I decided to go with cleric as partner to mage and each hired a wizzy merc. This is a really fun! I thank all of you that responded.

I have duo'd my mage with all three healer toons now and played around with mercs. Healer toons are all about the same with healer merc aound. It might be that I need to level a DPS toon to work with the mage for faster kills. Would any DPS class level faster from 1-71? Ranger = tracking + snare but...

Fleiss,

Thank you so much for the feedback. It was really helpful. Concerning the rogue merc, will he pull agro from air pet and get squished? Not sure if he is treated as a player and gets auto-agro.

Zuuper

Another returning player question: While soloing, would you rather 2-box with a toon that can slow, snare or a great healer. My mage is 71 with 352 AAs. On the other account I have a 55 druid with 12 AAs, 70 shaman with 85 AAs and a 70 cleric with 565 AAs. When I last played in 2008, I 2-boxed the m...