5 man multibox team team vs 2 separate smaller teams

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Thanks for referencing my prior post Nodoze. ...
I hope my ramblings are understood. I have the same problem most have. My Tauren will be level 1 when he meets my Undead so not sure how to fix that issue besides ignoring it...

No problem as I like giving credit where it is due. I think my Night Elf level will actually work out to be roughly even if, after my NE has the same hearth point as the humans (and closed flight path to hearth location) if I then quickly retrace the humans quests to that point on the NE and hearth back (or fly back if it is more efficient to hearth a few times at other stops while retracing the early human fedex points. Let me know if that doesn't make sense and I can try show it pictorially.

I guess a full 5 man team of 3 mages, warrior and pally of all human would be what I'm going with. I can practice the human starter zone on the stress test, so I can wrap up the quests there. On launch I'm going to complete Northshire, grind a few murlocs after, and then enter deadmines when I'm about 15 or so. Hopefully I don't have to quest in Westfall for too long, as I feel it would really bog me down.

I think Gnomes are considered the best Alliance mages "due to Expansive Mind (directly increases your mana pool and chance to critically hit), & Escape Artist [which] provides a quite useful PvP tool as almost every class has a way to slow/ensnare you. Arcane Resistance its just a minor benefit, and Engineering Specialization gives gnome characters a leg up on what is considered the best utility (and fun) profession in the game. There is another factor to consider on gnomes: size. While mounted you're as easily spotted as anyone else, however while on the ground it is much easier to hide using the environment than any other race, bushes that may barely reach the chest of a human or night elf will completely cover you including your name over your head, and although you can still be targeted by other means other than directly clicking on you, that doesn't mean the enemy will be facing the right direction to attack you, this fact however it's just icing on the cake."

I know it is somewhat a pain to have the party start in separate zones but after mapping out getting my Elf into my otherwise all Human group I found it wasn't as bad as I thought and gnomes/dwarves are much easier to join up with Humans (compared to Elves) due to the tram connecting them...

Anyway it is obviously up to you and you may have already known all that but I figured it would be best to make sure you were aware of the pros/cons and mitigation of the initial pain...

If you have doubts around joining them up I can try to show you what I mean pictorially...