Paladin/Champion: An excellent Solo spec (30 Paladin/29Ch/7RB)

[Keota]

Cannot handle leets on these major air rifts at all against casters this build fails hard....

You're probably just bad, and/or don't have all the gear I mentioned you should have.

Don't tank more than 2 elite casters. Fear, stun one that's giving you trouble, keep interrupting, use heal pots, drink after each fight.

Edit: Celke: Yeah, I told you the gear makes or breaks the spec. If you have it, this spec pwns. If you don't the damage is weak, and especially if you don't have Arkryon's Mirror, you're not healing yourself like you should be.

[setheroth]

I have the mirror i have 4 pc bonus and champ syn crystal im sitting at over 30% crit and 700 ap buffed if its a solo build you shouldnt need cc and def shouldnt need pots otherwise you may as well use any old build sorry but this is the craps.

[IllusiveMind]

We are talking about Light's Decree, not Follow Though. Light's Decree makes your next ability hit 4 additional targets, and deals splash damage when you use a single target ability on the mob targeted for LD, I just misread the tool tip when creating the build.

Celke, if you have all of the mentioned gear, I'd imagine you're going to like this.

Ok now I understand your statement. Light's Decree should get buffed or fixed, the splash damage component never crits, only the initial cast do. So basically going Paladin past 27 or 28 points is useless because LD is not even worth taking...

[Keota]

I have the mirror i have 4 pc bonus and champ syn crystal im sitting at over 30% crit and 700 ap buffed if its a solo build you shouldnt need cc and def shouldnt need pots otherwise you may as well use any old build sorry but this is the craps.

You're obviously doing something wrong. I can kill 2 Lvl 50 elite casters with 11k HP without using a pot or a CD. If you can't kill 2 at once, your either failing on purpose, or got carried through Hammerknell for your 4P.

@ IllusiveMind 30 is almost necessary... Well, I guess not, so long as you get Tip the Balance somehow. I just like 30 points because it gets almost all of the really good stuff Paladin has to offer.

[IllusiveMind]

You're obviously doing something wrong. I can kill 2 Lvl 50 elite casters with 11k HP without using a pot or a CD. If you can't kill 2 at once, your either failing on purpose, or got carried through Hammerknell for your 4P.

@ IllusiveMind 30 is almost necessary... Well, I guess not, so long as you get Tip the Balance somehow. I just like 30 points because it gets almost all of the really good stuff Paladin has to offer.

Yes Tip the Balance is the breakpoint, thats either 27 or 28 pts.

[Celke]

Bit sad cuz i quite like the way this build works and i have fun with it.

But i've tried diffrent dps builds from here on the warrior forums, even the RB with RV using 2H ...
It all actually fails unless i use pots or lucky enough to have heal essence spawn in rifts and if i drink after every single mob.

I am full T2 dungeon gear for my DPS, dw are 2 axes from a T2 and 2H is an axe from a RR.

Ofc EI is hard and i don't aggree in nerfing it but if u compare me to a ranged roque with also gear from a t2 ...

[Jaxxer]

Try a combination of paladin/champion/reaver. Having at least 8 points into reaver lets you spam blood fever for good ae damage

I've been considering the following as a soloing spec in Ember Isle ... http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0c...E0czq0bhhz.g0o

leverages some Reaver DOTs, as described above, and also grabs Pally's Devotion to pop out of stuns or mezmerize. As for macros, I would recommend a weapon swap on AOE Bladefuries, particularly since Follow Through and Proper Timing are key parts of the AOE build and can maximize damage. You can simply do a:

suppressmacrofailures
cast Proper Timing
loadequip 2h
cast Bladefury

and create a special '2H Bladefury' macro - don't always use it if you're feeling outmatched at the beginning of a fight, and want to hold on to the shield, though the damage you take for that short amount of time is negligible.

Then pop your loadequip 1h command into your Aggressive Block spam and reapply your Block +10%.

Should be fun!

[Focusv5]

Bit sad cuz i quite like the way this build works and i have fun with it.

But i've tried diffrent dps builds from here on the warrior forums, even the RB with RV using 2H ...
It all actually fails unless i use pots or lucky enough to have heal essence spawn in rifts and if i drink after every single mob.

I am full T2 dungeon gear for my DPS, dw are 2 axes from a T2 and 2H is an axe from a RR.

Ofc EI is hard and i don't aggree in nerfing it but if u compare me to a ranged roque with also gear from a t2 ...

Try running a 44rb/22ch build using gear that maximizes phys crit. sword and board with arkyrons mirror if you have it or insanity sliver.

[Celke]

Try running a 44rb/22ch build using gear that maximizes phys crit. sword and board with arkyrons mirror if you have it or insanity sliver.

Something i'll try this evenig when i get home then.

Any site with soul calc or a link to a forum post here with that build? I'm not the best with making DPS builds.

Thanks for the advice!

[Celke]

So i made a S&B build now. 16ch|44RB|6Paladin
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=1c...GztzsMGdsR.x0o

I took 6 in paladin to have the passive increased block value and to have the shield buff to give an additional +5% block.

i'll use the avatar of water buff to have a direct -10% dmg mitigation and Blade of elemental affinity to heal me on crits.


Now i have a question, i'll use my full dps gear and then my tank shield (ofc) and then i was thinking of taking my 1h DPS axe instead of my tank sword since i have more strenght on the dps axe and strenght directly increase block.


Then for my sigils. i have 1 tank essence that is full of minor essences for all the stat buffs,this one has much more block too.
My other sigil has less block hoewever, there i have 2 greaters: 1 that gives me an absorption barrier when i block and another greater that heals me for X amount on block
So i'm guessing i'll take the sigil with the 2 greater essences in it.

Then i was thinking of power starving... there are talent points like the one in RB that i get -50% power on next ability when i crit and the one in champ that give me 10 power over 5 sec's on crit hits (don't think these passive abilities have cooldowns) so just if somebody can comfirm this?



Gladly hear your thoughts on this

[Sebb]

Try this build:

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0c....E0czq0bh0z.xG

You get a boat load more defense with the extra 3 in RB. +6Parry and +3dodge.

Hint - if you mix and match dhel's and lotham's, you still get the 4 piece champ bonus (at least it was that way at one time). So mighty blow x2, sweeping strikes x bladefury. Keep up aggressive block. Retaliation is probably just an energy killer though.

44 RB is great for caster mobs. Probably go 12 PL, 10 Champ.

[Focusv5]

Something i'll try this evenig when i get home then.

Any site with soul calc or a link to a forum post here with that build? I'm not the best with making DPS builds.

Thanks for the advice!

Just to give you an idea, this is what I run:

http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=1c...MGzsM.g0czV0rb

[Focusv5]

So i made a S&B build now. 16ch|44RB|6Paladin
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=1c...GztzsMGdsR.x0o

I took 6 in paladin to have the passive increased block value and to have the shield buff to give an additional +5% block.

i'll use the avatar of water buff to have a direct -10% dmg mitigation and Blade of elemental affinity to heal me on crits.


Now i have a question, i'll use my full dps gear and then my tank shield (ofc) and then i was thinking of taking my 1h DPS axe instead of my tank sword since i have more strenght on the dps axe and strenght directly increase block.


Then for my sigils. i have 1 tank essence that is full of minor essences for all the stat buffs,this one has much more block too.
My other sigil has less block hoewever, there i have 2 greaters: 1 that gives me an absorption barrier when i block and another greater that heals me for X amount on block
So i'm guessing i'll take the sigil with the 2 greater essences in it.

Then i was thinking of power starving... there are talent points like the one in RB that i get -50% power on next ability when i crit and the one in champ that give me 10 power over 5 sec's on crit hits (don't think these passive abilities have cooldowns) so just if somebody can comfirm this?



Gladly hear your thoughts on this

With this spec I run full phys crit, gear/lessers, because it's your only reliable method of healing.