Diablo II: Paladin thread

[Ed Bighead]

Dapat tayo rin meron!!!

[Steven20]

hehehe.. i saw this one coming

[nerbie]

I'm a Paladin player.... level 20 nasa ACT 2 palang...

[PauTOT]

good idea! pero wala pa ako tanong or advice about my paladin, I'm still too busy building up my sorc, and playing with my barb, saka ko na palakasin paladin ko, pero nood muna ako

[MEM]

P A L A D I N


R U L E S ! ! !

[bUrAoT]

Well I'm glad that a Paladin Thread has come up.

FINALLY!


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For those who plan to build up a Paladin. Here are some helpful Combo Skill Tips for you to know where you will use your Skill points properly.


Combo 1 - "Deadly Skinned Paladin"


Main Skills

Zeal, Thorns and Prayer


Zeal - must be 4-5 skill levels only because 5 or more skills is dangerous when you want to escape a crowded enemy since who will not stop swinging your sword until the level is reached

Thorns - the more skill points, the more you will be untouchable. A level 20 thorns is enough for a Thorned Paladin since when an enemy hits you, the monster will deal 1010% of damage.

ex. Diablo hits you with his knuckles 100 pts of damage, by then he might die since he will receive 1010 pts of damage.

I have read one of the Diablo threads that he fought Diablo in Nightmare without any armors
at all and luckily he win


Note:
Thorns will only work 1/10 in PvP so if you are lvl 20 thorns and one of your team in a network game hits you, he will recieve 101% damage in return.
Thorns has no effect in long ranged weapons like arrows, magics etc.


Prayer

Of course when have thorns you need some back up for your life unless you will carry a handfull of life potions


Combo 2 - "The Ice Thor"

Main Skills
Blessed Hammer, Concentration & Holy Freeze



Blessed Hammer - The more skill, the more damage. A single cast of hammer can kill all monster in a certain area.

Concentration - The more skill, the more percent increase in you Blessed Hammer's damage.

Holy Freeze - This skill tends to slow down enemies within the radius skill. So first you have to use this aura to freeze all of the monsters just by running around them and then switch the aura to Concentration and cast as many Blessed hammers as you want. It will surely kill all monsters in the screen withou a single life potion will be use


Combo 3 - NECRO Paladin

Main Skills:
Conversion & Blessed Aim

Conversion - The more skill points, the more chances of converting and the more it will last your enemies into allies. Sort of a necromancer since you will convert every single enemy in an area to fight another enemy. There is no limit in the number of enemies you can convert but the limit is that it will only last for a number of seconds ddepending on your skill. I think a level 4 Conversion will give you 60 seconds duration. If you have a high level thorns then converting a single monster is enough to kill everybody.
It is also a good suggestion to use a Very Fast Weapon class w/c deals low damage or without any weapon (just your knuckles) so that the monster will not deal a great damage when you convert him

Note: Conversion is useluss to special monsters and Big bosses(Andariel, Duriel..etc).
I have killed Mephisto in Nightmare along with my 3 allied Dark Lords (sort of Fire Sorcerers).


Blessed Aim - Tends to increase your accuracy in hitting a monster.

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Well is up to you to invent your own or use one of my combo's or better yet all of my combos. Like Charge & vengance..etc etc

Other tips:


There is one skill of Paladin which really SUX.
Fist of heaven - lvl 30 requirement

Why?
because your fist deals more damage than this Fist from heaven, You may try it if you want but make sure to have a back up copy.


Resistances: lvl 1 is enough, just wait for Salvation skill


To end these tips

Here's my PALADIN


Name: Sir LyNx
Current mission : ACT 4 Nightmare
LVL: 35

Main Weapons, Armors & Skills (I Forgot the names, I'll just describe it)

Single Hand long Sword (Very fast)- Imbued, deals 9-32 damage, Slightly increase Speed, etc
Helmet - Defense:10, +1 to all Skills, etc
Armor - +1 to all skills, etc
Sigon's (Shield) - + 1 to all skills, 74% blocking etc.
Frostburn
Belt - +14 strength, capacity of 16 potions, etc
2 Stones of Jordan - Plus one to all Skill levels, Lightning damage 1-16
Amulet - greatly resist poison,etc( since Salvation is not capable of increasing the poison resistance)
Boots - +12 strength... etc


Main Skills

Skill (original lvl) - (including the added skill points from my special armors and other accessories)

Thorns lvl (18) - 23
Blessed Hammer (4) - 9
Zeal (3) - 9
Salvation (3) - 8
Conversion (2) - 7
Sacrifice lvl (1) - 6

I forgot the least Skills but all of them recieve +5 skills as well due to my special Armors and rings (Stone of Jordan) which I found in the Nightmare mode

If this weapon is in use, heres my the added skill that I use

Scepter of the fox
+ (3) in Concentration - lvl 8

+ (3) in Holy Freeze - lvl 8



"You will not enjoy DIABLO2 if you use cheats so better earned your own skills points"



[This message has been edited by bUrAoT (edited 08-17-2000).]

[Rascha_D]

Frankly, the combo i used for my paladin are

Zeal and thorns - normal diff
Zeal and concentration - normal diff

Zeal and Defiance - nightmare diff
Zeal and Conviction - nightmare diff

I found out that thorns work out fine in normal but once in nightmare i am getting myself hacked for about 1/4 of my life per hit. So I just decided to up my defense using defiance until I got better armor. Then conviction was good in nm because those critters have higher resistances and higher hp. Conviction lowers their defenses and I can basically hit them all the time with elemental damage.



[This message has been edited by Rascha_D (edited 08-18-2000).]

[Strife]

ed bighead sucks
have you guys seen a paladin constantly running around the battlefield...i mean running away from the battlefield coz if he stays more than 1 minute his paladin is toasted hehhehe

[maangas talaga ako]

paladin ko level 24 pa lang sa act 3. well, ang combo na ginagamit ko eh isa lang: zeal with concentration. ok nga pag level 30 na kasi magkakaroon na yung character ko ng redemption; dagdag buhay bawat corpse.

[Steven20]

Originally posted by Strife:
ed bighead sucks
have you guys seen a paladin constantly running around the battlefield...i mean running away from the battlefield coz if he stays more than 1 minute his paladin is toasted hehhehe

Naks! If i remember it right, Strife, diba ikaw yung tumambay lang doon sa entrance ng Pandemonium Fortress habang kami ni Sir Allanon yung pumapatay ng kalaban? asa ka lang sa shared experience ng party, no? hehehe...

[Ed Bighead]

Originally posted by Strife:
ed bighead sucks
have you guys seen a paladin constantly running around the battlefield...i mean running away from the battlefield coz if he stays more than 1 minute his paladin is toasted hehhehe

At least I don't heavily rely on minions and I do the dirty work myself. Anyway, peace na tayo. We still have Act 2 (nightmare) to finish.

BTW, piece of advice: Don't put too many skill points on zeal. Pinagsisisihan ko paglalagay ko ng ganon karami sa zeal.

[tonbits]

oi meron na ngang paladin thread...heheh di rin nakatiis si mr. bighead.
paladin ko lvl42 i use vengeance with conviction or blessed aim. minsan ginagawa ko
conviction muna and then pag nagaffect na yung aura sa monsters switch na ako sa blessed aim. di naman kse nawawala agad yung effect ng aura once nagswitch ka eh. at least thats wut i think.
anyway ano sa tingin nyo ang mga cool skills ng paladin saka ano rin ang pinaka sucky skills? ako i luv vengeance, conviction, salvation, and redemption. holy freeze din saka blessed aim. zeal medyo ok lang wag mo nga lang dadamihan ng skill points.
sa mga sucky skills naman, fist of the heavens, smite, fanaticism. so what do u guys think? saka dun sa mga zeal users, effective ba ang zeal talaga? ako kse i regret having put more than 1 skill point dun eh. mga level 4 zeal is juz enough.

ciao!

[bUrAoT]

tonbits
Your combination is already good.. but may I suggest you to put also a skill points in Concentration because it is a great combo to conviction. A lvl 20 Concentration deals 345% added damage to your enemy. So when you use conviction then Concentration, you might kill Diablo in Hell in a single slash of your favorite sword.

Zeal is a good combat skill but put only 4-5 skill points. But now I'm having problem with this skill because in Normal mode I put 4 skill points and now in Hell Mode I have claim 5 good accessories with +1 to all skill levels. Therefore my zeal now is in lvl 9 . The problem in a level 9 Zeal is you can't run away if you are trapped by monsters because zeal will stop swinging your sword after 10 hits.

Blessed Hammer - This is one great skill because it can damaage a lot of monsters in a single hammer. A lvl 20 blessed hammer deals 164-168 damage (9.7 mana cost per cast of hammer) PLUS lvl 20 concentration
(168+(168*345%)) = 747.6 DAMAGE (9.7 mana cost) in a single hammer!! thats a lot dude, you can challenge Diablo, Mephisto, Duriel & Andariel at the same time with this kind of combo. A Holy freeze is a very good initial tactic when you use blessed hammer because all enemies(even big bosses) will slow down and it will be great if you will shift immdiately to concentration then cast as many hammers as you want and you will be suprised that all monsters are lying down without a single life potion used. This 3 skills is also effective in PvP. (Start collecting ears)

Try also Conversion...its really fun to watch monsters killing each other

I think fanaticism is a fair skill because there are lots of slow weapons who deals a lot of damage. So with this aura and a very high fanaticism, your slow weapon can be accelerated.


PALADIN is a true leader especially in Networking game.


PALADIN RULES!!!



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[bUrAoT]

What are your weapons and gaano kalaki ang damage?

Ed Bighead, do you still use the imbued Wirt's leg?

[This message has been edited by bUrAoT (edited 08-19-2000).]

[Ed Bighead]

Originally posted by bUrAoT:
What are your weapons and gaano kalaki ang damage?

Ed Bighead, do you still use the imbued Wirt's leg?

[This message has been edited by bUrAoT (edited 08-19-2000).]

No! Natransmute ko na para makapasok sa Cow Level.

[bUrAoT]

Originally posted by Ed Bighead:
No! Natransmute ko na para makapasok sa Cow Level.

Ha!!!! sayang yun ah...dapat yun ang pinangpatay mo kay diablo

[Rascha_D]

Originally posted by bUrAoT:
What are your weapons and gaano kalaki ang damage?

Ed Bighead, do you still use the imbued Wirt's leg?

[This message has been edited by bUrAoT (edited 08-19-2000).]

Rare Ancient Sword (forgot the name)
50-112 Damage
+200 to Attack Rating
- 15 defense per hit
1-16 cold damage
+1 Barbarian Skills


[This message has been edited by Rascha_D (edited 08-20-2000).]

[Ed Bighead]

Does anybody use Milabrega's Rod (+1 to all paladin skills)? Just askin'.

[pranZ]

yo...i'm starting as a new paladin...currently i'm around lvl 15 ..i use sacrifice and thorn combo...what other skills are useful and skills which i should 4get?..anyways...my sacrifice damage is around 250%..now my attack is 10-94 with a mace weapon of only 10-28 damage..my thorns on d other hand returns 500+% damage to enemies..ok na ba tong ginagawa ko? what skills should i invest..i'm planning on a warrior paladin by the way....
and should i allot on energy?

[tonbits]

Originally posted by bUrAoT:

I think fanaticism is a fair skill because there are lots of slow weapons who deals a lot of damage. So with this aura and a very high fanaticism, your slow weapon can be accelerated.

kaso lang fanaticism na lvl 4 23% to attack rating lang ang ina add. that means 23% mas mabilis ka sa monster with the same attack rating as ur character. kung may lvl 4 na holy freeze ka, 40% slowed yung mga monsters. so mas mabilis yung paladin mo sa monsters (with the same attack rating) by 40%. so it makes sense to use holy freeze instead of fanaticism, yeah?