Breakfast Topic: The perfect partner
by Amanda Dean 
Mar 18th 2008 at 8:00AM
We've talked about playing with partners in the past. Many people reported that they enjoy sharing World of Warcraft with their significant others. I have to admit, time spent with my Mom on WoW has been a wonderful experience. I've been watching her explore classes and quests and I must say I am very proud of her. While sometimes solo play is the order of the day, it's great to have good company in the game.
Just for fun I recently rolled new alts with my boyfriend. I wanted to play a Warlock and he wanted to play something complimentary, so he chose Priest. It's really awesome to be able to keep going non-stop with no mana breaks. I Life Tap, he Renews. With his Power Word Shield, we take very little damage. The two characters provide excellent synergy and seem to be the perfect pair. We've rolled together in the past, but usually we choose our characters based on what we want to play at any given time.
When you roll with a partner do you choose classes that are complimentary?
Filed under: Priest, Warlock, Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast Topics, Leveling, Classes
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Josh Mar 18th 2008 5:29PM
My wife and I recently rolled alts - she went mage and I went priest (draeni). I agree, it's really awesome having two of us who can inflict major damage, and with her trapping the baddies in ice and me keeping us bubbled, it's an awesome ride. And the companionship of playing with my wife is great - if something stupid is done, I get yelled at in person! :-)
Gary M Tomkins Mar 18th 2008 8:14AM
:( no she hates video games.... /sigh
Cynra Mar 18th 2008 8:13AM
My significant other and I recently rolled blood elves together (mainly because he wanted a paladin and I didn't want to roll another Alliance toon). Between raids - both together and apart - and our busy personal real-life schedules, we level the two. He is, as noted, a paladin (most likely Retribution). Me? I'm playing my first-ever warlock and lovin' it. He drops a Consecration, hits the mobs a few times, and I'm free to drop DoTs to my heart's content. I Life Tap and he starts healing me to full health (only thing that would have been better was a class that can HoT). Plus, in case we ever pull more than we wanted, there's that nifty-nice Soulstone to fall back on if we wipe.
For a while, I returned to my old PvP server and he joined me. We both wanted to roll shamans, so I ended up returning to the joy that is Elemental after over two years of not playing a shaman (and being Restoration for most of that time before) while he explored Enhancement. We'd shock the ever-living shit out of everything, easily got into groups, and had a lot of fun. We don't play those toons on that server much any more since we're both very active on our mains' server, but was still awesomely good fun.
Dotixi Mar 18th 2008 8:23AM
My g/f and I are actually Priest, Warlock as well. She is the best healer I know...except that she would rather DPS.
selece Mar 18th 2008 8:32AM
yes we do^^ we have 2 or 3 alts to lvl together. The first were paladin and Priest, now we have BE paladin and warlock and 2 Draenei shamans.
Cynra Mar 18th 2008 8:40AM
Woah, creepy. Look at my reply above! I'd almost worry that you were my boyfriend, but the lummox is probably still sleeping while I'm at work.
jhestor Mar 18th 2008 8:28AM
I recently got my fiance addicted to the game, and rerolled my first serious Horde toon with her. She's a blood elf mage, and I am leveling a tauren druid.
It's a really fun combination, and while I still raid on my 2 alliance 70s off and on, playing together sitting side by side offers a lot more fun than just talking to people over vent.
ErsatzPotato Mar 18th 2008 8:33AM
My girlfriend soloed to seventy, rarely having grouped at all much less running instances, as an arms warrior. Recently scooped her into Kara. While overwhelmed she was game.
She's gone from doing less damage than the prot MT to dual Decapitators in a month. Respecced fury she now does great damage. Still working on movement but she kills stuff if she gets there.
Shout to the gorgeous Mightyoil! I love you hon, even if I don't say so often enough. Execute those mean mobs!
Toecaro Mar 18th 2008 9:51AM
Yeah I'm at much the same place. My gf hit 70 a few months back, but had never done an instance (except for runs I've given her, ZF ftw!) and had never pvped.
I just got her started on battlegrounds and she loved that so much that she agreed to arena with me. She's undergeared, but she can pump out some dmg on her hunter, unless some melee shows up :P.
ThorinII Mar 18th 2008 8:43AM
It says "partner" not "life partner" so I'll add my 2 cents. My wife hates WoW. So, when I partner up it's with RL friends, co-workers and even co-workers of friends. In fact, my RL friend, a co-worker of his, and I all recently started horde toons on a PvP server together. I a shadow priest, my friend a lock, and his co-worker a mage. We got them to 40 and their company got bought out and they both lost their jobs. So, they've not been playing. But, it is a good trio when we do play. My priest sits waiting for his friends to return to lvl to cap together.
In the mean time I'm solo lvling a Tauren hunter. My fourth hunter altogether. Once you get a pet (and she did over the weekend) it's almost as good as playing with a friend. The conversation is more limited, but the mobs drop just as quick.
Michael Ender Mar 18th 2008 9:01AM
/signed Penguins please!!
Krissy Mar 18th 2008 10:36AM
My son and I just rolled a Draenei mage and priest together. It is really great - he owns face and I heal and shield. The levelling is going pretty fast. My husband also rolled a couple of alts with us, but he has already levelled them way past us . . .
Mystrana Mar 18th 2008 9:08AM
For my first character, I rolled a BE priest (holy) and my ex rolled a BE paladin (prot) and it was nice. Instances were a breeze (LF3dps, no CC needed) and there was no quest that we couldn't handle.
More recently, I was working on my druid and it turned out my new bf had a shaman he was working on, so we started leveling those together and it rocks. (Not to mention we both had forms of 40% travel before 40 which meant no waiting for the other to get somewhere).
He and I also did a paladin (me) and warlock (him) combo that would work a lot better if I wasn't so used to being a priest (priest bubble > paladin bubble for leveling situations)
arb Mar 18th 2008 9:07AM
You have a boyfriend?! My heart is broken!
Myriaz - Spirestone Mar 19th 2008 6:23PM
Our first chars, i rolled a hunter because i love animals and controlling pets and my then boyfriend rolled a rogue for the action and dps. It worked out great! my pet was tank, i was ranged and he would dps.
Later my then fiance' tried out a warrior and i went with warlock.
He tried out warlock and i did a mage.
We both rolled druids, tho i'm restoration and he's balance.
Going to the horde side, he rolled priest and i did warlock again.
We are now married and he just started a twink hunter and i am working on a holy priest.
I guess the point is that whatever combination, we made it work out well. even if it wasn't a standard team. especially because playing with a partner for so long in the same room or on the phone, you know when and how they will attack which target and you both work together in beautiful efficient deadliness.
moose Mar 18th 2008 9:16AM
My BF and I each have our own toons we play apart from each other, but we also have pairs that we only play together.
Twin Human Warlocks (though they're different specs, we always match)
Warrier and a Priest (two sets)
Manasseh Mar 18th 2008 9:18AM
My wife and I have rolled multiple characters together (only 1 pair to 70) and always try to choose complimentary classes. Our first serious characters were Rogue/Priest on Alliance. We rerolled Horde when my sister and her hubby picked up the game and both wanted to play Mage... we RPS for it and I lost, so she played Mage and I played Warlock (because the guild we joined didn't have one at the time) along with my sister's Priest and bro-in-law's Druid. After reaching end-game, we found that we wanted to do more than DPS in raids, so we rolled a Priest/Warrior duo that are about to hit Outlands. We love questing together (most of the time) and LOVE PvP as a healer/melee pair. Can't wait to hit 70 with this pair... I'm thinking I might try to convince her to try Druid/Hunter next. :P
André Rumjanek Mar 18th 2008 9:29AM
I play with my wife, she's actually quite better than me! I play as paladin and she plays warlock... since I am specialized in protection I tank and she's the DPS...it works pretty good... I try to heal too... so she won't get mad if she dies!! hehehehe...
Mirina Mar 18th 2008 9:31AM
Waaay back in the day when my husband got me into the game, we rolled a druid (him) and a rogue (me). I got bored, and we messed around on various realms until picking our current home when BC came out. Since BC, we've leveled a paladin (him)/hunter (me) combo, we have a warrior (him)/paladin (me) alt team, and then we are leveling a shadow priest (him) and a warlock (me) separately when we aren't on our alts or raiding on our mains. This is my second attempt at a 'lock (first soloing), and I'm really enjoying it. My husband is greatly enjoying his priest as well.
Rallik Apr 11th 2008 12:20PM
I play a protection warrior, and my girlfriend plays a holy priest. It's actually quite fun, because we are the core of any group. Grab some dps and off we go. I doubt it's as powerful as a "duo" like a warlock/shadowpriest, but it lets us tackle heroics and such more effectively.