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Warden/Warrior is a solid pick now for solo play.

I would recommend the classic Mage/Priest if you weren't interested in melee. Somewhat odd ball picks, but Rogue/Druid and Warrior/Priest are quite fun for soloing. Not necessarily the strongest of combinations for endgame/group play- super fun for soloing though.

You want a class that can level fast? Then git rid of Knight one of the slowest leveling classes in the game. For melee I would say Warrior/Rogue,Rogue/Warrior. AWESOME melee damage and one of the highest Dps classes(unless they got a nerf I dont know of), and there beasts in PvP.
And yes Warden/Warrior is viable.Pretty fun ,too.

remember that your combo isn't the only thing you can play. You can get a total of 3 classes that you can use in any combo of primary/secondary. So if you roll warrior/warden you can also play warden/warrior, then you can add whatever 3rd class you want. It's really up to you.

As a current w/wd, i think it's very fun and it definitely is viable.

The only decision that you have to make right now is Knight or Warden. That's the only decision you can't undo later without rolling a new toon. Elves can be Wardens, but they can't be knights; the opposite is true of humans.

Warden/Warrior and Warrior/Knight are designed to be tank classes now. The Knight will always be the premier tank because of their versatility in how they generate aggro, but those two combos are specialized "dps" type tanks. They have aggro skills, but they excel at tanking because they put out more damage than knights. The only place where a knight can consistantly out-do the new tank combos is in group aggro. If you don't plan on tanking instances, I would recommend going elf so you can play Warden rather than Knight.

If you like melee fighting, I would recommend throwing a rogue into the mix somewhere. It's a strong primary class (rogue/scout is probably the highest damage-output class atm) and makes a great secondary for melee classes (warrior/rogue, knight/rogue, and warden/rogue are all solid combos).

Remember that you get 3 classes to pick from eventually, not just two .

I don't know if thats entirerly true, about R/S being highest damage class out there(on everything else I agree with you totally). I read some where that a equal geared R/W can dish out the same if not more damage than a R/S. But I do agree it can dish out big time damage.