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

[mikekim]

I've just boosted my shammies from 40 to 50 in a couple of hours played (i was getting between 190-220k per hour according to xp fu)

I used some cheap green plate and shields lvl 67 (85 Duration) with either +mp5 or +sprirt.
i got my mp5 regen up to 220+ and could just take the beating and heal when required, by the time the heal was needed again (consecration aura and spiritual focus), my mana was full (no figurine )

had to reset Zolo about every 30 minutes, by jumping off the ledge- had to repair my armour every 4 resets (had 8 shields used approx 2 per reset).

I've now decided at 50 to carry on leveling normally - the only thing that hit me was the cost of skill leveling 10 levels and the fact that my shammies are now level 50 wearing 38-40 gear 8|

[shaeman]

I will continue to level my alts to 58 using this method.

My pally hit 50 and is in gear that is 40 or below. He can't kill a mob one level below him without major difficulty. My shadow priest is in the same position.

I figured the best way to approach this was to get my characters to 58 as quickly as possible. (this is where the fun starts for me).

For the first few quest chains in HFP they will be boosted by one of my 70's. This should allow them to get some gear upgrades to be able to cope again.

I will make up the deficit with auction bought greens.

[Greythan]

Well, I think I've given up trying to figure a way to use my warlock and his pets on Zolo and his skellies. Just seems prohibitive if you don't have a class that can a) effectively mitigate level 49 mob melee damage and b) passively damage the mobs without resorting to AE spell casting.

If any horde side boxer needs a few lowbies to fill out a group while doing this on Madoran, let me know. Otherwise, I'm off to do some ZF and then questing.

[Stabface]

I've bought some 'Club' s from the noob zones, but they only have 25dura on em, so they break quickly :T Anyone got some suggestions ???

Skinning Knife but, I do not know if you can parry with this (doubting it).

[nomenquis]

Just finished boosting (35 to level 58 ). Some stats:

I 'killed' 48594 skellis. Kill rate was just a little bit below 1 per second (so all in all i guess about 14 hours in fight).

The last 4 levels were a lot worse than all the others in terms of speed. 57-58 took about 1.5 hours because ep was down to about 34 per kill.
I was doing that with 4 alts, so if you bring less than that ymmv.

Transferring my warrior now and then will do the same with just one alt, let's see how long that takes.

kind regards

[Stabface]

Thanks for the #'s !
Perhaps Baron skeletons will be a better choice from low 50s to 55, and then Outlands instances 55+ hmm....

[nomenquis]

Thanks for the #'s !
Perhaps Baron skeletons will be a better choice from low 50s to 55, and then Outlands instances 55+ hmm....

I'm pretty sure that baron sucks because you'll have to heal the alts
If they're dead they won't get xp for newly spawned skellies

kind regards

[Stabface]

Shouldn't be a need to heal them on Baron... just park them out of LOS of the damage aura.

[Trashbag]

Would be good to get some feedback from someone who has tried Baron, like others have said you can park your alts outside his room to negate all damage/aggro on them.

I just got my two alts to level 58 using Zolo, and like others have said, once you hit 54+ it really slow down (still fast tho!). From 56-58 it took about an hour/level.


When I first started doing Zolo, i was finding things pretty difficult. My paladin isn't geared at all (still in greens, + s2 honor/boe epics) and would take a lot of damage. Anyway here are some notes.

- Make sure you are in the corner of the platform, there is a slightly elevated part and if you stand on this the 'most' of the skeletons will take the same path to try to hit you. Which means you can position yourself so you can always block/dodge/parry etc.



- Don't expensive shields unless you want to pay big $$$ with repair costs. I picked up a bunch of 85 dura shields from the vendors at Stonard. Compared to my s2 shieldwall and the crest of sha'tar. These were unbeleivably cheap to repair, but others have mentioned even better/cheaper shields you can use.

- With my gear, i was taking a lot of damage which meant my armor durability was getting punished pretty bad. My gear lasted around about 80minutes on average, but even while I was fully red I could get the session going with, seal of light and judgement + loh.

- The biggest improvement to my zolo sessions was when I switched to a lowbie weapon. I got about 10 of these (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=2130) and was using them to grind. Now the plus side to these is with reckoning, you can keep your seals and judgements going on a target for quite a while. As I mentioned earlier, I was able to keep myself up mainly with seal (no judgement) by smacking the skeletons. Sometimes i'd tune out and forget to recast seal, or not notice that my shield broke which meant I'd take a lot of extra damage. When this happened I could judge Zolo or Mijan, recast the seal and go to town on them. Cause of the low damage, I was able to heal myself almost to full (same can be applied to mana regen with seal of wisdom, or even a combo judge light, seal wis)

- My final pointer is to make use of your alts abilities/talents. Once my druid hit 45 or so, I was able to spec him into Improved leader of the pack which effectively gave me a 500hp heal every 6 seconds, combined with seal of light, I would never run into any problems unless I wasn't paying attention. I also had a warlock with bloodpact and improved imp which gave a nice little hp boost.. and in turn boosted my improved lotp heals.


I tried using an earthen shield potion to reduce the damage taken to me, but I have a strong feeling that it doesn't stack with Blessing of Sanct, at least I wasn't noticing any noticable change with it on/off.


I burned way too much money on this at the start, hope this saves some time/resources for others trying this for the first time.

[GizmoxLoW]

You guys do know you can do ramparts at 55 right? from 55-60 took me no time at all. specced my palidan ret and went to town... i skipped the very last boss since my shamans didnt have the spell dmg to help kill. but enough to keep my palidan alive...