Paladin questions

[Raoull]

I have a number of questions about Paladin abilities....

-Are any of the abilities affected by Metamagics? Does Empower Healing affect LoH? Does anything (empower?, maximize?) affect Divine Sacrifice? I've heard that Extend does not affect Divine Might.....

-The various Paladin clickies... when using Smites or Divine Sacrifice, does it interupt your attacks? Basically I'm wondering whether you lose an attack in order to make the next one more powerful, or does it seamlessly go while you're attacking?

-How well does paladin healing hold up while soloing? Between LoH and USov, it seems big combat heals are actually in pretty good shape.... but I'm wondering about leading up to the big fights... do you go broke on wands, or is it pretty good? So far my only solo experience is with a cleric, where this was no problem....

[Raoull]

Huh... over a day and no answers. I don't mind if people can't answer all the questions (the third in particular seems both subjective and hard to generalize about) but the second one seems pretty straight forward....

Just wanting to know....

[Enoach]

Based on my experience as a Paladin and as other classes - Metas Generally only work on Spells and Spell like abilities (such as Dragon Marks)

I have never taken Empower/Maximize/Empower Healing on my Paladin as potentially they would only effect CLW, CMW or CSW spells as all of the other spells are buffs/cures, it just seems like a bit of a waste.

Enhancements such as Divine Might/Divine Sacrafice do not get any benefit from Metas.

As for Metas generally for my paladin I will only invest in Extend and usually just for the 10th - 16th lvls with an eye to switching it out. As there is benefit in making some of the short term buffs last a little longer and also to help reduce the Casters expenditure of SP on buffs such as Resists and Proof against poison.

As for interupting with the "Clickies" - I find them to be seamless while in Auto-Attack mode.

On healing - Keep in mind that while you have LoH and for the USov Group you have from 3 to 5 big heals. These will usually be enough between shrines when soloing quests at lvl. Use of Wands between fights and potions in tight spots will still be needed. Do to the low amount of SP a Paladin has until later lvls when they can get their hands on SP regen items (Con-Ops/Torc) you will not have much SP available to assist in healing yourself (SP items of level can give you some additional points to buff with, such as Perel Of Powers or even Scepters of Power/Magi)

[Raoull]

Ok, that pretty much covers it. Thanks for the info.