Boosting 1-80 Breakdown

[heyaz]

I prefer Druid also. Guardian spec. Getting out of snares for free (once you get to BRD/LBRS/UBRS you will be snared endlessly), two sprints, skull bash, charge, aoe disorient and pushback. They move through the instance so fast and can swipe it all down at once (switch to cat form and pop berserk). For later instances you'll need to stay in bear form for the bigger pulls but with incarnation you can put out a ton of aoe in bear form as well. My druid is about 461 in mostly pve tanking gear and nothing is a problem 1-80, entire instance pull no problem except maybe 75+ instances but by then I have the alts following so they can complete the quests (50-75% of a level for the quests alone).

I don't do instance boosting beyond 80, in cata instances there are too many stuns, knockbacks, aoe crap to kill your alts, etc. and I know at least a 90 guardian druid cannot handle large pulls, and the xp/hour was terrible. The best method I found 80-85 was the troggs in deepholm. You can pull endlessly and they don't hit hard enough to put a dent in your no matter the size of the pull.

[propagandalf]

I thought I'd give this boosting stuff a try before my RAF time ends. I already ran one 5man team up to 80 just using random LFD's. Now I'm boosting a 4man team using an 81 Guardian Druid.

Silly question, is there a trick to getting your team to these dungeon locations? You can't use LFD and because of the way I sent my RAF invites I can't use summon friend to get them all to a location (30 min cooldown sucks!). Maybe I'm missing something (I hope), because it's really tough getting lowbies to far away dungeons.

Awesome thread, btw, thanks!

[crowdx]

I thought I'd give this boosting stuff a try before my RAF time ends. I already ran one 5man team up to 80 just using random LFD's. Now I'm boosting a 4man team using an 81 Guardian Druid.

Silly question, is there a trick to getting your team to these dungeon locations? You can't use LFD and because of the way I sent my RAF invites I can't use summon friend to get them all to a location (30 min cooldown sucks!). Maybe I'm missing something (I hope), because it's really tough getting lowbies to far away dungeons.

Awesome thread, btw, thanks!

What I generally do is fly one of the higher level characters I have to the dungeon, then summon one set of lowbies, log out the higher level and log back with the second set of lowbies and have them summoned by the set I already summoned.
Obviously this only works if you have higher levels on the accounts you are boosting characters on.

[propagandalf]

Yeah, that's what I figured, but I guess I messed up my RAF connections, because that didn't work for me unless I deal with the 30min summon friend cooldown. My booster is on an account that isn't RAF linked, and then the other 4 are 1 on a vet account that are linked to 3 on recruit accounts.

Durn, that makes traveling a pain.

[crowdx]

Well you would still only need to summon a single toon to the instance entrance,then chain summon the rest. I also use the summoning stone to get my booster there if he is not linked in the RAF chain (which he normally isn't).

[MiRai]

1. Use 2-Man flying mount
2. Use summoning stone
3. ???
4. Profit

[JohnGabriel]

You can buy a Winged Guardian mount from the Blizzard store for your booster account.

[Ualaa]

1. Use 2-Man flying mount
2. Use summoning stone
3. ???
4. Profit

Can you summon, via a summoning stone, with two characters?
I thought you needed three.

[crowdx]

Can you summon, via a summoning stone, with two characters?
I thought you needed three.

Nope, I have been summoning with 2, Locks need 3 to summon the first portal thing.

[Lyonheart]

Can you summon, via a summoning stone, with two characters?
I thought you needed three.

it used to be 3 and a level range limit.. not its only 2 needed and they can summon any other level player starting at level 15.