Best 2box character comboFollow

I am thinking about getting back into EQ with two machines and two accounts. What is the best 2box combos?

Thanks

bst/dru works well

The most effective 2boxer I've ever met was playing an enchanter and shadow knight. Constant haste made his melee damage very formidable with an already quick 2hs, or that MoSS, and the breeze/clarity let him fear kite all day. When he got into a tough pinch(about to die, a nasty add..) he had mez and charm at his finger tips. He impressed me.

I'd imagine any tanker/melee type(pally, SK, warr) and a cleric would be a good combination, or a necro and a good damage class(monk, rogue).

Id have to say cleric / shadowknight. Sk's can tank very well, put out some mean damage, and have mild CC skills as far as feign death for pulling and fear. Put a cleric behind him with some stuns, maybe undead nukes (depending on the situation), and complete heal, and your good to go.

No, boxing a bard works in some situations. Just avoid boxing bard with another class that requires a lot of attention. Bard+mage/wizard and bard+rogue/ranger combos are ones I often work with.

I dont two box (computers are purposely too far apart so I dont decide to try) but I do play with my RL fiancee. He has a mage and an sk both of appropriate level and both work quite well with my druid. We have been messing around with some alts and the one thing I would say is make sure one of them can heal. When we play with a combo where neither can heal it is frustrating because you might have mana but without the heals you have to wait or be very careful until health comes back up. We have been using a necro and a chanter some and that has worked out well - I dont know how that combo would be for 2 boxing (might be a little messy when charm breaks) but it does ok once the necro get the healing spells. I would still tend to go with a traditional healing class (cleric, druid, shaman) We miss the porting ability without the druid but that is minor compared to the heals.

naoko, i could see that as a very powerful combo. great melee dps, and great haste/slow/debuff plus extra tank in pet if you let chanter pull.

that could be sweet combo, just missing heals.

I would go for BL + Clr or DRu-- probably cleric for paci/single pulls and bigger heals. BL gives you tank/dps/slow and mana regen-- cleric for HP/rezzes/pacify.

BL are just all around awesome.

/agree TexasWizard

The best 2 player group I've ever been in was me, a 62 necro, and my friend, a 63 druid.

Regen, 3 min snare, dots and sow, with necro dots, pet and /gasp, twitches, make for a really good combo. We could kite froggies in PoS all day with little to no med time. Now if you can only find necros that will group with druids and vice versa ;)

Necro/Druid still better IMHO. I will tell you why...

1. All their dots stack and are powerful for their level.

2. Both can snare. Druid snare one of the most mana efficient, least resisted and longest lasting in game.

3. Druid root the most powerful in game. Necro can root undead at lower level and gets regular root at level 34 at which time both can root.

4. Druid DS only surpassed by Mage DS.

5. This duos DD spells excellent for level and cover Fire, Ice, Magic, Disease, Poison. In other words all the categories. Both eventually get debuffs so their nukes are less resisted.

6. Both have the ability to charm. Druids-animals, Necros-undead. Once both get Dire Charm they can own a place like Plane of Valor for fantastic XP/loot.

7. Druid can port, succor and later on Exodus. Extremely valuable and an ability not to be underestimated.

8. Druid can also SoW and SoE. And Wolf form is faster then SoW and adds ATK buff.

8. Necro pet is great at lower levels, and at higher levels rocks! With Girdle of Magi`Kot, Mask of Mardu and Fists of Ixiblat the necro pet at lower levels kicks butt. I put this combo on my level 30 Necro's pet and we fear kite HG's in RM, the pet procs the Fist of Ixiblat at least once per battle, more often two or three times. Cost me about 20pp donation to get a mage to summon, or can buy in bazaar alot of the time.

9. Necro can fear and in dungeons mez and memblur undead. Outdoors Druid can harmonize.

Shamans and Druids are comparable healers until post level 60 where a Druid starts to pull away. And in reality most of the time the only member of this duo that might need a heal is the pet. Sure, a Shaman has some better melee buffs but Druid buffs are quite sufficient in this combo.

Simply put a Druid/Necro combo is a killing machine, especially a fear kiting killing machine. I know...I partner my 53 Druid alt with a friends 55 Necro alt and we own wherever we go. We have owned since both of these toons were in the single digits. Didn't have to wait to the mid 50's to do so.

Edited, Thu Feb 12 03:16:35 2004 by TexasWizard

I duo but my pair's levels are a bit off. 60 cleric and 50 ranger. The important part is that the ranger has a Swarmcaller to proc slow, else he'd get chewed up too easily. Once those two get closer in levels, they'd make a very good pair. I just need to spend more time PLing the ranger that way.

Also, as a side note, it's better to use 2 adjacent computers than to alt-tab on one box, if you're co-ordinated enough to control a character with each hand simultaneously.

Bard and Wizard combo is very good. You just gotta know how to play them.

The bard is your most used toon. Wizard just sit there. You make a hotbutton for wizard to assist you, stand, nuke, and then sit back down. With the bard you set your songs with haste, regen (mana and health), snare, and fear. You pull the mobs over by where your wizard is camped. Snare it, Fear it, then go to work. With your wizard, hit the hotbutton twice a fight for alittle under 50% of the dmg, and finish him off with the bard. If your wizard isnt in your group, your exp will be flowin.