What 3 class group is best?

[Giustin]

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

ranger /ranger /ranger

+1

[Sorn]

'cuz you don't need to be super fast to escape DTs, just faster than the ranger behind you.

[Beastagoog]

Monk+shaman+chanter.

[kjs86z]

Cleric + Enchanter + Tank (or Monk)

[MycahDavith]

Content and target goals will obviously have to be taken into consideration, but here is a simple list:
Cleric+Chanter+Shaman
Cleric+Chanter+Necro
Cleric+Chanter+Mage
Cleric+Shaman+Monk

[Pyrion]

Mage, Mage, Mage for a very relaxed, mob wrecking group. Whenever a pet dies it gets recast. Aggro is always with a pet. This group can not do everything, but what it can do it will do fast and efficient.

[Expediency]

Cleric/chanter/chanter is the best trio for leveling. Probably not the funnest though.

shaman/chanter/monk seems like a waste of a third spot imo. You got to heal monk and it cant gate out of places.

You should pick either a melee dps trio or a pet based trio. A great melee trio is shaman/monk/rogue. Another good one is shaman/chanter + monk/rogue + hybrid.

If you go pet based, pick chanter plus any two of: mage, necro, shaman/druid. Druids cant summon pets (nwb is garbage) but they can charm animals and mix well with any magic class that is not a shaman. Plus they get transportation spells.

I dont know why anyone would consider a wiz for a trio. Porting opens a lot of content up to you but the druid can port plus sow, harmony, tracking, and other support skills.

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[Victorio]

Cleric enchanter enchanter

[Ofaelol]

Related question about Sham/Dru/XXX Melee

I already have a RL friend 14 Sham/Druid duo- we're animal charming in the Karanas. Another RL friend is interested in rolling a character, and I want to push her towards a tank class, or a Rogue to DPS while druid charm tanks.

If she goes for a tank class, what would work the best for the least PP spent on gear?

Also, would an undergeared tank be strictly better than a Rog + charm animal tank?

[Samoht]

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

a Rogue to DPS while druid charm tanks.

This absolutely will not work. Aggro will always switch to the player character over the charmed pet. The only way it can happen is with fear kite or aggro kite, either of which will really suck for the Rogue because latency on this server will constantly return mob is out of range / cannot see your target errors.

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

If she goes for a tank class, what would work the best for the least PP spent on gear?

Probably a Paladin or SK unless you want to add a chanter and cleric to do harder one-group content in Velious, in which case you would need a Warrior.