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

[glo]

This thread is getting rather long here is a quick summary.

The main mob here is Zolo this can be done with just him but pulling Mijan over to him makes it much better as you don't have to worry about Zolo dying on you.

To set this up go to ST and clear the entire upper circle where the mini-bosses are at taking note of where Zolo (and Mijan if going this route) are at. Park the characters you are boosting in XP range of Zolo without aggroing. Go to Mijan and kite her over to Zolo's location. Position your main character so the mobs can't get to his back and watch the XP start rolling in.

Items that will help
8-10 shields with spike
Figurine of the Colossus(recommended)

Blessing of Sanctuary helps if you have it, Earth shield helps if you are using a shaman. You want to minimize damage without using abilities that might damage Zolo or Mijan. You are only needing to tag the skeletons not kill them, they will despawn and give XP after about 40 seconds.

As long as you don't get your alts on the threat list you can reset the encounter by jumping the main off the ledge. You are probably going to go repair unless you got a perfect position where mobs can't hit your back ar all and you brought many shields. Leveling a Lock this way is even more convenient, after you reset hearth and repair then you can get summoned right back to continue where you left off.

With the ideal setup: a pally with figurine of the colossus and a pile of shields this becomes simplicity. You will want to recast BoS every 10 minutes, click your Trinket every 2 minutes, and change shields when they break. Remember you aren't needing to deal damage, you should just be standing there not even auto attacking.

[Lokked]

With the shaman + Shield Spike, I block 10-11% of the time. If the mob has 45 seconds to hit me, attacking at a speed of 2.0, this allows him roughly 22 attacks.

Probability of NOT blocking once is .9 or 90%
Probability of NOT blocking 22 times is .9^22 = .0984 or 9.84%

So yeah, I'm probably getting 8 or 9% less XP then the paladins. Oh well. I gotta work with what I have.

With 15% block:

Probability of NOT blocking once is .85 or 85%
Probability of NOT blocking 22 times .85^22 = .0280 or 2.8%

I could find +defense gear, but then I would have a much lower max HP and +healing and thus not regen nearly as much from Nature's Guardian and Earth Shield.

[kwschs]

Im in SM with a mage and 4 shaman, at lvl 26 now, if u can take the boredom its fast lvling, ill stay till lvl 40 then move to ZF

[Tdog]

...The main mob here is Zolo this can be done with just him but pulling Mijan over to him makes it much better as you don't have to worry about Zolo dying on you.

To set this up go to ST and clear the entire upper circle where the mini-bosses are at taking note of where Zolo (and Mijan if going this route) are at. Park the characters you are boosting in XP range of Zolo without aggroing. Go to Mijan and kite her over to Zolo's location. Position your main character so the mobs can't get to his back and watch the XP start rolling in.


Items that will help
8-10 shields with spike
Figurine of the Colossus(recommended)

Blessing of Sanctuary helps if you have it, Earth shield helps if you are using a shaman. You want to minimize damage without using abilities that might damage Zolo or Mijan. You are only needing to tag the skeletons not kill them, they will despawn and give XP after about 40 seconds.

I have tried the miljan trick several times and for the life of me he is completely leashed to his platform. The only way I have yet to successfully bring both of them together is if they are on adjacent platforms, I use a lowbie aggro him, and then about halfway over he wants to kill my alt rather than my paladin and I have to nearly kill the bastard just to get him back on my paladin. He also doesn't heal very often and you must be doing very minimal damage to him and Zolo.

If Miljan was anymore than 1 platform away I would end up having to kill just to keep him off the lowbies and was just way too much of a pain in the ass to be worth it imo since you can simply reset till Zolo is at one of the first 2 platforms and resetting by jumping off into the dragon pit and running down, zoning out to unaggro dragons, then running back up, having your alts help kill off any mobs you may have picked up on the way up the stairs, quick heal, and your back in business. Only takes me 2-3 mins to reset and is a whole hell of alot less of a headache to me than to mess with finding Miljan and trying to get him over to Zolo w/o killing my lowbie.


For paladins you should most definitely be using BoSanct and NOT shield spikes. Using a shield spike will not make you block anymore or tag any additional mobs and there is no point to having one on if you already have BoSanct on. BoSanct is the best buff you can have for doing this period. The amount of damage this single buff reduces is tremendous in the long run and will easily extend your lifespan by a very large amount. Stoneskin totem is the next best buff to have if you have a shaman lowbie in the group to help your paladin. With just these two buffs my paladin in green gear was only taking 5-7 damage on hit in the 30% hp range.

For shamans yes you will need a shield spike and don't bother using any of the other reflective or aoe abilites.

Im in SM with a mage and 4 shaman, at lvl 26 now, if u can take the boredom its fast lvling, ill stay till lvl 40 then move to ZF

You can zone into ZF at level 35. It gives much better xp than SM anyways, so unless you need silk cloth or something I'd head over at 35.

With the shaman + Shield Spike, I block 10-11% of the time. If the mob has 45 seconds to hit me, attacking at a speed of 2.0, this allows him roughly 22 attacks.

Probability of NOT blocking once is .9 or 90%
Probability of NOT blocking 22 times is .9^22 = .0984 or 9.84%

So yeah, I'm probably getting 8 or 9% less XP then the paladins. Oh well. I gotta work with what I have.

With 15% block:

Probability of NOT blocking once is .85 or 85%
Probability of NOT blocking 22 times .85^22 = .0280 or 2.8%

I could find +defense gear, but then I would have a much lower max HP and +healing and thus not regen nearly as much from Nature's Guardian and Earth Shield.

Hmm are you taking into account the difference between level 70 and level 47-48 skeletons when figuring in the blocking?

[bsides]

This post is really great.

My paladin is not 70 yet, he is level 65 (link to my wowarmory)... do you guys think I could handle some of this fight with this spec ? - EDIT: since I dont plan on using devotion aura, this spec may be better

I'm thinking about trying and when the fight gets really hard, I'd fall and reset it... I don't know how worth that may be thou. What do you think?

[glo]

I have tried the miljan trick several times and for the life of me he is completely leashed to his platform. The only way I have yet to successfully bring both of them together is if they are on adjacent platforms, I use a lowbie aggro him, and then about halfway over he wants to kill my alt rather than my paladin and I have to nearly kill the bastard just to get him back on my paladin. He also doesn't heal very often and you must be doing very minimal damage to him and Zolo.

Only had mijan reset once the very first time I tried it after that I've had no problem keeping aggro. I body pull then just walk backward with auto attack hitting her, wait when she heals and you should be able to kite this mob anywhere in the instance. If you are using a pally definately take the couple minutes to pull Mijan it insures you won't accidentally kill Zolo at all.

[glo]

link to my wowarmory[/url])... do you guys think I could handle some of this fight with this spec ? - EDIT: since I dont plan on using devotion aura, this spec may be better

I'm thinking about trying and when the fight gets really hard, I'd fall and reset it... I don't know how worth that may be thou. What do you think?

I'm not going to say you can't Zolo grind with that character but you won't get near the result you would at 70 with the trinket. You will have to reset often and that will hurt your ZP rate of course. There isn't really a fight you just stand there, the problem is you won't be able to heal with 50 little mobs hitting you.

[bsides]

Just tried... well, yes I can't handle it as well as a lv70 (in fact not even near it) but I can make enough for about 5 min which is not that great. So I'll level that pally and get him there. I just tested it with another lv70 and it's REALLY easy.

Thanks for this post guys... should have a sticky.

[Gurblash]

They must have buffed the skeletons in the patch or something. We havn't seen a skeleton lower than 49 the entire time... And last night Val took his 3 locks to 58 off Zolo. At 58 the xp promptly stopped.

[Tdog]

They must have buffed the skeletons in the patch or something. We havn't seen a skeleton lower than 49 the entire time... And last night Val took his 3 locks to 58 off Zolo. At 58 the xp promptly stopped.

Yea I just got my 2 other teams to 58 today as well. They were sitting at 55 in the inn gaining rested xp. That was a damn quick 6 levels x 8

On a side note given that the skeletons in undead strat level 58ish I think someone said a few posts back, you could theoretically boost them clear up to level 66? Assuming the xp is worth in over regular outland leveling.

RFC level 8-12
SFK level 12-20
SM level 20-35
ST level 35-58
UD Strat level 58-66
Begin questing in Hellfire at level 66
Hit 70 roughly after all quests in HFP, Zang and Terrokar are done
All gold increased for all quests all through Nagrand, Blade's Edge, Netherstorm, and SMV.

That'd be some quick easy srsly leveling. My current main team is level 69 atm, halfway through the Netherstorm quests and each toon already has 1800g each. By the time I finish up all Netherstorm and SMV quests they should be halfway ready to buy the epic flyers after the regular flyers. If I had started HFP at 66 though...CHA CHING!!! I'm definietly going to be doing this with my mage team next if ud strat provides good enough xp/hr.