Revisiting an old build (16 FvS/2 Monk/2 Paladin)

[Tallyn]

It's been a long time since I've posted here, I took nearly a 3 year break from DDO. One of my favorite characters to play was my old 16 Favored Soul/2 Monk/2 Paladin. This character could achieve:

Good AC (not great)
Evasion
Very good Saves (40/40/43 at 20 self buffed)
Decent melee (used shortswords)
Fairly good at healing (missing mass heal)
Fairly good at spells (Wisdom was 33, has Destruction, Blade Barrier, Greater Command)

The character was fairly durable back at 20, but times have changed. The character is fairly gear intensive. My question is, is this viable in today's environment with epic levels and destinies? I really liked the feel of the build, being pretty good at one or two things, but decent at a lot of things while having fairly high survivability. The game has changed so much now, that I dont know if that would still be the case today. Thoughts?

[unbongwah]

Welcome back to DDO.

Can you post the build in question? It's a little hard to judge it without seeing it.

[savingsoul]

I agree that it would help to see the build, but I can't resist a comment because this class split was the original source of my handle, "savingsoul". I wanted "soul survivor", but that was already taken So naturally I've thought quite a bit about it. I originally got frustrated with the build and wasn't particularly pleased . . .

Anyway, nowadays you can probably achieve better results by going half-elf with 2M/18Fvs and going pally dilettante.

My guess is that since you are doing melee you don't mind agro or you don't mind offensive spell capability, so that means you will be maximizing str or wisdom rather than cha, so given the lower cha the pally dilly feat would cover something equal or at least competitive with what you could achieve in terms of divine grace.

Also, I would probably use handwraps rather than short swords and take stunning fist while maxing wis rather than str.

I played around with this build around the same time that I (re-)discovered Tukaw, which is 2rogue/2pally/16sorc, with one revision more recently proposed as 2monk/2pally/16sorc.

[Tallyn]

Hmmm... I'll need to download a build planner again.. is there a good one linked somewhere in the DDO forums? Otherwise, I won't give level breakdowns, but just try to give you all the feats/skills/attributes/items currently has.