Help! Palidan and Priest dual-boxing!

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! :)

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Originally Posted by 'Team Myth',index.php?page=Thread&postID=213107#post2131 07

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

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Start questing.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by 'Otlecs',index.php?page=Thread&postID=213117#post2 13117

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.

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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!!!

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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.