WoW RAF - Fastest possible duo to 60?

[JoKer76]

I have played WoW on and off for a few year, but never really got into it until recently (my main being a lvl 19 Paladin). So, when I saw the bonuses being offered for the RAF program, I subbed a new account and linked it to my existing account. Now I have 90 days and I want to make the most out of the offering.

I would like to know if anyone can suggest the best duo for boxing to 60 the fastest?

I initially tried Warr/Priest but found this combo to be extremely slow because it takes forever to kill things. Good utility, just slow. My next experiment was Shaman/Shaman. These guys are currently at level 8 and seem to kill much faster than the Warr/Priest team. Should I stick with the Shamen, or is there a quicker killing combo with heals that I should be trying?

I'm not really concerned with "what I want to play", my goal is to simply get as many characters to 60 over the next 90 days so I can grant levels to my vet account.

Looking for suggestions/opinons/questing options/macro setup tips/etc.

Thanks in advance!

[Kedash00]

the fastest possible class combo would prolly be a rogue/healer for single targets or mage/priest for aoe grinding. My rogue could smoke single targets but always had to stop to bandage (this was way back when i was soloing)

I used to run with my brother alot, he made a priest and i was the mage and we would aoe grind, get like 3 bars each pull.

[Bravo]

ummm hunter/hunter?? this class just eats anything in front of them, I had a hard time running instances with 5 shams, 5 hunters is a breeze. You don't even have to stay on the mob, tag it, move on and let your pets kill it.

[Dikt]

I'm currently leveling up a paladin and a warlock together. I won't claim that they kill things the fastest (probably double mages for that) but it does have the benefit of zero downtime. Paladin tanks while Warlock has Salvation up. Warlock dots everything up and then watches them die. Lifetap for mana whenever health is full and paladin can heal up the warlock as needed. And you can put Soulstone on the paladin so you never spend any time having to run back to your body if either die.

I'm planning to AOE grind later on, paladin tanks while Warlock kills everything but my guys aren't quite high enough for that yet (and I'm not quite skilled enough at controlling all their abilities at the same time yet, only started this week).

[JoKer76]

So far, I'm liking the Hunter/Hunter idea. However, the lack of healing is somewhat concerning. I know you can heal pets, but if the mob gets on one of the toons I fear they will go down rather quickly.

And suggestions regarding setup? Keyclone mappings, etc?

The Mage/Priest idea is also compelling, due to bubble/AoE. I assume at high levels, this would make AoE grinding pretty worthwhile. But grinding makes me cringe. I would prefer to stick to questing, because the effort/reward ratio is rather high with the triple EXP bonus. However, I am open to grinding suggestions if the experience is good enough.

[Lyonheart]

i have not done less than 5 at a time for awhile. But last night i started working on my two level 40 hunters. Even in noob gear they rip stuff up faster than almost anything else. I have done them all at some point. I have two lvl 70 hunters already. They were my first duo to 70 and its been so long i forgot WHY i made them. I figured out in beta that two hunters would own for soloabilty. Now that I'm doing it again..WoW! And yes its an RaF this time around so SUPAH fast!

[Stav]

One thing to keep in mind with hunter's is that your pet's are going to be lagging (unless it's changed so they benefit from quest experience), so you may end up spending time every couple of levels taming a new pet. Not a huge deal but something to think about. On the plus side a relatively close level pet should hold agro off of the hunter's just fine up until you get feign death and then pulling agro isn't really an issues anyways.

On a related note I've just took a pair of elemental shaman up from 34 to 60 with RAF benefits and it went very quickly, the 3x quest experience keeps you on the move and astral recall is simply amazing for cutting down travel time (*cough* the Arathi Highlands Stromguard chain).

-Stav

[vultuk]

Heya.

On monday 11th Aug I started on the RaF levelling 2 characters. I dual boxed a Hunter and Warlock and they both hit 60 on Saturday after a total /played time of 2 days 21 hours. This was the fastest i've ever levelled in (fastest solo levelling time was previously 4 days 3 hours for me). The combo here with pet is just perfect for grinding and pulls generally went....

DoT up 1st mob with Affliction lock, set void walker on this mob
Dot up 2nd mob with lock, set hunter pet (ravager) on this mob
Dot up 3rd mob with lock and leave hunter attacking (Hunter pet would kill 2nd mob very quick and then take aggro on 3rd)
Dot up 4th mob with lock and drain tank.

Rinse Repeat. I'm not sure if there would be a faster combo than this to be honest. Maybe a Lock - Lock would work but I actually think you'd be killing mobs to fast to get the synergy between when the pets were finishing combat.

[JoKer76]

Heya.

On monday 11th Aug I started on the RaF levelling 2 characters. I dual boxed a Hunter and Warlock and they both hit 60 on Saturday after a total /played time of 2 days 21 hours. This was the fastest i've ever levelled in (fastest solo levelling time was previously 4 days 3 hours for me). The combo here with pet is just perfect for grinding and pulls generally went....

DoT up 1st mob with Affliction lock, set void walker on this mob
Dot up 2nd mob with lock, set hunter pet (ravager) on this mob
Dot up 3rd mob with lock and leave hunter attacking (Hunter pet would kill 2nd mob very quick and then take aggro on 3rd)
Dot up 4th mob with lock and drain tank.

Rinse Repeat. I'm not sure if there would be a faster combo than this to be honest. Maybe a Lock - Lock would work but I actually think you'd be killing mobs to fast to get the synergy between when the pets were finishing combat.

Good info, thank you! Have a couple question though. I think Keyclone would be a good tool if using 2 of the same class (Hunter/Hunter) but what do you use for your Lock/Hunter setup? I would be interested in knowing the methodology and leveling tips. Are you questing at all, or mostly griding? Any tips on locations, etc?

[vultuk]

On RaF Questing is optimal. Triple XP on quests means you're only doing around 5 quests per level right the way up to 60. I didn't do any grinding. I specifically just did "Kill 10 of this type" quests or "Collect the blah blah from tumtum's dead body" you know the type! I did do a few quests that were "Collect X items" But only when I knew the items were good drop rates or the quest led on to bigger and better things.

My quest progression from 1 - 60 was basically

Draenei starting place - 12
Darkshore and Azshara - 25
Wetlands and Redridge - 30
Duskwood and STV - 35 ( <3 Nessingway )
Shimmering Flats and Feralas - 40
Tanaris - 45
STV and Hinterlands - 50
Felwood and Winterspring - 55
EPL and WPL - 58
Hellfire - 60

That was the basic areas. I did a few quests elsewhere when I remembered they were easy, like a few in Hillsbrad / Arathi etc But that was the main progression.

As for using keyclone (i'm mac based so I use clonekeys but hey). Getting the sync right between lock and hunter would be difficult so the only thing I really used it for was sending in the pet and hitting autoshot on the hunter. My lock was the main character and the hunter followed, the majority of dmg came from the DoTs from the lock or the hunters pet so it was simply a case of just letting the hunter keep aggro off the warlock by melee (or shooting if it was a ranged mob) so the lock could get on with killing the next mob. With the hunters pet on defensive it would quickly finish off its own target then onto the hunters target. So that's how I did it anyway.

Hope that helps and there wasn't too much waffle! lol