Warden Bot/Duo

[pokerguy]

I will be duo-boxing a Sk or monk with a warden.  Basically, will be using the warden as healing bot until max level. Can someone suggest AA progression for using points?  90% of the time, he will not be soloing.  Is it better to go Warden line first or max 1 line in Druid and then go warden?  Or just max 2 lines in druid, then warden line?  Thank you for the help!

[ButterKnifeNinja]

<p>If you're high enough lvl to have Spirit of the Bat (lvl 32 I think, or 35) then I would put the 3 points in your increased rez and max out your spirit of the bat upgrades in the wardens tree. </p><p>then I would go back to druid tree and work on either your STA line to get the +heal crits or the AGI line to get your faster heal ticks. Once you max out each of those abilities it's pretty much whatever you want from there. </p><p>My personal set up on the warden tree for raiding or grouping is to max out the cure line, max out the heal stuff line (the one that starts with rez upgrades), and throw the remaining points, starting with the root line and using the minimal possible to get down to the protector of the forest (or whatever it's called there, the one that increases your effective mitigation) ability upgrade, and max that one out. Can't remember for sure, when this is all said and done you might have one or two points left, put em wherever. </p><p> For the Druid tree, again, for group or raid spec, I have gone down the STA and AGI line, maxing out heal crits and faster heal ticks and putting enough points into each of those lines to take the end-line ability. The remaining points are pretty much up to you how to spend but personally I am putting them into my INT line since I am not melee speced currently to try to get some decent damage out of the spell crits. </p>

[Arielle Nightshade]

<p>If the Warden is just your bot - go down the Warden AA's Movement line to get Spirit of the Wolf maxed (runspeed to 45% or more if you have jboots).   Get Warden of the Forest beefed up (Warden mit buff).  While doing that, you'll be enhancing Spirit of the Bat - which is a buff that most Wardens put on themselves, but should go on you (specially if you choose Monk).   Also down that line (or close to it, I'd have to look) is Spores - a buff that will proc a heal if you are hit - with no action needed from the Warden.   Once they have more points than that, start down the Druid STA line so that the bot can take a little bit of a hit.   There are useful abilities in that line, but they require a bit of 2 boxing.  The passive abilities are pretty good too.   Then do AGI if you want max healing.</p><p>A Warden as bot, and kitted out for all the utility...would really come in handy.   When I am trying to level my Swash, I often bot myself with him (since 2 boxing is WAY to hard for me..LOL)  and run around buffing his agi, portaling his lazy butt all over the place, and boosting his run speed.  Portals alone make dragging another character along for the ride..helpful.</p>

[Peechai]

I 2-box a Warden/Bruiser combo all the time.  The Warden buffs seem to really help the Bruiser - especially runspeed (45% SoW plus FD make the world your oyster!), Instinct, and Spores.  Between Altruism (bruiser buff that causes the warden to FD instead of dying) and Rebirth, with the Bruiser having FD, it is extremely rare for me to have to revive (unless I forget to give the Bruiser a feather...).  With these two characters I can usually take a blue ^^^ heroic easily, and often a white or even yellow one.  The weak spot is multiple mobs because the Bruiser's group taunting is not great and the Warden winds up taking some hits - the Bruiser's avoidance buff on the Warden (buff lets the other character have a chance at using the bruiser's avoidance to avoid getting hit, and currently the Bruiser has over 11k avoidance) helps immensely until I can get aggro back on the bruiser.I've tried comboing the Warden with an SK and a Zerker, but neither were as effective nor as efficient as combo with the bruiser, at least for my play style.  I've also tried an Inquisitor and a Defiler with the bruiser, but neither seemed to complement the Bruiser as well as the Warden (Note:  I've had a druid Main since 1999 in EQ1, so that may be why I had less luck with the other types of healer - YMMV).- Peechai (78 Warden, Blackburrow) / Renfield (78 Bruiser, Blackburrow)

[Beldin_]

<p>Like other already said : max runspeed and spores. I also would go then first into STR line for the heal proc, and after that for the melee skills. Spores and the meleeproc is a lot free healing, and personally i always pull the mobs some step backs into melee range of my warden, then quick let her do 2-3 melee-attacks so that she starts autoattacking.</p><p>If i read the last post, i again see i did all wrong. First i level the warden with a zerker to 70. Now in RoK i played her with my SK, and now started to play my Bruiser with my fury, though i know that fury better boosts SKs. On the other hand i've also solo healed CoA with my warden when i still had only T7 adept 3 heals, i doubt i had managed that with the fury <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Meshuggahx]

Warden as bot healer? seems like a weird idea tbh.. inqs area alot better for that

[Hobb]

<p>i betrayed my lvl 78 fury to warden to box with my dirge</p><p>i had around 100 aa at the time but maxed the str line completely and went down til i got</p><p>75% chance to melee crit</p><p>my dirge cant hold aggro</p><p>i box this with my lvl 41 monk and i can rip stuff apart</p>