Hmm, gave this a shot. @L48 its ~1 bubble per 2 minutes... pretty sure BRD is better at this level, and you get drops if you care to take time to loot (which of course makes the XP slower).
Kind of funny watching all the skeletons die, but gets old after you break 3 or 4 shields....
Well I frankly don't care much about gear, because once I hit outland the quest rewards will replace them. If I can get from 35-55 quickly, The gear I get would be obsolete in a matter of hours.
I just need to figure out how to make zolo last longer... I forgot to jump down to reset him, so now i gotta reset..... boo
:thumbup: TDog mentioned they would be and they are. I respecced for better thorns, have 18.5k armor and just over 14k health. I did bring a shaman though for the grace of air, heal, and stoneskin totems. Tried it with out the totems and you last for awhile, but after a few minutes you have to reset Zolo(hopefully remembering to change to cat form before splatting that 800 health all over the floor the first time). Now I jump to reset thorns, but will probably make a macro to cast it and go back to bear form.
May be better trinkets would let me do it without the totems, but at the moment I don't have them.
The hardest part was getting the alts into the instance with the super wide aggro range. Definitely a nice way to move through the mid 30s and 40s.
First post!
level 55 on my new team in record time using an average geared pally with a figurine. Zolo lasts a very very long time for me. I'm using my regular tanking gear, its mostly blues with a couple epics, 495 def 11k HP's etc.
What i do to keep zolo alive is use rank one of my BoS and no other reflective spells/items and use my regular tanking gear. I break 11 shields and am on my 12th shield before my armor starts breaking and i have to hearth and repair. My team is warlocks so i just summon myself back to get back at it. 12 Shields is usually 3 or 4 resets of zolo and 22g in repairs. My figurine keeps me up easily until i break 3 pieces of gear, then i would have to seal of light if i wasnt so lazy. So far Ive only had to repair a handful of times so the cost isn't so bad as i thought it would be.
As for it being shady, I really don't know if its something blizz would frown on. I think its a lazy way to boost, but after the first 10 or so levels other boosting methods would be close in speed, or at least after 50+ would be.
Thanks to all who posted about this, now off to Strat for more boosting madness.
EDIT: Dopledin, you could try to move all the mobs and zolo away from his totems, feral charge to the totem to make room so you can thorns + lifebloom then back to bear to minimize damage. Just an idea.
We tried an average geared druid last night and it didn't work at all. We weren't seeing xp from just thorns and the druid couldn't survive very long. Tried an enhancement shaman respeced to resto/enhance and it worked better and we were actually seeing some xp gains, but zolo went down way too fast on his shield spike. Looks like I'm just gonna have to hit 40 in SM/mana surges and go quest from there.
[quote='Dopledin',index.php?page=Thread&postID=7944 5#post79445]:thumbup: TDog mentioned they would be and they are. I respecced for better thorns, have 18.5k armor and just over 14k health. I did bring a shaman though for the grace of air, heal, and stoneskin totems. [/quote]
Do you mind linking your druid, or at least giving his name and server?
I couldn't keep [url='http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Velen&n=Khonsu']Khonsu[/url] up for very long.
Knobley
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Originally Posted by Knobley',index.php?page=Thread&postID=79546#post79 546]Do you mind linking your druid, or at least giving his name and server?
I couldn't keep [url='http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Velen&n=Khonsu
Dasbeef on Mal'Ganis. Before I brought the shaman for the totems, I wouldn't last long either. The totem drops extended my ability to stand there indefinitely really. I respecced the thorns back to regular to see if Zolo would stay alive longer, though early on my swiping was the first problem.
EDIT: It looks like Khonsu has more of a neck snapping build and gear, where as Dasbeef is my tank and basically is built to last... though my gear is lacking atm.
That's a great idea, Mamut. I will try that this morning before heading into work. I don't know how much having another 70 effects exp for the alts in ST, but I'd rather just bring Dasbeef if at all possible.
Peace
Thanks Dopledin,
Respecing for Improved Mark of the Wild seems obvious enough. I think I can get my wife to make me some heavy clefthoof which I can then socket more defensively. But it sounds like you're saying that this requires a Shaman to help out... which, imho, isn't the same thing as druid doable... it's the same thing as druid+shaman doable.
Knobley
Damn you guys! I just got my team to lvl 35 and plan on doing some of this tonight. Dont get it nerfed you bastards!
Almost got my team to 55. The two shammys are 53 atm and the mage is 50. I dont think this is going to be nerfed. The only problem you are going to have is falling asleep at the monitor because after awhile you just get tunnel vision doing the whole thing.