Most solid duo for Kunark and Velious

[Skope]

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

Skope, I am curious, was this with or without the epic pet? I heard mages were really bad without the epic pet, but once they had the epic pet they were one of the top DPS again. I never played a mage past level 12 in classic myself, nor did I play much kunark or velious.

The epic pet was fantastic, unfortunately though it was also one of the hardest epics to acquire. It really is a fantastic and game-changing epic, but until that point it's pretty much earth pet all the way for solo, and air/water for groupage. Kunark and velious mobs hit harder and have more HP, so when chaining pets means you don't DD and makes you kill a bit slower and thus less effectively. The nukes take somewhat of a nosedive for a mage because of the great nukes that wizzies finally get in kunark/velious, not to mention the lure line. My gripe with the mage isn't that they're not great soloers. They are, and very much so. The issue i have is that it gets very boring and one-dimensional.

and JBB is awesome. Sick pet, malo, slow and root>Dot. click the JBB while waiting to reapply roots/dots.

[Taluvill]

ENC/DRU would definitely be my vote, but much harder to do. Very high risk High reward, the druid/chanter have to be good.

They can do MUCH more than anything else listed here, but are higher risk because the combo involves more skill. I dont know what your skill level is, but best combo is Dru/Enc. Hard to pull off tho

If it can be rooted/snared or mezzed it can be killed.

[Reiker]

JBBs suck.

Let's give a class with infinite mana and able to do a lot in a short amount of time a long cast low damage mana free clicky.

They're decent for powerleveling < 60 though.

[Phallax]

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

JBBs suck.

Let's give a class with infinite mana and able to do a lot in a short amount of time a long cast low damage mana free clicky.

They're decent for powerleveling < 60 though.

JBB is redonkulous. Someone doesnt know the power of a manaless nuke, the 8 sec cast is basically 8 secs of slight mana regen, and come velious with FT is another thing. A shaman, in theory, is going to be slow+torpor tanking thus neglecting chain cani. So the JBB click is $$. Trust me Ive played shaman since live classic all the way thru Omens, i love the class, pick shaman in any game that offers it because of thier versatility.

[Reiker]

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

JBB is redonkulous. Someone doesnt know the power of a manaless nuke, the 8 sec cast is basically 8 secs of slight mana regen, and come velious with FT is another thing. A shaman, in theory, is going to be slow+torpor tanking thus neglecting chain cani. So the JBB click is $$. Trust me Ive played shaman since live classic all the way thru Omens, i love the class, pick shaman in any game that offers it because of thier versatility.

Not trying to turn this into a pissing match, but I've also played a shaman for years and you don't know what you're talking about. Why click a JBB when you can be doing so much other important shit? JBB is 263 damage iirc. You can cast a fucking gimp dot like Ebolt in half the time and do 3.75 times more damage for 200 mana.

[Phallax]

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

Not trying to turn this into a pissing match, but I've also played a shaman for years and you don't know what you're talking about. Why click a JBB when you can be doing so much other important shit? JBB is 263 damage iirc. You can cast a fucking gimp dot like Ebolt in half the time and do 3.75 times more damage for 200 mana.

Thats mana that can be spent on a slow or torpor. Free casting is the best thing ever...Theres really no discussion about it. In kunark and velios JBB is near priceless. Ill admit with the way the game works post-Velious with AAs, gear, new spells etc that JBB starts to lose its worth but this is classic, not Luclin+

[martigan1983]

2 cleric dwarves is the best duo.


infinite free beer clicky !!!!

[Reiker]

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

Thats mana that can be spent on a slow or torpor. Free casting is the best thing ever...Theres really no discussion about it. In kunark and velios JBB is near priceless. Ill admit with the way the game works post-Velious with AAs, gear, new spells etc that JBB starts to lose its worth but this is classic, not Luclin+

Explain to me why it's beneficial to do minimal damage for no mana as opposed to much better damage for a small amount of mana that can easily be made up over a few seconds of torpor + canni spamming? I agree, a mana free nuke would be amazing to any other class but doesn't really benefit a class with virtually unlimited mana, with the fastest mana regen in the game by far.

[azxten]

I would go SK/Shaman.. my current duo is Bard/Mage though.

[Omnimorph]

Agreed, SK is more useful than monk. Also plate class so better tank etc. Also should you decide to form a group, you have a tank in place, rather than having a dps and consequently needing to find a tank.