Shodokan Presents... Yet another raf thread, Revenge of the RAF

[boxblizzard]

its a good idea but in all fairness i would rather boost my chars with raf its so fast and you can benifit from looting aswell.

p.s

the dk beginning zone really sucks arse, very repetitive to keep doing.

[Souca]

I only see one problem with this method: Battle.net transfer lockout.

Unless you have a spare slot on your BN account where you plan to transfer the level 55 from to account E, you won't be able to transfer to the new BN account for the 30 or 90 day period (I forget which it is). You will need at least one 55+ to be able to make the DK on the E account, so you'll need a transfer or quick leveling to 55. Luckily RaF can span BN accounts so it doesn't matter if A, B, C, or D are on the same BN account unless you plan on transfering characters off after you boost them.

Personally, I think the method Ualaa mentions with the two vanilla accounts is the better method, especially if you picked up any of the Black Friday accounts for $5. It isn't the fastest, but it works with existing accounts so you don't have to worry about maintain new monthly fees, BC and Wrath upgrades, or waiting and then paying for character transfers. The big downsides are having to spend twice as much time boosting and have a lot of throw away 60s sitting on those accounts. Also, you won't be able to boost a whole team at the same time. This could be an upside though since you don't need to activate all the RaF accounts at once and if you can't get it done in 30 days, you only need spend the cost of a new Vanilla account to get another free month of RaF.

Hope that made sense.

- Souca -

[Lokked]

Following Uulaa's advice:

I have 5 existing accounts - A to E - I want to end up with 4 Paladins on Accounts B to E.

Account A - 79 Druid - Booster
Account B - New Paladin
Account C - New Paladin
New Account - RAF Link to B - Throw Away Account
New Account - RAF Link to C - Throw Away Account

Boost these guys to 60 (with the aim of keeping the Paladins on B & C).

Now is the part I don't understand about granting levels. I understand that the character on RAF accumulates 1 Grantable Level per even lvl gained, but are they able to grant ANY char who is lower level and <59 these levels? If so...

Grant a New Paladin created on Account A 30 + 30 levels from Accounts B & C.
Grant a New Paladin created on Account B 30+ 30 levels from the 2 Throw Away Accounts. Cancel Throw Away Accounts. I will have 2 lvl 60 Paladins on Account B.

Subscribe on Accounts D & E. Transfer Paladin on A to D. Transfer Extra Paladin on B to E.

So I would end up paying for 2 Vanilla Accounts ($~10) and 2 Transfers (~$50). I would end up with a 60 Paladin on Accounts B, C, D & E, which would have been boosted using RAF at the time cost of boosting a single group.

This sound right?

[Maxion]

A character on any given account can only directly grant levels to a character on the account that directly recruited that account.

[Shodokan]

I only see one problem with this method: Battle.net transfer lockout.

Unless you have a spare slot on your BN account where you plan to transfer the level 55 from to account E, you won't be able to transfer to the new BN account for the 30 or 90 day period (I forget which it is). You will need at least one 55+ to be able to make the DK on the E account, so you'll need a transfer or quick leveling to 55. Luckily RaF can span BN accounts so it doesn't matter if A, B, C, or D are on the same BN account unless you plan on transfering characters off after you boost them.

Personally, I think the method Ualaa mentions with the two vanilla accounts is the better method, especially if you picked up any of the Black Friday accounts for $5. It isn't the fastest, but it works with existing accounts so you don't have to worry about maintain new monthly fees, BC and Wrath upgrades, or waiting and then paying for character transfers. The big downsides are having to spend twice as much time boosting and have a lot of throw away 60s sitting on those accounts. Also, you won't be able to boost a whole team at the same time. This could be an upside though since you don't need to activate all the RaF accounts at once and if you can't get it done in 30 days, you only need spend the cost of a new Vanilla account to get another free month of RaF.

Hope that made sense.

- Souca -

If you are starting out leveling a main group to 60, you will have the level 55 to make the DK. No x-fering required.

Just make, grant, repeat... etc.

[Moorea]

battle.net lockout screwed me over - I'm now stuck with my 4 new toons maxed at 60.99 from wow classic + bc trial throwaway accounts, unable to transfer them back to my main accounts)

[Lokked]

A character on any given account can only directly grant levels to a character on the account that directly recruited that account.

Alright then...

Sounds like I'll have to do it the original way, boosting 2 accounts (along with 2 throw away accounts) up at a time all the way to 60. So are the granted levels going to help me out at all? Or just give the levels to some garbage char on the keeper accounts? I guess I'm returning to WoW. I've already reinstalled and cancelled EQ2 (for the time being).

[Ualaa]

Ideally you will:

Boost with A.
Keeper B --linked to-- Disposable D
Keeper C --linked to-- Disposable E

You boost four toons on BCDE to 60th.
D and E, grant 30 levels to new toons on B and C.

You boost four more toons on BCDE to 60th.
D and E, grant 30 more levels to the toons on B and C.

For every two sets of four toons you boost.
The B/C accounts each get one free 60th.