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My GF has a Wizzy she just got up to 30. My Mage is also 30. for a V-day gife she upgraded my PC to 3 Gig of memory and I was thinking of 2 boxing a mage and a ? along with her wizzy. Looking for some advise on what you guys thing the third toon should be. I know this is not the holy trinity and a little different, but could be fun. I dont think a tank class would be a good idea due to no healer, altho Pally crossed my mind.
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Hard to say, odd trio. I'd consider a Shm and use the Mage pet as tank. That way you'd have decent buffs and slows, with some healing ability. No crowd control though.
I agree. Either a Shaman (for slows, buffs and heals) or BST...similar, but with an extra pet for tanking.
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Are you using XP on your 3gig pc? If you are, only 2 gig can be allocated to one application. Limitation of XP. 3rd gig will be held for dll and other such background operating system processes.
Quick edit to add link to MS website
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Edited, Wed Feb 15 13:55:45 2006 by Rossd
Quick edit to add link to MS website
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B328269
Edited, Wed Feb 15 13:55:45 2006 by Rossd
I would think a necro or a chanter would suit that combination well. Although the necro might be harder to box.
Rossd wrote:
Are you using XP on your 3gig pc? If you are, only 2 gig can be allocated to one application. Limitation of XP. 3rd gig will be held for dll and other such background operating system processes.
Quick edit to add link to MS website
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B328269
Edited, Wed Feb 15 13:55:45 2006 by Rossd
Quick edit to add link to MS website
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B328269
Edited, Wed Feb 15 13:55:45 2006 by Rossd
THank for the link and the info..looks like SP2 fixed this issue
"This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2."
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Two boxing with a mage (which is something I do when my wife can't play and I log on her cleric) can be a challenge, especially when you get adds, but since you will be doing this with someone else around, it should be a lot easier. IMHO, I would go with another pet class, just to keep things consistent, but I do like your original idea of a Pali too. You could run the pali up, engage in melee, tab over to the mage, send the pet in and add a nuke or two. With the pali having some healing capabilities, you will offset your downtime; I suggest a Deep-water Helm to use as a slow clikly heal for all of you if you decide to try this. A pali should also be easy to run up to 30 if you hunt undead zones and hot spots (or the easy way - MM's). Either way, good luck and hunting; keep the woman involved and you get more deck time!
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... Two boxing with a mage (which is something I do when my wife can't play and I log on her cleric) can be a challenge, especially when you get adds, but since you will be doing this with someone else around, it should be a lot easier. IMHO, I would go with another pet class, just to keep things consistent, but I do like your original idea of a Pali too. You could run the pali up, engage in melee, tab over to the mage, send the pet in and add a nuke or two. With the pali having some healing capabilities, you will offset your downtime; I suggest a Deep-water Helm to use as a slow clikly heal for all of you if you decide to try this. A pali should also be easy to run up to 30 if you hunt undead zones and hot spots (or the easy way - MM's). Either way, good luck and hunting; keep the woman involved and you get more deck time!
PS: Nice to see another 'burgh resident; I'm posting from the USS Research Center. :)
Well from 30 to 50 or so the pally would be fine. At around 55+ the pally would pretty much become useless in that trio.
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At around 55+ the pally would pretty much become useless in that trio.
I totally agree. Not to knock pallies (my main is a pally) but without a healing class available to watch the tank's back, he'll die pretty quick. Furthermore, pally dps is very weak compared to the pet classes you mentioned and pally healing is sub-par. If you want a healer and dps you should go with a cleric (buffs/rezzes), druid (buffs/ports), or shammy (buffs/slows/pet).
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Anything short of a shaman (maybe cleric or druid, but shaman is alot better choice) will be problematic the closer you are to 60+. This is assuming you are doing content intended for the level you currently hunt at.
I think this could be a very strong trio, actually. Mage pet tanks, shaman slows and heals and buffs pet, wizard nukes. You can handle alot of 'potential adds' in many places with pet pulling as well.
I think this could be a very strong trio, actually. Mage pet tanks, shaman slows and heals and buffs pet, wizard nukes. You can handle alot of 'potential adds' in many places with pet pulling as well.
The last thing you need to worry about is heals around a mage and a wizard. I'd say an enchanter would be most usefull to your characters(i.e. clarity, mez, pacify).
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The last thing you need to worry about is heals around a mage and a wizard. I'd say an enchanter would be most usefull to your characters(i.e. clarity, mez, pacify).
Are you talking about only kiting?
if you to in to the high 50s and above, a mage pet will continually lose ground, degrading the trio.
I'd suggest a necromancer, and kiting.
I'd suggest a necromancer, and kiting.
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if you to in to the high 50s and above, a mage pet will continually lose ground, degrading the trio.
I'd suggest a necromancer, and kiting.
I'd suggest a necromancer, and kiting.
Yeah, that's part of the reason I was suggesting a shaman so that kiting wouldn't be the only option. My reasoning was perhaps the mage pet would hold up well tanking with both mage heals and shaman heals + buffs and , of course, slows. I really don't know though, as I have never been interested in playing a mage before, but I did think it sounded like an interesting combination.
If they're looking at only kiting, though, I agree on the necro thing.
Shaman Mage Wizard is a perfect trio thats what my brother and I trioed up to 65 with 50+ you'll ahve to start watching your nuking morebut you'd have to do that anyways
Plus you can still kite with a shaman mage wizard trio
Plus you can still kite with a shaman mage wizard trio
Go all DPS and see if you can drop the mob before it gets to you.
Believe me you'll want a slower and a buffer later on........
Shaman its your best choice
Shaman its your best choice
A Shaman Slower/Healer and Mage Pet Tank will not hold up effeciently after 65 as Groogle said.
Go Necromancer and Kite. You have to without a Plate/Cleric
Monks, Rangers and BLs that tank and Druids that main heal RSS and such are all raid geared.
Go Necromancer and Kite. You have to without a Plate/Cleric
Monks, Rangers and BLs that tank and Druids that main heal RSS and such are all raid geared.
After 16 years, I'm not listing every friggin character.
It will hold up trust me.
My brothers shaman my wizard and a friends mage(or necro depening which one was on) trioed all the time post 65.....
Once you have the mob slowed it's easy as hell. Plus kiting groups limit your hunting grounds(and like I said if it is a non summoning mob that hits to hard just ahve the wizard kite it while shaman and mage pet/nuke it)
Also this group is GREAT for killing loot named mobs
Edited, Thu Feb 16 22:49:17 2006 by elorianBLAH
My brothers shaman my wizard and a friends mage(or necro depening which one was on) trioed all the time post 65.....
Once you have the mob slowed it's easy as hell. Plus kiting groups limit your hunting grounds(and like I said if it is a non summoning mob that hits to hard just ahve the wizard kite it while shaman and mage pet/nuke it)
Also this group is GREAT for killing loot named mobs
Edited, Thu Feb 16 22:49:17 2006 by elorianBLAH
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Monks, Rangers and BLs that tank and Druids that main heal RSS and such are all raid geared.
Enchanter would be handy, but I think I'll change my answer to wizard because nothing can do damage like a wizard. If you have two in the trio, you could have your mobs dead in 20 secs. A shaman could work in the high end, but I think he's just going to be taking up space untill then.
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