[Sunken Temple Zolo Boosting]The tips and Tricks

[puppychow]

It will get nerfed by Blizzard, it creates too large a gap between "normal" leveling and power leveling - while SM/etc are maybe maximum 2x faster than leveling normally, the Zolo trick is 4-6x faster or more. And it will eventually be used by botters, china farmers, people who ebay WoW accounts, etc, especially as word of it spreads more and more. When you see 20+ 70 pallys in sunken temple, pretty much assume the next week its getting hotfixed (so far on my server just 1-2, including myself

Actually...believe or not Blizzard buffed it. The skeletons use to only be lvl 47 allowing you to max out at 56. About 2 weeks ago they made the skeletons lvl 49 which now allows you to finish at 58 and head straight into outlands. The thing is that this change ONLY buffs Zolo boosting. Which means you can almost assume that Blizzard specifically buffed this on purpose.

We don't really know why Blizzard buffed Zolo skellies, they reworked 2.4.3 to be a little more level-curve friendly including some other minor changes in ST and other instances, could have been part of that. It could have been a random dev helping a friend boosting. Enjoy this while we can, its just too easy exploitable by botters and chinese farming companies to stay alive forever.

Re: alts, I can actually position them about 10-15 steps from zone in entrance if Zolo is near path. There is a little L shaped corner right by the first two mobs on the left side stairs up/down, I just duck them into there and they get the XP - look at your mini map basically, as long as you can see all 5 toons you should be ok. I switch to the combat log when I start to make sure I am getting the XP from the spot. That way you never have to worry about respawns or the alts getting aggro (of course your alts can't "do" anything to help your main either)

[Stabface]

Last night from L39-40 I did 1/2 a level with only Rank 1 Blessing of Sanctuary, and the rest of the level spamming Rank 1 Consecrate every ~20 seconds. Theory being that each skeleton lasts 30 seconds, and only the initial tick of Consecrate counts for tagging (or at least it used to be like that), so every 20 seconds means I guarantee to tag every skeleton.
My XP went from ~190K to ~200K per hour, a slight improvement but not really worth the extra babysitting IMO. It does mean I was missing the occasional skeleton with just Sanctuary. I have ~30% block IIRC, Armory has me in the wrong gear set right now.

[Overflo]

Definetely good to know stabface have to keep that in mine, usually i dont mind the consecrate every 20 seconds keeps me busy between reading listening to music and that, makes the time go by faster and before i know it a couple of hours go by but am glad to see their is a bit of a difference for putting in the effort to consecrate every once and awhile.

[Overflo]

I'm praying to god not lol i was hoping to get them to outland but i wouldn't be suprised, guess i'll find out when i get off work tonight, or if someone has a conclusive answer.

If it is though can't complain got from 35-47 in about 4 hours of zolo so be glad if i caught the tail end of it.

[puppychow]

I can confirm I'm at zolo now and his skeletons are only giving 1 xp or about 2800 xp/hour

[Overflo]

well goodbye zolo /end thread gg

[Lorune]

U US guys had downtime already then i guess ?

cause EU for now i got 5 hours till down time and am at lvl41

[FabFive]

My level 30 shammys just cried a single tear.

This weekend I was going to bring them all the way to 58 :P

[NevadaGuy]

Dam, too much press.

I almost had my girls to 35

[Sanctume]

Damn, I only have 2 sessions. Oh well, I got my 3rd paladin from 38 to 50; and 4th shaman from 41 to 52/53.