Paladin players

[SneerfulOwl]

Which weapons and weapon style do you use and how do you play your paladin character?

I personally use my paladin as dual swords/gun

[Greyjoy's Anatomy]

I play mine as the main tank in the party, full plate armor, 1 handed hammer and large shield. He is extremely tough to take down, and brings some great support to the party.

[Adeptus Stark]

Just started and have been working to much to play but I was going Poleaxe. I just found an enchanted sword so I am currently Sword/shield. I'm not sure when or if I will enchant the poleaxe later or the fine sword I found as it already has an enchantment. I did take the extra damage for two handed weapons feat/ability/skill though so will probably enchant the Poleaxe.

[Damedius]

I play mine as a tank. Hatchet and shield.

He is actually fairly boring but he does the job. The only skill I really use is Lay on Hands if it's a tough fight.

[The Prophet]

One handed fine sword, kite shield, crossbow for first attack. Tank

[Anchev]

I tried to copy my char from BG, so i pretend to use two handed sword.

[Derekash71]

I play mine as a tank stand him in a doorway against a bunch of mobs in plate armor healing him with a priest using a kite shield, fine sword or mace depending on the enemy equals easy victory (unless shadows are there);
and there has been many times in other fights he is the last man standing more than a few times and came out on top

[Saboera]

Currently, my paladin (Goldpact Knights) is in the rear using a pistol, more of a commander/support role with high intelligence for increased duration and AoE. Works great with Flames of Devotion augmented by talents, which I use to deliver killing blows, which proc inspiring triumph on my entire party.

[Boink]

You find a lot more decent 2H swords than any other 2h weps, just as a tip.

Tidefall is available in act II, and is a stormer once you add an extra damage enchant on top of it.

[Tacred]

I prefer fighters rather than paladins for tanks. Fighters get defender for more engagements and have more HP. I use any good reach weapon I find on my paladin and have her poke stuff from behind the fighter or flank with a poleax.

[rado907]

I intended to make one a sword&shield tank. I put a lot of points into resolve, perception, and might in order to role-play... Early on I took the "one-handed style" perk; but it turned out that doesn't work with shields, lol. Then I looked at Eder's skills are realized he had to become a stiletto&shield kind of guy.

So somewhere around the mid-to-late game, I put the heaviest armor there was on my Paladin, and gave him a (two-handed) morning star. His natural tankiness (with his faith passives and his auras and whatever) was so high that it turned out that I never really needed a shield anyway. And his two-handed damage was decent despite the lack of fighter specializations. At the end of the game, my Paladin and Eder had done about the same amount of damage, and had tanked a ton.

[MrMurLock]

Mine's a dps/off-tank: great sword + arbalest + plate armor.
I understand that plate lowers attack rate, but i've had situations where mobs suddenly switch to my pally even when they've been engaged by my fighter tank so having the pally not suddenly implode is a plus.

[SneerfulOwl]

Originally posted by Saboera:

Currently, my paladin (Goldpact Knights) is in the rear using a pistol, more of a commander/support role with high intelligence for increased duration and AoE. Works great with Flames of Devotion augmented by talents, which I use to deliver killing blows, which proc inspiring triumph on my entire party.

How do you deal with having not enough tanks in the party in early game?

[Khyron]

My pal is fairly heavily armoured (35-40% recovery armours), using a two-hander to punch through DR, big focus on Might and Int to support with heal and aura.

Currently works very well for un-managed dps and insta-healer for Edèr (tank), also able to take role as main tank if Ed goes down/stunned/whatever.

Possibly one of the most versatile builds i've had in an rpg for a long time.

[Salt Enthusiast]

sword & board tank in high teir plate, switching to a twohaned great sword when i feel like the party needs a DPS boost. most fights my health does not even drop below a 3/4 though my fighter tends to fair a bit worse seeing as he only gets my hand-me-down gear. i found that once you get lay of hands and a couple of auras to augment your abilty there is no real need to use a shield even if your using your pally as a the main tank.

I will say form an RP point of view it has been interesting playing a pally that is not always acting in a lawfull good kind of way. since this game does not have a set alinement system I feel no need to always take the moral high road and this opens up some interesting situations where my pally has gotten himself involved with some less then reputable people and had to make some quite hard choices about what kind of man he is. I love that this game so much more then others lets you shape what kind of character you are playing, the fact that i can shape my characters past through natueral feeling dialogue choices is probley my favorate features in the whole game. Though i feel i made the wrong choice of order, I choose the shieldbearers and have yet to find any thing that this has impated. I have seen other orders come up in dialouge but not mine sadly.

[SneerfulOwl]

Sword & shield seemed boring to me, since this is basically the same set up I played as back in BG series and DA. I switched around with dual swords and arquebus as my secondary. Two handed sword also seemed too boring as well.