How to farm timewalking instances

[VHSForever]

Here’s what I did that doesn’t make you wait ten minutes..

-finish dungeon and wait until your group leaves
-invite twink from high level toon outside dungeon and in different zone
-make the twink leader of group
-logout of twink
-wait a couple minutes until it automatically makes the high level toon leader
-reset dungeon
-login twink and farm

I just did this so can confirm it works.

Thank you so much for this! I had no idea we could do this - I was after the boots from FoS but with 11 items in the drop pool I wasnt looking forward to that much TW spam. Farmed them today in like an hour You and OP are the best

 

[GamesLAH]

I am not getting loot in TW LK dungs with log out method. Anyone else experiencing this? 4 runs zero loot only badges

Besides RNG, there are fewer bosses. The only "extra" boss in a dungeon not on the list is Eck the Ferocious in Gundrak

 

[cletus]

Whats the point in farming it in TW vs not TW? badges? easier to just que and run

Gear. Ot just tmogs. I can take a ton of runs to get a particular item to drop. Not TW but I'm after a particular plate belt from the hydra in Underbog and I've run it something like 70+ times and it still hasn't dropped.

So take WotLK TW that just ended. There are only 2 bosses in 2/6 dungeons that drop 2H Warrior weapons. You waste a lot of time in random equeues if that's all you want. I had to run a lot of tW dungeons to get mine. Same for shields (2/6). I think both are more common in Classic TW and there are more bosses per Classic TW dungeon.

If, like me, you have a second account, I'd highly recommend having another toon on auto-follow for the dungeons to give yourself another loot chance as you can trade the gear. Doesn't work with F2P for this reason. It has to be a paid account. Still, even if you pay $15 for a month you can save a lot of time.

 

[shanker]

This might be common knowledge (although I haven’t seen it mentioned before), but I’ll put it here anyway: When a TW-week ends you can actually continue farming a TW-dungeon from that expired TW-week after it has ended.

You just need to log out inside a TW-dungeon before the TW-week ends. Afterwards, when the TW-week has ended, you will be able to log in inside that “expired” TW-dungeon where your toon logged out and still farm it in TW-mode. Right now, I’m repeatedly farming Dire Maul on my lvl 10 pala even though the Classic TW-week ended yesterday (in EU).

In other words: If there’s an item you need badly and you didn’t manage to get it to drop before the TW-week expires you can just log out inside that particular TW-dungeon before the TW-week ends, and you should be good to go

still works, just ran three players in WOTLK dungeons that i left inside. the item drops still scale as they did during the TW event item level 56 for my 10s

 

[saucymugs]

Does anyone know if you make a twink on a trial account how do you get quick gold to cancle xp and get flying? I want to boost my mains alts with it and but not sure how to get to the point of op twink quickly without paying for another account

 

[cletus]

Does anyone know if you make a twink on a trial account how do you get quick gold to cancle xp and get flying? I want to boost my mains alts with it and but not sure how to get to the point of op twink quickly without paying for another account

Boosting doesn't really work with twinks. Why? Since BFA (?), Blizzard has reduced your XP by 95% if you queue with an XP-locked toon, I think because people were boosting islands with XP-locked 110s.

A lot of people, myself included, thought it might work because it was common in Remix but in Remix most people were using 20 HOly Priests on F2P accounts so they weren't technically XP-locked. In fact, you keep accruing XP, you just don't level. Technically you could escape Pandaria and create an XP-locked toon in Remix but most people didn't do that.

Now if you happen to randomly end up in a group with a twink then you will get normal XP. You just can't queue in the same group. I tried this morning to end up in the same group as my alt and had no success. I queued both as DPS at the exact same time like 8-9 times in a row and our queues never popped simultaenously. Maybe you can get lucky but it's hard to arrange.

It's hard to stay in a group with a twink too because in TW, as of lately anyway, the healer always leaves. This is kind of dumb. They may have "instant" queues but they're not really instant. And what's better, an instant queue followed by a 10 minute clear or a 2 minute wait for a 4 minute clear?

Compounding all this there's a bug that if a full group in the dungeon queues and some unknown condition happens, the queue says "2/3 DPS". It fixes itself in ~2 minutes but you have to explain to people it's a bug, people will try leaving and re-queueing (which doesn't help) or, most likely, the healer will just leave. And if you're a twink queueing as tank (eg Fury Warrior, MW Monk) then you're better off queueing with as few DPS as possible so you may as well leave too.

Oh and that "2/3 DPS" bug has been a thing since at least 8.2. I found reports of the bug from 2019. It could be an anti-twink measure or triggered when the dungeon clears too fast. I really don't know. Some have speculated it's because of instance limits but I'm 99% sure that's not the case, in part because you NEVER see the bug when it's less than a full group.

 

[edgeofhearing]

Boosting doesn't really work with twinks. Why? Since BFA (?), Blizzard has reduced your XP by 95% if you queue with an XP-locked toon, I think because people were boosting islands with XP-locked 110s.

A lot of people, myself included, thought it might work because it was common in Remix but in Remix most people were using 20 HOly Priests on F2P accounts so they weren't technically XP-locked. In fact, you keep accruing XP, you just don't level. Technically you could escape Pandaria and create an XP-locked toon in Remix but most people didn't do that.

Now if you happen to randomly end up in a group with a twink then you will get normal XP. You just can't queue in the same group. I tried this morning to end up in the same group as my alt and had no success. I queued both as DPS at the exact same time like 8-9 times in a row and our queues never popped simultaenously. Maybe you can get lucky but it's hard to arrange.

It's hard to stay in a group with a twink too because in TW, as of lately anyway, the healer always leaves. This is kind of dumb. They may have "instant" queues but they're not really instant. And what's better, an instant queue followed by a 10 minute clear or a 2 minute wait for a 4 minute clear?

Compounding all this there's a bug that if a full group in the dungeon queues and some unknown condition happens, the queue says "2/3 DPS". It fixes itself in ~2 minutes but you have to explain to people it's a bug, people will try leaving and re-queueing (which doesn't help) or, most likely, the healer will just leave. And if you're a twink queueing as tank (eg Fury Warrior, MW Monk) then you're better off queueing with as few DPS as possible so you may as well leave too.

Oh and that "2/3 DPS" bug has been a thing since at least 8.2. I found reports of the bug from 2019. It could be an anti-twink measure or triggered when the dungeon clears too fast. I really don't know. Some have speculated it's because of instance limits but I'm 99% sure that's not the case, in part because you NEVER see the bug when it's less than a full group.

I think that the "2/3 DPS" bug is actually just because characters with their XP locked have longer queues. I was recently subbed and my queues with healers and tanks were regularly 5-10x longer than the dungeon finder said it would be. Now that I'm no longer subbed and my 20s have their xp back on, the queue times are normal again (but my 10 Druid whose XP is still locked still has the long queues).

 

[cletus]

I think that the "2/3 DPS" bug is actually just because characters with their XP locked have longer queues. I was recently subbed and my queues with healers and tanks were regularly 5-10x longer than the dungeon finder said it would be. Now that I'm no longer subbed and my 20s have their xp back on, the queue times are normal again (but my 10 Druid whose XP is still locked still has the long queues).

I queue my MW and Fury as tank so why should it show 2/3 DPS?

I do agree it's twink-related somehow. I'm just not sure how.

 

[Seclusioned]

Boosting doesn't really work with twinks. Why? Since BFA (?), Blizzard has reduced your XP by 95% if you queue with an XP-locked toon, I think because people were boosting islands with XP-locked 110s.

A lot of people, myself included, thought it might work because it was common in Remix but in Remix most people were using 20 HOly Priests on F2P accounts so they weren't technically XP-locked. In fact, you keep accruing XP, you just don't level. Technically you could escape Pandaria and create an XP-locked toon in Remix but most people didn't do that.

Now if you happen to randomly end up in a group with a twink then you will get normal XP. You just can't queue in the same group. I tried this morning to end up in the same group as my alt and had no success. I queued both as DPS at the exact same time like 8-9 times in a row and our queues never popped simultaenously. Maybe you can get lucky but it's hard to arrange.

It's hard to stay in a group with a twink too because in TW, as of lately anyway, the healer always leaves. This is kind of dumb. They may have "instant" queues but they're not really instant. And what's better, an instant queue followed by a 10 minute clear or a 2 minute wait for a 4 minute clear?

Compounding all this there's a bug that if a full group in the dungeon queues and some unknown condition happens, the queue says "2/3 DPS". It fixes itself in ~2 minutes but you have to explain to people it's a bug, people will try leaving and re-queueing (which doesn't help) or, most likely, the healer will just leave. And if you're a twink queueing as tank (eg Fury Warrior, MW Monk) then you're better off queueing with as few DPS as possible so you may as well leave too.

Oh and that "2/3 DPS" bug has been a thing since at least 8.2. I found reports of the bug from 2019. It could be an anti-twink measure or triggered when the dungeon clears too fast. I really don't know. Some have speculated it's because of instance limits but I'm 99% sure that's not the case, in part because you NEVER see the bug when it's less than a full group.

Well given that there is a macro to bypass the issue, It will be fixed soon, bliz already said they were aware and are working on it. But who knows how long. I have level 11 twinked over 1000 TW dungeons now since the start of the anniversary event. Even with a full group, you CAN get up to a 4 minute wait between dungeons. Ive also seen it literally take 5 seconds. But My level 11 can clear every tw in under 4 minutes. So max 8 mins a run. But more often, its a 2minute wait, so 6 minutes is more closer to average. Level 20s even min maxxed gear isnt as strong as 11. Ill take the delay between dungeons, I even have macros to explain things. I usually get a full group to stick with me till Im done. But Ive had alot of compliments from other TW runners thats ran with other twinks. Specifically Im not a "rush puller". I ensure I have aggro on everything, I watch my threat monitors on party members, I usually take everythying down to 10% health if not kill it and let the team wipe up the last 10% so I gain my war speed buff between kills.

I can boost a toon from 10-80 in less than 4 hours. I dont sell boosts, but a guy did "tip" me 250k for letting him stick with me while I was boosting my alt.

 

[cletus]

Well given that there is a macro to bypass the issue, It will be fixed soon, bliz already said they were aware and are working on it. But who knows how long. I have level 11 twinked over 1000 TW dungeons now since the start of the anniversary event. Even with a full group, you CAN get up to a 4 minute wait between dungeons. Ive also seen it literally take 5 seconds. But My level 11 can clear every tw in under 4 minutes. So max 8 mins a run. But more often, its a 2minute wait, so 6 minutes is more closer to average. Level 20s even min maxxed gear isnt as strong as 11. Ill take the delay between dungeons, I even have macros to explain things. I usually get a full group to stick with me till Im done. But Ive had alot of compliments from other TW runners thats ran with other twinks. Specifically Im not a "rush puller". I ensure I have aggro on everything, I watch my threat monitors on party members, I usually take everythying down to 10% health if not kill it and let the team wipe up the last 10% so I gain my war speed buff between kills.

I can boost a toon from 10-80 in less than 4 hours. I dont sell boosts, but a guy did "tip" me 250k for letting him stick with me while I was boosting my alt.

There's a macro to bypass the 95% XP nerf for queueing with XP locked twinks?!?!

 

[lofi]

There's a macro to bypass the 95% XP nerf for queueing with XP locked twinks?!?!

https://sites.google.com/view/betis10stwinkguide/set-up#h.ihh7r5f020pp

 

[Seclusioned]

There's a macro to bypass the 95% XP nerf for queueing with XP locked twinks?!?!

Yeah. You can use the one with (1) instead of 0 to go into tw. But you have to be the last one left to click enter, then use the macro instead of clicking enter.

 

[berbix]

Is the macro only needed when forming the group, after the initial dungeon, can we just queue normally as party ?