Update

Finally got all the transfers done, so now my mixed 60 team is on the appropriate accounts, ready to start the run to 80. I must say that once you get through the mile long phone wait, Blizzards tech support is excellent.

While waiting on that to go through I farmed enough shards to buy the +10% xp shoulders on all accounts, so the mixed team will have a 10% bonus leveling.

Also, the Grins' got a few upgrades and did some dailys for cash - I'll be splitting my leveling time with some easy heroics and daily quests to get the cash to support the mixed team and to get badges for retribution gear for Perrigrin.

And, on a side note, I am getting quite bored of SFK and SM boosting ;) I need a couple of more characters leveled to get my rogue and druid 2 on the main account to 60 - And then the goal of this RAF session will be filled.

The Grins' are Back!

Well, starting to move my 60 team over to the main accounts now - Slight hickup with Blizzards billing department, so not quite done yet ;)

But, while waiting on that I took the Grin's back to Gundrak heroic and cleared it - One wipe due to me muting keyclone, but other than that just a few odd shaman deaths - So fairly happy with how it went.

Will be farming retribution gear for the pally and gear for the shamans while leveling the other team. Having the shammies at better gear level will help if I need to gear out tank 2 a bit + Next patch will have some great improvements in loot potential for 5 man stuff, so I need to be ready to exploit that for the paladin.

Mixed Team is 60!

Well, decided that I had enough of boosting for a few days, so used what I had to get the tank of the mixed team to 60 - Making it 5 x 60 - Just about to move 4 characters to Lich King enabled accounts now.

As for the rogue and the druid, I'll get to boosting for their levels later ;)

"Gift Teams"

Well, quest leveled 2 teams to 10, also making sure my druid and rogue on the main account is sitting at 99% xp at level 10.
Getting kind of good at picking the right quests, could probably do another stint in less than an hour now.

Started boosting one of the teams in SFK/SM to help with "the gifting", and they are sitting outside SM at 25 now (the other 4 are sitting at 10 outside SFK).

Perrigrin is being busy working on the Midsummer achievement, so not quite the focus on leveling as it was a couple of days ago - This one is a lot of work, but easy.

Most likely I'll stop the boosting madness for a bit once I have "gift team #1" at 31, that should get me enough levels to get the warrior to 99% into 59 - And then I'll move the "mixed team" off to the main accounts and start the leveling.
But I'll be back before RAF runs out to get enough "gifts" to get rogue and druid to 59 to (which unfortunately means getting another 2 teams to 60 (need at least 2 more 60s on the first RAF account to be able to gift up to 59).

Ding 60 x 4!

Well, it took a week of fairly low playtime to hit 60 on the mixed team, I figure I need at least another team to 30:ish to be able to gift up my warrior on the main account to 60.

Then of course, I wanted to have my druid and rogue at 60 also on the main account, and seeing as how you can't gift levels to someone higher than yourself, I might need as much as 2 more teams to 60 - Not sure if I can stomach that.

Ding 57!

Well, LBRS turned into a fiasco. Fell down on my 3rd pull and had to gate to get out, so decided to go back to strat since it's fairly straight forward, and Perrigrin still needs the faction.

If I don't give up from boredom the team should hit 60 very soon, just in time for the midsummer event farm on Perrigrin.

Ding 52!

Getting bored of strat, maybe trying LBRS a couple of hours, had great success there boosting the Grins'.

Level 49 Reached!

Xp in strat is pretty decent, I'm doing Baron runs even though the it's only really the first 3 pulls that are good xp/h for the team - After that there is to many ranged mobs and casters that silence to keep the kill rate up.

However, this keeps me from running into the instance reset limit - And oddly enough, on a Friday evening there were not a single occurance of not being able to launch another instance.

Ding 45 x 4!

Well, mornings are much better - Could get in to the instances whenever I wanted, and me deciding to loot all I clear meant that I didn't run into the 'reset limit' even in ST. Xp got a bit slow at 44, but ground out to 45 and heading to strat undead now.

...and...

...after trying for 40 minutes I gave up, came back 2 hours later and couldn't get in after 5 minutes of trying...guess I'll play in the morning :(

Loosing Time...

...to the fact that Blizzard can't get instance servers that can support the population of my server ... 30+ minutes of running in and out of ST now :(

SM Getting Slow

Well, at 41 SM is getting real slow, seems like I need 2 and some arm + cath clears for a level, not sure if it's worth going elsewhere (SM/ZF) for the 4 levels I got to 45...

Not much playtime now with midsummer coming up, but at least got the team to 41/42.

Ding 40!

Well, the hunter is 41, but all others are 40.

Went to ST last night, but found xp seemingly slower there at 35 - And I hit the instance reset limit real fast - So went back to SM and did cath+arm clears - Which with me being greedy enough to loot all mobs never had me hit the reset limit.

Seems like at 40 the xp is still pretty good, so might stay at SM until 45, but if it goes real slow I guess it's back to ST.

Linking WoW Directories

Short note, the following batch script ran in a "new folder" will link it to the main WoW installation, speeding up some load times and sharing interface customizations.

Replace "d:\wowmain\" with the path your main WoW is installed.

mklink /d Data "d:\wowmain\Data"
mklink /d Cache "d:\wowmain\Cache"

md Errors

mklink /d Interface "d:\wowmain\Interface"

mklink "BackgroundDownloader.exe" "d:\wowmain\BackgroundDownloader.exe"
mklink "Burning Crusade Install Log.html" "d:\wowmain\Burning Crusade Install Log.html"
mklink "dbghelp.dll" "d:\wowmain\dbghelp.dll"
mklink "DivxDecoder.dll" "d:\wowmain\DivxDecoder.dll"
mklink "ijl15.dll" "d:\wowmain\ijl15.dll"

copy "d:\wowmain\Launcher.exe" Launcher.exe

mklink "Patch.html" "d:\wowmain\Patch.html"
mklink "Patch.txt" "d:\wowmain\Patch.txt"
mklink "realmlist.wtf" "d:\wowmain\realmlist.wtf"
mklink "Repair.exe" "d:\wowmain\Repair.exe"
mklink "Scan.dll" "d:\wowmain\Scan.dll"
mklink "unicows.dll" "d:\wowmain\unicows.dll"
mklink "World of Warcraft Install Log.html" "d:\wowmain\World of Warcraft Install Log.html"
mklink "Wow.exe" "d:\wowmain\Wow.exe"
mklink "WowError.exe" "d:\wowmain\WowError.exe"

Ding 30x4 (Update, 35 now)

Moved on to SM, decent XP boosting here and all are now sitting at 35 ;) Seems like XP is flowing ok still (a Cath clear nets over half a level still), so might stay another level or two before moving on (most likely to ST).

Mixed Team Started

So, set up a warrior, hunter, druid, warlock, priest and quested those to 10:ish - Very nice with the 3x RAF bonus - Leveling 5 characters faster than one would be normal (at least it feels like).

Took me a bit longer than optimal though as I first of decided to try the Thunder Bluff starting area, which has way to many collection quests - And even with the new hotkey for interacting with targets, collection quests with 10+ items for 5 characters just take waaaaay to long.

At 10, the warrior stepped out for Perrigrin to start some boosting in SFK - Currently the team is at 16/17 and will head to SM at 20:ish.

I'm Back!

Well, the MMO project is on hold for now (the graphics people that are working with me are to busy with other projects being the main reason). LotRO had me interested for a while, but I dropped of that due to to much work for a period leading to loosing interest.
But, since a couple of weeks Game has been running an offer on buying 2 WoWs for a bit cheaper than normal, and that has had me itching to get back and get a few other characters up to give me the option to run a mixed team, or maybe even 10 box at some point.
So - Now I have 4 shiny WoW boxes to set up RAF with my main account!.

The main plan is to get a Warrior, Priest, Druid, Warlock, Hunter team to 60 that I can then take to 80 (swapping one of the Hunter or Warlock for my mage around 70 something where he is waiting) - With the purpose to build a 80 heroic team with pally tank, mage, boomkin, elemental mage and holy priest.

Once I have that at 60, I might use the remainder of the RAF time to build more teams to 60 - Not 100% yet what I'll do with that.