hooked on TourGuide. (If you leveling you need this add on, the default files are all done on normal xp and solo play.). Thanks to Upas and his work as well. Upas's post made me want to post too.
Add ons you should have for this guide to work.
#1 TourGuide down load it here -TourGuide and learn about it here TourGuide
#2 LightHeaded down load it here LightHeaded
#3 TomTom down load it here TomTom
Also please get theses as well.
#4 QuestGuru(makes the quest log so much better)
#5 QuestHelper (puts quest info on you map)
#6 QuestAnnouncer (Lets me see that all my slaves didn't skip anything by reporting in party chat their quest progression.) (QuestAnnouncer is inside "QuestGuru" you just need to turn it on.)
I used SciTE-WOWInterface to write and edit the files. I will be using TourGuide Recorder to help write the Alliance guide.
Now you're ready to get the TourGuide files that are used for leveling on triple xp.
(Alliance) Install instructions: AFTER installing the above, delete everything in this folder: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\TourGuide\TourGuide_Alli ance. (you can make a back up if you wish) Then un-zip the 2 Alliance files below in to that folder.
(Horde) Install instructions: AFTER installing the above, delete everything in this folder: World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\TourGuide\TourGuide_Hord e. (You can make a back up if you wish) Un-zip the 2 Horde files below in to that folder.

As requested here is the latest build.(Both are done level 1-60)
(Alliance) Update 4. 11-20-2008 (2 files due to size)
(Horde) Update 2. 10-13-2008 (2 files due to size)

Files-->http://alcattle.net/downloads

[Furf]

Thank you I was looking for that And I dont really want to go all the way through Deadmines over and over.

[Sychosys]

Alrighty, I am going to go take mine down :)

[alcattle]

back to the front page^^^^^ ;)

[Furf]

Ok now that I am 60 I dont want to do collection quests is there a expansion of this????

[Shaddam V]

Just wanted to say thanks from someone that is just starting his first 5-box team (I have done several 2 box teams to 60 before, but the jump from gather quests here and there to absolutely none like I will be doing with the 5 box is pretty big change). I am super excited to give these guides a shot - thanks for the effort to help us!

[Tenako]

Yeah this guide helps a lot with fast leveling my new raf accounts but being on a new server also the gold from questing is a bit of a problem

[cidd]

i was pretty excited about this i got everything started but.... i didnt guy the expansions for these toons yet since they can only hit 60 and i didnt want a blood elf or dranei anyway......

does anyone have an older version that is just all in the old lands?

[-Devil-]

going to be trying this out soon, right now running a duo through instances with my wifes main killing for them ... but will be leveling up another pair or two afterwards ... using this (alliance most likely but will prob do a pair of horde chars as well) ...

[Raigirin]

Fantastic, thank you.
I am currently considering starting a new team on the Alliance side and taking advantage of RAF.

[vainqueur]

thanks man I hit my 6 warlocks from 1 -60 with 1.5 days played time. Greetz

[Ogloo]

6 warlocks? (just askin)

[vainqueur]

yeaa :) I love them

[bigbigDummy]

#6 QuestAnnouncer (Lets me see that all my slaves didn't skip anything by reporting in party chat their quest progression.) (QuestAnnouncer is inside "QuestGuru" you just need to turn it on.)I wondering if someone could give me a little direction on how to turn on QuestAnnouncer? I've been looking around for a couple of days now and really have not been able to find it.

Thanks.

[alcattle]

Sorry, I used Quest Guru the first RAF and never since. Carbonite and Jamba is all the add-ons needed. Fire up your Key-program and you are set. Well I guess you would also need Tour Guide (dah) but all the others that are in the first "manual" are not as good.
For the RAF files, I am still sifting through the horde starting section. Darn RAF is too good, you level through guide faster than it allows.
Also thinking of going back to 1 file for each faction, would save a couple steps. Thoughts?

[Mooni]

I'm so lost on this. I'm surely missing something obvious, but I can't find the answer anywhere.
I download guides. I delete the default ones. I load in the special 1-60 RAF ones.
After that, I have my tomtom and QH and lightheaded and everything up. My question is:

How do I get it so the quests I DON'T have yet (from Tourguide) show up on the map?

Knowing that there's an NPC in Dustwallow Marsh or Feralas that I'm supposed to find and talk to because they may or may not have a quest isn't a jump in convenience for me, yet. I know that once I have the quest I can track that NPC, but before it'd be nice to be able to have the quest giver show up on my big map/minimap. Or at least let me somehow get the tourguide information without typing it in manually for every single quest.

[alcattle]

Quest Helper only shows Quests you have gotten on the map, so no help. Lightheaded should show coordinates for the NPC.
I use Carbonite which works with Tourguide better, as the next thing on the list (TG) shows up on the Carbonite arrow.

Better than TomTom as it also only shows the quests you already have and then the closest not the next on the list.

[Mooni]

Alcattle,
God, how rude of me. I didn't look and see how many hundreds of posts you've made answering our questions, plus agreeing to host the files in the first place.
Thank you. I should say that before I say a single other word.
Didn't mean to dump another on you - thank you for taking the time to answer once again. Thank you for putting all that love into this project.
-Mooni

[Rainkyn]

Hi folks,
Quick question. Lately I have been experiencing a new phenom, having to run quests multiple time to get credit for each toon. Specifically the "Free at last" & "Protect Kanati Grycloud".

Has something in WoW changed that now requires us to do these quests solo or is there a trick to accepting them thatI am missing. What I have been doing is opening up the quest window on each toon and accepting the quest. should I only be opening the quest with the leader and sharing it after?

Starting to get frustrating as other quests work fine, just the escort and protection quests.

Currently using Jamba, Tourguide, Carbonite & TomTom. 4x accounts on one machine

[Rainkyn]

Oh nm, I was over thinking the issue. All I had to do was to let the addons do what they were supposed to do. By accepting the quests on each toon separately I must have crossed up the addons.

[alcattle]

Thinking about Tour Guide in general now, how much need would there be for a "Outland" MB guide? Then a Northrend Guide? We have talked about it, so is there alot of people that would use it or can you just use the game to lead you.

[Aragent]

I believe theres is a need, After all once we reach 60, we certainly want to get to 70 and then 80, admittedly BC, and LK was made to be a bit more Friendly, where group quest and turn-ins are concerned, however there are still quests that should be avoided, for MBing, also if we as a community could come together to help, this would give the guides versatility depending on what factions yet still offer very viable routs for MB leveling.

[alcattle]

The Outland version won't be as bad as Tekkub has some guides made. The LK part will take more effort starting from nothing. I am working on RAF section now while I have a RAF account going. I am willing to help and will host anything we come up with.

[Aragent]

The Outland version won't be as bad as Tekkub has some guides made. The LK part will take more effort starting from nothing. I am working on RAF section now while I have a RAF account going. I am willing to help and will host anything we come up with.

Tekkub has LK Guides made, but we will have to modify them for RAF,

I think we should do the guides in a mater that will not require Overwriting the Tekkubs but allow us to pick RAF and allow a sub catagory like the daily guides do, or midsummer Festvial ones as examples.

I have submited many zone's to Tekhub over the last few years, befor getting into MB so I am willing to help.

[alcattle]

Tekkub has LK Guides made, but we will have to modify them for RAF,

I think we should do the guides in a mater that will not require Overwriting the Tekkubs but allow us to pick RAF and allow a sub catagory like the daily guides do, or midsummer Festvial ones as examples.

I have submited many zone's to Tekhub over the last few years, befor getting into MB so I am willing to help.

I looked today and sae nothing about Northrend zones, if you know of any, please share.

Guides for certain things like dailies or special occasions would be great.

The RAF guide that were posted are good, just not complete and really should be pared down. Anything you have done, I would like to share with the group.

[Aragent]

I looked today and sae nothing about Northrend zones, if you know of any, please share.

Guides for certain things like dailies or special occasions would be great.

The RAF guide that were posted are good, just not complete and really should be pared down. Anything you have done, I would like to share with the group.

I sent you a private message with some links [I sent it private so as not to confuse people thinking these were ready for MB and RAF]

Now I recently started editing the files so we could supply a fork thus we would no longer have to over write Tek's we would just have to add our s to the addon folder and from the tour guide frame be allowed to choice our guides to follow.

That said I really see a need for two guides in this project a MB Guide and a RAF guide, of course at present RAF would only require 1-60,

Reason I see a MB guide to 1-60 as well, well for completeness really, There are some that simply already have multiple accounts and RAF is not an option but still wish to level a new team to 80. and with the experiance differeance theses really become 2 guides from 1-60 anyway , and can merge from 60-70 and 70-80.

Let me know what you think.

[Aragent]

I have reworked the framework of the RAF Guides Allcattle has been hosting and placed alliance in one file and Horde in another.

Now in the new framework you just download the rar file place TourGuide_RAF_Alliance or TourGuide_RAF_Horde folder in the wow AddOns directory and activate it in wow [it comes deactivated by defualt] and it will now allow selection of the RAF guides toward the bottom of TourGuide guide selection. there is no longer any need to overwrite default Guides.

Now that the new Framework is in-place I will be working on Multi-box guides from 60-70 and 70-80 for both Alliance and Horde I also plan to revisit the RAF Guides and rework some of the guides and Zones to give a bit more flexibility.

I also plan to eventually do 1-60 Multi-box guides without RAF for completeness [Though the later probably will not be added till after Cataclysm] but will depend on how fast the other projects are completed.

I have stated I believe this should be a community project so I will be accepting input, suggestions for improvement as well as help and files.

The RAF Guides with the new Frame work can be found here:
Alliance http://www.knightkittens.com/Downloads/TourGuide_RAF_Alliance_3.3.rar
Horde http://www.knightkittens.com/Downloads/TourGuide_RAF_Horde_3.3.rar

[Ualaa]

The 60 to 70 process will be a lot easier, with a 30% reduction in exp per level.
Not sure if collections can be entirely avoided here or not.
Or at least the painful ones skipped.

I don't believe we can level from 70 to 80, via quests and avoid all collections.

However, some collections are less painful then others.
Especially if every member of the team, via Interact, can loot an item.

It will probably be a rather large project to put together a 70-80 progression.
One which is boxing friendly, I mean.
There are a few guides for 70-80 out there, but they're from a one-box perspective.

[Aragent]

The 60 to 70 process will be a lot easier, with a 30% reduction in exp per level.
Not sure if collections can be entirely avoided here or not.
Or at least the painful ones skipped.

I don't believe we can level from 70 to 80, via quests and avoid all collections.

However, some collections are less painful then others.
Especially if every member of the team, via Interact, can loot an item.

It will probably be a rather large project to put together a 70-80 progression.
One which is boxing friendly, I mean.
There are a few guides for 70-80 out there, but they're from a one-box perspective.

I agree it will be a large project but one I think there is a need for. and I have submitted many a zone for Tek back in the day.

I agree I am not yet sure if all Collection quests can be avoided but we certainly can avoid the worst ones.

Of course the more people that can submit data based on there perfered questing routs the more we can add.

I will throw up some data probably tomarrow on how to record data and how to submit it for those who wish to help.

[Ualaa]

I followed a fairly strong 1x boxing quest stacking guide.
And the pace was impressive.

Running the same route with 5x boxing.
Well, a lot of the collections really sucked.

This would be a very worthwhile resource to have.
And the more people who contribute to it, the quicker it will be available.
Plus one person isn't stuck with the whole thing.

[alcattle]

60-70 with a slow flyer is sooooo easy now!! I ran a DK solo through HF, part of Zangermarsh and part of Nagrand and he was at 68 and high enough to mine Cobalt. Guide should be cake even without the 30 zeppelin parts :mad:

[Whowantstoknow]

Depends on the group which quests are good/bad. For example my 5Xdruids in flight form loved the collection quests where you pick stuff off the groud as you dont need to shift to pick them up. I was able to do 60-80 without any collection quests that required you to kill someone first (except for the buzzards I chose to do them as there are several great aoe spots :) )

[Aragent]

With the new framework that I added, what I would like to see.

For those that would like to help.
I would like to see members submit in a tourguide format Completed zone info edited for Multi-boxing
An example would be Horde Eversong Woods (1-13)

I think we should try where possible to have no collection quests, were that is not practical
I would like to limit Collection quests to those friendly to groups thus when item drop everyone in group can get orat very least to where drop rate is Good with abundance of Mobs so quests can be done quickly.(I would like to see that limited to 10 or under)
However use best judgement as we can always edit it later as more people test it and give feedback.

Two ways to submit a Zone or guide is to go in and edit an existing tourguide zone info or submitting a TourGuide Recorder by emailing the savedvariables it creates. to the email under the Multi Boxing RAF 1-60 Leveling Guide Readme_Contributing file.

you can also download the NuzzTourGuideEditorWOTLK I will be putting that up for download as well
I can be reached here via PM as well as the email provided under the read-me file.

I am looking forward to working with the comunity to making these guides the best they can be.

The RAF Guides with the new Frame work can be found here:
Alliance http://www.knightkittens.com/Downloa...liance_3.3.rar
Horde http://www.knightkittens.com/Downloa..._Horde_3.3.rar
NuzzTourGuideEdititor http://www.knightkittens.com/Downloads/NuzzTourGuideEditorWOTLK.rar
tourguide recorder http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10499-TourGuideRecorder.html

[VonHenry]

Sorry, I used Quest Guru the first RAF and never since. Carbonite and Jamba is all the add-ons needed. Fire up your Key-program and you are set. Well I guess you would also need Tour Guide (dah) but all the others that are in the first "manual" are not as good.
For the RAF files, I am still sifting through the horde starting section. Darn RAF is too good, you level through guide faster than it allows. Also thinking of going back to 1 file for each faction, would save a couple steps. Thoughts?

First, I'm very new to Dual Boxing (um, 2 days! :) ), so I want to start by saying thanks to all the experienced folks out there on this site for all the work, and information.

This thread (and others) are great, but get a bit fragmented and confusing. For quick clarification,
The 'staples' I use today for dual boxing are: Jamba and GCP.

To aid in questing I use: TomTom, QuestHelper, Lightheaded, Tourguide (+ James Guides), ...etc.

If I'm reading all the posts right, the recommended quest addons set-up would simply be :
Carbonite and Tourguide( + Aragent's one file Alliance Guide). (I'll still use Lightheaded as I like some of the tips at a glance)

Does this sound right? (I'm assuming a TomTom like arrow is built into Carbonite)

Thanks again to all!

Edit: Wow - I forgot I attempted dual boxing back in April '08. LOL - was surprised to see this is my '4th' post to this site.
Thought I had just signed up on this site last week....guess I'm getting easily confused in my old age!

[Aragent]

First, I'm very new to Dual Boxing (um, 2 days! :) ), so I want to start by saying thanks to all the experienced folks out there on this site for all the work, and information.

This thread (and others) are great, but get a bit fragmented and confusing. For quick clarification,
The 'staples' I use today for dual boxing are: Jamba and GCP.

To aid in questing I use: TomTom, QuestHelper, Lightheaded, Tourguide (+ James Guides), ...etc.

If I'm reading all the posts right, the recommended quest addons set-up would simply be :
Carbonite and Tourguide( + Aragent's one file Alliance Guide). (I'll still use Lightheaded as I like some of the tips at a glance)

Does this sound right? (I'm assuming a TomTom like arrow is built into Carbonite)

Thanks again to all!

Edit: Wow - I forgot I attempted dual boxing back in April '08. LOL - was surprised to see this is my '4th' post to this site.
Thought I had just signed up on this site last week....guess I'm getting easily confused in my old age!

First let me say welcome aboard.
I don't personally use Carbonite but have heard great things about it [I use a modified version of Metamap that I have maintained for years] But yes From what I know Carbonite is a multifunction addon that enhances map features and quest ui.

But in this instance yes would replace tomtom
Basicly there are choices to achieve the same goals
Questhelper [shows you the closest quest that you currently have] helpful to have for quests you take that are not in the Levleling guide (and once you are 80)
Tourguide is more like the typical leveling guide [like James for instance] that will show you what order to take quest and tell you what one you should take next.
Lightheaded is recommended as it provides the wowhead database info and helps give coordinates to Tourguide.
James Guides nice set of guides for 1-80 but geared to solo play, Great for those times your just leveling one character and for those levels we are still working on for our project.
Multi-box RAF 1-70 guide is geared to wows Recruit a friend (3X eperiance) with limited Collection quests)

we will be working on 60-80 guides as well as 1-60 Multiboxing guide the deference between the RAF 1-60 guide and the future Multibox 1-60 Guide in a nut shell is Multi box will be geared to leveling without the 3x experience boost where the RAF is if you take that rout to 60.

the current RAF 1-60 guide does not yet allow much versatility in the path taken to reach 60 (its a work in progress.

Currently the only difference between the File I host and alcattle is mine does not overwrite other tourguide files thus you can have it and the default Tourguide files and James tourguide files.

will there be differences in the future that remains to be seen.

I hope this helps in answering your questions and help you in making your choices

[VonHenry]

Thanks Much!

[alcattle]

updated some of the Allies starting areas and added Westfall 12-18 so please try these out and let me know if they work for you. Still need to do the NE start.

[dokken]

Ok, so after wasting 18 hours to only hit level 18 on 2 druids using this guide, I have come to conclusion that the original guide works alot faster. I tried this guide and the original on 2 druids with the exact same build, exact same play time and suprise suprise, the original gave me a level of 24 in 18 hours and this one only gave me a level of 18 in 18 hours. I hate to say it but I doubt this guide is any real use to anybody looking to use the RaF bonus.

[Aragent]

Ok, so after wasting 18 hours to only hit level 18 on 2 druids using this guide, I have come to conclusion that the original guide works alot faster. I tried this guide and the original on 2 druids with the exact same build, exact same play time and suprise suprise, the original gave me a level of 24 in 18 hours and this one only gave me a level of 18 in 18 hours. I hate to say it but I doubt this guide is any real use to anybody looking to use the RaF bonus.

These guides are being refined as we go along however with just dual boxing you don't receive the full benefit of the guides the guides start to shine the more toons being played as they cut down on a lot of the collection quests.

so 3 and 5 boxers will see a greater increase as they dont have to take the extra time to collect 50+ of some item for turn ins.
so they can just keep move along from one quest to the and thus will see the greatest benefit.

[alcattle]

Also, second time through the area, you will go faster no matter what guide you use. after leveling 50 toons you know them by heart.

[Aragent]

Hi all

I have recently written up my version of the NE RAF_Alliance 1-60 Tourguide

I am just checking a couple things with alcattle before I upload it and make it available.

also I refined the format this time around to make it easer for authors and users alike to recognize who wrote what zones so they will know where to direct questions about certain modules.

I hope this will encourage other authors to help with the project not only to create a RAF_1-60 Guide but a MB_1-60 guide MB_60-70 guide and MB_1-80 Guide and of course latter MB_80-85 Guide.

For Future Authors The guides are done using Tourguide Framework so Tourguide is a requirement for these guides to work.
Once the Modual is downloaded and placed into your Wow AdddOns Folder
The guide does not load Automatically you must still at Character select screen from inside wow go into addons and activate The modual.

Once that is accomplished and you have logedinto the game you can go into Tourguide to select a guide (in this new format RAF guides do not overwrite Tekhubs normal guides) you should find the RAF Guides towards the bottom if you scroll down
If you do not find them then something either did not load right or was not selected inside your addons .

As an example
You should see a Header
[------RAF Alliance Guide Begines---------]
[Aragent] Teldrassil (1-13)
More Files
[-----RAF Alliance Guide Ends ------------]

For anyone who wish to support this project and submit guides please pm me or alcattle and we can give you the info for submitting and editing the zone files to make them compatible for the project.

[alcattle]

Sounds ok, it will make the source easier to trace. I have trouble keeping track of my own updates much less all the others. We will get it all done and we all will race to 60 and beyond