Best lone wolf partner for an honour mode assassin?

[Brechnor]

Beat it once inefficiently without picking up many skills or setting them out well but now I know what I'm doing and what to expect, I'm going to take on honour mode next.

Will probably build an assassin with lone wolf for the main but might need to have another and trying to consider what would be best
Any ideas?

Dark Paladin: something with enough healing to top off if needed, but with an ability to hold itself in combat stealing life from others while the assassin goes around making short work of everything, basically some kind of "oh ♥♥♥♥" button.

Ranger: some sort of ranger might be useful, to apply statues and throw bombs on the enemies.

Summoner or necromancer: well, one alternative for only having 2 characters on the fights that need a few backups is to flood the area with summons or undead?

I won't need to worry about skill books or getting through locked doors on this play through but the final boss and the boat boss will be fairly tricky and potentially save wipe ending.

Obviously with all the money bartering ect won't be needed but the ability to convince some of the characters would make a difference, so there is one stat already used up that would be useful in battle.

😒 right now I'm thinking a bomb ranger is best but that makes 2 squishes in a team of 2 :3

[wds_ncs]

I think summoner/necro for bone widow abuse is the strongest of the options mentioned. You can even pick up healing for your main--even more if you roll with two undead.

[Ashera]

I take Lohse as a int/strength warfare/necro knight. She seems to have a global taunt and enough points into necro is all you need to survive. With lonewolf give her geo/hydro for healing and armor/magic armor regen... After all, she's not your damage, the rogue is.

The above comment works well too, but its not as overall effective. A necro knight will prove more consistent over the course of the game and I believe they scale better. Certainly want warfare knockdown abilities regardless of what you end up choosing.

[Filthy Peasant]

I don't think necromany is that usefull on honor mode as LW, cause it only heals vitality. If your armor is gone, you probably will be cc'd til you're dead (more so if you only have 2 people). So focusing on armor is probably the wiser decision.
Chameleon cloak (polymorph) and play dead (undead) are really neat. Some would say cheese, but you take what you get on honor mode ;)

And Fane and his time warp skill are great. Like putting time warp on Malady at the ship battle. Or putting it on your dmg dealer to do even more damage as LW.

[Brechnor]

Thanks, this thread is still useful for me so those posts are good reads :)