The Shaman and Shadow Knight combination is very powerful. In just these two characters, most of the "important" skills are taken care of. These skills include: snare (i.e. darkness), fast aggro, tank, slow, buffs, heal, and FD. Once the shaman gets the Panther line of proc spells, the DPS by the shadow knight and shaman pet will increase significantly.

The Warrior and Shaman combination is powerful too, but you lack a couple key skills: fast aggro and snare. The fast aggro of the shadow knight allows immediate casting of debuffs and slow by the shaman. Snare is self explainatory.

My 2cp on this subject.. SK does offer more skills than a warrior in two boxing.. however lack of dps of said sk along with a reduced ability to tank mobs even as low as the 50's compared to a warrior make the warrior / shammy better imo.. I've now done both and with shammy / warrior I have been able to duo much more and harder content. As far as xp grinding the warrior / shammy are faster at killing.. As far as mob camping warrior / shammy can kill harder mobs and therefore accumulate better gear / wealth. The only trouble I have had that makes me miss the sk is the mob splitting which is overcome by a healthy dose of slows and a high hp/ac geared warrior.. ie.. a good warrior can tank two mobs that are slowed that a sk couldn't.. All of this is my opinion post 45ish and up.. until about 45 the sk / shammy combo is very nice indeed..

You hear from sk's about snare and whatnot.. However the thing is this.. buy a wep or go get a drop with a wep with snare.. Then you have a tank that can tank better than an sk and have what the sk doesn't.. TANKING ABILITY... The agro stuff mentioned in the previous post is bogus.. An Sk can get fast agro true but in a duo the agro isn't hard to get nor hold with just about any class with a taunt button and with shammy slows the shammy can tank.. It is still true that an SK can pull mobs and split stuff a warrior can never do.. However, let it be known that the statement about limited content due to lack of pulling can be twisted towards the sk due to lack of tanking ability of higher end content.. There are pluses and minus's to any class in general and any combo in general.. I am sure that many have taken the sk / shammmy to 75 and enjoyed it while I have taken the Warr/shammy to 75 and have enjoyed it where i found that playing the sk/shammy was much more difficult.. The difference is this and only this.. If you want a toon that casts snare and can fd then go with a SK.. if you want a toon thats MADE to tank period then you need a warrior.. to me the lack of snaring (which is what every sk's claim to fame seems to be) is a minor inconvience that can be overcome easily.. The last and most important thing I would like to point out about and SK and every single post you see made about a sk tanking with a shammy at high lvl's is this.. "With the right aa's and equipment".. Well I can promise this... A warrior can tank in this duo at high lvls with higher lvl content WITHOUT some certain amount of AA's and gear.. My warrior has mediocore gear at best and just over 300aa's that were never gained until lvl 75 so..i have no troubles tanking just about w/e my little team wants.. But again and for the last time.. You have two types of players doing two types of things using two different types of classes so you'll never get a true feeling for which is best for YOU until you try both which i have and I favor the warrior highly over the SK..

I would( and did) pick my warr over sk.. with sim gear and no aa's the warr disc's are to much for snare/fd to over come... the provoke line of disc's is instant argo so i give no faith to the sk argo spell hate... and in a pinch that crit disc has pulled my bum out of the fire:) not to mention stonewall disc :) and who doesn't love to DW :)all i am saying in Imo with the same gear and aa's the Warr could out tank the sk... and like the wiz for casters the warr will crit more often in a normal fight and u could hate aug both weps if argo needs a lift...Jegg

My 2cp.

If you plan on doing group only content, go with the SK but if you eventually want to raid, pick the warrior.

SK's are the superior tank for group content for all the reasons stated above, fast agro etc.

Imo, wars have an advantage on how much healing they need due to the innate 5% mitigation, the gear that drops for them, tends to have a better chance of having shielding while, SK drops seem to be more prone to have avoidance(SK's in my guilds #1 complaint). A warrior will do more damage and has the ability to handle surpise adds with discs, an SKs FD is not guaranteed, so they have a possibility of a surprise double from time to time as well. SKs do generate much better hate than Wars with spells, but that will probably take away from the dps you can do with your shammy.

I won't say one class is better than the other, I will argue the point tho about the AC versus HP fight, an SK with 5kAC can not match a War with 2.8kAC with equal HP when under disc, I have seen it on the Nurtha fight, and was actually shocked by it. Don't get me wrong I think Wars need AC too, but they are not as dependent on it as knights, due to discs.

Of course remember my main is a War so I definatly have a preferance for them.