Boosting - Technique and Tips

[Cripes]

I'm curious too since I'm doing the same thing, but with a warlock. I've got my lvl 25 shammy in SM (you can get there at lvl 22 at least), but I'm not finding the exp to be as good as advertised, so I was wondering about knocking out quests with the lock.

lvl 25 is too low for the 'full xp' Since the mob is red, you take a reduced xp amount.

[mlwhitt]

I'm curious too since I'm doing the same thing, but with a warlock. I've got my lvl 25 shammy in SM (you can get there at lvl 22 at least), but I'm not finding the exp to be as good as advertised, so I was wondering about knocking out quests with the lock.

lvl 25 is too low for the 'full xp' Since the mob is red, you take a reduced xp amount.

Personally 20-25 I like SFK
25-30 I like RFK
30-38 SM

[Cripes]

Personally 20-25 I like SFK
25-30 I like RFK
30-38 SM

I did something very similar

[geoffdavison]

http://www.wowwiki.com/Instance

Good list of the min level and optimum level..

SM is 20 and up btw

[chris916]

For alliance people, what I do, is get my alts (usually 3 alts) up to level 10. Then I log on my 70 Frost mage and run the following.

Deadmines 10-20, Takes about 9 minutes to do a full clear, mostly because of all the waiting to have to open the doors, and the HUGE run after the instance is done to run back to the entrance.

Stockaids 20-26, takes about 6 minutes to do, I personally 3 pull the entire instance down, the right wing can sometimes get freaking nasty tho, all those shield slams and such. The only problem with this is, you need to go slower then 6 min a run cause I keep getting the "To many instances" Bs. So usually I just go out and sell and repair in between every 2-3 runs.

26-40 I run SM Cath. I can do the entire thing (Including bosses) In 5 pulls, I could probably do it in 4, just don't cause sometimes I die. But that is still done in about 8 minutes total, so going faster might get the "TO many instances" thing. I don't like Library, I just run it to get the Ill Rod and Robes for ppl, and Arm to me is pointless, HOWEVER It is nice to get the Talbard of Scarlet Crusade .

40+ I havn't really gotten to, I got about 8 chars sitting between 30-40 hehe.



As far as the guy that talked about Prot Pally/Fury Warrior doing SM and the rest of classes having issues. Holy Paladins can 3 pull SM Cath no problem, specially with the (healing+Dmg = 1/3 spell+Dmg) Warlocks can do well also but must easier with Demonlogy Heavy VWing spec. And just SoC Mobs.



I did do a test in SM Cath last night, just wanted to see. I brought along my friends 70 mage with my 70 mage to see how gimped the XP would be on my 3 alts. And I was sorta surpised to see that my XP went from 140-150 down to 95-105. And it only took about 3-4 maybe 5 minutes instead of 8-9. I'm wondering if 2 70 mages (or boosters) Would be beneficial considiering I only lost about 33% of the XP For 50% Less time spent!

[xtobbenx]

Last week i boosted my 3x shammys from 15-40. I did stockades in 3 pulls from lvl 15-20. Then i did Cath/SM basicly as it is so small and easy to get around up to lvl 40. Fast as hell. But really mind killing... But atleast you dont have to worry about questing etc before later on when boosting wont be that effective.. so if you got a hunter id say you try that for as long as it works for you. But ofc.. you cant pull and then aoe 20-30 mobs down in a very effective way. For me as a feral my thorns made some mobs be close to dead by the time i got back to my alts for some swipings. And you gotta love Imp LOTP

[xtobbenx]

I did do a test in SM Cath last night, just wanted to see. I brought along my friends 70 mage with my 70 mage to see how gimped the XP would be on my 3 alts. And I was sorta surpised to see that my XP went from 140-150 down to 95-105. And it only took about 3-4 maybe 5 minutes instead of 8-9. I'm wondering if 2 70 mages (or boosters) Would be beneficial considiering I only lost about 33% of the XP For 50% Less time spent!

Wow has this thingi that make you unable to enter more then 5 new instances each hour. I got this porblem if i was to fast in SM. So your idea would only work if you would do some runs.. log off for a while and back in for a few more runs.. But if you wanna, lets say.. boost them in a few hours you should keep it to one mage.

[yarr]

if you are tired of getting "too many instances" when doing SM's, just alternate wings (do a library then cath, then reset, then library + cath, then reset).

The reason is they are considered the same instance. So clearing both halves counts as 1 reset.

[Team Squishee]

After that, you should quest without the 70.

Why without the 70? I'm in this spot right now so I would like to know.

Pre 2.3 I would agree because you would loose too much from kill XP. But post 2.3 increases in Quest XP (which being boosted doesn't effect) and with lower leveling requirements I haven't had ANY problems using a 70 while quest boosting.

The XP bonus you get by doing quest that are still Red and Orange to you by using a 70 to boost you is greater than the Kill XP loss that you will see from the XP drop by using the 70.

I dont have a 70 to power boost me as I rolled fresh on EU Al'Akir, my casters are all lv 32 now and I was struggling to boost my lv 16 paladin (20xp per kill in DM, 3 xp per kill in westfall)

Most effective way so far has been to ungroup my pally for outdoor questing and have the group following him with heals / curses while he kills the mobs (120xp average) - when i get to a quest that is too high to solo - large packs of red mobs or an elite - I group him up and blast through those mobs with the group to get the quest finished - then ungroup him again.

If he is struggling on a mob or going oom I can set 2 imps on his target after it is tagged and he earns about 55xp per kill.

[chris916]

Right, I know about the 5 instances/hr thing. And what i'm considering doing is Running SM Lib/Arm/Cath, Reset. Using either two mages, or a Mage/Lock. and see how my XP/Hr increases or decreases.

I only have 3 alts so its not that big of an issue, sometimes I bring random ppl into the mix to get the max per instance thing.