heyaz
07-01-2008, 01:15 PM
I just finished boosting 4 alts to level 41 using a Warlock and wanted to post a bit of my experience.
General summary of what I did:
1. Quested to 10
2. Shadowfang Keep from 10-20
3. SM from 20-41
I played around with RFC but figured it's a waste of time for the following reasons: chain stuns, chain stuns, and chain stuns. Deadmines took about 1-2 hours to get to as Horde, and either way the instance is too long and the patrols own your alts.
Shadowfang Keep
I headed over here at level 10 and played it out until 20. The best part about this instance is you never have to move your alts. I played around with the pulls for a few hours and found a reliable system of 4 pulls that minimizes chances of me dying. I primarily used seed of corruption pulls with a voidwalker. Make sure to grab demonic resilience talent for 15% reduced damage to the pet.
1. Walk alts into the instance and move them to the gate. Leave them there for the rest of run - they will get experience for mobs killed in the courtyard and the bridge above.
2. Pull courtyard all the way up to the stairwell. Park your voidwalker in the middle, pop seed of corruption on at least two targets. Some of the mobs will survive due to the damage shield - this part is annoying but you'll have to kill them off with rain of fire or dots.
3. Pull the butcher, baron, and go up the stairs and loop back the other way, pulling all of those mobs. Park your vw in the courtyard again, and this time use both SoC and rain of fire as some of the mobs are immune to shadow.
4. Pull all the way through the commander, the 2 bats, and the long bridge. Park your vw on the bridge and get far away - if you get chain silenced you will probably die. Your alts will get xp from below.
5. Pull all the way up to Fenris and come back to the bridge. None of these guys are immune to shadow, so you can blow them all up at once.
6. Rinse and repeat. I skip the wolf master and arugal because at this point it's too far away, there are too few mobs, and arugal won't leave his room.
This took about 13-15 minutes per clear and about 25 minutes for each level. You may be able to do it in 3 pulls instead of 4, but I died enough times that I wanted to play it safe.
Scarlet Monastery
You can do Cathedral from 20 to about 41. I never could get seed of corruption to work well enough in this instance (seemed to take 3-4 to kill the mobs, I'd lose aggro, or the pet would get his ass kicked and then I'd have aggro). I put siphon life and curse of agony (cheap mana cost, hurts pretty bad) on every target and those two were enough to kill. My spec was 30/31, using shadow mastery for 10% more damage and soul link with master demonologist so I could take the physical damage with a voidwalker.
1. Enter instance and kill the first mob immediately - he will own your alts until they are about 35.
2. Pull the hall and the first half of the courtyard, then move your alts to the end of the hall.
3. Pull the rest of the courtyard, then move your alts to the waterfall, and make sure to kill the patrol coming down the stairs before he kills your alts.
4. Clear the upper courtyard, move alts to the stairs.
5. Clear the last room and the bosses. Don't get lazy with the dots here or your pet will die and then you will. You will probably have to re-apply dots to the scarlet abbots which heal themselves.
6. Gear your alts up with the boss drops, then start sharding them if you can. It's a 100% chance for a small radiant shard which will sell for about 5g. This should cover your repair costs and maybe give you enough left over for mounts at 40.
Run takes 13-15 minutes and your alts level in 30-50 minutes. Your fingers will probably start to hurt. I'd recommend a cast sequence macro on a mouse button instead of hitting keys.
Played time on the characters at 40 was just over 1 day. However this is my first time boxing and I spent several hours 1-10 getting things set up, as well as it being my first time boosting so I spent several hours learning the instances. I figure this can be done 1-40 in about 18 hours easy.
Hope this is helpful. Any feedback or criticism would be appreciated, as I'm sure this can be done faster and more efficiently next time around.
General summary of what I did:
1. Quested to 10
2. Shadowfang Keep from 10-20
3. SM from 20-41
I played around with RFC but figured it's a waste of time for the following reasons: chain stuns, chain stuns, and chain stuns. Deadmines took about 1-2 hours to get to as Horde, and either way the instance is too long and the patrols own your alts.
Shadowfang Keep
I headed over here at level 10 and played it out until 20. The best part about this instance is you never have to move your alts. I played around with the pulls for a few hours and found a reliable system of 4 pulls that minimizes chances of me dying. I primarily used seed of corruption pulls with a voidwalker. Make sure to grab demonic resilience talent for 15% reduced damage to the pet.
1. Walk alts into the instance and move them to the gate. Leave them there for the rest of run - they will get experience for mobs killed in the courtyard and the bridge above.
2. Pull courtyard all the way up to the stairwell. Park your voidwalker in the middle, pop seed of corruption on at least two targets. Some of the mobs will survive due to the damage shield - this part is annoying but you'll have to kill them off with rain of fire or dots.
3. Pull the butcher, baron, and go up the stairs and loop back the other way, pulling all of those mobs. Park your vw in the courtyard again, and this time use both SoC and rain of fire as some of the mobs are immune to shadow.
4. Pull all the way through the commander, the 2 bats, and the long bridge. Park your vw on the bridge and get far away - if you get chain silenced you will probably die. Your alts will get xp from below.
5. Pull all the way up to Fenris and come back to the bridge. None of these guys are immune to shadow, so you can blow them all up at once.
6. Rinse and repeat. I skip the wolf master and arugal because at this point it's too far away, there are too few mobs, and arugal won't leave his room.
This took about 13-15 minutes per clear and about 25 minutes for each level. You may be able to do it in 3 pulls instead of 4, but I died enough times that I wanted to play it safe.
Scarlet Monastery
You can do Cathedral from 20 to about 41. I never could get seed of corruption to work well enough in this instance (seemed to take 3-4 to kill the mobs, I'd lose aggro, or the pet would get his ass kicked and then I'd have aggro). I put siphon life and curse of agony (cheap mana cost, hurts pretty bad) on every target and those two were enough to kill. My spec was 30/31, using shadow mastery for 10% more damage and soul link with master demonologist so I could take the physical damage with a voidwalker.
1. Enter instance and kill the first mob immediately - he will own your alts until they are about 35.
2. Pull the hall and the first half of the courtyard, then move your alts to the end of the hall.
3. Pull the rest of the courtyard, then move your alts to the waterfall, and make sure to kill the patrol coming down the stairs before he kills your alts.
4. Clear the upper courtyard, move alts to the stairs.
5. Clear the last room and the bosses. Don't get lazy with the dots here or your pet will die and then you will. You will probably have to re-apply dots to the scarlet abbots which heal themselves.
6. Gear your alts up with the boss drops, then start sharding them if you can. It's a 100% chance for a small radiant shard which will sell for about 5g. This should cover your repair costs and maybe give you enough left over for mounts at 40.
Run takes 13-15 minutes and your alts level in 30-50 minutes. Your fingers will probably start to hurt. I'd recommend a cast sequence macro on a mouse button instead of hitting keys.
Played time on the characters at 40 was just over 1 day. However this is my first time boxing and I spent several hours 1-10 getting things set up, as well as it being my first time boosting so I spent several hours learning the instances. I figure this can be done 1-40 in about 18 hours easy.
Hope this is helpful. Any feedback or criticism would be appreciated, as I'm sure this can be done faster and more efficiently next time around.