Boosting /played time /w recruit-a-friend

Well, Suvega and I had our lowbies hit 60 yesterday with about 1 day, 4 hours /played (this includes about 4-5 full wipes as we were figuring out ZF/Strat and some afk time).

I have no doubt it could be done in under a day, but we're pleased with the result. It does sound like (from another thread) the boosting method MAY have been nerfed (in that if ANY person in the party "sees gray" then you lose the 3x bonus? Can anyone confirm? I'm at work and can't check). If so, I kinda saw it coming. Even so, non-boosting with 3x experience would literally be FLYING and would still be totally worth it. Not as fast as boosting, but still pretty darn quick.


EDIT: For reference, here are the armories for the boosted characters--
Vyndree's Referral: Vÿndree, 60 NE Druid (resto)
Vyndree's Veteran: Snuggleßunny, 60 Gnome Warrior (fury, might as well be unspecced)
Suvega's Veteran: Kamehamehaa, 60 Draenei Pally (holy)
Suvega's Referral: Nyzel, 60 Gnome Rogue (unspecced -- didn't even train stealth until 60)

They're all revered with AD, which is nice. ;) I dumped about 100g into each of my lowbies and just BARELY managed to train all of my abilities and get level 40 mounts (minimal looting done until Strat). So it's not exactly cost effective compared to questing, but at least when they're 70 they'll make it up in dailies. ;)

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Originally Posted by 'Vyndree',index.php?page=Thread&postID=102148#post 102148

I have no doubt it could be done in under a day, but we're pleased with the result. It does sound like (from another thread) the boosting method MAY have been nerfed (in that if ANY person in the party "sees gray" then you lose the 3x bonus? Can anyone confirm? I'm at work and can't check). If so, I kinda saw it coming. Even so, non-boosting with 3x experience would literally be FLYING and would still be totally worth it. Not as fast as boosting, but still pretty darn quick.

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I'll see if I can check it out a bit later, but yea, the XP without boosting is insane. My 4 shaman are 35 now and I didn't put in what I'd consider any marathon effort since last Thursday... I expect to hit 60 this weekend without any trouble.

Jeez, those of you who are questing are going really fast. I'm questing as well but at lvl 30 I'm at 15 hours played. I guess about 1 hour of that would be setting up the ui, and misc idling. I also wasted about 1.5 hours running VC twice before I realised it was losing alot of XP/hour by instancing. So I guess I'm really at about 13 hours played.

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Originally Posted by 'Vyndree',index.php?page=Thread&postID=102148#post 102148

Well, Suvega and I had our lowbies hit 60 yesterday with about 1 day, 4 hours /played (this includes about 4-5 full wipes as we were figuring out ZF/Strat and some afk time).

I have no doubt it could be done in under a day, but we're pleased with the result. It does sound like (from another thread) the boosting method MAY have been nerfed (in that if ANY person in the party "sees gray" then you lose the 3x bonus? Can anyone confirm? I'm at work and can't check). If so, I kinda saw it coming. Even so, non-boosting with 3x experience would literally be FLYING and would still be totally worth it. Not as fast as boosting, but still pretty darn quick.

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God i hope not, if this is the case, I will be canceling my 6 accounts.

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Originally Posted by 'Vyndree',index.php?page=Thread&postID=102148#post 102148

Well, Suvega and I had our lowbies hit 60 yesterday with about 1 day, 4 hours /played (this includes about 4-5 full wipes as we were figuring out ZF/Strat and some afk time).

I have no doubt it could be done in under a day, but we're pleased with the result. It does sound like (from another thread) the boosting method MAY have been nerfed (in that if ANY person in the party "sees gray" then you lose the 3x bonus? Can anyone confirm? I'm at work and can't check). If so, I kinda saw it coming. Even so, non-boosting with 3x experience would literally be FLYING and would still be totally worth it. Not as fast as boosting, but still pretty darn quick.

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I haven't seen this nerf. I didn't watch closely last night but I am almost 100% certain that my RAF alts where getting 3x when I was grouped with my 70 mage boosting.

[quote='mlwhitt',index.php?page=Thread&postID=10217 8#post102178]I haven't seen this nerf. I didn't watch closely last night but I am almost 100% certain that my RAF alts where getting 3x when I was grouped with my 70 mage boosting. [/quote]

I haven't seen it either but I do believe it's maintenance day this morning?

I saw someone linked the RAF faq page on the customer service forums, which claimed that a 70, grouped with two RAF'ed level 1s, would cause the lowbies to NOT gain their 3x experience bonus. I hadn't seen that before so I'm assuming it's new -- probably a hotfix this morning?

I could be wrong, so don't take my word on it -- it's just what I've read this morning and since I'm not at home I can't verify it.



EDIT: Updated my [url='http://dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=98913#post98913']initial post[/url] with my pulls and leveling time.

I started on some how-to videos last night, just got up SM Armory right now... more coming in a few days though. I made a separate thread on it so go check it out :)

Stabface's How-To-Boost Videos

Surely they wouldn't do this.. surely..

Do you have links to the suggested changes that may occur during maint?

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Originally Posted by Stabface',index.php?page=Thread&postID=102189#post 102189]I started on some how-to videos last night, just got up SM Armory right now... more coming in a few days though. I made a separate thread on it so go check it out :)

[url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=11274

Stabface's How-To-Boost Videos[/url]

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Woot! Please keep 'em coming man, they're great!

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Originally Posted by Razuya',index.php?page=Thread&postID=102192#post10 2192]Surely they wouldn't do this.. surely..

Do you have links to the suggested changes that may occur during maint?[/quote]

I can't find the thread that I read this morning... So I looked up the FAQ myself.

I didn't realize this until I just read the FAQ again, but for sure [size=18]the XP we're gaining now from boosting is NOT INTENDED and WILL BE FIXED.[/size] If I had known this when I started, I would not have done it. At the time, I boosted ONLY because a blue had stated that this was the current implementation (a non-RAF account wouldn't deny the RAF'ed lowbies of triple XP)

If it's fixed today, I don't know since I'm at work, but [u]keep in mind this is an unintended bug[/u]. It's starting to reach into the gray-area of exploitation now that Blizzard has admitted that it's not intentional and any inconsistencies will be fixed. I will not be boosting using this method any longer due to the circumstances.


[url]http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=8765628748&sid=1[/url]
[quote='GM Vrakthris

Q: How does the bonus experience work?

Let's say we have Account A with a level 70 character, Account B with a level 1 character and Account C with another level 1 character, all three characters are grouped. Account B and Account C are linked, will they receive triple experience?


A: Bonus experience should only be granted if the experience is not trivial to anyone in the group. Our Quality Assurance Team is looking into reports that some of these restrictions are not consistent and hope to resolve the issue soon.

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