Spear of the Mourlands bladeforged

[WarDestroyer]

The goal here was to make a (good) flavour BF build using his master's weapon. The 2 levels of rogue are a no brainer for attack speed, haste boost and 25% doublestrike, but no further split seemed like much improvement. I was also debating CHA vs STR based, and right now am tending to the latter for ease of gearing, but am open minded.


Classes: 18 Paladin, 10 Epic, 2 Rogue
Race: Bladeforged · · · · ·Alignment: Lawful Good

MAX STR->CON->CHA

Feats

1· THF
3· Mithral Body
6· Child of Faith
9· Improved Critical: Slashing Weapons
12· Improved THF
15· Greater THF
18· Precision
21· Overwhelming Critical
24· Beloved of the Divine
26· Perfect Two Handed Fighting
27· Swords to Plowshares
29· Dire Charge
30· Force of Personality?
Legendary: Scion of Arborea

Follow the lord of blades

Enhancements:
36 KotC / 11 TA / 12 BF / 21 Falconry

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Equipped Gear Set :
Umbral soul (repair amp/false life)
Hammerfist (seeker/ins doublestrike)
Family blessing (ins piercing/doublestrike/deadly)
Belt of direwolf (winter/deception)
Deepsnow boots (winter/ins con/qual con)
Nocturne ring (winter)
Cloak of winter (winter)
Brightlord (artifact/armor piercing)
Crown of butterflies
Collective sight (con/ins str)
Ruby ring (accuracy/str/stunning)
Bloodrage chrism (profane doublestrike)

filigrees: 5 piece sanctified, suckerpunch+sucker+oneagainstmany
swap goggles for trance

[Michele]

you missed the level 28 epic destiny feat

[Gnominal_Aphasia]

I think you may have missed more than the level 28 feat...

the "favored weapon" is the Spear of the MourNlands... nice drop, grats

The advantages from taking 2 rogue levels:
- as you have taken the Mithral Body feat, you plan to use evasion on a DEX and INT dumped build... sure, Pallys get great saves but nevertheless...

The essence of your build are not only based on saves but also on DR... Adamantine Body and losing evasion may be the way to go... not sure.

Your build stats are "MAX STR->CON->CHA", you don't state if you have any tomes. If you did, I would recommend thinking about the following alternatives... going to assume that you have 5+ tomes and 36 point build:

CHARISMA-based
something like... STR 14 DEX 8 CON 16 INT 14 WIS 6 CHA 18

2 levels of rogue:
- Get +15% Attack Speed with Quarterstaffs, a Strikethrough attack (+3[W], +25% Doublestrike buff), Strikethrough (heroics) = 160
- lose KotC capstone

BUT, this would be my split...

4 levels of rogue
- Get +15% Attack Speed with Quarterstaffs, a Strikethrough attack (+3[W], +25% Doublestrike buff), Strikethrough (heroics) = 180
- level 3 TA gives +5[W] cleave, the amazing Shadow Dodge ability, the extra 20% Strikethrough AND "free" Swords to Plowshares Feat
- level 4 Rogue/TA gives +6[W] AoE, +30% Helplessness damage and the Uncanny Dodge feat that could be really useful if you want to use Mithral Body
- lose KotC capstone and 5th core (no 500 extra damage on a vorpal, etc)

Enhancements and Feats
I would dump Falconry and go Feydark Illusionist...
- 36 AP into KoTC
- 11 AP into FI for CHA to hit and damage + Greater Color Spray
- 26 AP into TA
- 12 AP into BF (if you have 5+ racial AP; otherwise, just 21, or less, into TA)

1. 2HF
3. Mithril or Adamantine Body
6. Magical Training
9. Improved Critical (Slashing)
12. i2HF
15. g2HF
18. Precision
21. Overwhelming Critical
24. Construct Exemplar
26. Perfect 2HF
27. Blinding Speed
28. idk, Perfect 2WF or First Blood or Holy Strike
29. Dire Charge
30. Improved Critical (Piercing)
30. Scion of the... Arborea works sure, but Mechanus or Astral would be good choices too imo. Mechanus would free up AP in BF tree if needed giving you access to more helpless damage (from Greater Color Spray) and the extra +6[W] AoE attack.

ED... FotW would be cool but US would be extremely compatible for a CHA-based Pally.

Let us know how it goes! GL

[WarDestroyer]

Thanks for the input. Yeah, Adamantine certainly will be better than Mithral at cap, forgot to write that down. And also yup, I got a +5 tome of each, forgot to write that down.

Peeps at discord convinced me that doing 36 KotC/ 31 SaD / 11 TA will be nice defensively, so I'll try that. No AP to be CHA based, and STR will be considerably higher anyway.

I honestly think that with +25% doublestrike from TA this build will turn out great, specially now that U50 hit the game.

[Gljosh]

I have done both a 15/5 and a 18/2 Pal/rog BF.
15/5 Allows for a lot of Stick Goodness, earlier in the game-I have mainly Sticks for weapons so I tend to go this route.
18/2 Strikes a nice decent balance with some nice Stick skills to complement the paladin abilities, better tank and more spells.

18/2 works well if you goal is just to use the Spear for near end-game.

15/5 is great if your goal is more Stick fighting.