A 2-class group: who would you pick?

[Kevin]

Groups that use the same type of equipment (plate, mail, leather, cloth) should not be together.  It's just stupid to compete over all the drops in the game as you progress, so avoid combos like Priest/Mage or Rogue/Druid.  They may be effective, but in the end when cool things drop, it SUCKS to have to constantly decide who gets it.  This restriction of mine limits a number of effective combos, but I feel that it's worth it to not wind up splitting all your loot in half with your partner!
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As roland said there are some things you are missing. Especially with the rogue/druid. Druids generally have 2 sets of gear at least. Feral gear and caster gear. If you really want to get get specialized there is healer gear, caster gear, bear gear, and cat gear. Though you can overlap the caster/healer and the bear/cat with each other pretty much. Even with the feral gear set the druid is generally looking for str/stam/agi. The rogue is generally looking for agi/stam/str in that order. Druids only get attack power bonus from str unlike rogues who get it from agi as well. So agi becomes only good for dodge and crit chance. Some of the crit chance gear will be coveted by both, but for the majority of the time splitting the leather is very good as there are items that are useless to a rogue but very valuable to a druid. And what is good for the feral druid usaually isn't ideal for the rogue.

Similar deal with a hunter and a shaman. There will be some stuff that both want but in general it's one really wants it and the other only sort of wants it.

Paladin and warrior also have different tastes though in that duo the paladin generally won't need much mana so they will, be coveting similar gear much more often.

The cloth wearers can be a lot tougher to split as they all pretty much want int/stam stuff. :)

Agi, Sta, and Str are their number one priority, which only a heavily-SHapeshifting specced Druid would ever want (which is rare, and goes against the role the Druid is meant to fill in this pairing).

I agree with much of the rest but not this. The druid in this combo will be shapeshifting a lot and while going full restoration spec is still probably the best choice for this getting your minor in feral is a very good idea. It is so much better in most cases for the druid to have aggro no matter what form they are in simply because most rogues builds are much more deadly from behind. A smattering of feral talents really helps this. To me if a druid goes balance they need to go very heavy to get much benefit. However there are a lot of very helpful early talents in the feral tree that make a big difference in feral form power. A minor in balance can help a healbot druid some, but in a duo situation where you will use bear, cat and caster sometimes in the same fight feral helps more. A heavy feral with a minor in restoration would be good for a duo. A balance major with a minor in feral or restoration would probably work pretty well too.

Taranna was generally no worse than 80-90% of Etheramwen's DPS in cat form after I started to get my feral talents (I powered to innervate so I'm still filling out my feral side, at times I really wish I would have done more feral earlier). I can do 800 damage ravage (ambush) at L58, I can do 1100 damage ferocious bite (eviserate) as well. We used to do a lot of me pull with starfire, then wrath, then Faerie Fire, then moonfire, then rejuv then tank as caster or go bear form while Treesh pounded the mob from behind. Now that I have improved shred and blood frenzy I'm in cat a lot more. One of us will open with a ravage/ambush the other will then get their ravage/ambush in. Whoever sees a back will get to shred/backstab the other claws/sinister strikes. Then we both try to hit a finisher before the mob is dead. Of course with crits we sometimes don't even see the backstab stage of things. There is no need to heal at all for many many fights. Without my feral minor I would never have a chance to take aggro from Treesh in cat form so she wouldn't get as many backstabs in. Tanking and holding elites is a lot easier as a bear. It takes 20 energy to feint, which isn't much but if the rogue doesn't have to that means a quicker backstab or sinister strike to do more damage. Cheaper mauls help with that a lot.

Anyway, that was more detail than I intended but just something that I wanted to point out. Taranna is so fun with Eth because I get to do everything a druid can do. Sometimes I keep my caster gear on and shift into cat or bear so we can keep going while I get mana back but we are in an area that really needs Treesh to play pseudo tank or me to use roots and hibernates to control the mobs, or just a place where I'll have to pop out to heal myself as a bear a lot (and the rogue stuns make this safer). Much of the time I'm in my feral gear because my healing is way better than what we need. :)