Why Scholomance?

[Malgor]

I'm trying to boost my last month of RAF and get a couple more shaman, warlocks, mages, and paladins to 60. Just two toons at a time, with my paladin going in and clearing the instances.

My method has been:

Quest to 15 (so you can use the SFK summoning stone to get them there with another toon)
SFK 15-20
SM 20-40
BRD 40-45

Now I am trying scholomance for the first time instead of stratholme. I found a few guides on getting me through the instance and it's neat that I can leave them at the entrance and not move them, but it seems slow?

Maybe because I'm unfamiliar with it, I'm just going too slow... Took me 40 minutes to clear it, mostly because I was lost.

Any helpful suggestions?

Thanks,

Mal

[Sildenafil]

I've found the best xp/hr in scholo is in the first few rooms, where you can gather up a shit-ton of mobs and aoe them down. If you take your time and loot for cash, you can spend 15 minutes doing that, and repeat. clearing the whole instance isn't as efficient, and the boss loot is pretty pointless (though I did get a decent healing totem).

It's nice not having to drag the slaves through a huge city, and realize they're all dead to some random pop while you're off aoeing down zombies.

[Malgor]

I did find this guide which seems to work good for hitting all the bosses as fast as possible.

http://www.hotsdots.com/2009/06/cass...o-scholomance/

Thanks Sildenafil - that helps. I have to not clear the room with the summoners because they just stand and summon skeletons all day long and never move.

[Malgor]

Okay I posted too soon.

I cut my runs down to 18 minutes and hit every boss but the last one (his teleporting takes too long). If I remember right, the maximum is five instances in one hour. This way I don't get the "you've entered too many..."

[arsonwave]

If you were down at BRD why not just walk upstairs and do LBRS? the 45-55 span was one of the absolute quickest for me in LBRS, took me a little over 2 hours then off to Ramps.

[Malgor]

If you were down at BRD why not just walk upstairs and do LBRS? the 45-55 span was one of the absolute quickest for me in LBRS, took me a little over 2 hours then off to Ramps.

Oh I forgot. I did LBRS/UBRS. Very good experience and went from 45-50 there in about 30 minutes, but then saw that someone at this post went to scholomance at 50-60.

[crowdx]

Well the thing with Scholo is the safety of toons, you park them on the bridge in scholo and never move them. Is it that easy in LBRS? I have never tried it?

[Starbuck_Jones]

You dont clear the whole place, it takes too long. You only need to be in there long enough not to hit the 5 runs per hour cap.

Park your toons at the start. Clear the 4 mobs on the bridge. Jump down and clear the mobs in the pit. Go up a little bit and clear all the ghosts, casters, skeletons in the next room. Gather all the welps and jump down and kill all the mobs with Rattlegore (and welps/casters from above) Loot Rattlegores key. Run back up to where you killed the ghosts and casters and go down into the basement. Gather all the mobs (I leave the boss alone down there as she takes too long to kill) and burn them down. Run back up and go to the pit where you jumped down again, the room will have respawned so you get to kill them again. Use the key on the door and attack the teachers to pull the whole room to you. Run out of the instance after this. Should take you about 12-20min depending on gear etc.

I run this from 45 to 60 and it takes approximately 20 runs to get those 15 levels with RAF. If your a paladin all you will need is Sacred Shield and you wont take any damage.

[Dooz]

I agree, if you have a lot of gold, and/ or are trying to get as many toons to 60 in the least amount of time, finishing scholo is not very efficeint. I'm not in a position to completely fund brand new teams, and I think there's not such a large XP drop off that Scholo isn't worth finishing. Essence of Undeath sell really well on my server and those drop once or twice a pull. Also, for me, all the blues and greens that can be D/e'd, vendored, or sold at the AH are worth the stay. Your spells, mount training, mounts, and professions are going to cost you a shit ton of money, if you've waited until 60 to get them all.

[arsonwave]

So for LBRS I do a really nice easy pull sequence. I park all toons at the entrance and clear the first entry room in my first pull. After this I go left into the "Summoner room" and pull EVERYING into 1 cell. I stand in a corner and SLOWLY kill them all trying to kill the summoners last. The reason is they keep summoning mobs as you kill them and it keeps a constant 50+ mobs on you. I have milked the process for about 15 minutes once pulling in about 1.5 levels in that time. Normally I'll just spend about 5-6 mins in there and take about 80% of a level rinse and repeat. On the last run I clear much further in getting about 2 levels for that run and working off the rest of my hour lockout.