Boosting, still work? Legal?

[moose410]

Thanks for the help, I'll try again when I get off work.

[Terraelf]

The biggest problem I've had dungeon boosting is when you can just wiped through a dungeon so fast you hit the 5 instances per hour cap. I run alliance toons and help friends level alliance toons so I generally don't take them to ragefire chasm. Typically by the time I could run my lock and two others in to a do a summon of the low level toon, they could have quested from 8 to 10 anyways. So I do:

10-15 Deadmines <- I occasionally hit the 5 run rule here
15-20 Stockade <- I always hit the 5 run rule here
20-35 Scarlet Monastery Cathedral <- I have hit the 5 run rule here before, but it's rare
35-45 Zul'Furrak
45-55 Dire Maul:East
55-60 Blood Furnace

Then I go back to levelling. I'm curious though what the minimum level to enter some of the WotLK dungeons are and what using those to boost would be like though. Nexus maybe? Don't know haven't tried.

[Gadzooks]

What are you boosting in Blood Furnace with? (Class)

[ryanswan]

Does RAF work with boosting? I know there is a level difference limit, just wondering if there was a way around it.

Given:
Account A, main account, referred B.
Account B, friend of A and can grant levels to A, referred C.
Account C, friend of B and can grant levels to B, referred D.
Account D, friend of C and can grant levels to C, referred E.
Account E, friend of D and can grant levels to D, referred no one.
Account F, no way linked to A, B, C, D or E. (for example your buddy's account)


If A has a level 80, will toons on B through E receive the 300% bonus to XP while boosting?

if E has a level 80, will toons on A through D recieve the 300% bonus to XP while boosting?

If F has a level 80, will toons on A through D recieve the 300% bonus to XP while boosting?

[shaeman]

The challenge in Strat and Scholo for me was figuring out how far I could go before my alts stopped getting credit - I want exp and rep, so it's important

I'm sure I read it on this forum but the way I determine if my group are in range for experience is - zoom all the way out on the minmap, zoom back in one level, and if you see your toon on the minimap they will get experience.

It worked fine for SM - but for stratholme I kept my teams close to me just in case those eyes of naxxramas spawned so I could save them.

[Gadzooks]

The challenge in Strat and Scholo for me was figuring out how far I could go before my alts stopped getting credit - I want exp and rep, so it's important

I'm sure I read it on this forum but the way I determine if my group are in range for experience is - zoom all the way out on the minmap, zoom back in one level, and if you see your toon on the minimap they will get experience.

It worked fine for SM - but for stratholme I kept my teams close to me just in case those eyes of naxxramas spawned so I could save them.

I'll have to play with that, thanks! I just go by visuals - I have a good idea of how far I can go, but if that's right, I can definitely use that!

[Terraelf]

What are you boosting in Blood Furnace with? (Class)

Pre-WotLK, I was using my hunter to do this. Now, I use my warlock. To provide a more complete answer, I have every class available to me, so here's what I use to boost each of the dungeons below:

10-15 Deadmines <- Mage
15-20 Stockade <- Mage
20-35 Scarlet Monastery Cathedral <- Mage, Hunter, or Lock
35-45 Zul'Furrak <- Hunter (tracking can help you remember some of the mobs you might skip) or Lock
45-55 Dire Maul:East <- Hunter (I prefer the tracking here)
55-60 Blood Furnace <- Lock (Dot/Dot, tab, Dot/Dot, tab, Dot/Dot, AoE)

[Gadzooks]

That's funny, I just spent the last two days running two toons through Ramps and Blood Furnace with my Lock, it's pretty easy - I did'nt remember to come back and see what you'd said.

How far can you get with the Lock? Mine is doing 1996dps right now (freaking game is teasing me to get to 2k solid), and is specced demon, so i dot/dot/Felguard is already beating something up/AOE - works pretty well for most trash, then on Bosses I focus more on dots and letting the Felguard tank - no deaths to the Felguard yet, but 6 or more mobs overwhelm my little guy pretty fast. If you're doing Affliction or Dest, what build?

[Terraelf]

I mostly raid w/ my lock. I tend to hover between 3500 to 4000 dps in raid scenario and raid buffs and no special boss mechanics that affect DPS numbers in either direction, but I can't give you a reasonable idea of what my DPS is when soloing BF or BR. Here's the armory profile: Terrafy

Right now my favorite spec is the 0/41/30 spec... One of these days I'm going to try the 0/40/31 spec just to see how it works for me. I've tried the currently very popular afflication spec and I just hate it.