What's the easiest 2-man team to level?

[Groschen]

Hi,

I'm looking to RAF-level two characters up to 80 via dual-boxing.
What would be the easiest team for a novice dualboxer?

Obviously DKs get a head-start, but 1-55 isn't that big a piece of the leveling-time pie, so there may be a better choice? Two arcane mages?

I'm not looking to use the characters competitively while controlling both, I just want to get through leveling content easily.

I realize that starting characters from scratch would give me more grantable levels, but I don't want to base my decision off of that. If DKs are my best bet I'll gladly take their 12 levels.

Thanks in advance for any pointers, infos or tips.
Groschen

Group Composition sub-forum (yet?). As I just registered I thought this was the best place to post my question. Please move this thread as you see fit if you think it doesn't belong.]

[Umbaalo]

Hello!

Typically, any 2 dps classes or a dps/healer combo are equally fast and easy to level. To keep it as simple as possible, I'd recommend 2 of the same class. I'd also pick a class that you want to play, because if you aren't having fun and enjoying the particular playstyle associated with the class you are leveling, what's the point? ;)

[Khatovar]

A class with a rez ability is also helpful, since stupid deaths do happen out in the world. Having a shaman is always my favorite, so if I do something lame like leaving my toons to get eaten by wandering bears while I go make coffee, I can pop my ankh and then rez the other guy{s} and just pick up where I left off.

[Akoko]

2 mages immediately comes to mind. It was my first team.

If you go Arcane, it's very easy to manage the dps "rotations".

[Littleburst]

2 mages is easiest. Or hunters or so. I'd suggest going with 2 dps chars.

Healer + dps will make the healer useless, since there's not much healing needed while questing.....

[Jeremiah]

I'm doing 3 hunters at the moment and having levelled a lot of other combinations, I can agree that with Littleburst that Hunters are the easiest.

You have so much power with multiple pets, feign death, disengage, distracting shot and traps. You won't have any troubles levelling to 85 in a week

[Sam DeathWalker]

All the above advise is correct but I would go with Pal / Shaman.

Prot Pal is the tank and the Resto Shaman is your healer.

You can group with dps peoples really easy as you have the main part of a group all set. With the group bonus and way faster killing of mobs with 3 more dps helping you it might even be faster then 2 mages, although not sure about that. Think about it though you will get 3 dps players to join you I am sure in under 5 mintues of LFG.

Tank will take all damage so you will die very little, esp with shaman healing/buffs. Concecration will keep mobs on the tank.

Ya two mages will be faster probably and they can be used to level up characters later but if you are planing to play two - five characters then you want your tank/healer as the start and add mages as you go. Playing mages is to easy you need to learn tanking and healing to be complete.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The easiest duo to level is hunters. Two tanks, simple rotations, very little repair costs while leveling, etc. Warlocks would be #2; they're a little more difficult to macro but the VW pet is actually a bit better tank for killing elite quest mobs. Mages would be #3 because you have to manage aggro/CC.

For novices, pet classes are easily the most forgiving. (And no, I don't consider perma-mage-pets as a real pet class.)

[blast3r]

If I had to just pick two toons, I would probably go with 2 druids dual-spec'd. balance/feral balance/tree.

[lans83]

I agree with Sam, level up your own tank/healer combo. Those two make up the group for dungeons when you get ready to run them. Pally tanks are easiest and have the best survival rate for tanks, macro management is simple. I just posted a new /castsequence setup on the Macro section you can look at under the Ret setup thread. Healer is a player choice/preference. My only healer is a priest that I have let go since Cata came out, but will pick back up. Druids are best for mobility. If you're gonna stick to dual-boxing by the time you hit 85, you can gear up the two to run raids and advertise/sell your services for off/main tanking raids once you're good enough. Tell them you will supply your own healer and you wont' have to worry about healing the other players in the raid. With this setup, ques in randoms will also be instant. If you put your healer on /follow and run as a slave, learn how to set up the repeater regions if using ISBoxer and use either Healbot or Clique for healing instead of setting up macros for targeting group/raid members. Makes healing alot easier this way. Dps can be found with no problem, tanks and healers are far and few between. Especially finding ones that won't give you problems. Even old world content can be ran with just a tank and healer combo. May take longer, but is manageable. My first team was a Disc Priest leading 3 hunters through dungeons. Bear tanks bounced aggro around and I healed them with Healbot on my main. Outside of instances on quests, healer just drove them around with little healing to be done.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ya healer is player choice but I am thinking restro shaman as chain heal always hits the right guys who need it the most, riptide and earth shield take no skill. Priest and Druid (with the offtank ability of Druid as stated) are good of course but chain heal is the winner to my mind. Why make complicated grids and require you to determine who has the lowest health when chain heal does it for you?

If you only run 2 then ya healing maximization would be easy with the priest, but if you plan and 5 or 10 boxing the ease of the shaman is best (although a circle of healing priest will work also).

[Littleburst]

Where it eventually all comes down to if you want to focus on tanking/healing an instance or not. The waiting times for the LFD for dps are like 5 minutes for me.

So if you're just starting off with boxing, just dpsing sounds like a nice and simple option. I did the same with shaman. The gap between boxing just dps and a healer + tank is quite massive.

[Khatovar]

Keep in mind, too, there is always re-specing and dual-specing. No reason to try to level as a tank and healer out on your own when you can use a tank+healer for dungeons and run in secondary spec as 2 DPS, or 1 DPS and the other as tank or healer for "tough" kills.

Especially if you can run classes that can use leveling gear as double-duty, such as ret/prot pala, ele/resto shaman, balance/resto druid or bear/cat druid....and so on.

[Groschen]

Thanks for all the advice!

I think I will go with 2 hunters for now and let the pets do the tanking. (No pun intended. :D)

I'll save your great class ideas/combos to dps/tank/heal for when I am farther down on my multi-boxing route.

[Oatboat]

Thanks for all the advice!

I think I will go with 2 hunters for now and let the pets do the tanking. (No pun intended. :D)

I'll save your great class ideas/combos to dps/tank/heal for when I am farther down on my multi-boxing route.


what pun?

[Sam DeathWalker]

Could mean that pets live in a tank?

Or could mean that pets will die while tanking and "tank" (sometimes means fail).

Or it went over my head also lol ...

[Groschen]

Regarding the "pun":
I wanted to riff of the phrase "let them do the talking". Well, I guess there's not much talking in WoW, so my bad. ;)

Progress Report:
Wanted to let you know how my team's doing:
It took me /played 3 days 10h for them to go from 1-81 with questing only.

Here is the cast sequence / macro I used most of the time. (Also known as the I-win button. :D)


/assist NameOfMaster
/petattack
/castsequence reset=combat/target Hunter's Mark, Concussive Shot, Arcane Shot, Kill Command, Steady Shot, Arcane Shot, Kill Command

It wasn't hard to do, just took me a while (see above).
Fun Facts: I only did one complete (i.e. with Achievement) zone in Outlands (Hellfire Peninsula from 58-65)
Same in Northrend where I spent the most time in Grizzly Hills.
RAF goes all the way 'til you ding 81. It's really painful going from almost 100k exp to around 30k per quest. :(
I'll need some time now to stomach that drop and keep on leveling. :o