Boosting cataclysm teams

I was thinking of when that came out boosting an alliance team with 4 worgen and a dk tank. Same with horde 4 goblins and a dk tank. My question would it be easier just to get a worgen dk 55 - 60 and same with goblin dk 55- 60 then boost 4 more. Or just bring 4 in and use another on main account. Other thing i was thinking when doing this was linking accounts b,c,d and e to new vanilla wow accounts just for the three months raf. Reason for this we all know it stops at 60 the raf so why bother. Then all you have to do is make sure those accounts are the same as the ones rafing them so you can transfer accounts. Do this for both sides get them to 60 and maybe work on some more teams. I know im a whore when it comes to characters cant have enough lol. But hey we all do it right. So what you think link accounts b to f, c to g, d to h and e to i or do the long no raf leveling or get more then vanilla what do u all think. For three months spend 70 extra a month then the transfer account fees or what.

Well, 1st to 60th, if you can afford the RAF it's probably worth it, especially if you're leveling more then a single team.

Worgen alliance and Goblin horde is at least two teams. I'm not sure if you'll need Burning Crusade and Wrath to add Cataclysm to a vanilla account. I'm pretty sure you'll need Cataclysm to play either of the new races.

If the cost is Vanilla + Cataclysm plus 2 months subscriptions.. (pay for 3, but the first month paid credits an existing account with a month free) that's a lot better then adding Wrath and BC to the mix just for RAF.

I'd be tempted to go Vanilla accounts (for RAF) if I was leveling new toons up. But Vanilla and transfer costs are a lot less then Vanilla + BC + Wrath + Cataclysm + Transfers. If that was the case, you'd be better off with Vanilla accounts (RAF to 60th on the wrong faction) and then a faction transfer which is $30 I believe, probably less then BC + Wrath + Cataclysm on throw away accounts.

If you're doing the boosting thing, I'd only really look at a 58th (or 60th DK) if it was a new server. Just about any 80 will boost an order of magnitude better then any 60th.

Who is to say what will happen next year? I have heard RAF to 70, no RAF, also No Worgen or Gnome DK to start. I would worry about today, and let next year happen when it does.

Personally I am not going to boost my first Worgen team.
I am going to enjoy the new changes and hopefully to level in a fresh environment once more :)

Didn't Blizz say they were unsure about allowing RAF for the new races/combos?

I am drawn to making a goblin, I have been whining for ages that goblin should be a playable race - so I can stand around saying whazzup! :D

I seriously doubt they will change RAF. It is there in the mainstream for a noob someone to have a painless opportunity to play with their friends and not have to solo grind the majority of the levels and consenting to dismissing a lot of the game experience. Plus give the veteran a method to make an alt painlessly.

Plenty of people would 'sure bob come over and play with us' and the person is stuck killing boars and cannot actually play with their real life friends for a few months they quit.

Also the average leveling rate from 70 to 80 was said to be much faster than they anticipated (in time people took to do it). Much faster than from 60 to 70.

I am not going to bother boosting a cataclysm team. I am just going to create the following:

Worgen Druid
Worgen Priest
Worgen Mage x 3 :D

Although, I might get a 6th account and move all my solo toons into that account so I am not cluttering up my boxing accounts with my solo's :D

Then I might consider boosting the whole team to 50 using my level 80 (or 85) hunter :)

Well first of all if u have the worgen or goblins on your existing accounts with raf all u have to buy is vanilla wows lol. Then it allows you to boost them all the way to 60 as you wish and dont need to worry about extra wows. Sorry been thinking about this awhile sure i want to enjoy the new areas for a little while but dont want to waste to much time seeing how you only have 3 months of raf so meh dilemma time.

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Originally Posted by suicidesspyder

Well first of all if u have the worgen or goblins on your existing accounts with raf all u have to buy is vanilla wows lol. Then it allows you to boost them all the way to 60 as you wish and dont need to worry about extra wows. Sorry been thinking about this awhile sure i want to enjoy the new areas for a little while but dont want to waste to much time seeing how you only have 3 months of raf so meh dilemma time.

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I like your thinking. You're right, you can use disposable vanilla WoW's linked to your main accounts and just pitch them when all is said and done. I may do this after I've rolled my first Worgen group and enjoyed the content.

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Originally Posted by suicidesspyder

Well first of all if u have the worgen or goblins on your existing accounts with raf all u have to buy is vanilla wows lol. Then it allows you to boost them all the way to 60 as you wish and dont need to worry about extra wows. Sorry been thinking about this awhile sure i want to enjoy the new areas for a little while but dont want to waste to much time seeing how you only have 3 months of raf so meh dilemma time.

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Without the expansion you can not "play" the new races or go into the new areas, even though some of them will be attached to the old world.

Yep if you go get vanilla wow you can't even make a blood elf character.

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Originally Posted by Lyonheart

Without the expansion you can not "play" the new races or go into the new areas, even though some of them will be attached to the old world.

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You may be correct to an extent but I think there is a misunderstanding here.

If I understand SS correctly, he will have the expansion on his main accounts but will link just for RAF bonus to vanilla accounts.

Let's say he'll be playing humans on the vanilla and worgen on his main accounts with Cataclysm. The humans can summon their Worgen group mates and quest through the human starting areas with the RAF bonus. Then once he's done he will just drop the vanilla RAF accounts with the non-Cataclysm races.

I think everyone is going to have problems with boosting soon as 3.3 goes live ... with the changes to AOE damage, boosting is going to suck. It will take significantly longer to boost toons up.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patch...atchnotes.html

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Area-of-Effect Damage Caps: We've redesigned the way area damage is capped when hitting many targets. Instead of a hard cap on total damage done, the game now caps the total damage done at a value equal to the damage the spell would do if it hit 10 targets. In other words, if a spell does 1000 damage to each target, it would hit up to 10 targets for 1000 each, but with more than 10 targets, each target would take 1000 damage divided by the number of targets. 20 targets would be hit for 500 damage each in that example.

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Korruptor that is correct. But I thought the OP was planning on having a team of 4 worgen/goblin + dk. Also one thing to consider is the new lowbie questing areas. Almost all the leveling guides I have read all say go to the bloodelf/dranei starting area regradless of your race. This is b/c the quest rewards are a lot better.

I don't know but I would think that the goblin/worgen areas would be the next best place to level your toons.

So In the situation you laid out

upgraded to Cat account a : Make Goblin/Worgen
upgraded to Cat account b: Make Goblin/Worgen
Vanilla wow RAFed to account a: make human/orc
Vanilla wow RAFed to account b: make human/orc

You could do this but to get the full team you are going to have to do it twice before you get 4 goblin/worgen.

Ok to make it more clear cause i see some confusin. I will take my accounts i have of as now BCD and E minus A for boosting. Linke BCD and E to Vanilla wow's. Ok then on BCD and E i will make my worgen chars and goblins and on the other 4 say FGH and I make lets say nething but dreanei for alliance and belf for horde. This way i can then summon them out of their starting areas into a new area and quest somewhere else. Then after they are 60 yes i will make a goblin and worgen and lvl them naturally later on just till they are out of their starting areas then play raf to get them up to 60. I figured this is the easiest way to do it so i do not kill my self trying to lvl 5 at a 1/5 of the exp lol.

If your existing accounts are A-E.
And you upgrade these to Vanilla + BC + Wrath + Cataclysm (why not, they're keeper accounts?)...

Then get new accounts just for RAF.
B links to F
C links to G
D links to H
E links to I
A can be used for boosting.

Create a <New Race Toon> on B and C.
Create a <Vanilla Race> on F and G.
Group B, C, F, G with A who boosts them.

Repeat the process with D/E and H/I.
A boosts this 2nd group too.

With RAF, you basically level in 1/3rd the time 1st to 60th.
But you'd have to do it twice, because B, C, D, E won't get RAF grouped together and boosted by A.
So your level time is 2/3rd's normal, from 1st to 60th.
At the cost of (4x Vanilla Wow) plus (4x Transfers per Set/Team).

End result is much cheaper then Vanilla + Cataclysm + Transfers, on disposable accounts.
But the leveling speed is 2/3rds of normal per team instead of 1/3rd per team.

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Originally Posted by Schwarz

Korruptor that is correct. But I thought the OP was planning on having a team of 4 worgen/goblin + dk. Also one thing to consider is the new lowbie questing areas. Almost all the leveling guides I have read all say go to the bloodelf/dranei starting area regradless of your race. This is b/c the quest rewards are a lot better.

I don't know but I would think that the goblin/worgen areas would be the next best place to level your toons.

So In the situation you laid out

upgraded to Cat account a : Make Goblin/Worgen
upgraded to Cat account b: Make Goblin/Worgen
Vanilla wow RAFed to account a: make human/orc
Vanilla wow RAFed to account b: make human/orc

You could do this but to get the full team you are going to have to do it twice before you get 4 goblin/worgen.

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Yep, that was my understanding as well. If I go that route I understand I will need to do it at least twice. It's still cheaper then repurchasing BC, WoTLK and CC. I personally have entirely too many toons invested to even consider replacing any of my main accounts.

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Originally Posted by Ualaa

If your existing accounts are A-E.
And you upgrade these to Vanilla + BC + Wrath + Cataclysm (why not, they're keeper accounts?)...

Then get new accounts just for RAF.
B links to F
C links to G
D links to H
E links to I
A can be used for boosting.

Create a <New Race Toon> on B and C.
Create a <Vanilla Race> on F and G.
Group B, C, F, G with A who boosts them.

Repeat the process with D/E and H/I.
A boosts this 2nd group too.

With RAF, you basically level in 1/3rd the time 1st to 60th.
But you'd have to do it twice, because B, C, D, E won't get RAF grouped together and boosted by A.
So your level time is 2/3rd's normal, from 1st to 60th.
At the cost of (4x Vanilla Wow) plus (4x Transfers per Set/Team).

End result is much cheaper then Vanilla + Cataclysm + Transfers, on disposable accounts.
But the leveling speed is 2/3rds of normal per team instead of 1/3rd per team.

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For me, I have zero intention of transferring anything off the disposable vanilla accounts, hence why I'd call them disposable. So no, it's cheaper to use vanilla WoW RAF's x 4 in conjunction with 4 of my primary accounts.

And as was posted above, in 3.3 they are nerfing AOE so boosting when CC hits won't be nearly effective as it currently is.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patch...atchnotes.html

When Cataclysm drops I do plan to make both races; I am however also planning at the moment to do this without Boosting, yet taking advantage of the rested bonus (+) heirloom bonus; its not as good as the 300% you can get with RaF, but I still have so much to finish with my current (3) projects that adding (2) more; both Horde since I have never played anything but Alliance, with Cataclysm will only add to my stress. The Horde side will be my casual enjoy the ride teams…

I confused myself. If you are doing RAF you want 4 (or 5) accounts to be getting the 300% bonus. So you could use 3 old accounts and 2 new ones.

Actually, if you're only planning on leveling two teams to 60th...
I cannot see that taking more then a month.

When you pay for a month with the referred account, it credits the referring account with a month.
If you're done at that point, you lose the Zhevra mount because no 2nd month has been paid for.
But on the other hand, you've bought 4 wow's and essentially paid for 4 one-month subscription extensions on existing accounts.
Not much of a cost involved, for 1/3rd off of leveling time (2/3rds time per team).

Yea i got 5 accounts ready for cat but im buying and paying for 4 vanilla just for boosting purposes you know a real life takes alot and ill never get 60 without raf lol. So im just doin the full 3 months figured i would do it one more time this way my worgen or goblin teams will get the sexy lil zhevra mount. Lets see 60 dollers for 4 vanilla wows and 140 for 3 months of play time on vanilla wow due to one month free for 4 of my main accounts. This equals 200 dollers for 3 months not bad. Plus 12 ps2 traded in for cataclsym equals free exp pack. Hey its not like i ran multiple accounts or games before i just started off expensive 100 for each ps2 and 50 per game. So 1800 to reach top ten on socom and socom 2 then they banned anyone doing so quit hehe.