RAF Time Played to 60.

[Reddewman]

Like the title stats, how long should it take to get to level 60 with the RAF option?

[MiRai]

Instance boosting? Questing? Using the LFD tool? Queuing for BGs? 2 Accounts? 5 Accounts?

I can give my answer though...

Instance boosting 4 accounts to 60 with an 80 Warrior I had /played times around 16 hours per team. If I buckled down and stopped dicking around between runs I'm sure I could've gotten it down to about 12 hours per team; but I like to take breathers every once in a while. :)

[Reddewman]

Instance boosting? Questing? Using the LFD tool? Queuing for BGs? 2 Accounts? 5 Accounts?

I can give my answer though...

Instance boosting 4 accounts to 60 with an 80 Warrior I had /played times around 16 hours per team. If I buckled down and stopped dicking around between runs I'm sure I could've gotten it down to about 12 hours per team; but I like to take breathers every once in a while. :)



WoW that's insane man. I may just have to do this.

[baztubox]

Instance boosting? Questing? Using the LFD tool? Queuing for BGs? 2 Accounts? 5 Accounts?

I can give my answer though...

Instance boosting 4 accounts to 60 with an 80 Warrior I had /played times around 16 hours per team. If I buckled down and stopped dicking around between runs I'm sure I could've gotten it down to about 12 hours per team; but I like to take breathers every once in a while. :)


rafed 4 charakters

1-10 quest
10-20 SFK (Boosted with a level 80 Moonkin)
20-40 SM ((Boosted with a level 80 Moonkin)
40-45 BRD (Teleported with remote and boosted with 80 prot Pala)
45-55 Scholo (Boosted with 80 Prot Pala)
55-60 Ramparts ( Boosted with 80 Prot Pala)

i did not loot during 10-55 and i took me 14h 21m. Note that you will get looked out from SM due to many runs.. just head out and kill everything outside or log out and make a nother team and quest with them to level 10.

[MiRai]

WoW that's insane man. I may just have to do this.
This is the second set of accounts I've RaF'd and I have been playing the game since retail release so I know my way around levels 1 - 60 pretty well. :)

Keep in mind that you'll be wearing some super low level gear once you actually start questing [which isn't very exciting for DPS or mana regen] and you'll have to setup all your keymaps/macros at once which can be overwhelming. And also having to drop large amounts of gold across all those characters at once for all the training you missed in the last 50 levels [10 - 60].

I quested my first sets of teams to 60 and after doing these sets in instances I would never go back to questing from 1 - 60 unless I felt nostalgic about the old world. :)


i did not loot during 10-55 and i took me 14h 21m.
Very nice. I did very little looting as well until Scholomance.

[Toned]

I use a lvl 80 paladin to power level with.

Was able to do 1-60 in like 9-10hrs on 4 toons :)


1-10 quest
10-20 SFK
20-40 SM
40-45 BRD (Teleported with remote)
45-55 Strat (Dead Side 1 pull, Live Side 1 pull)
55-60 Ramparts ( 1Pull Zone in To Ramp... Pull rest of the top and kill 2 bosses.)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I quested the whole way on my RAF guys (back pre-LK) and it was something like 2 days /played. Yes, I looted. And I kept up skinning/mining/herbing along the way.

[Mosg2]

My best is just over 6 hours from 1-60 instance boosting. This involved making the characters and logging them in and then fixing macros/UI, logging out and then deleting/remaking the toons to save some time :) Plus a set of summon characters at each of the boost sites.

Basically, if all if your logged time goes to leveling you can do it in under 8 hours.

[Toned]

My best is just over 6 hours from 1-60 instance boosting. This involved making the characters and logging them in and then fixing macros/UI, logging out and then deleting/remaking the toons to save some time :) Plus a set of summon characters at each of the boost sites.

Basically, if all if your logged time goes to leveling you can do it in under 8 hours.

Well ya the summon site toons = a given but I didn't think about the deleting and remaking toon approach. I'll have to try that if I ever RAF again to see if I can set a new personal best good info.

[Reddewman]

I've started a druid team and I'm trying to get looting down, can i make a macro so i don't need to keep switching to the different accounts to loot?

[Ualaa]

Non-RAF will be almost 3x as long as without RAF.
You don't get bonus experience on the exploration with RAF, but that's not a huge amount of the exp from 1st to 60th.

Instance boosting is the fastest.. when experience is 3x the normal, so it will be the fastest still when its 1x normal experience, but the margin between instances and other methods of leveling will be smaller.

[Ualaa]

I've started a druid team and I'm trying to get looting down, can i make a macro so i don't need to keep switching to the different accounts to loot?


You'll just need to have an Interact With Target (IWT) keybind on all toons.
It is a wow keybind, in the Targeting Options section (Escape - Keybinds).

And then have a key for the slaves to assist the main toon.



1. Target a mob/corpse on the main.
2. Hit your assist, so they all target the corpse.
3. Spam your IWT keybind, until they stop looting.

For gathering quests, they'll each eventually get all the drops.
If a quest item is not tradeable, they won't loot more then they need.
If it is tradeable, then the main can loot enough for the team and trade them across.

[Shodokan]

Group 1: 12 hours
Group 2: 9 hours
Group 3: 10 hours
Group 4: 8 hours
Group 5: 8.5 hours
Group 6: 9 hours
Hope that helps.

[mikekim]

I quested the whole way on my RAF guys (back pre-LK) and it was something like 2 days /played. Yes, I looted. And I kept up skinning/mining/herbing along the way.

same timeframe here - same gathering skills levelled up, apart from skinning (i had to go back over the low areas once i hit 60 - only took an hour to level) because i outlevelled the zones too quickly.

[alcattle]

Group 1: 12 hours
Group 2: 9 hours
Group 3: 10 hours
Group 4: 8 hours
Group 5: 8.5 hours
Group 6: 9 hours
Hope that helps.
might also to say how and with what, was this boosting, follow boosting, tagging??

[Reddewman]

So I've started a druid 3x and pally team boosting with my sPriest and I was looking to get into a leveling guild and when managed to find a good one, but once they found out I was boxing they gave me the shaft.. I tried to explain to them it's perfectly 100% legal, guess they were not hearing it.. Anyone else run into this before?

[MiRai]

So I've started a druid 3x and pally team boosting with my sPriest and I was looking to get into a leveling guild and when managed to find a good one, but once they found out I was boxing they gave me the shaft.. I tried to explain to them it's perfectly 100% legal, guess they were not hearing it.. Anyone else run into this before?
Yes, these folks are often referred to as close minded retards. The general population of the entire planet Earth consists largely of this gene pool. If your server isn't accustomed to multiboxers you'll hopefully find another guild along the way that might just worship you because what we do is a super cool hobby. :)

[Reddewman]

Yes, these folks are often referred to as close minded retards. The general population of the entire planet Earth consists largely of this gene pool. If your server isn't accustomed to multiboxers you'll hopefully find another guild along the way that might just worship you because what we do is a super cool hobby. :)

I'm seeing this already, I was offered to join a good known raiding guild, they said they don't level much but they can make an exception.. This dude was so amazed to 4 rejuvenation's on him and seeing them all cast at the same time was FTW. I've actually been thinking about dropping one of my druids and rolling the pally as holy and the other 2 druids as balance..? And just do a 3-box until I roll them to 80.

[Shodokan]

might also to say how and with what, was this boosting, follow boosting, tagging??

Prot paladin boosting

[Reddewman]

I've been using a shadow priest to boost my team and I'm finding it slow, the exp per kill in an instance is roughly 40-100exp and my team is at 17 currently. Am I doing something wrong?

[OzPhoenix]

RAF'inf AND doing professions I got 1-60 in about /22 hours played.

I'm currently leveling my Paladin team without RAF and while it's been much longer of course, I've enjoyed it anyway, since the Random Dungeon Finder means I've been able to skip all collection quests.

Without doing professions I've got no doubt that /16 hours or even possibly /12 would be doable as others have said.

As to Reddewman,

Make sure you're not taking them through an instance that's too high for them. Also, instance boosting with an 80 only works well if the 80 goes REAL quick, like 10 minutes a run max quick.

At 17, I'd be doing WC....moving to SFK around 20, before switching to the first SM wing (GY) around 24.

[Reddewman]

RAF'inf AND doing professions I got 1-60 in about /22 hours played.

I'm currently leveling my Paladin team without RAF and while it's been much longer of course, I've enjoyed it anyway, since the Random Dungeon Finder means I've been able to skip all collection quests.

Without doing professions I've got no doubt that /16 hours or even possibly /12 would be doable as others have said.

As to Reddewman,

Make sure you're not taking them through an instance that's too high for them. Also, instance boosting with an 80 only works well if the 80 goes REAL quick, like 10 minutes a run max quick.

At 17, I'd be doing WC....moving to SFK around 20, before switching to the first SM wing (GY) around 24.


Yes my shadow priest runs deadmines in under 10minutes, and stocks in 2 large pulls. Still noticing the small exp gain, but I'm sure I'll work this out in the future.

[Reddewman]

Just a quick update, I've already hit 20 on all toons and now got to go buy my keys so I can proceed. I am right now loosing gold due to the fact my 80 is boosting and I had to buy all bags and such, also I'm not wasting time looting as it takes to damn long and burns time.. My only problem is gear, not sure what I'm going to do since they are all still in starter gear and a few quest items.. Any ideas?

[OzPhoenix]

Just a quick update, I've already hit 20 on all toons and now got to go buy my keys so I can proceed. I am right now loosing gold due to the fact my 80 is boosting and I had to buy all bags and such, also I'm not wasting time looting as it takes to damn long and burns time.. My only problem is gear, not sure what I'm going to do since they are all still in starter gear and a few quest items.. Any ideas?

Random dungeons is the way to go.

Not only do you get a handy little XP reward at the end, but a bag filled with one level and class appropriate blue item.

Of course, this is assuming it'll work with an 80 in the team (perhaps have one of the low-levels form the group and do the dungeon finding), but I don't see why it wouldn't.

My team ran 1-50 so far and most of that was dungeon running and had fairly decent equipment (sans weapons of course) from it.

Also, when boosting using RAF in dungeon runs, I agree, don't loot. The whole idea is to make the run is absolutely speedy as possible - you can always hit up the AH at 60 for crappy cheap greens then use those to do the first half-dozen quests in Hellfire and be insta-BC-geared in what would be Azeroth level epics.

Priest is ok to boost, but if you have a Paladin (or Druid), you can get runs down to insanely quicky times, and the random dungeon finder (assuming that works with an 80 in the group) doesn't have an instance-per-hour limit on it.

[Reddewman]

Random dungeons is the way to go.

Not only do you get a handy little XP reward at the end, but a bag filled with one level and class appropriate blue item.

Of course, this is assuming it'll work with an 80 in the team (perhaps have one of the low-levels form the group and do the dungeon finding), but I don't see why it wouldn't.

My team ran 1-50 so far and most of that was dungeon running and had fairly decent equipment (sans weapons of course) from it.

Also, when boosting using RAF in dungeon runs, I agree, don't loot. The whole idea is to make the run is absolutely speedy as possible - you can always hit up the AH at 60 for crappy cheap greens then use those to do the first half-dozen quests in Hellfire and be insta-BC-geared in what would be Azeroth level epics.

Priest is ok to boost, but if you have a Paladin (or Druid), you can get runs down to insanely quicky times, and the random dungeon finder (assuming that works with an 80 in the group) doesn't have an instance-per-hour limit on it.


Thanks for the reply, but I've tried to use the dungeon finder with my 80 in party and it will not allow them to join, says Almostgotme is to high for this instance, which is my priests name. I run dungeons in a flash, mind sear ftw. I would buy cheap greens but people on my server are gay and try to sell low level greens for insane amount of money.

I think I'm going to keep them the way they are now until 58 and hit BC, first few quests out there give good rewards. I'm not to worried until wrath atleast..

[Oswyn]

My only problem is gear, not sure what I'm going to do since they are all still in starter gear and a few quest items.. Any ideas?

LOL, I've got 4 teams of level 60's all in starter gear still. Just haven't had time to level them after my RAF ran out. I already have a team of level 80's that I use to make gold, so when leveling up new teams, I only focused on leveling time as oppposed to looting and gearing/training.

[crowdx]

Thanks for the reply, but I've tried to use the dungeon finder with my 80 in party and it will not allow them to join, says Almostgotme is to high for this instance, which is my priests name. I run dungeons in a flash, mind sear ftw. I would buy cheap greens but people on my server are gay and try to sell low level greens for insane amount of money.

I think I'm going to keep them the way they are now until 58 and hit BC, first few quests out there give good rewards. I'm not to worried until wrath atleast..

You need to join the Dungeon finder with all level appropriate toons, then once you are in the dungeon, drop a toon and bring in the lvl 80.

[Reddewman]

You need to join the Dungeon finder with all level appropriate toons, then once you are in the dungeon, drop a toon and bring in the lvl 80.


Ok tyvm, was going to try this out and see how it worked but was unsure, also I'd have to re q every time after that so I wouldn't be able to run out and reset.

[Dabrixmgp]

Before they nerfed BRS Orc summoners I could do it in 12 hours. I guess blizzard decided mobs that summoned infinite mobs forever that still gave exp was a glitch that needed fixing. Im doing 3 balance druids now.

[Blacky_Chan]

In relation to the whole guild thing i have never seen boxxers on my server besides myself >.< everyone thinks im chinese or something although i do get alot of questions about it from people contemplating to start boxxing. And alot of friendly people.

[outdrsyguy1]

great thread, thx for the info.