Well, first up, account sharing is just begging Blizzard to ban both accounts. As a multiboxer, even a dual-boxer, you're likely to get reported every now and then, and just about the first thing that'll get looked at is whether the account names match. If they dont....it's ban-hammer time (as a number of recent threads here attest to).
As to the attack sequence you laid out, you can use what's called a "castsequence" macro, which would in your case look like this:
/castsequence Corruption, Curse of Agony, Immolate
You could bind that to a single key and just keep pressing that key to advance to the next spell cast. As to the use of assist, you could preface each of the Paladins spellcasts/attacks with a "/assist focus" so you didn't have to keep hitting your F1 key. You can use a reset function as well in castsequence to have it automatically reset back to the start after a given period of time like this:
/castsequence [reset=10] Corruption, Curse of Agony, Immolate
That'd be a pretty basic setup, a kind of crude one to be sure, but a step up from what you're using.
Ultimately though, the tools exist now to, with only a small expense, configure what's called a "focusless" setup, allowing whichever character you play from to be automatically assisted by the other character. Furthermore, other techniques called "Click to Move" and "Interact With Target" (CtM and IwT respectively) allow you to get melee characters to move in and attack targetted mobs (or interact with targetted NPC's as well). All of these techniques have many other powerful functions as well.
To do this, you'd be looking at something like Innerspace/ISBoxer (see the links at the top of these forums) and an add-on called Jamba (useful for follow strobing for melee characters amongst many other things).
As to which classes to box, for duel-boxing there's a few basic strategies you may consider:
1. Tank/Healer: dual-box a tank (paladin,warrior,druid or DK - paladin will be easist) with a "pocket healer". This would mean you'd only look for 3 friends to supply DPS roles for 5-man dungeons.
2. DPS/DPS - two dps - if you make them the same class, a la 2 mages say, you'll greatly simplify your efforts, almost completely eliminating all macros (save for some /assists). Has PvP potential as well.
There's free software available you could install to broadcast your keystrokes from your main pc to the secondary, though using a second PC for dual-boxing is usually un-necessary, since most any machine that can run 1 WoW client, can run 2. The better software (in my personal opinion) is the paid-for stuff and well worth the expense.
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