Best 2-man comp with my heirlooms - REWARD: Referral

[rfarris]

I haven't multi-boxed in a couple of years, but I'm going to pick it up again.

I have RAF

I have full INT cloth heirlooms.
I have full AGI mail heirlooms. (Damn, I wish I had some INT mail -- my main is an ele Shaman)
I have full DPS plate heirlooms.
I have full AGI leather heirlooms.

If I had some INT mail I'd be thinking an ele shaman and a warlock, but I don't. With the heirlooms I have, what is the best 2-man comp for RAF? (I have all 11 classes at lvl 90 - any class is ok, but I suck at tanking.)

REWARD: I am a newbie at multi-boxing. The best answer with full explanation will get my referral when I purchase ISBoxer this weekend.

[JohnGabriel]

The path to level is very easy, and putting your plate warrior tank in cloth heirlooms just for the exp boost is also an option.

Once you get close to 80-85 it gets a bit tougher though.

[luxlunae]

The amount of stats on the gear means that you really don't need to worry about armor classes at all, you'll be blowing up whatever you hit even with mismatched armor. I'd say that the most fun comp for me is a tank/healer (whichever tank you like most paired with whatever healer you know best) if you like to LFD. Also, if you normally suck at tanking, levelling a toon exclusively through tanking might be an easy way to get better. Just mark your main target and heal yourself! (healing dps is optional while levelling most of the way). I had a lot of fun with a prot pally/resto druid in wrath. I gave them non matching names and non matching guilds and left the healer on follow most of the time and no one ever said anything.

Ele sham is a great boxing class, warlock somewhat less so, but you can certainly put them both in the cloth and have fun. With RAF everything melts, so its really just going to be play what you love.

[candlebox]

Double Enh shaman. Massive burst and self healing. Totems for oh shit moments, and you can go caster or double healer. Might even be able to run RBGS as that set.

Locks and hunters are awesome, but have a lot of abilities. Both are getting the nerf bat in 5.4. Locks are the best flag carriers in pvp right now, which defies logic.

Its always been Prot pal x 4 shamans. I myself run multi group comps, but its best to start on something you will be somewhat effective. The part that people dont mention to you right off that bat with boxing is that you will be drowning when you dive right in. Yes there are resources, guides, videos, posts, etc. But none of that will come close to anything but the real experience. What seems so simple can turn in to a nightmare in seconds with a stuck broadcast runner etc.

Go with the easiest mid road class(shaman), and start having fun learning. Which may not always be the case. Trial and error. You are about to drop into the most interesting gaming community, and you will have to earn it.

Keep your chin up and broadcast all off.

[Sservis]

I don't have a suggestion on pair composition, but rather suggestions on structure.

Heirlooms are easy to acquire (if you have an active AH). A full set of Darkmoon quest items is 80 tokens (@90). Professions give another 20 if you have all the secondaries, -3 per secondary missing (might not be worth leveling archeology/fishing/etc). The experience heirlooms cost 110 tokens and upgrade for 40 more. I wouldn't let what you have restrict you if you can collect a couple full kits of Darkmoon quest items (starts July 1).

Even if your goal is only a two person team, consider using more accounts to increase your yield at least through 80. Call your main account A, and the recruit account that you're going to keep B. By having B recruit C, D, and E, you greatly increase the levels you gain on B. Using any of your 90's to boost B, C, D, and E to 80 through dungeons, for every set you boost to 80, account B will effectively earn 2.5* 80's. 1 from the boost and 1.5 from the granted levels, and that doesn't consider the leveled characters on C/D/E at all.

If $62.5 is more valuable to you than the boosting to 80 time, boost more, if the time is more valuable, transfer the characters. You'll also end up with 1.25 characters on A for each boost set, but since you already have 90's, that might be a bit redundant. (could use another battlechest F to recruit B and save those spare characters for later if A is full on the realm that B is leveling on).

You can leave C/D/E characters inactive for later, since you can transfer off inactive accounts (or reactivate to box more accounts). You will need to keep the characters close in levels and balance the heirlooms, either by picking classes that can wear what you have or by acquiring more. By having B recruit all three of C/D/E it maximizes the gain to account B from each boost. There are other structures that work better if you wanted more than two accounts eventually.

* only 39 grantable levels per, so not quite exactly 2.5 (1.5 levels shy)

[rfarris]

The amount of stats on the gear means that you really don't need to worry about armor classes at all, you'll be blowing up whatever you hit even with mismatched armor. I'd say that the most fun comp for me is a tank/healer (whichever tank you like most paired with whatever healer you know best) if you like to LFD. Also, if you normally suck at tanking, levelling a toon exclusively through tanking might be an easy way to get better. Just mark your main target and heal yourself! (healing dps is optional while levelling most of the way).

That's not a bad suggestion. I've leveled a pally prot tank and I have heirloom tanking gear. I was fine at it until around 85, when the pally prot dps was so low it wasn't a good choice for leveling anymore so I changed to ret. But for multiboxing to 80 it would probably be great.

Does a priest healer have decent AoE heals? What is a good healer for multi-boxing?

[luxlunae]

That's not a bad suggestion. I've leveled a pally prot tank and I have heirloom tanking gear. I was fine at it until around 85, when the pally prot dps was so low it wasn't a good choice for leveling anymore so I changed to ret. But for multiboxing to 80 it would probably be great.

Does a priest healer have decent AoE heals? What is a good healer for multi-boxing?

The easiest multiboxing healer is definitely disc priest because of the passive atonement heals (although monk could also be a lot of fun, if you are curious about learning that class. After levelling multiple mistweavers and mistweaver teams, I would caution that it might be tricky until about level 25 or so so you might want to quest your pair until then (or just q the healer for a solo dungeon or two as you learn the class).

I've shared my disc healing macros before, but basically you want to shield @focus whenever it is up, holy fire whenever off cooldown, and then smite smite smite.


I've honestly enjoyed multiboxing with everything but paladin healers (I just don't like paladin healers so I've never levelled one past 20), but disc priest is definitely the easiest way to go. And priest is the best thing to have at max level, anyway (one of the two healing specs has historically always been strong, unlike other classes where they seem to have a weak phase every couple of years).

[rfarris]

So I created a pally tank and a druid healer. I leveled them from 10 to 64 this weekend. I expected to be able to get to 80, but I spent at least half my time pestering Mirai with various questions and really just learning about ISBoxer. (BTW, I figured that I got the best advice from you on this thread, lux - I chose you as the "referral" when I subscribed to InnerSpace, although I didn't know your email address...)

My skills at MB went from tanking with a healer hanging on my back to a fully implemented combo tank-healer character by the time I got to level 60. That's an amazingly powerful feeling.

Next team I'm going to configure ISBoxer in the 'Pro' configuration and add some DPS. Way too much fun.