RAF restart questions

I noticed that some of the boxers here restart and do RAF accounts pretty often. Are these fresh battle.net accounts you guys are using or is there a way to continue to use the same account and keep adding accounts. I haven't tried but I thought the limit per battle.net account was 10. I would just like to know what everyone does when they "start a new RAF group".

I apologize if this is in the wrong area, but wasn't sure if this should go in the group comp since it revolves around making teams and all.

Limit per battle.net account is 8. Apparently if you call them they can move wow accounts between battle.net accounts, or so I'm told.

I think people either transfer the 'keeper' toons over (paid transfer, 25 bucks a toon), or simply abandon a few accounts and move new ones over to their existing battle.net account. e.g. A is booster, raf BC rafs DE; and abandon the old BCDE. [or keep ABC and raf DE]. And scale as necessary for 10 boxers.

I'm personally unwilling to abandon my existing accounts or pay for transfers, so I'm just going to level throw-away characters; leveling twice as many characters as I want in the end. [well, sorta. level 40 for 30 keepers]. But everyone thinks my plan is crazy and they are probably right. I think most people abandon 2-4 few accounts, TBH. [since if you want to create a lot of teams, xfer's get pretty expensive.]

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Originally Posted by Ishar

Limit per battle.net account is 8. Apparently if you call them they can move wow accounts between battle.net accounts, or so I'm told.

I think people either transfer the 'keeper' toons over (paid transfer, 25 bucks a toon), or simply abandon a few accounts and move new ones over to their existing battle.net account. e.g. A is booster, raf BC rafs DE; and abandon the old BCDE. [or keep ABC and raf DE]. And scale as necessary for 10 boxers.

I'm personally unwilling to abandon my existing accounts or pay for transfers, so I'm just going to level throw-away characters; leveling twice as many characters as I want in the end. [well, sorta. level 40 for 30 keepers]. But everyone thinks my plan is crazy and they are probably right. I think most people abandon 2-4 few accounts, TBH. [since if you want to create a lot of teams, xfer's get pretty expensive.]

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It all depends on if you value time more than money or not. Your plan is crazy if you value your time more so than your money.

I see the most RAF, when people are starting to box.
After that, probably when people are moving from boxing a smaller number of accounts to a larger number of accounts.

Or there are people like Tim, who love to level...
So are constantly buying new accounts for RAF, leveling like crazy, then getting new accounts to do the same.




RAF is triple experience, from kills and quests.

But you can only have five in a party at once.
So if you plan on staying as a 5-box... and you want a booster, that's a maximum of two keeper accounts plus two RAF accounts.
If you had a "main account" and four accounts which were added to box with...

And then decided to add Druids, Paladins, Shamans, Monks and Mages...
RAF would make sense, even if you ditched the new accounts after the leveling.
You could boost the five sets in 1/3rd (approximately) the normal time, on accounts BC plus the two that get ditched after leveling.
Then do the same, again in 1/3rd the normal time on accounts D & E.
That costs you four battlechests, to level in 2/3rds the normal time.
You could even transfer one set of toons from the disposable accounts to Account A, if you wanted.

In this case, its using money to gain time.

Yeah; you have to want to level scads of toons. In my case I definitely want monks and hunters. I'm going to level more sort of 'just in case'
RAF is also more efficient in sets of two [because of granting;e.g. "free" 80s] so 20 really = 30,

my rough logic goes something like this:
Dungeon runs to get from 1-80 = X
Dungeon runs with RAF = x/3
30 toons = 30/4 = 8x [non raf leveling] or more realistically 20/4 = 5x since without the free 80s, i'd probably stop at 20 toons...
40 toons = 40/4 = 10x/3= 3.3x [this is leveling a bunch of 'throw away' toons to get fast xp for keeper toons]
30 toons, with transfers = 5x/3 1.6x [this is leveling 20 toons, granting 10, and xferring them all to the correct accounts]

At least, I think my logic works...

Edit: I'm not account for super efficient RAF linking where the booster gets granted levels at the same rate the boosted team levels...and I'm too lazy to work that math out at the moment....

For the cascade level granting to work out...
You need to boost/level two sets of toons, per link in the RAF chain.

So if your chain is:
A > B
A > C
A > D
A > E
You'd have to level two toons on B, for the granted levels to add up to (almost, you'd need to be boosting a level 2, not a level 1) a full toon on A.

If your chain is:
A > B > C
You need to level four toons on C, for those cascading levels (C grants to B, and B grants to A purely by merit of the levels received from C) to add up to a full toon.

If your chain is:
A > B > C > D > E
I don't especially like this one...
You need to boost/level 16 toons on E, for the cascading to work properly (with a limit of 10 or 11 toons on an account)...

Yea, thanks for the responses. I'm on the verge of jumping to 10 boxing, but wanted to figure out all this multiple battle.net account stuff first since the new mount sharing and stuff is pretty nice, but I also wanted to do the cascading of the accounts. I messed up the links when i did my first 5 so I didn't get to take full advantage of leveling multiple groups.