OP Devotion path - suggestion for ability rolls

decursia

Hello all and thanks for the attention.
I want to start a OP in my free char slot but I'm confused about ability rollling at start.
I wanna follow the healing path. I started a human with initial 18 con - 15 wis - 13 cha, but I'm not sure if CON is still the hard way to go for a healing paladin. ON the other side, considering that OP is a melee class,, I think that CONS is still most important stat (a dead healer is of no use, right?). I'd like to take advantage of this double exp week and I'd like your suggestions so I can go and create my new OP

Thanks for the attention and HF!

blazious11

Well, I guess there's more than one way for Dev pala. I suggest, that U build as much wisdom as you can, since healing comes from there. Also Put 3 points to the Wisdom feat, that doubles the effectiveness of your heal bonus. I would also go with high CHA, and put point to CHa feat also (since you're a Human, you can do that), because it gives you bonus crit chance, and heal can crit too.
So, I'd go with full Wis, CHa, in lv 70 that means 20 CON, 22 WIS, 20 CHA. But that's just my opinion, I went to protection path.
Also, I wouldnt be too busy to get into melee with dev pala, I guess most powers work from a distance.
Please note, that it's only theorycrafting, I did not test it.

decursia

thanks a lot for suggestions
I notice that most OP go for tanking path and protection. Is this maybe because OP are not that efficient for just a full healing path and more efficient in tanking/protectiong?

pricetagcloud

decursia wrote: »

Hello all and thanks for the attention.
I want to start a OP in my free char slot but I'm confused about ability rollling at start.
I wanna follow the healing path. I started a human with initial 18 con - 15 wis - 13 cha, but I'm not sure if CON is still the hard way to go for a healing paladin. ON the other side, considering that OP is a melee class,, I think that CONS is still most important stat (a dead healer is of no use, right?). I'd like to take advantage of this double exp week and I'd like your suggestions so I can go and create my new OP

Thanks for the attention and HF!

So I started my OP a few days ago and got it to 64. He's a hefty Half-elf with points going evenly with CON and CHA (18/18) and rest to wisdom. I went with Devotion and Justice.

The healing is fantastic even though I didn't poor into WIS when I rolled. Using the tab, I can outright heal ~40k-60k . I haven't done any crazy setups to make leveling more expedient, except I do have 2 rank 5's and a rank 6 azure in utilities for a +24% experience boost.

I chose Justice for all of the cool down reduction feats, with a couple of feats down the light path. I'm thoroughly enjoying it as a tank.
I am effectively a Healing Buffadin. :B

Problem: The DPS is just nearly non-existent for OP. That's fine for party play, but for soloing to 70, it gets to be a pain. (I wonder if that's why Minsc is involved with those two seed quests?)

1-60 will be a breeze and take maybe 3 days.

61-70 is going to be a long grind, but you should live through pretty much hell while you do it.

equ4lizer

decursia wrote: »

Hello all and thanks for the attention.
I want to start a OP in my free char slot but I'm confused about ability rollling at start.
I wanna follow the healing path. I started a human with initial 18 con - 15 wis - 13 cha, but I'm not sure if CON is still the hard way to go for a healing paladin. ON the other side, considering that OP is a melee class,, I think that CONS is still most important stat (a dead healer is of no use, right?). I'd like to take advantage of this double exp week and I'd like your suggestions so I can go and create my new OP

Thanks for the attention and HF!

Ideally, I went for CON / WIS. Con still seems very important as much as WIS for criticals on damage and heals.

potato404

this is my build
half elf full wis/cha no con
for dungeons at wills oath strike/cure wounds
encounters are burning light(bane for bosses)/vow of enmity/bond of virtue
passives are aura of life/courage

soloing i use at wills oath strike/cure wounds
encounters are burning light/vow of enmity/smite(templar's wrath)
passives are aura of wisdom/courage

enchantment is G.vorpal im still trying to find something better i have 49% crit unbuffed no augment companion yet

rversant

potato404 wrote: »

this is my build
half elf full wis/cha no con
for dungeons at wills oath strike/cure wounds
encounters are burning light(bane for bosses)/vow of enmity/bond of virtue
passives are aura of life/courage

soloing i use at wills oath strike/cure wounds
encounters are burning light/vow of enmity/smite(templar's wrath)
passives are aura of wisdom/courage

enchantment is G.vorpal im still trying to find something better i have 49% crit unbuffed no augment companion yet

This, I'll be doing this stat build as a Protection spec (no con, high wis/cha for crit chance and half elf, P vorpal,) and I recommend it for any spec paladin. The HP gain from con just isnt enough to be viable yet until they change how con works or buff it. I'm hoping to break 50% crit once I'm fully geared, and will probably stick with the pure vorp.

my Feats are a bit different though as I'm protection

alkemist80

I am a dragonborn, so I picked wis/cha. I went 18 wisdom and 14 charisma, 18 constitution. Greater wisdom belt.

Seems to work good for me. I am going with a crit build and have 2/3 divine wisdom and 3/3 force of will. I play a devotion justice and so far the heals are fine due to having rapid encounters.

I don't have any problems with solo questing. While my DPS is adequate, compared to pure DPS classes, it's still slower. Relentless avenger actually does pretty good solo. It puts out a good amount of damage. I also use smite and templars. Oath strike and radiant strike. I will templar to stun, then relentless which sends mobs flying all over. I deal with the target that's standing there and then radiant to zip to others. Rinse and repeat. Works rather well, just have to be careful you don't send mobs flying into another group. Not that a healadin wouldn't be able to take it but it can slow things down. Aura of Courage and aura of vengeance gives a nice DPS boost while grinding things out.

Right now I run into the issue of armor penetration, it's very low. I don't have an augment yet so I'm hoping that will help flesh it out but otherwise our gear lacks it.