Paladin

A holy warrior sworn to a god who summons weapons of light, smites and judges foes, and holds a party together with auras, shields and heals.

Paladins combine armored combat with divine protection and healing. Their god decides some of their abilities and the look of their summoned equipment. A paladin can summon a weapon and shield, draw an enemy's attention with accuse, and support companions with auras and healing.

The weapon in hand decides the attacks. With a one-handed weapon and shield you have judge and dawnstrike; with a two-handed weapon, smite and divinestorm. Only one aura can be active at a time.

Paladin is a legendary remort class. It needs finished Cleric and Warrior lives and one more of any class, 10 remort points, two years in service to their religion, 2500 hours played, the Vigil and the oath from their faith's High Priest, and begins at level 1. See Remorting for the route. Paladins wear plate and mail.

Resources#

The paladin spends SP. Every working ability is either free or costs SP, and sacrifice trades half your current health for half your maximum SP.

The class also has Conviction, a 0 to 100 bar shown by the conviction command. It decays on its own timer and can be checked, but no ability spends it yet.

You also carry a pouch of divine reagents from level 1, shown by supplies: soulseeking stones, consecration oil, holy water, holy scrolls, divine shackles and holy relics. How many of each you can carry rises with your level, from a handful at level 1 to a few dozen of the commonest at level 100, and you restock at the supply altar at the Wellspring of Longing with list and buy. Like Conviction, the pouch is groundwork: no ability spends any of it yet.

The paladin has no passives of its own yet, so both passives slots stay empty. Talents give you a point every ten guild levels, ten at most and ten at most in one tree, spent with talents spend <tree>. Each point in a tree makes every skill in it 2% better: it strikes and heals 2% harder and comes back 2% sooner, so ten points give 20% of each. Passives are untouched, and each point in Retribution also makes your own weapon blows 2% stronger.

Talent Trees#

Retribution#

Weapons and judgment. smite and judge are the main weapon strikes, split by weapon type, and the tree escalates through divinestorm to handofgod. It also holds accuse, the paladin taunt, the fatigue drains, silence, shackle and repentance for control, the fire of exorcize and eradicate, which burns only the undead, and consecrate, which burns everything fighting you.

Holy#

Divine magic and the summoned weapon. It holds your reagent pouch, the summoned holyweapon and the holyfire that wreathes it, the heals holylight and lightburst, resurrect, and the utility of rightofpassage and soulseek.

Protection#

Auras, shields and support. The summoned holyshield, the healing blessing grace, bless for one ally, the rally embolden for everyone in the room, sacrifice, which trades health for SP, the sacredshield barrier, the Bulwark style, and the whole aura line. Only one aura may be active at a time, so much of this tree is choosing the aura the fight needs.

Zeal#

The heavy plays and the deity signatures. wrath, dawnstrike and apotheosis live here, the Reaver style unlocks here, and so do the four abilities restricted by which god you serve. Changing religion swaps these over automatically: a paladin who converts loses the old god's ability while serving the new one, and gets it back on returning.

Skills#

The paladin skill list is still being built. The abilities in the game are listed first, by tree; the planned ones follow.

Retribution#

Holy#

Protection#

Zeal#

Planned#

These are on the paladin design list but are not in the game. The levels are design levels and may change when the abilities are built.

Playing a Paladin#

Summoned equipment comes early: holyshield at level 2 and holyweapon at level 3, and both grow with you. The weapon decides your attacks. smite and divinestorm need a two-handed weapon, while judge and dawnstrike need a one-handed one, so check before changing weapons on an expedition.

One aura can be active at a time. Might adds damage, Sanctum cuts the damage you all take, Radiance heals, and Fortitude adds health and armor at higher levels. Choose by the encounter and by what support the group already has.

accuse pulls an enemy's attention onto you. grace and holylight heal, and sacredshield gives you a barrier against physical blows. The same SP pays for attacks and support, whether you are the one taking the hits or helping another defender.

sacrifice turns half your current health into half your maximum SP. It refills your casting, but leaves less health for the next hit, so think twice before using it under attack.

Some abilities depend on your faith, and several work only on the undead; read their targets before relying on them. resurrect brings back one fallen ally where its conditions are met.