Best duo partner for mage?Follow

Well from personal experience I can say that a druid/mage combo is pretty nice. Druid buffs pet, snares and dots mob, and keeps the party healed up all while acting as a taxi. Makes for some quick and efficient kills

Seems you would want a partner that would neutralize the mages weaknesses. Crowd control/Healing which class would max those 2 areas for your mage, that is the way to go. Druid seems the closest to being able to do that, a few other classes could come close-Shaman/Paladin/Cleric/Bard off the top of my head.

Lots of variables there, and what do you want more, and what are you willing to give up? Shaman could buff the crap out of both pets for example. Paladin cannot gate, with the mage, etc. and so on.

I'd go with enchanter. Mages have almost no mana regen and enches can also mez adds and slow down the mobs for your pet to beat on.

I duo with my RL friend 65 mage... We seem to do really well in PoV which is still a high leveled place for me only being lvl 52 After I slow the mob we have no problems. DD and Doting and the mob is dead. Personaly I think a Shaman and a mage is the best.

I would stay away from melee classes completely if you plan to duo. The healing aspect they need will drastically slow down your progress in higher levels.

I enjoy Druids because they have great transportation and healing but after a while kiting can get very very boring!!!! It will be a safe means for you to level but sitting on the side casting here and there while they run in circles can get old.

I played with a Shammy last night and he was quite impressive! He was in there meleeing, healing, buffing and his pet was helping with adds. Granted he is high level but he really brought a lot to the group.

Being a Necro I am partial. We can be extremely versitile when grouping. Where it can get hairy and this happen last night with a Wizzy I was duoing with is this... I had pulled with cling, dotted and rooted letting it rot while the Wizzy nooked. My root and cling wore off at the same time so he was on me fast. I had so much agro my pet could not stop him so I had to FD....well the Wizzy instantly took the hit. I was able to root and cling and pull him off of her but by then she was at 35%. Crowd control is a major issue in a duo combination in my opinion. So far Shammy's and Druids seem to have that down pat backing up with heals and buffs.

Reason I haven't mentioned Chanters....it is hard to find one that really plays thier toon well and doesn't live afraid of dying. A really good Chanter will rock your world a really bad Chanter will leave you and them both dead every kill.

Thanks for all the responses.

I'm leaning towards the Shaman because I haven't played one before, although the druid is enticing.

a shammy = best friend for any melee class/pet.

there is nothing better to have around for a melee type.

shammy = good heals, best haste, best slow, best regen, best stat buffs.

a melee without a shammy is only half as good as it could be.

Actually chanter has better haste then shaman and can mez adds. The only thing he can't do is buff stats/hp and heal, but the mage gets some pretty good pet heals. I'd rather have an ench to give me clarity/KEI/etc. to go with the slows/haste/cripple.

Hmm, does Night's Dark Terror take on a Mage pet? I think it does on a Necro pet.

This is one helluva good buff spell.

There is also the Augmentation series, don't Boon of Garou and Augment stack? Or is it Trickster's?

Anyway, a chanter can really buff up a pet if you get the right series stacked, this is partly what makes the Chanter pets so powerful.