melee main / whm sub ?

[luni]

ok.. so i created a Hume Female Whm (the best looking whm around ) and ive currently gotten her to lvl 20. I have recently felt the need to rush into the heat of battle, and join my party in the big fights, but know if I do... My party an I will die..

So, I have decided (against all odds) to hit lvl 36 (or whatever lvl you get teleport at) and then to switch to a higher up melee class.. and for a time, use my WHM as a sub (until i get the time to make another melee to use as sub..)

So my question is.. Which advanced melee job should I use? I know some are out of the question, but here are the ones ive been looking at..

-Paladin (Although im not too excited about the whole white magic thing, with what should be a tank)

-Dragoon (I hear the healing breath is a handy thing)

-Samurai (..i dont really know much about the effectiveness of a Sam/Whm.. just like samurais is all )


So if anyone could give me some objectional insight on Melee main jobs with WHM subs, without any flamming that'd be great.

Thanks.

ps. First post here.. i think.. so please don't kill me ^_^

[Icemage]

PLD/WHM is not very good. As a Hume, your MP pool isn't going to be high enough to make that /WHM worthwhile most likely, and you'd miss out of all the cool powerups from /WAR.

DRG/WHM shoudn't be too bad, though I've never seen a high level DRG using /WHM. Healing breath is ok, but not something you really want to rely on.

SAM/WHM... eh... just say no.

As a rule, using mage subs with a melee primary rarely works out well at higher levels. However, having said that, having /WHM up to about level 20 for the melee primary is sometimes a good idea.


Icemage

[luni]

ok well what i was thinking was...

Sam/Whm (as i have nothing else to sub with above lvl 1) till lvl30.. then Switching to Drg/Sam..

thanks for the input

[Claritin]

No...

No...

Not SAM/WHM

PAL/WHM.

Don't worry about PAL/WHM not having a huge amount of mana to make the WHM really worth while...

PAL/WHM is halfway decent
PAL/WAR is really damn nice

Both classes make sense.

Now try SAM/WHM = THE SUCK
SAM/WAR = good.

or DRAGOON/WHM = not great but workable
DRAGOON/Anything else = common.

So starting as a WHM I would do PAL/WHM then PAL/WAR by going this route you will have 2 choices to use in the high end game... PAL/WHM might not be great but if you have 5 buddies and you meeting up to kill something and they are low on healers but heavy on tanks... you can fix it.... you won't take the place of a 2nd WHM but you can help compensate a bit.

so raise PAL 70, WHM 36 (teleports), WAR 35.

This gives you a GREAT TANK - PAL/WAR
A decent guy to save real WHM from death - PAL/WHM
a way to teleport or raise WHM/WAR or WHM/PAL

PAL/WHM isn't great... but it's the best melee/mage class combo in the game..... and there are only 3 healing classes. WHM/RDM/PAL your combining 2 of them... any WHM/XXX or RDM/Mage will beat you for heal power but probably not RDM/Melee or any other paladin.... with the healer shortage I see PAL/WHM as something I would want in my group on a few occasions.