Boosting /played time /w recruit-a-friend

Just finished 10-15 in Deadmines, including time spent summoning to DM and then summoning again to SW to get ready to run Stockades it took just shy of 55 mins (54 mins 39s when I logged). Oddly I am at 2 hours 17 minutes /played now even though my previous 2 session times = 1h 15m and 55m which should = 2h 10m total, no idea where the extra 7 mins comes from ! Might be because I alt-F4'd out, or possibly some bug with either the FuBar XP meter or with /played. Oh well.
Next up, I'll run Stockades until I hit the instance limit and see where I'm at XP wise.

15-19 took 4 stockades runs = 25 minutes. Win!
Being tired, zoning in and back out and resetting without actually running the instance, giving you only 4 runs instead of 5 before you hit L20, making you hit the instance limit? Fail.
Staring at the wall for 35 minutes waiting on the reset timer to expire is also = fail. /sigh...

Hey, better than hitting the reset limit 3-4 times I suppose!

Pro tip: Boost to L16 and a few bars or so in Deadmines before going to Stockades, each Stockades run is giving ~19 bars of XP, so 4 runs will net you ~3.8 levels. If you move directly from Deadmines to Stockades and run it like a pro, your last Deadmines run may very well still be counting towards the 5 instances per hour limit. So if you can ding 20 in only 4 runs then you're pretty much not going to hit the instance limit before you can move on to SM.
Alternatively if you like to boost a bit higher in Stockades then disregard this as you'll want to run through the instance limit twice, napkin math tells me that 10 runs would put you from 15 -> 23 and some change which is quite excellent.

Edit: Finished leveling to 23 in Stockades, sitting at 3H 12M /played now... tomorrow I'll push through SM.

Updated my initial post. Lowbies are now level 35 with 7.5 hours /played.


I'm a bit torn about where to go after SM. The mobs are now yellow to level 35 lowbies (except for the two bosses) and it's started to slow.

I know ZF is a PITA for a prot pally, but I'll have to choose between Mara and Temple. I'm leaning towards Temple though I've never boosted with a prot pally in it before, because the level range should be able to get the lowbies all the way to 45 (minimum zoning level for Strat).

Hmm, I always go to 40 in SM... how badly did the XP drop off? I didn't think it was too bad.

I will tell you ST is rather bad because trolls run away, and also turn you into a frog. So you think Dragonkin ! but they still nuke you pretty hard and put you to sleep. You can try it though.

I would lean towards BRD, or dig up all the graves in ZF.

edit: Yeah, dug up my notes on ZF... digging up all the graves by the Witch Doctor boss was a bit over 2 bubbles @ L44, pre-RAF bonus. It is a little slow getting there because you have to be careful not to pull too many totem guys, but there aren't any or more than 1-2 shadow hunters (hex) on the way. But with RAF it should be most of a level I'd think per run. I got it down to ~1 hour per level in the mid-40s in ZF so... x3 = 20 minutes or so per level. Not too bad.

Plus temple is high lvl 40s there. It is sort of like an instance after ZF. Scholo will be hard at 45 too they start at 57-60 in the first room of scholo, but if you are power boosting then it doesn't matter.

Crap, I'm having a tough time on deciding to get another 5 accounts to try this out (already have 5). On my 5 current accounts I have seven level 70's and two level 65's. I have a a couple of mid 40's and a bunch of bank alts. Figure I screw the 40's and alts, I would pay $225 to transfer old toons to new accounts. This is much better than if I leveled 15 or 20 toons on new accounts and transferred to old accounts.

Is it still quicker boosting alts through instances rather than pure questing them now the quest XP is tripled?

I'm really inclined towards levelling my first 5 box team traditionally but have a priest (one of the planned 5) at 54 already as an alt. I could use my 70 mage to boost the other 4 but it seems like a bad idea when starting out.

The temptation to boost this lot as far to 60 as possible then gift the level-ups to my druid alt team when they hit 30 is very tempting though

Oh well, fingers crossed I can get the 5-team to 60 before the 3 months is up.

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Originally Posted by 'Vyndree',index.php?page=Thread&postID=99537#post9 9537

Updated my initial post. Lowbies are now level 35 with 7.5 hours /played.


I'm a bit torn about where to go after SM. The mobs are now yellow to level 35 lowbies (except for the two bosses) and it's started to slow.

I know ZF is a PITA for a prot pally, but I'll have to choose between Mara and Temple. I'm leaning towards Temple though I've never boosted with a prot pally in it before, because the level range should be able to get the lowbies all the way to 45 (minimum zoning level for Strat).

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With a Prot Pally bootsing, I've stuck with 20-40 in SM. 40-45 in BRD. 45-55 LBRS. 55-58 EPL, Scholo, or Ramparts grinding.

What do you do in EPL exactly for boosting purposes? The kill quests?

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Originally Posted by 'Draz',index.php?page=Thread&postID=99680#post9968 0

What do you do in EPL exactly for boosting purposes? The kill quests?

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I know it's not EPL but in WPL A good thing to do is go to a field of skellies and gather them up, burn them down, move to next field. I think there are 4 fields? not sure, once u get to last field go back to first. I did this with my AOE team, lotsa fun and great xp :)