45-55 Boosting in Stratholme

If you aren't to 45 yet this is another video I just made. You need to be 45 to zone into Stratholme.
35-45 boosting in Sunken Temple

I prefer to boost 45-55 in strat. I'll get around 3 levels an hours with RAF. The worst part of this is getting lvl 45s to the instance. The trash outside is mid 50s and you cant ride to the entrance without pulling all kinds of stuff.

The zombies inside put 2 annoying diseases on you. One is a DoT and -100% health regen for 10 mins and the other -20% movement speed for 30 mins. These aren't that big of a deal even if you don't have someone who can remove diseases. I'm this video I'm boosting 4 druids and I just heal up after each pull and don't worry about the diseases.

Watch out for the Eye of Naxxramas. They are stealthed and roam and when they see you they will summon some elites that will 1 shot your guys. After a few runs you will remember where they are and if you don't get it in a pull be very careful til it shows up.

Each run takes about 15 minutes and gives 75% of a level. You wont hit the instance limit so you can grind straight through to 55 if you want.
This takes around 15 runs to go 45 to 55. 3.5hrs of play time.

http://www.filefront.com/14316861/strat2.mp4
Length: 8:45
File size: 56.2MB
Format: MP4

edit: Also I suggest you loot all greens here as the DE into greater eternal essences and illusion dust which sells for lots on my server. 10g avg per disenchanted green.

Cool video. It was quite enjoyable.

What addon/functionality are you using to give the BoP items to the various chars?

nice but my personal taste in music makes me want to punch you in the face for the awful yelling crap you chose to use. personal opinion but it seems a bit like all the stupid kid PvP video's I see. We're not stupid kids in this community, let's not choose music like them XD

For some reason I could not see what was going on in either video other than the dps spam. Is it that dark when you play?

For the sunken temple. get skinning!

Good Vid. Just a couple of tips though.

LOS the casters to make group them all up so you can kill them easier and quicker. Either go around a corner or use the gates, for instance the very first pull you did, just take them all back to the starting gate and open it up and go just inside the tunnel there. Once the gate close all the casters with run to you.

Also more strafing would allow you to handle bigger pulls, although as a warrior, not having cleanse and hand of freedom that might be more annoying than it's worth.

Lastly becareful where you place your followers. Even though you may have cleared an area those damn eyes of naxxramas are everywhere and the last thing you want is to take the time to make a big pull and kill everything just to realize that you followers are all dead before the xp started rolling in and they didn't get any of it.

Yep you can pull a lot more if you strafe, I know a T7 prot paladin can pull practically the entire place in 1 go. I don't know much about warriors though.

I don't recommend looting at all unless you're desperate for gold. On my server it's maybe worth 200? 250? gold for a solid hour of grinding there, however your inventory will fill up fast so you'd spend time dealing with that in addition to the time spent looting. Not to mention the time spent tailoring, disenchanting, AHing, etc. I'd rather get the leveling out of the way as fast as possible because dailies at 80 are much better for money.

One thing I've added doing since I made this video is killing Barthilis right inside the gate. I do this by selecting the zombie/skeleton farthest away from the gate while opening it. So as it opens I charge it. I then select barthilis and give him a second or 2 then taunt him. He will aggro the whole room and you can get a blue and the key to the city out of him. You cant taunt him right away or he evades and you cant pull him towards the gate you come in or he evades to where he was running to. Just kill him right where he starts.

As for loot I just set it to master looter and pass on loot to yes. This is the first place I give out blues and I start giving out greens in Ramparts. If you boost multiple groups in here you will have more BoE shadowcraft bracers and those druid gloves than you will know what to do with. I think I ended up with literally 25 shadowcraft bracers. The shards they DE into sells so cheaply they aren't even worth it to DE. The greens however DE into eternal essences which are worth big gold. I never had a problem with my bags filling up because my shield would break first and I would go repair and DE to clear bags.

All the sections up until gates can be 1 pulled but as a warrior that can't self heal these half pulls seemed to work out the quickest in the long run.

Yes, Strat really is that dark. It's pretty annoying when you first start off in there.

The eyes of naxx where never a problem for me. After so many times through you know where they all are ecspecially if you go at the same pace each time. Every once in a while I would miss one in a pull and have to be careful until I found it. The rats that spawn in the gate traps actually gave me more trouble. Those little bastards can kill a naked toon quick.

As for the music I like alot of different styles. I know what you mean about the yelling but I guess I just have a higher threshold. Music genres that people listen to does not dirrectly correlate to age or maturity. More likely it is the environment and peers you grew up with and live in/with since. I have been exposed to all kinds of music from having been all over the world with all kinds of people. One of the only types of music I don't enjoy is country. I just cant get into listening about their ex's and their trucks. Oh and that Radiohead crap :thumbdown:

I wish I would have let an open slot on my accounts so I could redo all my videos with the experience I have gotten on the 8 or so more groups I have boosted through since. Oh well maybe I will delete some characters someday. My pally is now 80 maybe I could see how much easier it is with him.

Ive spent many hours in Stratholme and its not that dark for me. It was my fav place to go with my old 5man group back in the day. Both your stratholme and ST vids are really dark.

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Ive spent many hours in Stratholme and its not that dark for me. It was my fav place to go with my old 5man group back in the day. Both your stratholme and ST vids are really dark.

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I'll keep that in mind next time I make a video. I found the brightness/contrast plugin for sony vegas so next time I'll make sure it's bright enough.

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Yep you can pull a lot more if you strafe, I know a T7 prot paladin can pull practically the entire place in 1 go. I don't know much about warriors though.

I don't recommend looting at all unless you're desperate for gold. On my server it's maybe worth 200? 250? gold for a solid hour of grinding there, however your inventory will fill up fast so you'd spend time dealing with that in addition to the time spent looting. Not to mention the time spent tailoring, disenchanting, AHing, etc. I'd rather get the leveling out of the way as fast as possible because dailies at 80 are much better for money.

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Bring an engineer with repair bots and a portable mailbox. :D

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You could, MOLL-E is an 8 hour cooldown but the scrapbots are great nevertheless (and cheap!!), since your shield breaks so fast. Still won't help out much time-wise as so much of it is spent looting and shuffling the drops around, then dealing with them later (tailor, DE, auction house, etc). I won't deny it is decent money for the extra time spent, but I prefer to just get the leveling over with as quick as possible.

Thanks for the great tutorial vid! I watched it as I ran my group through the same section.

Where do you go after Strat? LBRS, UBRS (now that the door is permanently open), or someplace else? I had been running my guys through LBRS, but thought I would give Strat a try. Your Strat technique is a hell of a lot faster than LBRS. Just curious if you had a similar technique for 55-60.

I did Ramparts 55-60. One clear of it takes 15-20 mins and gives a full level with RAF. It can be cleared in 3-4 pulls.
1st pull go up to the guy who calls the dogs.
2nd pull go all the way to the spiral including the 1st boss.
3rd pull clear hallway and open area before the last 2 bosses.
I also kill Omar for lewts.

The greens in here are a good place to start gearing your characters for questing.

I got all the gear with gem slots from the lower 60 instances. They are way OP if you gem new WotLK gems into them. 24 stam gems only cost about 7g each on my server. I had ~15k hp on my pally tank at level 66.

Maybe I'll fraps it this weekend as I still have locks that can get xp in there.

Interesting. It's around 4.7M XP for 60-70, if we take 15 mins per level from 55-60 which is around 800K then we get a rate of ~640K per hour or ~215K without RAF. This would indicate a boosting time of around 22 hours if you can maintain the XP/hour rate through the higher Outlands instances. I think this is faster than questing 60-70, assuming you can hold the XP rate per hour. I don't know how well the kill speed would hold up once you'd move up to the tougher instances...

Actually, re-thinking a sec, you'd only want to boost to 65 anyhow, and then go to Utgarde Keep. This would take around 1.8M XP or ~8-9 hours... I imagine you can make it to 65 in Ramps/Furnace but if the XP drops off then Slave Pens would also work and is easily doable at 80th.

Did you ever try UBRS from 45-58?
I did it with my shaman group I leveled through RAF and it was pretty damn fast - I also didn't have to fight or do anything with my toons - the whole work will be done by the tank you got there. Just pull the complete first UBRS room (in every room you got about 1-2 summoners which summon and summon as much mobs as long as their mana is letting them). Try not to get kicked out into the LBRS section of the instance again which is where you toons will be parked (I did it this way) right at the wall left from the way up to the UBRS part facing to the wall. :P

Then just go to the first room in this section and let all the summoned mobs and whatnot slap you in the face as for as long as they survive in your consecration and et voila - happy toons! One "run" took me about 6-7 minutes which gave my toons about 80-120% of the XP necessary to level which changed of course with them leveling up that fast. The only "problem" here is that you have to survive that much mobs (level 55-60, http://www.wowhead.com/?item=27529 helps alot!) and be sure that you got enough shields with you. If you get kicked out of the UBRS section into the LBRS part your toons will be noticed by the mobs and die very fast but if you're careful enough this shouldn't happen too often. ;) Ah and the 5 instances / hour limitation sucks really much at this point.

I did however never try stratholme for this kind of leveling since the UBRS was so pretty damn fast and effective.

I tried boosting my 65 druids in Utgarde keep. Speced them all resto to keep me moving. It worked decently up to the first boss but it really wasn't much faster than normal running the zone. It might be worth looking into using a different spec of something for more dps. My prot warrior was only doing 1500 or so dps in there.

Link broken? I just get the filefront home page when going to http://files.filefront.com/13500770

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Link broken? I just get the filefront home page when going to http://files.filefront.com/13500770

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me too. same with sunken temple. :(

Yeah it's gone. Looks like they may have changed their format a little.

I was going to just re upload it but I watched it again and it really was horribly dark. Also the resolution was off. So I rendered it over with all the fixes. I made the file size smaller by using half NTSC frame rate so it's a little low on the FPS(~15fps) but still looks better than youtube I think.

The original post link is fixed.

do the recording programs have trouble recording with game audio? I figured something like that as the reason for all the kids' new-fangled music in most of the videos out there.

You can record sound but when you speed it up to keep it interesting it ends up soundsing like clickclickclicksnapsnapsnapclickthunk.

Well actually the game sounds like that anyway but when it's speeded up its worse lol.

There was a poll on this site a few months back and most people voted for dubbed music.

I have been having a horrible time in Sunken Temple and Strat so I am going to watch this over and over. This maybe because I am a clothie and boosting with a lock. I have a lot of gimmicks I can use still just get my arse handed to me so I have to pull stupid slow, i.e. not worth it.

I boost with my DK in Zul'Farrak from 35 to 45 and then LBRS from 45 to 55. My best time for a set of RAF toons from 1 to 60 is 8 hours and 50 minutes /played. Please keep in mind though that that includes 1-10 by hand (usually 1.5 hours when you figure in macros) and I'd say an hour of travel from place to place. If I had a set of toons to RAF summon from zone to zone I bet I could do 1-60 in 5 hours if I was on the ball.

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Interesting. It's around 4.7M XP for 60-70, if we take 15 mins per level from 55-60 which is around 800K then we get a rate of ~640K per hour or ~215K without RAF. This would indicate a boosting time of around 22 hours if you can maintain the XP/hour rate through the higher Outlands instances. I think this is faster than questing 60-70, assuming you can hold the XP rate per hour. I don't know how well the kill speed would hold up once you'd move up to the tougher instances...

Actually, re-thinking a sec, you'd only want to boost to 65 anyhow, and then go to Utgarde Keep. This would take around 1.8M XP or ~8-9 hours... I imagine you can make it to 65 in Ramps/Furnace but if the XP drops off then Slave Pens would also work and is easily doable at 80th.

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After Ramps, I usually just set-up my team with all the macros and what not and then go into Underbog and Sethakk halls or whatnot and just do big pulls then use my followers as well to just AOE everything down. I haven't kept track of my teams in the past, but with my current BE pally team, they are at 67 now with only 11 hours played since dinging 60 which is just over 1.5 hr/lvl. If I keep it up at this rate I should ding 70 with around 16 hours spent in outlands.

I don't recommend Mana Tombs though tbh, got to becareful of the exploding fishy things, and mana burns later in the instance.

Hello,

I am a 5-boxer and would love to see your video of Strat. I tried LBRS and it is terribly slow for 45-55.

Please help!

thanks!

I re-uploaded it to filefront. I was going to render it again to put on youtube hd but I lost the original video files. Youtube downgraded the resolution and made it unwatchable so I just deleted it. The link is updated again on the OP.

Love strat for boosting... I don't know why people bother with crap like BRD, LBRS, etc. when strat is so simple.

Just finished boosting two toons in strat tonight, in just a few hours, mage went from 45-55, warrior with double heirlooms went from 45-58.

Thanks for the vids :)
We definitely need more boosting videos 45+.... hard to find good stuff, any search for boosting gets you a bazillion SM cathedral, or RFC boosting videos from 2 years ago

Had the funniest boosting experience in ZF last night as I did a big pull, took it around a corner, then was consecrating it down... and down... and down... and down... finally looked away from the TV and started individually targetting mobs, all of whom were at about full. OMG NERF! Nope, my pull had about 40 mobs in it, of which 14 were witch doctors, all of whom had dropped Healing Ward totems :D. Also, with 14 WD, poly-frog was actually landing now and then, so I'd actually take damage, plus my blessing had been purged, so my mana was getting low! Durp durp durp. Did a /tar witch and took them all out individually, which took a while until I was Divine Plea'd up a bit in mana, then dragged the rest away and THEN aoe'd them down. This whole process of a single ZF pull for a 80 Paladin in T7ish gear took 10 minutes or so :p. Happy ending to an embarassing moment, you'd think, until I realized that my boost toons must have been slightly out of range the whole time and got zero xp for the whole thing :D.