Anyone have any experience with multibox leveling? I’m thinking about duo leveling a warrior and priest. Is it still easy enough to just quest up to 60
2 is bad. 3 or more is better than 2 if you’re not going to just solo. At 2, you suffer full penalty. As in, you each only get 50% exp. At 3 4 and 5, mobs become worth more exp total. I forget the exact numbers.
Ah righto, I think it’s 50% for 2 and 36% for 3 though
Yes. But 2*50% = 100%. 3 * 36% = 108% and it goes higher with each additional party member.
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Not in Classic, but I did dual-box during TBC and Wrath.
It depends on what your goal is. First, remember that unlike Retail, there is currently no account-to-account transfer available for characters, so go in with that in mind. Don’t make plans that call for eventually having both on one account.
When I dual-boxed, I already had this gal at max level, and a couple alts at higher levels, so I was more often helping my low level characters with tough elite quests and dungeon runs. (I often play later than peak time, so it let me get stuff done at 2am.) Probably the bigger reason for dual-boxing when I did it was bypassing the 1-hour mail and 30c per item cost, and using the neutral AH to move things to opposite faction characters.
When trying to level two characters together, kill quests are easier than item collection quests, so your questing style may have to adjust. Class quests can get their XP out of sync, though usually not too badly.
Multiboxing can be done as simply as running two clients and alt-tabbing as needed (which is what I did way back when) or as complex as software to send each keystroke to both clients and a lot of setup to keybinds so they do what you need on each client.
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It’s probably harder to play different classes which are doing different things at any moment in time. That’s playing 2 characters at the same time.
Or you could just group with other actual players like the game was meant to be played.