If you want to have two toons level together, via questing.
For RAF, they need to be:
- Grouped
- On directly RAF linked accounts (Example A > B > C, etc... A+B or B+C).
- Within +/- 4 levels of each other
- Both level 79 or lower
- Within a certain physical proximity of each other
If you were to run say 2x Elemental Shaman.
Having them both cast, will result in mobs dying twice as quickly.
And rather than using 80% of the mana on one Shaman, you use 40% of the mana on each...
Meaning, more kills before needing to stop, and the ability to survive larger pulls than a single character can survive.
And faster killing, resulting in reaching higher levels in less time played.
If your goal is the maximum number of characters, from RAF...
You're going to want to boost, which means having a minimum of three accounts.
The first account (A) has a booster on it.
Generally you link A to the others, purely for receiving benefits.
You need two (or more accounts) to group together and be similar level, so they get RAF benefits.
With three accounts, you'd go A > B > C.
With five accounts, you'd go: A > B > C & A > D > E.
The basic idea is that B/C (and possibly D/E) qualify for RAF, because they're together/similar level/their accounts are linked/etc...
Even if A/B (or A/D) won't work, because A is level 85...
The B/C (or D/E) does work...
So you group your accounts together.
And your 85 can kill stuff very quickly.
Quest from 1st to 10th, the goal here is quest rewards...
Since having an 85th (in your party) greatly reduces the experience from killing mobs.
Once you reach 10th, you can do instances.
An 85 can easily survive every single mob (at the same time), in almost any dungeon you're going to be boosting in, especially pre-WotLK.
While an 85 will leach a large amount of the experience...
Your two level 30 toons (just an example), could go to Cathedral (Scarlet Monastery), and survive 1-2 mobs at once... but would be decimated by 3+ level 35 elite mobs.
You might get 1000 experience (picking a number out of my ass here) with the two toons.
If you put an 85 in the party, you might only get 200 experience (again picking a number).
But your 85 can pull 75 mobs in the first pull, and 75 in the second pull... and clear the entire instance is 3-4 minutes instead of the 45 minutes it would take your two toons.
If you do the math... 150 mobs (at 200 each) in under 5 minutes... vs 150 mobs (at 1,000 each), in 45 minutes...
And that's assuming you don't pull 3 at once and die, run back, etc...
Boosting is MUCH quicker, by an order of magnitude or two.
