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Bard.....Pull, Hit Melody.....Relax
Haste, Over Haste, Spell Boost, Slows....

When in Doubt always a Bard.

I would recommend a Shaman. Buffs such as unity and lynx will help out a lot. Once you get your ranger to 85, then you will have nothing but single pulls. Slows will help alot too.

I think it depends on your boxing skills and style.

Considering you have two merc clerics and are potentially adding a third? I would suggest your DPS is more important than slows.

Wizard transport utility and easy boxing dps.

Chanter is useful utility wise but unless you are charming DPS is much less. Probably more useful to have a chanter alt parked in the guild lobby for buffs at the start of a night. I love chanters (majority of my time in eq has been as a chanter main), just not convinced on them as an efficient box.

Shaman heals not as key with your set up. I think slows are not a priority for most of what you are doing either. Shaman DPS meshes better with the druid/necro and/or real tank set up in my view.

Mage... 2nd pet, second mana pool to nuke with. 2nd pet might be more useful than wiz ports overall.

Beastlord could be interesting too. Another solid pet for DPS, decent utility with the lesser slow and kitty crack. A low-level chanter/shammy hyrbrid if you will... that brings a nasty pet.


I'd lean towards the 2nd mage or beast with a 3-box because the pet can engage and be doing dps while the "main" does its thing. With the wizard it works because you'd wait a bit to drop the big nukes anyways.


Buy your third account, and reroll your group on Mayong to test it out. You'll get a basic sense of the playability (at level 51) with no time committment to the characters. Then you can roll the best candidate on your real server.

Why not a 2nd shaman or a second mage?
If you can box well I would think the best balance and utility maybe the wizard.

I would keep the healer merc on the mage.
Having tank merc on wizzy means that even if you get a bit of aggro your tank may be quicker to taunt off.
Protect the hand that pays him so to speak.



Yeah I know its only in my mind.

Druids have the AA ability to "Teleport to Bind" - which means teleport their group to THEIR bind point, which I think is the once he's speaking of. :)

The AA ability is from SoD, I think it cost 9AA (level 74 requirement).

No.DRU's "Teleport to bind" AA means that DRU will bring the whole group to DRUID's bindpoint.

To the OP.I personally duo MAG/SK myself,but I also tried lots of combinations too.Here is my 2cp:

1) Bard.Would be great if you are 2 boxing.But it would be annoying to 3-boxing a bard.Too many keys to switch just for one fight if you want to max bard's ability.Pull,buff,debuff...etc,those songs need a lot of attentions especially you have to switch back and forth between 3 accounts.

2) Shaman.His defensive slow proc(with a healing over time) and pet alone are enough to buy one.Because,in my experience,MAG and Ranger are good enough in DPS part to bring down any SOD group Named.Now,all you need is anything that can provide your pet more defense.

3) ENC.Nice DPS(no kidding,greater than any group geared Melee.Mana Flare aura/200~300 DPS pet/Nuke).Slow and Debuff when dealing with BOSS.Crowd Control and Pacify in dungeon(Hmm,Ranger has Harmy arrow for pulling too).

And Tank merc is useless if none of your char can Haste.Dont even bother before you can hire J5 Tank merc.Focus on those essential AA about pet tanking(AA Clicky too).You can spend some times on Classic mission for Enhanced Minion II focus if you dont have better.

Got the wizzy up and running. Working out pretty well. She is level 72 now and is a real bonus to my dps. Have her SoD progressed as far as her level will take her which is that she can't run the "escort" mission in in Bloody Kith until she is level 80. Tried adding her after I got the mission but at the end the hails wouldn't work so I guess it is grinding exp and essences in FoS until I can get going on the FoS progression.

I think once I get her to 80 and up to tier 3 I am going to swap the mages cleric out for a tank and see how that goes. The thing is the tank would have to be able to tank at least the named in FoS. Think they can? I hate to **** away 12k hiring a tank merc and then having to hire a cleric back.

Anyone else having a merc tank tank in FoS?

Not sure what you are saying here but I used my 83 Magician to run my 71 Magician through Kith progression and completed them all just yesterday. We then finished FoS #1 Audience with the Warmaster.

It's not your alts level, its something else you need to fix.

I basically have the same set-up as you. I play Shaman (83 atm w/ merc tank), Mage (83 atm w/ merc cleric) and Ranger (85 raid geared w/ merc cleric). There's almost nothing I can't do. Very high dps 3 box with all the pets and the Ranger being Lynxed. Also, very easy to 3 box as mage and Shaman are 1 hot key operations with spam nukage to taste, which leaves me free to melee and CC/pull with ranger. Merc tank is a little annoying with root parking, but he makes up for it with AoE taunt. I set one cleric merc on reactive and the other on balanced, works great...

Summary: I highly recommend Shaman w/ the other two. With those 3 you will have the optimal experience fetching group. The only achilles heal would be highly packed areas as you are at the mercy of harm arrow's slow refresh and the ranger/merc tank's tanking abilities for the really big game of end group zone named. Also, don't underestimate the Ranger's pulling ability with snare/vinelash with Mage to CoH, a very potent tool indeed.









Edited, Nov 15th 2009 10:05pm by baileyzen