Instance Boosting Questions:

[JackBurton]

My Non RAF Boosting Plan

RAF is very desirable indeed. But i dont see how the average joe could afford it. You cant apply it to verteran accounts. You have to create new accounts right? and buy all the expansions. And then when the free 15 or 30 days are over you have to subcribe more than your 5 accounts. or what? you spend $25 times n bucks moving each new character to your main accounts? There are lots of comments and guides on RAF but not on on the costs of it.

[MiRai]

RAF is very desirable indeed. But i dont see how the average joe could afford it. You cant apply it to verteran accounts. You have to create new accounts right? and buy all the expansions. And then when the free 15 or 30 days are over you have to subcribe more than your 5 accounts. or what? you spend $25 times n bucks moving each new character to your main accounts? There are lots of comments and guides on RAF but not on on the costs of it.

I'm still confused on what you mean by the "cost of RaF." RaF is the suggested route for new multiboxers to take advantage of the 300% increased experience -- Not for people who already have 5 accounts and want to keep them. If someone who is new to multiboxing was willing to start up multiple accounts, they're paying the exact same price whether they start them up linked via RaF or not.

I didn't notice this before but, your initial post states "My Non RAF Boosting Plan." Are you crazy enough to boost w/o RaF? I would personally find boosting w/o RaF a very painful endeavor and would never recommend that leveling route to anyone -- That high level character is going to drain your XP w/o that 300% bonus. I guess if you loot everything you'll have thousands and thousands of cloth to sell which might make it worth your time (doubtful), but that's also going to increase your time ten fold.

If someone didn't have RaF, I would suggest to them to quest instead of boost in instances. Unless something has changed, the experience that the high level character takes from the party just doesn't make it worth it in my opinion.

If someone had 5 existing accounts and wanted to take advantage of RaF, then yes, they would have to purchase new accounts with the expansion they wanted to be able to RaF to (e.g. Vanilla/BC for 70 or Wrath for 80). You don't have to transfer any characters over to the new accounts if you split up your boosting.

Existing Accounts:

A, B, C, D, E

4 Throwaway Accounts:

F, G, H, I

You would have to go through the route of boosting twice, like this:

┌─ B → F
│
A
│
└─ C → G

┌─ D → H
│
A
│
└─ E → I

You'll throw away the accounts in red after you're done and you're only out the cost of the base game and any expansions (currently $40 per account to enable RaF to 80) with no need to transfer a single character. If you're only looking to boost a single team then this method really isn't worth it for the cost and I would, again, recommend to just quest a single team up to max level w/o RaF. If you needed to boost multiple teams then, you have to ask yourself is my time and ~$160 worth it?