The Boosting and Power Leveling summary thread

[Mercbeast]

Interesting video on power leveling though a lot of it is kinda filler and thus it could be significantly shorter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOzMu6PrChc

Assertion that XP is based on the average level of the party with no deduction based on having 1 level 60 in the party hitting gray mobs.

It denotes the following as the top ranked single level 60s to carry 4 low level alts:
Mage
Paladin
Warrior

Curious why a level 60 Warlock with hell fire or rain of fire & eye of killrog wouldn't also be good and if so where it should go in the ranking...

Warrior is not great. You need to be mega geared to make a warrior good. Druid and Warlock are definitely better.

[nodoze]

The following is a Tank Paladin solo pulling pretty much an entire instance with self-healing and AoE'ing everything down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAI91yEpr7M

That should be a lot of XP for 4 alts.

[method98]

The following is a Tank Paladin solo pulling pretty much an entire instance with self-healing and AoE'ing everything down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAI91yEpr7M

That should be a lot of XP for 4 alts.

I'd love to see a warlock boosting 4 alts, I tried with mine in SFK but just died over and over. Even tho my warlock is fully pre bissed with bis raid gear. Hellfire plus a bunch of auto attacks just kills me.

[nodoze]

I'd love to see a warlock boosting 4 alts, I tried with mine in SFK but just died over and over. Even tho my warlock is fully pre bissed with bis raid gear. Hellfire plus a bunch of auto attacks just kills me.

Are you a soul-linked Lock with all the Tanky talents? Have you tried to round them up with your void? Have you tried Rain of Fire @player ?

[nodoze]

Interesting video on power leveling (though a lot of it is kinda filler and thus it could be significantly shorter):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOzMu6PrChc

[It makes the] Assertion that XP is based on the average level of the party with no deduction based on having 1 level 60 in the party hitting gray mobs.

It denotes the following as the top ranked single level 60 classes to carry 4 low level alts are:
Mage
Paladin
Warrior

[Maybe also] a level 60 Warlock with hell fire or rain of fire & eye of killrog ... [likely boosting 4 alts that include a Paladin with Concentration Aura would help]...

As discussed in a different thread this average level calculation should be really useful for Power Leveling 4 alts. I would think a level 60 Paladin Tank AoEing (or a Mage) in the Stockades and Scarlet Monastery would be really good XP.

Frankly it is almost like the developers specifically lowered the minimum level for entry into some Dungeons to allow 4 low level alts to group with a single Level 60 Power Leveler as the 5th team member for a decent overall level for good XP...

For example, according to the Minimum Levels for entry on the Levels Tab of the 'Classic WoW Planning' Spreadsheet you could take your 4 low level alts with a level 60 as early as follows:

- Stockades: Take 4 Level 15s with a level 60 Power Leveler = Average Level 24 (should be great XP);
- Monastery: Take 4 Level 21s with a level 60 Power Leveler = Average Level 29 (should be great XP);

[Lyonheart]

Is anyone using a mage to PL.. mine takes a ton of damage when i try and pull too many. I have her speced with the best defensive talents i can..using ice armor and best stam+int items i can get atm ( of the eagle etc. ) She does have some nice dungon items. I also use protection potions..have best stam enchants etc. I do have her speced for mostly arcane and fire aoe. should i be doing a freeze/shatter/blizzard method?

[nodoze]

Is anyone using a mage to PL.. mine takes a ton of damage when i try and pull too many. I have her speced with the best defensive talents i can..using ice armor and best stam+int items i can get atm ( of the eagle etc. ) She does have some nice dungon items. I also use protection potions..have best stam enchants etc. I do have her speced for mostly arcane and fire aoe. should i be doing a freeze/shatter/blizzard method?

What level is your Mage and what dungeon are you trying to power level in where you are having problems?

The kiting via freeze/shatter/blizzard method is the way most non-boxer single Mages get lots of XP (it was how JokerXD was the fastest to reach cap as well).

[Lyonheart]

What level is your Mage and what dungeon are you trying to power level in where you are having problems?

The kiting via freeze/shatter/blizzard method is the way most non-boxer single Mages get lots of XP (it was how JokerXD was the fastest to reach cap as well).

My mage is 60 ( i know you have seen my many other posts about my first team lol ) I am PLing a paly..lock, priest and mage. And im in stockades atm. I see people talking about pulling the whole instance ( stockades for example ) and there is now way i could do that. I pull about 10-15 at once and have to kill them fast or ill die. And based on what i have seen so far ( deadmines and stockades ) im worried how efficient it will be to PL in higher dungeons like SM. My alts are all 22 now.

[nodoze]

My mage is 60 ( i know you have seen my many other posts about my first team lol ) I am PLing a paly..lock, priest and mage. And im in stockades atm. I see people talking about pulling the whole instance ( stockades for example ) and there is now way i could do that. I pull about 10-15 at once and have to kill them fast or ill die. And based on what i have seen so far ( deadmines and stockades ) im worried how efficient it will be to PL in higher dungeons like SM. My alts are all 22 now.

Sorry I honestly have a heard time keeping everyone's teams straight. It is easier for me with folks like Quidling or Brue Lee as I have seen their teams in action. I am looking forward to power leveling with a level 60 Paladin which should be great/ideal till the higher levels. People say Mages are easier/better but I like the Paladin way more (I used to AoE grind on my Paladin in Vanilla->BC->WotLK).

Most of the leveling with 4-5 Mage teams is just gather mobs and spam AE with the mobs all around you and that likely isn't how a 60 should be doing it...

If I were doing it as a Solo 60 Mage I would spec Frost with all the armor/buffs and I would do it like JokerD did when he went to 60 by himself. Basically no face tanking and you Blizzard/freeze all the mobs and you keep at range moving at full/regular speed while they are slowed and blink if/as necessary to stay ahead.

[Lyonheart]

Most of the leveling with 4-5 Mage teams is just gather mobs and spam AE with the mobs all around you and that likely isn't how a 60 should be doing it...

If I were doing it as a Solo 60 Mage I would spec Frost with all the armor/buffs and I would do it like JokerD did when he went to 60 by himself. Basically no face tanking and you Blizzard/freeze all the mobs and you keep at range moving at full/regular speed while they are slowed and blink if/as necessary to stay ahead.

My first team.. War..priest and 3 mages, I did it like you would expect..gather and AE until all dead. sometimes add in holy nova with priest. But my solo mage does take a lot of damage when power leveling my lowbies..even in DM i cant just pull everything . i have to limit my pulls. Now as my priest gets high enough to be able to shield and heal my 60 mage, it should get easier. In DM and Stockades, when my alts got high enough to damage the mobs.. they made it easier, i would just run through the instance with them in tow. i spam AE rank1 on the 60 mage to gather mobs up and when my 60 mage starts taking damage..i spam max rank on 60 and the low level mage spams its AE and things die faster.

Its when i switch to SM that i think it might be slow and painful..unless i learn how to do it the frost way,,keeping the mobs at bay. But if the lower level dungon mobs do that kind of damage to my 60 mage.. it will just get worse in higher level dungons doing it the AE way.

I was just wondering if anyone on here is using a 60 mage to PL now and have some advice. I am looking forward to having a 60 paladin to PL new teams in the future though! Based on that video.