[WoW] Dual-Boxing Powerleveling Class Guide

[ajew]

The pet killing method is a great little trick. Anyone know if its possible to make a macro that can kill tagged mobs in ranged? It would make it easier but if not then i guess its not a biggy. thanks

[Jubex]

I beleive towing alts is the fastest method for lvling. One thing i liked to do wth sm was to pull the first courtyard and hallway...now if you seed all the mobs just right you make your warlock run out of the instance. The seeds explode and you get the full effect of xp -higher level being present. As fast as this was i could not guarantee it everytime and i found myself running my lowbie back a lot.

[Hudoij]

dun k if this was already said, but....

OK, so consider i have a lvl 70 huntard on one account. And now i want a palla, but im
sick of hand-lvling, im sick of botting, and hand-leveling even ret pallas are a pain in the four-dollarsign-dollarsign. so,
i decide to "dual-box". basicly, just hand-lvl my pala to lvl 10 or so,
then start using dual-boxing to get him up levels rly fast - just get
on one wow account with the pala, leave him at the entrance to some
instance of his level. then log on to another account with the 70
huntard, group up with the pala and just do large pulls of elites to
him and kill them with my 70 hunt. lots of exp, great gear, pala just
sits there and watches the laggy action and doesnt get agro! AND i dont
need to set up any macros for multiboxing, dont need any skill, just
lots of fast and easy XP (also money if i get enchanting up on my
huntard or pala).

Now the question: does this work at all? i havent tried multiboxing
yet... plz halp. and i have 1 monitor, a great comp. thanks and sry for
my teenage 1337 talk, i can do much worse though lol

[Zath]

setting up and playing on private servers is considered federal crime...just so you know

[warcrime]

setting up and playing on private servers is considered federal crime...just so you know

what do private servers have to do with power leveling?

anyway, crime or not, no one would know if you ran a private server because it would be private unless you let other people access it.

[Poolboy]

Botting... Private Server discussion... sigh

As if we legitimate multi-boxers don't already have enough of an uphill battle to fight with community relations.

Do us a favour and GTFO of our house.

[Hudoij]

???? wtf
im aware that multiboxing is legal and all, if you use the
programs and stuff that ARE considered legal, i think i saw a list like
that in one sticky thread. but my question was - would what i said
earlier in my post work on one computer and be efficient? thanks



edit:

http://img338.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot022208130627ir2.jpg
- i was inspired by this, he uses his 70 mage to run his own alt mage
(lvl 31) and some friends for very fast lvling! i want to try something
like this

[Wilbur]

You could use your 70 to level up and Alt yes, it would work and would be fairly easy to achieve.

[wayol]

Hi all,

Lowbie Powerleveling: 1 -> 22
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here's my 2 cents worth. I'm definitely not an expert, but this is what i experienced playing around with power leveling a new set of toons. I ended up changing servers/factions before getting too far. This was done a few months ago, so i can't remember specific times unfortunately.

I hadn't played more than a few months of casual WoW, it didn't grab me until I saw some of Xzin's "work", then decided to give it a go. I'd tried most classes to about level 15, liked hunters and thought, cool, I'll run hunters. A gloss over the web indicated hunters were fast to level. I ended up with 3 level 70 hunters and got to know Horde quest lines and the game in general. Still a newbie tho.

Needless to say, 3 hunters, with no tank and no healer don't get far in the PvE world, I looked around at how i could level some alts. The first thing i noticed with a level 70 trying to power level a level 1, is finding mobs to kill fast enough. You can't. So I ended up in instances, the one place you can run around and pull a whole lot and the one place that has a garunteed mob population.

Starting setup:
- 1 level 70 hunter, blue gear (epics are expensive to repair) ... stam +AP
- anyone else x4
- horde
- familiarity with the quests
- pet with dash and cobra reflexes

Phase One (1-11):
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Basically getting ready for RFC. This isn't especially fast, but lots of good rep. Chance to get flight paths, etc.
- quests in durotar and another zone (i used undead, but not important)
- almost no collection quests done, ie. don't pick up 5 of anything
- aspect of the pack
- running, lots of running
- hunter will be one shotting everything

Phase Two: (12-17):
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RFC .. run forest crun

Basically, you do the following, in different parts of the instance.

Part 1:
- run down to the bridge killing a dozen or so mobs
- stop just before the lowbies would pull the first pair of guards
- leave lowbies back just in xp range
- make sure pet has Dash and Growl on, everything else off
- stand on the left side and look over the edge and back behind the lowbies
- attack furthest away mob pet will attack
- while he's running, target another mob as far down the end as you can
- wait for the pet to hit the first target, send it after the second target
- (optionally) repeat on a third target on the right hand side of the bridge down below
- set explosive trap and feign death
- call pet back and set on passive

Having made friends, most of the mobs will come say hi. It won't take long to figure out how to get them all to join in. While they are patting your pet, scratching behind it's ears and stuff, your explosive trap will be earning a bit of XP. Once they're all there you can let your pet scratch back.

As soon as the trap cooldown is up, re apply it and loose some gold as your armour gets a few scratches of it's own.

Only danger is using FD and having aggro go to the lowbies. Doesn't take long to get your head around it.


Now move further in doing it again...

Part 2:
- clear to the boulder elementals then pull that room using the pet
- i was making sure the pet got a hit on EVERY target in here
- set trap, pull pet back, fd, etc...

Part 3:
- same again in the area with the first boss in the middle of 4 bridges
- pull well back because of the pats aggroing onto the lowbies
- make sure your graphics is drawing as far as possible away
- stand on the edge of the bridges and get your pet to pull as much as is useful
- explosive trap/fd/etc

Part 4:
- you can get the next two bosses
- top one targetable without having to go up the ramp
- CAREFUL .. get too far away from your pet and he despawns


For the fastest xp, repeat Part 1 over and over, don't even go in further. Only problem is you'll quickly use up the number of instances you are allowed to reset in an hour.

Was leveling every 10-15 minutes from memory (bit longer when going further in).


Phase Three: (17+):
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Wailing Caverns

Rinse and repeat of the above. The first room is basically a loop. You pet can run around and pull 90% of the mobs in a few minutes with Dash. Explosive trap, kaboom, run out, reset, repeat. Maybe 15-20 minutes per level. But in that 15-20 minutes you could reach your hourly limit. You can go in further, but there is nothing else in WC like that first room.

From vague memory, the played time to 20 was around 12 hours, but most of that was the initial questing and exploration. Might have been a bit quicker tho. It was definitely low stress: pet holds aggro, and once you get used to it you know when not to feign death, so lowbies never get attacked.


For a better setup, I'd suggest enough survival to maximise your trap damage. If spell damage effects traps (and volley) .. well, it could get even easier.

What about beyond level 22? I don't think it scales well. Healing, fear and cc mobs add up when you pull 30 of them. Also much better if there are open rooms full of melee mobs. Maybe SM graveyard.

So if you have access to a hunter, RFC and WC, 12->22 can be a breeze in terms of effort and time. It's fastest if you only hit the first rooms in each instance, but you need something else to go do while your instances/per hour is on cooldown. Personally, the barrens is so full of quests I'd just mix it in.

There are so many level 70 hunters out there, hopefully this helps someone.

[loupegarou]

Ok so i play alliance.

I have a 27lvl pally that i have mostly power leveled.
Since i have two accounts and ones a frost mage i find this fun.

Get toon up to 10. Get buffs if at all possible they will help you kill faster.

1. For speed..ie getting from one place to another. I have a lvl 63 hunter who i used for just moving around. Walking sucks. he is only grouped for long distances.
2. Dead mines require level 10. You will aggro ALLOT. Get mage to kill everything (grouped on follow) and get into the instance. Stick toon at beginning of instance and have mage pull all the way to the first door (ie hobbs (see wowhobbs on youtube) way of pulling) and back to alt. With a frost mage you can throw up your ice barrier and pretty much pull everything from the first door back. Get it to you frost nova > cone of cold > arcane explosion till dead. Drink ...oh dont forget this..KILL PATS..then pull next room. As a prot pally (Hobbs) you could pull the whole ship plus Mr Smite. As a mage when he stuns (i dont have epic gear..just 380plus damage i think) it can hurt. But after killing him you can pull the rest of the boat in one pull. I will frost nova here and there to get them off of me. And when i pull van cleef i actually jump off the ship and heal with bandages and use a mana gem. That way im full up to kill the entire ship in one shot.
3. Stockades.
a. Pull middle corridor and kill em.
b. Pull left corridor (facing from entrance) and kill em.
c. When pulling the right corridor there are allot of mobs that stun pretty consistently. This can kill ya (or me at least) so i pull 2 or 3 rooms at a time. And save the last room for last. All in all its pretty quick and you can continue to reset the instance over and over probably about 4 times an hour. If you want to triple box you could have two alts running at the same time and actually get more xp for each.

One of the best things about doing it this way is that you can DE everything that doesnt sell well and get a METRIC TON of cloth to put on the AH that will net you about 1 gold per stack of wool and less for linen. You can also get a nice blue here and there that can make about 30 gold or more in the AH. I havent tried to pull SM with the mage. I am kinda nervous to do that with all the casters.

A pally can do all the stuff i do BETTER if setup to AOE. That is why I am working up my pally. I am considering setting up one more account so i can do a 2xloc (or mage) with a pally/priest healing them.
I use two pcs.

On a side note...since i blew through a lot of levels without doing quests i took my NE hunter to kill stuff (grouped) i got for quests. While i get very little xp for killing the mobs...I get NICE xp for the quests that don't take me that long to blow through.

added by edit / if you really like to work dps characters up have a druid (i have a lvl 70 whos not set for healing) throw hots on them before the fight. It makes it kinda silly. :P

Thanks for listening.

Loupe