[WoW] Boosting with a 70 - Rogue, Hunter, or Druid

[noir]

Spec/gear doesn't really matter, I can swap as needed.

I've got a 70 Rogue, Hunter, and Druid on a server and I wanna boost my 2nd account. What class do you think's quickest? Gear is KZ-level.

[shaeman]

I would suggest the hunter would be the best to powerlevel with.

My gut feel (no practical experience of rogues or druids past 46 as yet) would be that the druid and rogue lack area of effect, multi target capabilities.

You wil be able to power level them but I think the hunter may be the most effective as it has better aoe and multi target abilities.

I've been boosting my druid and paladin from 32/33 through to 37/38 yesterday, mostly in SM with a few RFD runs. When I started I was taking targets down in 1's 2's and threes. It burnt them down quickly, but I wanted more speed. (I should say at one point I got sick of this then decided to try doing quests in STV). AFter the first 10 minutes killing raptors and completing one quest I decided that instancing was the way to go.

I literaly went into melee mode. I basically set the pet on a target, ran and hit the next mob and the next and the next and the next then dropped an explosive trap, and just let my pet and my raptor strike, go to town.

For the actual cathedral I would open the doors, and send my pet to the very end 2 mobs before the boss, then work back towards me picking up all the ones in the middle. (mend pet on). I would then run in and drop an explosive trap, and try a volley if possible.

If I got a load coming for me I would fight for a bit (it helped my pet heal itself more) and then I'd feign death. Throw a multi shot in there and explosive trap again if need be.

I would then repeat the process for the left aisle and the right aisle. Then I would clear out the left set of rooms and the right and burn down the boss.

I did try taking out the boss and pulling everything in the instance but that was a bit too much.

I was doing SM cathedral in about 16 - 20 minute runs, and was gaining about 22,000 - 25,000 xp per hour according to titan panel, not sure if that's good or not.

[Drizzit]

I say whatever toon has the best gear. I had a choice of a hunter, ench sham, and a rogue to power lvl my toons. The hunter and sham have 80% greens and 20% blues. The rogue had 95% purple and 5% green (had the green to get hit rating up), this rogue is PVP spec with S1 pvp gear. The hit rating isn't that good but i had good dodge and good crit rating. A sm cath would take 30 minutes to clear with my sham, but only took 22 minutes to clear with my rogue. I lvled them from lvl 10-46 (still power lvling them).

[Knobley]

I would suggest the hunter would be the best to powerlevel with.
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You wil be able to power level them but I think the hunter may be the most effective as it has better aoe and multi target abilities.

To which hunter AOE's to you refer?

About the only thing I can think of at all is explosive trap... muti-shot and volley are not going to be that effective, unless you're planning to pull in VERY small groups, since your pet isn't gonna hold agro on, at most, a couple of mobs.

I had a hunter and a druid to choose from and I chose the druid.

The druid doesn't have any good AOE's either. All he really has to work with is SWIPE, which hit's 3 mobs at a time. The difference is that, he can stand there and take it... so I can pull many many more mobs with the druid and just start swiping and watch the crowd thin.
<shrug>
I don't know what a rogue has to offer.

Knobley

[noir]

Mmm, does anyone boost with Hunters, Rogues, or Druids?

Hunters: pet can tank, pretty much sic pet, fire and forget. No real AOE, slow.
Druids: stealth runs, tanktastic, very slow DPS, can heal.
Rogues: stupid fast DPS, stealth runs, no heals, very minor AOE with Blade Fury.

What I'm thinking so far, Rogue beats the other two for boosting, as the rogue will be burning them faster than anyone else, and everyone will be taking pretty low damage already, since we're not talking about massive pally pull boosting.

[shaeman]

I would suggest the hunter would be the best to powerlevel with.
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You wil be able to power level them but I think the hunter may be the most effective as it has better aoe and multi target abilities.

To which hunter AOE's to you refer?

The hunter aoe I refer to was explosive trap - and for scarlet monastery it was sufficient. Having stepped in to zul farrak I wouldn't recommend it. [edit: I did use it in zul farrak on the stairs, for a bit of extra damage and to ensure the rushers were tagged by me so full credit was given for the kill]

I did a few more runs of SM cathedral last night - and I found that the rate of clearance didn't really drop that much if i stuck to taking on 4 mobs at a time instead of a full pull of the central aisle. Multi shot works great for theses small groups and I would start pulling the next group just before my pet finished the first lot.

So I think the rogue may actually be the best one. I imagine a well geared 70 rogue would burn through the place. Forget about stealthing just run up and take em down.

[Tizer]

i boost with my hunter, 4 days played to 60. how do you like those apples.

stuff dies quick, faster than it will with a druid, i know coz i've used both. do it, do it now!

(forget the stairs in ZF, not enough elites, reset the instance and start over = quicker exp)

[noir]

Currently 2.5 days playtime at level 55 with Zolo tankadin boosting starting at level 37... doubt I can get close to that using a hunter.

Tizer, level 60 in 4 days questing? Or just instance boosting?

[daviddoran]

i boost with my hunter, 4 days played to 60. how do you like those apples.

stuff dies quick, faster than it will with a druid, i know coz i've used both. do it, do it now!

(forget the stairs in ZF, not enough elites, reset the instance and start over = quicker exp)

With my holy paladin, I was able to kill all the non elites on the stairs before they get to the stairs. In fact, I would kill the entire group way before the second group spawns. They all seemed to chain aggro, so I just waited for em to spawn, consecrated, and /flex. There was some down time between groups, but I killed em so fast, that it wasn't even funny. Back when I was farming for shards to sell (made decent money) I would hit the first 2 bosses until my last reset, then I would go to the stairs and do the bosses there. (by first I mean the guy that spawns the basilisks, and second is the witch doctor. I could just mount up and run straight to em, with minimal aggro of others, cause they would become visible right as I passed them (pally aura+ epic mount = fast) so it was a rather quick run. I ran into some bugs, where runers would never come back and let me finish them off. They would just wander around, keeping me in combat, preventing me from drinking, rezzing or mounting. I either had to track em down, or run slowly out of the instance. That cost me a LOT of downtime.

[Tizer]

Currently 2.5 days playtime at level 55 with Zolo tankadin boosting starting at level 37... doubt I can get close to that using a hunter.

Tizer, level 60 in 4 days questing? Or just instance boosting?

Yar instance boosting, but i also managed to get 50 AB marks in that time too