Starting a Wizard Buddy

[Plastefuchs]

Me and a friend are starting two new toons (his first DDO char, my third but the others where lvl 4 at max, we are both f2p only atm without fancy store items :P), he picket the wizard and now i am stuck.

I don't know if a Battlecleric, a Paladin or some fancy multiclass combination would help us out, i already skimmed through the class forums and it didn't help me that much in this case. We aim to mostly run stuff as a duo (i wonder far we would get that way ...) so we need some sort of tank-healer or am i wrong?

Any help will be appreciated, so thank you in advance.

[KingOfCheese]

A tank healer is a good way to go: this could be a battle cleric.

However, if your friend doesn't mind being a healer, you can go Warforged race and pick any melee class as a good partner. So long as your friend takes repair/reconstruct spells, he can heal you as good as a cleric could heal a fleshy fighter type. If you go this route, consider going ranger, perhaps with a 1st level of rogue--that way you'll be able to melee well, range well, self-heal a bit, and handle rogue skills (traps, locks, etc.). WF ranger would be a good match.