RAF time almost up (cry)

[Jheusse]

My RAF ends on the 10th and I'm trying like hell to get my second team (4 druids) to 60. On one hand it's been a blast, though I'm nowhere near as efficient as many of the guys here. Will have 4 shammies at 60, 4 druids at 60, then either make 3 or 4 instant 60 solo toons or have my feral 70 instance boost a couple mixed trios to 31.

Nongaming wife and a 4 year old and 1 year old make RAF both a perfect solution and hard as hell to get the most out of.

But I'll tell you what, and this may be sacrilege, but I'm kind of looking forward to being done with RAF for a while and going back to my main to get to 80. Best case scenarior is I end with 4 shammies, 4 druids, a lock, priest, hunter, and warrior all at 60. And then go back to my 70 feral main because my guild has been filled with chat and instance running while I soldier on with my RAF lowbies.

Anyone else get that "gotta grind it out or the RAF cost is wasted" vibe?

And on the solo toons I mentioned above, I know I want a priest and a lock, but can't decide what else to make for those solo insta 60 granted toons. And yes I likely will try a DK group at some point.

[Marloon]

Yeah I am happy it will be over. Otherwise I would be making other boxes on other servers.

I have gained a paladin and a rogue from the RAF for free. So I am pretty happy with everything. I figured a rogue will be able to unlock boxes and a paladin can tank if I ever need it.

i will miss the 3x xp and the 3x quest xp. That quest xp was the best thing ever. When you get the quests down you can get 4 levels an hour if you do it right.

[turbopinto]

My favorite? That's hard to say. I am an alt-aholic under the worst of situations, so this RAF thing was kind of a nirvana for me. I think the feral druids were my favorite, and the paladins I have at 50 as of now are my least favorite. It may just be that I have been getting camped on these guys way more than any other group though.
People are hitting 80, and are bored I guess, they are starting to bring 3-5 people and taking over small towns and outposts with nothing I can do to retaliate as my highest team is 70. The town guards are pretty much powerless against any lvl 80 in blues much less epics. BUT Instance leveling FTW. I want to take at least most of the teams to 70 first b4 getting WOTLK, but I don't think that'll be possible the way it is now unless only instance grinding.
Outlands, though it will be way less populated will be a haven for lvl 80 campers. and though it is pretty large, it still has a very small land mass compared to azeroth. Theres only 1-2 places to level outdoors for the level you are at pretty much. I see being camped for weeks during the grind to 70 on ALL my teams, much less 80. Without a lvl 80 team to do unto others as they have to me, it will be a living hell methinks.

[Marloon]

I started to level my guys on a pvp server. I couldn't do it. I was camped everytime I logged on. So I went to a pve server. It's much more fun I feel. I don't know how you did it on a pvp server

[elsegundo]

Im on a medium population pvp server and its not that bad. so maybe its the population.

also my raf will run out soon and i cant wait. been using up the 3x bonus for several teams as well and would love to stop and level up my favorite characters to 80.

[badashh]

For me the best thing about RAF, is knowing I'm not going back and leveling anything from 1->60 again(excluding DKs). The end of vanilla wow. I ended up with 15 new 60's and I refuse to RAF or go back and level any other alts. It's kind of liberating.

[turbopinto]

Final team completed: 5x paladins. I chose 1 to be the main tank in outlands, so they were leveled to ~10.95 before the gifting began. Once through the portal, they made 61.05 with the quest turnin. The talents? none so far, lol.

I figure I'll make 3x retardins, 1x holy, and the main tank a protadin for instances. Maybe if the retardins can handle taking a beating I'll switch to 5 of those, but I dunno about it yet. I still have to actually learn how to play paladins first lol. I even forgot to get the ressurection questline done.

I broke my personal best time to 60 with these guys, took 1D/ 12.5H to lvl 60 and I dunno if I would want to do that anymore. This was done by instance grinding with a lvl 70 huntard/ gorilla pet. I like being sidetracked somewhat with escort quests, PVP, and other time passers, so just grinding nonstop was killing my fun.

I liked the RAF time, but now is the time for 60-70 grinding. I'll probably choose 2 teams per side to make it to 70 before I buy WOTLK. Hoping for after christmas sales to take the bite off paying 5x for the game. And of course looking forward to being OPx5 with DKs.

[turbopinto]

Oh yeah, for the character gifting, ill be making all sorts of disc/ holy priests to add to groups in case they need them. On alliance side I have 150 levels x 4 accounts to gift. Horde side It's 75 levels X 4 accounts. gotta get those done tomorrow since RAF runs out on Friday.

[Smahs]

Wow, that really sucks your time is up but look at the levels you got, its amazing, but I ask one question, why only level 62? Did you use the TBC trial to save a few bucks?

[turbopinto]

I had gotten the rogues, shammys, and druids that high pretty much before I realized that my time was running out. I wanted to get as many teams to 60, as that's when the RAF xp bonus runs out. Another good part about using many different teams, is that once you stop one team and start the other, the first team's rested XP bonus starts adding up. I have at least 3 teams that should be at a full 2 bars of blue xp. The other teams will get there as I level those first few teams up.