Leveling two toons, best synergyFollow

Depends on your spec while levelling. I find that Ret Pally and Shadow Priest can pwn the world with minimal downtime... both can dps, both can heal, both have some mana regeneration abilities during and after fights... lots of fun and all of the quests go pretty darn quick.

Haven't tried this with a druid or lock or anything else myself, but I found that Ret Pally + Spriest for levelling was cake.

Did some levelling with my wife's MM hunter as well, which was ok, but she kept wanting me to heal her or her pet, which led to downtime.

Of course, when my spriest friend and my wife's hunter were with my ret pally and we all did quests together, we could finish off whole zones in an hour or 2 at most. We are on an RPPVP server as well, and at least if the opposing faction was no more than 5 levels above us, they tended to leave us alone (ret pally + spriest + mm hunter = dead horde if they tried anything).

Edited, Aug 26th 2008 1:41pm by jeromesimina

Edited, Aug 26th 2008 1:43pm by jeromesimina

This is very true. If you spec prot from the very beginning, you can level with just about anything as your 2nd in a group. Ranged DPS of some sort would be easiest if you specced Prot, since you can AoE tank groups of mobs and the DPS can just burn them down. Make sure to get BoK and Improved Righteous Fury as soon as you can so you can maintain aggro no matter how much dps your partner pumps out. I would also recommend doing regular 5-man instances as much as possible while levelling as prot, and try to do them with everyone around the same level so you can actually begin to practice "real" tanking.

You can also level as holy, but then you pretty much NEED at least one partner or it can be slower than the other two pally options.

If you are asking simply because you want to play a pally and you have a good friend that wants to play a (whatever) and does not really care, then I would recommend Prot Pally for you and some sort of healer for your friend if you dont mind dungeons (you will get invited to 5-mans ALL of the time).

Then I would probably go ret pally and either another pally, a priest, a druid, or a mage. Other options are hunter for pet or Warlock for pet.

If you are going alliance, Draenei hunter (heroic presence and eventually trueshot aura) + pet would be great to team with a Ret Pally.

Edited, Aug 26th 2008 3:51pm by jeromesimina

Hunter pet doesn't auto attack if your part member is attacked and he's on aggressive. Only attacks if hunter is attacked or so it seems. Decisions.. : )

I agree. Wish a mage or priest or lock had better synergy as I have leveled all the other classes over 30. Melee classes work good. Let em pound while you play on your pally to. I really think shammies might be the best 2nd toon like the above poster mentioned. They have excellent melee dps and can drop buffing totems.

No it isn't. Really - it isn't.

I am currently playing around when not raiding with a hunter on one account (I opened this account for my nephews but they never come by anymore - got their own account apparently) and a priest on another. You really have to level them both some in solo mode in order to get some of the class options. At least get the pet for the hunter if you roll one.

Right now I have them both at L50 and I start off by sending in the pet and then switch to the priest who waits for pet to get aggro, then SWP, VT, VE and wand, then switch back to hunter and get off an arcane shot (and an auto shot always ticks off also). I only pop the arcane shot and stop so that the SP can get the kill shot and Spirit Tap. SP is mana and health battery (to a certain extent, the only shadow damage comes from SWP really, but enough to keep the pet healthy) and between them both I take down MoBs very quickly.

I should mention that I'm not technically dual boxing with two computers, I have both accounts open on one comp. I have WoW in window mode and I have a widescreen monitor, so I offset the two windows allowing me to just click on whatever part of the window is showing to switch to the other toon.

To answer your original question, roll a toon that can tank, and another that can range dps.

If you're 2 boxing your options are different than if you're actually leveling with another person.

If you're with another person, your best bet throughout the game will probobly be a rogue. This is, however, completely untrue when grouping for instances as Protection. Ret Paladin + a Rogue is a bloody massacre when it comes to knocking out quests. In end game PVP, SStep Rogue and Ret Pally are a knockout for any other 2s except War/Druid.

Another option which holds up much better for grouping is a Mage. Fire Mage + Ret Paladin is a nice combo, and Ice Mage + Protection Paladin is some of the best synergy for DPS in the game (AoE Tank + Improved Blizzard Shatter combo.) For endgame PVP, Ice Mage + Ret Paladin can make for a pretty handy 2s or part of a 3s as well. If you do use a protection Paladin, make sure you're doing AE whenever possible. Single-Targeting this way will actually result in the Mage drawing agro over Protection until the Prot Paladin is well into his 40s. Do Fire + Ret until at least level 25, preferably 35.

If you're boxing, you'll lose efficiency in 2 melees, which puts you at a better bet with a melee and a support or ranged DPS. Hunter works well, as /pet attack is consistent damage as is auto-shooting your ranged - both of which require no babysitting. Hunter also has some bonuses for questing, such as Cheeta/Pack and Tracking.

What wouldn't I recommend?

I would not suggest 2 Paladins. 2 Paladins works well in 1 way - High end Tank/Healer combination. Past that, 2 paladins is not going to get you very far compaired to 2 other classes.

Warlock makes a decent option after the Lock gets Seed of Corruption, but for actually grinding up this combo is next to terrible.

Shammy Totems are going to be nothing more than a bother: as with any 2 melees, things will die so fast and you'll be moving around so much that totems will just burden your mana pool.

Druid is overkill in the Melee + Healer department. You will find excellent synergies from the 35-65 levels with a Prot + Resto, but this is only 'needed' in tough instances. Otherwise, for the DPS aspect of the Druid you're better off with a Rogue.

SPriest synergizes with every class well, but Paladins is almost the lowest on the list. SPriest + Warlock is more of a combo that a Priest would be interested in. Past that, other than the excellent healing of a priest and the potential damage increase from Holy Aura + Holy Priest, you're looking at way too much saftey and no damage.

Edited, Aug 28th 2008 12:11pm by tzsjynx

Is it possible to dual box on the same account? am interested, but not paying for a second account every month