I made a great friend while getting a RFK boost. She was a level 63 hunter, and was leveling enchanting. So I gave her all the greens and blues and cloth i didn’t need, and she was really grateful. She gave me a few free enchants :)

Sorry for the late reply, been away all weekend ;)

@itsnoteasy: Opinions / tirades are always welcomed as I have plenty of them myself – personally the js systems bug me a little too but I’ve not yet found any other way of allowing people to edit their comments after they’ve posted.
Admittedly I’ve also not looked terribly hard yet but I’ll have a go tonight!

(and yes, who doesn’t love Ratshags vocab? ;3)

/cookie

[1] And yes, I absolutely love Ratshag’s perchant for inventing words.

Perhaps you were looking for something like this?

I totally agree on the matter of not boosting people I don’t know and on the fact of it also being dull as all hell to be boosted. I get so utterly bored unless we’re going somewhere I’ve not been often or are chatting on teamspeak.

“On the other hand, going in with a Few Good People when it’s all just slightly too hard for you is fun enough that I almost miss having alts that are the right level for SM.”

Absoloutely agree with you there.

I’ve had a few times like you mentioned myself. The first which comes to mind is when myself and my other half attempted to start doing all of Scarlet Monastery by ourselves at around level 36.

Our friend who’d introduced us to the game said there was no way we’d be able to duo it at that level but we did it anyway – it’s amazing what you can do when you don’t have the experience to think something’s ‘impossible’.

As for the comments system – I have an ajax plugin for them which allows editing after submission – something I like when I’m commenting on others’ blogs. If there’s something about it which is breaking then give me a poke and I’ll see if there are any known fixes!

/hug

My own position on boosting is that it is Not On™ unless I know the person requesting said boost knows what they’re doing and is just as sick of the levelling grind as I am.

But I wanted to recount one really awesome experience I had when levelling my Paladin.

I’d made friends with a Warlock who, sadly, wasn’t quite levelling as fast as I was. So when it came to Scarlet Monastery, I was several levels above her… somewhere around six or so. She was at about the minimum level you could conceivably do SM, and I was just shy of the mobs being grey to me.

I’d taken her on several duo runs through graveyard to get her the nice shiny shadow damage toys already, and she suggested we give SM Lib a try.

We tried to find a group, we really did, but no one was interested. So we went in there duo.

I tell you what, I learned more in the next few hours about tanking, healing and “Oh-shit”ing as a Paladin than any other time while I was levelling. Taking on three or four pulls of mobs that would destroy us if we made the slightest mistake was exhilarating. I not only learnt about how to make the best use of my limited CCs to get heals off, but I suspect my Warlock friend learned a hell of a lot about CC herself, having to chain fear and seduce. On one particularly hairy pull, I managed to convince her to ping-pong fear two mobs, with succy holding another and me tanking a fourth.

We managed to kill Loksey (wiped on his dogs after he went down, sadly) and got close enough to Doan to smell his terrible aftershave, but wiped on a respawned patrol; discovering the entire instance had respawned, we called it a day.

Then we came back a few days later with an extra level or two, and slaughtered our way back in and gave Doan a dirt nap. The Warlock got her staff, and I got my key. Fun times.

But really, the thing that stands out about that experience was just how much fun I had. Cruising through an instance is, at least for me, joyless. It’s a mechanical process: follow booster around, loot bodies, repeat until bored. On the other hand, going in with a Few Good People when it’s all just slightly too hard for you is fun enough that I almost miss having alts that are the right level for SM.

And then I remember what grinding up an alt is like, and then I don’t feel so bad. :D

P.S. If I ever find the person who programmed WordPress’ comment form, I shall have to tie them to a very large boulder, push the boulder off the top of Blackrock Mountain and challenge them to “javascript your way out of this!” *grumbles*