SK/Monk Duo

[tankh]

My son wants to start playing EQ and has chosen a Monk my first thought was to go shaman but I was wondering just how good a sk partner may be ? both able to self heal and the extra dps would be nice fear kiting but long term dungeon crawls would be painful I guess without any type of slow. Any advice would be great, I also have to accept that he may quit so I will be left on my own.

thanks in advance