Boosting experiences

[PhantomRogue]

Im getting through my second Boosting Group. First was Warriors, now onto hunters. I rush as a Feral Druid, geared in Cata Epics.

Heres how I've done it.

1-10 -> Questing

11-15 .> RFC, tow them till the first island of Targarin (sp). Then can sit them there.

15-23 -> SFK, Just park them at the gate. This Zone is perfect for boosting, incredibly easy and a ton of bosses.

23-39 -> SM. Library to Cath is easy. Mobs are closely packed and running the quests along the way is a great bonus.

39-50 -> ZF is awesome. The Zombie/Graves bit gives almost 60% of a level. I usually tow the characters around with
me, ZF is too big and you can't mass pull this place anymore, but its still full of baddies and a relatively quick boost.

50-59 -> UBRS/LBRS. This zone would be perfect if I didn't have to run back from the LBRS boss back to the instance zonein (adds ~5min to a run time). Again, I just tow the characters with me.

59-61 -> Ramparts. Towing characters. Still trying to find a place I can leave them.

62-64 -> BF. The bombs can hurt a bit if you aren't careful, but again, leaving them just isn't working out.

64-66 -> Slave Pens. Kind of a crappy zone, but was easy enough to rush through.

66-69 -> Completely Random zones. I got bored and just started running around HGWT to random instances to get the achievements.

69-72 -> Utgarde Keep. I hate this place. Its easy to rush, but trailing toons behind you can get cumbersone, as some of the mobs have cone/AE attacks. Gets very bad after 70. Getting to 70 was cake, but exp slows down immensely at 70, even with 3x in the dungeons.

72+ I've yet to find a good place to go. Currently in Azjul Nerub.

Going to try questing in WOTLK as it seems those dungeons aren't made for rushing and parking the alt toons and they don't give nearly as much exp as questing does.

[MiRai]

In Cath, the most efficient way is to clear the bottom, them run directly to the Commander or Champion guy. Pull him out of the cath with the ENTIRE cath with him. Kill them just off the stairs. Wait for the chick. Let her res the Commander. Everything else on top will now agro. Run down to the lower level and LOS around the stairs and kill everything.

I do not agree. I've always done Morgraine prior to doing anything with the bottom because he auto pulls the
entire instance to you after Whitemane revives him.

59-61 -> Ramparts. Towing characters. Still trying to find a place I can leave them.

What is wrong with leaving them right at the point where you zone in?

[PhantomRogue]

I do not agree. I've always done Morgraine prior to doing anything with the bottom because he auto pulls the
entire instance to you after Whitemane revives him.

What is wrong with leaving them right at the point where you zone in?

I didn't get exp from the final 2 bosses when I left them at the start... Ill try it again though, my Hunters just dinged 59 in BRS.

[MiRai]

I didn't get exp from the final 2 bosses when I left them at the start... Ill try it again though, my Hunters just dinged 59 in BRS.

Weird. The only boss I remember having to worry about range-wise was Gargolmar. Vazruden and his dragon
should be closer to the zone in point than either of the other 2 bosses.

[Toned]

I run to cathedral... 1 shot Morgraine... let her revive him and run to zone in. Aoe them down with my prot paladin, and gain exp (Noobs stay on the exact spot they zoned in).

[pinotnoir]

below is a brief schedule of my boosting experience with the new raf, it might be of some help

boosting was done with a lvl 84 mage:
essentially run through instances spamming arcane explosion & arcane barrage. arcane blast and missiles for the bosses. higher level instances pop mirror image to tank

1-11 starter quests

(pickup tabards for factions - running instances will get you exalted with at least 4 of the 6 factions)

11-21 Shadowfang Keep (port to location with have group will travel) - you only need to do 4 runs so dont have to worry about the 1 hour lockout for instances)
21-41 Scarlet Monastery (cath and armory - doing other other two instances when the quests become available - run of both is just over 12min)
41-45 Scholomance
45-48 Stratholme 1 run live and a couple of undead
48-58 Upper and Lower Blackrock spire (3 runs) - takes 40 minutes per run but great xp

58 first couple of quests in HFP (kill the demons, destory the gateways and the 2x bombing runs) which opens up the weaken the Ramparts quest
58-64 ramps and blood furnace - including the omninous letter q, weaken the ramps and blood is thicker q's
64-68 sethekk halls and 2x quests
68-69 shadow labs including 4x quests (this took up pretty much the whole of the level (around 90%)
69-69.5 Ring of blood questline.
69.5-70 sethekk halls (stayed here as it is essentially an easy autopilot boost) - at the time didnt have wotlk, otherwise would have gone to Northrend. (it was only 2 runs anyway.. each kill was still giving around 1400xp)

with raf questing is a joke in Northrend 80% of BT gets you to from 70 to 76, basically pick and choose your fav quests. i decided to quest rather than boost so i had some money on the toons to go towards the 8k flying costs

70-76 Borean tundra questing - (including one run of the Nexus and the 4 quests) - skipping quite a few of the collection q's
76-78 Scholazar Basin (nessingwary's bascamp and freya Questlines)
78-78.5 Ampitheater of Anguish in Zul Drak
78.5-80 Icecrown (argent crusade start bit)

/played time is averaging around the 32-34 hour mark to 80

Bump so I can find it.

[Vecter]

Stickied due to good info, will unsticky when its no longer useful.

[F9thRet]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this or not, But I discovered the joy of Black Rock Spires yesterday. Only did a few runs with a team at 50 x4 one booster at 85.

After 20 minutes more or less, had three levels on em.

Stephen

[pinotnoir]

Should I stay in ZF at 42 or go to BRD? ZF seems like lots of mobs and my noobs follow me on their mounts as I howling blast everything.

[tundra622]

do you guys find it easier to boost a group of toons from 1-81 and then start another group or do you level a few groups up in stages?
I'm planing on starting my Raf soon 5 accounts and wanted to make 5xclass of everything. i currently only have 2 level 85's
Please correct me if my math is wrong!
Each set of characters boosted to 81 should give me 40 grant-a-levels
If i boost all 9 classes to 81 thats 360 grant-a-levels + 2 from leveling the dk's from 55-60 and 10 more from 60-81
Total 372 grant-a-levels if i boost all 10 classes during the 90 days RAF.

That leaves my first account with my 2 current 85's and the death knight i leveled to 60.
i spend 41 of my levels to get my dk to 81 leaving me with 331 Grant-a-levels to get the 7 other classes to 81
331(levels)/7(classes left)= 47.29 levels to grant each
81-47= 34(Min level to reach 81)

So i need to get all classes to 34(35 maybe if my math is wrong or i missed some info how the levels work now) so i can grant them to 81 with 2 grant-a-levels left over from level 34(or 9 left over from 35)