Boosting nerf?

[Morx]

So does boosting work with a LINKED 70?

I'm leveling 5 shamans right now, but my primary account where my first shaman is also has a 70 druid, and 70 warlock, so I was thinking about boosting the 4 locks using the 70 warlock, but all the level 1 warlocks would be "linked" to the 70 - will that still work? (for now)

Nope, the 70 has to be unlinked, or that falls under the rules that there is a grey mob, to one of the linked characters in the group, and therefore, not giving triple exp.

You could still boost, but none of them would get triple exp. I'm running into the same issues because I made the mistake of leveling my paladin, with another account linked to it. So now, if I intend to boost that 2nd account, I'm going to have to transfer my paladin off to do it. No big deal, just more money spent on a transfer, that could be spent on another WoW box.

[Aethon]

So does boosting work with a LINKED 70?

I'm leveling 5 shamans right now, but my primary account where my first shaman is also has a 70 druid, and 70 warlock, so I was thinking about boosting the 4 locks using the 70 warlock, but all the level 1 warlocks would be "linked" to the 70 - will that still work? (for now)

Sadly, no, it doesn't work with a linked account. I'm trying to get a linked set with a paladin leveled up as fast as I can to help my other 3 accounts.

I still get raf bonus when grouped with an unlinked 70.

Yep, ran ZF for a few hours last night, 4 RaF's with an unlinked lvl 70 mage. Got 5 levels.

Does anyone else skip bosses when boosting?

What spec is your mage? I'm still arcane/fire (41/whatever's left) from raiding and I don't have that great a gear (some pvp gear, some kara and a gruuls) nor great spell damage (~600) All I do is round them up and AE them down sometimes with a PoM flamestrike or a CoC thrown in. Any recommendation to improve, because it seems like I have to do about 5 pulls just in SM Library?

And, I'm going to start skipping bosses because I think it'll be faster compared to the little extra time they take to get down.

[Rudi89]

[quote='Aethon',index.php?page=Thread&postID=111405 #post111405]What spec is your mage? I'm still arcane/fire (41/whatever's left) from raiding and I don't have that great a gear (some pvp gear, some kara and a gruuls) nor great spell damage (~600) All I do is round them up and AE them down sometimes with a PoM flamestrike or a CoC thrown in. Any recommendation to improve, because it seems like I have to do about 5 pulls just in SM Library?

And, I'm going to start skipping bosses because I think it'll be faster compared to the little extra time they take to get down.[/quote]I went with a kind of odd Arcane/Frost spec, [url='http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/mage/talents.html?tal=250005030023015033012500000000000 0000000000000535020000005010000000']40/0/21[/url], like the raiding Arc/Frost spec but into Shatter. My Arcane Explosion (full rank, I gather with rank 1 AE) macro is /castrandom Arcane Explosion, Frost Nova so when spamming the key I use Nova when it's off cooldown for the added Crit chance and I have my other mage in group Frost Nova when it's up for more Crit-ing. Gear is somewhat strange as well (linky ) since spell hit and spell haste don't count for much when you're just spamming Arc Explosion 95% of the time. I'm assuming Crit is not affected by various AoE nerfs so I have been stacking that when possible, though as you can see the gear is quite a mix (went with a green stam belt since neither spellfire belt nor belt of blasting are heavy on stats).

It takes a little while to figure the pulls out. I specced all my girls into healing so their job is to keep Rudi alive through the run. He's still squishy though, but I find that half-pulling a room, pausing to heal and AoE down some mobs, then moving on and finishing the room/area, really speeds it up without, uh, killing him. Then I loot with the spare mage while Rudi and the girls drink. I wasn't looting on lower level instances but the silk/mageweave cloth in SM and ZF is really useful for turn-ins and as fodder for crafting tailor items to DE for mats for raising enchanting.

[Sinnocence]

Just wondering if I can get some clarification on the grouped-with-a-70 xp situation...

If I have a lvl 70 account and from it I recruit 4 friend accounts, if I attempt to boost none of them will get 3x XP due to the mobs being grey... correct?
70 -> friend1
70 -> friend2
70 -> friend3
70 -> friend4

If I have a lvl 70 account, from which I invite 1 friend, who invites another friend, who invites another friend, and so on - what happens then?
70 -> friend1 -> friend2 -> friend3 ->friend4

Thanks for any/all info.

[Sinnocence]

One final *bump* - Anyone Know?

[mezzerin]

The rule is that the "main" account and the friend(s) are all in the same group and are within level range (i think 4 levels). A level 70 inviting 4 friends and then running instances will therefor NOT get the 3x bonus because of level difference.

[Sinnocence]

The rule is that the "main" account and the friend(s) are all in the same group and are within level range (i think 4 levels). A level 70 inviting 4 friends and then running instances will therefor NOT get the 3x bonus because of level difference.

Doh, thanks. I was hoping that because the 1st friend account had invited the others in a chain that those accounts being linked would afford the others the bonus.

[myoungii]

I still get raf bonus when grouped with an unlinked 70.

Yep, ran ZF for a few hours last night, 4 RaF's with an unlinked lvl 70 mage. Got 5 levels.

Does anyone else skip bosses when boosting?

I don't skip bosses I like the 700-1k xp im getting from the bosses in Catherdral

[puppychow]

Just wondering if I can get some clarification on the grouped-with-a-70 xp situation...

If I have a lvl 70 account and from it I recruit 4 friend accounts, if I attempt to boost none of them will get 3x XP due to the mobs being grey... correct?
70 -> friend1
70 -> friend2
70 -> friend3
70 -> friend4

If I have a lvl 70 account, from which I invite 1 friend, who invites another friend, who invites another friend, and so on - what happens then?
70 -> friend1 -> friend2 -> friend3 ->friend4

Thanks for any/all info.

If you leave the 70 unlinked to any of the new accounts you can boost and get triple XP. That may get nerfed at some point in the future, nobody knows.

So if you have

70 (unlinked)

new account1 -> new account2 -> new3 -> new4

(ie new1 RAF's new2 who RAF's new3 who RAF's new4) you can group all of them up, get triple XP for quests/boosting, and new1, new2, and new3 will get the zhevra mount after 60 days gametime is paid for.

[Solmaran]

I'm not home yet so I can't test it, but did they nerf raf boosting during maintenance?