New RAF Team PVE Leveling

[Ualaa]

In general the A - B - C - D - E approach is stronger, because of the Cascading Levels effect. You can grant levels, based off of granted levels received. Not saying the A - B - C and B - D - E won't work, even A - B, A - C, A - D and A - E will work just fine, if you'd wanted all the granted levels on A, and 4 Zhevra mounts on A as well.

In the case of Paladin x1 + Shaman x4 and Shaman x5 for BG's, I'd personally level 5x Shaman in one group. This makes hotkeys and macro's incredibly easy, as every toon has the same stuff.

Then level a Paladin as part of a mixed team, where the Pally is the tank and you have whatever second group you'd like to try. Or possibly a full mixed group. With an actual tank, you have the option of instancing instead of questing for the Pally group.

If you have an existing toon on your original account, especially a tank type toon or an AoE type class, then boosting will be the fastest by a long shot. However, when you boost, you're only leveling 4 toons at once. Still the leveling speed can be pretty amazing.

I'd personally level as many teams as you think you'd possibly want to try at one point, to 60th. Then park them somewhere and start on another team. The 60 to 80 process is a lot slower then the 1 to 60 process. Plus while you have RAF, the 1-60 is very fast and the more teams you level in the 3 months, the more granted levels you get.

I used an existing account to boost with, and did four accounts with RAF. Leveled 4x Shamans, Druids, Priests and Hunters. I really wish I had done Warlocks (have them created at 1st level, but have not started on this team yet) and would like to have an all melee team too. I easily had over a month of RAF time remaining, when I started the 60+ grind, so more teams would have easily been possible. And 1-60 with RAF is so much faster and easier.

The first team to level, I'd go with questing. If you don't have gold from a main, only purchase essential skills... like the current Lightning Bolt, Water Shield and Lesser Healing Wave. You might want Ghost Wolf, Flame Shock (once you get Lava Burst) etc. This gets you your essential skills. Once you hit Outland, quest rewards will quickly fill out all of your abilities. But with RAF, and the insane leveling speed, its impossible to train all skills as you level, without gold from an already existing main.

Once you have at least one team at 60th, you can use one of them to boost with, if you'd like. A level 60 is not terribly geared, but they'll destroy the lower instances, even if they just quickly single target mobs down in rapid succession. If you have the gold, it might be worthwhile to pay for instance runs, purely for being boosted. A decent progression is SFK - SM - ZF - Strat - Ramparts - Underbog or as alliance Deadmines - Stockades - SM - ZF - Strat - Ramparts - Underbog.

Once all your teams are 60th, you can play one and then another, to always have rested.

Good luck and welcome to dual-boxing.

[paulmr1968]

Thanks Ualaa.

I'm partial to trying to get all free granted levels into two accounts. I understand the cascading effect. I have old WoW accounts but I'm not using them for this. I may reactivate them later. They don't have high enough horde toons.

I'll go 5x Shaman for leveling by quests. Yeah, I'd like to do as many RAF teams as possible before it runs out. Starting with Shaman, and want Warlock, Mage, Priest, Druid and maybe Paladin too. That would leave Warrior, Rogue, Hunter and DK as non-60 teams. But if I pumped all the free levels into two accounts, I could have 60's of those 4 classes as well on two accounts. So two accounts would have 60's for all ten classes and the other accounts would have 5-6 60's. That seems to give me a lot of options long-term as to what classes to play.

I thought if you have linked RAF accounts you couldn't boost with them. Example A-B-C-D-E, and A has a level 60 (from first RAF team) and B-C-D-E have new level 1's for a new team, I thought boosting would not be at 3x speed because the accounts are linked for RAF. Or was that changed?

Finally, I'm planning on leveling with Elemental to keep them all casters, unless Interact with Target and Enhancement are the way to go these days.

Thanks again.

[shaeman]

They don't have high enough horde toons.

Do they have high enough alliance toons? If they do, it might be worth faction transfering one of those highlevel toons so you can boost to 60 that bit quicker.