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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cryptos" data-source="post: 4597759" data-attributes="member: 58439">Elsewhere, there seems to be a lot of people giving weight to the idea that dealing out damage early and often, a strong offense, is possibly better resource management in 4e than defense and healing, a strong defense.  How does that scale down in terms of party size?  The reason I'm asking is that I'm seeing a lot of people in this thread telling the OP to play it safe with a leader and a defender... that seems counter to the way a lot of people see 4e working: favoring high damage and high mobility.To the OP, if the one player liked the Paladin, I'd recommend a Swordmage.  Swordmages are more focused stat-wise and an assault swordmage would be able to cover more ground if enemies try to divide-and-conquer the pair, leaping back to support the other character more readily.  Automatic skill in Arcana and high intelligence provides the duo with magic detection and knowledge, and with a feat, access to ritual-based or alchemy-based flexibility.For the other player, a ranger built as an "archer-thief" would probably be a good idea.  Take an Eladrin or a Human for the extra bit of skill, and start out with a multiclass feat, and you can cover all the essential adventuring skills with the other part of the duo: stealth, thievery, dungeoneering, perception, acrobatics, athletics....  Alternatively, a Shielding Swordmage with a Rogue might be good, if they can agree to stick close together.</blockquote>

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