2 accounts to level alts?

[cerruption]

Hi everyone. I've heard of dual boxing a while back, I believe I read the article on someone (from here?) with 40+ computers. Thats where I first heard about it. Since then I've learned a fair bit more about it, and I'm sort of interested in getting a second account.

But at the moment -- I'm more interested in using the second account to level alts with. This occured to me today, I was on my 53 mage running trying to group up for BRD. There were 3 of us, and we just couldn't find a tank. So the hunter decided to leave and bring his 70 warlock. Now I've been run through instances before, and its pretty decent for XP. Sure you get less xp per kill, but when you kill the mobs that much quicker, it seems to even out.

Anyway, like my 70 warlock, this guy knew how to farm an instance. He was personally destruction, using his voidwalker, shadowfury and seed of corruption to blow away groups of mobs. Then it hit me -- I was getting tons of XP while he did this!

I'd like to dual (or triple =O) box, but to level alts for the time being. Run them through instances, maybe dual together when I don't feel like bringing my main. But for the most part it would be a high level main with a low level alt who I'd like to level.

I'm just so bored of questing, but I don't mind doing a bunch of dungeon runs to level up my characters. Now, almost every post I see here is about players who level 2 or more characters together, but nobody seems to talk about leveling alts. Why is this? Is it frowned upon in the community? I hate to use the word "power leveling" because of its negative association with gold sellers, account sellers and that sort of thing. Believe me, I'd have absolutely nothing to do with that.

But I'd like to level a priest for instance, or maybe even a priest/paladin together. With a priest, I'd go tailoring/enchanting. Lets start with 1 alt, a priest. I'd get her to to about 11-12 solo in the newbie zone, then bring her to deadmines with my main. Farm the heck out of it, get tons of cloth for tailoring, and greens to disenchant. This might sound boring to some, but its more interesting for me, seeing how I've done the 1-30 quests too many times to count on my numerous (30+) alts of varying ranges.

I could keep farming elite mobs and deadmines until about 19, move to stocks at 20-25, SFK and gnomer 25-30, things like that. I could bring low level guildies along, or even randoms, I like to help people.

Is this an effective way to level alts? With that BRD group I spoke of, I got more XP that run then I personally would have leveling or grinding solo, and I grind at quite a fast pace.


With 2 accounts I'd definately have the possibility to duo-level, which interests me, but I'm a bit more interested in leveling my alts first, and taking advantage of the current 70 (gnome) and 53 (blood elf) I have.

Has anyone 'power-leveled' their alts like this? Gosh I hate that word. Of course I mean by killing elites at an extremely fast pace on their high level, while following along on the alt to be leveled. I'm not talking about gold buying or account buying or anything like that at all.

[Lost Ninja]

Me!

I want to multi-box, but find the dual boxing is tedious, mainly as you get less XP than solo and don't get a group bonus until you have three characters in the group.

So I use my 2nd account for banking and crafting and to level alts. My main is on account 1, some of my alts are on account 1 but I use them for banking now. Meanwhile an old main (53 War) is on my alt account as are some real alts. An alt rogue has levelled from 12 this way... I only do it in rested XP, so I tend to run through an instance several times until I'm full of loot and or she has no rested (or less than a full bar) then I'll go back to actually levelling my main, or move onto a different character to level.

I plan on levelling a shaman and probably a mage this way, in the near future. I mainly do this so I can be fairly self sufficient in crafting, the rogue I'm leveling will be a jewel crafter and engineering (just wish I could rename her Trinket), mage tailoring and alchemy, shaman something and alchemy. (Will end up with three alchemists for the transmutes.)

And my current target for all of them is 35 so they can level to 300 in their chosen profession. I then may well play them as normal from 35 up... though as I hate playing mages with a passion I might continue to PL her.

As for the ethics... Up to you really, I have no issue with buying accounts or gold. I don't do it myself but that's mainly due to cost not need. If I could buy a ready levelled mage I would, not I might add because I want a mage, but so I can use all the portals. (Sad huh?) As for buying gold, it happens nothing I say or do will prevent it. I will continue to report bots, and spammers and I won't encourage it by buying gold.

PLing for you and alts is non-destructive IMO, if you could do serious end game content in a level levelling build then I might change my views, but most classes have to change how they play from grinding to instancing, a PLed character is no different in that respect, you will still have to learn to play, PLed or something you ground up personally.

Besides with a team of one you don't need to suffer other idiots. Which is the best part about multi-boxing IMO.

I'd love to have a good five box team for grinding with, but in the short term I'll play this way and blow the plebs who say its cheating!

[Bena]

I use my main (70 lock) to level my team all the time. Keep them slightly behind and SoE packs of mobs or drain tank bunch of them. Whenever it gets a bit boring to do the normal leveling with my group, I jump on main and do an hour or two to get some fast xp.

Don't see anything wrong with that. You're using your main to level your alts.. it breaks the monotony between pure questing/grind for some dungeon runs and some good loot. Though you'll find that as you get higher you won't be able to clear the whole instances with just your main. 30/40 seems to be the sweet spots for 70 solo clears.

[cerruption]

Thanks for the replies so far. Yeah I'll definately be questing too, but sometimes it gets a little tiresome and I just like to tag along an instance run. Like today on my mage for example (70 running us through BRD, gave me a solid half a level and broke up some of the boredom).

It might be a little boring soloing up to SM, but past that I can disenchant useless drops for shards and stuff like that. And keep my tailors up to speed with lots of cloth, etc etc..

I think I'll go buy another copy of WoW tomorrow and possibly transfer one of my higher alts to the seperate account before making some new ones.

[Lost Ninja]

Just a word of caution...

I recently transfered my old main onto the 2nd account, the reasoning was sensible... lvl53 so can go through ow level instances with alts. BS so can make gear for charcters on either account and enchanter so I could use him to enchant my current main's gear...

Oh how I wish I'd moved my current main. The reason I retired my War is he is boring to play, even if the mobs are 30 levels lower.

So warning is essentially be really careful who you transfer, if you don't play them much there'll be a reason, having them on the other account is unlikely to negate that reason...

[cerruption]

So update:

I got a new trial account today, just to test this out a little. Made a level 1 rogue, hopped on my mage, made a party together. Cool!

Put the rogue on follow,starting blasting guys on my mage. Ugh. I was getting 1xp per kill in the party.

I left the party on my level 1 rogue, and started killing mobs solo. Hmm, 50xp per kill.

Now it took a while to kill the mobs, but it certainly wasn't 50x slower then having a high level do it for me.

So I'm wondering -- when does this become worth it? I'm thinking about leveling this rogue to 8 and running RFC on the mage.

I also tried to give my rogue about a gold for training and bags -- opened trade -- trials can't perform trades. Doh! I think I'll just solo with the rogue to about 10, and try grinding somewhere else.

[Picticon]

WoW is not powerleveling friendly (unlike DAoC where you can go 1 to 50 in 4 hours).


It has to be elites. Also 3-5 people in the group helps.

You'll want to be able to kill FAST. That means aoe.

WoW allow you to reset an instance 4 times in an hour before it locks you out.


Get an add-on that tracks exp per hour. Play your alt solo (or with a buff-bot if you want) and record the amount. Then run your alt through and instance and record the amount.

You'll find that unless you have the ideal situation, solo will beat out PL'ing more often than not.

I'll PL occasionally when I either need the equipment or I'm bored.

And remember, you get REAL LIFE experience playing your character.

[cerruption]

Yeah, the thing is on my "main" account, I have every class to at least 15, most well past 20, on both alliance on horde. So its KIND of boring going through the same stuff all over again

I'm pretty good at playing most classes, so I was hoping I could just PL alts on the new account I made. Anyway, that didn't work so hot, but I DID get a chance to try some dual boxing, and it was fun =)

I made a level 1 gnome mage, along with a level 1 dwarf paladin. Just got them both to 6 now, running the coldridge quests together. I logged them out at the inn, I'll DEFINATELY go back to that combo, though I have so much to learn. My limitted dual boxing was basically putting 1 guy on follow while the other killed ops:

I'll check out the macros though. I'm definately sold on the idea of buying another account, and I'm excited to try some other combos.

I didn't really want that rogue in the first place, so I'll just delete it. On my mains server (70 gnome lock), I'm going to make a human priest now, solo it to about 12 and I'll farm her through deadmines and check the xp/hour. I'll try it solo and with groups of randoms, I think I heard you get MORE xp when you have 3-4 random lowbies in a group with 1 high level believe it or not. You'd think they split the xp, but that doesn't seem to be the case. So I'll give that a try, like I said I'll level the priest to about 12-13 first.

[vultuk]

I have used my main (70 Shadow Priest) to level a number of alts on a different account. Since I have levelled so many characters to 70 now I know all the questlines and i'm not missing anything by skipping them. My usual progression in "Powerlevelling" as it were is.

1-15 in normal zones
15-28 in Stockades
28-40 in SM Armory

This works great, as a tip for more xp (possibly an exploit as such so sorry if i'm being naughty) if you have a priest this works great.

Take both your characters into an instance.. Leave your alt near the instance portal and Run round with your main and DoT a load of mobs (usually 3-5 at once) run back to your alt. Shield your alt and leave the instance with your main.

Your alt will take all the aggro now but at these levels will be able to survive with a lvl 70 Priest shield. Mobs will die from the DoT's but as your main is not in the instance your alt will get full XP from each mob as if they killed the mobs themselves.

When rested you can get around 1k xp per mob which ain't bad for a lvl 15 . It takes around 300 kills to level from 15-20 in stockades which takes around 2 hours or less if done fast.

As I say, could be naughty putting that down so sorry again!

[The IT Monkey]

(possibly an exploit as such so sorry if i'm being naughty)

Haha, no "possibly" about that one, that is a definite exploit. Damn sure Blizzard did not intend that to be possible. I guess use it while you can though.

I have never had much success with powerleveling.... probably just doing it wrong.