Thank you all for checking out the video! Definitely come hang out on twitch at twitch.tv/arlaeus! This is the Slave Pens AOE Farm for both solo leveling and boosting!
The Enchantresses will pretty much kill you if you try this at level 60, and you can also not pull around them my solution was to utilize dreamvision mark 'em know the pattern timewise to not have them pulled as well they will simply kill you and if you go for the nature pot, still won't be able to soak enough damage with it. Also I'd advice people to go for it from 61, or do 60 it will be a pain due to the pull radius of oranging mobs, but it will make you play it safe so when doing 60+ should be way easier conceptwise. I also suggest for none booster to use frozen rune to soak the fire dmg("rain of fire"-like ability"), also doing the side packs with the collaborators you most likely will get fucked(at 60) since well you'll very unlikely resist it and 13sec mass slow and sure one can be CS'd and one can try to side step 2nd for 1 pack but with these techies dropping RoF-like ability for 600 a hit and if you also have enchantress in here hitting you for 0.7-1.2k nr damage well your most likely to have your ass whooped simply because no potion stacking by time you actually want the potions up they'll be gone even with logout trick. But I'd argue getting down the idea of this and it's like 12-15% per run problem is you have to play around multiple factors, same thing with the mage type mobs in start ain't gonna be resisting that so you will get cocked if you allow more then 1 cast and then you still might have to drop all cds, so simply try to pre sheep if you get 4 pack of these reset, ain't worth it. Also you will need speed advantage so the zanza spirit is BIS here for the 20% move speed else you will again get cockd simply they will clap you. Well here's my like way bogstroks(crab-f.....rs) in start, if you time it with the patrol moving away +guard patrol in good spot then atleast >60(61+(to be safe sa 62+) I'd argue ain't worth it getting back to these in a while. Then move forward grab bokstroks and if feeling brave or done a few grab 2nd bokstroks match this with the patrol on edge specially if any mage mob or cockd most likely nova static guards and then blizz and match up with last pack which is patrol in boss room. Now have a fun time =) (dont eat to much RoF dmg it ticks quite hard and don't get to intimate with these guys + guards moves faster then ypu with swift zanza(20%+ mvspd), also either @lvl 60 / @lvl 60 + enlarge(giant growth) boss will pull on ramp onto you so dodge him too. Ooh well, we now argue you manage this, then rest up and go ledge mark up patrol (enchantress x2 + meele boi), then when at bogstrok pack towards boss room, pull the bogrstrok we earlier left out and blizz kite 'em (bz1, or whatever rank u prefer tip is to not be do daring they will not pulll other mobs but AN INCORRECT BLIZZ will ;), and then grab 2nd bogstrok pack outside of boss room which can be skipd from grab on pull1 as with grabbing it up you now drop ur blizz to 50-75% of normal dmg which most likely might cock you, so leave these 2 packs grab later and go chad hammer just hammer 'em down shouldn't need more then 1 corridor movement for i and then reset redo =). Sorry it got quite long atleast thought I'd share what I found, sry cba to make a vid but areleus feel free to make a 60 vid using this if you found this to be a good way =), simply thought I'd share what I've learned, ooh well btw keep 'em vids coming bro they're super nice tbh ;) and yes this was not to critize I mean if you're giga chad you might be able to do the thing you do at 70 at 60 but most likely the masses will have their souls crushed ;p.
if its 500k xp/h solo then why are u boosting ur other mage? if it's viable at lv 58 why are you showing us on lv 70 with 5piece t2? why did you have to use footage from 2 different clips to show us the xp drop on the first pull? why don't you ever talk about pat timings that can't be seen at the beginning of the run and how to time their patrols directly after resetting instance? - (which just never seems to be an issue for you) Undoubtedly the best guide out there as the case for most of your videos but seems almost unfair to your fans who actually spend tens of hours on our mages doing this to turn around and tell people it's piss easy
First pull: very doable from 62 with some practice, even with shitty gear (no T2 for instace). Second pull: doable from 62 with great gear and a lot of practice. Third pull: ... an absolute clusterfuck. If you're just trying to level, do yourself a favour and stick to the first pull and then reset. Come back once you're 70 for the rest. Don't forget that what you're seeing here is a level 70 doing all these pulls. That's not by accident. Best of luck!
If you only plan on doing the first pull (as you suggest, I'm sold) - would you recommend grabbing the two technicians and/or the mobs in the same/final room at the end of where mobs are being pulled from?
@@SteveS86 I always managed to stay just in-between the patrolling technicians and the pack on the left where the chest usually spawns without pulling either of them. I recall it was doable even at the early levels. If you have to edge closer towards one of the two packs when unsure of your pull range, definitely get closer to the ones that are patrolling, because the other pack slows you and that is just the end of it unless you really know what you're doing. Bearing in mind, I always did these pulls with the Swiftness of Zanza pot, which makes this a LOT easier as you can put way more distance between you and the mobs much more effectively. If you were a mage playing in classic classic, I'd be surprised if you didn't farm the shit out of ZG and already have the rep and bijous at your disposal for getting them. If not, this'll be a tad bit harder, but still doable enough to be worth it with some practice. I still did the pulls at lower levels from time to time without any speed buffs when I made mistakes and died but couldn't be bothered to hearth back to STV and get the pots again. I never tried this until TBC actually hit, but by the time I was level 64 all the way up to 70, I averaged a ding every 4-6 hours /played on each level. Best of luck mate!
spirit of zanzas like 18 mp/5 with arcane armor and meditation talent.. also if u throw rough dynamite and u have the blade of eternal darkness on it gives alot of mana back 1 min cd like 10-30 copper per dynamite for like 400-600 mana its worth it wont get value better than that from any weapon
Hey mate, great video as usual. I believe there are now 2 ledges that can be used. The first is the original. (apparently, you can blink onto it? Stand still against it then blink and insta "w" lands you on the ledge. (I've seen this, but not tried it). The 2nd ledge is in the tunnel as you enter, to the right. You can jump up. So the strat is kite them to the end towards the boss and then back down the tunnel. Then stick to your left (the right corner as you entered is now on left) and right in the corner you can jump up. This then sends them back down the original kill phase route. (should give plenty time to regen mana etc, as they have a long trek). Then as they come down the ledge, you do usual kill phase.. Blizzard flamesrike, rinse and repeat. Now you can drop down, blizz them and jump back up. Rise and repeat. Hope this makes sense
I swear you're a legend. I was really close to getting this down before the vid, swapped all gear to eagle greens (unfortunately didn't do alot of real classic, only did frost aoe leveling on launch so no T2 etc), got enchants for spirit/int, minor run speed etc and used the oil and consumes you recommended, and whammo. It feels great finally getting these pulls down, and I will be the first person on my server selling boosts for SP =] Thanks so much!
Perfect timing! I was just about to start this on my mage and was hoping you made another wonderful guide. Still watching but unless I am missing it, I think you forgot to link the talents in the description. Thank you so much for making these guides!
@Arlaeus Can you share the 61 recording? It looks cool on L70 char when half the mobs ignore you, but it's way different on L63 - I'm getting to first tubes tops and the L61 run at 4x speed is just way too fast to get anything from it (wish the whole video would be done at 62-63, as it gets only easier with more levels :)
There is Marco's video here on yt doing it lv 60. Rly rly good tbh, I couldn't really do it at lv 60, but at 61 with some practice I leveled like a rocket doing his method. No disrespect to Arleus at all, just mentioning Marco cause it is specifically about low level mages.
I find using a swiftness potion can come in handy, gives you moree room at the beginning of the pull in the hallway. It lasts really long, like 15 sec and its 50% movement speed. Just use it early so you can still use health or mana pot when u need to ^^
I don't do @Arlaeus strat for pulling Slave pens, but I can say it is profitable. the thing you really can make the most money on is selling the runs. I think typically I got 10-15g per run on mine(not selling runs, can sell runs for like 50g+ atm). My runs usually are only 12-13mins tops though.
great video man. do you think you can maximize your xp even more if you try to limit each run to 12-13mins? I think you could prob get even more xp with few less pulls and couple more resets.
You definitely can! The first 2 pulls are the bulk of the xp, but I finish them in 8-10 minutes and then would be locked out so I extend my runs past that.
Mind tap talisman is 11mp5 as well from dm. I got one on my mage randomly early in classic since no one needed. Ever since then I snagged random mp5 gear no one wanted for my "watermaking" set. Who knew itd be so useful in tbc heh.
I wonder how many takes you needed to do to make it look easy? In reality when I pull this many mobs 100% of the time at least one or two will resist nova, and almost always one will resist constantly. I will always have a cripple at some point that comes from out of range of my blizzard because leeway. Also one or two mobs will somehow break out of blizzard slows way before others, and when those casters start their 10 second rain of fire the pull just falls apart which happens like every time.
only way i know of avoiding it is to start as soon as you enter the instance. if i accidentally pull slavehandlers and have to back out and restart, or anything like that, i almost always run into them and have to go back out again and from there it just gets fugly. i'm here looking for an answer too
@arlaeus does the xp still work this way? I don’t quite understand this new thing where if not hit for x amount of time the xp is reduced by % of the mobs health. If you could explain that would be awesome, and does the newer ledge strat work (for xp)
if u dont hit it for like a minute or some shit the mob basically resets but at the hp you left it at so if its 50% hp you get 50% less xp or some shit?
Can someone explain why you should do the second and third pull? Does it give that more exp then the first pull? Or why should you make the harder one too if the first pull already takes 12min. Why dont just reset and just repeat the first pull over and over again.
If your solo leveling dont only do 1st pull tbh other wise it's for selling boost I'd assume u can sell more xp for more gold but if its 12 min it might be worth to charge based on 1st pull and resetting
@@MechanicalPigg Ty for your answer. I practiced this pull a little bit and now i can pull it of in 8mins, that means the 2t pull would be nice to do too. But im so close to 70 that i don't think its worth it to me to learn the 2. pull too because selling boosts is not my main goal.
Im frustrated with this method, each video i see everybody have infinite mana they never got dazed and any mobs get resistance, my mana is drained in 4 blizzards and frost nova, im level 66 with blue dungeon gear...
hey! on the first pull, I'm occasionally running into an issue where the double enchantress pack is patrolling far to the left at the exact time I need to pass by to get to the crabs, and at level 64 even hugging the wall I still pull them. if i grab this pack it's inevitably a wipe due to the root. any advice? the patrol being so random is killing my motivation to grind this, as i just am forced to die every 5 runs or so.
What Arlaeus said, plus another thing: if they're still too much in your way even when you've tried slowing them down behind you, there's nothing in the way for you to just blink down again behind the mobs you've already pulled, keep them slowed until your blink is back, blink back again, and then or whenver you see there's an open window, go for pulling those upper-right Bogs. I did this from 62 and it's perfectly doable, but am I doing it with Thorium Grenades. If you don't have engineering, you're better off just waiting with that pack until you're 64 so you don't pull the Enchantresses on the right. The amount of time you lose if you die here is just not worth those extra ~10k xp. At 64 it should be perfectly safe to use R1 Blizzard when you see that Enchantress-patrol moving back up. Best of luck!
@@tylercereghino6633 so hostile, wow. Is it really such an offensive request? See here's a little secret about RUclips that you might not know... videos last on it for years. Shocking, I know! So some time down the road someone just getting into tbc and making a new mage might just stumble onto this video and wonder if it's possible to do without stopping and farming T2. Crazy, right?
@@mekkiepoo Yea, it's maybe crazy how dumb people are. Why would it not be possible without T2 and being in greens? It's literally exactly the same except you don't have a larger aoe radius on your blizzard, you can literally go into slave pens and try it yourself. It's so self explanatory that it actually blows my mind that people ask this question.
How do you time it so you avoid the Enchantress pack? Every time I try this they're halfway through their pat and I run straight into them or the mobs behind me pull them
You can do this as well! You’ll run into a couple issues - 1) real estate - you won’t have as much room to move around. 2) the mana you’ll need to kill them will cause you to still take a while so the pull will be longer
Hi Guys, got a question: I did SP solo as lvl65 mage. The first completed run the mobs gave around 1.5k - 2k XP (unrested). Next two runs the same mobs, same strat, gave only around 250 - 400 XP. Anyone got an idea why? Thx in advance.
It's his blade , if s remember well the name of tha blade is blade of eternal darkness and every spell hit he have a little chance to get back 100 mana
Stay max range. Use blink AFTER a rain of fire drops if you're slowed. The mobs won't recast cripple if you have cripple already on you.I used escape artist once in this pull, but a lot of my pull don't have to use it or could have used block.
He isn't doing full damage with blizzard, if you watch the damage numbers, when he casts at the front of the pack he does full damage, and it drops slightly as the rest of the pack runs into it. It also helps that this isn't a crazy number of mobs so the damage drop isn't that dramatic. I think the first pull is high 20s - low 30s mob count, and its the biggest one in here.
Hey can you explain how you walk forward with the camera looking at the mobs? when i try to do it it fucks up totally.. Gratefull for help! Nice videos!!
yeah Ive been having the same issue! can get them all in place but it screws me up when I start running away EDIT: Actually I just figured it out. Its super easy yo fix. Just go to settings then camera and change camera following style to never
Hello, thanks for the great work and content you offer. Juste thought about this : how about using a macro to cast max rank Blizzard AND rank 1 Blizzard at the same time when a clear cast comes up ?
@@arlaeus9491 yup, I heard some guys talking about that on discord and one of them linked a macro. I couldnt test it since I was far from home but I will definitely try this out as it would increase damage output
I dont know if you have ever seen people that run this 24/7. they are absolute machines ;) just because you gave up on it doesn't mean it is not possible.
i really just cant seem to live this i get everything good and grouped but just can't seem to kill fast enough at 66, getting hit hard any time i try to switch directions on my kite
Not really in my opinion. The gear a boost gives you is just very bad. No mp5, no hit, no spell power. Just do main stats and also low amount per item. Do ramparts aoe runs with other mages
@@sanzadoritsmyname2885 Spell power doesnt scale with Blizzard, you mainly need a ton of stam/int/spirit or mp5. "of the Eagle" gear is perfect for this *(I'm able to do it at 63/64 no problems, the 2nd pull is tricky though)
Been doing this a lot, it gets easier at 61 and at 62 if you are low on hit. Got a level and a half yesterday in about 4 hours of running just the first pack. Tons of greens and herbs!
@@Vandole I have very low hit, but high stats. I'm in 7/8 T2 with solid epic off pieces. I wasn't able to do it till 61, and 62 was even easier. I just hit 63 last night, but went to bed without doing another run. I spec up to ice barrier then get arcane presence of mind at 61. Those clearcast pom flamestrikes put in work if placed correctly... same with clearcast max rank blizzards
Great video, thanks very much. It's taken me a couple of hours to get it down but overall, I'd say this is easier than running mara. Personally, I think it's much easier to skip the technicians on the first pull, particularly if you don't have amazing gear/mp5. When the technicians cast, they split from the pack and can make the turn more difficult. The kill phase is much quicker for pull one if you're not trying to dodge the rain of fire. For pull two, I don't think it makes much of a difference if there's the extra two technicians or not.
Has anyone tested boosting with a level 60 mage vs with a level 70 mage in the lower tier dungeons (SM and Mara primarily)? I'm curious to see the disparity in xp gain due to the increased avg level. If it's a significant difference, it may be worth keeping my best geared mage at 60 exclusively for that.
It's harder but it can work. I did the first pull on my boosted mage a few hours ago, at level 62. Will try the 2nd pull later on. But difficutly ramps up and i'm new to this aoe-technique, i doubt i'll get further than that.
@@murlocsrock Got a smartass abroad. Titles irrelevant to builds bud. Multiple builds out there designed for shit that can be used solo, with the original intent of it not.
Dude has 9.6k mana... kinda difficult to use max rank bliz everytime theyre stacked at lvl 62 and kill the mobs without going OOM, even if youre popping pots on CD. You're going to need to use a lot more rank 1 bliz to help mana regen and learn to turn the mobs around reliably. I did the farm without any special gear going in, but I did buy a mp5 neck and rings. Was like 30g combined on my server. mp5 is always better than max mana on this pull.
I find the 2nd part of the farm really inconsistent you should make a video more in depth about the mobs because it feels impossible to pull off solo. I just tried to have a priest to dispel every slow from the mobs and still died. Even with heals It's nearly impossible. I really find it hard to believe to aoe the 2nd part of SP. It seems like there is a lot of luck involved to get that pull down the melee only mobs is very consistent.
the trick is a free action potion while you gather, then using that weak aura for cripple, cancel blizzard and get distance every time u see cripple is used.. Then on the turnaround, you need to nova everything and block/cancel to remove cripples. Hard pre-68
I mean most mages who look this up wanna level from 61 and you only used a small portion of the video for this where you also almost died + you dinged to heal you to full. I would have liked to see more 61 gameplay
I have a question. Does anyone have a source, where I can find best TBC gear for aoe farming? What i mean, is gear with biggest possible combination of spirit, mp5, intellect and spell damage. Cause so far, i have troubles with figuring out what gear i should chase.
Minor speed enchantment on boots, you need to have this. Its really cheap, just ask any enchanter to do it for some gold. I have it and I can run on the same speed/a little faster than most of Slave Pens mobs, and consequently do the whole farm nicely.
Doing since 61 on 3 accounts with resto druid and prot pally. Druid inervate so never have mana issues on Mage and kite mobs through pally consecrate for extra damage and threat trading block they go to pally then he bouble when low back on me. Druid throws hots and hurricanes when have opportunity. Can't wait try solo (3 accounts) Botanica
if you're an average mage yes, if you're an above average mage you would think to use rank 1 blizzard and frost nova on the mobs behind you to stall until the pat is in the right spot
Thank you all for checking out the video! Definitely come hang out on twitch at twitch.tv/arlaeus! This is the Slave Pens AOE Farm for both solo leveling and boosting!
Can u make same video with low tier item... 🥺
The Enchantresses will pretty much kill you if you try this at level 60, and you can also not pull around them my solution was to utilize dreamvision mark 'em know the pattern timewise to not have them pulled as well they will simply kill you and if you go for the nature pot, still won't be able to soak enough damage with it. Also I'd advice people to go for it from 61, or do 60 it will be a pain due to the pull radius of oranging mobs, but it will make you play it safe so when doing 60+ should be way easier conceptwise. I also suggest for none booster to use frozen rune to soak the fire dmg("rain of fire"-like ability"), also doing the side packs with the collaborators you most likely will get fucked(at 60) since well you'll very unlikely resist it and 13sec mass slow and sure one can be CS'd and one can try to side step 2nd for 1 pack but with these techies dropping RoF-like ability for 600 a hit and if you also have enchantress in here hitting you for 0.7-1.2k nr damage well your most likely to have your ass whooped simply because no potion stacking by time you actually want the potions up they'll be gone even with logout trick. But I'd argue getting down the idea of this and it's like 12-15% per run problem is you have to play around multiple factors, same thing with the mage type mobs in start ain't gonna be resisting that so you will get cocked if you allow more then 1 cast and then you still might have to drop all cds, so simply try to pre sheep if you get 4 pack of these reset, ain't worth it. Also you will need speed advantage so the zanza spirit is BIS here for the 20% move speed else you will again get cockd simply they will clap you.
Well here's my like way bogstroks(crab-f.....rs) in start, if you time it with the patrol moving away +guard patrol in good spot then atleast >60(61+(to be safe sa 62+) I'd argue ain't worth it getting back to these in a while. Then move forward grab bokstroks and if feeling brave or done a few grab 2nd bokstroks match this with the patrol on edge specially if any mage mob or cockd most likely nova static guards and then blizz and match up with last pack which is patrol in boss room. Now have a fun time =) (dont eat to much RoF dmg it ticks quite hard and don't get to intimate with these guys + guards moves faster then ypu with swift zanza(20%+ mvspd), also either @lvl 60 / @lvl 60 + enlarge(giant growth) boss will pull on ramp onto you so dodge him too.
Ooh well, we now argue you manage this, then rest up and go ledge mark up patrol (enchantress x2 + meele boi), then when at bogstrok pack towards boss room, pull the bogrstrok we earlier left out and blizz kite 'em (bz1, or whatever rank u prefer tip is to not be do daring they will not pulll other mobs but AN INCORRECT BLIZZ will ;), and then grab 2nd bogstrok pack outside of boss room which can be skipd from grab on pull1 as with grabbing it up you now drop ur blizz to 50-75% of normal dmg which most likely might cock you, so leave these 2 packs grab later and go chad hammer just hammer 'em down shouldn't need more then 1 corridor movement for i and then reset redo =).
Sorry it got quite long atleast thought I'd share what I found, sry cba to make a vid but areleus feel free to make a 60 vid using this if you found this to be a good way =), simply thought I'd share what I've learned, ooh well btw keep 'em vids coming bro they're super nice tbh ;) and yes this was not to critize I mean if you're giga chad you might be able to do the thing you do at 70 at 60 but most likely the masses will have their souls crushed ;p.
There is no nerf............ Nerf is happening 6/15. Bro you dont read blueposts do you?
@@NovocaineTV what nerf? Link
if its 500k xp/h solo then why are u boosting ur other mage?
if it's viable at lv 58 why are you showing us on lv 70 with 5piece t2?
why did you have to use footage from 2 different clips to show us the xp drop on the first pull?
why don't you ever talk about pat timings that can't be seen at the beginning of the run and how to time their patrols directly after resetting instance? - (which just never seems to be an issue for you)
Undoubtedly the best guide out there as the case for most of your videos but seems almost unfair to your fans who actually spend tens of hours on our mages doing this to turn around and tell people it's piss easy
First pull: very doable from 62 with some practice, even with shitty gear (no T2 for instace).
Second pull: doable from 62 with great gear and a lot of practice.
Third pull: ... an absolute clusterfuck. If you're just trying to level, do yourself a favour and stick to the first pull and then reset. Come back once you're 70 for the rest.
Don't forget that what you're seeing here is a level 70 doing all these pulls. That's not by accident.
Best of luck!
If you only plan on doing the first pull (as you suggest, I'm sold) - would you recommend grabbing the two technicians and/or the mobs in the same/final room at the end of where mobs are being pulled from?
@@SteveS86
I always managed to stay just in-between the patrolling technicians and the pack on the left where the chest usually spawns without pulling either of them. I recall it was doable even at the early levels. If you have to edge closer towards one of the two packs when unsure of your pull range, definitely get closer to the ones that are patrolling, because the other pack slows you and that is just the end of it unless you really know what you're doing.
Bearing in mind, I always did these pulls with the Swiftness of Zanza pot, which makes this a LOT easier as you can put way more distance between you and the mobs much more effectively. If you were a mage playing in classic classic, I'd be surprised if you didn't farm the shit out of ZG and already have the rep and bijous at your disposal for getting them. If not, this'll be a tad bit harder, but still doable enough to be worth it with some practice. I still did the pulls at lower levels from time to time without any speed buffs when I made mistakes and died but couldn't be bothered to hearth back to STV and get the pots again.
I never tried this until TBC actually hit, but by the time I was level 64 all the way up to 70, I averaged a ding every 4-6 hours /played on each level.
Best of luck mate!
spirit of zanzas like 18 mp/5 with arcane armor and meditation talent.. also if u throw rough dynamite and u have the blade of eternal darkness on it gives alot of mana back 1 min cd like 10-30 copper per dynamite for like 400-600 mana its worth it wont get value better than that from any weapon
Bro I cant stand on the when i back they still aggro on me untill i fall down can u help me?
Hey mate, great video as usual. I believe there are now 2 ledges that can be used. The first is the original. (apparently, you can blink onto it? Stand still against it then blink and insta "w" lands you on the ledge. (I've seen this, but not tried it). The 2nd ledge is in the tunnel as you enter, to the right. You can jump up. So the strat is kite them to the end towards the boss and then back down the tunnel. Then stick to your left (the right corner as you entered is now on left) and right in the corner you can jump up. This then sends them back down the original kill phase route. (should give plenty time to regen mana etc, as they have a long trek). Then as they come down the ledge, you do usual kill phase.. Blizzard flamesrike, rinse and repeat. Now you can drop down, blizz them and jump back up. Rise and repeat. Hope this makes sense
wanted to see this way for kill phase. the blizzard kite is just annoying.
I swear you're a legend. I was really close to getting this down before the vid, swapped all gear to eagle greens (unfortunately didn't do alot of real classic, only did frost aoe leveling on launch so no T2 etc), got enchants for spirit/int, minor run speed etc and used the oil and consumes you recommended, and whammo. It feels great finally getting these pulls down, and I will be the first person on my server selling boosts for SP =] Thanks so much!
were u succesful at low levels with just eagle gear?
Perfect timing! I was just about to start this on my mage and was hoping you made another wonderful guide. Still watching but unless I am missing it, I think you forgot to link the talents in the description. Thank you so much for making these guides!
@Arlaeus Can you share the 61 recording? It looks cool on L70 char when half the mobs ignore you, but it's way different on L63 - I'm getting to first tubes tops and the L61 run at 4x speed is just way too fast to get anything from it (wish the whole video would be done at 62-63, as it gets only easier with more levels :)
There is Marco's video here on yt doing it lv 60. Rly rly good tbh, I couldn't really do it at lv 60, but at 61 with some practice I leveled like a rocket doing his method.
No disrespect to Arleus at all, just mentioning Marco cause it is specifically about low level mages.
Bottom right gear, playback speed .5x
hey,whats the name of that addon??the one that saying LB or Cripple?
The talents you show in the video do not match up with the talents at the link in the description...
Where is the weakaura at?
I find using a swiftness potion can come in handy, gives you moree room at the beginning of the pull in the hallway. It lasts really long, like 15 sec and its 50% movement speed. Just use it early so you can still use health or mana pot when u need to ^^
Hey man! So this is the Mara of tbc? How’s the raw gold from it? Is it worth soloing just for cash?
I don't do @Arlaeus strat for pulling Slave pens, but I can say it is profitable. the thing you really can make the most money on is selling the runs. I think typically I got 10-15g per run on mine(not selling runs, can sell runs for like 50g+ atm). My runs usually are only 12-13mins tops though.
Raw gold isn't great to be honest. You can make 100-200g/hr probably with loot.
great video man. do you think you can maximize your xp even more if you try to limit each run to 12-13mins? I think you could prob get even more xp with few less pulls and couple more resets.
You definitely can! The first 2 pulls are the bulk of the xp, but I finish them in 8-10 minutes and then would be locked out so I extend my runs past that.
How long would it take to get to 70 from 62 do you think? Is this the fastest way to level?
Is there an updated version of this farm since phases 2 and now 3 have come out? Just curious how this farm has evolved.
Nice video Arleus :) Gonna try some of this today. Dampen magic for those lightning bolts ;)
What do you do about the shitty pat on the first pull? They always seem to be next to the bogstoks and I cant avoid pulling them
The Dire Maul trinket mages get from the book is a good shout. Gives 8mp5
Mind tap talisman is 11mp5 as well from dm. I got one on my mage randomly early in classic since no one needed. Ever since then I snagged random mp5 gear no one wanted for my "watermaking" set. Who knew itd be so useful in tbc heh.
GUYS BTW IF youre engi bring some [Powerful Seaforium Charge] some chests are locked this opens it
Thanks for linking the weakauras. i've been looking for 300 years for them.
I wonder how many takes you needed to do to make it look easy? In reality when I pull this many mobs 100% of the time at least one or two will resist nova, and almost always one will resist constantly. I will always have a cripple at some point that comes from out of range of my blizzard because leeway. Also one or two mobs will somehow break out of blizzard slows way before others, and when those casters start their 10 second rain of fire the pull just falls apart which happens like every time.
I sometimes gets the "L" shaped pat in the start with the enchanters on first pull. is it RNG or can i time the run somwhow to not get that?
only way i know of avoiding it is to start as soon as you enter the instance. if i accidentally pull slavehandlers and have to back out and restart, or anything like that, i almost always run into them and have to go back out again and from there it just gets fugly. i'm here looking for an answer too
what addon do you use that notifies you when they are about to use banish?
Requirements in short: raid 1 year in BWL before starting and you can level fast.
Haha I did about 5 BWLs for this gear
Requirements in short: absolutely nothing unless you're a trash mage because you can just spam r1 blizzard fishing for clear casts
@arlaeus does the xp still work this way? I don’t quite understand this new thing where if not hit for x amount of time the xp is reduced by % of the mobs health. If you could explain that would be awesome, and does the newer ledge strat work (for xp)
if u dont hit it for like a minute or some shit the mob basically resets but at the hp you left it at so if its 50% hp you get 50% less xp or some shit?
Can someone explain why you should do the second and third pull? Does it give that more exp then the first pull? Or why should you make the harder one too if the first pull already takes 12min. Why dont just reset and just repeat the first pull over and over again.
If your solo leveling dont only do 1st pull tbh other wise it's for selling boost I'd assume u can sell more xp for more gold but if its 12 min it might be worth to charge based on 1st pull and resetting
@@MechanicalPigg Ty for your answer. I practiced this pull a little bit and now i can pull it of in 8mins, that means the 2t pull would be nice to do too. But im so close to 70 that i don't think its worth it to me to learn the 2. pull too because selling boosts is not my main goal.
I am having problems with exp they gave me, after 1 run, mobs gave me only 300-500 do you know why this happens?
If you sell boost to a full party of 5 members, how much xp/Hour does each player get? 🤔
Love that talent addon, what is it? Great videos bro, you've helped me so much!!!
Talented, it's great. Recommend removing the "Confirm learning" option though
@@TheMikkelOLaursen awesome thank you so much!!! Good luck in Outland, may RNGesus watch over you
Im frustrated with this method, each video i see everybody have infinite mana they never got dazed and any mobs get resistance, my mana is drained in 4 blizzards and frost nova, im level 66 with blue dungeon gear...
Rank 1 blizzard.....
L2mage lol use clearcasting max rank blizz when its up
a question friend what is that addons that allows you to see how much is left to the shields, the mana shield or the ice barrier?
Nan shield
You think for the second pull shadow resist might be a good idea? Was thinking about trying it out
What was the nerf exactly ? reduced CC proc s ?
I'm curious too
The nerf came with the launch of TBC, theres now a cap on how many enemies get hit at once by your aoe spells
hey!
on the first pull, I'm occasionally running into an issue where the double enchantress pack is patrolling far to the left at the exact time I need to pass by to get to the crabs, and at level 64 even hugging the wall I still pull them. if i grab this pack it's inevitably a wipe due to the root.
any advice? the patrol being so random is killing my motivation to grind this, as i just am forced to die every 5 runs or so.
Make sure to start the run right away when you run in. If they’re there blizzard the mobs behind you to try to kite and slow them down
What Arlaeus said, plus another thing: if they're still too much in your way even when you've tried slowing them down behind you, there's nothing in the way for you to just blink down again behind the mobs you've already pulled, keep them slowed until your blink is back, blink back again, and then or whenver you see there's an open window, go for pulling those upper-right Bogs. I did this from 62 and it's perfectly doable, but am I doing it with Thorium Grenades.
If you don't have engineering, you're better off just waiting with that pack until you're 64 so you don't pull the Enchantresses on the right. The amount of time you lose if you die here is just not worth those extra ~10k xp. At 64 it should be perfectly safe to use R1 Blizzard when you see that Enchantress-patrol moving back up.
Best of luck!
What about the new ledge pull, you jump on the ledge at the entrance to the 1st boss room and aoe there, its safer
It struggle with it cause a few mobs always start castibg abd lag behind the others, eventually ending in me dying if i cant group them back up
So... for someone who can't raid.. any chance we could see you attempt this in Eagles/Sorcerers gear off AH? For a more realistic comparison
Uhhhh. Good luck with that one haha. Maybe at level 70.
More realistic comparison? If you can't even do the first pull in greens off the AH, you shouldn't be playing mage...
@@tylercereghino6633 so hostile, wow. Is it really such an offensive request? See here's a little secret about RUclips that you might not know... videos last on it for years. Shocking, I know! So some time down the road someone just getting into tbc and making a new mage might just stumble onto this video and wonder if it's possible to do without stopping and farming T2. Crazy, right?
@@mekkiepoo Yea, it's maybe crazy how dumb people are. Why would it not be possible without T2 and being in greens? It's literally exactly the same except you don't have a larger aoe radius on your blizzard, you can literally go into slave pens and try it yourself. It's so self explanatory that it actually blows my mind that people ask this question.
Hey , thanks for video , where are Weakaura ?
What's the addon for the ice barrier?
How do you time it so you avoid the Enchantress pack? Every time I try this they're halfway through their pat and I run straight into them or the mobs behind me pull them
You need to start the run instantly when you reset the dungeon or when you first go inside the reseted dungeon. And i blink twice before that part
Why presence of mind? Edit nvm for flame strike 😅
hey arlaeus. Aldors or cryers for boosting people?
Aldor
Wouldnt it be faster to pull like 10-15 Mobs, as u wont do more dmg if u pull more?
You can do this as well! You’ll run into a couple issues -
1) real estate - you won’t have as much room to move around.
2) the mana you’ll need to kill them will cause you to still take a while so the pull will be longer
Hi Guys, got a question: I did SP solo as lvl65 mage. The first completed run the mobs gave around 1.5k - 2k XP (unrested). Next two runs the same mobs, same strat, gave only around 250 - 400 XP. Anyone got an idea why? Thx in advance.
Had the same problem in zf. Would be nice to know what im doing wrong
@@roxxor3 you dont damage them for a long enough time like 20 secs they reset their xp equivalent to current health
Can you do this from 66-70 mage ?
you are a beast! big ups for what you do!!
Is this boost worth getting for a 56?
Yes finally here it is!!!!!
Manna kicked 80% on the move, what skill did you use?
I think he leveled
It's his blade , if s remember well the name of tha blade is blade of eternal darkness and every spell hit he have a little chance to get back 100 mana
@@dwdaad764 No, he leveled up. You can see the level-up animation happening
any tips for the second pull? got wiped so many times at the second pull
notice how everyone is a gnome doing this
Stay max range. Use blink AFTER a rain of fire drops if you're slowed. The mobs won't recast cripple if you have cripple already on you.I used escape artist once in this pull, but a lot of my pull don't have to use it or could have used block.
Hey, can i ask how come u doing full dmg with blizzard? Was there any change to aoe update?
use blizzard rank 1 and only cast blizzard max rank when got clearcasting
He isn't doing full damage with blizzard, if you watch the damage numbers, when he casts at the front of the pack he does full damage, and it drops slightly as the rest of the pack runs into it. It also helps that this isn't a crazy number of mobs so the damage drop isn't that dramatic. I think the first pull is high 20s - low 30s mob count, and its the biggest one in here.
Hey can you explain how you walk forward with the camera looking at the mobs? when i try to do it it fucks up totally..
Gratefull for help!
Nice videos!!
yeah Ive been having the same issue! can get them all in place but it screws me up when I start running away
EDIT: Actually I just figured it out. Its super easy yo fix. Just go to settings then camera and change camera following style to never
Hello, thanks for the great work and content you offer.
Juste thought about this : how about using a macro to cast max rank Blizzard AND rank 1 Blizzard at the same time when a clear cast comes up ?
just example "R" for max and "CTRL-R" for rank 1
So I use a downshift macro so I just hold shift to do rank 1, but I'm confused by this. Do you mean casting two spells at the same time?
@@arlaeus9491 yup, I heard some guys talking about that on discord and one of them linked a macro. I couldnt test it since I was far from home but I will definitely try this out as it would increase damage output
Arlaeus can you include your Clearcast WA/Addon?
Type !clearcast in my stream :)
Been waiting on this one
name of addons used?
I've tried this and I wouldn't say this is in any way a safe boost. It's really hit or miss on the number of mobs and reliability to kill the mobs.
I dont know if you have ever seen people that run this 24/7. they are absolute machines ;) just because you gave up on it doesn't mean it is not possible.
What if we have bare minimal gear, any shot at this or nah
If you aren't already geared out from BWL and have decent mp5 items, I would say just forget it.
@@d0k0night ill pretend i never even saw this video :P - @Arlaeus - thanks for another great video!!
i really just cant seem to live this
i get everything good and grouped but just can't seem to kill fast enough at 66, getting hit hard any time i try to switch directions on my kite
would u reccomend doing it for boosted chars?
Not really in my opinion. The gear a boost gives you is just very bad. No mp5, no hit, no spell power. Just do main stats and also low amount per item. Do ramparts aoe runs with other mages
@@sanzadoritsmyname2885 Spell power doesnt scale with Blizzard, you mainly need a ton of stam/int/spirit or mp5. "of the Eagle" gear is perfect for this *(I'm able to do it at 63/64 no problems, the 2nd pull is tricky though)
@@codydillon1174 good to know. I just was thinking with boosted gear
Been doing this a lot, it gets easier at 61 and at 62 if you are low on hit.
Got a level and a half yesterday in about 4 hours of running just the first pack. Tons of greens and herbs!
You mean the first 6 crabs?
@@AshleyOCE no no, the first group up to Mennu, but not his room.
It's around 30 or so elites.
It's in the mage FP's Slavepen video
Actually, the 2 techs in Mennu's room
Here is the video
m.ruclips.net/video/subGQYJoaHs/видео.html
@@dangusprime How good is your gear? I'm about to hit 62 and i'm in some MC, some ramparts gear. I don't know if this is viable for me to do solo
@@Vandole I have very low hit, but high stats. I'm in 7/8 T2 with solid epic off pieces.
I wasn't able to do it till 61, and 62 was even easier. I just hit 63 last night, but went to bed without doing another run.
I spec up to ice barrier then get arcane presence of mind at 61. Those clearcast pom flamestrikes put in work if placed correctly... same with clearcast max rank blizzards
Great video, thanks very much. It's taken me a couple of hours to get it down but overall, I'd say this is easier than running mara. Personally, I think it's much easier to skip the technicians on the first pull, particularly if you don't have amazing gear/mp5. When the technicians cast, they split from the pack and can make the turn more difficult. The kill phase is much quicker for pull one if you're not trying to dodge the rain of fire. For pull two, I don't think it makes much of a difference if there's the extra two technicians or not.
What if using only quest equip ?
Has anyone tested boosting with a level 60 mage vs with a level 70 mage in the lower tier dungeons (SM and Mara primarily)? I'm curious to see the disparity in xp gain due to the increased avg level. If it's a significant difference, it may be worth keeping my best geared mage at 60 exclusively for that.
10% xp difference
@@arlaeus9491 so it is probably worth it to level simply for the additional kill speed.
How about boosting full group? 4 man besides the mage?
Buena pregunta
So this tactic won't work for boosted mages or with outland gear. You need raid I assume. Pitty
It's harder but it can work. I did the first pull on my boosted mage a few hours ago, at level 62. Will try the 2nd pull later on. But difficutly ramps up and i'm new to this aoe-technique, i doubt i'll get further than that.
You mention using that setup for slavepens. What about using the same setup for other dungeons when you’re in a group 🧐
Prob wouldn't be as good as other specs you could have.
@@arlaeus9491 So, would you say this route is more of a solo build?
@@Rehsto read the title of the video
@@murlocsrock Got a smartass abroad. Titles irrelevant to builds bud. Multiple builds out there designed for shit that can be used solo, with the original intent of it not.
you have the best channel on youtube.
Where can i download kill tracker addon for tbc?
Nova Instance Tracker
hello how much exp for 3-4 ppl?
Similar to ZG experience will decrease wirh more people
Dude has 9.6k mana... kinda difficult to use max rank bliz everytime theyre stacked at lvl 62 and kill the mobs without going OOM, even if youre popping pots on CD. You're going to need to use a lot more rank 1 bliz to help mana regen and learn to turn the mobs around reliably. I did the farm without any special gear going in, but I did buy a mp5 neck and rings. Was like 30g combined on my server. mp5 is always better than max mana on this pull.
I find the 2nd part of the farm really inconsistent you should make a video more in depth about the mobs because it feels impossible to pull off solo. I just tried to have a priest to dispel every slow from the mobs and still died. Even with heals It's nearly impossible. I really find it hard to believe to aoe the 2nd part of SP. It seems like there is a lot of luck involved to get that pull down the melee only mobs is very consistent.
the trick is a free action potion while you gather, then using that weak aura for cripple, cancel blizzard and get distance every time u see cripple is used.. Then on the turnaround, you need to nova everything and block/cancel to remove cripples. Hard pre-68
@@daggy270 Bro I cant stand on the when i back they still aggro on me untill i fall down can u help me?
Why dont you jump on the box and get on the ledge in the boss room it makes the npcs run away and to you like the sm pull and others like it
Blizzard put invisible walls around that area to make it impossible to do that
Thanks love ❤️ hope
pull 2 without tier2 5piece is pain.
i still can pull it off but its inconsitent, there's a rock before the hallway where you can kite them around.
That Weakaura for cripple pls ?
It’s in the description.
is this possible as a mage with the boosted gear/outland greens/blues (im guessing not at lvl 60 but a bit higher lvl)?
first to 70 warlock boosted in slave pens from 60 solo. he did not have great gear
I tried to do this on my mage. I was solo with no one in the group. I got 0 xp. Did they make it so you don't get xp? If so how can I bypass this.
OGH Squad
This is not post nerf... you could do it before like that
TBC took out the "less exp for gray quest"
you now get full rep for any level
Is there a source on this? Couldn't find anything with google.
Is that confirmed?? All I've heard is that it doesn't work. Guess I could check hellfire on my mage haha.
@@arlaeus9491 We did do Hellfire with a boosted shaman, did all the low level quests for Honor Hold rep and he got full rep for it.
There's a new wall strat!
Missing that jump as human killed me 1/5 lol went back kiting
thank you so much for weakauras.
2nd pull tutorial is total bs doesnt work tried from 64 to 67
Does the ledge jumping not work anymore?
Invisible wall. I hate that shit.
@@Myskully14 I love that stuff!! He uses them in a lot of the videos
I mean most mages who look this up wanna level from 61 and you only used a small portion of the video for this where you also almost died + you dinged to heal you to full. I would have liked to see more 61 gameplay
Unless they fixed it elemental precision still gives 6% , but only to frost spells
In TBC it's 3%
I have a question. Does anyone have a source, where I can find best TBC gear for aoe farming? What i mean, is gear with biggest possible combination of spirit, mp5, intellect and spell damage. Cause so far, i have troubles with figuring out what gear i should chase.
Can you link your clearcasting weakaura?
Type !clearcast in my stream :)
lvl 61 run is harder then it looks not gonna lie
61 wasnt too bad 60 was where it was rly hard
LINK IS BROKEN BROOOOOO talents fyi
ffs
There’s talk about blizzard taking blizzard slow away.
Lol no there isn’t
I dont understand how is this thing not bannable...
why tf would this be bannable lul
The way you say "pull" sounds like pool.
Haha I’ve heard that before
how are you outrunning everything, everything catches up to me before i even get to 2nd room
Minor speed enchantment on boots, you need to have this. Its really cheap, just ask any enchanter to do it for some gold. I have it and I can run on the same speed/a little faster than most of Slave Pens mobs, and consequently do the whole farm nicely.
what about pala farms?
Leveling up my paladin :)
caster mobs really kills these tries....... they fuck up things so badly i wanna save them for last and just melt them with fire...
Sorry, this is a bad talent tree.
Wtaer elemental should be higher prio!
I need a good grinding spot for my 52 pally
Doing since 61 on 3 accounts with resto druid and prot pally. Druid inervate so never have mana issues on Mage and kite mobs through pally consecrate for extra damage and threat trading block they go to pally then he bouble when low back on me. Druid throws hots and hurricanes when have opportunity. Can't wait try solo (3 accounts) Botanica
So are you just fucked if that first enchanter pack is in a bad part of it's pat? Cuz that's what it seems like lol
if you're an average mage yes, if you're an above average mage you would think to use rank 1 blizzard and frost nova on the mobs behind you to stall until the pat is in the right spot