First, don't bother. Do the quests. AOE grinding looks cool but is a sure fire way to get aggravated. Bad pulls, other people showing up, all those things will make it not worth your time.

Your talent focus, if your doing this work solo, should be to put down the most damage as fast as possible. Combine with buying all the "wrath" gear you can get... wrath or +damage. Wizard oil when you have a level 35+ weapon. Don't bother with enchants other than speed enhancement. You could put +spelldamage on a staff but I would wait till you get the vexxing cane from ZF for that, it will last till you get your outlands gear. (getting the staff may be a bear as I have done it 12 times without it dropping and haven't heard of others getting it either).

Once your 40 and have a mount it becomes even quicker with just quests. The key to using quests to level and cut your played time (your excessive at 25) is to know where to go and when to go there. Its not a play style issue, your leveling speed is directly controlled by your knowledge of the game and how you use it.

I have access to a friends Paladin and wanted to use him for out of group healing on my warlock to power level.

I know it's not optimal since paladins have to stand and cast to heal but the bigger concern I'm having is that Whispercast doesn't seem to have options to whisper for a Flash of Light or Holy Light. It seems I can only whisper for cleanses and buffs.

I'd rather use whispercast than some of the other programs mentioned here (since it's a mod and not third party software) is there any way to customize whispercast to add more spells to it's repetoir or am I going to have to download one of these other programs to be able to do this?

I'm about 100% certain that if you could whisper to another toon and it would auto-cast a heal on you, that'd be consider bot-ing. Since you'd be not controlling another character and it'd be doing things for you.

I don't know how you are setting up the dual-box set, but you can make a macro on the paladin box that targets the warlock and casts an appropriate rank flash of light. And you can mash the key when you need it. There are some programs that would allow you to do this from your main keyboard of your warlock box. Perhaps someone could recommend one here.

If I were you, I would use VoiceCommand, since all it really does is hit keys on your computer one at a time when you say them. The other reason that it isn't really considered botting is because its slow. If I say something, it takes about a half a second to a second before the other character registers it, so its not like I could use it to automate anything that needs to have good timing. Finally, I still have to actually stay there and say things, so its not automating.

As far as whispercast goes, I know it doesn't have the functionality to cast anything other than buffs by default, but you could probably hack a version of it that did that. I don't know how, but I might take a look at it since I would use that if I could instead of or in addition to voice command.

If I were you, I'd wait a week or two for Boe to roll out some stuff that's been getting prepped behind the scenes. Same idea, (IMO) better format, everybody wins.

Who or what is Boe?

The who is http://elitistjerks.com/members/1769-boethius/
The what is a mystery to us all. (He's the guy who gives us fun forum features to play around with.)

I don't see how it's any different than using voice command.

I'd be at my computer hitting keys to get the paladin to heal me except I wouldn't have to click his WoW window to do it. I could do it from my Warlock's WoW Window. It basically just eliminates 2 mouse clicks and nothing else.

I am still deciding what spell he needs to cast and when he needs to cast it. Not an algorithm.

Not sure if this topic has been covered. (I am too lazy to do a search)

I am a dual boxer, when not raiding on my main, I am currently leveling a shaman and druid combo, what is the best spec for dual boxing these class?

I have been doing it as boomkin and elemental, which seems to work fine. I wanted to try out feral and enhancement solely because of the dmg that you would be able to put out, however, I have come to find out even auto attack will pull the other character off follow.

If anyone has any suggestions or tips that would be great.

One heal, one dps seems to work fine for me. When dualboxing, hots are so amazingly nice. Resto druid, enhancement shaman should work well. Got my druid to 65 in 5 days player with him being feral, and a holy priest on follow.

The rule is..

The class being leveled can be of nearly any spec, but tend towards damage delivering talents.

The tag along is heal based. Preferably with HoTs.

Really, it doesn't matter when dual-boxing where your trying to level only one character. When doing more than one I prefer to run three sessions of WOW to get the group bonus. The problem with more than two is making sure to avoid the really horrible collection quests; the ones where drop rate is so low as to be non-existent.

I dual boxed my Priest to 70 and the used him to dual box other classes to 70 to minimize down times. Since he is always out of group he cannot shield the character he is healing.

Try any talent build on the main you want, the healer reduces downtime which is the hardest thing to overcome. Too bad with mages there isn't' a good MOT :P My melee classes can fight non-stop but the escorted mages still need to sit.


As for your dual-boxing woes... you need to have a key/macro set up to resume follow. Also it would be best to allow for the follower to set the other character as focus or write heal macros targeting him directly. It sounds like your ghetto-boxing, not dual-boxing. The difference is use of tools to have keystrokes shared between sessions and having the macros to back it up. Just using two PCs side by side or two sessions doesn't cut it. You have to connect them with a keystroke forwarder/clone and good in game macros