RAF time almost up (cry)

[turbopinto]

As much as I hate leveling, this RAF time has actually made it fun even when starting new teams from scratch. I probably have time to make 1 more team and get them to mid 40's? Unless I stay up all night on my next 4 days off. I maybe could pull it off, but beware teh wife aggro.

When I did instance powerleveling with my 70 huntards (1 dwarf, 1 tauren) it took each team about 1D, 12H /play to get 60, just questing took about 2D, 4H average. The instance powerleveling started at lvl 10 (deadmines, and ragefire chasm) and pretty much stopped at lvl 48 in ZF, and I went straight questing after that (gift the 5th team member to a level equal the other 4 powerleveled toons). I went a little beyond 60 on some teams, before I remembered that the 90 days end was coming up (sad) ah well. I was hoping to do more, but with real life there's only so much I feel I can dedicate to the game. Plus the kids love to multibox too, so that cut into the time I got to play >.<

My results during RAF are:

5x space goat shammys lvl 62

5x night elf druids lvl 62

5x gnome mages lvl 60

5x gnome locks lvl 60

5x undead rogues lvl 63

5x tauren druids lvl 60

5x blood elf locks lvl 35 (that server went down 1 day, so I started another team on another server)

My plan is to add at least 1 prot pally to each faction for a main tank for boosting/ heroics later, but I gotta decide whats next on the agenda for the last 6 days of RAF. I'll be using all my gift levels 1 day before the official end so I don't end up losing them. I plan on adding priests and maybe warrs for fun later. But what to for my last RAF team? maybe 1 prot, 1 holy, 3 retardins, or 5 shadow priests? It will probably be horde side as I like having more even number of teams to choose from when I'm bored with 1 side (plus I like to actually WIN in PVP sometimes..)

I don't have Wotlk yet, I didnt want to be distracted before the end of RAF with the new content, so no DKs yet. Any opinions?

[zhenyalix]

note... prob obvious to everyone but me... but when it says linked until X date... you lose raf at midnight the night before (i ended up not using up all my gift lvl's because of this not that it really mattered cause i have more raf'd toons than will ever see 70 much less 80... but still was frusterating that my bank toon is only 40 and not 60 dangit! lol so make sure u burn up everything before midnight!

[zhenyalix]

and on another evil raf note... saw after thanksgiving sales for norm wow 9.99 or 20 bucks for the battlechest from a few of the major stores... now with the free month u get there............. lol i'm just glad i'm sooooo burned out of raf boosting, though i could see tinkering with it again when i have a few lvl 80s to destroy with (and just let the accounts expire after that first free month)

[zhenyalix]

and i have to ask.... i only got 20 something lvl 60s out of my raf... and ended up giving 9 of them lvl 60 mounts training tbc greens gear etc etc the other night adn spent over 6k gold doing it lol u got epic mounts on all of those toons? raf about made me broke

[turbopinto]

Epic mounts? what are those? In the first 2 teams, I tried getting everything done on them all. But after that, I figured I'd earn enough as I went on later since I wouldn't even be playing them until I decided to continue to 70+. Heck, on the last 4 teams, I didn't even train skills not in the tree I wasn't planning on leveling in. ie: my tauren druids (the last team i've leveled) they are feral (cat), and I only trained the skills I always use, and some healing. I am still at the rank 2 wrath and almost all the other balance spells. I never trained other feral attacks like claw, growl, maul, etc. I just basically pounce, ravage, mangle, and ferocious bite.

Since I didn't have a team of 70s on the horde side, gaining cash for epic mounts became secondary to making as many teams as possible just to get to 60. I'll get there, but not yet heh.

[zhenyalix]

lol thats the boat i'm in too... soo funny to see people freak at my locks in lvl 1 gear with no training at all... no pets nothing... (i boosted everything from 10-60 with my mage) so some of the healers actually casted some spells... the rest just sat dormant

[daviddoran]

My raf ran out a while ago, but I'm still experiencing the "growing pains" associated with the lightning quick leveling. My RAF characters basically can not solo anything remotely close to their lvl. I had to slowly build up their stats, quest in hellfire for gear, and start getting gold for skills. I just now at lvl 69 bought epic land mounts... hell, my druid was just using travelform in front of the others on their lvl 30 mounts... Thankfully, it's not that difficult to recover from a crazy fast lvling.

Now I'm sequencing my leveling accross my tams to maximize rested exp. Hopefully I will get 3 teams to 70 soon enough, then start them on the long grind to 80. My goal is to get them in at least level appropriate gear (at least 60+ greens) before they hit northrend.

I did buy 2 new copies of the battlechest, and i have 2 dormant accounts, so I may pick up the leveling torch again some day, and try my hand at 10 boxing. I probably wouldn't level more than one or two teams with it though, and there's a good chance I wouldn't play more than the first free month + one 60 day game card. It would be kinda fun to try 10 manning Kara. I could make it easy by going in with 5 80s and 5 68s just for backup DPS. Be a decent way of gearing out some toons to prepare them for northrend

[Malekyth]

5x space goat shammys lvl 62
5x night elf druids lvl 62
5x gnome mages lvl 60
5x gnome locks lvl 60
5x undead rogues lvl 63
5x tauren druids lvl 60
5x blood elf locks lvl 35 (that server went down 1 day, so I started another team on another server)

AGH ..?! I have two mages and a shadow priest who are 43, and 5 shamans who just hit 22 ... and five 19 hunters ...

I'm almost certainly not using RAF to its full potential.

[Mercurio]

I also got 6 teams up from 0 to 60 during my RAF - wanted to get the most out of it.

As to your question, you DEFINITELY need to make a team of pallies imo. You will want tanks for those guys when you start instancing and pallies are easiest for that. Level a team of pallies, then split up the teams and put one pally in each and you'll cruise through the instances you want to try out. I realize your druids could potentially fill this role too, but I'm partial to pallies.

DKs are another decent option. Either way you probably ought to level up a team of DKs from 55 to 60/61 before RAF ends for you. You'll be glad to have tanking options, believe me.

[Marloon]

My RAF is almost up too. It sucks. I have leveled up all my characters during this time. Except my Locks but they should be 60 by the weekend. I thought about trying ot level a group of 5 priests too but I will not have time plus my main account has no more free spaces. Which really sucks cause I wont be able to grant any free levels. I should have split up the refering to other accounts. Oh well. It has been fun while it lasted. Which group was your favorate?