What to do with a level 8 paladin.

[Bkay]

I leveled a bard to 20 and tr'ed to a paladin. I left the game for a year and have no idea what I want to do with it, maybe level it out or lr. Not a clue. I'd probably delete it, but there is time invested and tomes invested also. I believe I was going to do KoTC TWF as a human.
Base Stats :
str 18
dex 15
con 14
int 8
wis 8
cha 16

Feats :
twf
toughness
weapon focus slashing
khopesh proficiency

Pretty sure I got these off a build on here, but I deleted it from my bookmarks after a few months into my break. So, I suppose I am posting this here to see if I can get an interesting build I can toy with or see if someone can convince me to keep playing the character.

[Bkay]

I should have mentioned I can use a LR+3 so I suppose a new build would still have to include paladin 5 at least.

[Uska]

Just level to 20 and tr again as to your build not sure I prefer defenders myself on my second life as a paladin and going to do one more for the healing amp never gonna make completionist I play to slow since I dont like power leveling much but a paladin past life is pretty good for anyone.

[squishwizzy]

Go Hunter of the Dead.

Frankly, it is a fun prestige to level, not so powerful at endgame however (not a whole lot of undead to kill). Lots of nice benefits when you make the final PrE enhancement when it comes to healing, and restorting neg levels though.

Since you are twf, Defender of Sibreys is kinda out of the question. That is very much Sword and Board.

Knight of the Chalice is nice for endgame, but it takes to about lvl 14 before it starts paying off.

A paladin is going to rely on crits for its DPS, which makes your kopesh proficiency very worthwhile

[cru121]

swap WF:Slash for Power Attack

[zwiebelring]

Swap WF:Slashing for something else. Depending on your to-hit number that might be Power Attack or OTWF? Take 2 lvl.s of Monk or Ftr to get more combat related feats. In case of Monk you'll profit from its Evasion but you might be annoyed by the permanent *uncentered* icon.

2 Ftr are obvious. 2 more feats for building up the TWF line so your general feats are free to utility or spellcasting related feats.

If it is for a past life feat, I'd go 2 Ftr, if you want to stay till cap and grind destinies, then I'd go 2 Mnk.

Hunter of The Dead and KoTC seem a good choice. HoTD is survivability, KoTC is nova vs. evil and chaotic outsiders. Advantage HoTD: Healing Amp. and immunity to neg. lvl.s. Avantage of KoTC: high dps for.... a few seconds^^, else a stun clicky for chaotic outsiders which is handy in HoX, else I don't know. Seems like HotD is the biggest gain whatsoever.

[Bkay]

I think my problem is I got hooker on multi-class builds and it just seems boring haha.

[Anthios888]

So splash! There's nothing stopping you. 8 paladin / 9 monk / 3 rogue? 14 paladin / 6 monk? 12 fighter / 6 paladin / 2 rogue? 8 paladin / 12 ranger?

[Inouk]

I think that's the same level my paladin got to before becoming a pack mule.

Paladin is slow to develop, many of their abilities coming through spells or enhancements that they don't get until later. But I do think a 12 fighter / 6 pal / 2 rogue (or monk) sounds like a fun build to try. From paladin you get LoH, some minor spells, save bonuses, and the all powerful Unyielding Sovereignty. Combine that with kensei II and 7 free feats from fighter, and either evasion and trapping from rogue or evasion and 2 more free feats from monk, and you have a nicely self sufficient DPS toon.

[Bkay]

I think Fighter/Pally/Rogue sounds good.

Probably using Khopesh. Should I still skip WF : Slashing?

[unbongwah]

W/out LRing, you could stay pure pally or splash monk or ftr 2 for two extra feats; monk also gets you Evasion, which would be my preferred approach.

W/LRing, there are lots of thing you can do with pally 6-based builds, but my favorite combo is pally 6 / ftr 12 / rog or monk 2, for reasons I describe here (http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p=4396283&postcount=5).

[Purkilius]

I think Fighter/Pally/Rogue sounds good.

Probably using Khopesh. Should I still skip WF : Slashing?

Well I have toon that is a similar build but took 2 lvls of monk instead of rogue. Great fun to lvl up :)

It is a TR of a TWF 18 paladin 2 monk KotC which was great for gearing up, learning the game and more. Was going to go back to that build but got addicted to haste boost :D

With enough gear this build can tank and/or do good dps.

I must admit I took WF: Slashing but at closer inspection it does not seem to be needed for Kensai! someone pls correct me if I am wrong here!

But remember this build is very gear dependent to shine in almost every way you want to go with it.

Here is an outdated build for reference it is for tanking but it is easy to adjust for dps: http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=371016

[boredman]

Paladins with good hitpoints, Prr, ac, great saves and if you get some gear for decent dps, nowadays are cool too play, very self suficient and able to tank and dps too when needed. It depends on what do you want to do with your toon but my suggestion for you is to try the evasion paladin 18/monk 2 very common and decent these days, using robes or light armors.

Can take the monk levels next so you can benefit from evasion at level 10, can use disruption, banishing, smiting handwraps against skeletons, elementals, golems and fortified enemies, and scimitar/longswords or khopesh for the rest.

For monk features take diehard or dodge (prereq of defender of siberys), and power attack or any of the twf line, so that way you can use 2 more features. As for prestiges you can try the 3 of them but i think the hunter if the dead is the best for low levels (because heal amp boost) until level 12-14, when you get the tier 2 of defender of siberys that boost your hitpoints, ac, saves, str, prr, making it the most balanced prestige all around for high levels. And you can switch sometimes to knight of the chalice for more dps against evil outsiders too.

Also, dont take any weapon focus feature, not useful for paladins, take toughness, twf line, pa, Improved critical slashing, diehard (monk feat), cleave, great cleave, and if have room empower healing or maximice or quicken; If want to be more dps oriented.

Even with epic destinies you will find that any of US, LD, FotW can be useful for paladins, making paladins very fun to play these days (my suggestion is to take all dps features as cleave, great cleave and overwhelming critical to get a better use of LD and Fotw destinies.

At end level you can get very good longswords like the oathblade and tinah or if you make a pair of lit2 scimitars (even you can get some decent scimitars at the ah while you get a better weapon), so you can save that khopesh feature to get overwhelming critical (make sure to get a 23 str base, tomes included, at end level for that feature), if need a boss beater you can find crafters that, for some pp or as a favor, can craft you good boss beaters if dont have gs yet. (but if you already have a good pair of kopeshes of course you can take the feature to use them while get a decent weapon to replace them at end level)

[Twidger]

I must admit I took WF: Slashing but at closer inspection it does not seem to be needed for Kensai! someone pls correct me if I am wrong here!


You need a Weapon Specialization for Kensai, and WF is a prereq for WS. So, you do need it.

ETA: Eh, never mind me coming along with an answer two months later. I had the filter set to Paladin threads, didn't notice how dated some of them were. Poor pallies. Nobody talks about them much.

[Kinerd]

Go Hunter of the Dead.

Frankly, it is a fun prestige to level, not so powerful at endgame however (not a whole lot of undead to kill). Lots of nice benefits when you make the final PrE enhancement when it comes to healing, and restorting neg levels though.

Since you are twf, Defender of Sibreys is kinda out of the question. That is very much Sword and Board.I really like HotD, especially for leveling, but DoS works very very well with TWF. You get the HP, the Str, the Con, the saves, the AC, and a good chunk of the threat and PRR. This doesn't really go bonkers until 18 (which is why I prefer HotD for leveling), but you can never use a shield and still get quite a lot out of DoS.