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

[Stabface]

These (probably) work, if you want to go farm up or buy a bunch of ungoro crystals & don't have a druid & don't have blessing of sanctuary.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=11567

[Memn]

I got my priest from 34-56 this weekend.

How long did it take you? I'm assuming it was just the two of you?

[Tehtsuo]

I got my priest from 34-56 this weekend.

How long did it take you? I'm assuming it was just the two of you?

My final tally was around 9 hours total. However for about 4 hours I had 3 others besides my priest in the instance with me soaking up exp. Only about 2 hours was spent with only me and my priest.

[Memn]

My final tally was around 9 hours total. However for about 4 hours I had 3 others besides my priest in the instance with me soaking up exp. Only about 2 hours was spent with only me and my priest.

That isn't too bad. I'm working on a Shammy team, and will be doing this in a week or two... guess I should plan on it taking most of the weekend. Still, its better than the alternatives.

[Tehtsuo]

My final tally was around 9 hours total. However for about 4 hours I had 3 others besides my priest in the instance with me soaking up exp. Only about 2 hours was spent with only me and my priest.

That isn't too bad. I'm working on a Shammy team, and will be doing this in a week or two... guess I should plan on it taking most of the weekend. Still, its better than the alternatives.

Yeah, and the better geared you are, the easier it is. Mine's all epics, with Kara and 25 man tanking gear. I was able to watch a few movies while keeping an eye on my progress and clicking my figurine/rank1BoS from time to time. The only difficulty was catching shield breaks, I'd love an addon with some kind of more obvious visual, or even an audio, indicator that your shield is broken. As a tank, there's no situation where it's not crucial that you put a new shield on instantly when one breaks.

[Stabface]

Thanks to Blizzard's group XP mechanics, it's actually more XP per kill with 1x L70 and 2x low level alts, than it is with a single alt.
Additionally, adding a 3rd or 4th low level alt does not affect the XP that much at least at the lower levels, not sure about when you have say a 55 alt and a L70 fighting L62 mobs.

[Caspian]

I tried this with my daughter for like 10 minutes this weekend just to test it out and she did 4 bars at level 52 in about 10 minutes.

My pally is a fairly new 70. I used my healing gear (which has more armor then my tank gear - ty PvP bunny) and rank 1 BoS. I was on pace to keep Zolo up for about 30-45 minutes I think. I had issues with healing and mana and would have needed to reset after about 20 minutes or put of seal of wis or light and kill him faster. I am going to try and get the trinkets this week and some decent greens which will make it much easier.

Now I have to get my little dudes up and put my Pally on a new account to get all 3 of them going at once. Or use my rogue to boost the priest to keep pace. Hmm Decisions, decisions.

[Tdog]

/shrug if you guys really want to use your raid gear go for it. It costs me 65g to repair my gear from completely broke while it only costs me 13g for the green gear. Sure my BT gear last 2x as long but it costs 5x as much to repair. Don't want to run back 2x as much? That is why I bought the 2nd set of gear.

As long as I was using an intact shield and positioned so that I blocked everything I didn't take much durability loss on anything but the shield. When boosting in other instances, you have to expose yourself and take hits, but with Zolo, you can keep them all in front of you - so there is very little durability loss for the rest of my gear. YMMV. I just hate having another set of gear in my inventory just for boosting.

Of course, if you let Zolo hit you in the back you will take equipment damage...

Yea I know I usually went thru 4 shields before my first piece of gear broke and 5 before I was all red. Blue/epic gear has alot more durability than green gear and will last longer making it not necessary to have a 2nd set of gear. However with blue/epic gear it is much more costly to repair and the price to repair does not scale linearly. My BT gear lasted roughly 2x as long as one of my green sets of gear but costed 5x as much to repair. If you got the gold to repair your epic gear go for it. I however leveled up 3 teams with this method and saved a nice little chunk of gold on repair costs doing this.

I also only use my paladin for boosting now and had all 3 teams parked there for the full duration of the week I did this so inventory space wasn't really an issue for my 2nd set of gear.



FYI to all those curious

35-40 is fairly quick xp. I was sustaining about 140k xp/hr.
40-50 was the best xp. I was sustaining about 180k xp/hr.
50-55 slowed down quite a bit but still better than regular leveling. I was sustaining about 95k xp/hr.
55-56 while I only went to 55 1/4 I was sustaining about 60k xp/hr which isn't too bad really. It's about the same as questing at that point.

Keep in mind all the xp/hr rates listed above was with 5 toons (70 plus 4 lowbies) in the party.

I chose to move on to Stratholme at 55 to farm greens/blues/orbs for cash as gearing up/training talents/mounts for 12 toons is not exactly cheap. :thumbdown:

[pinotnoir]

Any tips for grinding stratholme? I take it you did live side. My guys are close to 55 and I need to say farewell to my good friend zolo. After doing zolo I have become spoiled. I dont want to quest anymore.

/shrug if you guys really want to use your raid gear go for it. It costs me 65g to repair my gear from completely broke while it only costs me 13g for the green gear. Sure my BT gear last 2x as long but it costs 5x as much to repair. Don't want to run back 2x as much? That is why I bought the 2nd set of gear.

As long as I was using an intact shield and positioned so that I blocked everything I didn't take much durability loss on anything but the shield. When boosting in other instances, you have to expose yourself and take hits, but with Zolo, you can keep them all in front of you - so there is very little durability loss for the rest of my gear. YMMV. I just hate having another set of gear in my inventory just for boosting.

Of course, if you let Zolo hit you in the back you will take equipment damage...

Yea I know I usually went thru 4 shields before my first piece of gear broke and 5 before I was all red. Blue/epic gear has alot more durability than green gear and will last longer making it not necessary to have a 2nd set of gear. However with blue/epic gear it is much more costly to repair and the price to repair does not scale linearly. My BT gear lasted roughly 2x as long as one of my green sets of gear but costed 5x as much to repair. If you got the gold to repair your epic gear go for it. I however leveled up 3 teams with this method and saved a nice little chunk of gold on repair costs doing this.

I also only use my paladin for boosting now and had all 3 teams parked there for the full duration of the week I did this so inventory space wasn't really an issue for my 2nd set of gear.


Any tips for grinding stratholme? I take it you did live side. My guys are close to 55 and I need to say farewell to my good friend zolo. After doing zolo I have become spoiled. I dont want to quest anymore.


FYI to all those curious

35-40 is fairly quick xp. I was sustaining about 140k xp/hr.
40-50 was the best xp. I was sustaining about 180k xp/hr.
50-55 slowed down quite a bit but still better than regular leveling. I was sustaining about 95k xp/hr.
55-56 while I only went to 55 1/4 I was sustaining about 60k xp/hr which isn't too bad really. It's about the same as questing at that point.

Keep in mind all the xp/hr rates listed above was with 5 toons (70 plus 4 lowbies) in the party.

I chose to move on to Stratholme at 55 to farm greens/blues/orbs for cash as gearing up/training talents/mounts for 12 toons is not exactly cheap. :thumbdown:

[Tdog]

Well Stratholme isn't really about cranking out the xp tbh. For me it's more about getting some gold, and also learning how to better make macros for my new teams in a much more forgiving enviroment before I start getting into outland zones. Although if you have decent gear you can still do fairly alright with grinding/boosting in stratholme. Stabface posted this video in another thread It's basically the same thing I do except I personally like to just strafe rather than hop backwards.