Boosting /played time /w recruit-a-friend

[Stabface]

Just finished 10-15 in Deadmines, including time spent summoning to DM and then summoning again to SW to get ready to run Stockades it took just shy of 55 mins (54 mins 39s when I logged). Oddly I am at 2 hours 17 minutes /played now even though my previous 2 session times = 1h 15m and 55m which should = 2h 10m total, no idea where the extra 7 mins comes from ! Might be because I alt-F4'd out, or possibly some bug with either the FuBar XP meter or with /played. Oh well.
Next up, I'll run Stockades until I hit the instance limit and see where I'm at XP wise.

[Stabface]

15-19 took 4 stockades runs = 25 minutes. Win!
Being tired, zoning in and back out and resetting without actually running the instance, giving you only 4 runs instead of 5 before you hit L20, making you hit the instance limit? Fail.
Staring at the wall for 35 minutes waiting on the reset timer to expire is also = fail. /sigh...

Hey, better than hitting the reset limit 3-4 times I suppose!

Pro tip: Boost to L16 and a few bars or so in Deadmines before going to Stockades, each Stockades run is giving ~19 bars of XP, so 4 runs will net you ~3.8 levels. If you move directly from Deadmines to Stockades and run it like a pro, your last Deadmines run may very well still be counting towards the 5 instances per hour limit. So if you can ding 20 in only 4 runs then you're pretty much not going to hit the instance limit before you can move on to SM.
Alternatively if you like to boost a bit higher in Stockades then disregard this as you'll want to run through the instance limit twice, napkin math tells me that 10 runs would put you from 15 -> 23 and some change which is quite excellent.

Edit: Finished leveling to 23 in Stockades, sitting at 3H 12M /played now... tomorrow I'll push through SM.

[Vyndree]

Updated my initial post. Lowbies are now level 35 with 7.5 hours /played.


I'm a bit torn about where to go after SM. The mobs are now yellow to level 35 lowbies (except for the two bosses) and it's started to slow.

I know ZF is a PITA for a prot pally, but I'll have to choose between Mara and Temple. I'm leaning towards Temple though I've never boosted with a prot pally in it before, because the level range should be able to get the lowbies all the way to 45 (minimum zoning level for Strat).

[Stabface]

Hmm, I always go to 40 in SM... how badly did the XP drop off? I didn't think it was too bad.

I will tell you ST is rather bad because trolls run away, and also turn you into a frog. So you think Dragonkin ! but they still nuke you pretty hard and put you to sleep. You can try it though.

I would lean towards BRD, or dig up all the graves in ZF.

edit: Yeah, dug up my notes on ZF... digging up all the graves by the Witch Doctor boss was a bit over 2 bubbles @ L44, pre-RAF bonus. It is a little slow getting there because you have to be careful not to pull too many totem guys, but there aren't any or more than 1-2 shadow hunters (hex) on the way. But with RAF it should be most of a level I'd think per run. I got it down to ~1 hour per level in the mid-40s in ZF so... x3 = 20 minutes or so per level. Not too bad.

[Drizzit]

Plus temple is high lvl 40s there. It is sort of like an instance after ZF. Scholo will be hard at 45 too they start at 57-60 in the first room of scholo, but if you are power boosting then it doesn't matter.

[Oswyn]

Crap, I'm having a tough time on deciding to get another 5 accounts to try this out (already have 5). On my 5 current accounts I have seven level 70's and two level 65's. I have a a couple of mid 40's and a bunch of bank alts. Figure I screw the 40's and alts, I would pay $225 to transfer old toons to new accounts. This is much better than if I leveled 15 or 20 toons on new accounts and transferred to old accounts.

[Stormweasel]

Is it still quicker boosting alts through instances rather than pure questing them now the quest XP is tripled?

I'm really inclined towards levelling my first 5 box team traditionally but have a priest (one of the planned 5) at 54 already as an alt. I could use my 70 mage to boost the other 4 but it seems like a bad idea when starting out.

The temptation to boost this lot as far to 60 as possible then gift the level-ups to my druid alt team when they hit 30 is very tempting though

Oh well, fingers crossed I can get the 5-team to 60 before the 3 months is up.

[Sanctume]

Updated my initial post. Lowbies are now level 35 with 7.5 hours /played.


I'm a bit torn about where to go after SM. The mobs are now yellow to level 35 lowbies (except for the two bosses) and it's started to slow.

I know ZF is a PITA for a prot pally, but I'll have to choose between Mara and Temple. I'm leaning towards Temple though I've never boosted with a prot pally in it before, because the level range should be able to get the lowbies all the way to 45 (minimum zoning level for Strat).

With a Prot Pally bootsing, I've stuck with 20-40 in SM. 40-45 in BRD. 45-55 LBRS. 55-58 EPL, Scholo, or Ramparts grinding.

[Draz]

What do you do in EPL exactly for boosting purposes? The kill quests?

[Simulacra]

What do you do in EPL exactly for boosting purposes? The kill quests?

I know it's not EPL but in WPL A good thing to do is go to a field of skellies and gather them up, burn them down, move to next field. I think there are 4 fields? not sure, once u get to last field go back to first. I did this with my AOE team, lotsa fun and great xp