Rolling a SK or warrior

[enjchanter]

Ret pally

[Tunabros]

Originally Posted by enjchanter [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ret pally

*holy

[Duckwalk]

Originally Posted by enjchanter [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Paladin was probably the biggest let down alt I ever made.

Like I made a wizard and a rogue but I was expecting disappointment and just wanted the utility.

Paladin I thought would be fun and it basically never was.

He's perma 54

Interesting. I had the opposite experience. I leveled a sk and paladin up to 52 before pushing on to 60 on the sk because of special snowflake erudite goodness. However, throughout the leveling process the paladin was farm more powerful and is probably my favorite twink leveling experience. The combination of fungi, cof, reaver/ velious weapons and the tool kit of root, lull, heals, stuns meant that the paladin was a one man wrecking crew able to solo entire camps that would regularly support a full group.

Did HHK goblins 24-35 over two super casual sessions for instance and between lull / root camping bad pulls and out of combat heals, it was trivial to break and do all the rooms. Comparatively, lifetaps are super underwhelming until 55+, FD splitting was tedious and just slower than lull.

[Loadsamoney]

As long as that SK is not Ogre, all good. Troll SK for life.

[strongNpretty]

Originally Posted by Loadsamoney [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As long as that SK is not Ogre, all good. Troll SK for life.

Gotta roll Erudite SK and sport that Cultural Armor.. There is no greater...

[Crede]

I've done several SK builds, they all lose steam in the 50s unless you resort to fear kiting which is not ideal to me.

Paladins just have more tools to get the job done with a lot less downtime.

[Loadsamoney]

Originally Posted by strongNpretty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Gotta roll Erudite SK and sport that Cultural Armor.. There is no greater...

Troll regen and their superior melee stats (and Slam) is part of what decides it for me. Also the fact that, from a lore standpoint, Trolls are about as evil as you can possibly get. They wank on their greed and the suffering of others. I never saw, and still don't see Ogres as, truly evil, in the strictest sense of the word, even before the stupidity curse. Warmongering sure, and they eat people in the Age of Stupidity, but I think they're more just misunderstood than flat out malevolent.

But Trolls and Dark Elves are sinister incarnate, and DE Shadowknights are a fine pick too IMO, for that reason.

[MrSparkle001]

But that superior Erudite intellect being dedicated to evil is a scary prospect.

[oldschoolguy]

difference is monimal.

warrior you have like 4 buttons…. kick, bash, taunt, attack

sk you have bunch of spells to manage…

id base your choice on that

[enjchanter]

Originally Posted by Duckwalk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Interesting. I had the opposite experience. I leveled a sk and paladin up to 52 before pushing on to 60 on the sk because of special snowflake erudite goodness. However, throughout the leveling process the paladin was farm more powerful and is probably my favorite twink leveling experience. The combination of fungi, cof, reaver/ velious weapons and the tool kit of root, lull, heals, stuns meant that the paladin was a one man wrecking crew able to solo entire camps that would regularly support a full group.

Did HHK goblins 24-35 over two super casual sessions for instance and between lull / root camping bad pulls and out of combat heals, it was trivial to break and do all the rooms. Comparatively, lifetaps are super underwhelming until 55+, FD splitting was tedious and just slower than lull.

This really isn't a unique experience to any melee with a fungi and that level of twink gear. Almost any 100k twink will hold down a "full group camp". This is p99, that isn't an impressive mteric anymore.

Paladin mana sucks and spamming dw helm works but it feels terrible. I had helm and bp and bp felt better but carrying 9000 jaspers was annoying. The utility is alright but to say it's fun is a stretch. Your dps is terrible once you get past the early stages. I wasn't impressed even using frostwrath or craslith for undead zones. Like the class is just super watered down.

Long story short, a ranger would've been more fun