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

[sargorn]

Finally got a few alts up to 35, to actually give ST a shot.

Mijan is def. the way to go, 18 shields later and neither Mijan or Zolo have gone under 50%.

To prevent Mijan from leashing... do what you usually do to prevent something from leashing - keep pissing it off til it's where you want it. Rank 1 exorcism + mana tap worked well for me. you could also r1 conc, judge something, etc.

With Mijan up you can sit there with a greater blessing on, makes it much easier to watch tv, etc. only have to rebless once every 1/2hr, watch for shield breaks and pop your trinket whenever low. Trinket makes it 100 times easier than doing it without. I don't even bother swinging at skeles. Just stand in a corner, pop trinket at low hp, rebless/RF every 1/2hr.

[Zub]

Definitely going to try this on my resto sham.
+2k healing should allow for a nice Nature's Guardian hp return

Need to grab a few mushies to get a couple lichen guards and slap a iron spike on my current shield.

Anyone know how quick i'll lose durability?
got 10k armor, 5% block, 4% dodge and 350 def

I think i'll have to drop a rank 1 magma every now and again (even if it only tick once before it's wtfpwnd by 30 skellies) to make sure i tag most mobs, i doubt i'll be blocking near enough otherwise

toons are only 33 at the moment. need a few more SM runs before.. exciting exciting!

[daviddoran]

Just an update. Earlier reports of the skeletons being buffed were correct. After the last patch, the skeletons are ALL now lvl 49, which means that you can get a couple more levels out of good ole. zolo, and then head straight to outland! I just got my team to lvl 40 (starting at 35) after a couple hours /played and will be keeping them here exclusively until they ding 58. Make me wonder if blizz did this on purpose to make the grind a bit easier... I mean why else make such a change? It's a known fact that blizz wants people to level up faster, with the recent changes in xp rates, and the lower requirement for the mount. It's also tempting to try out the baron variation on this trick. How high can you get your alts to with that method? I really just want to do 70s instances, and dailys, so boosting is the only way i will ever get toons leveled.

[TheHamburglar]

This may or may not be a next step to a quick leveling process. While i've been running BRD with my pally and shaman to get the hang of PVE Multiboxing when i can afford to make mistakes with my lvl 61 pally and lvl 55 shammies. But the Lycem(sp?) room Where you have to light the two torches to open the door to magmus. All the mobs in there give xp up to lvl 61. I Haven't looked to see what kind of xp my alts get but my 61 pally gets around 30xp per kill the mobs are around 51-53 iirc. They are on about a 30 second respawn timer and have only 550 to 650hp so a Mage can easily take out most the room with a couple AE even with the stupid AOE Penalty damage for having more than 10 mobs. A 70 pally would be able to do this also no problem 1 Consecration pretty much kills them blocking and BOS takes care of the Rest.

[daviddoran]

sounds intriguing. I wonder how much xp per hour it adds up to. ALso seems like it's a lot easier than zolo, albeit with more time spent actual playing than the virtual AFK job zolo is. I will give it a shot with my 58 pally and locks, and my 70 tankadin.

[Zub]

that's very insteresting indeed!

Using the lava jumps (see videos for MC attunement) you should be able to get to the Lycaeum (sp!) very easily.
*puts it on the list of todo's*

[Freddman]

Is it possible to do the Zolo encounter with 1x lvl 70 Mage and 4x Shamans to be lvld?

[Zub]

Is it possible to do the Zolo encounter with 1x lvl 70 Mage and 4x Shamans to be lvld?

i doubt you would be able to cast/survive anything with 30+ skellies hitting on you. bandages tend to break easily >.<

[Freddman]

i doubt you would be able to cast/survive anything with 30+ skellies hitting on you. bandages tend to break easily >.<

Gah, to bad my lvl 67 Paladin is on another PvE server and my 4 shamans and mage is on a PvP server

[Naylix]

And yes, I speak from experience. If paladins can round up the 30-40+ lvl 70 melee mobs on top of BT and burn them down using a lvl 62 blue shield from sporeggar - then paladins can definately pull lvl 40 elites of any number and burn them down too

Not quite true, anything that stuns or knocks you down will get you killed if you pull too much. We are not invincible, just nearly so
For example with enough gear you can pull half of Stratholme but if you pull the Courier and more than a few groups with him then you're 100% dead.

Aye, true. Which is why I wrote lvl 40 elites - getting stunned in SM, ZF or similar doesn't have much of an impact, you loose a bunch of health, but in worst case, you can bubble-heal it and consecrate still ticks away. Getting stunned in Strat with 40 mobs on you = certain death I agree.

Now, time to level another paladin...

Not true - it's simply a matter of numbers. If you can get a long duration stun from L40s and still live you're not pulling enough
There's nothing that stuns in SM Cath, but if you say ... pulled all of SM Cath and killed only Mograine, then attacked Whitemain until she puts you to sleep? You're dead guarantee. If you pull enough stuff in ZF and get Hex'd then you are going to die before it wears off (been there done that). In the higher level instances if you let mobs get behind you it can cause problems. I pull about 40-60 mobs at a time in Stratholme and if I simply turn my back to them I'll die really fast. Even on Zolo, when my shield breaks I will die within prob 15 seconds even from full health if I don't catch it and swap in a new one.

Pull like this and turn your back on the pack and see what happens
http://www.speakeasy.org/~executor/zombies.jpg

Aye, that is ofc to be considered... however, my experience is a bit different. See, I do SM Cath with 2 very "epic" items, and all other durability slots are "of the sorcerer" greens.

These 2 epics, are the Skullflame Shield and the Demon Forged Breastplate. 3% chance on each hit to drain life from the mob. This drain life effect scales with spelldmg. On the breastplate, I think it's around 50% scaling, and the shield is 100% scaling at least. Which means when they do hit me, I have a 3% chance to get either 5-600 health leached over 4 seconds, or almost 1k health instantly. On top of that, the dmg from the shields fireaoe, amounts to over 5k firedmg when all of Cath is pulled (there simply are LOADS of mobs on you, only reason it's around 5k dmg, is the aoe dmgcap)

So, with max rank BoS, I take very little dmg from the melee, I resist everything from the casters, and the hits I do take, can heal me for 500-1k health. I haven't actually tested if I can turn my back through it all, as I often pop the SH trinket to heal me once. But in Ardent Defender range, I'm rather confident the life leech alone will keep me up.

And if you're wondering, no, the life leech procs have no cooldown whatsoever, I have had 5 * the lifedrain from the breastplate ticking at the same time. And the shield sometimes fire 2-3 procs in a row. (1 second apart)

You should try out that breastplate... it really is tons of fun (I have 2 Skullflame shields, looking to pick up a third for this, and being an engineer helps with repairing)