Steel Shrine

[Infiltraitor]

2/9/2017 This build is now decomissioned due to Reaper Mode.

Self Healing, which is one of the main powers of a Paladin, has been reduced heavily. Additionally, close-ranged party healing has been eliminated due to the fact that Reapers can one-shot non-tanks. The build is showing it's age and is no longer capable of functioning in the hardest content, despite being designed for the hardest content at the time circa 2014.

If you are currently in Steel Shrine, you can play it out as a DPS with some points in Henshin Mystic for the Melee Power and reincarnate at the first available opportunity. If you are stuck in heroics 12 or below, aim for a 15 Paladin / 3 Monk / 2 Favored Soul split to maximize DPS.

Steel Shrine

Steel Shrine is the most survivable tank you will ever play. This living fortress is a walking fountain of area-of-effect healing. The saves are so high that you won't even realize when you are fighting against spell-casters. If you have ever wanted to know what it felt like to BE a raid boss swatting enemies left and right, look no further.

80+ Saves
Evasion
2000+ DPS
1300 HP
Easy-Button Healing
Multiple Redundant Healing Abilities

Race: Human (PDK does not get the Sovereign Host +4 damage to long swords, if PDK, go Mortal Fear Khopesh instead)
Class: Paladin 14 / Favored Soul 4 / Monk 2 (Light Armor Evasion)

(Other) Epic Litany: Profane Stats +2, Profane Attack +4, Profane Damage +4, Light Guard 10d6, Green Augment, Blue Augment
(Back) Epic Quiver of Alacrity: Concentration -50, Ranged Speed XV, Stealth Strike, Insightful Sneak Attack Bonus +4, Doubleshot 8%
(Head) Sightless: True Seeing, Deathblock 7, Ranged Power 6, Melee Power 6, Sheltering 35, Constitution 12, Green, Blue
(Eyes) Green Steel Goggles: Hit Points +45
(Neck) Pendant of Quiet Movement: Seeker +12, Dodge +11, Insightful Will +2, Lesser Displacement, Yellow Augment
(Cloak) Mysterious Cloak: Healing Amp 45, Magical Resistance +25, Green Augment, Colorless Augment
(Body) ToEE Light Armor: Resistance +12, Acid Absorb 30%, Lesser Displacement, Fortification 150, Green Augment
(Arms) Epic Ethereal Bracers: Dexterity +11, Riposte IX, Ghostly, Deadly X, Speed XIV, Feather Falling, Blue Augment, Green Augment
(Hand) Iron Mitts: Strength +8, Healing Amplification +60, Vitality +40, Resistance +7, Colorless Augment
(Waist) Epic Chord of Reprisals: Charisma +11, Resonance +144, Perform +20, Soundproof, Roar, Sheltering +24, Green Augment, Blue Augment
(Foot) Many-Hooked Greaves: Strength +12, Vertigo 12, Combat Mastery 5, Quality Vertigo 2, Green Augment, Yellow Augment
(Ring) Encrusted Ring: Strength +6, Exceptional Strength +1, Healing Amp +40
(Ring) Strange Tidings: Dexterity +12, Deception VIII, Use Magical Device +7, Diversion 20%, Blue Augment Slot, Green Augment Slot
(Main) Fellblade: +13 Enhancement, Imp Banishing, Sov Vorpal, Axiomatic X, Armor-Piercing 20%, Doublestrike 15%, Red Augment, Orange Augment
(Off) Thunderforged Orb: Devotion 150, Dragon's Edge, Draconic Reinvigoration, Orange Augment, Colorless Augment

All Levelup bonuses go into Charisma.
Str: 16 + 6 Tome +12 Item +1 Exception +2 Artifact +2 Feat +2 Profane +23 Divine Might = 64
Dex: 13 + 5 Tome + 8 Item + 2 Insightful + 1 Exceptional + 2 Artifact + 2 feat +2 Profane= 34
Con: 14 + 6 Tome +12 Item +2 Insight +1 Exceptional +2 Artifact +2 feat +2 Profane = 40
Int: 13 + 4 Tome + 8 Item +2 Insight + 1 Exceptional + 2 Artifact + 2 feat +2 Profane = 34
Wis: 8 + 5 Tome + 8 Item + 1 Exceptional + 2 Artifact + 2 feat +2 Profane = 28
Cha: 16 + 6 Tome +7 Levelup +11 Item +2 Insightful +1 Exceptional +2 Artifact +2 feat +2 Profane +4 Enhancement +3 Destiny = 56

Level Progression

Feats: 7 Normal + 2 Monk + 3 Epic + 2 Destiny + Granted Class Feats

1 Paladin: Weapon Focus: Slashing, Force of Personality, Follower of the Sovereign Host
2 Paladin
3 Paladin: Completionist
4 Paladin
5 Monk: Deflect Arrows
6 Favored Soul: Single Weapon Fighting
7 Paladin
8 Paladin
9 Favored Soul: Improved Single Weapon Fighting
10 Monk: Precision
11 Paladin
12 Paladin: Improved Critical: Slashing
13 Favored Soul
14 Paladin
15 Paladin: Greater Single Weapon Fighting
16 Paladin
17 Paladin
18 Paladin: Quicken Spell
19 Favored Soul
20 Paladin
21 Epic: Overwhelming Critical
24 Epic: Beloved of Sovereign Host
26 Epic: Perfect Two Weapon Fighting
27 Epic: Epic Reflexes
28 Epic: Elusive Target


HP: 1316
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140 Paladin
32 Favored Soul
16 Monk
80 Epic
40 False Life Augment
40 Vitality
10 Draconic Vitality
20 Heroic Durability
15 Improved Heroic Durability
150 Vigor of Battle
100 Unyielding Sentinel
10 Warpriest
15 Harper
9 Sacred Defender
420 Constitution
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1097 HP
219 Unyielding Sentinel 20% bonus
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1316 HP



PRR: 125
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36 Divine Past Life
10 Wall of Steel
30 Sheltering
14 Light Armor
10 Heed No Pain
10 Sacred Defense
15 Durable Defense


Damage = 126.375*
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25.875 Base Attack Damage 5.75[1d8]
1 Child of the SoveReign Host
1 Beloved of the SoveReign Host
4 Righteous Weapons
13 Weapon
3 Enchant Weapon Past Life
1 Holy Sword
27 Strength
13 Single Weapon Fighting Strength Bonus
10 Deadly
4.5 Intolerant Blows
4 Profane
3 Monk Past Life
3 Divine Favor
1 Harper Enchantment
3 Harper Enchantment of Righteousness
7 Harper vs Evil
2 Harper Favored Enemy: Evil Outsider
* Add 22 backstab damage in case you don't have aggro


Double Strike: 29%
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5% Perfect Single Weapon Fighting
15% Fellblade
9% Martial Past Life



Melee Power: 77
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24 Epic Levels
24 Unyielding Sentinel
6 Greater Single Weapon Fighting
6 Sightless
15 Harper
2 Weapon Focus


Crit Profile: ~90% bonus damage
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19-20/x4
13-18/x3

Seeker: 23
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12 Seeker
6 Tactical Training Room
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18 * 26 crit multipler per 20 / 20 hits per 20 = 23


SWF Attack Speed: 2.34
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80 hits per 40 seconds unhasted SWF = 2.0
100 hits per 42.6 seconds haste = 2.34
56 hits per 20 seconds hasted + Speed Boost = 2.8


Casual Damage per click = 613 Piercing per hit, 1401 DPS
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[Damage * (1 + Crit Bonus) + (Seeker)] (1 + Doublestrike)(1 + Melee Power/100)
[(126 * 1.9) +23]* 1.29 * 1.77 = 599 Avg per hit @ 2.34 Attacks per second


Fully Boosted Damage = 2415 DPS
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20% Smite Weakness Vulnerability
20% Human Damage Boost
30% Legendary Dreadnought Speed Boost
[Damage (1 + Crit Bonus) + (Seeker)] *(Damage Boost) (1 + Doublestrike) (1 + Melee Power/100) (1 + Stacks of Vulnerability)
[(126 * 1.9) +23] * 1.29 * 1.77 * 1.2 * 1.2 = 862 Avg per hit @ 2.8 Attacks per second



Ultra Squishy Legendary Dreadnought Mode = 3647 DPS*
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-6 Unyielding Sentinel Melee Power
70 Blitz Melee Power
5 Advancing Blows Damage
6 Critical Damage Seeker
19-20/x1 Devastating Critical
20% Smite Weakness Vulnerability
20% Human Damage Boost
30% Legendary Dreadnought Speed Boost
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[Damage (1 + Crit Bonus) + (Seeker)] *(Damage Boost) (1 + Doublestrike) (1 + Melee Power/100) (1 + Stacks of Vulnerability)
[(131 * 2.0) +29] * 1.29 * 2.41 * 1.2 * 1.2 = 1302 Avg per hit @ 2.8 Attacks per second

* This is slashing damage only.

[Infiltraitor]

How to play the Steel Shrine

It's the Battle Cleric on steroids. Let's get to know your buffs.

Permanent Buffs: Sacred Defense, Vigor of Battle
Questing Buffs: Holy Sword
Casual Pre-Fight Buffs: Divine Favor, Divine Might, Intolerant Blows
Heavy Duty Melee: Human Damage Boost, Legendary Dreadnought Haste Boost

Cast your questing buffs at the start of every quest and after every shrine. Use your casual pre-fight buffs as soon as you see an enemy encounter. If it is a boss fight or looks tough, you hit your triple action boosts and clean house.


The healing arsenal is Smite Foe, Consecration, Renewal, Cure Moderate. Use Lay on Hands only as a last resort.

Smite Foe costs no spell points, has low cooldown, and heals everyone nearby for about 150 (up to 400 for healing Amp junkies) . Use it as often as possible.
Consecration (if twisted) is your AOE healing.
Renewal is a your primary heal. Top off party members.
Cure Moderate is your secondary heal.
Lay on Hands is your emergency heal. Use this on yourself if everything else is on cooldown.
Unyielding Sovereignty is your multipurpose heal.

Your attack chain is: Cleave, Consecration, Smite Foe, Auto-Attack.
Your heal ability priority is: Renewal, Cure Moderate, Lay on Hands, Unyielding Sovereignty

For extremely difficult fights, you will need to fight/jump along the outer ring of your consecration ability. Example: In EE Vol, one of the lever rooms leads into a stairway room with a chest room at the bottom. With proper timing, it is possible to aggro all the monsters in the lever room, the stairs, and the room on the bottom at the same time for a EE fight with some 30 monsters in red dungeon alert. For those fights, Consecration, Cleave, Autoattack, Jump, Spam heals, Cleave, Autoattack, Spam Heals, Jump, Repeat.

How does Steel Shrine work?

1) DPS from Enhancements, Defenses from Destiny.
2) Offhand Thunderforged Orb = Action boosts all day long


Why does the first post keep changing?
I make a lot of mistakes. Updates occur as people inform me of errors and the like.

[Raezar]

Nice Job, you need to change your signature though. You can be the weakest but I am the noobest player in Omnipresence ~Anoob-1 Bus :P

[UurlockYgmeov]

How else can you heal when you can't cast spells, use divine abilities, and have all your SP drained from inferno?

Use Atonement.

[Infiltraitor]

Nice Job, you need to change your signature though. You can be the weakest but I am the noobest player in Omnipresence ~Anoob-1 Bus :P

What's in a name? Being named Reignbeau doesn't make me the most colorful. Being named Anoob doesn't change the fact that you are at least twice as skilled as I am as a player.

Use Atonement.

But... it doesn't have mortal fear...

[janave]

Cool build,
+1 for the nice layout!

[Raezar]

[QUOTE=Infiltraitor;5440653]What's in a name? Being named Reignbeau doesn't make me the most colorful. Being named Anoob doesn't change the fact that you are at least twice as skilled as I am as a player.

Ty for the compliment but I disagree, and since there isn't a test to find out. We may never know. lol :P

[Spekdah_NZ]

Any chance of a AP breakdown?

I can see some of the AP's derived by breakdowns (to the fore, harper), and some twists like Legendary Shield Mastery for a T2 slot. But a post would be lovely :-)

[Infiltraitor]

Heroic leveling is a matter of grabbing your DPS essentials and fattening up along the way. You'll be playing as a slightly weaker DPS until about level 11 when you start to fatten up your defenses considerably. This will continue until level 14, where you will find yourself seriously lagging in DPS until level 20.

At 14, pure paladins will have access to Holy Sword and start doing about 30% more dps than you will. You'll stay about 30% behind full paladins until level 20, where you will have Holy Sword as well in addition to Ameliorating Strike at level 19. It is a small price to pay to be unstoppable later on.

When leveling in heroics, you will want to go Knight of the Chalice instead of sacred defender for DPS. You'll be much happier. Exalted Cleave on a Carnifex does 4d12+2 (28 avg)



Went full tard on the DPS to make up for the lack of holy sword. This is necessary to gimp our way to 20.


Once you hit level 12, max out the Holy Retribution skill. Your attack sequence will be: Avenging Cleave, Exalted Cleave, Holy Retribution, Exalted Smite, Divine Sacrifice. The two cleaves soften everything up, then holy retribution, Exalted Smite, and Divine Sacrifice everything that is left.

I did THIS while Elite Streaking through Trial by Fire. Killed everything in my way, didn't bother to shrine, and still had a boatload of exalted smites left over. That Deathnip heavy pick is doing 800 dmg crits with exalted smite.


Took my 4th favored soul level at 18 instead of 19. Respecced for Ameliorating Strike, more healing amp, two less ranks of divine sacrifice, and otherwise full Chalice DPS to solo Enter the Kobold as an Evasion DPS. Good times were had by all. The ability to respec between Evasion DPS, Armored Tank, and AOE Healing is not to be discounted.


Even when Streaking through Epics, Deathnip is still pretty awesome. 13-20/x5 is means that crits contribute 160% to your normal hitting damage. You can still steamroll stuff even in full tank spec thanks for Holy Sword. For XP zerging purposes, I'm starting to like the Paladin cleave more than a few measly points in Harper.

[Spekdah_NZ]

I've posted the screenshots of the enhancements. I found a way to squeeze out about 10% more dps and 2 more hit points using this setup by dropping the harper.

Thank you. So torn between about five variations! :-)

[tsteigner]

nice build, but if they didn't Change the Shield Mastery Feat in u23 i think the lvl Progression won't work ....


Level Progression


Feats: 7 Normal + 2 Monk + 3 Epic + 2 Destiny
1 Monk: Toughness, Shield Mastery, Force of Personality

since Shield Mastery reequires Shield prof. and Mnk doesn't get that .....

[Infiltraitor]

nice build, but if they didn't Change the Shield Mastery Feat in u23 i think the lvl Progression won't work ....


Level Progression


Feats: 7 Normal + 2 Monk + 3 Epic + 2 Destiny
1 Monk: Toughness, Shield Mastery, Force of Personality

since Shield Mastery reequires Shield prof. and Mnk doesn't get that .....

Yes. I was... too busy trying to keep up pretty colors and format, which I totally didn't copy and paste from a different post I had. Thank you for catching that.

[The_Golden]

How are you getting the charisma bonus to hit and damage?? I have this sinking feeling I've done my sorc EK massively wrong...

Edit: ah PDK enhancement, just looked it up, cheers nice build

[ThomasHunter]

I'm curious about the 2 levels of monk. Is that just for the extra feats?

[Infiltraitor]

I'm curious about the 2 levels of monk. Is that just for the extra feats?

2 Monk levels adds 2 feats, 3 to all saves, evasion, 5% healing amp from shintao. It is a strong class to dip into.

For all the talk of heavy armor, Evasion is just as strong as it used to be, but now you ALSO get MRR from light armor.



Edit: Took the build out to Epic Elite storm horns to test defenses. Evasion + MRR is pretty dang tough.

[Shadow7375]

Question ....

How are you able to pick the feat BASTARD SWORD with a strength of 10 ??? Isn't the minimum requirement to pick this one a strength of 13 ??? Please clarify, thanks.

[Infiltraitor]

Question ....

How are you able to pick the feat BASTARD SWORD with a strength of 10 ??? Isn't the minimum requirement to pick this one a strength of 13 ??? Please clarify, thanks.

Yep. Thanks for catching that. It's been fixed and move to level 15, where the tomes will take effect.

Given the large amount of info posted, I fully expect there to be a few more mistakes I haven't caught yet.

[Shadow7375]

Yep. Thanks for catching that. It's been fixed and move to level 15, where the tomes will take effect.

Given the large amount of info posted, I fully expect there to be a few more mistakes I haven't caught yet.

Well, not sure if it is going to work ... I tried with a strength base of 10, but by level 15 (with tomes) I still wasn't able to pick the feat.

[Infiltraitor]

Well, not sure if it is going to work ... I tried with a strength base of 10, but by level 15 (with tomes) I still wasn't able to pick the feat.

My tomes activate +1 at level 3, +2 at level 7, and +3 and level 11. But as I am seeing that this is going to be a problem, I will have to make adjustments to the base stats now.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Shadow7375 again.

EDIT: If you are stuck, we can try to get you a +2 tome and you can spend level 16 levelup on strength.

[Shadow7375]

My tomes activate +1 at level 3, +2 at level 7, and +3 and level 11. But as I am seeing that this is going to be a problem, I will have to make adjustments to the base stats now.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Shadow7375 again.

EDIT: If you are stuck, we can try to get you a +2 tome and you can spend level 16 levelup on strength.

UPDATE: Thought I let you know that I was able to take the feat BASTARD SWORDS at level 18.