Questions about Soldier and Off Classing/Stats

I’ll do my best to be concise and make this organized.

  1. How is Soldier as a pure class? Is it max difficulty viable?

  2. What are some of the best secondary classes for Soldier to pickup, specifically for a tanky 1h/shield setup?

  3. On magical classes such as a shaman and their ability savagery, how does damage calc into it with a soldier? Is it better to build into spirit to buff its elemental damage?

  4. How do Spirit and Cunning calculate into hybrid abilities with both a physical and magical component? Is it better to stack one over the other, or distribute it among both.

  5. Also, one sort of off topic question. Does spirit buff pet damage and pet durability? This is for those Warder builds where I want to include pets into it.

Or do I have the idea mixed around and misunderstood?