Misunderstanding Boosting

[crowdx]

Personally I think the 4 new accounts will be throw away accounts due to I already have 4 Lich King accounts and one BC account (most likely will upgrade it once I finish with RAF.

[Moorea]

Still curious on the A(booster)-B-C-D-E plan what do you after the first team is level 60 and how you get more level 60s on A

A-B-C
A-D-E

still seems the best to me in that case for the goal of having 1 or more level 60 team as fast as possible (fast==with boosting; ie leveling only 4 at a time, getting the 5th through 2 grants)

[Ualaa]

Everyone has their own situation.

If your existing "A" account has six toons between 60 and 80, because you've been playing the game for 4 years... you'd use one for boosting, and want the most total granted levels across your five accounts.

If you are starting from scratch with five accounts, and no toons on any account, again a chain gets the most total granted levels.

If you have one existing account, a single toon at 80th, but want to box.. you'd boost with the 80, but want as many granted levels on A, so you have several options; you wouldn't want many granted levels on the other accounts, because you could just boost a team a week (playing casually).

Whichever way you go, you'd boost as much as you'd like.
And then do the granted levels after the boosting.
And start with the accounts furthest out in the chains.

[Moorea]

Just give *1* example on how you actually end up with a new 5 man team to 60 with the A-B-C-D-E scheme and boosting from A ?
(actual example; starting by
"make 4 toons on B,C,D,E; level them to 8 (or 10), boost them to 60 and then..." then what ? how you get a 5th on A ?
)

[heffner]

You can get a 5th on A through gifting levels when you use the A-B-C-D-E approach.

So, in one case you have to level up a toon to L30 or L31 on account A and gift the 29 levels from B (which you get once you level to 60). If you level two or more toons to L60 on account B you have enough levels to gift a L1 to L60.

Also, keep in mind levels gifted from account C to account B also result in more levels to gift on account B. For example, if you have a L30 toon on account B and you gift 30 levels from account C, account B will now have 29 (or 30??) to gift from that process (from both leveling + gifted levels). Just pointing this out since I hadn't realized gifted levels also grant gifted levels when I was doing RAF.

Account E is the one that actually loses out.

[Moorea]

well if there is no better answer than having to have a level 30 on A; A-B-C-D-E is definitively a lot worse than doing A-B-C and A-D-E which will give you 1 level 60 for every B,C,D,E boosted by A

[Ualaa]

Ok here is an example.

I have an existing account which includes an 80 paladin, a 77 hunter, a 76 mage, a 64 druid and a 61 warlock, and maybe a few more incidental characters.

I've been playing wow for 3 years as a one-boxer and want to try five-boxing.
And don't really need that many new toons on my existing one account.
As I already have a Paladin to join a 4x shaman team, a druid for the 5x druid team, etc.
But I will want some new toons, a healer for a mixed team, maybe some more too.

So I like A -- B -- C -- D -- E.
Which gets me the most total levels granted across all of the accounts.
I want the spread to be everywhere, not specifically having a whole bunch of toons granted to account A, which already has five characters 60+ on it.
Most people who are getting into boxing, will RAF with four new accounts and are already one-boxers with several toons.

In this case, not even looking at the cascading granted levels, if you boost a set of 4x Shaman, 4x Druid, 4x Paladin and 4x Mixed Classes, that is a total of four sets, which gets you 2 level 60's on A. (and 2 more 60's on B, C and D).

That gets you:
A: 5 + 2 = 7
B: 4 + 2 = 6
C: 4 + 2 = 6
D: 4 + 2 = 6
E: 4 = 4

You could transfer a toon from A to E, and have 5 teams at 60+.




A chain gets you the most levels across the accounts.
Which will be the most benefit for the majority of new 5-boxers.

[Moorea]

My case is having a ton of 80s on 1 realm; I transferred 1 booster to KJ and I want to create new 5 teams there with 4 new throw away RAF'ed accounts (transferring back the level 60 to my existing 5+ accounts)

I don't want to create 1/2 the 60s on A in that case; I want at least as many 60s on A as on the other, and more is better (as then I don't have to pay to transfer those as A is part of permanent set)

For this case I think
A-B-C
A-D-E

Where A is existing booster and B,C,D,E are new Raf'ed throwaway account is the best

Sadly I followed the advice without thinking and created A-B-C-D-E and now trying to figure out how to salvage that setup to get toons on A - I think maybe levelling some level 8 pair on B-C or C-D should do it but not sure yet, I'll revisit when I get to 4x 60 (they are 46 now)

[Ualaa]

If I understand your last post correctly.

You have one account which you will be keeping.
And are using 4x RAF accounts, to get as many levels as possible on that one account.

I don't see how 4 throw away RAF accounts will get you teams of 5 on KJ.




Anyway, I would think the ideal set up would be:
A -- B
A -- C
A -- D
A -- E

But put the booster on B, not on A.




With:
A -- B -- C
A -- D -- E

B/C and D/E get RAF, so 1x Booster and 4x Boosted.

For every two level 60's boosted on BCDE, via granted levels A will also get two level 60's.

But A is the booster in this case, so that is it.




With:
A -- B
A -- C
A -- D
A -- E

A/C/D/E get RAF, so 1x Booster and 4x Boosted.

For every two level 60's boosted on ACDE, via granted levels A will also get three level 60's.

But A is a boosted account in this case, so A also gets 1x level 60 per set boosted.

[alcattle]

If Moorea wants a 5x team on KJ, has one true account with booster(s) best way to go would be

A=booster
B+C= old accounts, no one on KJ
RAF1 and RAF2
group A+B+RAF1 and A+C+RAF2

end up with 4 new 60s on the other accounts, B+C will get new 60s for each Pair of 60s on Raf1+2 and only costs 2 throwaway accounts