Warden Brigand/Bruiser Duo

[Aedeia]

<DIV>Coming back to EQ2 and I have a 22 Warden and my B/F is looking to start a Brigand or Bruiser.  How does either of those do with a Warden as a duo with all the recent changes?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks</DIV><p>Message Edited by Aedeia on <span class=date_text>06-29-2006</span> <span class=time_text>07:53 AM</span>

[pootski]

I 2-box a 70 monk and a 62 warden.  I find it an excellant combo.  They compliment each other nicely.Never palyed a brigand so dont know about them.<div></div>

[khufure]

 The brigand will have more utility, and especially in raid / endgame be much better.  The bruiser will be better for two-box only, allow you to do more things and better up until the endgame.  But again the endgame the brigand will win hands down.<div></div>

[Shadus]

<div><blockquote><hr>Aedeia wrote:<div></div> <div>Coming back to EQ2 and I have a 22 Warden and my B/F is looking to start a Brigand or Bruiser.  How does either of those do with a Warden as a duo with all the recent changes?</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks</div><hr></blockquote>If you're duo'ing, bruiser.  If you plan on doing alot of grouping and picking up a mitigation tank later on, then you want the brig.  We have a couple monk/bruiser & warden/fury duo's in our guild... they were the fastest people to 70 (fury/monk was first.)  I've done POA & SOS in 4-5 person groups with the monk tanking, its not bad to heal him and he can save us from group wipes by FD the entire group... which is invaluable... better than evac usually.  Anyways... my 2c.</div>

[Arielle Nightshade]

<DIV>My gaming partner and I have a monk/warden and bruiser/warden combo (m/w is on PVE, b/w on PvP).  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Of the two, the Bruiser/warden seems the most fun (and he likes the bruiser better than the monk).   Brigand/Warden would be a very nice combo because you buff all the stuff a brigand needs buffing.   I cant remember the earlier levels, but later on, you have a piercing/slashing/crushing buff that makes a DPS scout-y type EXTREMELY happy.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>That, and you buff Agility...that makes scouts happy too.   If you like Warden, I say get your b/f to create whichever he thinks will be fun.  Besides that...anymore you can really test the classes out before you leave the Isle to see if you basically like it.  Rerolling and releveling is fast if you find you don't like the one you chose.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I personally am glad to have a Tank.  With a fighter/healer combo, you have both 'ends' of any group kind of sewn up...and can add dps or other stuff in the middle as you'd like - or just duo content if  you are not finding the groups you want.    I've also learned that people kind of fall into archetypes themselves.  Many people are ABLE to play all the archetypes (fighter, mage, healer, scout) , but if they answered honestly would agree that one is their favorite.    If you can discover that early on, it just kind of adds to the fun, IMO.</DIV>

[gita]

played some on a Bruiser, helped me to get the Palace of Awakened part for the claymore quest line, and almost duoed every named needed there for advance the quests. Its a fun duo to play and very powerfull.<div></div>

[pedigr]

<div><blockquote><hr>pootski wrote:I 2-box a 70 monk and a 62 warden.  I find it an excellant combo.  They compliment each other nicely.Never palyed a brigand so dont know about them.<div></div><hr></blockquote>Nod, agreed.  I two box a 70 warden and 68 monk and its a great combination.  Someones when I find my arms arent moving fast enough, I three box a 68 wizard as well, just to make sure that the altzeimers hasnt completely kicked in yet.</div>

[Arielle Nightshade]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> pedigree wrote:<BR> <DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> pootski wrote:<BR>I 2-box a 70 monk and a 62 warden.  I find it an excellant combo.  They compliment each other nicely.<BR>Never palyed a brigand so dont know about them.<BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Nod, agreed.  I two box a 70 warden and 68 monk and its a great combination.  Someones when I find my arms arent moving fast enough, I three box a 68 wizard as well, just to make sure that the altzeimers hasnt completely kicked in yet.<BR></DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Wow...I can barely 1-box a character!!<BR>

[Iseabeil]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> pedigree wrote:<BR> <DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> pootski wrote:<BR>I 2-box a 70 monk and a 62 warden.  I find it an excellant combo.  They compliment each other nicely.<BR>Never palyed a brigand so dont know about them.<BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Nod, agreed.  I two box a 70 warden and 68 monk and its a great combination.  Someones when I find my arms arent moving fast enough, I three box a 68 wizard as well, just to make sure that the altzeimers hasnt completely kicked in yet.<BR></DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>Got 63 monk/62 warden/70 swashie(mentored) that I box, can be real fun at times tryin to keep check on all that happens, especially with the social aggro nowdays <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Its an awesome group tho, monk and warden makes for wonderfull backbone of a group as long as one stays alert on whats goin on.</P> <P> </P>

[pootski]

Ha.  I 4 boxed in eq1 (70 beastlord, druid, cleric, chanter).  Beast was in the top raiding guild on the server, so had a lot of end-game (CoA) stuff.  Was killing Velious Dragons for fun..  That was in the age of 21inch CRT's so made for lots of hotkeys.  Now, with 20inch LCD's it would be much easier, but I find eq2 only requires 2 boxing to do just about any single group content geared right.  Abilities are spread out more in eq2, unlike eq1 where you HAD to have a tank, cleric, chanter, then a few dps.<div></div>