Paladin Stratholme Boosting

[Bettysue]

You don't have to be too close to the slaves, they get experience for 100yrds regardless of LoS, if you zoom your default minimap all the way out and can see the DoTs for the chars to be boosted they should be getting experience from all the kills. Try it one round just park them somewhere safe and kill a couple things as you go in until you see where they stop gaining xp, It should reduce the deaths and make the runs faster...read that as give you more time to loot :P

Also if you don't want broken shields wear gear without block on it, dodge and parry don't do any dmg to your shield, and blocking isn't really keeping you alive that much longer, it's the not getting hit thats doing the majority of the work for you.

[heyaz]

You don't have to be too close to the slaves, they get experience for 100yrds regardless of LoS, if you zoom your default minimap all the way out and can see the DoTs for the chars to be boosted they should be getting experience from all the kills. Try it one round just park them somewhere safe and kill a couple things as you go in until you see where they stop gaining xp, It should reduce the deaths and make the runs faster...read that as give you more time to loot :P

Also if you don't want broken shields wear gear without block on it, dodge and parry don't do any dmg to your shield, and blocking isn't really keeping you alive that much longer, it's the not getting hit thats doing the majority of the work for you.

XP range seems to be less far with RAF. When I kill the unforgiven in that first pull, they get XP but not RAF xp. Since I pull the first room last, I end up where I started so it's not really an issue, plus the alts can come out and loot easier.

Also, the shields will broke no matter what. I have no block rating on my gear and they still break. Blocking does keep you alive, I can definitely tell right when the shield breaks because my hp starts dropping very fast. It does a little extra damage as well with a shield spike and a sporregar shield. Honestly though, shield repair cost is about the least of my concerns - the point of powerleveling is to save time, not save a few gold on repair costs.