Just redid gear on my level 18 paladin and feel it might offer some insights

[jeremyt]

So I have been running a toon with very few past lives (1x rogue/fighter/doublestrike PLs only) in reaper content with a friend lately. He is on a human rogue mechanic, i am on a dwarf pure paladin, currently swinging a daxe+ heavy shield.

I wanted to post my gear configuration because I feel with this setup any paladin can be competitive/durable and useful in reaper content even with no past lives.

I am using 4 named items that are all bound to account. the rest is cannith crafted. I will also detail out how i reallocated my action points to favor more tactics/dps than tanking/healing once i upgraded the gear. This gearset covers 104 base devotion, 52 insightful devotion, 9 dev SP from heal skill aug and +14 quality potency. All the cc crafts below i did at ML18, which is a universal breakpoint for all the important stuff. everything else scales per level

Head: Boundless, Quality spellpower, mythic 3 bonus, quality PRR and insightful spell points. aug: heavy fort
Necklace: CC, Devotion, Insightful Cha & SR, aug: blindness immunity
Trinket: CC, Melee alac + insightful combat mastery + heal amp
Cloak: CC, Charisma + dodge + insightful MRR, aug: intimidate
Belt: CC, Spell resistance + parrying + insightful con, aug: protection
Ring #1 Stalker, Insightful deception, seeker, manslayer, ethereal, aug: dex
Ring #2 Prowess, Deadly, melee power, accuracy, mythic bonus, aug: nat armor
Gloves CC, Doublestrike + saves + insightful devotion, aug: vitality
Boots Knife toed, Armor piercing, quality strength and seeker, thorn guard, aug: balance
Bracer CC, Strength + sheltering + insightful PRR, aug: armored agility +1
Armor CC, Constitution + false life + insightful intim, aug: heal
Goggle CC, Wisdom + true sight + insightful seeker, augs: masters gift + deathblock
Shield CC, Combat Mastery + Shield Bash + Insightful Deadly, aug: +1 good luck

Main weapons: CC lev 10 daxe silver, good damage + blud damage + vampirism, aug: meteoric strike
Ooze/rusty beater: Adaxus axe
Construct specialty beater: cc lev 17, daxe, metalline + construct bane + vamp, aug: meteoric (made it to run good intentions at lev reaper, have reran it quite a few times so ended up being worth the trouble)


With feats you can either stay true to axes and chase THF feats or you can swap to hammers and pick up other feats. Right now im sticking with axes, mostly for flavor, and i want to chec out glancing damage at cap with a shield, which ive never seen before i dont think.

Anywho the enhancements lay out like thisfor a lev 18 toon with full bubbles (72 points total)
1AP dwarven
15AP KOTC. Get extra smites and remove disease x2 each, then get 1 tier cleave + 1 tier exalted smite + heal amp/neg reduction. 3 tiers damage boost and 3 cores.
18AP Defender. 3 cores as well. 1st tier 3x lay hands 3x prr/mrr stance and 1x armor mast. 2nd tier 2x aura and 1x saves stance. 3rd 2xaura and 20% hp.
38AP Vanguard go buck wild, its almost all good stuff

When I get the last 8 AP to spend will drop the 1 AP into dwarven racial. Get 10% run speed,+6 con and +4 spell resist aura in sentinel as well as regain the 4th tier for 5 prr/mrr nd full choice of raise spells. Then spend the remaining 3 AP qualifying for vanguard capstone/taking vanguard capstone. I would then drop damage boost in KOTC and exalted smite, and instead get divine might all 3 tiers. I am planning to run in unyielding or DC, so will twist in tactics and haste boost from dread, sense weakness from fury, serenity from GMF.