Duo/Trio - Advice Needed!

[victual]

I've read around the forums and I think I still need some more advice.  I'd be duo'ing with a friend and I would be willing to box as well to make it a trio.  We are both hardcore and willing to grind\farm hard for the right gear for the harder MVP's.  

RO Goals
  - Take out a wide range of MVP's (Eventually going after things like Vesper/Valk/ect)
  - Be able to wreck dungeons when not doing MVP's =P

Trios I've Read About
  Paladin\High Priest(Player1) + Sniper(Player 2)
        If sniper, how do I handle the mobs?  Or do I just let the Paladin tank them?
  Professor\High Priest(Player1) + Champ or Sniper (Player 2)
       Why does the professor make a good tank?  I know he covers aoe spells, but isn't he squishy?
       Can I substitute the Professor for a Paladin in this combination?

Any other trio/duo options out there that kick some major MVP butt?

Sorry for the lengthy post and thanks in advance for any responses.

[DarkDevine]

Wizard, Bard and Priest

The Bard uses Poem of Bragi to speed up the wizard with casting, the priest can tank some hits as well, spam safety wall and speed it all up with it's buffs.
Most likely the best trio you could use, it can take many mobs through AoE spells as well as take MvPs with Hit 'n Run while locking the MvPs using Stormgust.
Problem is, that you really wouldn't be able to do randgris. For that I'll recommend Crea/Paladin or Champ/Steel Body

[victual]

Thanks for the response.
Posted on: Apr 27, 2010, 11:32 amAnyone other thoughts on this?

[SavannahS]

Wizard, Bard and Priest

The Bard uses Poem of Bragi to speed up the wizard with casting, the priest can tank some hits as well, spam safety wall and speed it all up with it's buffs.
Most likely the best trio you could use, it can take many mobs through AoE spells as well as take MvPs with Hit 'n Run while locking the MvPs using Stormgust.
Problem is, that you really wouldn't be able to do randgris. For that I'll recommend Crea/Paladin or Champ/Steel Body

I would have to agree with him.

[fluidin]

if u want to take out harder mvps,

paladin + soul linker + priest
shield reflect + eske + ress. self explanatory

and
champ + paladin + high priest

buff, gospel, warp, lex asura. heal, rinse and repeat.

[victual]

if u want to take out harder mvps,

paladin + soul linker + priest
shield reflect + eske + ress. self explanatory

and
champ + paladin + high priest

buff, gospel, warp, lex asura. heal, rinse and repeat.

For Champ + Paladin + HP, I'm just going in with the paladin tanking long enough (on hard MVP's) for the champ to get off a lex asura then warping to town to heal and come back?  Is it unlikely the paladin could just tank it while the champ SP potted (in the case of lets say Valk)?  Or am I missin something? Because it sounds like the warp would give the create a lot of time to Heal 11 itself while I looked around for him again.

[Kaezar]

if u want to take out harder mvps,

paladin + soul linker + priest
shield reflect + eske + ress. self explanatory

Does this still work? o_O

[fluidin]

on some mvp/servers, yes.

champ paladin hp would be for those servers where u can warp str8 to the mvp. also, the trio i mentioned was just a small, albeit main part of the setup needed. get also a gypsy to sp song, ws buffs(?), whatever u can do to boost your dmg, then asura the VR. i remember it was possible to do godly amount of damages even on LRs.

if you are on servers that have already patched ANY form of easy-killing the mvps, and you do not have access to unlimited ADs or god/mvp eqs, then i'm sorry, u need more than a trio to kill stuff like vr, bee, ifrit, sm.

[Triper]

on some mvp/servers, yes.

champ paladin hp would be for those servers where u can warp str8 to the mvp. also, the trio i mentioned was just a small, albeit main part of the setup needed. get also a gypsy to sp song, ws buffs(?), whatever u can do to boost your dmg, then asura the VR. i remember it was possible to do godly amount of damages even on LRs.

if you are on servers that have already patched ANY form of easy-killing the mvps, and you do not have access to unlimited ADs or god/mvp eqs, then i'm sorry, u need more than a trio to kill stuff like vr, bee, ifrit, sm.

You can do ifrit easy with a trio... Clown+HW+HP...
If you know when walk back and keep the same distance always, you can evade meteors and ifrit won't even cast eq once because will be busy trying to get you and summon slaves. I do that all the time in a low rate with friends.

[Reed]

For Champ + Paladin + HP, I'm just going in with the paladin tanking long enough (on hard MVP's) for the champ to get off a lex asura then warping to town to heal and come back?  Is it unlikely the paladin could just tank it while the champ SP potted (in the case of lets say Valk)?  Or am I missin something? Because it sounds like the warp would give the create a lot of time to Heal 11 itself while I looked around for him again.

You are missing something haha.
For this you set up a pally and a dancer in town, Pallys uses Gospel and you sit in there until you get the good buffs (stats attack and sp)
than the priest lexes the MVP you go asura it for like 1m+ and then do it over and over.
If there is level selectable dungeon warp you can do with for pretty much anything. If not...You should abra.

[victual]

How long do the gospel buffs last?  Could you clear a safe spot in the same zone as the MVP if quick warping is not available and do the gospel there?

Love the idea though, don't even need to gear the pally.  Just use him as a buff mule and run around plastering creatures.

[Reed]

I don't know how long gospel buffs last but it is long enough to get an asura or two off. 
It is possible to clear out an area in a dungeon but there will be stuff spawning sooo it could get annoying if you aren't watching closing. And you would probably need to be bring some SP items cause gospel comsumes a bunch. Its fun, cause you can hit SOOO much with the three best champ buffs.


But really you should consider abra. You can gain accsess to some MVPs that you may not be able to beat otherwise.

[Mathy]

Message on chat clearly mentions one minute buff. Considering that it takes a while to get all 3, the first one will be gone by the time you reach the MvP, unless there're instant warps.
Not worth it.

[Reed]

Gospel warp asura is win. You don't need all three you can hit 900kish lexed with just sp and attack.