Hardcore Casual Leveling: Recruit-a-friend -Part 2
Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Wicked under Efficiency Tips, Exploits, Faster Leveling, General Tips, Leveling, Low Level, Power Leveling, Powerleveling, Tips, TricksRecruit your best friend … YOURSELF!
In the 1st article we outlined the basics of the RAF program. In this article we will explore the ways to exploit the program for maximum DOMINATION. Some of these setups may be beyond you and/or your computer’s abilities. It is up to you to choose the one that best fits you and enjoy the free extra xp.
Let’s start with the basic Acct setup as this is the same regardless of how you use the program. You will end up having 2 accounts with this program, the Veteran account and the Recruit account. The veteran account is your main account that you want a new alt on. The recruit account is a free account you are just using to gain extra XP with. Now lets get down to business.
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The 1st step is to send YOURSELF a recruit a friend email using the warcraft website. Just log into the veteran account (via the Blizzard web site) and send a RAF invite to your email address.
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When you receive the trial offer email follow the email instructions and in no time you have a free 10day trial that is tied to your main account. This is what can be called a disposable account. After the 10day trial, you may never use it again. Now the fun begins.
Log onto your veteran account and roll up your desired new alt. Please keep in mind that the trial account is Vanilla WOW, so no Draenei or Blood elf quest zones are available for questing with the trial account. You can make one of those on your main account if you wish, but the pair will not be able to use those starting areas.
Character pairing tips.
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If you make a melee based toon, I highly recommend a Shaman for the trial account if possible, but honestly any healer class will do quite well. I like the shaman because they can just drop a few totems which will buff your primary toon, then sit there ready to heal if needed. Again, maximizing benefit for least amount of work.
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If you make a caster toon, then you will probably want a melee class for the trial account. If you’re not planning to dual box, then any old toon works on the trial account as it is just going to pop up when needed.
Now that your accounts are set-up and you have rolled your toons lets discuss working the pair. We covered Multi boxing in a previous Casual Corner article. Make sure you read it, it covers the basics of the Multi boxing style of leveling, and nothing changes when using it for RAF. Well nothing other than getting THREE TIMES the XP per kill and quest!
It is realy just that simple. In no time at all your new alt will be level 20 and into the fun levels, or better yet all the way to lvl 60 and ready to hammer outlands into submission!
Now I know your all asking, well what about the toons on the trial account? You have options for those toons.
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If you really want those toons, you can always pay to move them to your main account.
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Or if you want to push and get maximum boost you could turn the trial account into a full blown account, which buys you a full month of bonus XP mayhem and opens the door to RAF your way on to lvl 60 on both accounts. An added bonus of the recruit account being a full account is that now you can trade between toons to make sure they are both geared! Plus after those 60 levels you then have 30 free levels on the trial account to hand out to another toon on the veteran account WOOT!
One last tasty RAF leveling tip;
Leap-frogging Levels: When dual boxing try to keep the recruit toon’s lvl slightly ahead of the veteran account toon. This can let you leap-frog the veteran toon a level at the last minute before hitting 20. When the recruit toon dings to 20 and the veteran is just a hair short of 20 the recruit can gift the veteran toon a level! BAM your lvl 19 that was 99% to 20 is now 99% to 21 YEEHAA! Then turn in that last quest on the veteran and catapult into 21 in style! This also applies to lvl60 if you decide to convert the trial account into a full blown vanilla WOW account. Get the Veteran account to lvl59.99 and then gift it a free level!
You can do similar when your gifting levels to your other alts. Before you start gifting levels, get the verteran account alt as close as possible to going Ding THEN grant the levels. That way you are working for cheaper lower level XP and buying your way higher into the gifted levels.
I am not a power leveler by any means. But this system really makes power leveling possible for even the most casual WOW player, and you could soon find yourself with a fleet of 60’s ready to sprint thru outlands. At one Point in a single month I ended up with a total of six lvl 60 toons, two pairs I ran up and then a pair of toons on the veteran account that were already lvl 30 and were granted free levels to 60!
Something to watch for
Blizzard recently did a sale on vanilla wow, it was $5.00 for the full base game, including the free 1st month. For $5.00 you had yourself a power leveling tool good all the way to 60! Sadly, this was a 2-day sale and is over, but keep your eyes open, you never know when they will do it again, and pricing for the base game should only drop as they release Cataclysm.
Alts are cool, chicks dig scars, DOMINATING is eternal.
Wicked of Dominate
<Fenris>
Hey Wicked, great article.
I was thinking about this and i believe i’ve come up with another way to make this dominate even more. it may be because i don’t fully understand the RAF system, or it may be well known, i don’t know.
so you send yourself a RAF, lvl the two toons to 20. then make yourself another toon on your veteran account and boost him up to the highest lvl you can.
is this possible? i know its not a huge amount of work getting to lvl 10 with 3x xp. but surely anything to reduce the time spent on the beginner zones is something we all wouldn’t miss.
Thanks,
Tyada
Frostmourne (A)
WRONG
What I tend to do, if I have the money, is send a RAF using my veteran account to myself, convert that to a full account then use that account to send myself another RAF and convert that to a full account, I can then level a character on each of the two RAF accounts and use my veteran account to boost when needed. Get say 4 level 60’s on the second RAF account, 2 chars grant 30 levels each to a character on the 1st RAF account and the second 2 do the same to a second character on the 1st RAF account, you then end up with 6 level 60’s on the 1st RAF .. which means you have 180 free levels to grant your veteran account = 3 level 60s .. seems alot of work but quick simple really
I thought the 2 toons that were questing together had to be within a few levels of each other to benefit from the bonus XP. Was that restriction lifted?
Just went in game to check and they have put this restriction back in place. When the article was written that restriction was not in place. I will be editing the article to correct this.
After reading your article, I went and started my RAF and linked it to my battle net account. I started a level 1 with the recruit account and the vet account. I received 3x xp on quests and kills. I got my 35 shaman out and partied with the recruit I made and parked him in Nesingwary’s camp in STV, but when I turned in a few quests, I still got normal xp.
Yes this was brought up and I rechecked ingame. Blizz has re-instated this limitation on level spread, so I have remopved that portion of the article. Sorry for the incovenience folks, it was fun while it lasted.
I think you guys are mistaken about not having x3 exp anymore, it seems that way now because of how they changed the exp display on quests to show how much your getting before you hand it in. If I look at the amount of exp before my raf is in my party it is always x3 lower then with, and this is as of patch 3.3.