My wife and I are playing classic (first time for her and second time for me)
I know my wife wants to level with me, but with a rotating Morning / Day / Graveyard shifts, my time is out of wack. Should I tell her to make a secondary toon for leveling to 60, or should we just take our time?
Tell her to do what she likes, and you should do what you like. If you enjoy playing with each other, play with each other on those characters - but if you both want to play more when you’re not able to, have a second character as well. That way she can explore more of what she didn’t do on her other character.
I’m a stay-home wife/mom. I have a lot more hours in the morning to play than my husband does.
I leveled my priest with a guildie whose hours matched mine more closely, and when he wasn’t available, I fished and leveled professions. There was plenty to do.
My husband and I leveled alts together for a while, but honestly, the fun part is doing dungeons together on our mains.
Just level at your own paces. BE IN A GUILD so that it’s not just you and her with no one else. You’ll both be 60 much longer than you’ll be leveling. Play together then. That’s my advice.
If you simply must play alone as two people without another core group involved, then have her roll an alt or level professions and fishing in the hours you’re not there.
Leveling with people doesn’t really work unless it’s with alts, or you’re both totally all-in no-life committed. There’s always someone who’s able to play more or who is faster at leveling. I’d just do your own things kind of until 60 then group up more then. Also if you get to 60 quicker it will make her leveling time easier since I imagine you’ll be sending her gold for weapons/mount/skills/etc and will be able to help with elite quests.
Also dungeon boosting is really effective if you have a full group of people around the level for the dungeon plus you. Generally speaking the person boosting gets all the drops, so it can actually be not half bad gold/hr
Wrong. I level one of my mains with my SO without any problem (and few alts). We used to work from 9 to 17 and them have free time. With 2 or 3 hours per day you are more than fine and can do a lot of elit quest on the go. You only need similar free time and level of commitment.
For on topic, just don’t tell your wife what to do, talk to her about your worries and her will decide what to do. Maybe she is fine with how things are going and it’s all in your head.
when I leveled with my wife in vanilla I had 2 characters. the one I played with her and teh one I played when she wasnt on. the reverse is true for you.
have 2 characters you only play when together. and solo characters for the rest of the time
So you’re leveling an alt with your partner?
Hmmm
No no, that was long time ago on woltk, we level our mains first and after that, two alts. Now I’m playing alone.
Quoting this because it’s the best possible advice. My wife and I do the same thing.
It’s a divorce
I leveled faster than my SO first time around 15 years ago. I worked in EMS, doing 2 24hr shifts a week. Gave me a lot of free time on my days off. She was getting her MBA, so had very little free time.
In order to not out level her too much I would have fun doing other things. As a BS/Miner I would just spend time mining nodes to make armour. Even the mostly pointless lower weapons that require a lot of mats and are not better than dungeon drops heh.
I would try to solo lower level dungeons for some extra gold and challenge. I was a Pally so with enough time I could kill and heal my way through.
Not very efficient, but was challenging and fun for me.
Heck, go out and level up all tour weapon skills.
We also had alts to play, like a lot of people mentioned.
I started playing classic when my husband is already level 20+. I call for his help for elite quests. He also run me through deadmines a couple of times as an aoe mage, which is nice.
Whenever he’s free, I would call him to help me out with questing. He farmed the mount gold for me. After level 40 I started to catch up because he spent so much time helping me.
At around level 45, he is only consistently 2 levels ahead of me, so we started doing everything together.
Overall it’s a good leveling experience.
We do this because neither of us like leveling alts. We don’t have time to level alts either. Now we are both level 60, we are pretty much together for every raid and most dungeons.
Mage/priest is a pretty good combo imo. I provide sufficient support for world pvp. I specced PI so his dps is always at the top in raid. We are also able to duo farm ZF for the vexing rod, BRD arena for the gear upgrades and now DM N for the first boss for gold