25-40 Alt powerlevelling with 70 (SM)

[wougoose]

Hmm, I was pretty efficient about running my 4 shammies with a 70 mage and only was able to get 40 in about 17 hours played

Looks like I need to refine my process? lol

[panker]

8 hours played at level 40... thats incredibly hard to believe.
can you give us a more detailed writeup on how you managed this?
also- none of your characters show up on armory.
must be one of those emulator wow servers.

I'm playing on EU-Zenedar, you were most likely looking at US armory

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sh...nedar&n=Maunoa
(EU armory seems currently unresponsive, at least for me )

Anyways..
1-8 hunter pet leveling (yes, it's dirty )
8-10 RFC
10-25 SFK
25-40 SM (Cath and armory)

Each instance takes about 5 minutes, so I'm obviously hitting the 5 instance limit quite frequently, and when I do, I log my alts off. Mainly to avoid attention from people outside the instance .

Instance limit in SM doesn't hit me as bad though, since I do both cath and armory which are considered the same instance. Library and graveyard get all buggy when I try to pull everything, so I don't do them

Anyways, if I added the time I spent offline waiting for the instance limit to go off, I'd be looking at quite a few hours more

Also, I didn't loot any mobs

[TMNT]

Are you using a prot pally tank to agro the whole instance? Wouldnt the repair be very VERY high at the end.. speicly if hes wearing epics 25-50g

[dujow]

Yes, the pally is wearing a few epics.. and yes the repair gets hefty after several runs. Yes he is prot spec. I swapped out some of his other epics for some more +spell dmg gear. Basically.. I have this nifty little trinket that every time I block, I get 150 health. SO what I do is, leave the alts at the front gate.. run in and aggro the first courtyard, bring em back to the beginning and aoe em down.

Then I drag the alts to the stairs, leave them there, run all the way to the bosses door. Aggro all the way back. I don't get caught on the way there because you have to jump corners to avoid the patrols. Also there is one spot you have to jump over cannons to get around the pack.

Btw, the buffs I use is Imp rightous fury (for the damage reduction), Blessing of Sanctuary, and Retribution Aura. This way, when I get all the way back with the 50+ guys on my ass, they are already part dead.

Now sometimes.. Before I get all the way back, and I have about 60% health.. I may bubble and throw one heal, then continue.. or I won't. If I don't, I usually reach the stairs with about 30% health. In which case I just use the trinket and regain full health in about 7 seconds. The mobs die very fast as I've sacrificed some tank gear for spell dmg gear. If I haven't bubbled I use the pally spell that does 150% damage. (I don't have WoW open and I can't remember some spell names)

That is basically how I do it.. When I hit the 5-instance per hour cap,, I log some dudes out, log in with my 70 mage and a different alt and keep going to town. With the mage I have to split it up into several pulls but its pretty fast too.

Btw, I don't loot anything either, and I don't do the last boss.. waste of time. Sometimes I loot if I'm running through a random pug for group xp, and while the pally is drinking etc..but rarely.

BTW guys I am currently building a new computer, this one sucks, so I"ll be making videos for everything that I do for your enjoyment.

[JayDee]

wow, thanks, could you tell us the name of the trinket for getting your health back, thats seems like a major key to this how little stunt.

[Boylston]

Figurine of the Colossus... It's nice.

I have a 70 Pally and a 70 Mage, and for what it's worth, I have found that the Mage is able to go almost as fast (maybe faster) and with MUCH MUCH MUCH less repair bill...

My favorite mage trick is to pull all of the Cathedral at once by sending in my pet to attack the boss, and he calls the whole rest of the building to his aid. When they all arrive, AoE frost nova the group using the elemental's power, and proceed to Blizzard them down from afar.

Realistically speaking, I chain-run Cathedral in about 4 pulls. 1 front courtyard, 1 upstairs before door, 1 pre-boss cathedral clearout (maybe 1st two pillars), and the final boss/cath pull. It's as fast as my pally doing it, and takes almost no durability hit (on cheap cloth).

Mage isn't even really that well geared, much less so than the pally.

[Los]

Ofcourse you get to skip most tedious levels, but isnt it boring as hell? Not to mention not giving you a nice grip on the way to play? What do you guys do after so many instances, take up questing or just go instance farm with the group (which virtually should be naked/in greys ?)

[JayDee]

with a bit of practice i've got my armory runs down to 17-19 mins including looting (want the stuff for grinding enchanting on 1 toon and tailoring on the 4 squishies) and i'm doing it in 3 pulls, i could probably do it in 2 and reduce the time by a few more mins but 3 makes it nice and easy so i'm happy with that for the moment.

[Boylston]

Personally, I rolled 3xShammies to go along with a L70 Shammy, my first ever WoW character. I've played the class extensively, so I know what I'm doing in terms of Shamanizing.

I played the three of them together from L1-12, mostly to figure out my basic macro structure and get a feel for movement issues. But using my other L70s is so much faster and convenient, and I don't have to worry about gearing them up or what not.

I figure I'll keep hammering out SM until I hit 40, by which time I'll have full set of Scarlet Mail armor for all of them, all the totems I will need (for the most part) as well as Chain Lightning and (almost) Chain Heal. At that point I will probably switch to outdoor questing.

In all likelihood, I will use my L70 Shaman with the three newbies once they hit L40 and run instances that are more L40 appropriate. This will give me a chance to further refine my macro/totem strategies on all four guys, even if their levels are still disparate.

It's also quite tempting to start letting my L70 Pally tank for them, and give them (well, me) some practice healing/DPSing in instances using a very durable meat shield. For Outlands, I plan to quest/instance with the 4 shammies and my pally anyhow, and avoid the open world PvP scene for as long as possible.

For now, I'm having fun with an "optimize SM Cath run" mini-game on my mage. The shaman team getting some levels out of the deal is a nice benefit as well.

[betrayed]

I just completed the SM power leveling for my 4x shammies & now there is nothing like the pulls in SM. Anyone else have any ideas where to go for some big train pulls?