Defender of Siberys

[crschoen]

I am thinking about doing a True Reincarnate of my level 20 KotC paladin, and going towards the Defender of Siberys.

The goal would be a tank that can intimidate and take a lot of aggro and damage.

I haven't seen very many Defender of Siberys builds on the forums. Does anyone have experience with them or advice on building one? (for example, is tower shield a must-have?)

[blitzschlag]

I am thinking about doing a True Reincarnate of my level 20 KotC paladin, and going towards the Defender of Siberys.

The goal would be a tank that can intimidate and take a lot of aggro and damage.

I haven't seen very many Defender of Siberys builds on the forums. Does anyone have experience with them or advice on building one? (for example, is tower shield a must-have?)

if you want stay pure (which i recommend) you can forget about intimidate

whats wrong with your kotc? no fun?

[Baahb3]

I'll have to agree with Blitz here, if you want to stay pure you will have a tough time intimidating many boss creatures.

11 ranks (cross class) + 15 item + 10 cha (30 cha) is only +36, with no class enhancements to boost this you would need to spend some of your precious feats to get it up into the usable range, IMO not worth it.

[Rekker]

I still don't understand why Palys don't get Intim as a Class Skill ???

[elraido]

I still don't understand why Palys don't get Intim as a Class Skill ???

They are talkers, not yellers.

[Maldavenous]

18 Paladin/2 Fighter - Elf is my favorite Defender of Siberys build. The key to elf is that you need DEX to max your AC because Defender of Siberys gives a greater max DEX bonus on Shields and Armor as part of its functionality. Elf also gets a damage bonus with Scimitars which isn't a bad weapon choice.

STR/CON are going to be your most important attributes. Of course make sure your INT will get to 13 for Combat Expertise. I believe the DEX total you need for Defender of Siberys if you wear a Daggertooth Belt (which I'd recommend) is 24-26 total buffed. CHA is fairly good because more will get you Divine Might but it's not necessary, you'll hit 50+ Intim with a fairly low CHA. WIS you can leave at 8, get a +6 item to be able to cast spells.

It's a fairly gear dependent character. You'll need the chattering ring and all 3 pieces of Levik's Defender, or at least a +4 Insight Bonus item (Levik's 3 set is +5 and +aggro) as well as a Chattering Ring and just about any other item you'd use on your KotC as well.

[lugoman]

They are talkers, not yellers.

What's more annoying than someone spouting religious talk 24/7. It always gets my aggro.

[Vormaerin]

I still don't understand why Palys don't get Intim as a Class Skill ???

Because the class skills are based on D&D, where Intimidate is not a force taunt. Its a social skill. Paladins have Diplomacy as their social skill.

In D&D, Intimidate can be used to momentarily debuff a mob (though its rarely worth it), but it has no taunt effect. Diplomacy has no combat applications at all; its detaunt effect is a DDO adaptation.