The wife and I leveled our Shadow Knight (me) and Shaman (her) duo at a pace normal folks would consider moderate but which counts as casual by P1999 standards. It took us about 10 months realtime to do 1-60, minus roughly a month break we took. A typical leveling session ranged from one to three hours, probably about five days a week or so while active. As I recall, as solo classes the Shadow Knight had a modest advantage at very low levels, but by the mid 30's the Shaman pulled ahead and the lead only grew as levels increased. If not for duo'ing, the Shaman could have made 60 significantly sooner.
I don't remember what our /played was. I don't think it really matters. Important thing is that our own experience agrees with most everyone else's: If you play a lot, you'll cap out in a few months. If you're more moderate, expect it to take the better part of a year. If you have alt-itis and can't dedicate to a character, you might not cap at all.
Danth
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