Rogue - Best Duo Partner?

[Macha]

I hear the best experience for Rogues other than Plvl is to duo with a class that can distract a mob 1 way or another while you do rogueDPS.

I am looking to see what classes are the best to duo with to accomplish this.
So far I can think of Druids, Rangers, Necros, Bards.
Basically partner can snare a mob, grab aggro, flamelick or what have you, and run around while I poke it from behind (hey-oo).
Or partner can snare and fear.

It seems my best options would either be Necro or Bard unless someone wants to educate me otherwise. Necros can DoT, do pet dps, snare and fear. Bards can snare/fear while providing buff/haste and self dps.

Any thoughts?

[jolanar]

You've pretty much got it figured out.

[koros]

Those are probably the best. Shaman, Paladin work as well

[Malik_Gynax]

Necros have awesome heals for this sort of work as well.

[Infectious]

Druid... Snare,sow,str buffs, hp, ports, heals.
Necro is good to, but I would take a good druid with ensnare and flame lick while you destroy mobs.

[Macha]

Thanks everyone.
Infectious, if the Druid DoTs, does the DoT do half damage because the mob isn't rooted/feared, or do druid's DoTs do full damage regardless? I don't remember if the mechanics of a druid DoT is the same as a Necro. Also, good tip about ports.. that could be useful if I try OT and bards are monopolizing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Here is part 2 of my question... is it faster xp for a druid or necro to solo by themselves, or duo with a high dps Rogue? Basically is this a Mutual or Commensal relationship? I don't want to duo with another person if they are just doing me a favor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Cecily]

I never really cared for duos. Monk, shaman, rogue trio is overpowered though.

[Vega]

While leveling my wizard I wondered a bit about how good it would be to duo with a rogue. You could just pull quads, snare, and hold aggro with temperate flux.

I never tried it, but I think this would be better xp for the wiz than solo. If you only have to snare one or two times (depending on how fast the rogue drops the mobs) I think you'd get away with quite a few pulls before needing a med break. Which should add up to more xp/hour, since I personally had to med between each pull.

[stakha]

I've duod with a rogue on my bard like this before, it works pretty well, but it's very difficult to get haste song to land on the rogue witout getting hit consistently. Even without hasting, they tend to drop fast and there is zero downtime unless something goes wrong.

[Buriedpast]

shaman/rogue.

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