My Boosting Experience (70 Pally and Lowbie Hunter (and now Lowbie Shaman))

[Talamarr]

I have been boosting my 4 horde Shaman now with my level 66 Paladin, and up to SM it was going very good. But I can not get anywhere near the 10 minutes per run for Armory, I average about 13-15 Minutes in armory with 3 pulls. I just take to much damage, even with 9400 HP. I get almost 1 level every 4 runs in Armory which I am not sure is a good. RFC and SFK seemed to go very quickly, but now it just seems to be a slow down, healers in Armory are the worst thing, it prolongs the fight and with limited mana it makes thing rough. Its been 16 Hours to level 25, which is nice, but I just feel I am going a lot slower then everyone else haha.

To be honest, you're going to hit walls like that. Even with my T6/T5 tankadin, it starts to hurt on the bigger pulls and I'm jumping at my figurine trinket. One thing that really helped me improve: I used to just run through the instance aggro'ing everything possible and quickly running back to my lowbies then start DPS'ing. Now what I do is put on devo aura, gladiator shield and blessing of kings, run to the end of the instance and just walk backwards all the way back. You take MUCH less damage. When I get in range of the lowbies, I switch back to ret aura, equip the sporegarr and turn on blessing of sanctuary. You may already be doing this but it took me some time to realize this better way.

[Deshu]

I'm doing something of the same nature. I started out multi-boxing with 3 then took a long break from WoW. I started up again recently and levleed 3 hunters to 28.

Now I'm quad-boxing as of last week so I rolled a 4th hunter to join my team. I'm power-leveling him up to join my other 3 before they get too high up. Problem is... level 28 is my highest on the Magtheridon server. So I'm sticking to questing till 8, then RFC, then WC, and maybe SFK ... but I am wondering if questing won't be a better route since I don't have a high level to clear instances with ease?

[Talamarr]

I'm doing something of the same nature. I started out multi-boxing with 3 then took a long break from WoW. I started up again recently and levleed 3 hunters to 28.

Now I'm quad-boxing as of last week so I rolled a 4th hunter to join my team. I'm power-leveling him up to join my other 3 before they get too high up. Problem is... level 28 is my highest on the Magtheridon server. So I'm sticking to questing till 8, then RFC, then WC, and maybe SFK ... but I am wondering if questing won't be a better route since I don't have a high level to clear instances with ease?

You could also try mob-tagging when he gets a little higher. When you're fighting mobs that are just green to your 28 hunters (level 19 maybe?), just put your high level hunters on auto follow out of group, poke a mob with your lowbie and have all your hunters kill it. As long as the mob you kill is at least green to your 28 hunters, you'll lowbie will get full xp.

I'm actually going to try the mob-tagging with my hunter when he's higher to see how that compares to instance boosting (but with a slightly different strat).

[Kyle K.]

Tala, the walking backwards works wonders, usually 1 quick heal when I have everything rounded up lasts me the rest of the fight. I was just wandering now though, I am doing armory, whats everyones usual XP gain from there. Right now I am averaging about 3-4 Bars a run which seems very low Level 25 Shamans, soon 26. I would think I should be pulling at least about 5-6 Bars a run, at the worst 4-5. Any idea other then being so under the level of the enemies, about what I could do to gain more XP? Thanks.

[Talamarr]

Tala, the walking backwards works wonders, usually 1 quick heal when I have everything rounded up lasts me the rest of the fight. I was just wandering now though, I am doing armory, whats everyones usual XP gain from there. Right now I am averaging about 3-4 Bars a run which seems very low Level 25 Shamans, soon 26. I would think I should be pulling at least about 5-6 Bars a run, at the worst 4-5. Any idea other then being so under the level of the enemies, about what I could do to gain more XP? Thanks.

You will start getting more xp per run when you gain a few more levels. You are getting penalized because of the high level difference. I was getting about 10k xp / run at level 29 which (i think) is close to 1/3 of a level. Stick with it a few more levels and see how it goes. Watch the xp / mob. It should go up each level.

[Thulos]

I haven't done it yet, but I would assume you should be able to bubble heal if needed, assuming you didn't build up any aggro on your lowbies. You could also respec into Holy tree just for this and pick up 5/5 Spiritual Focus. That with concetration aura will give you 100% uninterrupted heals. I have the trinket and I may do this too just for backup and to help when boosting in higher level instances.

Well I respeced a bit to get the spiritual focus and did a couple zolo runs today in ST. I had no problem switching to concentration auro and healing myself up when I needed to. Instead of using any seal of light I used seal of wisdom to keep my mana up. WIthout swinging at him or using any consecration he died after my tag along shamans only got about 15k exp @ level 37. Considering its kinda a pain to find zolo each time and it took over 20 mins to do each run it seems like Cathedral is still better when I can do 12k exp @ 10min runs. I may give it some more goes to see if I can start getting to him faster. I could be missing something completely. Any thoughts?

[daviddoran]

the trick with zolo is to use as little reflective damage as possible. The skeletons die automatically after 45 secs or so, so all u have to do is tag em for 1dmg+ and the lowbies get xp. I use rank 1 BoSanct, no shield spike, no ret aura. Zolo stays alive a very long time.

My only problem is sometimes I get in the perfect position, on the corner of the ledge, blocking everything, taking little damage, and not losing much durability on my armor (just goes through shields like crazy) and other times I don't block nearly as much and have to keep healing until I run OOM.

I also found a spot (on the corner) where my lowbie (a paladin) can rez myself if I die. I do that rather than jumping down, cause usually, when I jump down, i don't have enough HP to survive the fall, and it's a long run back... if I just let the skellies kill me (and I through out a rank 1 consecration to tag as many as possible) and i rez with my lowbie. I really need those trinkets (figurine, and the mana regen on hit trinket) to make it basically AFK ezmode. Then I can spend more time theorycrafting on how im gonna spec my team getting boosted...

[Memn]

Sounds like he is dying much too fast. Make sure you are only using rank 1 BoS, and no other reflective gear (shield spike or otherwise).

[Deshu]

You could also try mob-tagging when he gets a little higher. When you're fighting mobs that are just green to your 28 hunters (level 19 maybe?), just put your high level hunters on auto follow out of group, poke a mob with your lowbie and have all your hunters kill it. As long as the mob you kill is at least green to your 28 hunters, you'll lowbie will get full xp.

I'm actually going to try the mob-tagging with my hunter when he's higher to see how that compares to instance boosting (but with a slightly different strat).

Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely try that!

I've been doing straight questing and it's been going very fast. Took him from 6 to 14 last night in the matter of 3 hours!

[Thulos]

Sounds like he is dying much too fast. Make sure you are only using rank 1 BoS, and no other reflective gear (shield spike or otherwise).

Went in again with only BoS 1 running and no reflect gear and he lasted for a really long while enough for my guys to do about 1.5 levels from 38 to 39.5. For those that are curious I did it entirely without the figurine. I did respec my AoE leveling build to get Spiritual Focus 5/5 and kept concentration aura running. To keep myself in mana I simply kept Seal of Wisdom up and beat on the skeletons. Worked like a champ and I never ran out of mana.



EDIT: Did another run and ended up doing 3 full levels in the one pull. My guys are 42.5! Thanks for all the help everyone, it is working great now. And definately bring lots of shields. I went through 4 total and was on the 5th when zolo finally dropped.