3 Boxing for a fresh 80 monk

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I just setup two RAF accounts myself in anticipation of a quick level 80 monk. I've already got two main accounts, and my setup is as follows: Account 1 has a level 85 feral druid, Account 2 is the referring parent account for numbers 3 and 4. I plan to use the unlinked druid to boost the 3 lowbies through instances.

I did this once before when the cap for RAF was at 60. My method at the time was to sit the lowbies (two at that time) at the front of an instance and then pull all the mobs in the instance close enough to get the xp for the lowbies and just aoe them down with the druid. This worked great in RFC, SM, Stratholme, and Ramparts, and it seemed efficient. I've done essentially the same thing boosting a single toon through Sethekk Halls (this instance is nice because it's tiered and overlaps a bit, so you can break the pulls down into a few separate groups). Is that still the fastest and most effective leveling strat in those early levels, or is there something better?

I'm also curious to know what I should do once I hit the 70-80 bracket as my killing speed will slow down with the druid in the WotLK instances. I have no experience in actual multiboxing, and it's not something I plan to do in the future. The two RAF toons will just get moved to one of my two main accounts. I'd prefer to just park the lowbies in a corner and round up a bunch of mobs to kill with the druid for simplicity's sake, but if rolling a true 4-box setup will end up being significantly faster I'm willing to give it a go. Perhaps of note, I will not have a class capable of healing in this setup as mage, warrior, and hunter are the lowbies and the only classes I don't currently have at or above 80. I suppose I could heal with the druid, but he'll be busy getting beat on.

Many thanks in advance for any advice and to the OP for allowing me to piggy back on the thread. I felt it was relevant enough to post here rather than clutter things up with a new post.

I think your plan will work out well, I've found that pulling things back towards the leveling group works out very well as running them along with you (unless you gear them too) often puts them in harms way for things such as aoe plus they can suck enough threat off the pull to get themselves killed just by being there >,< .

Also many instance don't have an exit at the end so you end up running them back anyway and it's easier to actually just make a full trip back and burn the group down and I do this is nearly every instance up to strat. For 70-80 it does slow down a bit but it's not really due to killing speed although that does have a small impact. Like Crowdx I boost with a druid because I think they have the best aoe ability of the tanking classes. I actually started with my dk and he did a fine job as well but I've found the druid is just smoother.

Oh yea 70-80 ANYWAY my advice for 70-80 is pretty simple I'll tell you what I do and know works but I'm sure there are tons of options maybe some are better maybe some are not you just have to try them but I've gotten a pretty good time out of it.

Ok, so YES do EVERY quest they give a huge amount of xp you can get upwards of 450kxp from the quests more of less and thats a large portion of a lvl. Now on my first group from 67-70 I did UK and then I headed for nexus for a bit but I don't recommend this unless you have a summon for the whole group it's a time sink getting there and the instance is a pain in the butt.

A lot of people advocate doing all the instance as they come available for questing reasons but I didn't do that.. the northrend instance I did were 67-72 UK, 72-75, DTK, at 75 I did one run in halls of stone but the quests were not available but since I ran over there I dide one run which was very good xp I'd recommend staying there as it's easier to pull than halls of lightning at least until the quests in HOL open up. 75-78 3/4 I did halls of lighting and then I went back to HOS and finished up the level which is where I took the screen shot with my.


NOTE: I didn't do the 3rd HOS quest you get from bramm it just takes too long and it's really not worth it when you can pull that whole instance it almost the time that one boss takes >.<... Well thats basically it if you need any specific advice for a instance lemme know the instance I did in the order I did them was. DM,STOCKS,SM-GY-CATH-ARMORY,STRAT,SCHOLO,HFC-BF,HFC-SH(i did the heroics of these as well)SETHALL,UK,DTK,HOS,HOL. Pretty simple boring but effective. Take care and GL :P