Best Cohort Class? (pretty long)

[Ridley's Cohort]

I think Clerics make the best cohorts. Lots of defensive and general utility abilities. When your luck turns bad, you can never ever have too many people in the party who can cast healing, Dispel Magic, Remove Paralysis, Invisibility Purge, or Slow Poison.

BTW, your staying power on the front line will really jump when your cohort cleric casts Shield Other on you.

If that is too boring for you, depending on how the "Rogue" turns out, you could go for a archer cohort. Note that the archer need not be a fighter -- a straight cleric, cleric/fighter, or cleric/ranger could work fine. Being an elf helps. The nice thing about a pure cleric archer is he won't overshadow the other party members on offense while still making a good contribution. With a good wisdom and elf racial advantage, the Spot for this cohort could be quite good.

Do think about skills weaknesses in the party. That is the attraction of the Bard, really.

 

[greycastle]

Well...heres a question...

Considering the Chaotic nature i am, and despite the fact i almost always play lawful characters *apparently well too* i'm suddenly pondering the choice of an Aasimar Palain (with brilliant topas eyes, curtsey of RoF). I'm now wondering whether to play a cleric at all, but the question is...

Is a cleric a good cohort for a paladin? the thing i WOULDN'T like about Cohort cleric would have to be the fact he'd actually be more powerful than me in alot of ways *oh yes, i'm a powerluster*...

Secondly, and though off-topic...

Would a multiclass Paladin/Cleric be a feasable idea? And would it simply be worth going a single cleric?

Also remains the idea, if it's a Paladin follows Torm. Paladin/Cleric follows Torm. Cleric, follows Tymora...
Reason? Torm has crappy domains. Advice?