Duo Leveling Class Comps

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Other people might have different opinions but I don't feel like mages are the most optimal character to 2box. About the only thing I can think of is having a disc/holy priest with power infusion on follow to keep you shielded and healed while your mage AE grinds. Which isn't even necessary. Mages already excel at solo farming and AE grinding. Having a second character tagging along is only going to slow you down.

I don't think that "Mages already excel at solo farming" thing is going to apply like people think. In Classic, there were a few spots where grinding was viable, and those were eventually patched (e.g. slimes in Maraudon). I recall the issue with mages was mana, especially when fighting in busy areas; this is classic -- people didn't have nearly infinite mana like they do today. Evocation was on an 8-minute timer, and I don't recall mana stones being all that useful.

[Apatheist]

In Classic, there were a few spots where grinding was viablel.

There are guides available with the best spots for frost grinding in each zone. Anything with large packs of mobs, fast respawns that don't have ranged attacks is fine.

Once you get 50+ with reasonable gear you can AE grind DM:E drop runs, trash in BRD, etc. It's much faster than questing and you can pick up 40g or more per hour depending on luck with blues/epics, recipes, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeBA0D1LJY

[Ughmahedhurtz]

There are guides available with the best spots for frost grinding in each zone. Anything with large packs of mobs, fast respawns that don't have ranged attacks is fine.

Once you get 50+ with reasonable gear you can AE grind DM:E drop runs, trash in BRD, etc. It's much faster than questing and you can pick up 40g or more per hour depending on luck with blues/epics, recipes, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeBA0D1LJY

Ya know, I remember those guides. In early vanilla they were extremely viable. I remember in later builds the problem became mobs resisting your slows and roots, and there was a time IIRC in the middle where they had introduced resistance RNG but hadn't yet introduced the spell pushback -- it was still a complete interrupt. There was also a time where Blizzard would not immediately break roots; that was subsequently nerfed. That said, this was back when I was still frequently soloing my frost mage, and I didn't play mages again for quite a while once I switched to multiboxing. I suppose that this would work much better in terms of forgiveness with multiple Blizzards.

Anywho, it'll be interesting to see where the Classic servers fall in terms of those mechanics. I hope we get enough time and accounts in beta to confirm that's still workable. And how they progress through the buffs/nerfs/DR/RNG changes.

[Apatheist]

They're using itemization and talent trees from 1.21 so mages will have access to decent spellpower and hit rating talents right from the start. Will make farming even easier. Tailoring alone gives you access to like 60 frost damage worth of gear you can wear starting from level 20-ish.

I still prefer warlocks personally. Especially for boxing. The only reason I plan on leveling a mage is to get it to 60 for portals and water and then replace it with another warlock.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Tailoring alone gives you access to like 60 frost damage worth of gear you can wear starting from level 20-ish.

Now that is a good point.

[Boostab]

They're using itemization and talent trees from 1.21 so mages will have access to decent spellpower and hit rating talents right from the start. Will make farming even easier. Tailoring alone gives you access to like 60 frost damage worth of gear you can wear starting from level 20-ish.

I still prefer warlocks personally. Especially for boxing. The only reason I plan on leveling a mage is to get it to 60 for portals and water and then replace it with another warlock.

I am thinking this as well I was also thinking of a rouge and druid I have not still made my mind up quite yet still waiting on any one who boxing ..