Best 2 classes for 2 ppl games?

Bicio · January 29, 2017, 11:18am

Hi. Maybe the title isnt’ very clear.
Me and a friend of mine mostly play together. We started a few weeks ago, building our pgs without reading almost anything on the forum: we decided on our own. But… it’s not enough. Or we’re not good enough in conceiving pgs, I don’t know.
So I ask for help: what are the best builds for 2 people games? Ranged and tank? 2 ranged pgs? 2 tanks?
Thank you in advance for any reply on the matter.

customlp · January 29, 2017, 11:25am

Blademaster meele + Conjurer summoner. High dps and survival, many buffs and auras.

Stupid_Dragon · January 29, 2017, 11:41am

Stupid_Dragon:

There isn’t much difference, really. I build pretty much the same in both single and coop. I would pay more attention to survivability in coop because of increased damage and that’s all.

Having shaman’s aura certainly helps, but not picking a shaman because your mate already did it is bullshit. Think about your character’s consistency above any coop benefit. Avoid making specialists like supertank with really low DPS or supersupport with really low DPS, they are not consistent on their own and therefore not very fun to play. The only kind of specialization that works really well in GD is making one player focus more on single target damage and the other one on AOE. Also it’s good if your characters don’t have colliding gear interests so you could win from sharing epic/legendaries dropped with each other.

My opinion from recent thread.

system · January 30, 2017, 5:09am

Same advice than Stupid Dragon. 1 AeO char and 1 single target. I play since the early access with a friend and we have beat the game twice with different characters.

Cadence 2H Warder with Firestrike ranged Pyromancer.
This party was the first one and solid enough to begin with low quality gear. The Pyro clear trash mobs while the Warder pin every boss in the ground with Stonefist rebuke (1st legendary item dropped by the party).
Drawback: the warder itself couldn’t solo played. Despite the huge amount of single shot damage, he is overrun by large crowds.
We switched later for a Primal strike 2H Druid which could go solo, was more tanky and a bit more AoE than only single.
Calidor Tempest Sorcerer with Firestrike 2H Commando.
The first party gives us plenty of legendary items so that we could build an ultimate party. Both AoE, quite tanky and high DPS.
Complete lack of respect to bosses: facetanking and fast kills. Log, nemesis and Valbury are easy kills. Only the boxing Mad Queen is still a challenge with recent nerf to the sorcerer.

Do not forget to use good synergies with characters auras.

Bicio · January 30, 2017, 6:56am

Ty very much for the latest examples.
Other suggestions?

system · January 31, 2017, 6:48am

Well Bicio, finally I would say that the best is to find a buil that you both would play solo. Then take into account synergies and AoE skills to adapt the build.

You’ll have more fun play a character you like than playing the “best-on-paper” party which is finally boring (for some reason) to you.

Guurzak · January 31, 2017, 4:24pm

A retaliation tank is very strong vs 95% of targets and useless vs the other rest. Pairing a retaliator with any single target DPS build who can take out the pure-ranged bosses would make a great duo.