2box with shaman - SK, Ranger, or Wiz?

[Zakulu]

[Ughbash]

[Zakulu]

I have made a solemn oath to never, ever play a druid. Even if the druid is a bot named Igor.

[Grendalkhan]

[Tarnnok]

[Scowls]

[Zakulu]

[Wasonce]

[Dnan]

[Caythy]

Rangers do ok archery damage from level 59 to 65
Starting with weapons where damage > delay you'll never touch your bow again for dps

Get the ranger his defensive AA skills and it is a tank, not as good as a plate class, but good enough.
Then add those offensive AAs (i.e. slippery attacks - far less riposte damage taken).
As a shaman you are able to slow and cripple those nasty mobs.

The ranger does offer high melee + spell dps, long lasting, reliable snare(!), root, harmony (outdoor only) for pulls, some minor buffs and a lot af aggro.

The shadowknight is a good tank, but low dps. Fights last forever... it has short duration snare (darkness line), some other DOTs, few nukes/lifetaps and FD for pulls.

And yes, my main is a ranger

[Baelic]

I use shaman sk duo and personally love it. The way I play both classes have equal roles and with the Shaman laying on the dots and the sk's great agro management and ok dps with Panther on him mob's go down fairly fast.

My normal strat is pull with snare (or agro dot if a long pull then snare close to camp), slow with shammy, or debuff slow if resistant mobs, hot sk if a hard hitting mob, sk casts another agro spell and tanks with pets, shaman lands 2 dots and panthers sk, pets as need be. Should only need to tab back to the sk to reposition him so he's still hitting mobs, cast spears and quick low mana terror, those spells and having decrepit skin up will ensure agro over Shaman dots, help take the mob down faster and decrepit skin and hot means very few heals are actually needed.

In the sk shaman duo, the shaman is definately not the healing bot, he's there to pump up the dps.

For some of the real tough summoning mobs that can be rooted / snared its easy to pull with sk, fd close to camp, have Shammy debuff with putrid, snare with VP then fully debuff mob, reagro with sk then send sk in with hot and start the killing process again.

In the nest or places good for root rotting its great pulling with sk vping with shaman then root rotting, with Sk able to add some small dots you are able to get a red mob in run mode or dead before vp wears off and he goes no where with sk snare on him.

Sk shaman are a very neat tough and versatile combo with the only thing lacking being the dps but in my opinion with the sk able to keep agro and lowering the healing requirment the shaman can stack on the dots and panthers to make up for their lower dps.

[St_HotPants]

If you want the shaman to "star" in your duo then I'd consider the following:

Bard (very underrated shaman partner IMO)
Ranger

My personal school of thought is that in any duo the shaman is the star because the shaman MAKE every other duo partner better in many ways. I duo a Rogue / Shaman combo, it is not a combo I'd recommend highly unless your comming in with a well geared rogue. I was simply amazed how much better a rogue/shaman combo was than a rogue/cleric or rogue/druid (tried both). I had some fundamental gaps to overcome like snare (snare poisons and an anklesmasher) but overall my shaman made my duo. Thanks to the helpful shaman here I was able to make leaps and bounds with my shaman in both knowledge and ability.

[slowinit]

I would seriously consider a shammy/zerker duo. I duo a 57 zerker and 55 shaman. The zerker always keeps agro, in fact, on most pulls I can slow on inc which makes it nice. Zerker can tank ok, for the content I am doing. Zerker also has a riposte disc for those times you get a couple mobs in camp and can't get a slow to land. The only problem is pulling. Zerker has no lull/paci so if you are fighting where mobs tend to group together, it can get tough. Then again, zerker is a tad twinked, with some decent weapons, which all have procs on them, in fact, they all have double procs, so that helps in the agro department also.