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Not necessarily something new to boxers but an interesting read nonetheless.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...65487424&sid=1
I generally level my 5 man teams together so haven't actually tried to power level in this way. Has anyone here actually power levelled 4 characters from 1 to 60 with a level 70 mage or pally? Is the 1 day 10 hours realistic?
Yep...I think insanity would be setting in by about the 4th hour ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=38111#pos t38111
Indeed, i got my shaman trio to 38 using roughly this method (boosting them w/ my kara geared prot pally), but i had to take a break because it was killin my brain. I've decided to let them rest a full 150% before boosting them the rest of the way through 40. Then it will be off to ZF for a couple quests (i cannot hope to clear that place single pulling simply due to the totem spam factor), quest quest quest, mara for a couple quests, ST for a couple quests then brd for the remainder of the boost grind to outlands.
I have toons atm that I'm powerlvling using this exact same method with 4 toons + lvl 70 mage... 10hours in and almost lvl 20. This has been the method that I've used to level all my toons since pre-TBC.
Yep... I'm definitely going to be doing this for my 2nd set of toons. :thumbsup:
I've considered it, but I have enough on my hands working on getting my shammies gear... Can't be more boring then grinding honor, though...
Damn, Ill have to try this. Sounds like a great way to get up there.
I'm a slowpoke so at lvl 45 now with over 7 days played :D Mainly because all my idling about hehe
But when my crew hits 70 I got a mage + paladin .... So would this mean I can use the same tactics as this guy but with 2 lvl's 70 ? So I could aoe grind 3 chars up to 60 asap, (I don't care about the boredome if it's really this fast), because if I was to use this method I'd be leveling 2 groups at the same time anyway to get max out of rested bonus. Or would 2 level 70's gimp the XP rather then be a fast way to level up ..?
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ROFL @ reply of the year haha
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You apparently didn't understand what I was saying. I'm not saying 55 is to low for the zone, I'm saying, entering Outlands before 58 is a violation of terms of service.
If you're powerleveling a group with a pally or mage, rested XP is a moot point. You burn through levels within minutes anways. For instance, when I was doing SM from 25-41 on my shammies, I would log out with them outside of the instance, rather than hearthing them, because of the saved time from riding to the instance.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Notes',index.php?page=Thread&postID=38222#post382 22
Well that's just yet another good reason to get to level 70... Questing is nice but I'd like some back up / different classes at 70 and cba to level an entire group by quest a second time I think :sleeping:
Your right its not as boring as grinding honor. I did this for my 4 shamies using my 70 ehancement shammy to level them to 60 before I started questing. I went 1-60 in about little over week real life, not sure how much played as I go afk allot. However This time around though I plan on getting about 8.5k honor a level until 70 that way I will have my 75k honor cap and can just go buy my 5 set pieces of gladiator gear upon hitting 70.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Vyndree',index.php?page=Thread&postID=38137#post3 8137
my friend and i plan to do this once my mage is leveled
atleast untill 60
ramparts and lbrs though seem kinda iffy for me though... it's a rough venture and you need to have some decent people to help other than your main DPS... like he siad warriors are really necessary.
my next group i'm leveling is going to be... warrior/rogue/mage/mage
going for 5 mages total..
my mages are now 55 ^_^
interesting ideaQuote:
Originally Posted by 'LancerX',index.php?page=Thread&postID=38291#post3 8291
The current honor grinding isn't that bad... I grinded up to Commander on a high-pop, one of the first launched servers... now THAT, was pain. It required 8-10 hours a day of continual AB and AV, everyday for 3 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Vyndree',index.php?page=Thread&postID=38137#post3 8137
My friend got up to Grand Marshal, which required 12 hours a day every day for another 3-4 months after reaching Commander. ;(
This grind for 40 hours isn't that bad, considering what I've done in the past (never doing that again). :thumbsup:
Well, I've been doing this since 3-boxing, lol.
Using a 70 #3.Prot Pally to boost. (#3 = means my 3rd account.)
Team Heroic: doing nicely @ 67 Holy #1.Pally + 69 Shadow #2.Priest, Blades Edge Mountain quests.
I also decided to level 2 Mages and 2 Shamans, one for each account.
Team A: #1.Mage is 54 & #2.Shaman is 55. Mage is almost 300 Enchant & 300 Tailor. One more BRD Run.
Team B: #1.Shaman is 43 + #2.Mage is 43. BRD Run.
I play them when they have fully rested exp. Then rotate grinds whichever I want on weekends. Sometimes I just do daily quests and honor grind on my Pally.
I also have a 70 Warrior (Miner) and 70 Rogue (Honor grind in BG) in account 1.
This is how I've been leveling my alts, team them up with my 70 enhance shaman and plow through zones. They are level 44 or 45 now (been busy the past week anna half). It's not terribly fast though, because he is not an AE class and so I usually just work my way through the zone. On the other hand, I do a run or two each week, usually on a weekend morning when things are quiet. I've never been able to just grind grind grind for anything in any MMO I've played. I'd rather fall behind in progress than grind anything past a point where it stops being fun. Then again I play in a casual guild with RL friends so there's no negative effect from being slower than others.
My instance runs with the team are usually pretty slow, not only can I not handle really large pulls, but I like to make sure to loot and distribute items depending on needs (tradeskills, etc). But once this team gets to 70, I am wondering about using the mage or paladin if I ever decide to PL other characters (and I am considering rolling up 4 shamans so I can 5 box them, I did enjoy running 5 shamans on another server before starting over on my home server).
I leveled my three other shammies in the team up this way until L40 using a mage. The Arcane Talent that gives you mana back on spell resist is a godsend for the Cathedral pulling, as is a water elemental for the boss-kill in the cathedral (you can basically one-pull the cathedral by having the water elemental hit the boss and then him calling the entire building's mobs to the water elemental-- clumps them up nicely).
Here's where powerleveling yourself breaks down...ZF is an order of magnitude harder by yourself than SM:Cath. BRD becomes easier if your team contains shaman, because of the healing/WF ability, as the poster states here:Quote:
At 40....go to ZF. You need to learn the pulls if using a 70 mage to AoE. LoS big groups then AoE. Make sure you have healers to in your party to heal the mage - lvling past 40 requires healers to be in the group. ALSO IMPORTANT - Bring a class such as a Druid to moonfire healing totems the trolls drop, this must be done or you will die. Enjoy lvling every 40-55mins.
I spent some time in BRD with my Ret pally and a 2H weapon with the shamans dropping mana/healing streams and windfury/GoA/SoE totems. I mainly did this to knock out all the good BRD quests, but you could grind XP in here if you want.Quote:
At 50...go to LBRS. Now use a WARRIOR*** Warrior smashes the instance with a 2 hand and flexes. Bring a full group with healers. I perfer to bring a feral druid to say in feral form so the warrior gets 5% extra crit and heals himself. Shamans for heals and WF totem will increase your speed at clearing the instance as well. I do a set route and skip much of the instance but maintain a very fast lvl pace. Enjoy lvls every 50-60mins.
I still standby the most fun/enjoyable/reasonably efficient approach of:
1-40 Instance Powerlevel through RFC->SM:Cath
40-58 Quest in Azeroth, running instances only to get uber chain quest XP (notably BRD)
58+ Quest in Outlands
I thought it was even funnier when that troll hunter made this post:Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Notes',index.php?page=Thread&postID=38222#post382 22
And then, as the discussion develops, says this:Quote:
and now you are a hunter at level 60 with no knowledge of the class.
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haha, well like I said, I'm not about to spent 4 hours a night mashing my "f" button because it increases my dps by 50
I did my 2 replacement Shamans to 40 in 17 hours and they are now 56 or 57 at about 1d 15 hours.
Basic outline of what I did. I used a prot pali till 45.
1-8 One at a time.
8-15 Rage Fire Chasm
15-20 SFK
20-45 SM (In hindsight I found a much much faster way from 40-45 would easily shave several hours off)
45-51~ ZF with a Lock running around chain dotting everything never stop moving, looting is optional. Had I moved to ZF with the lock at 40 I probably would have hit 45 at just under 1d played as opposed to about 26/27 hours.
I then quested to 55. Now I do runs of Ramparts with a warrior. It is about 80k an hour.
In my experience (Leveled probably 10 different times/sets of toons for friends like this) you should hand level to 10, WC to 15, RFK to 20, Cath to 35, and then ZF to 45 when you can go to LBRS. As long as you've got a Pally or a Warrior LBRS is much much faster than hand grinding--I was getting about an hour a level from 45 to 55. Ramparts from 55 to 60 took one day of play, went faster than 45 to 50.
Of course, the downside to leveling that fast is that when you hit 60 and start quests in Outlands (I waited 'till 60 intentionally to save as much xp as I could) things slow down so much it makes you want to cry >< 4x level 62.55% Shaman and I'm already sick of quest grinding lol. I want it to go faster!
he said he power-leveld from 45-55 in LBRS with his warrior, i thoguht i would try with my rogue since i don't have a 70 warrior. It was terrible, i kept grabbing prox aggro with my 45's and couldnt pull it off with the rogue because no AOE peel (warrior shout would work), also no aoe to take out mobs uber-fast (warrior sweeping strikes / whirldwind would make it ezmode). Basically, anyone tryin to do what he did without an aoe-type 70, save yourself some trouble hehe.
Single-target dps not so good for power leveling lol! I will have a mage and a pally though after my first team its 70 though! :P
What does this boost mean?
Sorry tring to level a couple of alts using my wifes 60 mage and my 60 ret pally.
Took my sons level 12 lock into dm and xp was crap.
Any help would be great
1 to 59 in 0 d 6 hrs 27 min
ok, so maybe the level granting helped a little bit
:D
I got 3 guys to 60 in 22 hours with my 72 BM hunter. Those days are coming to and end with AoE changes, I think - although it will probably only add a couple of hours to it. I can clear SM Cath in 12 minutes, getting about a level per run (20-35). Did ZF from 35 to 45 (again about 1 level per clear). Did Hinterlands from 45 to 50, then non-collection quests in Un'goro, Felwood, Winterspring, WPL, then HFP.
Then I got my free "61" by levelling him to level 2.95 (that's a little tricky, actually). Just running him to Shattrath dinged him to 61 from exploration experience.
Krum,
What server are you on?
I live in Austin as well. Originally went alliance because of a friend and have too many to turn back. I'm on Wildhammer US PVP.
HA, this thread crits my brain for a million.
I didn't notice the dates on the original posts and kept thinking I was in the twilight zone; "wait what?! why is everyone acting like boosting is new?!? WTF is going on?"
/runs to get more coffee.
idk my 4 druids in 26 hrs are sitting at lvl 42 almost 43 and that includes probebly about 2 hrs off due to eating tv bathroom runs. So it might be but i am aoeing with a druid in moonkin. Im not looting either. I am in zf atm and in 45 mins i lvl twice so i might be possible. Im moving on to marauden after 3 more xf runs im going to do that till 54 then run st to get to outlands. I am hoping by end of today ill be in outlands with the 4.
Most of my guys are on Sisters of Elune US RP Horde.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'knopstr',index.php?page=Thread&postID=157740#post 157740
I take that back.. I just checked and one of them is set at 34 hours. Take away at least 3 hours of just sitting around doing nothing, that would put it around 31 hours. Still, not too bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'krum',index.php?page=Thread&postID=157738#post157 738
yea my druids are sitting at 46 now with 28 hrs never again am i running mara way to long and i get the same exp running zf once wow. I got 1.5 lvls in mara campared to almost 2 at my lvl atm running zf. Im thinking only place i got left is st but idk if i wanna do that or not or just quest them now. They are still sitting on low gear like some have starter area pants and stuff since ive been just questing them.
I have done this many times, it used to be called EQ back in the day......