Eta levelling 4 characters to 85

[eliijah]

I'm a pretty experienced wow player and wish 4 more shamans so I can raid more of the same class.

I'm wondering whether it's hard to do quests together by broadcasting the same keystroke across all acounts or whether dungeon levelling is quicker or both!

I'm also looking for and eta on how long it would take to get 4 characters up to 85. I know I could get 'how long is a peice of string' answers, but a range of ETA's would be lovely :)

Thanks,

Ekko

[Zub]

if it's your first time, you'll probably spend a fair amount learning and setting the multiboxing software of your choice.
Given that, levelling 4 toons together will always be quicker than levelling 4 toons separately, particularly if you use RAF and stuff.

I find the hardest part is usually getting the first levels to roll. By the time you're level 15 you should have a working system and then everything goes smoothly.
As for ETAs, it really depends how much you know the game already. Looking at your Sig it seems your highest level is level 80, which means perhaps no Cata experience. (levels80 to 85 being the longest bit of levelling)
I'd say that levelling 4 toons would take you about 1.5 to twice as long as levelling a toon solo or so.

[Zub]

To give you an idea, another poster did level 1 to 80 in 1day 5hours played:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=46365

[Ualaa]

Definitely go with Recruit a Friend.
Log into your account management page, on www.worldofwarcraft.com.
Send your own email an RAF invite.
Use the emailed code to create the account.
Then use a retail (purchased game) or digital upgrade, to upgrade the account you created with the emailed CD-Keys.

If you're on a new server.
And your existing account is "A".
Go with:
A > B > C
A > D > E
As in, "A" sends out two RAF invites, and each of those sends out one more.
You can then use a high level on "A", to "boost" lower toons on BCDE.

If you have a lot of toons on "A".
And just want four new toons.
Probably go with:
A > B > C > D > E
As in, send the RAF invite from A.
Create the account (B), with the emailed code.
Upgrade that account.
Then from that account's warcraft page, send out an RAF invite to yourself...

If you're doing RAF, get a lot of combinations.
People typically like to "box": Shamans, Paladins, Druids, Priests, Hunters, Mages, Warlocks, Death Knights.
Your DK's will start at 55th, so I would not worry about them initially.
More combinations is better than fewer, because it opens doors down the road.

[traedoril]

I am doing RAF on my 4 toons and it took me 1 day to get to 80 but i stopped there so that I could level another team.

[Xraptorx]

How did you do it from 1 - 80 in 1 day ? Did you follow a specific leveling guide?

[traedoril]

I used Zygor's leveling guide, after I got to Level 15 I did nothing but dungeons, My four man team is Tank, 2 DPS and a healer (priest is by far the easiest) and just do dungeons.

I was getting 5 levels per dungeon when I turned in quests. I do have BoA's though so if you don't it may take a little longer.

[Narij]

The easy way to do this, get your team to 15, then run them through instances nonstop. I followed the A>B>C>D>E path since I already had one account with one of everything. If you have access to "Have Group Will Travel" it makes getting to the instance even easier.

I ran my DK team to 80 this past weekend. I spent about 6 hours in outland running each instance only once (along with ring of blood), and about 8-12 hours give or take in Northrend following the same path. The only quests I did were in instances.

[suicidesspyder]

Ok with the raf thing im trying to figure out. You can only gift the account that sent u invite. So in otherwords if A invited B, B can gift levels to A but A cannot gift to B. So how would u go about it that all accounts can gift and be gifted. Ive been thinking about this but if u start a new 4 or even 5 there isnt a way is there. One account will be left out giving free levels.

[MiRai]

So how would u go about it that all accounts can gift and be gifted.
You can't. The account(s) at the end of the chain are always left out from getting free levels. If you want to create a full
team through granted levels you need shift characters around and pay for transfers.

[Ualaa]

Ok with the raf thing im trying to figure out. You can only gift the account that sent u invite. So in otherwords if A invited B, B can gift levels to A but A cannot gift to B. So how would u go about it that all accounts can gift and be gifted. Ive been thinking about this but if u start a new 4 or even 5 there isnt a way is there. One account will be left out giving free levels.

The basic choices are:
A > B > C
A > D > E

The first is great, if you have one existing toon and are adding four new accounts.
This could be true, if you're interested in making a new set of teams on a "boxing" server.
A would boost BCDE; I typically suggest boosting four sets as a baseline, because the cascade granting levels work out perfectly.
C/E get no granted levels, so just the four toons.
B/D get two free toons, and the four boosted toons.
A is the booster, but ends up getting six free toons from granted levels.



And:
A > B > C > D > E

This is good, if you have toons on A already.
Since you're not giving granted levels to A from two different chains.

It gets you the most total granted levels, spread across the team.
Only "E" gets none.



You can also go with two existing accounts.
Call them "A" and "B".
Call the one with the better "booster" "A".
RAF like this:

A > C > D
B > E

And boost with "A"; C/D and B/E each get RAF.



If you want to "balance" them out afterwards.
You can do a paid character transfer.

[dancook]

Last night I went from 20-36, running 4 x warrior + Shaman healer, I kept queuing random dungeons. (instant queue ofc)

First time I did the quests, subsequent times I took the quickest path to the boss for the significant bonus exp.

My warriors needed hardly any healing and I didn't really stop - I just ploughed through the instance chain pulling - sometimes 3 packs at a time - CLEAVEEEE

It felt much quicker than I'd imagine a solo player doing.

[Nikita]

Ive got my 3 pala + 1 DK team up to 78 by spamming dungeons + max 10-15 BGs. Ive also been using several hours fixing macros and stuff like that. And my played time is now around 3-4 days. Its very doable to ding 85 in 1-2 days played, but then you cant slack :P

[candlebox]

i just hit 80 today. I ran myself through with my 85 dk.

As such:
10-15 Org dungeon.
15-20 SFK
20-38 SM GY,Lib, Arm, Cath ( Might be better to move to others and avoid 1hr lock out, but i got lazy)
38-44 DM
44-49 ZF
49-54 BRD
54-60 LBRS/UBRS (Do both for the xp)
60-61 Ramps, BF
62-65 Underbog,SPens
65 Ring of Blood
66-68 Auchidon Crypts, MT, Seth
68-70 Bot, Arc (DO NOT RUN MECH, the instance XP is bugged.)

** I leveled two teams in the past week like this. I found that hitting 70 BEFORE you go to Northrend keeps your instance questing lined up with RAF.

70-71 Nexus
71-72 UK
72--74 AZN, Old King.
74-75 DTK
75 Ring of Blood
75-76 VHold
76-77 Gundrak
77-78 Ulduar HoS, HoL
78-80

Two ways to do the last two levels. I did both.
A) Run the 3 ICC 5 mans (Take some survival skills/more micro managing toons)
B) Utgarde Pinacle

I found this the least boring way to level via boost. Might not be the fastest, but i also got the achievs.

[Xraptorx]

By running instances and doing the instance quests, do you get the equipment you need to keep up with game content? I am especially thinking about Cata dungeons. I read that the dungeons there are brutal if you are under-geared and that getting the quest greens will help a lot more than having WotLK blues/epics.

Finally once you hit level 85 by doing the dugeon runs ( assume doing Utgarde Pinacle as Candlebox wrote) do you have the ilevel to start doing 10m and 25m LFR?

[dancook]

You're kind of forced to do quest with the ilvl requirement in cata - you just won't be able to enter instances without getting the gear somehow. <80 it's not an issue.

Other than that, personally I now run full heirlooms on new groups - even if it means grinding them before I start. So that helps considerably <80 with gearing

[traedoril]

By running instances and doing the instance quests, do you get the equipment you need to keep up with game content? I am especially thinking about Cata dungeons. I read that the dungeons there are brutal if you are under-geared and that getting the quest greens will help a lot more than having WotLK blues/epics.

Finally once you hit level 85 by doing the dugeon runs ( assume doing Utgarde Pinacle as Candlebox wrote) do you have the ilevel to start doing 10m and 25m LFR?

Yes you get the gear you need from instances assuming you have BoA's, if you dont have BoA's then you will still get the gear but one or two toons may fall behind for a couple instances.

Cata has ilvl requirements you wont be able to reach until about halfway through hyjal/vash.

LFR has a minimum ilvl as well but when you reach 85 you can buy enough crafted/boe gear to get in.

[confusedtx5]

If you don't like questing, then you can manually zone into Ragefire Chasm at lv10 and it is possible to kill stuff at that level (and you get heaps of xp doing it). Run it 1-2 times and you'll ding the 5 levels required (assuming RAF) for lfg.
That said, it was a little difficult trying to heal it with a resto sham since it only has healing wave at that level; priest however already has flash heal and aces it. my resto sham was fine once it got some BoAs.