Does anyone have any recommendations for what professions work well hunting together?

My friend and I have decided to come back to Gemstone after a very long hiatus and were trying to determine the best professions to choose that would compliment each other while hunting.

Thanks!

Wizard and Ranger best as it gets. Rangers are walking mana pools and the Wizard - Ranger spell circle combonation can't be beat. Back in the day I and a certain wizard lass used to tear it up. Then while resting offered complete set of mass spells to all present. Even better are one VOLN Master and one COL Master. JMHO

I'm a proponent of dual pures. Wizard and cleric gives you access to 6 different magic spheres. If you're targetting more 1 - 40 range, you can't go wrong with semis. Bard and paladin would be pretty fancy.


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Pretty much any combination of spell pure-semi-square works well. The combined arms concept is the key. Pure or semi casts an AOE disabling spell (e-wave, censure, sympathy, nature's fury, song of whatsit), whereupon rogue ambuhes critter's head or warrior M-strikes the heck out of it. Voila!


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I'd go with wizard/ranged rogue myself.

Later on there'd probably be some more powerful combinations, but I can see that being lots of fun right out of the gate, and also fun for when you're on your own.

-Keleborrn.

Really you guys can play any combination and make it work well, it just depends on how well you guys know the professions you pick. I think E's player has it right though, the deadliest combo would probably be a wizard and a paladin.

I was playing a caster empath and hunting with a caster wizard friend for a while, and it was downright scary at times.

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Cleric + Bard

great synergy on AS/DS buffs

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Pure empath and wizard is probably my favorite combination. They compliment each other fantastically.

Wizard is really the only non-square that pairs with squares competitively, in my opinion. Yeah, everything can really be hunted solo (short of the Scatter) - so any 2 characters can get the job done quickly - but only wizards have the spells to directly enhance squares and do it without an opportunity cost.

Use 509 and 506 to hulk up your square buddy, drop an ewave so you get exp when they murderize everything, go back to the tavern when fried. Wizard uses less mana without having to directly attack, square gets better at every single thing we ever do from those 2 spells...

Well - I just thought of square-empath - but that's working a little differently in my mind :D

-Keleborrn.

Even hunting partners who are both squares can do well as long as the two people know how to work together.

>>Use 509 and 506 to hulk up your square buddy, drop an ewave so you get exp when they murderize everything, go back to the tavern when fried. <<

Use 101, 103, 107 and 202 to hulk up your square buddy, drop sympathy when they kill everything, so you get experience ...


"So, what does that green line on the graph represent?"

"Oh, that's the projection of a hypothetical offspring from a union between Sauron and Cruella de Ville; we use that as a baseline for determining character alignment."

I'm not saying other combos won't do well and have fun, I'm just saying you could do be more destructive if you don't take the time to buff up your square buddy is all...

It's all fun, I'm just thinking along the lines of what I think would be most efficient if you got 2 shattered accounts and wrote perfect scripts. I would wager that pure-pure, pure-semi and semi-semi would outperform pretty all of the square-semi and square-pure combos except wizard-square. I will say that I'm not really considering lower levels though.

Square-swinger (har har. I mean another square or a swinging semi/pure) would be an exception to my made up rule I bet. More FoF, big benefits from side by side. More scars, and chicks dig scars...

-Keleborrn.

>>That's a small subset of critters though. And does the group bonus to treasure work if you're not actually grouped? Ambushing is awesome alone, but it sucks for playing with other people a lot of the time.

Yah, they really do need to fix hiding with groups.

And of course most everyone else will out preform against squares, something else that needs fixing.

I really like empath/sorcerer, though I think warrior/empath is also a lot of fun.

I think as long as the two of you are in professions you'll like, anything will work really.

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Pass.

I won't argue it cannot be done, or even done well. I will argue that the pair will be less effective than non-hiders, though, based on the limitations of the stealth combat system.

Taeghan and Myriamie have the benefit of having their players a) know each other for nearly 16 years and being very in tune with each other and b) sitting a few feet away from each other while playing.

That said, I do that that, with a little practice, a paladin/rogue hunting team can be fantastic. If the rogue is able to ambush to begin then stay in the open for the rest of the fight if there's a swarm, it works really well. However, it takes a dedicated hunting style on the part of the rogue. Because she fights out in the open so much, Myri will likely never be able to give up a shield. She can't ever be a true stealth rogue.

The practice part would be a necessity, too. Even with those two benefits I mentioned above, Myri still gets caught in Taeghan's spells once every few months or so during the 3-second "hiding without being grouped" window. It's still a super combo, though, and especially well suited to bandit hunting.

~~k

Wizard/ranger has always been my favorite combo. Really I think pure/ranger-bard is the best combo. Rangers can unstun, bards have encouraging shout or whatever it's called. Rangers have a ton of utility and when I'm in a group I don't bother with the hiding/stalking/coughing routine, just slows you a down a ton. I just stay in the open and spike thorn everything.


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I'll have to vote for Bard/Paladin for sheer power...with group AS buffs and song of tonis it's just rediculous.

or for Pures, Sorcerer/empath, though it still startles me how effective empaths have become at hunting (since I started playing when AOL was still at an hourly rate and empaths had a hard time killing anthing they could actually learn from at that point)

Also rather enjoy sorcerer/rogue....limb disrupt right leg....ambush head...done.

--Jurp