The Boosting and Power Leveling summary thread

[method98]

Very good to have a dedicated thread for this, ive been scouring the forums looking for a way to boost my team up quicker using my level 60 warlock.

[nodoze]

Very good to have a dedicated thread for this, ive been scouring the forums looking for a way to boost my team up quicker using my level 60 warlock.

Yeah. There are lots of amazing people in these forums that give lots of great input but often these volunteer efforts becomes repetitive due to the nature of the forums. One of the biggest issues with this type of forum is that the same questions get asked over and over in various threads because the threads get buried over time. Also threads tend to fork/branch into unrelated topics so it is hard to know which threads have the nuggets of wisdom you need. This type of thread is an attempt to sorta allow the forum to have sudo-wiki pages within the forum with the top/inital post being like a wiki page and the replies being like a wiki talk/discussion page... Over time if we develop multiple threads like this we can either sticky them or have a single sticky that links to all threads like this...
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I updated the initial post at the top of the thread with the additional approaches.

Can someone please test a scenario 1B?

Basically take a main with a level 60 Pet into a low level instance with 2+ low level alts and let the mobs aggro on a passive pet, get tagged by the alts, and then let the pet kill the mobs (but not damage the mobs with the main). Then compare the XP awarded to the low level alts to a kill by a main (not the pet).

I got that idea after reading the scenarios above and thinking of the differences in the open world between the mains and pets doing the killing and wondering if instances were coded similarly... Could really help on a PVP server...

[Lyonheart]

At the low levels I really like questing power level. Get all the the quests on the toons to be powerlevel. And then just blast through killing everything with the higher toon. Once you cant get quests anymore just jump to another low level zone and easily do those. Even collection quest dont take long when everything dies with one hit.

That is what i did yesterday. its nice. i still skip collection quests unless its one i remember being easy with my main team. Im using a 60 priest and mage tagging along. i went and gathered all the flight paths i could get to. having a mage to port the group around saves a ton of time as well. Now that i have all the FPs ill need until I start SM, I should be able to level up to dungon grinding time pretty fast.

I'm leveling a full second team to add to my current 60 team for 10 man fun!

[nodoze]

That is what i did yesterday. its nice. i still skip collection quests unless its one i remember being easy with my main team. Im using a 60 priest and mage tagging along. i went and gathered all the flight paths i could get to. having a mage to port the group around saves a ton of time as well. Now that i have all the FPs ill need until I start SM, I should be able to level up to dungon grinding time pretty fast.

I'm leveling a full second team to add to my current 60 team for 10 man fun!

Were your 2 Level 60 characters actually in a raid with your 2nd 5man team or where you using them out of party to heal your party and also to kill mobs after they were tagged by the party?

[method98]

Does anyone have info on what kind of exp/h we could be looking at if we farmed Satyrs in felwood for mats/gold while tagging with a 4-5man team in their 20's. I need to farm gold every week and i also need to get my team up to 60 asap

[Mercbeast]

Not good. Your xp will be capped, at your level, so all the extra xp is wasted, but try it and report back, I'd expect the xp/hr to not be good by boosting standards.

[nodoze]

Does anyone have info on what kind of exp/h we could be looking at if we farmed Satyrs in felwood for mats/gold while tagging with a 4-5man team in their 20's. I need to farm gold every week and i also need to get my team up to 60 asap

Not good. Your xp will be capped, at your level, so all the extra xp is wasted, but try it and report back, I'd expect the xp/hr to not be good by boosting standards.

I think Merc is correct except maybe if you try Approach 2B:

Approach 2: Open World tagging of mobs by character(s) to be boosted and then killing by main(s) has 2 different sets of levels where it is viable:

-2A) ...

-2B) Killing by level 60 Pet(s) of any level mobs can help after the characters to be boosted tag the mobs. Note that there does need to be 2+ alts in the party to be boosted for the XP to scale well.


If you have a pet class main and can try it please report back with your results...

If you have a Warlock you could use an 'eye of killrog' to bring huge packs of level 10s (or what ever low level mobs) to you and your voidwalker and get the void to start taunting & tanking... Your low level alt should then be able to AoE Tag all the mobs with consecration, AE or something... Then cast Thorns/fireshield and/or Retribution aura on the Voidwalker and let the mobs quickly beat themselves to death and otherwise have the void attack any that try to flee... That or maybe there is a Hunter's pet with a decent AoE damage affect that can wipe masses of lower level mobs.

[Lyonheart]

Were your 2 Level 60 characters actually in a raid with your 2nd 5man team or where you using them out of party to heal your party and also to kill mobs after they were tagged by the party?

I run them out of group to assist..i only group in a raid to port to cities.

[Sisyphus]

This is really situational but found it to be insanely fast:

I had my warrior mass pull mobs close to the level of the AoE toon I was leveling.
I would AoE on the leveling toon and then use other characters to AoE/finish off mobs.

The PL toon would receive near max XP (not sure how this works - but seemed to be much higher than if the one char did a couple single target tags and then had others kill).

this worked great against elite mobs outside dungeons that I could mass pull. For level range was able to do 28-32 in about 20-35 minutes a level.

[nodoze]

This is really situational but found it to be insanely fast:

I had my warrior mass pull mobs close to the level of the AoE toon I was leveling.
I would AoE on the leveling toon and then use other characters to AoE/finish off mobs.

The PL toon would receive near max XP (not sure how this works - but seemed to be much higher than if the one char did a couple single target tags and then had others kill).

this worked great against elite mobs outside dungeons that I could mass pull. For level range was able to do 28-32 in about 20-35 minutes a level.

Was your level 28-32 AoE character solo or in a party or raid?

Was your Warrior a much higher level (like 60) than the level 28-32 character(s)?

Was your Warrior in the party/raid with anyone?

Did the Warrior do any damage or just shout/aggro?

The other characters who later AoEed and/or otherwise helped finish off the mobs, what levels were they and were they in a party with anyone?