09-01-2003, 10:40 AM
Considering that I've tinkered with tons of lvl 30 chars from each class, the new and improved 1.10 paladin finally has more options aside from fanaticism and conviction, making the paladin feel like a new class.
Required:
20 pts prayer,
20 pts holy bolt,
1 pt meditation,
1 pt salvation.
Prayer gives healing synergies to holy bolt, and using the 1 pt in meditation allows you to use activate the effects of prayer w/o using any mana in addition to its regeneration rate boost.
From here, you can choose to boost FotH and holy shock for maxed FotH synergy. Afterwards, pts in blessed hammer is also useful for better holy bolt damage.... or you can opt to put pts in holy shield instead.
One tactic is to hire a merc and equip him to be able to take at least a few hits from act bosses. Simply place a portal in front of an act boss and run in/out to bring the merc in front. Now you can easily aim holy bolt at your merc and heal him until the boss is dead.
The great thing about holy bolt is that no undead can resist it... even the magic immunes. I'd hotkey holy bolt and FotH on the left attack (switching on FotH for non-undead). Using 1 pt meditation with 20 pts in prayer allows you to invest little in energy and spend it more on dex and vit.
Required:
20 pts prayer,
20 pts holy bolt,
1 pt meditation,
1 pt salvation.
Prayer gives healing synergies to holy bolt, and using the 1 pt in meditation allows you to use activate the effects of prayer w/o using any mana in addition to its regeneration rate boost.
From here, you can choose to boost FotH and holy shock for maxed FotH synergy. Afterwards, pts in blessed hammer is also useful for better holy bolt damage.... or you can opt to put pts in holy shield instead.
One tactic is to hire a merc and equip him to be able to take at least a few hits from act bosses. Simply place a portal in front of an act boss and run in/out to bring the merc in front. Now you can easily aim holy bolt at your merc and heal him until the boss is dead.
The great thing about holy bolt is that no undead can resist it... even the magic immunes. I'd hotkey holy bolt and FotH on the left attack (switching on FotH for non-undead). Using 1 pt meditation with 20 pts in prayer allows you to invest little in energy and spend it more on dex and vit.