Is Sham/Ranger a good duo class?

[Jeffari]

Yes it is a great combo. Rangers are a great duo partner, they are decent dps, they don't tank that well as others have mentioned, but that is fine if you have a shaman with you. I played a ranger on live back when velious was brand new and got it to level 55, and recently started a ranger here, only level 30, but I've been soloing the whole time, there have been a few instances where I'd duo up with another class, shadow knight once, wizard another time. Honestly soloing, rangers have no problem at all, of course you will need to bow kite a mob down to about 70-75% before you go in to fight, start off right away by making class 2 bone hooked arrows. They are really cheap and have an incredible amount of range, what you want to do is in between every arrow that you shoot, keep the mob flame licked always, but right after you shoot an arrow cast your dd, the refresh time for your bow is just long enough to get a dd off on your target. Flame lick also lowers the armor class of the target by a little bit so it will enable you to hit the target a little harder and flame lick and snare are only like 10 mana so there is no reason not to keep those two spells up on your target. Honestly I've soloed 90% of the way to 30 which I know isn't much of an accomplishment but I honestly will get invitations for groups quite a bit but soloing, as long as you have arrows and mana is actually really easy and fun. You should be able to kill 3-5 mobs easily no problem before you have to med. Now I know most of what I have said is in regards to soloing, but all of the above I've mentioned, now if you imagine a shaman in the mix, a melee class's best friend in terms of buffing and debuffing abilities. I guarantee you'll have such a fun and awesome not to mention easy time. Now of course you can roll with the traditional monk and shaman combo, which is an awesome combination as well. But if you really want to play a ranger, shaman and ranger honesty will be a great and awesome combo. Rangers can't tank very well but if you are rolling with a shaman, with his heals and slows, you'll be fine. The ranger is seriously one of the most fun classes to play, just not very needed in groups. Unless your looking for quillmane or brother qwinn. Or Hasten Bootstrudder, and Brother Zephyl, ha then you are everyone's best friend. =) Honestly you won't be disappointed with a ranger. Oh and another plus I forgot to mention. Beginner starting ranger gear is really inexpensive too, Silver Swiftblade, dragon horn ykesha, Swarmcaller, all really good decent weapons and not to expensive.

[Spitty]

If the ranger enjoys playing a ranger, it's a great combo. There's a bunch of fun things you can do with snare, dots and archery.

[Biopimp]

Thank you everyone for your input. Would a Druid/Shaman or Necro/Shaman be better to start? They both seem like they would complement each other very well. Do necro pets still tank as well as i remember?

[Sadres]

Druid/Shaman would probably be agonizingly low DPS. Necro/Shaman would work pretty well.

[Spitty]

Nec/shm is great. I usually tank though, not sure how well the pets hold up to tanking versus an actual player.

Dru/shm is agonizingly slow. You're better off splitting up, soloing and meeting up for coffee later.

[NegaStoat]

I rolled a ranger, got a cheap swiftblade, progressed to the late teens, and came to the conclusion that the character is best shelved until Velious which will drop the 40% hybrid exp penalty and grant the character more spells. Panic Animal is the big one here. I really wish things were different, but that's the conclusion I kept coming back to.

[Dragonmist]

Yea its a great combo to play...Hardest part is learning how to play a ranger well,and leveling up but since you have a companion wont be too bad at all.

People flame rangers now but when Velious opens its a game changer, DPS increase all melee get ST proc weps,They get new Bows,and gear that helps out as well.

Rangers if played well do not suck they do get a lot of crap though early on,I played a ranger on both the last two SOE Live Timelocked Progression Servers Classic-PoP 1st,and Classic-DoDH on Vulak I never hardly ever ate DT's. If you play a ranger in classic make sure to Quest your Spell http://wiki.project1999.org/Call_of_Flame_Quest one last thing be sure to have fun and play what you like...

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I rolled a ranger, got a cheap swiftblade, progressed to the late teens, and came to the conclusion that the character is best shelved until Velious which will drop the 40% hybrid exp penalty and grant the character more spells. Panic Animal is the big one here. I really wish things were different, but that's the conclusion I kept coming back to.

I've got a moderately-geared ranger into the 30s now, solo and group, and I'm loving every minute. I've practically shelved my main for it. IMO you either really enjoy the class or you don't like it much past the teens, similar to other hyrbrids. SK/PAL I could just never get into, and bards always hurt my hands, so I never got into them. Rangers? In love at 9.

I think rangers get more of a bad rep here than they deserve, especially pre-endgame, and especially with how cheap/easy to get ranger gear is. That said, it's definitely not a class for everyone. Takes a specific kind of wish list to want druid utility on a melee class.

[Dragonmist]

Druid/Warrior=Ranger class or was Sony's EQ's idea...

[SwordNboard]

Druid + rogue more like it