This is my Earth/Light paladin, a pretty fun and somewhat painful build to use. But definitely not as painful as plasma conjurer. I found that I need to have 2300 hp to survive, 80 power to do reasonable damage, and no more than 2 drawback to prevent constant hp loss. I have tried using oracle and regeneration gear but they just aren’t effective right now. I was also thinking about doing attack speed instead of attack size but it just seems more natural to earth, and light magic somewhat benefits too. Before the easter update, with less power, I was getting 297 damageper earth blast. Now with this one I’m getting 222. Light blasts are around 190. I have a resistance and speed mode, and I also have a double-beam at 60% explosion size, doing slightly more damage than my blast. Obviously, my gear doesn’t have tier 2 enchants since I haven’t been able to get armored or powerful yet. So, is this pvp viable or just pve?
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I’d think this is mostly pve, since you barely have any agility to dodge attacks quickly, and earth will be nearly useless if you’re not right next to your opponent.
if you want to make this a more pvp focussed build, I’d think it’s good to invest into attack speed and agility a bit more, and sacrifice a bit of power
What items do you suggest I use and replace to get more agility and attack speed?
you could probably replace the vatrachos leggings with hasty elius leggings
it might also be worth using a strong light bracelet or hasty calvus’ crown instead of that power amulet
power doesn’t really add that much damage for paladin builds, since the vitality just almost completely negates the increase
ahh so that’s it. I still wonder why I was doing mage damage before the update and less now, but I’m sure that the power has diminishing returns for paladin. I felt pretty weak doing less than 180 damage but I suppose hitting your shots is more important than that.
also I have the full Theurgist set, is any of that good for attack speed?
better to use sw instead because warding won’t make your build more viable (unless its for ds runs)
I actually would be using SW but I played before it was added and I don’t fish a whole lot… Are seasonals enough to afford sunken warrior now?
get more attack speed than attack size
if I’m being honest, this for a paladin will be tough, but you don’t actually need attack speed if you’re not fighting crazy good people
here’s the trick make a shockwave self explosion
run up to someone
press button
repeat
I noticed this today. Attack size might be more valuable than speed, so maybe the hasty was a little bit of a waste.
this actually works pretty well with beams, but not with people who are good or in the air all the time. would definitely be better with a size switch up
I still have my free reset, would switching my secondary magic from light to shadow help my case?
Just existing as paladin is tough. It’s basically mage but watered down, weaker, and objectively less fun in my opinion.
Not worth wasting a reset on changing the barely useful secondary magic on an unfinished class.
Light magic is probably fine anyways. It’s stats are a foil to earth, and you may be able to use it’s two useful abilities to punish (blast and placed explosion).
in pve i find it more fun than my conjurer and equally as fun as my explosion mage, but it was a bit better before it got nerfed in the easter update. Practically useless against anyone good at pvp though.
another thought, what gems should i replace the Lapis Lazulis with, since i wont be using attack speed?
the answer is variscite and i have never heard of this fucking gem now i have to find out where to get it
i have cooked an idea
unless someone knows a better alternative to ap amulet
maybe the explosive on sunken helmet is not needed? it only increases size 6%
edit: i realized that the agility isn’t enough for instant jump so i replaced the AP amulet with earth arcanium mage hat and i get this
pretty good build, nice job! :>
yeah guys this totally works! w-what do you mean “am I being sarcastic”? no, i’m serious. this works. continue using your simple tactics against fellows on your level, thinking your strategies work. us competitive alpha PVPers will instantly destroy all you shockwave explosion size monkeys…
that’s what the agility is for. if they’re good at the game, simply run away!