Runes of Magic US / AU

something i found that kinda helps is take one class through Silverspring, Aslan Valley and start on Ystra then switch and take the other through all of Sacilla Steppes and Dragonfang ridge and finish Ystra and by the time your done both classes should be the same level heading into Dust Devil Canyon and I continued on switching once I hit a certain level like say go 45/40 then 45/45 then 50/45 and so on and that kept the levels of my Alt close together...well until the third class came out then it messed up the system XD

As long as you have the zones to level your classes, I would recommend trying to keep them within 5 levels of each other. There are several reasons for this:

Firstly your general skills from your secondary class will not be at a too low level for you. It's no good being a 30/10 Mage Priest running around with heals that aren't sufficient for the zone you're in and the damage you're taking.

Secondly by keeping your skills within 5 of each other you aren't missing out on too many elite skills.

Also if you have two classes that wear the same type of gear (e.g. rogue and scout, mage and priest) you can minimise the amount of time you have to keep switching between sets of gear - yes, one side will always lag behind, but at least it won't be too severe.

You have a few options for levelling. If you're an elf you have elven island, or humans have Howling Mountains to start with, and then on to silverspring/aslan valley/ystra.

You have Sascilia steppes and Dragonfang Ridge for your second class, and once you get to 20/20 you can pick up your third class and head to Coast of Opportunity and Xaviera. CoO/Xav offer faster levelling due to increased experience gains.

Once you hit about 35-ish on your second side if you go through dragonfang ridge, you will run out of zones to level your secondary in. From there you can either use CoO and Xaviera, or just use daily quests to level your secondary while you progress through the zones to level your main class.

Some people will max out one class and then go back, and if that playstyle suits you there is nothing wrong with that. I personally, however, would try to keep my levels close.

Just my thoughts.

Depends on whether or not you want to play both classes as you level.

On my first toon, I played both sides, but that's because I had a leveling buddy (my wife) who played a complementing class combo. For us it made sense to keep our levels equal because we were playing both sides.

If you plan to play just one combo (i.e. just a s/k, not a s/k and a k/s), then I would recommend keeping your secondary about 10 levels behind your primary class. Do your dailies every day, but pick a daily where either the turn in or pick up is close to a housemaid (this eliminates almost all dailies in the new zones, btw). Pick up a daily quest that has a quest level that is 10 levels ahead of your secondary class. Then swap classes and turn in with your secondary. It's a bit tedious, but it'll save you days worth of dailies because your secondary will getting as much XP as it possibly can from every quest it turns in. That also leaves all the regular quests open for your primary class.

Hope that helps!

I try to do a 2 level system, start with my main get to lvl 2/1 then 4/2 then 4/4 6/4 It may be a lot of switching at first, but by the end, it will be rewarding, you will be getting your elites near the same time while keeping gear near the same level too.

my 2 cents:

I find it easiest to level by zone. Sure having your 2ndary close to your primary is useful. But it's not THAT useful. You can get by almost as well if your secondary is level 20 than level 25. As a completionist, i like to go through a zone, finish it, then move on, and the game allows you to do this relatively well. For levels 1-30 you can do a number of things, my preference is to level 1-20 through howling mountains (which can get 2 classes up to 10, if i'm an elf i'll do through 10 in elf then through 10 HM), then silverspring 10-20 on both (you have to do EVERY quest though, i find it worth it and it gets you the FA set). After this your 20/20, you can get your 3rd class and start going through Coast of Oppurtunity, getting your elite skills there at 20/20/20.

At this point choose one class and take it through Aslan until 30, then level your secondary through Dragonfang (or through dailies, up to you) and your 3rd through coast to 30 then get your 25s and 30s elites. After this it's a mix of dust devil, ravenfell, weeping coast and dailies/coast for other 2 classes up to high levels (and then the ch3-4 content to reach 67, but thats pretty far away).

Note if you dont want to be a total completionist like me, you can easily go through the Steppes on your 2ndary to get to 20, and just take one class through Silverspring, its purely preference.