Leveling Speed

In general you would, but its very hard to remain in perfect sync unless you do everything together and are never online when the other person isnt. Once dailies start to come about (30+ for CS, 40+ for BH, etc), if you play when the other doesnt, chances are you'll do things that place you out of sync. Even if you just help others, you might get FB tab XP. However if you're totally dedicated to staying in rough sync, whoever get ahead can avoid doing CS daily while the other does it (just making 5 stones & waiting 10+ minutes, which other stuff can be done during the wait). Also, its not really a big deal if someone is a bit ahead, even a level or 2, you could still do the same content, the person who's ahead waits on picking up quests or waits on their FBs till the other has the level. It shouldnt be a big issue.

AFAIK there are NO class restricted quests. Some quests are different for each class but the end rewards are the exact same.

StormHydra - Sanctuary wrote: »

AFAIK there are NO class restricted quests. Some quests are different for each class but the end rewards are the exact same.

Venomancers have a few extra "go capture me an egg of blah blah creature" here & there. Also Tideborn only have additional Weapon Token quests every 10 levels for a possible mold reward. And as someone prior stated there's a male gender only quest somewhere in the 30s. So yes there are a few quests around beyond 20 that are only available to certain characters.

Also way up at 89+, there's different quests for sage & demon. These quests are not mirrored. Utilizing PWdatabase (since i have both a demon & sage character at the same level), and searching alot i have covered them all (regardless of many sage ones not showing on find quests). Many levels i get more sage quests, other levels i get more demon quests, the XP from quests per level isnt identical.

good news though
later on as teh amount of exp needed to get to the next level gets greater and greater, you guys can be like 5 or more (a bit harder if you guys be like too far apart though) levels apart and still do stuff together.
b:thanks

RedBuIl - Lost City wrote: »

oh shut it vinat, go whine somewhere else..

wow what the hell is your problem. gtf off of my back. i didnt say a god damn thing wrong and how the hell was that whining? get a clue, get a life. better yet, just get lost. go on the game and get killed, and leave me alone.

As other posters have indicated, if you and your friend are generally online at the same time and do most of your quests together, you should lvl around the same speed. My husband and I did all of our quests together (after lvl 20) on both our toons and we're currently the same lvl. There will be times where you may be a lvl or 2 apart from each other (deaths, or side quests that you might do when the other is not available) but provided you dont do too many things alone, it shouldnt be a problem. We do try to wait for each other though. If I'm a lvl ahead, i might skip a cs or a bounty just to wait for him to catch up so our quests stay the same. We also check with each other what quests we have before taking new ones so we stay on the same pace. Good luck!

Foxx - Heavens Tear wrote: »

As for speed while grinding, its probably slower xp overall if you fight the same mob, because you end uptravelling just as much distance between mobs, but each mob is only 50% of the xp. 2 person group parties are usually best just kuilling their own mobs, but staying within range to get the bonus.

I disagree somewhat. You have three components adding to time spent grinding:

• a) time spent finding/running to a mob
• b) time spent killing the mob
• c) time spent recovering from fight

(a) remains more or less constant whether you fight together or apart.
(b) is halved by fighting together. Actually, slightly more than halved since you spend a smaller portion of the time healing, meaning a greater portion dealing damage.

Taking just the first two factors into account, it's better to split up and kill separately. e.g. If solo you spent 50% of your time doing (a) and 50% of your time doing (b), then killing together would result in a bit less than 75% of the time to kill solo with 50% of the exp. Not worth it.

But (c) changes everything. If you're a class which can have a significant amount of downtime or consumes a lot of resources (e.g. pots) between/during fights, then the reduction in (c) can easily make up the ~25% time difference; and fighting together becomes a winning proposition. The more time (c) takes for a class, the more likely it is they are better off fighting together.

Barbarians probably have the highest (c) cost. They take a long time to kill a mob, and consequently have to heal back a lot of damage after the fight. So fighting together usually works best for them. At the opposite end, venos probably have the lowest (c) cost. A longer fight just costs them a couple extra heals, which doesn't take much mana at all. So fighting apart usually works best for them (not to mention it's the only way to assure the pet always gets exp).

El_Tigre - Raging Tide wrote: »

There is a Venomancer only quest and there is a male only quest somewhere between 20 and 40.
If u lvl different just un-squad, let the lower one grind an little until ur even. then squad again.

there is a female counterpart to the male only quest. To my knowledge past lvl 19 there are no specific "quests"

maocchi wrote: »

I would suggest making an alt that you can work on when your partner is not available. Leveling together with someone is fun only for a while then it becomes tedious. I speak from experience.

Lots of people do this. Have an alt they work on while their "partner" isn't online. Its a good idea if you have someone u want to quest with specifically on another char.