Shaman heals are fine... inner fire sitting/dancing med ticks is like a pocket fungi 1-20, and efficient enough with an enchanter slowing, plus with pet tank you are wanting the tank to take lots of damage anyways. Enchanter also provides supreme CC so no real need for tons of healing like with other combos. Between slow and CC, and pets, you're golden on dmg mitigation and healing needs really.
If you love necro play a necro and it'll synergize with shaman great... so much root rot ability, and fear kiting with sham and mage would be fun too, 3 pets wailing on feared mobs
Picking based on velious is stupid, pick based on what you enjoy not end game. All race/classes played every single expansion in the game. Hardly anyone min/maxed, and we all got by just fine. Ignore the nerds.
Troll is best shaman with an easy quest for clinging darkness clicky necklace, and innate regen though, if she'll enjoy playing one. Alternatively, Barbarian get spiritist hammer for an affordable hard hitting melee weapon to joust with between slow and pet tanks, and get free armor drops when rotting if you hang around KC with Jarsath set... iksar can wear too though and still get regen.
Troll>iksar>Barb>Ogre imo... troll gets better armor and regen, iksar regen and quest gear is nice plus innate ac bonus if you care, barb looks awesome and lastly ogre has the super overated frontal stun immunity, which hardly matters with slowed mobs. Also if you have an enchanter and shaman you have not only slowed mobs but stuns... you take a combat round like ever other minute lol, hands down best mitigation in the game!
Sword and board + cleric is boring as fack but if that's all your girl wants to do is play a healbot, it definitely works. It can be fun in full group... but with trio you envisioned, it won't be much fun I reckon
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