Druid or Shaman Booster in May 2012 ?

[Pazgaz]

Ret pally all the way. Divine storm with normal dw tentacle weapon one shots everything up to late tbc. In wotlk, I pull non-stop (10-15) mobs at all times. Slowing down only for quest items etc. no need for defensive CDs with healing from divine storm.
With RAF you need one run per instance and you're done. Don't forget the arena quests in tbc and wotlk (ring of blood etc), with RAF they are worth a level at least if you do them as soon as they are available.

[Grail]

Pagaz, thanks for the mention about arena quests. Didn't know about them, I will try to look them over. Also, do some people still advise doing BG's 70-80 to work toward heirlooms? By the way, depending how long this takes I only plan to run up two groups, unless it is really really easy. A good mixed group for dungeons (and enough chars for a few variations thereof) and a team of 5xDruids for pvp. Really more rp-pvp.

Thanks!

-Grail

[Apps]

I personally like Isle of Conquest for 80-84 bracket. IF... your team can execute the WS and camp your own keeps respawn point after opposition takes the keep... you can Farm honor MUCH faster than doing a couple BGs combined.

[Scelesti]

Hey Mokoi thanks for the response.

Now for my lazy half-assed question: Can you give me a link to your LBRS boosting video or any other videos you've made for boosting? I'm really interested to see where you ditch your toons? I thought you needed to keep the slaves viewable on the minimap, and that was the XP range, but if anyone could provide further insight on this that would be great. I found I could leave my slaves on the bridge in the first ogre part until I get to the area with the Worg bosses. Then I move them to the platform where theres like 6-8 ogres and leave them there for the rest of the instance. But if the range is further than I think it is, then I could probably stretch it even more. I feel like I'm moving my slaves too much prior to getting to the bridge.

I haven't boosted BC instances yet, and I can see how WotLK instances wouldn't be the most efficient to boost in. However, I've been running the BC heroics working on my Outland Dungeonmaster on my warlock and have had zero issues. Some of them go pretty quickly.

[Mokoi]

Yeah my video will show where I ditch my alts. I was going to just do a speed run video since that's what I wanted to show, but apparently there's a need for a more in-depth video so I'll do a big one with all the instances I use.

[Grail]

That video could be epic. As in ultra valuable.

-Grail

[Scelesti]

I'm about to record my LBRS run. Just realized I could ditch them at the ogre room for the entire run.

http://www.twitch.tv/scelesti/b/317863440

Sorry, forgot I had my sound turned on. I really want to see a zenga video.

And for the record, I'm not trying to flex my dick. I honestly want to see how other people do it.

[Pazgaz]

With RAF + BOA (Not sure if they stack, but I have them), and assuming you do the quests in each dungeon, my path in WotLK is (starting at 70):
UK
Nexus
AZN
Old Kingdom
Zul'drak
Ring of Blood thingy.
Instance in Dalaran (forgot the name)
Other troll instance (again forgot the name)
Halls of Stone
Halls of Lightning
UP
I usually need to reset UP, go in again and kill up to the first boss and then I ding 80.
Did this for a few weeks and got all 5 accounts full (10 chars at 80+ each).
And yes, felt like killing myself when I was close to the end, but I kept hearing Ualaa saying "Told you to level as many during RAF, didn't I?"

[heyaz]

Feral druids are extremely good boosters due to two feral charges, two sprints, and two skull bashes. You can just skate through an instance with unlimited mobs trailing you, then back into a corner and berserk+swipe them all down in a few seconds. I started my last boost with a DK - takes much longer to gather up all the mobs at running speed, and there's no way to break a snare or get distance when you're doing massive pulls.

[Mokoi]

fair enough Heyaz, but my point in my video, was that you one-shot every single mob up to lvl 70+ with howling blast, and you do not need to be in melee range for it. You can also run at 15% speed, almost as fast a feral, and kill everything where it spawns, and not train it around the instance, saving you not only armor, but also saving you from forgetting about mobs that break the train and run back to their spawn (ie: hellfire mobs)

Feral is also very nice, and may in fact have better times than a DK in some dungeons, but if you have to run your alts after your main, you really can't afford to lose any mobs while you are training them around.

ALSO.. I think more people have geared DKs around here than ferals, but those of you who do, please make a video, my druids haven't been geared since BC...