Instance Boosting Questions:

[JackBurton]

some more sources/info about boosting here
http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/47205-DK-Boosting
http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/2...70-80-grinding
http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/3...-spot-deepholm

[JackBurton]

Found this great addon. When you enter an instance for the 5th time in an hour it will tell you how much time till 5/hr limitation will reset.

[MiRai]

• At this point be sure to log out toons at an inn or city to receive rest bonus between sessions. You still earn rested xp by just logging out but you would gain 400% more xp if you logged out at an Inn or anywhere in a major city.

RaF experience does not stack with rested experience.

Source

How does this affect rested experience?

If characters are ineligible for triple experience, normal experience rules apply and rested experience will be consumed. Rested experience, however, will not be used while triple experience is active.

EDIT: I think I read your post wrong. You meant that by logging out in an inn or a city that you gain rested XP faster -- Which is true.

[JackBurton]

My Non RAF Boosting Plan

RAF is very desirable indeed. But i dont see how the average joe could afford it. You cant apply it to verteran accounts. You have to create new accounts right? and buy all the expansions. And then when the free 15 or 30 days are over you have to subcribe more than your 5 accounts. or what? you spend $25 times n bucks moving each new character to your main accounts? There are lots of comments and guides on RAF but not on on the costs of it.

[MiRai]

RAF is very desirable indeed. But i dont see how the average joe could afford it. You cant apply it to verteran accounts. You have to create new accounts right? and buy all the expansions. And then when the free 15 or 30 days are over you have to subcribe more than your 5 accounts. or what? you spend $25 times n bucks moving each new character to your main accounts? There are lots of comments and guides on RAF but not on on the costs of it.

I'm still confused on what you mean by the "cost of RaF." RaF is the suggested route for new multiboxers to take advantage of the 300% increased experience -- Not for people who already have 5 accounts and want to keep them. If someone who is new to multiboxing was willing to start up multiple accounts, they're paying the exact same price whether they start them up linked via RaF or not.

I didn't notice this before but, your initial post states "My Non RAF Boosting Plan." Are you crazy enough to boost w/o RaF? I would personally find boosting w/o RaF a very painful endeavor and would never recommend that leveling route to anyone -- That high level character is going to drain your XP w/o that 300% bonus. I guess if you loot everything you'll have thousands and thousands of cloth to sell which might make it worth your time (doubtful), but that's also going to increase your time ten fold.

If someone didn't have RaF, I would suggest to them to quest instead of boost in instances. Unless something has changed, the experience that the high level character takes from the party just doesn't make it worth it in my opinion.

If someone had 5 existing accounts and wanted to take advantage of RaF, then yes, they would have to purchase new accounts with the expansion they wanted to be able to RaF to (e.g. Vanilla/BC for 70 or Wrath for 80). You don't have to transfer any characters over to the new accounts if you split up your boosting.

Existing Accounts:

A, B, C, D, E

4 Throwaway Accounts:

F, G, H, I

You would have to go through the route of boosting twice, like this:

┌─ B → F
│
A
│
└─ C → G

┌─ D → H
│
A
│
└─ E → I

You'll throw away the accounts in red after you're done and you're only out the cost of the base game and any expansions (currently $40 per account to enable RaF to 80) with no need to transfer a single character. If you're only looking to boost a single team then this method really isn't worth it for the cost and I would, again, recommend to just quest a single team up to max level w/o RaF. If you needed to boost multiple teams then, you have to ask yourself is my time and ~$160 worth it?

[traedoril]

I notice alot of people mention Hellfire Ramparts but they neglect to mention that you can pull the ENTIRE instance with a DK. When you enter the instance there is a ledge to the right park your slaves at the door right there jump on the ledge with a DK and DnD up above you. It may take a couple tries to get it to allow this (you have to have the center of DnD on the side of the bridge almost. This will pull every mob in the instance including the first boss.

The main problem with this strat is it only takes 5 minutes to full clear the instance at that point, unless you go kill the other two bosses then its 10 tops. I used this when I got tired of questing in outlands.

[JackBurton]

I came back to WoW four months ago after a nine month hiatus. I was inspired by both NoLife's mixed team videos and my failure to beat mid to endgame content with a melee heavy team. This led me to start adding more classes to my accounts. I'm still leveling toons. Being away from the game for so long questing from 1-65 was fresh and fun. But for low to mid levels its not as fast as non RAF boosting. I cant really speak for RAF though because I don't have enough disposable income to do that.

For me non RAF boosting is not quite as hellish as you say. You'r Alliance I'm Horde so that could be another factor. I'm just say'n. I can sit and watch Netflix while boosting in an instance. And your right about the loot. The loot from boosting in instance is another motivating factor. For those of you that are squeamish about looting all that you can look forward to aoe looting in the near future. Untill then other mitgating factor to the hells of looting are a couple addons i recomend.

Loot filter - auto deletes loot you don't want as you loot it.
Genie- actively auto organizes and consolidates items in your bags.
combuctor - a clean bag with items organized passively.

Also moderators:
Please rename the thread Instance Boosting. I believe the thread has matured enough to be a guide.

[MiRai]

For me non RAF boosting is not quite as hellish as you say.

To each their own, but you haven't done all 80 levels yet so you can't really speak on that front. After you've done 80 levels of non-RaF boosting, you might end up changing your story.

You'r Alliance I'm Horde so that could be another factor.

This changes like... 2 instances at the very beginning of the game.

[Ualaa]

I've leveled one team without RAF.
It wasn't a very fun process.
That was two years ago.

I'm very slowly leveling another team, also without RAF.
This is a sporadic process, where the team is played for an afternoon or evening... and then gets logged for a couple of weeks.
I do have some of the bonus experience heirlooms, I think +20% experience... plus always full rested.
These are 66th now, and I'd like them to be 85th before MoP.

I have another team I would like to play.
But they're 22nd or so, and I cannot see leveling another team without RAF.
Especially given that I'm leveling the first team now, and its going to be a very long process.

It's more a case of wanting to have a given composition for MoP.
But the process of getting them to maximum level... in a word, sucks.





Rested experience and RAF experience does not stack.
You get the better of the two (RAF).
However, you will earn (and not spend) rested experience, during the RAF process.
So you would want to log your team off, for a week of logged out time, in an inn or home city.
Just so, when you reach 80th and have no more RAF, you do have 1.5 levels worth of rested (double) experience.

If the RAF process is fast, and you boost up to 80th in a weekend...
You won't necessarily have full rested, but that doesn't really matter; you'd still like to have as much as possible.

[3box]

I'm doing RaF now, and can confirm that rested xp doesn't get used at all while boosting. My paladins are 50 now, and still show +2500 bonus xp from the last time I used them at lvl 20 I think. And they went from 20-50 last night in an extremely casual night of boosting(afk half the time).

I dumped 4 accounts, which had 2 high level toons each, and started 4 new ones. Have an account with 4-5 80+ toons, and that became my booster account. $50 each for the upgrade to cata, so that's $200. I get 3 months to boost new teams, and each team takes something like 2-3 days of normal play time. At this rate I'll get have 5 accounts with all the classes on each well before RaF ends in 90 days. Free level grants cuts that time down some more. Maybe I'll get bored of it after a while, but that's the plan at least.

I had the same idea as you Jack, then asked for help in another thread. They recommended RaF and dumping the old accounts. Might seem like it's not worth it, but it is. Indeed.