D&D 5E [GUIDE] My Word Is My Sword: The Paladin Guide

Kevin Duffy · Jul 15, 2017

Gladius Legis said:
That dual-wielding Oathbreaker is not fully optimized. I just wanted one in the examples that was an evil Aasimar.

How would you fully optimize it, whilst keeping the evil Aasimar part?

Gladius Legis · Jul 15, 2017

If you want to keep the evil Aasimar part, that pretty much is optimized. You *could* make it STR-based, to take advantage of the Fallen Aasimar's STR bonus, but you wouldn't gain much out of doing so. One of the advantages of going DEX is that you can drop STR down to 8 in point buy, whereas if you go STR you still don't want to completely tank DEX. So they kind of cancel out there.

Kevin Duffy · Jul 15, 2017

Gladius Legis said:
If you want to keep the evil Aasimar part, that pretty much is optimized. You *could* make it STR-based, to take advantage of the Fallen Aasimar's STR bonus, but you wouldn't gain much out of doing so. One of the advantages of going DEX is that you can drop STR down to 8 in point buy, whereas if you go STR you still don't want to completely tank DEX. So they kind of cancel out there.

So the evil Aasimar part is the limiting factor in optimizing it? So dropping that entirely, What changes would you make?

Gladius Legis · Jul 15, 2017

Variant Human, of course. Probably with Resilient (CON) as the extra feat so I can keep up Bless, Divine Favor, Crusader's Mantle, etc. up more easily.

Kevin Duffy · Jul 15, 2017

Gladius Legis said:
Variant Human, of course. Probably with Resilient (CON) as the extra feat so I can keep up Bless, Divine Favor, Crusader's Mantle, etc. up more easily.

Keep the dex build and only change the race while taking resilient (Con) at 1?

smbakeresq · Sep 1, 2017

They errata'ed Oath of the Crown Challenge to now be a bonus action. This is a small downgrade to that tenet overall.

Gladius Legis · Sep 2, 2017

smbakeresq said:
They errata'ed Oath of the Crown Challenge to now be a bonus action. This is a small downgrade to that tenet overall.

Noted. I had already knocked that particular feature down to black because the effect is only average. Bonus action won't dip it below that, though.

Gladius Legis · Sep 2, 2017

Winged Tiefling also gets knocked down a full color to dark blue, since heavy armor disables its flight now. Still good for DEX builds though.

mellored · Sep 2, 2017

Gladius Legis said:
Winged Tiefling also gets knocked down a full color to dark blue, since heavy armor disables its flight now. Still good for DEX builds though.

They can still use medium armor as well.

Blue · Oct 9, 2017

Credit to [MENTION=6795602]FrogReaver[/MENTION], Shield Master's shove to prone for advantage could be nice when crit-fishing in order to maximize Divine Smite damage.

My own thoughts is that half-elf is a great Paladin fit already, and if you use UA the Elven Accuracy feat can take that up to the next level as well. But that's two feats, so that's a serious investment. Plus crit-fishers really need 3 levels of fighter (Champion). So if used that's a late-game addendum.