Leveling Tandems

[TonyTomasiewicz]

My favorite thing about Diablo is how I can group up with my brother and rage havoc on hundreds of undead and hellspawns, now my question for everyone is what would be the best classes for my brother and I to play as, what classes compliment each other well enough to maximize dps and survivability? Our first characters are Monk and Wizard.

[Orodoth]

a buddy of mind is playing a barbarian, and I'm playing a DH. Its working really well for us. He gets agro and soaks up damage while I unload 300 crossbow bolts per second.
Prolly need to factor in play styles as well (cause its kinda funny, I'm normally a melee kinda guy, and he seems to favor ranged... keeping things fresh I suppose)

[saberon]

Our first characters are Monk and Wizard.

That'll work well. Ideally you want 1 melee and 1 ranged.

[Ryquis]

As far as soaking damage goes, barb seems legit so far, up to the end of nightmare, where I can just tank damage with high hp regen and life on hit. My leveling buddy plays a witch doctor and even though he puts out damage, there's no real synergy there. As a bard I find I'll near always die when overwhelmed by casters, so if ability synergy is on your list, maybe a barb and a wizard? Barb's get "War Cry" which can be runed to boost a bunch of different things, including dodge, more hp regen, etc., where as Wizards have that time field thing that can make the task of dodging eight million lasers (nightmare elite mob prefix has them drop rotating laser beams) much easier. Monk by its very nature is also a synergistic class, but I haven't leveled one outside of the closed beta, so I don't know how well it can eat the damage at later levels.

[Lathais]

Really I think the game is designed such that any classes will work well together. However, Barb has some tanking ability and Monk has some healing ability, so that seems like it may work well. You could also go for a Tanky Barb and a more glass cannon type of ranged. The best advice I think is just to make sure you do not share the same primary stat so that you can share gear between you, other than that though, play what you like.

[Cludo]

Just go 1 meele and 1 range, You'll be fine.
Even if you do go double meele you will still be fine.