Is Questing or Boosting quicker with RAF accounts?

[UMP]

I have a 70 lock to boost my team of two and it's going along at a 3-4 level pace per hour up to level 20. (I'm leveling four teams of two) Although this is quite fast compared to normal questing, I'm wondering if questing would be even faster... and a lot less boring. Anyone have any experiences to comment on this?

[Crum1515]

The beginning is quite slow compared to later. I use a 70 to boost all my RAF accounts. Once you hit 20 head to SM Cath and boost in there... great XP, then when you hit 35 head to ZF. as a level 35 you get like 75~80k xp average at first then as you near 43-44 with 2 70s running is for my 2 toons I was upwards of 130k xp and hour. When you hit 45, if you can, head up to Lbrs, with just a 70 hunter running it I was at 170k xp an hour, didnt have a healer so it went a lil slow. All my toons hit 60 in less then 2 days played. There are better and faster ways im sure, these are just my ways. At 50, goto WPL and do the cauldron quest and Araj line... get like 4 levels in less then an hour.

[Gares]

Boosting is by far faster but more boring to say the least.

Also with boosting you really don't get a good feel for your team(s) as you would just questing...

My best suggestion would be to do both.

[UMP]

How far could my lock who is in T5/S2 run these toons through by himself? Level 40? Level 50? I have a crap geared resto druid at my disposal also, but I'd prefer to just run three WoWs on my computer

[ChaoticMonk]

My pally isnt greatly geared so I have issues when it comes to boosting past SM. So far I've been doing the following:
- 1-10: Quest
- 10-16: Deadmines
- 16-23: Stockades (I stayed until 22 so I could complete the quest given just outside stockades which got me to 23)
- 23-40: SM Armory/Cath (Armory-Cath-Reset-Cath-Armory-Reset & repeat)
- 40-45: STV Quests
- 45-49: Tanaris Quests + 1 ZF run to complete quests
- 49-52: Searing Gorge Quests
- 52-54: Burning Steppes
- 54-56: BRD (Only did the beginning part to complete the earlier quests)
- 56-60: WPL+EPL+half Scholo run.

Would've been nice to just boost to 60 tho :S

[heyaz]

The beginning is quite slow compared to later. I use a 70 to boost all my RAF accounts. Once you hit 20 head to SM Cath and boost in there... great XP, then when you hit 35 head to ZF. as a level 35 you get like 75~80k xp average at first then as you near 43-44 with 2 70s running is for my 2 toons I was upwards of 130k xp and hour. When you hit 45, if you can, head up to Lbrs, with just a 70 hunter running it I was at 170k xp an hour, didnt have a healer so it went a lil slow. All my toons hit 60 in less then 2 days played. There are better and faster ways im sure, these are just my ways. At 50, goto WPL and do the cauldron quest and Araj line... get like 4 levels in less then an hour.

what kind of xp/hr are you getting with 2 70s in the group? Does the 2nd one nerf the xp that bad?

[ChaoticMonk]

On my 43 druids (2 of them) I was getting 518xp a kill in ZF with 1 70. Added a 2nd 70 and it went down to 318xp a kill but the killing rate was much quicker.

[Crum1515]

At like lvl 43~ with one 70 I was gettin 125-126 and with 2 70's it was 130+. It was a hunter and a fury war, so it was quite fast grinding. The 2nd does put quite the damper on granted XP, but if both can clear at a faster rate, then I have em do it. I use titan to judge the XP/hr and plan accordingly. I have a spreadsheet made with whichinstances and 1/2 70s and whether i use the hunter/war/enh sham/feral druid. Leveled quite a few toons so I decided to make it up. I can clean it up a bit and post it if you would all like.

[Muddy]

Ok so is it at all possible to boost when I have 5 Shamans? What happens if I turn it into a raid and have the 70 be on the other party? Will that kill my xp?

[Crum1515]

The Xp would drop an insane amount if you turn it into a raid. Some instances wont let raids in... a lot of them, and you cannot get Quest items in a raid most of the time, and you wont get kill credit with a raid for kill quest.