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I am searching for ideas for an ideal 4 box combo.. I just took over a couple account from my brother and was looking for suggestions of teams to put together to take down any group level content in the game

Nowadays, you could play and progress with almost any permutation of characters you desire with mercenaries in the game.

I only 3box, but if I could start a 4 box from scratch, I'd make sure to have tank,puller,dps and cc covered.

In my case I'd vote : SK,Shammy,Mage and Bard.

The Shammy I rate highly, as once developed aa and gear wise he can play the healer role, allowing you to put away the mercs to maximize xp for the group when xp'ing.
They also put out decent dps at the higher levels with big dots incl high dps swiftdots which are second only to the Necro.

But there are so many different set ups available especially with a Bard in group.


Edited, Aug 30th 2012 8:03pm by hexeez

I feel the beastlord is wrongfully left out of a lot of boxing discussions. Paragorn, Focused Paragorn, a boat load of DPS and utility; there's not really a single class that doesn't synergize well with beasts. Shadowknight, Bard, Shaman, Beast is an incredible combination that wouldn't even require mercs. That being said, every combination is viable with the right mercs.

Yeah, plus such a group is so easy to manage.

That's part of the strat. Air pets can keep a mob almost permanently stun-locked. Problem is some mobs, especially named, are immune to stun.

This has always been a problem for EQ in the sense that stunning can be too overpowered. I can remember in the early days our guild would have the guild enchanters just rotate thru their 3 "color" stun spells and we could keep a lot of mobs almost permanently stunned. In SSra this worked well when we'd pull all the skells in the basement in our to pharm the drop needed for Vex Thal access. Very powerful tool!

Nice strategy indeed, despite most named being immune.

I imagine, that the tankability vs named mobs must be still great as, if one pet/tank goes down they'd still be 3 more in reserve to play MT and take the aggro/hits or if adds just sic an airpet on the add knowing it can hold its own.

Next time I'm eligable for LOD on any of my accounts, I think I'll start a second mage and then a third mage as the next account is eligable. My only limitation is time .






Edited, Sep 2nd 2012 12:32pm by hexeez

Yes, I think sometime around SOF where most named and some trash in the higher zones started to be immune to stun. Before that in TSS days I believe some named were not immune to stun while many a trash mobs were stunnable..

Nice group set up with plenty,plenty burst dps.

*EDIT* just realized this is a necro thread! I'm adding my two cents anyways :P
I see the appeal of all-mage groups but it's just so boring in its finality. It's extremely efficient, since you can make identical macros on each mage and program your keyboard to hit the same macros in each windowed instance at the same time. Even if you don't do that, just get a monitor big and roomy enough to put all windows side by side, and alt tab through each one hitting the macro. Once you have this group, you could add a shaman for buffs and slows, but he would be an odd-man-out and would, probably, end up standing there uselessly quite a bit. You could add a melee but then you're managing heals on a PC... You could add a bard for ADPS but he's taking up a group slot and is he providing enough for the xp he drains?
After making a group like that... I can't see wanting to go back to a traditional trifecta group (well, fourfecta, in this case). Why spend weeks and months training yourself to manage four different classes, when you can load up on four identical classes and go to town with one I WIN hotkey? And since no other class does it better or faster, Magician is the class to pick for a foursome in today's game.
That's the finality that I would want to avoid, because once you go down that path I can't see you wanting to adopt a less-efficient four box group than the four mages, four pets, two healer mercs... It's like when you learn to charm kite as a Bard, and then after experiencing that sort of XP gain, you go back to meeleeing with your healer merc, and the kills take literally forever, and you gain 1/50th the xp that you would get from a quick swarmkite session. You can't go back after that. Anything less than swarming is less efficient and more time-consuming...

Edited, Feb 5th 2015 12:09am by xlitin

I only run a 3 box for now but thinking about adding fourth. I run druid , wizard , necromancer with 1 tank merc and 2 cleric mercs. Been pretty good so far. Liking not having to worry about melee toon.