Complementing Classes

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Just for fun (I’m thinking of drawing some classes together)

What classes when paired up complement each other well and why?

Your decision could be based on game play mechanics, or lore/class fantasy, or matching transmogs or polar opposites for example.

I guess an easy one would be Priest and Paladin since they are both followers of the light (well excluding a certain shadow class) But more specifically I guess I like the idea of a Protection Paladin or Ret Paladin paired up with either a Holy or Disc Priest.

I’m eager to see what people come up with :slight_smile:

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I run my shaman main with my wife’s hunter main, and when we’re leveling I usually run as Resto. Gameplay-wise, it works well, because I don’t dish out the damage, but I can keep her pet alive through anything we come across. Aesthetically, we also wear similar armor (mail-type) and usually pick similar colors to match each other (Kadeeza and Grathok are in purple presently).

On Alliance-side, I have a dwarf paladin and she has a night elf hunter, we’ve also managed to match using some of the bits from the Darkshore transmog. He’s a naturalist tracker and she’s a reckless, plate-wearing light-flinging nutjob. They both end up saving each other from mayhem on the regular.

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I like the concept of Battle Priest, like those that we saw in Shadow Moon Valley in Alternate Draenor. I would imagine that class with strong defensive spells (like disc priest) but with a bigger damage output, and less healing options.

Edit: Sorry i miss the point of this thread. Following the idea of Battle Priest, i always think that priest and warrior are a good match who complemate well.

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That’s lovely! Reminds me of when my fiance and I leveled our Trolls together. Although we had a Hunter/Priest set up. It was similar in a sense. I really love that you two color match.

My current main is a Pally and my Fiance is a Hunter, it’s a fun combo to be sure! haha.

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I had two other blood elf friends that I was best friends with since elementary school, one was a mage and the other was a hunter, we were like a blood knight/magister/farstrider team, similar to lor’themar/rommath/halduron

We had transmogs to match our sub-factions as well

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Shadow priest sub rogue for the old gods’ favourite little pair of agents.

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One I use a lot is DK and Shaman. Mainly any spec with a DK and Either Enhancement or Restoration Shaman. Depending on the needs in game play.

Also another good one is Disc Priest and Enhancement Shaman in a single target situation. Use this one a lot as well.

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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the past, Shadow Priests used to apply a debuff to enemies that increased all Shadow damage taken. Thus, Warlocks became very fond of having a friendly face-melter around.

We made a good team… well, we made an EVIL team, but that’s even better. /cackle

And then Blizz took it out. Of course.

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Then they put it in Overwatch. Zenyatta is here.

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That kind of reminds me, we warlocks used to have “Curse of Elements”, which would make enemies more vulnerable to all kinds of magic. Didn’t see a lot of use since Curse of Agony couldn’t be applied at the same time, but the concept was “complimentary” towards other classes.

Man, I miss curses. Curse of Tongues, forcing the target to speak in Demonic and slowing their cast times. Curse of Recklessness was probably my favorite, though. Increased the target’s melee damage, reduced their armor, and made them immune to fear (even running in fear if their health was low). Great for classic Fear Kiting (cast Fear on a target, then CoR if they ran too far, then hit them with some other Curse to remove CoR when it got close- basically, making the mob kite itself), or for just making a spellcasting mob forget it had spells and try to bop you with a staff.

/nostalgia sigh

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Haha, that sounds awesome