Best dual Paladin combo?

[Alash]

Best dual Paladin combo?

A mate and me have begun playing hardcore recently, and thought it was time to try the Paladins. Thing is, we'll only play together, so we want to tailor the two builds so that they each benefit the other as much as possible. Also, a plus for the later parts of the game is if we can make a combination of physical and elemental damage. And let's just say we have no gear.

Any good ideas?

 

[axxxel]

Re: Best dual Paladin combo?

I'm no expert but it's fun to speculate. By the way I absolutely love the idea.

See what of the +% damage auras is the most beneficial for vengeadins. Go with a zealot w fanaticism and a vengeadin with conviction / might / concentration (depending on which dmg aura is the best).

You won't get as much dmg bonus if you use 2 fanas at the same time as if you stack 2 different auras. I can't think of any defensive aura that would be worth using as your main aura, so far my paladin build has easily reached high resistances without the res aura. My vote is prob conviction vengeadin/fanaticism zealadin. Or maybe you should replace one of them with holy freeze...

I'll be watching this thread.

 

[Alash]

Re: Best dual Paladin combo?

I was thinking something along those lines - a zealot of sorts seems to be mandatory.

How about a Freeze Avenger with a Fanaticism Zealot? Holy Freeze is of benefit to both player, and as is Fanaticism - and you have a nice mixture of cold and physical damage. Have yet to try the Avenger though, so I'm not sure how gear dependant he is. Most elemental builds seem to be very expensive to work well in the later parts of the game. You could swap the auras, depending on whether you want both players to have a shot at immunes, or if you want one player for each immunity.

By the way, which realm do you play on Axxxel? If you're on Europe maybe we could get a tri-pala party going, and play a couple of hours every week. Think it'll be quite hilarious...

 

[Ed from Russia]

Re: Best dual Paladin combo?

I'd use the 2 main auras, Conviction and Fanaticism. So one would be a Zealot, and the other might be a Zealot or use Fist of Heavens, or Vengeance.

A Hammerdin and Zealot would also work, since you'll have 2 sources of dmg and the Concentrate aura will boost the Zealot's dmg (while the Hdin doesn't need any boost).

 

[Alash]

Re: Best dual Paladin combo?

The Hammerdin is definitely an option, but due to having played that a lot on softcore I'm reluctant to incorporate him on the team (plus my friend doesn't like him very much).

I keep coming back to Conviction, but the problem is that a Zealot doesn't really gain anything from it. For Conviction to reach its full potential, you'd need two Paladins with elemental damage as their main output, which leaves us at a new problem: itemization.

 

[lumpor]

Re: Best dual Paladin combo?

I would vote for zealot + avenger. The conviction would make the zealot have a 95% chance to hit anything and the avenger would be able to get a slower and stronger weapon thanks to the fanaticism.

 

[ColdFireSp]

Re: Best dual Paladin combo?

The zealot will benefit from Conviction, as the lower defense of monsters will help him hitting nearly always. And when you can get it he could use some weapon that deals nice elemental damage, as baranar star, or any other that casts elemental attacks on striking.

 

[Antonio]

Re: Best dual Paladin combo?

Make two elemental zealots: lightning and cold one. You will both be dealing a lot of elemental damage of both types as well some physical damage and you don't need expensive equipment to make it work. Hire a Blessed Aim merc to help you with AR issues if needed and Might merc to boost the physical damage.