[WoW] AOE Paladin Boosting, when to move on to next instance?

[Zub]

Well just went to have a little chat with zolo tonight, the group being a 70 Resto shaman (just under 2k healing, mostly epics from kara/GL/ZA - Ghr's Armory here) and 2 level 35 shaman who had just dinged about 10min before.
I brought with me 2x lichen guard for the fight. Very easy to farm the 15x2 glowcaps to buy those, it's a 10min job honestly.

- Entered the instance, left clones at the portal, and went to look for Zolo, (second corridor on the left when you enter, and go upstairs. Fortunately at the closest spot, didnt have to reset at all.
- Cleared the 3 groups of mobs to have a safe passage for the clones
- Brought clones near Zolo, left them in the little nook in the corridor before zolo. Dont let them too far, the trash respawns real quick.
Then i placed myself against a wall, tagged zolo, then targeted myself to avoid hitting the boss and killing him early.

The summoned skellies hit me for anywhere between 25-35, but there is a crap ton of them. You will not be able to cast a non-instant spell unless you have 100% pushback. (thankfully shamies have that when Earth Shield is on)
To give you an idea, i tried to war stomp, and the 1.5 second cast never landed.

The totems i used where
- Healing stream (with an occasional Mana tide)
- Stoneskin (makes a real difference)
- Wrath of air.

The fight goes in 2 cycles.
cycle A, every ~20sec i cast Earth Shield
cycle B, every ~90sec i cast stoneskin, WoA and Healing stream
Rinse, repeat.

If needed, drop a Mana tide, and a LHW or two. Rememebr to always put Earth Shield before LHW, or you'll not complete the cast because of pushback (yes, even with 70% anti-pushback)

It seems that positioning with your back to the edge is best so far. Scary though, as a step back will have you fall in dragons, but all skellies stack in a single spot and i assume they will give you less armor durability.
My first level grind cost me about 22g, the second 16g in repairs.
Note that your weapon seems to take no damage, however the shield was at ~50% when i went to repair (jumped the main off the ledge (clones can stay where they are), avoided dragons, hearthed to stonard, repaired, and ran him backo zolo)

clones got
51xp per skeleton at level 35
53xp per skeleton at level 36
55xp per skeleton at level 37
That's where i stopped tonight. more boosting tomorrow :-)

Hope this helps.
-Zub


Edit: Removed information about the magma totem, as it doesnt tag the mobs

[shaeman]

Well - I'm completely confused.

I went into ST tonight - It was Just my 70 (newly resto shaman) and a level 40 paladin.

I found zolo. Did all that I thought I should (apart from the first attempt where I forgot to put totems down and got wasted )

I didn't have a shield spike.... Dont know if that makes a big difference, and every so often I would rank one magma totem to tag.

I stood there quite a while, masses and masses of skeletons spawning. Took an absolute beating - and my son who was watching my character reported 0 xp.

I got him to check the combat log - and it was zero.

I thought it had been nerfed, but the post above tried this on the same day.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong. (It was pretty much identical to what the poster above described).

[Gurblash]

I didn't have a shield spike.... Dont know if that makes a big difference, and every so often I would rank one magma totem to tag.

You need a shield spike its the only way to mitigate dmg back to the skeletons. Just like pets if a totem does all the dmg to an NPC mob you get no xp. You must do some dmg to it, ala shield spike.

Also have the pally put Blessing of Sanctuary on your booster.

[Greythan]

Heyaz, any update?

Well I tried it without the VW and using Succubus sacrifice for 15% more shadow damage, and it doesn't look feasible. I guess I could find a better tab target marcro to make sure I get the siphon life ticking on every single skeleton, but I noticed once they really multiply and I'm missing some, my health goes down quick. They hit a warlock w/o a pet for 70-80. Easily mitigated with siphon life, the thing is keeping it on every single target.

I'll try again with a voidwalker. 10% reduced physical then 20% of the remaining will go to the VW. The question is how long will it survive. He would survive several minutes in SM, but those melee a lot harder. He has about 10k hp so I would have to take a good 40-50k damage for him to die. It maybe possible to AOE taunt with the VW every 2 minutes and health funnel, but that gets interrupted if there is even one mob on me. I'll give it a try tonight.

I'm interested as my 70 'lock is my team's booster and they just dinged 40.

[Otlecs]

edit: ignore this - I thought you were tanking with a pally.... Gurblash is almost certainly right - totems doing the killing is a bad thing

*casts around for a working delete button*

Nope, STILL can't find one... must be a very complicated operation... 8|

[sargorn]

He can spawn at any of the "C"s but you'd want to try and make him spawn on the bottom C's (ones with red circles). Just go in with sense undead on and walk alittle ways into the corridors and you should be able to see if he has spawned in one of those spots. If not, you can reset but be careful not to get locked out.

Credit to the image goes to the creators of Atlas, I just merly edited it alittle for illustration purposes.

Oh, btw...
If Zolo's in either of those positions you can simply park your alts in the first room with the portal. If you're just pulling zolo that basically means 0 clearing. If you're doing Mijan and Zolo you can avoid a few of the early pulls.

[shaeman]

I didn't have a shield spike.... Dont know if that makes a big difference, and every so often I would rank one magma totem to tag.

You need a shield spike its the only way to mitigate dmg back to the skeletons. Just like pets if a totem does all the dmg to an NPC mob you get no xp. You must do some dmg to it, ala shield spike.

Also have the pally put Blessing of Sanctuary on your booster.

Oh my goodness - what a complete and utter noob i am

Doh!!!!

Thank you so much

[Zub]

wow i'm the noob i think, when i did yesterday i was totally convinced that having my magma totem did the trick and helped getting xp quicker >.<
I guess i must have had a better positioning or something, and blocked more attacks. i'll check again tonight, but in the meantime disregard my previous post.

I didnt have a spike on my shield either, but was using the Lichen Guard shield, which basically does the same as a spike (applies poison on successful block). I suggest getting one/two of those (it's quick/painless) if you dont want to replace an enchant on any shield you already have.

[shaeman]

Hey zub - dont be rough on yourself.

I've basically followed your spec and initial guide - it worked fine (apart from no xp for me).

I've bought 4 shields, got them shield spiked (I dont have sporregar rep), and I'm gonna take the pally back in now. Looking forward to it.

Strangely - I did a bit of pvp on the resto shaman with this build - I kind of like it (but I digresS).

I'll set my hearth to stonard so I can go back, repair and get back in there relatively quickly. (It's a drag getting back up from that central bit.)

[Zub]

i also have a Karazhan geared Prot warrior (~13k hp, 15k armor)and might give her a try as well, just to see if it is doable, but i think it's gonig to hurt big time with no heals.

Tonight i'm getting my zubs to 40 , then going to blackrock mountain and going to try the Lycaeum with my 70 mage boosting the little ones.
There's a crap-ton of easy killed mobs (~800-1000hp)in there, on a 20second respawn timer. Just have to hope they give good xp, and that the level 40s can do the lava jumps safely to get there.