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

[ChaoticMonk]

So as I understand it, for allience it would be:

• 1-10: Quest it out/grind
• 10-15: Deadmines or Keep questing/grinding
• 15-20: Stockades
• 20-40: Scarlet Monastery
• 40-??: Zul'Furrak
• ??-58(60): Scholo/Strat/LBRS or ??-55: Scholo/Strat/LBRS then 55+: Hellfire Ramparts

How long do you stay in ZF and why not hit ZF at 35 and how viable are the other instances in those ranges (Ulda, Mara, DireM)?

[sargorn]

So as I understand it, for allience it would be:

• 1-10: Quest it out/grind
• 10-15: Deadmines or Keep questing/grinding
• 15-20: Stockades
• 20-40: Scarlet Monastery
• 40-??: Zul'Furrak
• ??-58(60): Scholo/Strat/LBRS or ??-55: Scholo/Strat/LBRS then 55+: Hellfire Ramparts

How long do you stay in ZF and why not hit ZF at 35 and how viable are the other instances in those ranges (Ulda, Mara, DireM)?

After SM it depends what you have available to level with.

Prot paladins are absolutely terrible at ZF. The totems don't help, but it's more about how the trolls run away... and don't run back.
MS/Fury warriors do quite well at it though.

It also can depend on your alts or 'team' and the level of interaction you're comfortable with them doing.

The reason why you stay in SM til 40's is that it's just so good and easy. Lots of tightly packed non-leashing mobs that don't stun. Also you can do Cath+Armory in 12minutes and not rub against the 5/hr limit.

Uldaman may be ok. Only thing that is against Uld is it's level range, you'd only milk a few levels out of it to 42-43ish after SM.
Mara's too spread out to group things up properly.
ST (proper) - trolls run stupidly like ZF, dragons are aoeable, but there simply isn't enough of them to be worthwhile.

DM may be ok. A lot of the tree mobs in east have heals which might be annoying.
West is a pain.
North might be worth a shot.

prot paladin wise (with little alt interaction) I go,
SM to BRD to Strat

[sargorn]

Well, for what it's worth, I got the priest to 60 under 24hrs.

22hrs 34mins 11secs to be exact. Rest in peace ST grind.

Shaman clocked in at 1day 44mins, damn totem quests + the barens.


Also, neither of them have level 40 or 60 mounts, nor have bought skills since level 20 or so.

and very little rest abuse, apart from level 59 - just because I wanted to be sure to ding it :p

[ChaoticMonk]

Could you imagine it with the RAF 3x xp....real shame ;(

[daviddoran]

Could you imagine it with the RAF 3x xp....real shame ;(

hell, you could probably get 4 toons to 60 in like 12 hours lol I guess we will have to "settle" for regular boosting at 3x exp.

[Morx]

I've heard that a blue posted that the 3x exp from RAF is not going to work with boosting? Anyone else have the actual blue post to confirm this? I'm leveling like mad on a pally with druid friend, doing quests, and was going to boost new toons with the pally as soon as I hit 70, but it might not be around.

Thanks for the info.

[Stabface]

Yes, go to the Customer Service forum and check the RAF FAQ.

[ChaoticMonk]

I've heard that a blue posted that the 3x exp from RAF is not going to work with boosting? Anyone else have the actual blue post to confirm this? I'm leveling like mad on a pally with druid friend, doing quests, and was going to boost new toons with the pally as soon as I hit 70, but it might not be around.

I would start the boosting the new toons now while you still can because they did say it would be removed but no info as to when. They did also say that if you boost before they fix it it would not be considered an exploit.

You'll find the blue post(s) in this thread http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...sid=1&pageNo=4

[gigauae]

any good instance run worth doing at lvl 40? tired ofrunning cathedral hehe, as someone said in this post pro paladin is terrible in ZF, and seems with my lvl 70 pro pal, and 4X shamans am running out of options ;(

[ChaoticMonk]

Well apparently staying in SM until 45 is viable with the 3x xp boost. Other than that you could try squeezing out the 5 levels in Uldaman or ZF before heading to Scholo/Strat.

I personally stayed in SM until 40 then quested in STV to 45 (skipping all collection quests except scaring shaky) but when I gave Strat a shot I could barely handle 2-3 groups (undergeared and no colossus trinket) and it took me forever to take them down so I'm gonna look into simply boosting as many groups as I can to 40-45 before they get rid of it then start questing the rest of the way/gearing up my pally.