[Theory/Research] Boost effectiveness

[Ak01]

I have been a leecher for sometime, but i want to share my theory with you ppl.
This is theory so far (since i cant test it being at work) but ill test it with real values this evening and for sure edit this post to put values and compleate guide what lvls is best for boosting, what instances and grp setup.

Everyone who have some gold at theyr bags and bored to lvl up his small char twink/alt frome time to time ask friends for boost him or even pays some random ppl for quick exp run. As i read on Wowiki about game exp mechanics it looks pretty simple to count:

Example:
A duo of levels 35 and 34 kill a mob of level 30.
CL1 = 35
CL2 = 34
ML = 30
MXP = 128 (the solo XP as calculated for the level 35 char)
XP1 = 128 * 35 / 69 = 64.9275 (rounds up to 65)
XP2 = 128 * 34 / 69 = 63.0725 (rounds down to 63)



Example 2 (boosting)
CL1 = 15
CL2 = 70
lets assume mob gives 100xp (this doesnt matter because it will be scaled anyway with lvl and graph will still look the same, only with 100 you can count it as %)
So exp given from mob will be divided between lvl 15 and 70
XP = (exp of mob) * (lvl of char)/(summ lvl of all chars in grp)
XP1 = 100 * 15/(15+70) = 17,64
XP2 (leeched by lvl 70) = (same formula) = 82.35

Lets assume same formula for 5 man group and compare.


As for the assumption i took 2 groups

Group 1 (blue)
Me (lvl 15)
leecher1 (lvl 10)
leecher2 (lvl 10)
leecher3 (lvl 10)
Booster (lvl 40-70)

Group 2 (red)
Me (lvl 15)
Booster (lvl 40-70)



here you can see
X values = exp gained (%)
Y values = lvl of booster
Red line shows 2 man grp
Blue line shows 5 man grp

As you can see from graph if u using lvl 70 (for example your friend who just bored and want to help) find 4 more lowbies and it will be better benefit for you in a matter of exp.
If u using lvl 40 to boost your lvl 15 - way better to do it with him alone.

That looks fine and you seem to gave great deal buying cheap boost of some guy lvl 40 and getting like 10% more exp per run, but i started to think and if you recount time wasted on boost it will look abit different.

Assume that lvl 70 will be boosting 10% faster than lvl 65, lvl 65 will do it 10% faster than lvl 60, lvl 55 10% faster than lvl 50 etc
(pure theory - lvl 40 will do it almost 3 times slower than lvl 70)
then if you take time in calculation you will see this graph:


As you can see it looks "inverted"
this one show effectivness of exp/time depending of lvl of booster for same 2 grps.
If you take time on account lvl 70 5 man have best effectiveness than anything else.





That was my contribution. I made it for few purposes:
1st to show community im not lust lazy leecher.
2d to do something ppl might be intrested in.

If this info looks useless - pls dont flame em alot just say that i failed
If this looks interesting ill continue this research and add real values and arrange it.




P.s. I know my english suck donkey ass, sorry about that.

[jackdaripper]

umm dude wtf is this about? but i think its another EPIC FAIL for a leech to get out of he's status ... nice try

[Stjimmy]

Lol, somebody has a boring job... I am too tired to read all of this at the moment.

@jackdaripper
At least his is attempting to do something creative. Unlike most leechers that repost something.

[krazy1killa]

Dude jack I guess your just a lil on the slow side he is explaining how if someone is boosting you to get more exp for your time. while you sit there and say its a EPIC fail when you prolly cant do the math involved to crank out these graphs.

Very interesting and helpful.
+rep from me!

[Ak01]

umm dude wtf is this about? but i think its another EPIC FAIL for a leech to get out of he's status ... nice try

This is about my sence of perfect time saving =) Im lvling another char (got 3x lvl 70 so far) and yes i got really boring job atm so i was thinking what to do and started to think how to lvl up fastest way possible trough most sucky low lvls - i really hate those low lvl quests. I could just post smth like that

"Guys its way better if u buy a boost to fill grp out with low lvls - that way you get more exp and gain rep on server as a noob-helper witch possible only benefit you)" but i digged more in math (that because my work is pure math, my education was pure math almost), to see if its really true =) thats the reason i did that. If i failed - who cares =) just ask admin to delete this. If im not i can turn this into a boosting guide.

[edet123]

"umm dude wtf is this about? but i think its another EPIC FAIL for a leech to get out of he's status ... nice try"

Don't say he "epic fail" if you dosent understand what he is saying, idiot...

[heartless-x]

Gj this is a perfect theory, not an epic fail

[Chrono]

Good theory crafting. You did forget one aspect of group xp though. For groups of three or more WoW adds group xp.

Pulled from WoWWiki;

Modifiers:

1 person group = 1.0
2 person group = 1.0
3 person group = 1.166
4 person group = 1.3
5 person group = 1.4


Add this into your equation and graph, I'd like to see the results.

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[Ak01]

Chrono i actually added it - just forgot to mention it in this thread =)

[gogobananas]

umm dude wtf is this about? but i think its another EPIC FAIL for a leech to get out of he's status ... nice try

More like you're epic fail :/

[aabbcc]

A+++ Kinda useless but the math is there and now i know the best way to PL , ty bro

[deadca7]

EPIC FAIL

doh >_<, I hate it when people say epic fail when they don't even know what they are talking about.


This is very interesting, I have been boosting some friend for the past weeks and this will save me some time... Thanks man +rep from the cat

[Ak01]

Thanks cat =)

[Ak01]

UPDATE: Tested it in party last night (stockades)
1st. me lvl 21 booster lvl 70 elites gave me like ~54 exp/kill
2s me lvl 21 booster lvl 70 and 2 leechers lvl 20 each killl gave me ~78 exp/kill
didnt done math cuz i had loads of job today but i guess this is enough proof... oh and those two guys was sooo happy about free exp =)

[MilkMoney]

Good theory id say