With the newer reincanations I now have a chance to ungimp my lvl 15 28pt dwarven pally. I want to try to make him a dps and was wondering what would be a better route to take: TWF or THF.

I should also add that where a paladin is concerned, higher crit chance weapons are better than high crit damage weapons, no matter what the base DPS.  For instance, I'd rather have kukris on my paladin than dwarven axes (though I'd rather have rapiers than kukris, of course - this is due to the ability to crit on a smite).

Thanx for the info. I jsut started reading up on the update and it appears that Gtr.reincarnation is not avail yet so this may get put on hold for a while. I dont think you can lesser for the 32pt build. And I will need to pick up a dex tome of some sort. Right now all I got is a +1 

Demoyn wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 8:03pm:


con or dex is fine but with dex it means you can do get twf more easily, esp for a new player who may not have a +3 dex tome secreted away

as to cha, i'm more of talking about max numbers acceptable to me. 12 for dwarf/wf or 14 for others is fine as well. as i mentioned, DMIII minimum. DMIV can be expensive. to me, the perfect pally would have 36 pts lol. they need too many stats

Aranticus wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 8:27pm:


I wouldn't have mentioned it if you hadn't recommended 14 points for the human.  I'd usually take 15 dexterity as well.

With 36 points I could see myself taking a 16 charisma.  There's just no way that I'll spend 2 for 1 on charisma before I max my strength.

Demoyn wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 9:17pm:


hence i put the need for the dex tome there. for a human 16/15/15/8/8/14 if you dun have a +3 tome in bank

Demoyn wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 9:18pm:


i agree with the not arguing part. so far most of my arguments in the ddo forums is not with the seasoned builders but with people that list build efficiency to the most minute detail ie you will need 16 cha so you can get the runes blah blah blah

just yesterday i was arguing with a noob from GoK over gen chat on the worth of a bloodplate. he keep coming up with specific senarios to try to boost the worth of bloodplate

But.. but... drama!

16/15/14/8/8/14 for a dwarf I assume that the first couple of stat point increases would go into dex to pick up twf and itwf, correct? I have already eaten a +2 cha tome so that should help me some there. This is all really good info. I knew I gimped my pally when I hit about lvl 10, this is just making it all clearer. lol

Demoyn wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2010 at 9:53pm:


Depending on what PRE you take, ending up on an odd Dex stat isn't that bad.

Spectral Gloves ftw!