Most solid duo for Kunark and Velious

[Cogwell]

Originally Posted by Overcast [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wife and I have been having a heck of a time coming up with a combo. Of course, she's not 100% set on which class she wants to play, I've been leaning heavily towards the SK, with Ranger as a potential second.

Ranger + Shaman or Cleric is decent. Ranger+Cleric is quite good after the ranger gets his epics and can slow.

SK + CLR/SHM/DRU is also fine. I've played a SK/ENC combo (obviously meant more for grouping with others) and it was quite fun.

SK+RNG would only really work fear kiting, which is pretty limiting in classic but opens up more in kunark.

[azeth]

Dru/Nec

Monk/Sham

Mage/Enc

Nec/Nec

Sham/Mage

Sham/Nec

Sk/Sham <-- favorite only because on Rodcet Nife we had a pretty famous duo making the mix seem unbeatable. They were very geared however.

[Swishahouse]

Any of you classes wanna duo just pick up a shaman and put yourself in EZ mode....If you can somehow break us from soloing the same mobs QQ

[Overcast]

Was mostly looking for a good duo with a Bard - I think the wife's pretty settled on one

[Chicka]

Shaman and monk are a great duo, two classes that can solo, but compliment each other well in a duo. JBB for shaman, T-Staff for monk = epic. And fun.

In a mage/monk duo - well, even if the mage enjoyed it, I don't think I would want to be the monk.

[Nightblade]

I'm actually a little surprised people didn't mention more about bards. The duo I'm currently slotted up with is a druid/bard, and the only real limiting factor is that if we're indoors, it switches from kiting several mobs at once to simply root rotting with me standing nearby blasting the eardrums out of it.

Slow, better-than-SoW, healing (both over time, and instant), mana regen, resists for those pesky casters, stuns or mez for interrupting casting, pulling ability...

While they may not be the 'best' at any one thing, they do everything pretty damned well. Following around a druid whose quad-kiting to chant them to death? Can't get much more interesting or fun than that.

While many of you have brought up many good points about the mage, they lack in one thing : the oh-shit button. Yes, mages chaining their pets can do beastly dps, and can solo or duo a great many things, but when put on scale with a competent shaman all by his lonesome, he has far more survivability, utility, flexibility, and 'padding' for when things go south due to an add, poor timing, lag, or whathaveyou. Put a shaman with something like an SK, a monk, or the like, and you're talking about someone who literally has zero downtime, and thus, will far outclass a mage who is limited by his manabar, and whether or not he has clarity, or decides to chip away his own padding by mod-rodding.

As both bard and rogue, I've duo'd with a shaman for many years, with one of the best, knowledgeable ones on my server, and he could do shit that mages could never come close to.

[Overcast]

Originally Posted by Nightblade [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm actually a little surprised people didn't mention more about bards. The duo I'm currently slotted up with is a druid/bard, and the only real limiting factor is that if we're indoors, it switches from kiting several mobs at once to simply root rotting with me standing nearby blasting the eardrums out of it.

That's interesting. A druid is one class I have thought about... Of course, in a dungeon crawl - for a duo, the bard ends up being the tank too.

We are kinda leaning on the 'play what we want' concept and all - but like it was said earlier in the thread, part of the 'fun' is being able to deal with a large variety of content - indoors even more so than outdoors. We love to dungeon crawl.

We've been doing a Bard/SK combo - which works out fairly well, really. Might just end up sticking with that.

I can't think that a Ranger/Bard combo would be better - but I have always wanted to play a Ranger... hehe

[azeth]

Overcast I'm actually in the same boat, I solely group with my Wife and we've done so for every level so far. I hope the SK/Bard combo works, but I'm sure you understand you may *have to group in your 40's/Kunark.

I'd actually be interested to see Sk/Bard work together, the two classes I'm probably most ignorant of.


edit: just remembered I saw a Druid/Rogue duo killing Halls of Honor (right? PoP zone) ent trash in 2003ish. It was surprisingly effective and pretty fail safe given Snare sticks. Definitely *requires some room to kite though.

[Overcast]

Originally Posted by azeth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Overcast I'm actually in the same boat, I solely group with my Wife and we've done so for every level so far. I hope the SK/Bard combo works, but I'm sure you understand you may *have to group in your 40's/Kunark.

I'd actually be interested to see Sk/Bard work together, the two classes I'm probably most ignorant of.


edit: just remembered I saw a Druid/Rogue duo killing Halls of Honor (right? PoP zone) ent trash in 2003ish. It was surprisingly effective and pretty fail safe given Snare sticks. Definitely *requires some room to kite though.

Oh I have ZERO issues grouping - we plan on it. We also want a duo that's group effective too. But a solid duo gives us options if we can't find a group or don't want to group at a particular time, or if we just want to go camp gear / quest items.

Thanks for the input~ the more the merrier.

[Theldios]

Well I have played everyclass in the game to 60+ and by far hook a shaman up with //? and you have a good combo.
Shaman are by far the most versitile class in the game they can do it all.
And for the guy who says he only grouped with a shaman was to PL him lol so how was it getting pled by a shaman lower level than you?