Leveling teams without RAF

[Ualaa]

Recruit a Friend gets you triple experience (or 200% extra, since everyone gets 100%), for quests and kills from levels 1 through 60th. Ignoring the granted levels or cascade granted levels, that is roughly 1/3rd the time from 1st to 60th. Even with RAF, you only receive normal experience as far as exploration goes.

Boosting will still be the best method to level. If boosting was better then questing with 3x the instance exp's vs 3x the quest exp's, then 1x both type's of exp's will still favor boosting.

The heirloom shoulders and heirloom chest will help out quite a bit.

Many people have managed to level teams, without RAF or prior to RAF being offered. It is doable if you want, and financially speaking that's probably the best route to take. It is a question of value of time versus cost of accounts/transfers.

Honestly, I'd personally bite the buck so to speak. Since you already have 8 accounts. You can RAF from say A and B, which will get your four accounts with faster leveling speed. If you care about the mounts, pay for the new accounts with game cards. If you're going for the best bang for buck, just pay for one month each on the new accounts, which credit the existing accounts with a month of play time, for a net break even. You'll still be out the price of two accounts (classic or battlechests if you want Draenei/Blood Elves), and the price of transfers.

Even if its 60 days after forming a B.Net account for transfers, you can wait that time easily. If you want to focus on your new team(s), then just pay the subscription for the two new accounts, two existing accounts and whichever account as the 5th toon for those teams. Once the 60 days is done, you can throw the accounts away, after the transfer.

[TheBigBB]

Boosting will still be the best method to level. If boosting was better then questing with 3x the instance exp's vs 3x the quest exp's, then 1x both type's of exp's will still favor boosting.

This is false. If you know the areas and do quests efficiently, you can get more experience doing quests with RAF. With RAF you outlevel an area questing without having to spend hours going back and forth between the different at-level quest hubs. There are also some quests which give way, WAY too much experience even at 1x. At triple you might run to the next town to give the guy a bag and suddenly get half a level. If you know the game inside and out and are good at planning out your best route, questing is the king. Most people suck at that, however.

EDIT: I wanted to give an example to back up what I'm saying.

Here's a good example to demonstrate the point: The hunt quests in Ashenvale Horde side. You basically find and kill three level 28 animals. If you know where they are using thottbot or some other site/addon you can kill them all in 15 minutes at most. The turn ins will add up to 28,950 experience with RAF! Seriously. It's 1950, 2200, 2450 and 3050 experience for the 4 turn ins that come from just killing 3 monsters, tripled with RAF. You may say that these sorts of quests are rare, but that's why they shine on RAF, because you get an overpowered quest turn in suddenly counting for a lot more. So while I'm not sure that you can always have such an incredible experience load from so little work, I am 100% sure that there are times when questing is absolutely better.