Divine Sacrafice and Exalted Smite: Is it worth it?

[RavenStormclaw]

Here's my thought and my question. Do you think that Exhalted Smite and Divine Sacrafice will stack with each other? In other words Divine sacrafice III will give you 9d6 holy damage and +1 to your critical multiplier and Exhalted smite 4 will give +2 to each of threat range and multiplier. So a khopesh wielding Paladin would have a threat range of 17-20 increase to 15-20 if you have improved critical and +6 crit multiplier(3 from the weapon + 1 from divine sacrafice 3 and +2 from exhalted smite 4). These seem to add up to some really sick numbers. If they hit of course. So if they do stack do you guys think it will be worth it to have to go to Pali 18 to get Exalted smite 4?

[Mhykke]

Honestly,
W/ the reduction in extra smites, I'd be hesitant to base a character staying pure based on these enhancements alone.

Don't get me wrong, it's some nice flavor to paladins, but would've been the icing to a way of.... enhancement line, or new spells/feats.

On its own, it's still not consistent enough for me. It's a nice crit here and there, but it is limited to 8 times, w/ 2 second intervals, and regenning not starting until 90 seconds after 1st one used.

[bigal4458]

It will certainly be nast w/ a SoS if they all stack..... I couldn't imagine some of those numbers.....however, it still only goes so far to make the Paladin's overall more desired in groups. I think the rez ability may help, and they are all improvements, but I think there still needs to be a little more looked at.

[gpk]

Once again it's important not to be sucked in by possible large crits; what matters is the contribution made to a quest or a higher level boss fight.

A few big numbers here and there are meaningless and only serve to sucker in a few players suffering from crit-itis into thinking "wow this is awesome!".

The regening smites and tier 1-2 sacrifices still don't really amount to much and cost is way still too high in many aspects.

[llevenbaxx]

Still glad I have 4(an only 4 levels of ftr). It will be nice for general adventuring if DS and the Exalted smite can be used in conjunction but its not going to make me one ioda(sp?) more welcome in shroud groups or more desired for end boss fights...

Like gpk keeps saying we need that one spell/feat that is persistent(not another 1 min/cast) that gives palys that sustained boost to get us out of the DPS basement.

[Geonis]

No.