[Sunken Temple Zolo Boosting]The tips and Tricks

It will get nerfed by Blizzard, it creates too large a gap between "normal" leveling and power leveling - while SM/etc are maybe maximum 2x faster than leveling normally, the Zolo trick is 4-6x faster or more. And it will eventually be used by botters, china farmers, people who ebay WoW accounts, etc, especially as word of it spreads more and more. When you see 20+ 70 pallys in sunken temple, pretty much assume the next week its getting hotfixed (so far on my server just 1-2, including myself :)

Anyways couple more notes, from a paladin doing it. First, as mentioned, your shield doesn't matter. Get a high durability one, and lots of them. I bought the 85 dura ones from Stonard, just so I can clear bags of them if I need. I set my hearthstone to Stonard, and every few hours jump down, hearth back, repair, and run back. I actually do NOT have the trinket from shattered halls and my prot gear is ok (blues + few epics), you have to monitor it more closely and use seal of light + attack skeleton + use bubble every cooldown/heal. I might respec to support imp conc aura + holy talents so you can heal anytime. The most important buff as a paladin is sanctity aura. You do NOT need to attack anything, except to get seal of light going if you want (make sure not to attack zolo or mijan!). You do not need retribution aura either, you can use conc or devotion (doesnt matter much). The skelies despawn after 40 seconds and give XP as long as you did some damage to them, which sanctity aura will. If your gear is good enough you can actually take virtually no damage, but its very hard as a pally since you need a ridiculous amount of dodge/parry/block rating - a epic'd warrior has easier chance of this. Really, really try to get the trinket from shattered halls, it will make it much easier. Sadly 8 runs so far and no trinket for me :(

I should be trying this this weekend. I dont have the trinket but I should be able to pull it off still. I dont know how long I can take the repetition though :D. My 4 shammies did 20-29 in SM and a few more levels I'll tote them out to ST.

[quote='Overflo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=94762 #post94762]I'm sure a GM would just say a creative use of game mechanics. They must know that this form of powerleveling is possible and the fact that they have done nothing about any of the forms of powerleveling through instances must say something. Besides if they wanted make skeles worth 0 xp or significantly lower xp then problem solved, id prolly still do it for lower xp though i only look at my screen to change broken shields and trinket while i do other stuff online.[/quote][url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=79181#post79181'][WoW] AOE Paladin Boosting, when to move on to next instance?[/url] Post #65

puppychow: Ya getting the trinket is a huge pain, my best advice is find a healer who needs the rep and is willing to do countless runs with you, make it known you are only their for the trinket. Respecing a bit into holy isnt a terrible idea either, i have one friend who only specs into 21 prot the rest holy that way he can last as long as his shields permit, with seal of mana he can holy shock every once and awhile when his trinket is down or just spam FoL until its off cooldown, just another option for you that way you can still do some pve content(providing you have some holy gear) without being gimped, divine illumination is nice but not entirely necessary.

Valtrex: it's not as painful as RFC/SM powerleveling its actually rather satisfying, the only time you work hard is clearing space for your alts to not pull aggro to zolo/mijan afterwards, gear depending of course, you could probably have the internet up on another screen or some form of instant messaging to talk with friends. The trinket definetly makes it less of a babysitting process on your pally, all you need to watch for is shield durability and when your health is low/trinket off cooldown.

Last night I lasted 3hours with Zolo before all my gear broke and my alts went from 39-47, the entire time,excluding the last 20 mins where more babysitting was required due to broken gear, i was watching red vs blue episodes and listening to music while surfing these forums :D.

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Originally Posted by 'puppychow',index.php?page=Thread&postID=94803#pos t94803

It will get nerfed by Blizzard, it creates too large a gap between "normal" leveling and power leveling - while SM/etc are maybe maximum 2x faster than leveling normally, the Zolo trick is 4-6x faster or more. And it will eventually be used by botters, china farmers, people who ebay WoW accounts, etc, especially as word of it spreads more and more. When you see 20+ 70 pallys in sunken temple, pretty much assume the next week its getting hotfixed (so far on my server just 1-2, including myself :)

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Actually...believe or not Blizzard buffed it. The skeletons use to only be lvl 47 allowing you to max out at 56. About 2 weeks ago they made the skeletons lvl 49 which now allows you to finish at 58 and head straight into outlands. The thing is that this change ONLY buffs Zolo boosting. Which means you can almost assume that Blizzard specifically buffed this on purpose.

[quote='Knobley',index.php?page=Thread&postID=94794 #post94794]Seems to me the Zolo trick deserves wikification by someone qualified to do it.[/quote][url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=93540#post93540']
In the other thread in post #292[/url]

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/399...8100405eq0.jpg

You can see on the pic that if you stand on the elevated portion of the platform that the skeletons will all try to "path" the same way to you and pretty much all stack up in the exact same spot. Now if you turn your back to Zolo enough so that his attacks no longer get blocked and you of course don't have retribution aura on Zolo will never take damage and last indefinitely. You will no longer need to reset Zolo nor need Miljan. The only reason you would need to stop would be to repair. However since you can actually do this with no durability gear equipped as long as you got enough shields you can keep going forever. It does suck with no gear though but it's doable :)

oddly seems as if blizzard is supporting this form of leveling even if it wasn't intentional, let hope they further support our cause :D but i can't see them nerfing it now, the seem to have taken their stance on boosting and it moreso has to do with lowbies tagging mobs and getting full experience as higher level finishes them. They haven't done much to change boosting in instances so my guess is they won't. Only time will tell i guess.

Edit: TDog, am definetely going to have to try that out tonight, i like using rank 1 consecration that was im certain ive tagged all the mobs, but thats moreso for being safer then sorry, im sure BoS tags them all or shield spike would tag all of them over their 45 second duration but their is a small % chance you will miss some over the course of time, i guess all thats left is the math of which is more efficient the small amount of exp lost in the freak incident that you don't tag one every once and awhile, or the time lost getting mijan, requires to much work to do the numbers without any data :p but it probably pretty conclusive that the time saved from this corner method steers it ahead.

the only minor problem, mostly for me, is that id have to keep my shamans a little more vulnerable in order to get the healing totems on my pally, but i dont start using those until most of my gear is broken anyways so once again not a big deal. hoping to get to 58 tonight using this strategy.

I plan on giving this a try in a lvl or two...
my paly is an Engineer and will just bring
a repair bot or two :-)

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Originally Posted by Tdog',index.php?page=Thread&postID=94842#post94842][quote='Knobley',index.php?page=Thread&postID=94794 #post94794]Seems to me the Zolo trick deserves wikification by someone qualified to do it.[/quote][url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=93540#post93540

In the other thread in post #292[/url]

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/399...8100405eq0.jpg

You can see on the pic that if you stand on the elevated portion of the platform that the skeletons will all try to "path" the same way to you and pretty much all stack up in the exact same spot. Now if you turn your back to Zolo enough so that his attacks no longer get blocked and you of course don't have retribution aura on Zolo will never take damage and last indefinitely. You will no longer need to reset Zolo nor need Miljan. The only reason you would need to stop would be to repair. However since you can actually do this with no durability gear equipped as long as you got enough shields you can keep going forever. It does suck with no gear though but it's doable :)

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Where are the lowbies at while you are standing here? In the nearby stairwell right before you get here?

ya usually in the stairwell out of line of sight, they can pull the skeletons if they get to close so the stairwell should be sufficient enough to prevent that from happening.

Also TDog, i have a question about the corner strategy. When i normally do Zolo he constantly moves about infront of me always changing positions despite the fact my position ever changes, i dont even look a different direction. Does this strategy eliminate that from happening and he stays relatively stationary in that one position?