What would you addFollow

With the new anniversary edition out I'm thinking of starting a 2nd account for myself. I play a 72 warrior, my wife a 72 cleric, my daughter a 73 bard and my son a 70 druid.

What would you recommend to add to this group that I can easily two box (two seperate machines side by side, not same computer)and why?

One possibility is that I could move a 58 wizard that is currently on my account. Anyone know how much this costs and what the procedures are? I started my account in Dec 99 and don't have the key-code for it.

Thanks
Rehogan

As Jonwin stated, either a wizard or shaman would be a good choice. The problem with wizards are that we are more gear/aa/level dependent than shammies in my opinion. The real question is are you having problems with keeping the warrior alive with just bard slows? If so then go for a shammy, if not go for more dps with the wizzie. The bard has a great number of songs that can be twisted into increase the dps of the wizard. I mean who doesnt love to see a wizzie crit for 10-40k depending on the spell(all gear/aa/level related).

Current Group is:

Warrior
Cleric
Bard
Druid

Here suggestions on how I would do it:

Option #1: Add a shaman. While the bard slow might be able ok for the moment, with a shaman, you'll be able to tackle much tougher content. Also, with some of the HP/AC buff and the proc buffs, you'll increase your effectiveness as well. Toss in the debuff, DoTs, and pet, it will be icing on the cake.

Set up some hotkeys to assist the main tank, malo the mob, and slow the mob. Use audio triggers to your advantage for fizzles and resist messages.

Option #2: Add a mage or necro. These two are great for "fire-n-forget" DPS. Once the pet engages, you'll have constant DPS even if you don't do anything else to the mob. Throw in some hotkeyed DD (mage) or DoT (necro) spells to increase your DPS.

Option #3: Add a wizard. Normally, I'd have this one higher, but since you already have a druid in the group, the transport feature of the wizard loses some appeal. Still, it is great "fire-n-forget".

I would have the wizard sit there for the first portion of the battle so your warrior builds up aggro (you'll have to determine the sweet spot). At a certain point, hit your hotkey and you can chain cast your nukes with one hit of a button. Have the hotkey make your wizard sit down. Once the mob dies, the wizard will have time to enter OOC regen while you are pulling and engaging the mob.

Option #4: Add a beastlord. You might lose some of the melee effectiveness trying to box a second melee, but the slow and pet might make up for it.

The wiz has some advantages;

- you already have one in the 50's
- extremely easy to bot, probably the easiest.

But, that's really it. Yeah, they'd provide dps, but that's not gonna do ya a bit of good if your tank is dead.

I'd go with shammy or chanter for slowage. Seeing that you got a druid for back up heals you could go with the chanter and then also have your kei, mezzes, blurs etc.

I would add a Necro. Big dps without aggro worries like a wiz or mage. Back up rez/fd if things get out of hand. A pet that can dish it out and take some beats. Thats just the beginning of what a necro will add to your army.

Agreed, go shaman.

As far as a zerker, a good portion of their DPS comes from their discs so you would have to constantly be watching that toon. Not to mention, controlling your agro is just as important as dishing out DPS.

My zerker has pulled agro from the tank on several occasions without trying. If the tank is more then 3 levels below me, forget it.

Well it turns out that my son is tired of playing his druid so we are going to move his 57 rogue over to become his main and I'll box his druid. I do that a lot anyway when he's not playing. May not be most ideal but a rogue will be nice added DPS and we'll get him to 70 in no time with skills maxed.

Thanks for all the input.

Reho

Shaman for dependable slows, but if you want a hands free box then I would go with DPS of a ranger. /Autofire and forget unless you are worried about runners at low health and no druid for snares and the bard keeping dps songs on. IN that case the ranger can also snare.

If you need to kite mobs then a ranger is a great box toon to have. One snare after the bard has safe aggro and then just /autofire till its dead. Switching the druid to rogue will slow the kite down but the rogue and war can also use their bows instead of the old chase routine.

This will be helpful when getting the named mobs in Thalassius and Atiiki for their drops for your family.