RAF Account Creation & Boosting guide?

[jgz]

background info: I recently got suckered into coming back to the game after about a 3 year break and have decided that multiboxing is probably going to be what makes me actually enjoy wow again. I currently have 1 account and the highest level character on that account is an 85 priest.

I quickly found this site, found ISBoxer which i plan on buying a subscription to since it works with both wow and EVE-Online (which i have been multi-boxing without any software for years).

What i have not found though is a guide on how to use RAF to create the other 4 accounts I need for my team. I know that i need to do this in a specific way to maximize the boosting and game time rewards so i don't want to do anything until i understand it fully.

I tried to look here and on google as much i could but nothing was specific to multi-boxing and people that are essentially recruiting themselves.

Does blizzard even care about that? Do i need to use different email/account information for each invite? has blizzard ever said anything about using RAF to create extra accounts?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

[Criels]

Ualaa's post in this thread shows the best way to set up your RAF chain.....

http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/48245-RaF-Gift-Levels

Boosting thread here......

http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/48187-Boosting-1-80-Breakdown

You can have 8 accounts on a single Battlenet account and Blizz will be happy to take your money so they have no issues with it :).

[jgz]

I figured as much, why would they not let people give them money.

So can i send the invites all to the same email address though or will i need to make 4 emails just for that?

Then once i accept the invite i'm guessing there is some way to add it to my main battle.net account?


Also, Does anyone know what the US dollar price tag is going to end up being to create 4 new accounts and upgrade them all to MOP?

[Criels]

Use the email linked to your current Battlenet account for the RAF's and the new accounts will be added automatically.

It cost me $59.99 per account to go from RAF trial to MoP and this was about a month and a half ago.

I missed the fact that your highest lvl character was an 85 Priest the first time I read your post. You have anything else close to 85 that you could level to boost with? Lots of different options on what to use as a boosting class but I think a priest would be near the bottom of my list.

[jgz]

I Have an 80 shaman i just used a scroll of resurrection on.

does boosting not work after 85 or something?

[MiRai]

I Have an 80 shaman i just used a scroll of resurrection on.

does boosting not work after 85 or something?
It works fine, it's just that some classes do it much more efficient than others. The ideal class to boost with would be one that can take damage (for higher level instances and larger pulls) and one that can dish out the damage (preferably AoE) instantly. Warlock and SPriest DoTs just don't get the job done fast enough (for my taste at least).

[Ualaa]

You can boost up to 80th.

That is contingent on being able to solo (with your booster), the instance you are boosting in.
I'm currently using an 85th Frost Death Knight (in almost full Conquest 4.3 gear), so pretty good health/resilience and likely low damage compared to a PvE geared Death Knight.
Still, the class has a lot of AoE power (Howling Blast) and wears plate, which helps.

The most difficult instance I am using for boosting is Hall of Lighting.
That is for 78th to 80th.
Not sure if a Priest could solo it, but there's one way to find out.

[Ticks]

My best booster has been my level 90 Shaman. My lowbies stay on follow and I just cast chain lightning on everything and the packs of mobs die before the even reach me. Mind you, I don't run in and try to aggro everything. I just go from pack to pack all the way to the end boss of the instance. I have found that rounding the mobs up and killing them all takes just about as much time as killing the packs one at a time. And in some cases, it's just not feasible to round up mobs. Like in Halls of Lightning. The mobs toward the end will wreck you because they constantly interrupt. A Druid would probably be best in that instance if your strategy is to round up the mobs.

[jgz]

My priest is actually on a different server then where i'm playing now. The highest level i have on the server now is my 82 shaman.

Where you think i could take him to solo? they have to be elites right?


Is it really going to be that much faster? I made just a 3 druid team last night I was cutting through quests so fast it was crazy, doesn't seem like it would take to long to level them.

[Criels]

Questing will be much slower than boosting them in instances.

As soon as my teams hit 10 it's off to Deadmines and then instances all the way to 80.

You're going to want to get a few more levels on the Shaman if your going to boost with him/her. HoL at 82 will be slow if doable at all. My advice is get to 85 with the shaman, go to Pearlfin Viallge in Jade Forest (MoP) and they'll be a vendor that sells 372 ilvl gear (it's cheap probably 500-700 gold for a full set). HoL won't be a problem with that gear.

[jgz]

Let me just make sure i understand you correctly. I've never done this boosting thing before, it was not around when i used to play.

Are you saying i should level my shaman to 85, then I should solo HoL the whole time while i have the other 2 characters just follow me around? Or do I need to solo dungeons closer to the characters level that i'm boosting?

Also I was planning on having a 3 druid team eventually, So would i boost 2 of them with my shaman then gift the levels back from the 2 druids to a druid on the shamans account?

[MiRai]

Let me just make sure i understand you correctly. I've never done this boosting thing before, it was not around when i used to play.
Boosting (aka power-leveling) other players (your own characters or your buddy) has been around since instances have been around.


Are you saying i should level my shaman to 85, then I should solo HoL the whole time while i have the other 2 characters just follow me around? Or do I need to solo dungeons closer to the characters level that i'm boosting?
Each instance has a minimum level requirement before a player can enter it, so you can't bring level 10 characters to Halls of Lightning -- That's why there's this thread (http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/48187-Boosting-1-80-Breakdown) on how people have chosen to go about it.

Boosting is a lot of personal preference and comes down to how much of a rush you are to finish the instance or how efficient you'd like to be. People either put the slaves on tow or they figure out spots to park them throughout the instances so that they don't get killed by accident. There is no plain and simple answer on how to go about it because if there was you had better believe that I'd sticky it at the top of every forum around here.

Questing can be boring for some, while at the same time, boosting can be just as boring for others. Mix it up, have fun with it, learn and share techniques along the way, and don't burn yourself out in the process. You have 90 days of RaF time to figure out what works best for you.

[Criels]

You're running instances at the levels of the characters you're boosting.

So if your druids are currently lvl 10 you would take them to Deadmines and boost till 15. At 15 you head over to Stockades, etc (this is if you're Alliance). The problem you'll run into with an 82 shaman boosting is when you hit Lich King instances your shaman will have difficulties or not be able to solo the instances.

You have 90 days of RAF so how you go about leveling your teams will depend on how many teams you plan on leveling. If you only want a Druid x 3 team then you have plenty of time to quest to 80 and speed won't be an issue for you.

Gifting of levels will depend on how you linked your accounts. For each character leveled 1 to 80 on a recruit account you'll have 39 levels to give to the veteran account.

[jgz]

Thanks guys, think that pretty much clears up all my original questions.

1 more though I just thought of.

My room mate is the one that got me to started playing again, How would it work if he did RAF to get a 2nd account and we used both our mains to boost my 2 and his 1 alt? would the XP end up getting halved ?

[candlebox]

As long as the accounts that are RAF are all in the same group you get 300% regardless of level. You can have an 85 and a 10 together and still get 300%. They have to be in the same group though, and summoning only works till 80.

I honestly think that leveling all the way to 90 and then starting back over is better. Makes it less brutal on the mind when you know every time you play a different set you gotta start at 80.

[Criels]

His second account wouldn't get the RAF experience, characters need to be within 4 lvls of each other. You would have to boost all 4 accounts for him to use RAF.

[luxlunae]

Also keep in mind that questing has been very badly affected by CRZ if you play on pvp servers. Getting from 50-60 is pretty painful right now.

[Ualaa]

For RAF to work:
a) The accounts need to be directly RAF linked; and
b) The characters need to be grouped; and
c) The characters need to both be level 79 or lower; and
d) The characters cannot be more than +/- 4 levels apart; and
e) The quest or mobs need to not be grey to either character

If you have a chain:
A > B > C
A > D > E

And you have a level 85 or 90, on account A.
That means, your new group of low toons on BCDE will each have one RAF link that fulfills the four conditions.
A > B and A > D will not meet the requirements.
But B > C and D > E will.

Therefore BC and DE all get the RAF bonus.
Just because AB doesn't meet the requirements does not mean that BC cannot meet the requirements.

[candlebox]

^this is what i meant..

We need to sticky this in here so we don't have to re post.