Everything you wanted to know about RAF / Battle.Net Accounts

[Ualaa]

In an A -- B -- C -- D -- E scenario.

Let's assume A is boosting.
Or that you have quested with five toons, in either case from 1st to 60th.

One toon at 60th =
B
- gives 30 levels to A, because they have a level 60.
- gives 15 levels to A, because C gave them 30 levels.
- gives 07 levels to A, because C gave them 15 levels (based on levels given to C from D)
- gives 03 levels to A...

In the above example, we have four links in the chain.
Which means there are not enough character slots on an account to cascade all the levels.
For cascading to grant full levels, we need to level/boost two toons per link in the RAF chain.

With A -- B, you need two toons on B, for B to give A a full 60th.
With A -- B -- C, you need four toons on C, for C to give two toons to B, and for B to give one full toon to A based on levels received from C.
With A -- B -- C -- D, you need eight toons boosted on D, = 4 on C, = 2 on B, = 1 on A.
Add E into the link, and you need sixteen toons, but can only have eight on an account.

I personally like:
A -- B -- C -- D -- E (for a brand new set up, or with one existing account).

But:
A -- B -- C (gets you full cascading granted levels)
A -- D -- E (which can be nice on a new server, with only one toon transferred to A for boosting).




A boosting trick.

You level up enough to boost from x to 60th on A.
Let's say the toon is level 1.
You will want to level to 2nd, 3rd or 4th (doesn't matter the level).
But you want to be as close to 99% into your level as possible.
Be cautious of moving the toon receiving the levels -- exploration can cause a level up.

If your toon is level 3, and 97% into their level.
When you grant them 57 levels, they will be level 60... and 97% into it.
Which means they will ding to 61st, on exploration experience before reaching Hellfire.

[Ualaa]

What would you say are the most viable ways to upgrade from tri-box to quad-box or 5-box respectively?

For quad box it seems that I would have to sacrifice a free month of game time in order to allow my characters to level at the same speed.

For 5-box is there any better option than B-D and C-E? Would require a higher levelled (60+) toon on the main account to be joined with the others.

From 3 to 5, you are adding two accounts.
Call the existing accounts A, B and C.

Since there are only two new accounts.
I would link them to B and C.
With either your best booster on A, or your account with the most toons (won't receive any granted levels).

Then use A to boost BCDE.
If BC are full or don't need many new toons, you can delete the toons after reaching 60th.
Or possibly character transfer them to DE, after reaching 60th.

You eventually end up with...
Several existing toons on ABC; and
A bunch of new toons at 60th on DE.

If ABC are shammies (the best option), but pet classes in general work.
Consider Borean Tundra boosting.
Take two toons (must be grouped) on DE.
Aggro a bunch of mobs, by tagging them.
Then have pets do 100% of the damage -- Totems are pets.
Stoneclaw (one at a time) on round robin, will keep the lowbies alive.
With 3x Magma Totems down at the same time.

If you are grouped, and have tagged the mobs.
Pet damage does not take anything away from your experience.
But you need to tag the mob first, and be in a party.






Four boxing, going to five boxing.

The easy method is character transfers from ABCD to E.
Which gets you several toons on E, that are semi-geared from your 4 boxing days.

Or you could RAF E from an existing account.
Boost toons on two accounts, one existing and one new.
Once you reach 60th.

I'd probably one-box a solo 60th.
Or pet boost a pair of 60's.
Get to 70th, or at least 68th anyway.
Go to Northrend, with a healer on auto follow.
Quest/Kill, with zero down time.

[thefunk]

my head hurts

[greglord]

Simple question - When 4 of my chars hit 60, do I lose RAF on my accounts or ONLY from my 4 toons that hit 60?

Thank you.

[Ualaa]

You lose RAF for the toons who are 60th.

But you retain RAF for as many other toons (under 60th) as you care to level.
You get the full 3 months of time.

[Owltoid]

When you say you "lose RAF" you're correct in that you lose 3x exp, but you can still grant levels and summon other toons. I'm nearly positive you continue gaining levels to grant after 60 (you can't boost someone above 60, but if the granting toon hits level 80 they will actually have been able to grant 40 levels).

[jimbobobb]

Owltoid, please stop spreading misinformation - you stop gaining levels to grant after 60. You get a MAXIMUM of 30 levels to grant from one character on RAF, and that is from a character leveled from 1 to 60.


At what level do recruit characters cease to gain levels to grant? The ability to gain levels stops at level 60.

Straight from the faq

http://us.blizzard.com/support/artic...rticleId=25716

[Ualaa]

I stopped gaining levels which I could grant at 59th.
But when I had RAF it was based on every two levels gained.

It has been changed to every even level gained.
But still to a maximum of 60th level.

To my knowledge it has not changed from 30 levels granted at 60th.

[Owltoid]

Guess it changed from when I used it well over a year ago. Oh well