Paladin 12 / Ranger 6 / Monk 2

[Thelmallen]

i haven't seen anyone mention the loss of manyshot by taking away tempest. its cooldown is a pain, but its a handy gadget for some situations. i like it for when the blades come in, or when i have to range a target anyhow.

I will miss losing manyshot on my reincarnate, that's for sure.

[Thelmallen]

To be fair, that Favored enemy bonus goes by char level to my knowledge, not by class level (I could be wrong there however). If that is the case, you are actually talking about +10 damage on favored enemies (2 from enhancement, 8 from feat, which you get +2 at start, 5, 10, 15, and 20).

Dont doubt the build itself. It is a viable one. Everyone here has very good points about the builds. And if you are min/maxing, I personally agree with everyone in that pure or 18/2 would be better. But if you are also pushing for concept and / or fun factor, go with what you envision. the 12/6/2 will probably work well.

I'm nearly positive that FE damage is based on ranger level, not character level.

I don't want to make the OP think that the build is not viable. My tempest evasion paladin was my favorite character for a long time. The main reason that I reincarnated him was to be able to obtain a better AC with a monk splash and to be able to be more helpful in guild raids by having the max AC auras.

I had originally built him as an alternative to the ubiquitous ranger/fighter builds of a year or so ago, just to prove that a different build could achieve very similar DPS to those characters. However, having reincarnated my human dex-based ranger rogue into a strength-based halfling backstabbing 'exploiter' build, the tempest paladin was sort of redundant.