Two box duo for prog. serverFollow

Thinking wood elf druid and High elf Paly. Or Dark elf Cleric, Troll warrior for the sake of them having close faction and starting near each other any ideas or comments?

Sham/monk is my favorite as well.

Necro/Druid

Nowhere they couldn't go. Nothing they couldn't kill.

You need to learn the special skills, but you have fear, kiting, splitting, pacification, porting/evac, healing, everything stacks, equipment is easy. This duo will be killing reds long before any other combo can get near it. In fact they can start off killing reds and never stop.

wiz/wiz, wiz/dru. if they dont change spells, wiz will be overpowered, a druid would provide some nice utility like great snares and heals.

I think brudish was referring to a Iksar only Monk shaman duo. They would both have the same faction problems then.
Human monk and either troll ogre shaman would have some faction problems.
Human monk Barb shaman should work well.
I was thinking a druid paladin combo would be interesting.
Or ogre beastlord and anything.

I meant it wasn't as feasible until Kunark comes out because being able to have the two characters start in the same city with the same faction is going to be much easier, which iksars can do. Otherwise you're limited to a human and an evil race or a human and a barbarian, which I guess works because Qeynos isn't far from Halas. It's just that with the lack of PoK, readily available ports, etc., it's a pain to run characters back to separate towns to get skills/spells.

It's definitely doable, just much easier with two iksar.

The thing about Necro/Druid is they can both charm, both fear, both snare. The Necro can mez. Once you learn the techniques the killing power is awesome.

For example they would be killing OT cyclops long before any other combo could manage it.

P.S. A human druid and human necro would be quite easy to start together, but I would go for a wood elf druid and gnome necro. Hit Steamfont - Butcherblock and then into Ocean of Tears.

Edited, Jun 15th 2006 at 12:19am EDT by Iluien

Necro can mez??

Class combo I'd recommend is WAR/CLR - there ya got the two most popular classes. And although you may enjoy soloing, you can't do it forever. So eventually, it'll be real asset to get groups quickly.

Yes, they can mez. Screaming Terror.

A Necro & Monk would be fun, but I'm giong to box a Gnome Mage & Cleric.

Should point out that, which gear being a lot more rare than on other servers, races will make a big difference at first. Dumb casters and weak melees won't be as easy to fix with gear and buffs as they are right now in most worlds.

i made an ogre shaman/war box...remember starting stats are crucial and lookin at all the choices for the shaman ogre was my favorite choice because of the high starting stamina and decent wis. with the warrior...umm....ya where can you go wrong with an orgre warrior other than faction $$

Yes, playing with two charmed mobs is very high risk. Its a lot of fun, but not something you would want to do all the time. (I did it for a while in Jagged Pines, two griffons could chew through the smugglers faster than they could respawn, but I did spend a fair bit of time doing cr's as well

The way to play a duo like this is to use one to charm and the other as your puller, crowd control. When charm breaks the other character does CC until the mob can be recharmed, or killed.

There are many variatons the pair can use, fear kiting is the most obvious, puller kites in circles around the other character until fear takes and then both turn and wail on the poor mob. Normal kiting works to of course.

Is progression server really going to be using the original rules? If so a few people are going to get a bit of rude awakening about binding and travel