Leveling Speed - How Do You Do It ???

[Nighthawk38]

Hello Everyone,

In the time I have been on these forums, I have read numerous posts from various members regarding how quickly they level toons. The latest post I read asked if someone was leveling profs at the same time because leveling to 20 in /played 8 hours seemed slow.

My RAF runs out tomorrow (Wed) at 7 pm, so I have been trying to get teams to 60 before time expires. My results so far are as follows:

5 Warlocks - lvl 20 /played 11hr 54 min lvl 30 /played 1 day 4 hr 5 min
5 Hunters - lvl 20 /played 10 hr 21 min lvl 30 /played 22 hr 3 min
5 Shaman - lvl 20 /played 9 hr 32 min

Main team (Mixed) is at lvl 65. I'll be gifting levels to the other teams, so I stopped them at lvl 32. Shaman team will be 32 sometime wed afternoon.

Could someone PLEASE explain to me the system for leveling these teams faster than this ? Part of my asking is plain curiosity, and I suppose the other part is my competitive Aries nature, but I just don't see how some of the claims I've read on here can be accomplished. I have seen anything from "I can level to 20 in 2 hours" to claims of getting 1-60 in less than 2 days /played. HOW ???

These leveling times are fresh teams, on a new server. No level 80 main to boost. Is that the trick ? Any and all tips, hints, etc would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Phanes]

I did it with RAF boosting in instances using an 80. Usually did 1-60 in about 20 hours.Then gifted a bunch of levels. When you figure out the tricks you can easily clear an instance in as little as 3 minutes.

[Jubber]

Mostly people are achieving greater speeds by boosting. Since you are leveling 5 of the classes you chose you are probably doing so by questing which is why it is slower. At this point I would suggest to you, if you have a main that can boost, is to boost the 4 toons then grant levels to the first toon.

If you don't have a main that can boost and you have extra gold you can pay an 80 to boost your 4 toons, and again grant levels to your first toon. I am just assuming you did your RAF A-B-C-D-E.

[leroyreborn]

i'm lvling 4 pallys with out RaF right now. have them at 36 doing SM cath right now. been using my druid in cat form can easily clear the hole instances in 3 mins. only thing is now that you can clear lower instances so fast you end up standing around waiting for the game to let you zone back in.

[Nighthawk38]

Thanks for the responses. I figured those leveling speeds had to be with a booster. I leveled these teams strictly through questing. If I had a level 80 main, I definitely would have boosted them. And yes, the accts are linked
A->B->C->D->E. Kind of wierd to explain, but the RAF link that expires tomorrow is just the A->B, the others have until end of Feb.

I'm sure 4 or 5 teams will keep me PLENTY busy though. lol

[KAC]

RAF bonus is nice and if they extended it to lvl 70 they might get me to buy 5 more accounts but 60 come on.

RAF boost in ZF starting at lvl 36-37 ish if i remember right. My 8- pally can pull 35 mobs and aoe them down in very short order. I do the whole instance in 4 pulls takes 15 mins because i loot them all. THis will get your RAF guys to 50 realy quick then take them into stratholme when they can enter and do the same thing. I know this is quite boring but questing is even more of a bore and more time consuming. if you have someone who can take you thorugh the BC dungeons in thrallmar til you are 65 or so that would be great as those instances greant considerable xp and are a cinch to solo for an 80 tank class or if you want now that you get xp for BG q them up for AV and sit in dreks room and just let allies kill you while you watch tv get tons of xp and dont have to do shit but occasional damage to keep ppl from flagging you. I lvled up my rogue from 65 to 70 and never left org. This took awhile but I mined ore and did other stuff with my other accounts while he chilled and got tons of xp. The game has become so easy now since compared to release its realy a joke to lvl any char from 1-70 imo.

[Nighthawk38]

Tour Guide ... check
Tom Tom ... check
RAF leveling guide ... check

got all of that stuff... just missing that pesky little lvl 80 tank...LOL

My prot pally is lvl 65... I suppose I could use him to boost the teams in SM or (maybe) even ZF, but I don't think he'd be able to handle anything tougher than that.

[lordmythic]

Using the raf tourguide addon found here on dual-boxing.com I was able to level 3 teams to 60 within the RAF time. The last team (5 pallys) took 2 days played (2 weeks real time) while only doing quests. Prior to this I've only ever leveled a single toon to 58. Once you level one team to 60, you get the hang of it and each team afterwards gets easier and faster.

[blbjtb]

Hey Nighthawk
Right now im using a booster and my 4 ret pally team just hit 35 in 12 hrs played
my problem was just standing around WAY too much once I fgured out what I could and couldnt get away with (how far I could be ect) things really started to pick up for me As someone elese mentioned a problem is having to wait for the instance to reset so to combat that I just said screw it and ran SM cath armory and the other one not graveyard though. I figured some xp was better than no xp. This team isnt being lvled with RAF which kind of sucks but meh ill get over it. But obviously if your doing quests its going to be much slower than if you were boosting via an instance. I mean 1 cath pull nets 40% xp for less than 8min of work. But hang in there and use that Prot pally to boost via instances imho.

[Khemikal]

If you aren't using it already, I highly suggest the TourGuide addon with the RAF package that is here on the forums. You don't have to worry about selecting which quests are boxing friendly or not. It has a nice list of quests in an order that works. The version I have has a few errors in it (coors pointing me in the wrong direction for example), but it generally is just follow the arrow it gives you (load up TomTom as well).