qucangel wrote on Apr 9
th, 2015 at 1:48pm:
From what I could tell the improved shield bash was pointless once you got a +20 shield.
The feats I tried out were as follows:
h toughness
1 shield mastery
3 mental toughness
6 imp shield mastery
9 imp mental toughness
12 tower shield proficiency
15 imp crit pierce
18 precision
21 overwhelming crit
24 epic tough
27 epic mental tough
26 etwf
28 filler
The mana from the mental toughness lines were nice, but I don't know if I'd do it again. I think emp heal/quicken would be more useful, and then the 10 PRR feat.
I tried a 2h kotc, maybe I built it wrong, but it does significantly less damage than my vanguard single target. Against more than one target, it pulls way ahead, but against a single it can't keep up. I can't explain why this is. Another big issue with kotc 2h is the lack of disables. I was stunning everything on vanguard, able to autohit DCs very easily on EE content to take out disabling casters, but kotc doesn't have that luxury. And like I said, their damage at least in my case was worse for single target.
Interesting build, but you have no feats spent on a fighting style?
You've taken tower proficiency, but you talk about 2H? I don't see Bastard Sword as a feat though?
There have been a few good variations of Pally options posted on this section of the Vault.
What 2H were you using to take Improved Crit Pierce?
Pally feats are so scarce, I'm surprised to see them used on Mental toughness chain. I simply use a 250SP augment and hardly ever need pots.
I personally think the +10PRR feat (epic damage redn) is a bit wasted on a high defense pally due to the diminishing returns. For ED feats, better off with PTHF and PTWF.
Empower Heal and quicken are better choices.