Wow Classic TBC

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Only started Multiboxing in classic on Horde as MMMMP plus mixing in some other characters to farm certain gear and bosses. Its fun but i definitely want to try either PSSSS or PPSSS as i kind of want a paladin tank for multiboxing and a paladin healer for raiding as i cba respeccing constantly.

I also will need to level the full comp from scratch as paladins will only be available from tbc launch for horde ofc. If anyone has any advice on how to power lvl faster than from scratch let me know

Fastest way to cap for Horde Paladin4Shaman or 2Paladin3Shaman would likely be to level 5 Shaman now (or Tank+4Shaman) and then boost/power-level 1 or 2 Horde Paladin at TBC launch.

We don't know for sure which of the current boosting/power-leveling approaches will still work when TBC hits (nor which new ones we may find) so doing some testing in the beta will likely result in finding the fastest route...

My recollection is that in BC+ AoE spells hit diminishing returns at something around 10+ targets so some of the current metas will no longer work as is (like the dungeon 1-pull strats) but medium-size AoEs of clumps likely will still be efficient XP (like mainly Mages Arcane Explosioning small to medium clumps)...

If Approach 2B (pet tagging boosting) still works then for a 5 Boxer likely the fastest would be to use 3 Hunter's Pets to boost 1 or 2 Paladins (if you just want 1 Paladin keep 1 in the GY for no XP for the 2nd Paladin). When the Paladin(s) can efficiently tag level 48+ mobs switch to Approach 2A with both the Hunters and pets helping kill (or bring in the level 60 Shaman or whatever characters are most efficient).

Approach 1 may also be pretty fast to do 1-2 Paladins (you would want 4 alts in the party) though with the mob count diminishing returns on AoE this may not be fastest...

The minimum preparation approach, that doesn't rely on unknowns regarding boosting metas nor having to pre-level shaman, would be to just be ready to level up your new team via a semi-spell-cleave of instances to cap... If you go this route, from the 2 options you mentioned, Paladin+4Shaman should be faster than 2Paladin+3Shaman to cap due to higher party DPS and greater XP/hour. Pre-stocking gear and consumables (and pre-staging Warlocks for summoning at strategic points) would help speed things up...

The only other faster scenario I can think of would be to level your Paladin(s) with 3-4 other characters which have higher DPS from 1-60 while leveling than Shaman (assuming you already had 3-5 Shaman at current cap waiting). Off hand I don't know which class(es) may be better for DPS in TBC with new Horde Paladin(s) than Shaman as they were good in TBC+. I do remember that Warlocks seemed OP but not sure how they are at getting from 1-60 in BC compared to Shaman... The current meta of 4 Mages(+1Paladin) may be one combo to look at as well if you already have 4 Shaman waiting and if Mages are sill strong 1-60 in BC...

Sorry I am in a hurry but those are my off the cuff thoughts... Maybe some other folk can chime in with their thoughts.