Walking Shrine

[Darkrok]

I'm fairly new to DDO and building so I'm sure there's some improvements that could be made here. I'm playing a similar build to this at the moment (just not quite as myopic) and had a great experience using it in conjunction with a sorcerer doing tons of CC. I couldn't have healed this group without the CC and he couldn't have done the CC without my 11 uses of Divine Vitality per rest. It got me thinking about how many turns you could get in a viable cleric build.

By no means is this the max number of turns nor is this an outstanding build. But I think it has the bare necessities to be a decent healbot while at the same time having a massive number of turns per day (3 base + 7 cha + 4 extra turning feat + 4 extra turning achievements = 18 before any extra charisma from gear). It's light on its own SP's but it does have the key achievements and feats necessary to be a viable healbot for as long as the SP's hold out. With a +3 tome and a +6 cha item (not sure how common these are but I think those are the top items you normally see) the number of turns gets pushed up to 23. That's 391-874 SP's restored per rest if you act as a SP battery or 1035-3105 healing with Divine Healing if you're in a small group with only melee's.

Lastly, the order of these achievements aren't set in stone. I always gave priority to the turning feat when I was doing this build since that was the focus. Focusing on pure playability is definitely an option though so juggling things around to get the healing boosts first could make a lot of sense. Also, I took concentration and UMD as the two skills. Seems like a waste of all of that charisma to not take UMD as a talent. You would get to 18.5 UMD with no mods and +23.5 UMD with the +3 cha tome/+6 cha item.

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Level 20 Lawful Good Drow Male
(2 Paladin \ 18 Cleric) 
Hit Points: 204
Spell Points: 1354 
BAB: 15\15\20\25\25
Fortitude: 23
Reflex: 14
Will: 26

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Stats          Modified Stats
Abilities        (Level 1)             (Level 20)
Strength             10                    10
Dexterity            10                    10
Constitution         12                    12
Intelligence         10                    10
Wisdom               16                    16
Charisma             18                    25

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Skills         Modified Skills
Skills           (Level 1)            (Level 20)
Balance               0                     0
Bluff                 4                     7
Concentration         5                    27
Diplomacy             4                     7
Disable Device        n/a                   n/a
Haggle                4                     7
Heal                  3                     3
Hide                  0                     0
Intimidate            4                     7
Jump                  0                     0
Listen                3                     5
Move Silently         0                     0
Open Lock             n/a                   n/a
Perform               n/a                   n/a
Repair                0                     0
Search                0                     2
Spot                  3                     5
Swim                  0                     0
Tumble                n/a                   n/a
Use Magic Device      6                    18.5

Level 1 (Cleric)
Feat: (Selected) Empower Healing Spell
Enhancement: Cleric Life Magic I
Enhancement: Cleric Energy of the Zealot I
Enhancement: Cleric Divine Vitality I
Enhancement: Cleric Extra Turning I


Level 2 (Cleric)
Enhancement: Cleric Improved Empower Healing I
Enhancement: Cleric Divine Cleansing I


Level 3 (Cleric)
Feat: (Selected) Extra Turning
Enhancement: Cleric Prayer of Life I
Enhancement: Cleric Divine Healing I
Enhancement: Cleric Wand and Scroll Mastery I


Level 4 (Cleric)
Enhancement: Cleric Charisma I
Enhancement: Cleric Extra Turning II


Level 5 (Cleric)
Enhancement: Cleric Life Magic II
Enhancement: Cleric Divine Vitality II


Level 6 (Cleric)
Feat: (Selected) Extend Spell
Enhancement: Cleric Prayer of Incredible Life I
Enhancement: Cleric Divine Cleansing II


Level 7 (Cleric)
Enhancement: Cleric Divine Healing II
Enhancement: Cleric Extra Turning III


Level 8 (Cleric)
Enhancement: Cleric Charisma II


Level 9 (Cleric)
Feat: (Selected) Mental Toughness
Enhancement: Cleric Divine Vitality III


Level 10 (Cleric)
Enhancement: Cleric Divine Cleansing III
Enhancement: Cleric Extra Turning IV


Level 11 (Cleric)
Enhancement: Cleric Divine Healing III


Level 12 (Cleric)
Feat: (Selected) Maximize Spell
Enhancement: Cleric Life Magic III


Level 13 (Cleric)
Enhancement: Cleric Life Magic IV


Level 14 (Cleric)
Enhancement: Cleric Improved Empower Healing II


Level 15 (Cleric)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Mental Toughness
Enhancement: Cleric Improved Empower Healing III


Level 16 (Cleric)
Enhancement: Cleric Prayer of Life II
Enhancement: Cleric Prayer of Incredible Life II


Level 17 (Cleric)
Enhancement: Cleric Prayer of Life III


Level 18 (Cleric)
Feat: (Selected) Force of Personality
Enhancement: Cleric Prayer of Incredible Life III
Enhancement: Cleric Wand and Scroll Mastery II


Level 19 (Paladin)
Enhancement: Cleric Wand and Scroll Mastery III


Level 20 (Paladin)
Enhancement: Paladin Focus of Good I
Enhancement: Cleric Wand and Scroll Mastery IV

[Darkrok]

Oh, just thought of something...if more UMD would help over the potential 23.5 you could take the SF:UMD feat instead of Force of Personality at level 18 for even better UMD.

[Anthios888]

By level 18, you will probably find that you want to use quicken for many endgame situations. Even a high concentration score cannot make up for the speed at which you will want to cast healing and the consequences of failing your heals in certain situations.

[Arkat]

My 16th level cleric, Tyrax, on Khyber has 25 DVs and only 1 Extra Turning Feat.

[Xgemina]

I would say that force of personality would be a complete waste on a character like this. You would already have an excellent will save from your cleric levels and wisdom modifier. Also, with 2 levels of paladin you are already adding your charisma modifier to all of your saves anyway. Like Anthios888 said, quicken would be a much better choice.

[Darkrok]

Good suggestion on the last Feat...that was more of a filler for me there anyways.