RAF Team Boosting Questions

[Ualaa]

In another thread, it was suggested to enable mouse broadcasting, and spam right click on the pile of corpses with all of your toons.

That is, if you want to loot everything.
Get all of the cloth and such.



Another approach, which loses all of the cloth drops, is to take advantage of the looting options.

1) Set the loot to Master Looter, with your booster (active toon) as the Master Looter.
2) Have your booster opt out of loot.
3) Set the loot threshold to Green, Blue or Purple.

Anything below the threshold will not sparkle.
Any corpse with an item at or above the threshold will sparkle -- for your booster to master loot it, to the toon of your choice.

I usually set the threshold to green.
So I can level enchanting, from disenchanting the greens which drop.
My roommate sets the threshold to blue, to not miss nice stuff, but doesn't mind missing greens.

Either way, you loot a lot fewer corpses, and still get the rare items, according to your settings.

[Krago]

In another thread, it was suggested to enable mouse broadcasting, and spam right click on the pile of corpses with all of your toons.

That is, if you want to loot everything.
Get all of the cloth and such.



Another approach, which loses all of the cloth drops, is to take advantage of the looting options.

1) Set the loot to Master Looter, with your booster (active toon) as the Master Looter.
2) Have your booster opt out of loot.
3) Set the loot threshold to Green, Blue or Purple.

Anything below the threshold will not sparkle.
Any corpse with an item at or above the threshold will sparkle -- for your booster to master loot it, to the toon of your choice.

I usually set the threshold to green.
So I can level enchanting, from disenchanting the greens which drop.
My roommate sets the threshold to blue, to not miss nice stuff, but doesn't mind missing greens.

Either way, you loot a lot fewer corpses, and still get the rare items, according to your settings.

Managed to get 5 levels in SM last night in less time then it was taking me to get 2 with the looting.

So, looting is my issue.

I have tried the spam click looting method but even then it was taking a long time. So, I will try the loot filter approach you outlined above and can see that working a lot better.

I don't really need the loot, it's just a habit I've formed over the last couple years. :-)

Thanks again for the pointers.

Cheers.

[kalrok2]

Hijack away, picked up some nice tips about looting from your post!

After leveling my 1st team to 60, I'm now at 45 with my 2nd and 3rd teams. I decided to level these 2 teams at once so that I can camp an instance for longer. However I probably won't level 2 teams at once again as you spend too much time in once instance and it becomes even more tedious!

Will get both these teams to 60 by the end of the w/end but but will stop boosting for a week or so as I am pretty burned out from RAF boosting, even though I only do around 3 hours a day. How do you guys boost multiple teams during the RAF period without getting burned out?

[Krago]

Hijack away, picked up some nice tips about looting from your post!

After leveling my 1st team to 60, I'm now at 45 with my 2nd and 3rd teams. I decided to level these 2 teams at once so that I can camp an instance for longer. However I probably won't level 2 teams at once again as you spend too much time in once instance and it becomes even more tedious!

Will get both these teams to 60 by the end of the w/end but but will stop boosting for a week or so as I am pretty burned out from RAF boosting, even though I only do around 3 hours a day. How do you guys boost multiple teams during the RAF period without getting burned out?

I set the looting up as suggested bu Uaalaa and I'm going a lot faster as I managed to to ding 6 or so more levels last night fairly quickly. I was WFH so it was not a concentrated effort but without changing my looting style I would only have 2-3 at most.

So, my three shammies just ding 33, 30, and 30.

I tend to binge for a bit, so hopefully these guys will also hit 60 by end of week/weekend.

However, I also have Seagull Syndrome (tm) :-) As in, oh shiny.do this, oh wait that's shinier, oh wait...

Therefore, I also tend to play around with my other alts, I have 2 DKs @ 80 and a lock at 73 and pally at 72 1/2 or so that I am trying to ding 80 with.

I also power leveled up BS to 450 and mining on my DK tank for a distraction.

Also, also I like playing the AH as I consider that a mini game.

I guess I avoid the burnout by distracting myself with other things in game, achievements, AH, professions, screwing around, BGs helping out newbies when they ask for help in trade chat. I just started using the new LFG tools as well to help gear up my tank and that has been a fun distraction, especially since I can teleport to and from the instance, takes little to no effort.

[mmmbox]

I boosted my druid yesterday from 53-57 in scholo just parking him at entrance, but instead of looting i just leave everything cause everything but blue loot will despawn hence all the goddies will be left when i have cleared the instance and is omw out.

i clear scholo with my paladin in +20 mins, 2 runs is almost a lvl WITHOUT rested or raf xp, tho he does have x2 +10% xp items.

[kalrok2]

Well my 1st month of RAF is almost over and I've managed to level 3 teams to 60 now:
5 Shamans
5 Mages
5 Paladins

My last team took me 16 hours /played which seems to be pretty good so I think I've got the hang of it!
In addition to this I now have at least a lvl 60 of each class.

I'm still not working and I've decided I might as well use my time off to level 1 more teamsso that I am covered in the future as I don't really want to buy new accounts RAF them and transfer chars back to my main accounts if I want to try something else out.

For my next team I am thinking of leveling 5 X Druids. At the same time I will use level grants etc to make a team of 5 X Locks. After that I would have a 5 man team for each of the classes that I think would be good to multibox with (ie Shaman, Paladin, Mage, Warlock, Druid).

Out of the remaining 5 classes (ie Warrior, DK, Priest, Hunter, Rogue) I already have at least a lvl 60 of each, and I don't think it's worth leveling a 5 man team for each of these classes as I can't see them being good for PVP / PVE. I just wanted to see if anyone could think of a reason why it would be worth it to level a team of one of these 5.

[Ualaa]

I RAF'd Hunters and Priests.
They were both fun classes to play.
But have not moved from 60th since.

Rogues could be quite fun.
But with Pallies you already have a strong melee option.

And if you ever decide on DK's, they start at 55th.
And are 57th/58th by the time they leave their starting area.
So RAF doesn't get you much on those.