After I realized just how badly my lack of gear was hurting me, I've decided to TR my sorc into a heavy survivability Paladin/Warlock Build.
But I tested it out on a new bladeforged and realized that ASF affects my eldritch blasts and eldritch wave, and now I'm not sure what to do.

My original idea was to have a Pal 5/ Wlk 15 split using Soul Eater and Sacred Defender, along with Communion of Scribing, Adamantine Body, and Tower Shields (with SM and ISM).

Now I'm thinking Pal 3/Wlk 17 with Mithral Body and SE.
I'd like to at least be able to solo Elites at level without any significant difficulty.
I ran an ES before and found it boring. It also made me overestimate myself, leading to my present difficulties with my lvl 10 DB sorc.

I really don't have any good gear at all. Any suggestions/critiques would be appreciated.

EDIT: What I'm asking specifically is whether Mithral Body without Enlightened Spirit or Skyvault Shield will be sufficient survivability, given LOH and Comm of Scribing, and what levels of Paladin I can take before the added saves from Divine Grace start cutting into my DPS too much.

I have a 18/2 that I use to farm slavers and new gear. it's effective up to r3. After r3 the damage drops off too much for me to kill easily. first life, no tomes, only few EDs capped and it's still the easiest and laziest build I have ever played.

easy to gear up, ASf will be 4% using adam body, not major for e-r3 at all. recon hits for 1700.

feats; max, empower, intensify, quicken, wellspring, scion fire, shield mastery, imp shield mastery, shield deflection, eldritch blasts x2. hellball is prolly better than intensify, but I don't have tons of sp pots. 

Arganthonius wrote on Oct 17^th, 2017 at 11:18pm:

Sort of. You lose the 18th lv cores. They're really good in ES due to lowering aura tick down to 2 seconds per tick, but only ok in SE because it's 5% spell critical chance. You gain a few more saves just from being in 3rd pally level without needing to take defender stance +3 to saves.

Arganthonius wrote on Oct 17^th, 2017 at 11:18pm:

probably should if not going 18 core ES.

Arganthonius wrote on Oct 17^th, 2017 at 11:18pm:

Mithral can be reduced to 0 asf with augment and BF tree. Worth it. Tack on skyvault for no asf, but you lose a lot of dodge cap from tower shield. IDK if they fixed robot body armors, those were usually problematic for things like this.

Arganthonius wrote on Oct 17^th, 2017 at 11:18pm:

Heroic slavers. bring a capped toon and farm it. best low lv heroic gear in game by far. craft a 5pc dc set. totally worth and bta for any other caster toon you want to pass it to. the dragon prophecy quests; black and blue and newcomers have some amazing gear, and for lv 15 grab the mines pack for some of the best named heroic loot. rest will be cannith crafted.

Arganthonius wrote on Oct 17^th, 2017 at 11:58pm:

slavers is good until epic cap for all dc casters. use any combination you like. doesnt matter really.

Arganthonius wrote on Oct 17^th, 2017 at 11:58pm:

easily done and should be doing on elite at level too.

Arganthonius wrote on Oct 17^th, 2017 at 11:58pm:

fot may still kill you from dragon debuffs, 4 breath attacks, and reaver's boom.

Arganthonius wrote on Oct 17^th, 2017 at 11:58pm:

youre going to be dc casting and not es tanking so max charisma and just try to cover enchant+necro  items. spell focus 2 on slavers covers enough of everything. you will still want insightful spell focus items for ench/nec.

for a dc build check thes threads for ap and feats; http://www.ddovault.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1488562924/75#75

heroic- 29 gear sets: http://www.ddovault.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1492272151/15#15

War15/Pal3/Wiz2

You can get 0% asf in adamantine body with this split.

I hate having any %asf.