Most solid duo for Kunark and Velious

[Overcast]

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

I'm actually a little surprised people didn't mention more about bards. The duo I'm currently slotted up with is a druid/bard, and the only real limiting factor is that if we're indoors, it switches from kiting several mobs at once to simply root rotting with me standing nearby blasting the eardrums out of it.

That's interesting. A druid is one class I have thought about... Of course, in a dungeon crawl - for a duo, the bard ends up being the tank too.

We are kinda leaning on the 'play what we want' concept and all - but like it was said earlier in the thread, part of the 'fun' is being able to deal with a large variety of content - indoors even more so than outdoors. We love to dungeon crawl.

We've been doing a Bard/SK combo - which works out fairly well, really. Might just end up sticking with that.

I can't think that a Ranger/Bard combo would be better - but I have always wanted to play a Ranger... hehe

[azeth]

Overcast I'm actually in the same boat, I solely group with my Wife and we've done so for every level so far. I hope the SK/Bard combo works, but I'm sure you understand you may *have to group in your 40's/Kunark.

I'd actually be interested to see Sk/Bard work together, the two classes I'm probably most ignorant of.


edit: just remembered I saw a Druid/Rogue duo killing Halls of Honor (right? PoP zone) ent trash in 2003ish. It was surprisingly effective and pretty fail safe given Snare sticks. Definitely *requires some room to kite though.

[guineapig]

Have to agree that druid bard combo is pretty bad ass. The downside is that you are overlapping many abilities such as snare and sow. However the dots stack, druid roots are pretty damn good, and having sow and levitate for a bard means being able to twist 4 detrimental songs when kiting and not having to worry about the travel songs.

Very efficient on down time for both classes since the bard does not need to meditate and can keep all the agro. This allows the druid to over dot/nuke and still be able to sit and med in place.

[guineapig]

SK/bard = fear kiting for sure. Both classes can spam fear till it lands and the bard snare is ungodly good.

All you have to really be aware of is the pathing of the mobs ahead of time.

This combo is also very mana efficient once the mob is feared, requiring very little (if any down time). You are only limited by what you can find outdoors.

[HippoNipple]

My fiance is going to play a mage.

Goal of group:
1) level efficiently
2) farm stuff at level cap
3) very rarely be in a raid if ever, most likely just 1 full group at max

I want us to be able to do as much as possible at end game in indoor zones with limited gear (no raid gear, epics, etc.)

I'm open to be whatever, shaman, monk, enchanter are the ones I see being the best with a mage. I know all of those would be fine but I want to make the best choice for kunark/velious like the original post said, and I'm stuck with a mage because I think its the easiest class to play and thats what my fiance will be.

[Droxx]

Swisha pretty much nailed it. Shaman and anything = game over.

[azeth]

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

My fiance is going to play a mage.

Goal of group:
1) level efficiently
2) farm stuff at level cap
3) very rarely be in a raid if ever, most likely just 1 full group at max

I want us to be able to do as much as possible at end game in indoor zones with limited gear (no raid gear, epics, etc.)

I'm open to be whatever, shaman, monk, enchanter are the ones I see being the best with a mage. I know all of those would be fine but I want to make the best choice for kunark/velious like the original post said, and I'm stuck with a mage because I think its the easiest class to play and thats what my fiance will be.

For what it's worth, from someone who like I mentioned previously, duos consistantly mage/enc :

Kashi (Enc) does the following for me - Mana Regen, Lull + CC, AC/Haste Pets, Rune for camp breaks, Slow, Nukes, and does all our Merchant visits.

If she was a Monk - Pros Pull, Tank Cons Die, mage can't heal

Shaman - Pros Slows (much safer than Enc), Heals, excellent buffs, good damage from DoT+Pet+possibly Melee. Cons Not a whole lot.. Mage mana may suffer though if the Shaman is healing your pet you should not have mana issues since our Nukes are decent mana/damage.

[Overcast]

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

Overcast I'm actually in the same boat, I solely group with my Wife and we've done so for every level so far. I hope the SK/Bard combo works, but I'm sure you understand you may *have to group in your 40's/Kunark.

I'd actually be interested to see Sk/Bard work together, the two classes I'm probably most ignorant of.


edit: just remembered I saw a Druid/Rogue duo killing Halls of Honor (right? PoP zone) ent trash in 2003ish. It was surprisingly effective and pretty fail safe given Snare sticks. Definitely *requires some room to kite though.

Oh I have ZERO issues grouping - we plan on it. We also want a duo that's group effective too. But a solid duo gives us options if we can't find a group or don't want to group at a particular time, or if we just want to go camp gear / quest items.

Thanks for the input~ the more the merrier.

[Theldios]

Well I have played everyclass in the game to 60+ and by far hook a shaman up with //? and you have a good combo.
Shaman are by far the most versitile class in the game they can do it all.
And for the guy who says he only grouped with a shaman was to PL him lol so how was it getting pled by a shaman lower level than you?

[Tappin]

I just now read over this entire thread and was very happy with the outcome.

A friend and mine had kind of decided to make Iksar Monk/Shaman duo team when Kunark came out. This pretty much really seals the deal for us I think!

Sorry to reopen this thread, hehe. But maybe it should be now that Kunark is getting closer... Or I assume it is, hehe.