RAF- I almost got everything I ever wanted!

[luxlunae]

My RAF expires today, and I almost got it done!

Bear with me as I try to get the formatting right

I started three months ago with this:

----------------Acc1----Acc2
DK----------------------80
Druid-----------66------80
Hunter---------------------
Mage-----------------------
Paladin---------81---------
Priest----------80---------
Shaman----------80---------
Warlock-----------------80

And today my RAF expires and I have this!
----------------Acc1----Acc2----Acc3----Acc4----Acc5
DK----------------------80--------------------------
Druid-----------66------80--------------60------81--
Hunter----------60------60------49------------------
Mage------------81------60------60------81----------
Paladin---------81&60---81------60------------------
Priest----------80------49------81------60------60--
Shaman----------80------60------60--------------60--
Warlock---------60------80------49------49------49--


As you can see the only team I didn't finish off was the priest/warlock/warlock/warlock and the RAF level hunter that goes with them.

I have 3 to 5 of every ranged class as well as four paladins and a dk. My accounts are linked 1>3>5 and 2>4, so I considered adding a couple more DKs to accounts 3 and 5, but I figure they are going to get to 60 in an afternoon anyway, so I didn't make it a priority.

I have the druids and the paladins if I were to ever decide I wanted to go with a melee team, but honestly I've never liked playing melee so x5 doesn't appeal to me.

I did my first two full teams as instance only (plus a little pvp) and the rest were either boosted by my pally or my mage, or questing on their own. Quite frankly I could have finished off the warlock team, but my main team finally got to the new cataclysm content I still haven't seen two days ago so I've been busy with that and professions.

I doubt anyone will have any questions, I just wanted to come here to celebrate that it's done! For good or evil I have 25 level 60+ toons to play with!

[Ualaa]

Congratulations.

Now you get to assemble your teams.
I'd recommend a diverse mix.

A PvE team, for heroics.
A PvP team, for battlegrounds and/or arena.
A melee team if you don't have one.

You can focus on one, if that is more fun than the others.
Or you can play any team, until its rested expires, then switch to another.

You have a lot of combinations to experiment with.
Should be lots of fun!

[Mercurio]

Very nice work!

It really is nice to have tons of different options available to you. One cool thing about having a few teams at 85 is that you can swtich toons in and out at will to get certain drops off certain bosses. It was much easier to outfit my 3rd and 4th teams than my 1st and 2nd because I would use the well geared guys to clear things out, then insert an appropriate lowbie or two who needed things from each boss I was about to kill.

Takes a bit of organization to figure out who needs what from where, then optimize your runs, but I think you've got good organization down based on your RAF results. :)

Have fun!

[Shania]

I doubt anyone will have any questions, I just wanted to come here to celebrate that it's done! For good or evil I have 25 level 60+ toons to play with!

lmao I like it, Grats :)

What do you plan to do with them ?

[Fat Tire]

lmao I like it, Grats :)

What do you plan to do with them ?

My guess is he will burnout before hitting 85 with any of them.

[Ualaa]

I found with RAF...

I had two accounts more than half full of 70's.
And leveled a ton of characters to 60th.
Then did the account transfers.

WotLK comes out shortly thereafter.
And I race one team to 80th.
And start to really play them.

A while later, I get the urge to level others to 80th.
And bounce back and forth between three or four teams.
Always playing with rested.

60th to 70th, is only 70% of the experience required.
70th to 80th, is only 75% of the experience required.
It is very easy to hit a 5% guild bonus as a boxer with their own guild.
You could easily join a guild with a 10% leveling bonus.
And then there are heirlooms, for 2x 10% leveling bonus.
If you had heirlooms x2, and a 5% guild bonus, that's 2.5 levels free in each 10 level bracket.
So less than half of the 60-70 process required and half of the 70-80 process.
80th to 85th, is rather easy as well.

I agree it is a lot of work to get say five teams to the level cap.
But the one team, that is most magical to play... whether it is for PvP or PvE-Heroics, or achievements...
It isn't that hard to level them up, and when boxing is relatively new it is very fun and a little addictive.

Over the course of 2 years of Catalcym, I'll level all nine teams (7 alliance, 2 horde) as far as I intend to take them.
One per faction intend to reside in the 70-74 "twink" bracket.
The rest would like to be 85th; I've only got two teams at 85th so far.
But with a two year window, it's not that hard of a process.

[Grail]

Great Post!

Congratulations!

I am trying to ramp up to running RAF for the first time this summer. It is very hard to guesstimate how things might pan out. There are certainly many, many variables. A post like this helps to encourage and solidify my plans. Hopefully, if I keep studying multi-boxing and RAF and techniques, I will have a fair understanding of how to proceed and what I may accomplish.

Thanks again and way to go.

Grail

[Ualaa]

With RAF...
And boosting with a 70th of the same class as each set.
Late Burning Crusade expansion.

Got to 60th:
- 5x Druid
- 5x Hunter
- 5x Priest
- 5x Shaman

Had a month of about a month of RAF left, but wanted Shammies to 70th in preparation for WotLK launch.
Have since leveled these teams:
- 5x Death Knights (85th)
- 5x Paladins (57th)
- 4x Warlocks + 1x Priest (22nd)

The more combinations you do the better.
And if you're boosting with a tank type or at least an AoE type that will help.
I'd imagine any 80/85 can solo level 60 instances, but a Pally with Consecrate or DK with Death & Decay/Blood Boil would be more efficient.

The RAF set I did instances.
The post-RAF was straight questing.

You could run instances, if you have a tank + healer + 3x dps.
Or even tank + 4x dps that can heal.

[katsurahama]

Congratulations on finishing RAF. I made a buch on mistakes my first time through on RAF so i had to start over. I did better my second time but i still made mistakes. I left many unused raf levels on the table and should have transferred raf toons from acct one over to acct five to make acct five have all ten classes. I also picked a bad server (again) at the beginning of my second attempt so that was time wasted. I told myself i wasnt going to pay to transfer toons. After raf expired it bugged me that acct was short three slots of being full. So i paid to transfer three priests over to that acct and server from my first team on this second raf trip. I have four priests on acct five that are all 60 or higher. This is fine with me though since theyre my favorite class and a great boxing healer.

Dont worry about burning out. If you make varied teams the playstyle will be different enough to keep you from getting burned out. Just rotate through them. When i start feeling like it isnt fun anymore i just change to a new team. The closest ive come to burning out was the 78-80 stretch on my highest team. For the next team, they all have full sets of 77-80 cata greens waiting in their mailboxes to speed things up.

IMO, several things help avoid burnout:
1. Have varied teams (all melee, all casters, very mixed [melee,ranged,casters], all one class)
2. Spread out their levels (dont level all your teams through hellfire peninsula and then all through zangarmarsh, etc)
3. Mix up questing and dungeons. I do all questing for a while on one team then maybe when i switch to the next one ill do a bunch of dungeons)
4. Do pvp quests when its that bg's weekend if you're x4 or x9 level. Stop a team or two at this point if a bg you like is coming up
5. This seems counter intuitive but parking a team at a point with a lot of good dailies (grizzly hills or shattrath) is a good idea. It may sound repetitive but when you have a bunch of teams its nice to know that particular team is gradually leveling without any real effort on your part. Its mindless enough that for those few minutes it takes you can be thinking about what youre going to do on the team you really plan to play that day.

When you have varied teams, the varied playstyle will make it more interesting to cycle through. When you spread out the team levels you will eventually have teams in each expansion. That makes it very different. Personally, i despise the wotlk leveling process. I breeze through bc and cata content compared to wotlk. Its very nice to get away from that and go back to a bc team or work on a cata team. I did very few bc dungeons and zero cata dungeons but i did many, many wotlk dungeons. Dailies also make wotlk less painful.

Below is where my accounts stand. The quantities are correct but the account theyre on is not correct. I do have five 85s so far but they are spread across the accts, not all on acct 1. Same for the 76s, etc. Just trying to let you know you can avoid burnout. Other people have way more toons than me. Good luck with your teams.

WOW.....1.....2.....3.....4.....5
War....65....64....60....60....60
Rog....70....70....70....65....x0
Hun....76....61....61....61....x0
Mag....85....64....60....60....39
Loc....85....76....64....60....60
Sha....76....64....63....60....x0
Pri....85....76....65....60....60x4
Dru....85....70....65....64....60
Pal....85....65....63....60....60
Dea....76....70....63....63....63