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

[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. )

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. )

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. )

/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.