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[sephiroth1084]

Will you do more DPS with Str 14 and Cha 16 (rather than the other way around) and the next level of the Divine Might enhancement?

+4 tome (yeh, right) would put you at 20 Cha eventually for the highest tier.

Just thinking out loud...

Over a short time, yeah, but over a whole quest you may well end up fighting without DM at times. Then, I dunno. But no dwarf or WF is going to start with a 16 Cha. Also, rather than looking at endgame, look at the beginning...the -1 to attack (from a 14 rather than 16 Str) will make a somewhat noticeable difference, while that 16 Cha early on will have little impact (almost 0 at level 1, and not much for a while, since the enhancement line doesn't come in until later, and even then, the same could have been achieved with a 14).

Personally, a decent adjustment to this could be allowing ability score enhancements to count toward base ability scores when qualifying for enhancement prereqs. After all, the only way you are going to remove the ability+ enhancement will be by respec'ing and thereby also losing the DM at the same time, so no conflict should occur. And that way, paladins won't have to rely exclusively on +2, +3, and +4 tomes to reach the upper echelons of the enhancement. And it isn't as though this will make things easy...paladins are already squeezed for AP, so even taking that +2 or +3 Cha for 4 or 6 AP will be a significant sacrifice. Easier for a human, but not much.

[Tanks]

...everyone seems to be panicked about the lack of action points for Paladins but don't forget that we'll get another 16AP when the level cap goes up to 20, right?

[sephiroth1084]

...everyone seems to be panicked about the lack of action points for Paladins but don't forget that we'll get another 16AP when the level cap goes up to 20, right?

And hopefully something to go with them. After all, the third or 4th tier of whatever the paladin PrEs are will be drawing upon AP post-16th level, and the devs have alluded to possibly including capstone enhancements that will also warrant AP expenditure.

[jarlaxle_dourden]

18/2 monk, is the way to go. Evasion is a very nice plus to any pally intimitank considering the saves, and AOE spells.

Doesn't the fact that he says he will wear MFP basically erase the benefit of having evasion?

[Tanks]

Doesn't the fact that he says he will wear MFP basically erase the benefit of having evasion?

yep