Boosting - What to do now that they changed Scarlet Monastary so much?

[Grail]

I just got my first 5x team to lvl 21 and now I am going to take one char out and jump on my 90 for boosting. My accounts are RAF'd and ready to go. So, I had heard about changes to SM but am now at a loss. I loved the giant pulls from the Cathedral. Is that gone?

Could someone who has run up a team in the modern era, using dungeons mostly, give me a quick listing of how I should proceed?

I will head to SFK in the mean time.

Thanks,

-Grail

[Asterix]

if your accs are RAF'd just do every instance once and do the instance quests. Worked for me from lvl 15 - lvl 80

btw. maybe this will help you:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Instances_by_level

[Grail]

Thanks Asterix

That would be great. Was that with a 90 booster? Or just five team members all the same level?

-Grail

[Asterix]

lvl 90 paladin boosting a group of 4 RAF Accounts.
Started with lvl 10 without quests in deadmines until they dinged to lvl 15 so I could get the quest.

Used the RAF Flying mount to get one of the toons to the next dungeon and used the summoning stone to get the rest of the group there
and just done each instance once. Usually they do one level because of the mob exp and 1-2 level because of the quest exp.

burning crusade is each instance once except of the tempest keep dungeons to get you to 68.
Although you can move on to WOTLK content: do the three tempest keep dungens first unless you want to
do azjol again and again waiting for the levelup to move on to the next dungeons.

wotlk is each dungeon once, usually you ding to 80 between halls of stone and halls of lightning.
you don't need the three ICC heroic dungeons.

and: don't miss the arena quests with 65, 75 and 84 ! They are close to the amount of a whole level of exp points !

[Saqor]

lvl 90 paladin boosting a group of 4 RAF Accounts.
Started with lvl 10 without quests in deadmines until they dinged to lvl 15 so I could get the quest.

Used the RAF Flying mount to get one of the toons to the next dungeon and used the summoning stone to get the rest of the group there
and just done each instance once. Usually they do one level because of the mob exp and 1-2 level because of the quest exp.

burning crusade is each instance once except of the tempest keep dungeons to get you to 68.
Although you can move on to WOTLK content: do the three tempest keep dungens first unless you want to
do azjol again and again waiting for the levelup to move on to the next dungeons.

wotlk is each dungeon once, usually you ding to 80 between halls of stone and halls of lightning.
you don't need the three ICC heroic dungeons.

and: don't miss the arena quests with 65, 75 and 84 ! They are close to the amount of a whole level of exp points !

Excellent advice. Going to try that next chance I get. I have about 14 days of RAF left, so getting one more team done would be pretty sweet.

[Asterix]

I usually get a RAF team of 4 chars from 0-60 on a saturday (most of the time is flying from dungeon to dungeon)
60-80 on a sunday.

both days usually playing from 2pm to midnight

[Saqor]

I usually get a RAF team of 4 chars from 0-60 on a saturday (most of the time is flying from dungeon to dungeon)
60-80 on a sunday.

both days usually playing from 2pm to midnight

Yeah I mainly play on weekends, too. Between work, trying to stay in a reasonable physical shape and various other Real Life™ commitments, my weekday playing time is severely limited.

[Asterix]

2 things that might help you:

- don't loot. Just don't do it except you need a quest item out of the mob.
before you loot with the toons, loot with your main char first and set loot
modus to free for all so your mainchar can grab everything and the bags
of your toons are always empty. picking up things, sorting out stuff, trading
with the toons, selling stuff via auctionhouse just takes way too much time.
you can start with looting in wotlk content where the amount of stuff is reduced
and the worth of the items is increased - especially cloth. classic and bc stuff
is nearly worthless, disenchanting materials are nearly worthless and they fill
your bags, especially in classic where you loot tons of grey trash which is worth 1 copper

- care for your dungeon timer. doing too much instances within a short period (i.e. stockades
bombing, running out, resetting and running back in) will get you locked out of dungeons.
afaik you can have 4 active timer and each timer will be disabled after 60 mins starting when
the last char of the group has left the dungeon. So plan your dungeons, especially the short
ones and try to combine them with larger dungeons or lunch/dinner breaks.

[Grail]

Awesome Asterix,

I think i will drop the looting. I spent most of the day trying to remember how to play my Shaman and setting my Logitech mouse up correctly. I otherwise made five levels from 22-27 pretty quickly. I have to play off and on, but am looking forward to a good day tomorrow.

Great advice overall, especially for when I get to BC & WoTLK. I will keep this post handy all the way up.

-Grail

[luxlunae]

Transmog gear means that low level stuff is no longer worthless. You're probably leaving 3-10 pieces of 1k+ loot on the ground in uldamon, for example. For me hoping to find a decent piece of green is the primary thing to look forward to when grinding out dungeons. To each his own though!