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Oath of Devotion PvE

darkrhoxdarkrhox Member Posts: 7 Arc User
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Hi All!

I have an Oath of Protection Paladin and I really like it but I want to try the Devotion too (I have character slot for it so I want a new Paladin for it). I just want to know: How does it work? I know it's good with healings for a party but I want to know how can I be effective while I'm alone (in PvE). The main thing what I want to know is the Redemtion capstone. Does it heal me too? And I want to know this thing (the healing) with the other feats too (I mean in the light path).
I'm sorry if there's another topic where I can find the answers for my questions but I didn't find one. :(

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  • thefabricantthefabricant Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 5,248 Arc User
    I have pretty much the only guide on the forums for devotion, you can find it in my signature, I have covered as much as I can and I recommend you give it a read. After that, if you have any questions, I will do my best to help out :)
    Our Imaginary Friends are better than yours.
  • darkrhoxdarkrhox Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    Hi!

    Thanks! It's nice but I still can't find if redemption heals me too or not so I still want to know that :)
    Anyway this guide helped me in some other questions too what I didn't realize before :)
  • ghoulz66ghoulz66 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,748 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    You'll be immortal and get bored to death for solo stuff, with high HP and defense you'll be just about immortal in parties and get bored to death:P

    The capstone is super overkill and just about unnecessary most of the time unless you get bond of virtue cut off in a party for a moment. I have never needed to use it during solo. I end up immortal just with slotting aura of divinity and rounding up 20 guys can't even chip away at me.

    But I'm not spec'd well for sweeping solo content, just to survive group content because a dead healer sucks.
  • rickcase276rickcase276 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,404 Arc User
    Yes, it is a bit boring with a devotion, to solo. But it was fun doing the quests in Spinward Rise, seeing the cloud giants doing about half of my HP in damage, then less than a second later I was back up to full. Now, because I am in the light path, it does take me a bit to kill anything, but still faster than a protector GF.
  • darkrhoxdarkrhox Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    Ehh lol :D
    Thanks for your answers!
    I have a protector paladin with justice path and I really like it! Soloing is boring now with it because there's no monster (or something else) that can kill me so I just do epic dungeons and pvp to have fun. With Templar's Wrath's Temp HP it's immortal because with the justice path's capstone I can use Templar's Wrath always when I need.
    I just want a Devotion Paladin too because I really like Paladins and Clerics in other games but here I don't like Cleric so I'll use Paladin for a Healer too. That's why I choose this now. I'm really happy now because I get answers and I can see a bit more of this Character and your answers helped me a lot lot lot to choose a path for my Devotion Paladin :)
    Thank you all!
  • thefabricantthefabricant Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 5,248 Arc User
    I would recommend justice for devotion as well as protection, yes, light heals more, but the difference between healing for 700k and 700M in a single burst heal doesn't matter unless you trying to side with tiamat. No player has the amount of health required to make light a good choice and with justice, your powers come off cooldown faster.
    Our Imaginary Friends are better than yours.
  • darkrhoxdarkrhox Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    The only thing what I can't really understand is the bulwark path. I just can't find why that shields are good. It's OK that I'll die harder but with Templar's Wrath (I mean I can use it much more times with justice path) it's much more easier to survive. I tried justice and bulwark too with my protector in PvP and in Dungeons too and I really hate bulwark path. Shields are ok but I can survive with TW and deal more dmg too while with bulwark it's less dmg and shields are unnecessary (for me). The only thing what I use in that path is the stamina gain (the first feat). That's really good and now with my build it's perma Stamina, perma Temp HP and perma AP (no its not but it will be with the new fire main/offhand because I need just a really little more) with justice path. I don't think we need anything else with a paladin. :)
    The healer is new for me with paladin because I always use Cleric for it in other games but your idea seems to be good if I use justice path here too so I can use encounters much more times including the healing ones. And what you said that the difference between 700k and 700m doesn't matter seems to be true because I didn't find any monsters (including tiamat) what can deal that much dmg to me and if I'll learn to use the healer paladin than I can defend other players so they won't die even if I can heal "just" 700k. :) And I think there will be other healers so it can be good! :)
    Now I'm 30 with this paladin so I still can choose which will be the main path so if anyone else can say something about it that will be cool (for me :P) but now I think I'll try this (I still have around 400 zen so I can change later once).
  • aaramis75aaramis75 Member Posts: 348 Arc User
    Devotion is certainly an interesting path for OP, and one that's worth trying out (perhaps on test, in case you don't like it). The damage is even more anemic than Protection, however, so just be aware of that. There was a synergy with some boons and feats that made it quite good for dps, almost rivalling the true dps characters, but that was nerfed recently.

    Justice is definitely the way to go, however. You'll have all the healing you need with just a few feats and skills. After that, I'd start working on your dps stats to help out the party, as you're a bit more of a front-line healer.
  • ghoulz66ghoulz66 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,748 Arc User
    If you plan on some pvp, stick with light. You will have much higher survivability.
  • darkrhoxdarkrhox Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    Ok! :)
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