I'm still not there (5box dreams and wow multibox status)...

[Darelik]

aw ic.

i boosted my raf team via a mage . the 70 mage had some t6 gear. i tried boosting with my old tankadin that was on t5 and im convinced mage > tankadin for boosting. just an opinion.

[Ramesses]

aw ic.

i boosted my raf team via a mage . the 70 mage had some t6 gear. i tried boosting with my old tankadin that was on t5 and im convinced mage > tankadin for boosting. just an opinion.

Possible. But I dont like the idea of being squishy. I know mages can kill faster, but AOE prot paly is more fun to me. And if you make a mistake you dont die and have to start over.

[Ramesses]

aw ic.

i boosted my raf team via a mage . the 70 mage had some t6 gear. i tried boosting with my old tankadin that was on t5 and im convinced mage > tankadin for boosting. just an opinion.

Possible. But I dont like the idea of being squishy. I know mages can kill faster, but AOE prot paly is more fun to me. And if you make a mistake you dont die and have to start over.

The idea in BC that I could heal myself from taking damage every 2 minutes (with FoC) is just too irresistible for easy boosting.

[Darelik]

aye, foc + bos + ret aura = brbsandwichtime
was just saying that i had the chance to pick a booster and i chose mage over the pally.

in any case, i suggest going through the dungeons you're planning to boost in. figuring it how many pulls you are able to handle, up to where can u pull them before they start returning, will jumping over a crate make the mobs evade bug and aggro to the lowbies, etc. sussing things out first or doing practice/timed runs would make your live runs smoother.

[Ramesses]

aye, foc + bos + ret aura = brbsandwichtime
was just saying that i had the chance to pick a booster and i chose mage over the pally.

in any case, i suggest going through the dungeons you're planning to boost in. figuring it how many pulls you are able to handle, up to where can u pull them before they start returning, will jumping over a crate make the mobs evade bug and aggro to the lowbies, etc. sussing things out first or doing practice/timed runs would make your live runs smoother.

Hahah, exactly. BRBsandwitchtime to the max. I'm all about that. As I said, I have enough arthritis, tendonitis and whatever ITIS as it is, i dont need to be clicking more buttons than necessary while boosting. Will save the button clicking for when I actually have the team leveled and crush some heroics and who knows what else!

I still imagine looting with 5box is a serious pain in the ass. I do remember seeing an addon/app for that but remember reading it didnt work perfectly. Has this improved?

[Otlecs]

I still imagine looting with 5box is a serious pain in the ass.

I'm missing something here, because I've never found looting any more of a pain with five characters than with one character - it's just a whole shed-load of bodies to click on if you bother looting when you boost.

When your main's full up, either offload the crap onto one of your drones or rotate the looter around until they're all full.

You can also loot with the new "interact with target" keybind, but you still need to click all those corpses.

Personally, I only loot while my booster is on down-time (I used a mage, and she needs a drink between pulls) and leave everything else alone. The low level instances especially - certainly up to and including ST - are a waste of time loot-wise, even for enchanting mats.

Somebody here once did the math surrounding time spent looting vs. time spent doing more boosts and therefore reaching high levels quicker and making even more money, but I can't find the thread at the moment. It was a fairly compelling argument against looting in the lower-level instances though

[Darelik]

yeah, never looted when i was boosting from DM/VC thru to ramps. the only exception being the blues from ZF and up. they paid for the repair bills, flight, porting and training expenses.

and yes, when mage was drinking, i had another toon doing some looting until mage was full. and when the instance was finished, i would have to go back and if i see a mob sparkling, i know that it's got an epic on it. :thumbsup:

with regards to changes in looting, if you have one screen, u can use interact-with-target while ur main is recovering (target mob with main, enable click-to-move, hit interact-with-target keybind on the other toon, and presto). other than that, as was said earlier, it still takes the same amount of time when looting corpses. but as for gathering herbs, ores, skinning, looting untargettable quest items, and such - these things have their time-to-loot sped up.

[Gadzooks]

aw ic.

i boosted my raf team via a mage . the 70 mage had some t6 gear. i tried boosting with my old tankadin that was on t5 and im convinced mage > tankadin for boosting. just an opinion.

Most 80's can boost anything through 60.

After that, it changes, fast, especially if you're going to instance boost. Then, the mage is useless, as tanking is pretty dicey. They're very fun to have, and who doesnt like free water and food and portals? But as a tank...nah, gotta disagree there.

I've level boosted with a rogue, a lock, and a druid. The best, IMVHO, is the Lock - if you speck demon, and use your felguard, he can tank a LOT in Outlands - you will find it really hard to grab aggro from him. Add in the Lock dots, you can dot groups up, send in the Felguard, and watch the exp flow. Your boosted characters can sit there and play Peggle.

I don't think my Felguard ever died in Outlands, and I ran my current team through Ramps, Blood Furnace, Underbog, Slave Pens, Mana Tombs, Crypts, and Sekketh. The mage, who is also 80 (fire spec, massive dps support), died a LOT. The Lock died once, when I pulled a whole room in Sekketh by mistake.

[Darelik]

Most 80's can boost anything through 60.

After that, it changes, fast, especially if you're going to instance boost. Then, the mage is useless, as tanking is pretty dicey. They're very fun to have, and who doesnt like free water and food and portals? But as a tank...nah, gotta disagree there.

yes. most 80's can boost anything through 60, but i was talking about 70's
i did ok as a 70 mage booster until after ramps.

after that, if i was continuing boosting, then i'd use a pally for sure

[Mokoi]

I am very impatient. I would order all the parts and have them sent to a relative in the US. Then have that relative send them to me ;p

Thankfully I am patient (otherwise I would be over this by now. Lets put it this way, I'm starting to camp Time-lost proto drake on my Paly now).

I had thought of that too. The problem is, any new hardware shipped from the US is subject to a 19% VAT (sales tax) fee from germany. And although this is total bullshit and makes no sense, they take the total value in dollars, apply 19% and charge you that 19% in Euros. So you are also paying even more than 19% due to conversion rates. Rediculous i know, but thats how it works.

The only way I could do it and be safe, is next time Im visiting my family in the US I could order everything, build it, make sure its working and all is well. Then take it back with me on the plane (carry-on if possible, no way im checking my badass superpc I just built). That way its not "new" so I dont have to pay tax. Problem with this is, I have only taken a PC carry-on before on DOMESTIC flight. An international flight could provide some security or other issues depending on what mood the authorities are in that day.

just dont buy it with a case, and pack all your equipment into your luggage, that's what I do. Security knows the difference between a computer part and a bomb. I have travelled internationally like this 3 times. once to australia, once from and once to Seoul Korea. not a problem.