Help! Palidan and Priest dual-boxing!

[Team Myth]

I just started getting into dual-boxing and sofar it has gone horribly wrong, I have made many new characters in hopes to find a good 2-man leveling group but sofar i've only been able to hit level 6 in four hours! Normally while doing this solo I could hit level 10 in two hours. Is this normal for begineers? Is their any tips or tricks with leveling? Or are you guys/girls just super humans?

My new dual-boxing team named Team Myth (Palidan and a Priest on the server Medivh) havn't started questing yet due to me not wanting to mess up their /played time like the others.

I have also looked at the 1-60 post but it has only sped things by maybe 30 minutes. ):

If you have any tips/tricks or links to a forum or video that can help me please post. I know that I can't be the only one this confused!

Hope from hearing from you guys soon, Thanks in advance! :)

[Tight]

havn't started questing yet due to me not wanting to mess up their /played time like the others.

Start questing.

[Team Myth]

Sorry, what I meant to say is that I have quested before with dual-boxing, 2 mages infact, and it took me 4 hours to hit level 6. While with the 1-60 addons, it took me 3 1/2 hours to get to level 6.

[shaeman]

Did you use the refer a friend facility when you setup these accounts?

A lot of the timings on this site have been produced with the RAF bonus in effect which speeds things up immensely.

[Team Myth]

No, I did not use the recruit/refer a friend for the account, due to the second account being used as a substitute for money.

Long story short, a friend gave it to me to clear his debts.

[Otlecs]

I can't answer your question because there's no real magic formula for levelling - you just kill stuff and quest - but this is bad news for you:

Long story short, a friend gave it to me to clear his debts
Blizzard don't recognise the transfer of accounts, and you can't actually change ownership through the account management page.

If you ever get investigated - and it's only a matter of time when you multibox - you will almost certainly get both of your accounts banned, simply because they're not both in the same name.

[ElectronDF]

I don't want to scare you, but people put LOTS of time into boxing. Sorry. You kill stuff 7 times faster, but you do it for 5 people, so you gain a little, but give some back also. But I would guess at first, you kill/do stuff about 2 times faster and still have to do it for 5 people. So you actually lose ground. The main reason is collection quests, learning what works and making things work. Macros help. I try to keep about 3 macros super simple and you can add to them later. Keybindings and key broadcasting helps. And time helps to know what to do to make things faster.

Macros for me starting out:
/cast [target=player1-target] DPSSpell
/cast [target=player1-target-target] HealSpell
I moved to focus after a while, where you focus your main on your alts and then all your macros never change, even if you change who is leading (focused).

Keybindings, I got a Logitech G15 keyboard and used 3 keys, yeah, 18 G-keys, and I used 3 of them. There were mapped to CTRL-Numpad1, 2, 3. I went into the hotbars/keybindings of each char and mapped them to a hotbar that I never used and done. 3 Keys that did 90% of what I needed, attack, heal, misc. I added more later (mount, accept all macro, just pets attack, melee, etc) but starting out, 3 should get you going.

For keybroadcasting, I chose HotKeyNet. Simple, free, easy and useful. 99% of it is push a key on one char and the other chars push that key also.

For knowing what to do better, that takes time. Maybe a bubble(priest) before a charge helps so the priest doens't have to heal and can help DPS (mobs die faster). Maybe using more DPS gear (Agi, Str, 2H, etc) makes mobs die faster since you have a backup healer. Maybe using just attacks that don't use mana (or having 2 of them, one full DPS, one just no mana attack) means less downtime. Maybe one char is WAY behind, and you leave your healer out of the group so as to not leech or ruin (high levels lower exp) exp on your main. That comes with time.

Just take it slow and have fun. Hope that helps and good luck.

[Sychosys]

Yeah just a quick basic idea set of ideas

You level in multi-boxings via Quests, not Grinding. You want to try and avoid 'pick em up' quests unless they are something fairly easy that will just be done over time. The ones that are easiest are going to be the quests to gather tradeable items.

Also, if you are just boosting (only playing one of the accounts at a time) then you are missing out there as well unless one of the characters is a fairly high level. Level 6 should take about 2-3 hours if I recall properly.

[TeK23]

Without RAF you are actually going to loose XP per mob as it's split and you are not getting a decent bonus.

So it will be alot slower leveling both toons but the quests will be a ton easier. Right now you should be focused on completing all quests within a zone and grind them out FAST!!

Go get Questhelper if you don't have it and just focus doing the quests as fast as possible and getting as many as you can. Also once you get Con with your paladin, quest and run into zones with tons of mobs and AoE them up. It's the only way to increase your leveling speed as you are grouped.

[Team Myth]

If you ever get investigated - and it's only a matter of time when you multibox - you will almost certainly get both of your accounts banned, simply because they're not both in the same name.



I thank you for your reply but the friend is a real life, long-time friend who owed me some money. I never changed any of the settings on the account itself, which means he can log on to it any time he wants. As if I was just experimenting on his account.

Anyways I guess I will just stick with the slow leveling and maybe someday I'll get faster. Hopefully its soon because I'm not the most patient person in the world.


(EDIT)
I just read a thread that said when dual-boxing or multi-boxing the accounts have to be under your name. (or the same name). Dang, I guess i'll have to buy another account sometime soon. This time with RAF!!!

(EDIT)

New account and sofar everything is 10x faster with the RAF xp increase. I highly suggest RAF to anyone who is thinking of dual-boxing.

[Otlecs]

real life, long-time friend who owed me some money. I never changed any of the settings on the account itself, which means he can log on to it any time he wants. As if I was just experimenting on his account.
It doesn't matter a jot, and in fact this is worse because you're in proper account sharing territory, which has its own set of red flags for Blizz on the server-side.

It wouldn't matter if it was your wife's account.

When you get reported, a GM will check you out and if the account details do not match then they will suspend your account. It happens all the time.

I don't intend to belabour the point any further, but you will get both accounts banned if you continue to play the way you are.

This forum is littered with stories of people doing similar things in the past and losing everything.

The Terms of Use (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html) are crystal clear that account sharing and transfers are absolutely forbidden:

Blizzard does not recognize the transfer of WoW Accounts or Blizzard Accounts (each an "Account"). You may not purchase, sell, gift or trade any Account, or offer to purchase, sell, gift or trade any Account
And:


You may not share the Account or the Login Information with anyone
Both of these terms are frequently enforced, especially against multiboxers who are frequently brought to the attention of GMs by "helpful" players.....

I have no axe to grind, and don't intend to follow-up here, but it seems to me that you're blissfully unaware of the risk at which you are placing both accounts so I wanted to be certain that you fully understand the risks involved.

Hopefully you now do.

Other than that, happy boxing! With your own accounts! :)

[Fef]

This forum is littered with stories of people doing similar things in the past and losing everything.
I would even add that we have quite a few stories about people suspended for no legitimate reason. They simply were reported and got investigated by a miss-informed GM (happened to me). So really, you should stay on the safe side of Blizzard's rules.

[falsfire3401]

In terms of time to level, I just finished leveling a prot pally + holy priest duo to 60. Time to 60 is somewhat slow, especially compared to solo leveling, but I consider the fact that I leveled TWO characters to 60 in this timespan, not just one.

Oh and yeah, no RAF for me. I already owned both accounts.

My /played at 60 was about 5 days 6 hours (ouch!)

I played about 2 hours a day, 5 days a week and it took a couple months to hit 60. In the later levels (40+) I was typically dinging one level per short play session.

[Team Myth]

Ok, just so everyone knows.

-I bought a new WoW account

-I am doing RAF

-I am not using the other account (gifted account)

-I have throughly read WoWs rules on accounts and much more

I am all legally good to go, and thanks for pointing this out guys before I got to involed like am now. I am still leveling a preist and a palidan, and I am currently at level 22 in 6 hours.

(EDIT) PS: my signature is out of date

[Fef]

Way to go ! Enjoy the trip. :)