Help With My Pally Build Pls

[Zarquine]

Following is my basic plan for TRing my Fighter into Paladin, without equipment for now. My main goal is an AC tank with some survivability and not doing many raids, just fast leveling and TRing again to get the Paladin Past Lives. I will probably go Hunter of the Dead for a while and then switch to DoS later and there may be another +3 tome available.

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TR Fighter Pally
Level 20 Lawful Good Human Female
(2 Fighter \ 18 Paladin) 
Hit Points: 382
Spell Points: 230 
BAB: 20\20\25\30\30
Fortitude: 27
Reflex: 16
Will: 15

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
Abilities        Base Stats          Modified Stats
(34 Point)       (Level 1)             (Level 20)
Strength             16                    24
Dexterity            10                    13
Constitution         15                    18
Intelligence         12                    14
Wisdom                8                    10
Charisma             16                    20

Tomes Used
+1 Tome of Strength used at level 3
+1 Tome of Dexterity used at level 3
+1 Tome of Constitution used at level 3
+1 Tome of Intelligence used at level 3
+1 Tome of Wisdom used at level 3
+1 Tome of Charisma used at level 3
+2 Tome of Strength used at level 7
+2 Tome of Dexterity used at level 7
+2 Tome of Constitution used at level 7
+2 Tome of Intelligence used at level 7
+2 Tome of Wisdom used at level 7
+2 Tome of Charisma used at level 7
+3 Tome of Dexterity used at level 11
+3 Tome of Constitution used at level 11

                  Starting          Feat/Enhancement
                 Base Skills         Modified Skills
Skills           (Level 1)            (Level 20)
Balance               1                    12
Bluff                 3                     5
Concentration         2                    30
Diplomacy             3                     5
Disable Device        n/a                   n/a
Haggle                3                     6
Heal                 -1                     1
Hide                  0                     1
Intimidate            7                    29
Jump                  7                    12
Listen               -1                     0
Move Silently         0                     1
Open Lock             n/a                   n/a
Perform               n/a                   n/a
Repair                1                     2
Search                1                     2
Spot                 -1                     0
Swim                  3                     7
Tumble                1                     4
Use Magic Device      5                    16

Level 1 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Exotic Weapon Proficiency: Bastard Sword
Feat: (Past Life) Past Life: Fighter
Feat: (Human Bonus) Toughness
Feat: (Selected) Two Handed Fighting


Level 2 (Fighter)
Feat: (Fighter Bonus) Shield Mastery


Level 3 (Paladin)
Feat: (Selected) Power Attack


Level 4 (Paladin)


Level 5 (Paladin)


Level 6 (Paladin)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Two Handed Fighting


Level 7 (Paladin)


Level 8 (Paladin)


Level 9 (Paladin)
Feat: (Selected) Combat Expertise


Level 10 (Paladin)


Level 11 (Paladin)


Level 12 (Paladin)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Critical: Slashing Weapons


Level 13 (Paladin)


Level 14 (Paladin)


Level 15 (Paladin)
Feat: (Selected) Greater Two Handed Fighting


Level 16 (Paladin)


Level 17 (Paladin)


Level 18 (Paladin)
Feat: (Selected) Improved Shield Mastery


Level 19 (Paladin)


Level 20 (Paladin)
Enhancement: Paladin Armor Class Boost I
Enhancement: Fighter Haste Boost I
Enhancement: Unyielding Sovereignty
Enhancement: Follower of the Sovereign Host
Enhancement: Human Improved Recovery I
Enhancement: Human Improved Recovery II
Enhancement: Paladin Courage of Good I
Enhancement: Paladin Bulwark of Good I
Enhancement: Paladin Bulwark of Good II
Enhancement: Paladin Bulwark of Good III
Enhancement: Paladin Focus of Good I
Enhancement: Paladin Resistance of Good I
Enhancement: Paladin Resistance of Good II
Enhancement: Paladin Resistance of Good III
Enhancement: Paladin Divine Righteousness I
Enhancement: Paladin Exalted Smite I
Enhancement: Paladin Exalted Smite II
Enhancement: Paladin Extra Lay on Hands I
Enhancement: Paladin Extra Lay on Hands II
Enhancement: Paladin Extra Smite Evil I
Enhancement: Paladin Extra Smite Evil II
Enhancement: Paladin Extra Smite Evil III
Enhancement: Paladin Defender of Siberys I
Enhancement: Paladin Defender of Siberys II
Enhancement: Paladin Defender of Siberys III
Enhancement: Paladin: Rally
Enhancement: Racial Toughness I
Enhancement: Racial Toughness II
Enhancement: Improved Intimidate I
Enhancement: Paladin Charisma I
Enhancement: Paladin Charisma II
Enhancement: Fighter Strength I
Enhancement: Paladin Toughness I
Enhancement: Paladin Toughness II
Enhancement: Paladin Toughness III
Enhancement: Paladin Toughness IV
Enhancement: Paladin Divine Might I
Enhancement: Paladin Divine Might II
Enhancement: Paladin Divine Might III

Any thoughts?

[Kinerd]

If you are primarily concerned with leveling and are not staying at 20+ or raiding, I would go with the oldschool 2 monk splash and pajamas build. PRR being % based means it doesn't really come into its own until you get it pretty high and are taking big shots: taking 95% damage on 20 point hits is pretty pointless. You don't get the capstone, but if you're not really going to be 20 you weren't getting the capstone anyway.

Definitely get Divine Sacrifice. It's your #1 offensive ability, more important than Exalted Smite, much more important than Divine Might. The first place to drop, though is Toughness 3 and 4.

I wouldn't bother with EWP Bastard either. You can still carry a shield and Shield Mastery around for when things get hairy, but just for leveling it's not that important to max out your sword and board DPS. In its place I would very strongly urge you to grab Maximize. Lay on Hands are good, but LoH + Maximized CSWs + Healing Amp + Evasion + HotD will make you very very very survivable while leveling.

I would drop Improved Shield Mastery for Dodge, rearranging feats if necessary. Again, PRR is a late bloomer. 3% misses works right off the bat.

[BossOfEarth]

What he said is exactly right. But take b sword anyway because it looks cool.

[Zarquine]

ty for your input so far, greatly appreciated.

I am not a big fan of Monk splash (I have many nice heavy armors) and I have the choice between B Sword and Khopesh. Maybe I will stick to Khopesh, I have many of them from my Fighter Kensei life.

When would be a good level to take Maximize?

[Kinerd]

Welcome! I used to want Max by the time I went in Gianthold, because that was where my casual AC fell off the table. I haven't leveled a melee since the changes, so I'm not sure. I guess I would still take it at 9-12ish, because CSW pots are probably just as good as Maximized CLWs anyway.

[Merlin-ator]

I would recommend wearing Light Plates and having a bit more dex, max dex bonuses on LP go from 2-8 (depending on which tier of it you get), gives you from 7-21 base AC (again, depending on tier), and being a heavy armor, maxes out your PRR.

http://ddowiki.com/page/PRR
http://ddowiki.com/page/Armor_tiers

Since the AC change, I've had to keep the second link open at all times when buying gear for my pally off the AH. Seems a bit overcomplicated.