Hi there, I’m exping a pure support Paladin like this:
As Stats I’m gonna:
100 INT
1:1 SPR -CON
What do u think about? Is it a good Option or can be improved?
Oh boy… You’ll struggle a lot to level up… I hope you have a static party to level up with you.
Max that world tree! It’s super useful in PvE. Any non boss monsters will be completely stuck without being able to attack.
Conversion 5 won’t do much, you might wanna spend those points into smite to at least get some damaging skill.
Not sure why you want to focus on SPR for your build… The only skill that you have that will scale with SPR is barrier. The magic defense boost is kind of “meh” unless you stack a lot (and I mean, A LOT) of magic defense. But for that you’d need some levels in pardoner as well.
Other than that, SPR provides abnormal status resistance but I don’t think it’s worth it unless you intend to make a PvP heavy build. For PvE you can use dispeller scrolls and it’ll do a better job than SPR in most case scenarios.
If you went something like 1:1 INT/CON you’d have a much easier time leveling up with Cure, Heal and Carve Owl and your heals would be slightly better.
As for class selections, I’m not quite sure. I have a Paladin 3 and I wouldn’t say it’s an excellent support class. Paladin is a support/DPS hybrid that’s okay at both but doesn’t excel at neither. If you want to settle for a full support build there might be better stuff for you…
SPR is basically for MP Regen and a little %buff on Turn Undead Skill.
I was planning to build this setup cause I’m aiming to Earth Tower.
With this build i can set 2 statue for SP and Cooldown, while keeping up barrier and resistence.
I saw that all spells that are needed for this plan are mana-hungry, so i have assumed that a good SP regen can allow me to keep all buff and heal always on.
INT 100 is for a little buff on damage of cure and statue, but scaling is not so good, so maybe i’ll reset later to 0 for boosting CON again.
My question is basically if there are better option or a better skill progression xD
Smite is a good Damaging skill, but with 0 STR is not so usefull IMHO (but I’m still no Paladin so is just a supposition)
Muting statue is really good, but while in party, my team is under barrier and resist element, so also if they make AoE skill, I assume is under control xD
Worth to have muting statue at lvl 1 for unexpected situation?
I was planning this build only based on info from beta player… so I’m pretty unsure…
Smite has 1.7k base damage at 15. That’s a lot. Conviction has nice damage too.
I don’t know where I saw it but there are some support builds with Pala that go:
Priest C3 > Pala C2 > Chaplain or Cleric C3 > Pala C3 > Plague Doctor
Diev is more of a damage Circle with support skills. It’s for Paladins (or any other Str Cleric build) that want to focus on Str damage mainly.
I recommend you MAX the muting statue! World Tree is much better than any levels you can get in Zemyna or Laima. Don’t expect people to defend themselves, you are the support! You must defend them!
Turn Undead doesn’t seem to scale that well with SPR. There were some tests done before on the paladin compedium topic and it proven that it’s not worth it getting high SPR for turn undead.
Your build doesn’t actually look that SP heavy. SP heavy skills are usually the ones with many overheats and/or little cooldown. That means just Smite and Carve attack will consume a lot more SP than the rest of all your skills together. But since you’re a support and not even going STR, I doubt you’ll be spamming Carve Attack and Smite much other than when solo leveling.
Smite is good even with 0 STR. Gets better with Conviction. But if you keep it at level 5 it will indeed be quite weak. It will still be better than nothing for when you want to level, though. PS. Smite SP consumption is actually really high at high skill levels.
Cleric class has the best SP Pool and SP regen, just get headgears that gives high SP regen (40 and Up) and you are good to go, you will almost never need to use SP pots, so you may want to slide down a bit with SPR
Priest C3 > Pala C2 > Chaplain or Cleric C3 > Pala C3 > Plague Doctor
I would be very interested to see these builds because their builds everyone wants to go but both have some major issues and it would be incredible if someone figured them out.
Preist C3 > Pala C2 > Chaplain
Chaplain prevents you from having to drop your buff all the time plus it gives you an extra damage number with Aspergillum. But there in lies the problem Aspergillum damage scales with int and most Priest Pally builds need Str. Plus if you go Int your melee wont hit for very much so you get an extra melee line of numbers but their small numbers until you hit rank 7 and get Aspergillum.
Seems like a all or nothing build plus you will lose Pala C3. Which has one of the best skills in the game barrier. It’s typically the only reason a player would go Pala C2. Granted i guess you could buy the skills in scroll form expensive but doable.
Cleric C3 > Pala C3 > Plague Doctor
This one i really have no idea about seems more like a pvp build?
EDIT: think i replied to the wrong user