And when you TR from Paladin to your next class, don't forget the bonus step that makes your next life a little smoother.

Cast Holy Sword to summon a Greatsword and a Maul immediately before you TR and spend less than 1/2 hour in the character generation process so that your Holy Sword weapons are still in your TR bank for you to grab on the first session of your new life.

You won't get to keep them for more than 1 session, but it's a hell of a lot of fun to swing a +5 Holy Burst Almost-Metalline weapon at level 1.

Flint wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2010 at 7:52pm:


Because most folks do not realize that gear and equipment and build is only 2/3 of the ddo equation...and are not able to deduce the two factors that togrther make up the last third....kina ahora.

Inkblack wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2010 at 2:56pm:

yeah i hear you, Fortyounce isnt the best dps (using epic antique ga) till i get him an epic sos, He can smite for 650-750 atm.

Soul wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2010 at 9:11pm:


Hi all!  Brand new to the Vault here!

When I TR'd my drow ranger6/rog2/pal12 into a pal18/mon2 I looked hard at the math for the khopesh/rapier debate and came up with these same numbers.  Already having the rapiers, it just didn't make sense for me to re-craft my rapiers into khopesh.  Plus running all of those Shrouds to get the large scales would probably make me stab my eyes out with a fork and eat them raw.  I'd say keep your rapiers if you're just going to TR again and you'll still be very good DPS.

kitsune_ko wrote on Dec 28^th, 2010 at 1:50pm:


Ink following the way of the Uber race? Now that would be fun to see 

Inkblack wrote on Dec 28^th, 2010 at 2:52pm:


Hence part of the reason the Flintheart went to the person who plays the name now. My Flintheart build would do the same and go SPLAT shortly there after since no one could grab aggro back from him. So when my friend joined DDO I had no problem giving him his name.

I've liked Drow for Paladin GTWF since Drow were released. Personally, my preference had been for a 2 splash of Rogue, but with Nellas' third life, I'm looking at 18 Paladin/2 Monk (for the Feats). I'm going Defender with a huge Intimidate. She has four +3 Tomes in the bank for when I finally get her to cap as a Barbarian.

Mithran wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2011 at 7:52pm:


I haven't looked, is the paly capstone not great? T

Arkat wrote on Jan 5^th, 2011 at 2:38pm:


In addition to the damage, I like the fact that a capped pure paladin can turn Chaosblades or the Sword of Shadow into a demon/devil boss beater as well. 

(Edit: even without that 100 hour "ruin" augment)

Mithran wrote on Jan 5^th, 2011 at 8:59pm:


Depends on what content you are running.  For a large majority of players, the Reflex score that you will end up with at cap will allow you to evade everything up through at least the Shroud.  You can already survive everything up through the Shroud just fine without evasion, though.

Without some kind of crazy high Reflex save, though, you won't be making those saves often on Epic quests.  I honestly don't know what the DC is on Lailat's epic blades, but it's higher than most players would consider possible for a Monk (or Rogue) splashed Paladin.

There certainly is content that sits between the Shroud and Epic and the effectiveness of Evasion is going to differ from person to person.  That said, I was damned near unkillable on my Rogue splashed Paladin... until I got to Epic.  Then I wondered what the hell happened and why am I dying so often?  It's because my Evasion didn't work in Epic and I needed to learn how to survive without it.

(I'll note that if you search my posting history in the other forum, you'll find a different opinion attached to my name over there.  I've changed my mind since then.)

Mithran wrote on Jan 5^th, 2011 at 9:52pm:



If you can actually get those numbers, then Evasion makes a lot of sense.  If you're like most of the monkeys that TR as soon as they hit 20, though, then taking Evasion on your followup life without a real plan on how to get your Reflex save up to a level that most people would consider absurd is going to take away the capstone without giving any significant benefit in return.

I'm actually glad that I took the 2 Rogue levels as a splash on my caster since that gave me a lot of extra breathing room while I was leveling him and making all kinds of stupid mistakes in quests.  Now I'm ready to take off the training wheels, so I'll be TRing into a pure Wizard that will have a lot harder time staying alive in regular content, but which should also be a hell of a lot more effective as long as I can manage to not fall over dead.

I think that most people who have Evasion on their character are using it as training wheels in a similar way.  The character that you have listed is an entirely different beast.  You don't have training wheels because you're afraid of getting a boo-boo.  You have a shark cage because you want to jump in the water with a bucket of chum in your lap.