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Originally Posted by bcbrown
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I don't think this can compete with monk/shaman/necro as "best", but I bet it would be a ton of fun. Some of the most fun I've had in EQ was in a static trio enchanter/cleric/bard where I played the cleric, although a lot of that was because the other players were cool, chill people, and we all were on discord so could easily coordinate what we each were doing on bad pulls.
But, like, you could probably swap the cleric to a necro, as then you have great bard/necro synergy and still plenty of healing power. And then if you swap the bard for a shaman, you'll improve the burst healing, have better haste and slow, still have good synergy with the necro with regen. And for pulling/tanking/dps the monk is probably better, albeit with less utility.
I wonder what bard/shaman/necro would be like. You'd be able to shift health and mana around in an unparalleled fashion. But when what do you do with all that mana? One scenario I'd love to see would be the bard pulling a whole mess of mobs and kiting them around with the aoe snare. Then necro and shaman can root-cc, dropping splurt and shaman epic on each. Would be messy and chaotic but I bet the dps would be off the charts.
Edit: Ah, splurt and shaman epic don't stack. Too bad.
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You just agreed and replaced the entire party 1 class at a time
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It's not even the same anymore lol.
Cleric with ranger and bard has solid synergy, not only in the fact that it's protected by some good defensive and HP buffs, but also superior healing, as well as bard buffs to further reinforce the hardyness and dps of the party, as well as mana for cleric.
I'm not trying to downplay your shaman, necro strats, but there's just not that much actual synergy or options between it.
Necro has 1 buff, DMF.. and 1 mana regen "twitch" which only the shaman can benefit from. It's jenky.
Cleric and Ranger both benefit from mana pumping bard, same with strengthening songs, and both bard and ranger benefit from cleric buffs, same with ranger stuff like roots or harmony, both cleric and bard benefit.
It's just a matter that there's WAY MORE synergy in the build I proposed. If you replaced the ranger and cleric with shaman and necro it wouldn't be able to handle as much, and would be more limited, but possibly more lethal, but still more limited.