EDIT : Boosting + Recruit A Friend is not intended to be working by Blizzard, unfortunately. So this method either no longer works or will be shortly be removed from the game.

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Quote Originally Posted by GM Vrakthris
Q: How does the bonus experience work?

Let's say we have Account A with a level 70 character, Account B with a level 1 character and Account C with another level 1 character, all three characters are grouped. Account B and Account C are linked, will they receive triple experience?


A: Bonus experience should only be granted if the experience is not trivial to anyone in the group. Our Quality Assurance Team is looking into reports that some of these restrictions are not consistent and hope to resolve the issue soon.



I think it will be interesting to see now the difference in /played times for boosted characters with the RAF 3x XP bonus. It will really show how much time is actively spent getting XP vs other things (looting and travel being the biggest sinks on your /played time). Previously I made L35 in 12 hours /played and I'm aiming to cut this in half.

Tonight I did 1->10 in 1H 15M played... which is fast! But it's not 3x as fast as I've previously done these levels... more like 2 or 2.5x as fast.
I'm guessing 10-15 in Deadmines will take ~ 1 to 1.5 hour since it's an awful lot of running around. But 15-24 in Stockades should be super fast, possibly ~1.5 hours not including time spent waiting on instance reset. Then 24-35 in SM, should definitely be under 3 and I hope more in the range of 2-2.5 hours.

I'll keep updating as I level with /played time if folks are interested, but I know I'm not the only person boosting a new group - it would be great to have some other #'s from people to pace myself against.


Here is my /played times so far and what I did to accomplish it. I use summons to each instance to cut down on travel, and I only loot blues+ off corpses -- you can do this by setting master loot, threshold rare, and pass-on-loot yes. Then any corpse that sparkles has a blue+ on it.

1->10 : 1H 15M, grinding/mob tagging in starting zones.
10->15 : 55M, boosting in Deadmines.
15->23 : 55M, boosting in Stockades.
23->40 : 1H 55M, boosting in Scarlet Monastery.
Spent 30M at L40 running around training and buying mounts.
40->45 : 2H 25M, boosting in ZF. My /played total is 7H 55M here.
45->50 : 3H 20M, boosting in Stratholme. My /played total is 11H 20M.
50->55 : 4H 10M, boosting in Stratholme, /played total 15H 30M.
55->60 : 3H 9M, /played is 18H 39M total. I did quests, including cloth quests in the capital cities and the Argent Dawn repeatable quests, along with the Shaman totem line.

Now the real grind starts.