Yeah, I just returned (again) after a few years. First played when Ruins of Kunark launched way back when. Really appreciating the content, keep it coming.

Nice content brother, keep it coming. What do you think about taking like the top 5 duo's and making a video about *how* they are the best? like what to do, when and what to kill etc? Like a training guide. Thanks!

Rolled a 100 heroic beastlord for 25th anniversary. Never considered a 100 heroic druid for a box, will have to look into this.

A well-geared and AA'd Paladin in any situation with Undead is absolutely S Tier. I remember grouping in FrostCrypt with one of the best Pallys in our Guild, and he was crushing it. Our only healer was the Cleric I was boxing while I played my Enchanter (main), and he was rarely needed beyond the usual buff lineup.

"Back in the day" (Paladin in full raid gear till PoP or 1 or so expansions later) my best liked combo was my pally plus a enchanter = tank + dps (against undead) + heal (from 59 on he got his first HoT) + haste + slow + cc = perfect in spaces where the healing from the pally was enough - remember this is coming from a pally with raid equipment (NToV, Luclin, PoP, etc.) = large hp pool, lots of ac, hp + mana regen, etc.

The Berserker. I was shocked at the Dps output. It was better than any other Dps trio I could put together. And I put all of them out there trioing.

Human Ranger and Barb Shaman is a great starter kit for a new TLP. Use Shaman to level a SK later when you need a plate tank.

enc (with tank merc) and wiz (heal merc) at lvl 116 and doing great. The enchanter can lull and single pull and handle adds along with dots and haste/mind candy. The wiz is my original character and probably why I play him but he's starting to do some descent damage at 116 with all the aa's. Great video. After I get 120 I may try your SK/Shm combo as I duobox 24/7. Very nice video!

I usually trio on TLPs and start with cleric/ench/bard to 50. The ench does all the work pulling/charm. Cleric buffs and spot heals. Bard passive with melody. At 50 I join a raiding guild with whichever toon they prefer (usually the cleric). I drag along the remaining toons to pick up planar armor that would otherwise rot until all three are wearing sufficient gear to start leveling alts. Next round will be pally/druid/mage or SK/shammy/necro. Straight up tank/heal/dps, with the ability to let the necro or Druid to take over and do some charming for exp. The cleric and enchanter are camped nearby to buff and rez. Get the cleric epic for the upteenth time when Kunark comes out. Then ride the raiding cleric to feed all the baby alts.

Been workin the Sham/Pal combo on tlp. With the AA cani, regen and group heal I’m using the pally to pump mana to the sham.

i have a bard on one account and necro and war on other account . trying to figure out if warrior + bard . or necro + bard is better . maybe i can drop bard for a Mage ? was thinking to level a mage . any suggestion from your experience ? live eq

Mained a Ranger/Cleric box with no mercs for years. Swarmcaller or EC slow proc on each mob and most camps were cake. This worked in current expansions until i stopped playing 6 or 7 years ago. It helped that the guild was short on true tanks so i got a lot of gear priority to OT or MA raids.

Paladin Ranger it's nice with two healer Mercenaries. You're more or less don't care who is tanking. Both characters can pop off a heal. Theoretically the ranger can rescue the Pally

Will be starting over again live soon, torn between Shaman main + bard box, or BST main + bard box.

Beastlord Pet Tank + 2H Shadowknight / Fighter + Healer Mercs is an insane combo for later expansions. I am currently running this combo on Ragefire. We have an answer to every situation with the exception of tracking. 2 players 2 pets 1 fighter merc + Bst Synergy = insane burst every 30 seconds + even more insane burst with Bst Dichotomic every 60 seconds. Dual feign death class's and invis to undead from SK we can get basically anywhere, SK can split mobs with ease and has a dispell, 2H SK damage is basically Berserker class without the insane burst dicho, Beastlord Pet tanking with a healing Merc = 2 healers to keep the tank alive. The synergy between these 2 classes is actually insane. Unfortunately the server is dead outside of maybe 2 guilds and finding a 3rd person to round the group has been a flop so far. This has been one of the funnest combos I have ever run.

wizard+bard - wizard+druid - druid+bard can do some insane AE together, if both are being played as a duo and not a box. If both players are raid geared, it's crazy!!! From AEing Seb to AEing Skyfire. Just watch $$$ roll in. My experience with these duos are only on TLPs from Vanilla to PoP fyi :)

What would be a non-traditional but still viable duo that would provide sought after classes at end game? There are lots of necros, mages, sks and shamans at the high end for the very reasons you've talked about. Also interested in your experience with various trios, excluding sk, shm, bard since that's mine =)

Going for a Berserker + Shaman myself, hoping that tank merc + healer merc&shaman will make due for tanking

can we get a video explaining the tank types and healer types and the situations they shine in during raids or content

I agree shaman anything is good, Regen, heals, DPS, dex str agi hp buffs, slows, haste. I've tried others like cleric and druid and just not as good imo.

The druid has a mending line of heals that is incredibly powerful for melee / pet classes

Per my experience, Shadowknight and Magician works great - SK pulls/crowd control, mage pet tanks, mage heals pet and nukes.

For years I did a Ranger (my main) and Shaman (Wifes main) and it was great. It's unfair because we were in a top 5 raiding guild and by gear we would always be in the top 20/10 server wide. At that point there is almost no difference as you couldn't even measure a tanking or DPS difference between the #20 and #1 based on gear not player. That being said, later I did a Ranger/Pally (Pally over SK because everyone had SK's). That was incredibly strong with Mercs. At that pointy in all raid gear my Ranger was super high DPS, with HS I'm not sure any class could be better at EXP. I do regret doing the Pally but I could basically kill any Named in any zone or EXP anywhere. If it was just EXP I could set both Mercs to dps for that little bit extra. I also did Pally for Undead seeing as there is often a lot of undead. having the extra DPS is very noticeable. A ranger, raid geared and well played could easily be S tier. I also had a mage (raid geared) before the Pally and it was the same situation, the pets could easily tank, mercs heal pet but it was more DPS overall, but Pally could kill bigger mods and tank multi mobs without almost any attention as a Box, the mage took a lot of work with pets to offtank. My ranger could slow fast on any Named with Epic and the spam proc AA. You also have to consider the buffs and how they stack with pally. Instant group invizo, undead invizo, SoE, snare root, AE root are great. Ranger could pull 15 mobs easily, AE root and pluck them out 1 by one for chain pulls that sit 20 feet away from the Duo.

I agree with you on shaman duo superiority when paired with any of the melee/physical classes (sk, monk, ranger, etc), but if your "main" is any of the caster/priest classes, then I think the bard is clearly the best duo. Especially if you're factoring in mercs, so you don't need shamans healing, the bard does much more to amplify a caster class. So while you said "shaman + anything is S tier", I feel like that's really shaman + any physical class is S tier, but bard and literally any class (physical or magical) is S tier. So for me that puts bard just slightly above shaman as a duo class. But they're both S tier, with druid right behind them.

Warrior shaman has done me well for 125 levels, of course I 6 box but the shaman heals me through everything in the game. I have to admit, the warrior and shaman are both raid geared. I feel like it could easily be done in group gear though.

Slow+Haste+Heals=Gawd Tier

Would mage + mage + shaman work on teek tlp?

Cleric + Ench on tlp. Shman + Sk anytime.

trio vid!

I struggled to get the shaman to work. Used heroic to get it to 85 had a bad pool and he got two heals off and ran out of mana. I realize I could have studied the problem more but... I apparently hate myself because shaman is the last class for me to learn

Miss you bro, you doing the new tlp? ….heretick

I always find Slow to be overrated personally. While Shamans are nice, they lack critical utility I find necessary. Druid is my ideal box class. Snare+Dmg Shield+Regen+Ports just can't be beaten.

You play on Project Quarm any?

Buh, enchanter druid, double charm, mez , clarity, druids get baby full heal, damage shield, spirit of the wolf, teleports. huge dmg with the double charm plus mez when the charm breaks. i can duo without any help or mercs. I haven't played past pop so idk about later than 65, but i can duo all the way up to that.

Hard to decide between enc/clr and sk/Shm for tlp

Those are grind duos, but sooner or later you want to get augs and gear, then what do you do?¨Not many combos can handle a boss without slow...

Classic: Monk/Shaman

Magician pet tanks. Use wizard to nuke mobs die fast because wizard nukes was better than mage.

IMHO should have been one tile per class combo. Interesting opinions nonetheless.

Anyone on bristlebane wanna group 120 shaman

you know it’s funny watching your videos i remember you saying shaman and shadow nights were both overrated then in this video you basically say they’re the strongest🤣🤣

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