The Boosting and Power Leveling summary thread

[brwn253]

Can someone help me comprehend this?

"-2B) Killing by level 60 Pet(s) of any level mobs can help after the characters to be boosted tag the mobs. Note that there does need to be 2+ alts in the party to be boosted for the XP to scale well. If you don't want to split the XP between the alts you can have one die, release, and sit as a ghost in the grave yard far enough away from where you are killing mobs and all the XP will go to the alive alt."

Is this saying that a hunter outside of your group can send in the pet, after a party member in the group tags, and then the party will get pull xp as if the hunter pet did not help?

Thanks for the help!

[nodoze]

Can someone help me comprehend this?

"-2B) Killing by level 60 Pet(s) of any level mobs can help after the characters to be boosted tag the mobs. Note that there does need to be 2+ alts in the party to be boosted for the XP to scale well. If you don't want to split the XP between the alts you can have one die, release, and sit as a ghost in the grave yard far enough away from where you are killing mobs and all the XP will go to the alive alt."

Is this saying that a hunter outside of your group can send in the pet, after a party member in the group tags, and then the party will get pull xp as if the hunter pet did not help?

Thanks for the help!

Yes provided that your lower level characters are in a party of 2+ characters and only pets damage the mobs after the lower level character(s) tag the mobs.

That means if both characters are in range then both split the XP. If you really only want to boost 1 character then you need to allow the other to die and stay at a Grave Yard far enough away to not get XP.

Note that it does not need to be a Hunter's pet as Warlock pets also work (but Hunter pets are likely much better).

Edit: It has been discussed in various threads that this approach works fantastically at the lower levels but tends to peter out depending on the number of hunters which is why for a 5boxer the optimal pet tagging group would likely be 3 Hunters with max beast mastered pets considering you need to have at least 2 alts being boosted.

[Lyonheart]

At the low levels I really like questing power level. Get all the the quests on the toons to be powerlevel. And then just blast through killing everything with the higher toon. Once you cant get quests anymore just jump to another low level zone and easily do those. Even collection quest dont take long when everything dies with one hit.

That is what i did yesterday. its nice. i still skip collection quests unless its one i remember being easy with my main team. Im using a 60 priest and mage tagging along. i went and gathered all the flight paths i could get to. having a mage to port the group around saves a ton of time as well. Now that i have all the FPs ill need until I start SM, I should be able to level up to dungon grinding time pretty fast.

I'm leveling a full second team to add to my current 60 team for 10 man fun!

[nodoze]

That is what i did yesterday. its nice. i still skip collection quests unless its one i remember being easy with my main team. Im using a 60 priest and mage tagging along. i went and gathered all the flight paths i could get to. having a mage to port the group around saves a ton of time as well. Now that i have all the FPs ill need until I start SM, I should be able to level up to dungon grinding time pretty fast.

I'm leveling a full second team to add to my current 60 team for 10 man fun!

Were your 2 Level 60 characters actually in a raid with your 2nd 5man team or where you using them out of party to heal your party and also to kill mobs after they were tagged by the party?

[Lyonheart]

Were your 2 Level 60 characters actually in a raid with your 2nd 5man team or where you using them out of party to heal your party and also to kill mobs after they were tagged by the party?

I run them out of group to assist..i only group in a raid to port to cities.

[method98]

Very good to have a dedicated thread for this, ive been scouring the forums looking for a way to boost my team up quicker using my level 60 warlock.

[nodoze]

Very good to have a dedicated thread for this, ive been scouring the forums looking for a way to boost my team up quicker using my level 60 warlock.

Yeah. There are lots of amazing people in these forums that give lots of great input but often these volunteer efforts becomes repetitive due to the nature of the forums. One of the biggest issues with this type of forum is that the same questions get asked over and over in various threads because the threads get buried over time. Also threads tend to fork/branch into unrelated topics so it is hard to know which threads have the nuggets of wisdom you need. This type of thread is an attempt to sorta allow the forum to have sudo-wiki pages within the forum with the top/inital post being like a wiki page and the replies being like a wiki talk/discussion page... Over time if we develop multiple threads like this we can either sticky them or have a single sticky that links to all threads like this...
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I updated the initial post at the top of the thread with the additional approaches.

Can someone please test a scenario 1B?

Basically take a main with a level 60 Pet into a low level instance with 2+ low level alts and let the mobs aggro on a passive pet, get tagged by the alts, and then let the pet kill the mobs (but not damage the mobs with the main). Then compare the XP awarded to the low level alts to a kill by a main (not the pet).

I got that idea after reading the scenarios above and thinking of the differences in the open world between the mains and pets doing the killing and wondering if instances were coded similarly... Could really help on a PVP server...

[method98]

Does anyone have info on what kind of exp/h we could be looking at if we farmed Satyrs in felwood for mats/gold while tagging with a 4-5man team in their 20's. I need to farm gold every week and i also need to get my team up to 60 asap

[Mercbeast]

Not good. Your xp will be capped, at your level, so all the extra xp is wasted, but try it and report back, I'd expect the xp/hr to not be good by boosting standards.

[nodoze]

Does anyone have info on what kind of exp/h we could be looking at if we farmed Satyrs in felwood for mats/gold while tagging with a 4-5man team in their 20's. I need to farm gold every week and i also need to get my team up to 60 asap

Not good. Your xp will be capped, at your level, so all the extra xp is wasted, but try it and report back, I'd expect the xp/hr to not be good by boosting standards.

I think Merc is correct except maybe if you try Approach 2B:

Approach 2: Open World tagging of mobs by character(s) to be boosted and then killing by main(s) has 2 different sets of levels where it is viable:

-2A) ...

-2B) Killing by level 60 Pet(s) of any level mobs can help after the characters to be boosted tag the mobs. Note that there does need to be 2+ alts in the party to be boosted for the XP to scale well.


If you have a pet class main and can try it please report back with your results...

If you have a Warlock you could use an 'eye of killrog' to bring huge packs of level 10s (or what ever low level mobs) to you and your voidwalker and get the void to start taunting & tanking... Your low level alt should then be able to AoE Tag all the mobs with consecration, AE or something... Then cast Thorns/fireshield and/or Retribution aura on the Voidwalker and let the mobs quickly beat themselves to death and otherwise have the void attack any that try to flee... That or maybe there is a Hunter's pet with a decent AoE damage affect that can wipe masses of lower level mobs.