[14pal/6mnk] The Divine Fist

[Kam-Ekaze]

The thought of wind stance + zeal is pretty appealing and I understand what you're trying to achieve with this build. Unfortunately, kamas don't quite cut it damagewise, specially for paladins whose crit multipliers on exalted smites get you such amazing numbers (dream edges might almost cut it)

Handwraps don't work for exalted smite/div sacrifice, honestly the best use I've found for wind stance + zeal so far is dual-wielding vorpal kamas for an impressive attack speed while doing so.

Godspeed to you, sir. And if things head south, consider rapiers like I did. I'm not too disappointed by them =]

[MrCow]

it seems turbine isnt capable of adding a variable to a function called something like 'cooldown'??? and just have it modified with each tier of the enhancement???
amazing......
and yet smite works with unarmed but exalted smites dont?
even more amazing.

Turbine's DDO engine for things like feats and enhancements have shown that it has limitations when something consumes a "use per day", such as Action Boosts, Smites, and Past Life Activations. If one ability consumes a use per day, say using Turn Undead, it locks out that use per day pool for the cooldown duration (which means Divine Vitaility would be on the cooldown timer as well).

Rather than risk breaking things by mucking around with it (like when they made potions usable on allies as if you were "casting an at-will spell", making many unusable in a rage) they just took the route of "completely separate ability that consumes a use of Smite Evil".

An aside, this does quite annoy me though when things that you may not expect to be linked together are, such as Past Life: Berserker's Fury imposing a 1 minute cooldown on Past Life: Student of the Sword.