RAF order of recruiting?

[Vinnie]

Yes, I am going to multi-box using RAF, I have 10 accounts to make 2, 5 man teams, what is the best order or chain to recruit them in and, what is the fastest way to lvl 60. I have heard alot of talk about the dungeon spam leveling, does this really work or is it all talk. Thanks everyone for your help.

[Ualaa]

I would break them into two sets of five accounts each.

Create a warcraft account, using one of the ten.
From that accounts management page, use the RAF link to send an invite to your own email.
Use the email link to create an account (which is not linked to your first account).
Once that is done, use a 2nd account to upgrade the newly made RAF account.
Now go to the new (account B) account management page and send another RAF invite.
Repeat the process, until you have five total accounts used.

The links will be like this:
A -- B -- C -- D -- E

Ignore the other five accounts for now.
When you're done with the first five, you can repeat the process on the remaining accounts.

Start off with a five man team.
I'd have a tanking toon (top choice is Prot Pally, but Feral Druid is a strong option too), on Account A.
Whatever account is the first one in your chain.
The other four toons can be anything at all.

Once the first set get to 60th, do a good chunk of Hellfire.
You're basically upgrading the Tank on A.

Now use this tank to boost four new toons on B-C-D-E.
If you are horde, go:
01-10 Quest
10-20 ShadowFangKeep
20-45 Scarlet Monastery

If you are alliance, go:
01-10 Quest
10-16 Deadmines
16-20 Stockades
20-45 Scarlet Monastery

From 45 to 60th, a low 60's tank will not be able to instance boost.
But you can easily run the other four through quests.
In zones like: Tanaris, Searing Gorge, West/East Plaguelands, Un'Goro, Sithilus etc.
Take kill quests, skip collections.

I would get at least a PvE team and a PvP team on the five accounts.
Probably a melee team and a caster/ranged team too, which might bring you to 2, 3 or 4 teams.
Anything you might play, is a good idea to boost to 60th.

For every two toons you boost, the accounts will grant (give a free level 60) to the account one step earlier in the chain.

So if you level five toons on A-E.
And then use A to boost two toons each on B-E.
That is three toons per account, plus one extra toon on every account except E.
Normally, I'd recommend boosting four toons on B-E with A.
Which adds up to: A = 4, B = 7, C = 7, D = 6, and E = 4

Not sure if you'd want to boost four sets on the first group of five accounts...
And then four/five sets on the second set as well.

Anyway, once you're done boosting to 60th.
Level one set from 60th (or 62nd... wherever they ended up after Hellfire), as high as you can.
Ideally, it is a PvE capable team:
- Tank
- Healer (or 3x DPS that can heal in the DPS form)
- DPS for the rest.

Get the team to 80th and run some heroics.
That gets you... an 80 to boost with......
After 20-45 Scarlet Monastery, go to:
45-55 Stratholme or Scholomance
55-60 Hellfire Ramparts
60-64 Underbog
64-68 Sethekk Halls
68-80 Northrend.

It also lets you collect heroic bades and stonekeeper shards (when your faction controls Wintergrasp).
Spend 200 shards on PvP (Account Bound) shoulders, which give stats which scale with level -and- add 10% experience gained.
Spend 40 (I think, maybe 50) badges on a chest piece, which is also Account Bound and adds 10% experience.
I went for two sets... every account has.... Cloth (caster stats) shoulders/chest and Leather (melee stats) shoulders/chest.
The 20% experience bonus is two free levels you don't need to earn, for every 10 level bracket.
That is nice in Outland and extremely nice in Northrend.

[Vinnie]

Wow, thank you so much for all the advice and guidance. I will use it to the best of my abilities. Thanks again.

[Vinnie]

how long did it take to get to 60 on average and then is the dundeon boost the fastest way to go from 60-80

[Ualaa]

With a decently geared level 80 tank...
You can boost a team from 1st to 60th (with RAF) in 2-3 days of real time.

I would think, with a half geared 80th tank.
60-70, boosting would still be fairly fast.
But if you having flying mounts and heirloom pieces, questing is a decent pace.

Anything prior to 71-80, only requires 70% of the experience it used to.
They've lowered the amount of exp needed per level by 30%.
Add to that, up to a 19% boost to experience from two heirloom items, and you're basically looking at half time, compared to when it was current content.

1st to 60th, without boosting...
But with RAF on a team.
I'd probably quest all the way.
Take kill quests, but skip on collections.
Not really sure on a timeframe for a first team, but you'll level fairly fast.

You have 3 months with RAF, so should be easily enough time to get a lot of teams leveled some.

[Vinnie]

My accounts are brand new, what is the fastest way to get the first team up to 80 and do you have class/spec recommendations for the first team. My goal is to have 5 lvl 80 on several realms as quickly as possible. Sorry to bother you so much and thanks for your help.

[Ualaa]

If you're doing a single group of five per realm.
Then it doesn't really make a difference what you pick.

If you'd like to be able to do heroics at 80th.
Include a tank option in the team.
And a healer option per team (or at least 3 dps toons who can heal from their dps form).

If you'd like to be able to do battlegrounds at 80th.
Almost anything will work, but toons who can all melee or who can all cast are generally the best.
The fewer classes involved the easier it is for you.

The first team will level, via quests.
Basically kill things... and skip most collections, unless they get you a worthwhile reward, or open up a quest chain you want to do.
During RAF, I'd skip almost all collections, unless everyone can loot whatever item from each corpse.

If you're doing multiple teams on the same server.
Include at least one tank toon on the first team of that server.
Who will then be able to boost four more toons on the server for very fast 1st to 45th level play.

A very strong/popular melee team is:
4x Retribution Paladins + 1x Frost/Blood Death Knight.

The classic boxing team is:
1x Prot Paladin + 4x Elemental Shaman; or
1x Prot Paladin + 3x Elemental Shaman + 1x Warlock (or Druid).

I'm having a blast with:
5x Feral Druid (All Cats spec, but can dual spec one Resto and one Bear, for heroics).

5x Hunters is very strong for leveling and dailies, but won't be a powerhouse in PvP or Heroics.
5x The same class will usually be in this category.