Runes of Magic US / AU

I'd say your best bet would be a mage/healer combo. Mage/Druid and Mage/Priest are both great classes and viable in all aspects of the game, not to mention very easy to play. Mages are one of the more versatile classes in that they have a heavy hitting nuke as well as great instant casts including Silence and a stun (Lightning) and multiple AOE skills that make them great for farming and crowd control.

Pros:
Mage/Druid - Best single target off heal in the game(Recover) that will keep you alive in most situations at level as long as your gear is level appropriate. Also has great Elite skills including a high damage, long range instant cast that is great for pvp.

Mage/Priest - Two off heals (Urgent Heal / Regenerate) and a 5 second immune, ideal for hairy situations. If you get mobbed you can pop that sucker and purgatory fire (AoE) everything around you to the ground.

Both classes have a Magic Attack Buff (Elites) though the Mage/Druid can't cast it on other players like the Mage/Priest can.

Personally I think they are both great classes, I've played both at a semi-endgame level and I thoroughly enjoy them. You can't go wrong with either one.

Me, I would make warden/scout. Warden is ridiculously easy to start with - let the pets do all the fighting and you just watch. And if you feel like helping, join in.

You get tons versatility. Feel like need help tanking? Summon tanking pet. Feel like you would rather dish out more damage? Summon DPS pet. Feel like you want to snipe mobs at the distance? Summon pet that does DPS from distance (wd/s exclusive).

Charged chop is OP skill, and does a whole lot of damage should you decide to join the fight and help your pet. Spammable AOE skill helps as well when you need area coverage. Decent buffs as well.

Gearing is simple - you don't need much to quest. My WD/S alt can run fine in Chrysalia (next to last zone) with 90% quest gear. I have only one statted piece and a good weapon and that is all I need to be viable.

Sure, that won't cut it for instances, but if OP is not planning on much instance running, doesn't matter. And WD/S can be effective instance runner too, if geared, should his circumstances change. WD/S is good DPS and can be made into passable tank.

Mini-games are also a snap. Out of all my alts, WD/S is the only one that can do them all with ease.

Now, you don't get heals with this, sure, but you don't need too much healing if you don't get hurt.

+to what mr. Pink hat said, and justadd druid as third if you ever decide to heal yourself.

My alt was all the time in 5-10level higher zone and surviving with ease... No way any other class can do that.

Quoted from "vfwiffo;592116"

Now, you don't get heals with this, sure, but you don't need too much healing if you don't get hurt.

Not true, Warden has a passive skill that restores 10% hp when charged chop or power of the wood spirit hits. If using potws and it hits 3 targets it restores 30% hp

Quoted from "Blade187;592124"

Not true, Warden has a passive skill that restores 10% hp when charged chop or power of the wood spirit hits. If using potws and it hits 3 targets it restores 30% hp

True. I meant you dont have active on-demand heal. But potws is a good heal, agree. Just rarely get to use it outside of GG, or maybe if you get swarmed.

All the more reason to pick WD/S, even if you don't follow Atar suggestion and get druid 3rd. And, l had same experience as him about survivability. My other alts needed more help to deal with elites like ice witches in CoO. Wd/S soloed them.

Yeah I've mained Wd/S for a long time (Though I am switching over to Wd/W to tank) it's a great class as well.

By far the best class to play if you feel like exploiting the game too..

I'm switching because I'm tired of people making excuses when I destroy them in siege war or duels. They always say chiron was the only way i could kill them, not noting the fact that my charged chop was hitting them for 120k by itself. And my guild needs more tanks so it's a win/win.

Wd/S is a great class overall, just don't be surprised that there are a million other people making one right now as well. Most of them being endgamers making new toons or 'not-quite endgamers' re-rolling because they want to farm targ to "get geared up quick". Good luck with that, the back of the line is over there. >>

i was gonna put my 2 cents in and say s/k or s/wdn are both ranged dps classes with a bit of survivability....

Quoted from "Cike;592169"

i was gonna put my 2 cents in and say s/k or s/wdn are both ranged dps classes with a bit of survivability....

The first combo i thought was s/k too! It has great survivability and is really fun to play imo!