One downside of RAF gifting.

[shaeman]

I now have a 59 prot pally with poor gear (all I could by on the AH wasn't great), who I don't know how to play properly.

I took him outside thrallmar to try and kill a 61 boar.... after a few minutes of hitting it and it hitting me I realised I would be in danger of dying in the next ten minutes. So dragged it back and had the guards kill it.

I did this for another boar and the same story.

Guess I'll boost with the team through some quests and upgrade his gear a bit and read up on how to kill single targets as opposed to how to tank.

[NoobShammy]

gifting a class with physical dps will always be an issue. Best is to get a good weapon and do your quests.....That being said with my x5 60 shamans now im going to GIFT x4 locks and 1 spriest to 30 and they will STILL rape everyone

[Naylix]

I sincerely hope you're not gonna boost a team from 1-30 ...

I'd suggest you level them to 30 instead (5-10 hours ?) and then giftlvl them from 30-59 ...

seeing as 30-59 takes 30-40 hours...

[KvdM]

The gifted levels probably don't level your weapon and defence skills, do they?

[zanthor]

The gifted levels probably don't level your weapon and defence skills, do they?

I don't believe so.

The easy solution here is to do the same thing every melee player in the world does when they get a new weapon type late in life... Go to Ragefire chasm and clear it.

For defense, get a few mobs and put your back to them. No dodge/parry will help guarantee they hit you and will drive your skill up faster.

[turbopinto]

For weapon skills, I usually take my team to blasted lands. Right by the portal are the "servant of Razelikh" they don't die, they just go into an unhittable state, and don't attack you anymore while in that state. BUT your weapon swings count towards your gaining skill. It worked well on moving my huntards up in both polearm, and 2handed axe skills.

I'd recommend finding the fastest white weapon you can to gain skills tho. The 3.6 speed weapons take FOR EVARRR (it seems) to level up.

[Shuri]

[quote='KvdM',index.php?page=Thread&postID=108309#p ost108309]The gifted levels probably don't level your weapon and defence skills, do they?[/quote]They don't. Check out my [url='http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Akama&n=Michinosuke']Paladin[/url] that I've gifted to 59. I'm going to go outside org and pull 15 raptors later this weekend to start to level my def. After I get it over 250 I'll head to blasted lands to level my sword skill on those mobs that can't be killed.

[brontes]

To level defense, go to the "silithid swarmers" south of Camp T in the barrens. Kill the one "swarm" bug but leave the scorpid alive. Wait for 50+ tiny bugs to spawn, then kill the scorpid. They will all hit for 1. If you have any sort of heal interruption protection you can heal yourself. If you don't mind potting, you can usually just pot every two minutes to keep your health topped off. If you've got Uther's Strength (BOE trinket) you'll take no damage at all. One AOE, thorns, ret aura, pet on defensive, etc. to kill them off if you just want to eat up and pull again.

You can go from 1-"max-5" defense in ~3 minutes. To get the last few points it usually takes 5-10 minutes.

[Shuri]

Awesome tip, I'll do that this weekend

[puppychow]

the best gift strat is to level alts to level 31, only needing 100-300xp to level up to 32, and then gift them 29 levels (if you have multiple chars to gift from, then lower is fine, I'd say 20 or 21, but always leave 100-300xp to hit the next level). I gifted 29 levels to two druids who were 31.99 and they became 60 with just 200xp left to hit 61, just zoning into outlands dinged them to 61

What really sucks is spending 200-300g+ training skills, then of course there is the mounts...