Question for Paladin players

[Quadsword]

Did you have to reload a lot due to running into weird scenarios that somehow broke your oath? I want to play an oath of vengeance paladin (super original, I know), but I don't feel like walking on eggshells all the time wondering if I'm about to break my oath.

[Blood of Kerensky]

No. Whatever happens, happens. I tried to uphold my oath, but then I got sick of it and embraced freedom.
If you don't want to break your oath as a vengeance paladin, just make sure that no criminal or bad guy gets away, that's it.

[|Pipe Dreams]

no, i have suffered my faithless self and lived with the consequences. RIP.

[goodbye_bonito]

Breaking the oath is part of Paladin experience, when your oath do not align with what you feel is right, so I do not reload.

[Punished Jeremy]

If it’s vengeance, you have to try really hard to break your oath

[MachineGod]

Currently a Durge Vengeance in act 3. The only time I broke an oath was when I broke a goblin out of jail at the grove, I reloaded and had a companion do it no oath broken.

[Hobocop]

Nope, but I'm playing Ancients which is one of the more lenient oaths. In fact in my DUrge Ancients Paladin playthrough, I've been doing some pretty heinous things (squirrel kicking, tearing the wings off a wounded bird) and no Oathbreaker yet. Maybe because they're 'involuntary'

[Coffee Addict]

a few times which is why i rerolled to fighter, i'll save the good two shoes playthrough for my 2nd or so run

[goodbye_bonito]

Originally posted by Hobocop:

Nope, but I'm playing Ancients which is one of the more lenient oaths. In fact in my DUrge Ancients Paladin playthrough, I've been doing some pretty heinous things (squirrel kicking, tearing the wings off a wounded bird) and no Oathbreaker yet. Maybe because they're 'involuntary'

I think I broke my Ancients oath when I resurrected zombie husband in hag quest. Which makes sense for this oath, but I prefer it this way, so oath can go to hell.

Plus point I use only 2 levels in Pally and oath does not affect me game play wise

[xxx RIP xxx]

You need to be very careful playing as Paladin during your encounter with Aunt Ethel. Let another party member take over the conversation with her towards the end else you would be breaking your oath if you decided to let her off the hook.

[AnHonestSoul]

Oath of vengeance is good for just smashing peoples heads with a hammer while staying true to your oath. Things like freeing a certain monster from jail breaks it or killing certain refugees at the start or stealing of course. But other than its really hard to break when you want to play a holy warrior on a crusade.

Avoid oath of devotion though. Its like the dnd version of a jedi and its easily broken. Very careful gameplay is needed.

[Dr.Shwarc]

It's really hard to break the oath "somehow" if you're roleplaying. If you're really playing the role and breaking the oath in the process, maybe you just don't understand what your oath is. Try to reflect on it and pay the price to the pal in the camp (or be a scum and load the save file).
Generally, don't kill innocent, don't break promices (even if it's a smart plan to outsmart the bad guys) and everything will be fine.
I personally broke Oath of Ancients of my multy-class shadowheart only once and it happened only because I've drifted a bit to her "Shar-priest" nature in a quest of a "tokyo ghoul guy" in act 2. Maybe it it was Oath of Vengeance she'd even managed to uphold it.

[Dre G Writer]

Originally posted by Quadsword:

Did you have to reload a lot due to running into weird scenarios that somehow broke your oath?

almost 200 hours into the game, ive broken my oath a total of two times and had to save scum.

And that was due to purely stupidity on my part, where I'd totally forgot, I had my paladin selected when the conversation started and picked the evil option.

And I know exactly which two conversations where it happened.