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

[Knobley]

God i wish i had a pally >.<

Yeah, me too. I DO have a lvl 70 drood in decent gear however. I'm planning to use him to boost some alts tonight, and I'm gonna run some tests with him. I fear that the thorns trick won't work, but I'm gonna give it a shot.

Knobley

[Knobley]

Is there any kind of an official response, that this isn't considered as exploiting?

Would love to try that myself

I wouldn't call this an exploit, but I do expect that this trick, along with boosting in general, will eventually be patched into non-existence.

[Marathon]

Update from ST - one of my RL friends was leveling one of his toons with my alts, and he hit 52 and was still get exp toward level 53. So while i am sure it is at a slower rate you can stay there untill level 53.

[Heenan]

Yeah, when I hit 51 I was still getting decent XP. I am going back for a few more levels

[Tdog]

I stayed right up tilll level 55 and was still sustained 89k xp/hr from 54->55. Worth it to stay right up to 55 imho. 55->56 however you're only going to be getting xp from half of the skeletons so you'll probably only get around 40-45k xp/hr. Probably no better than just questing at that point.

I personally chose to start farming Strat for gear, DE mats to sell, and get use to using my team's many gained abilities since level 35. Just FYI, I spent about 120g for each of my mages to learn their new abilites from 35-55. Times that by 3 and add in the 120g I spent on my priest and I spent 480g just to learn new skills. Then another 500g ish to buy the mounts and they still need gear too

So my recommendation is after doing this go to BRD, Strat, Scholo, DM or w/e and send time getting use to the ton of new spells you got, get up to level 58 and move on to outlands.

[Knobley]

Well, I took the druid pictured above to give this a try, and the dmg just came in to fast for me...Too many skellies even with my rank 8 thorns. If anybody has any respec suggestions I'm all ears... this guy is on the Velen server.

Knobley

[Tonuss]

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but what is being described here is an exploit of game mechanics, and as I understand it, we try to shy away from that sort of thing on the dual-boxing site. You are unlikely to be actioned for this (since people would need to report it, and it's not likely that they would even know you are doing it unless you told them), but I am guessing that once Blizzard gets wind of it, they'll patch this.

[Talamarr]

I disagree. Taking your time to kill a boss mob doesn't seem like an exploit. Yes, they may patch this so the skeletons don't give XP but I don't think it's an exploit. I think mobtagging is more of an exploit than this but that's just personal opinion though.

[Marathon]

As far as it being shady...It's a whole hell of alot less shady than the paladin/mage zone out method that Athene used for the longest time. And after doing a bit of research I've discovered posts of this strategy as far back as april of 2007 which said posts suggested that it was around even longer than that. So I can't believe for even a second that blizzard doesn't already know about this method.

Quote from Tdog 2nd page on this thread

I agree with Tdog on this one. I am pretty sure that Blizzard knows about this and honestly now that my guys are in thier 50's it serously takes about 45 to an hour to level with out any rested exp. Which is about the same time it would take if you where leveling a toon by questing etc ...

I have leveled countless toons. And personally I am just bored to death of questing and on my current low population server finding groups to do low level instances is almost imposable, if I could even find a group of people to do an instance with me knowing that I was playing 3 toons at once. They would be like hell no .... I am not playing with you if your playing all three because of thier lack of understanding.

Anyway, I am going to stay in ST probably untill my guys hit 55 then I am going to take them to Outlands and start doing BF. I think I should be able to 4 man it with my 70 pally, 2 level 55 shammys and 1 level 55 mage.

[Tdog]

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but what is being described here is an exploit of game mechanics, and as I understand it, we try to shy away from that sort of thing on the dual-boxing site. You are unlikely to be actioned for this (since people would need to report it, and it's not likely that they would even know you are doing it unless you told them), but I am guessing that once Blizzard gets wind of it, they'll patch this.

Thing is that this method is plastered all of the internet. Run a google on it. It's at least more than a year and a half old and even though clearly the majority of the wow community doesn't know about it, I can't believe that Blizzard isn't aware of it. If blizzard is aware of it and hasn't done anything about it then as far as I'm concerned they are okay with it for the time being. It's not like we are walking on or through walls, using shady zoning out methods, evading mobs to get them to despawn, or skipping content through dungeons or a number of exploits out there. Again Athene's zone out method was hella shady and we all damn well know Blizzard knew about that one for a very long time. The guy constantly bragged about his method everywhere and it took forever and a day before Blizzard decided to nerf it.

All this is is tagging mobs, and letting them beat on you until you are dead. Sorry but this does not feel like an exploit to me.