So, I have a Paladin at cap. Not all that impressive, being a warforged KotC, but he is moderately survivable and reaches a decent amount of dps... for a paladin.

I have mostly given up on him being an Uber, l33t awesomesauce dpser, but I'm very attached to the paladin class. I love playing them. So, I was thinking that once I had finally gotten that frigging SoS I'll TR him again.

My idea was that I would trade a little bit of dps for increased survivability and versatility - basically, I would splash 2 levels of monk, trading the capstone (dr bypass was good, but with arties is meh, and 3d6 damage on some targets isn't a deal breaker at all) for 2 incredibly needed feats and evasion. I also want really high charisma, for hitting DM 3 and for the great saves and LoH that a capped paladin can get. I know maxing it out is painful, but DM 3 is better than +1 to-hit/damage in my opinion.

Jial Heterodyne
Lawful Good Warforged
18 Paladin/2 Monk

Starting -
16 Strength
8 Dexterity
16 Constitution
10 Intelligence
6 Wisdom
16 Charisma

Feats -
Power Attack
Improved Critical: Slashing
THF
ITHF
GTHF
Toughness
Shield Mastery (For when tanking is necessary, and in case I want to trade for DoS someday)
Improved Sunder (all the cool kids are taking it!)
Quicken/Maximize/Extend (can't decide which I want to focus on - quicken would be for tanking, and rebuffing at a boss; extend would be for general dps, and maximize would be if I wanted to get more out of the CCW. Not sure how useful that would be as a WF, but ya never know).

Feats: Max intimidate and either UMD. Start putting points into concentration after eating the int tome at 7. Tumble gets a point sometime, somewhere.

Any suggestions? Especially gear wise.

honestly i'd pick extend, you most likely won't need quicken except for Echrono when the abishai dispells your deathblock.

Why are you so sold on a w/f though?  it seems like horc or helf or human all bring more to the table.

If you've unlocked the race, horc is going to do a lot more damage with that esos (or falchion) than a w/f, whilst opening up the possibility of quicken and maximise to self heal, and have viable enough healing amp to actually be a tank. 

Ymmv but w/f tanking without ac / or massive DR + healing amp is dieing off.

Munkenmo wrote on Dec 8^th, 2011 at 12:43am:


Yeah, I know

One of the many reasons I want to keep him WF is because his name is Jial Heterodyne (if you don't get the reference, shame on you). Another reason is that there has been a bug for WF paladins that gives them a double heal off of LoH (been around a while) - basically, it heals them once for the standard repair value and then again for a positive energy value affected by hamp. Plus, Horcs are ugly.

Jial isn't that bad on his current life. I think he averages around 100 damage per swing on a non-crit, non-smite (against an evil outsider, of course). And he is by no means fully geared.

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