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Thank you! Divine Soul it is then. Will go nicely with Vengeance and "Divine Avenger" feeling to it :)

I get you, but I like +5 saves and also getting for free Hold Person and Misty Step from Vengeance Oath, same I like to have VoE for Boss where I can go full ham with 2 attacks with Smites + quicken Cantrip + Smite. Also +5 Aura + Haste + Shield Master and you laugh at all DEX saves. I like...

[ While I appreciate your proposition- I don't want to dip more than 1 Hexblade. Even that 1 I would prefer not to but I can't be sure if I will find STR boosting item, but I think till 10 level I can manage with 16 STR. Also since I will be SnB, I don't really need Pact Blade for that. But...

Not an option, I need to also be a tank for my team and Aura and Extra attack are too strong for that. Besides I want to be more melee than caster as I prefer to smite things instead of disintegrate them adn 6/14 seems like perfect balance. 2/18 is just Sorcerer with option to smite in melee, if...

Do you think some other Origin is stronger for Sorcadin 6/X than Divine or Shadow? I know Draconic has it's uses for fire spell and GFB with with extra attack I won't use GFB much and fire spells apart from fireball or scorching ray are not that great to take. And fire is most resisted damage...

Not saying it's "super strong", but it allows to save Sorc Points in a fight where you don't really need to go full ham on enemies. Spiritual Weapon will give you that bonus attack for a price of one slot as opposed to use Quicken every turn or some damaging spell. At least that is what I...

Thank you for both of your advices! I think you are correct to wait for level 10 with Hex dip. Maybe I will find Giant Belt till then, which will allow me to skip Hex. I already took Dueling for my sword n board Sorcadin so College of swords style would go to waste. Besides I really want to...

I guess the point is more spell slots, more variety of spells, still access to both Sorcere and Cleric spells, quicken Hold spells, AoE CC spells, damage spells, melee cantrips, defense spells etc etc. More Nova, Font of Magic, Metamagic and so on. And you didn't really answer the question of...

Let's say you are Variant Humna, you have War Caster and +2 CHA and you are level 6. Time has come to decide how to build your Sorcadin. So it's between Paladin 6/Hexblade 1/Sorcerer 13 (Divine Soul or Shadow) vs Paladin 6/Sorcerer 14 (Divine or Shadow). In case of first one you can take +2...

Its Character Optimization & Builds section on forum- chasing max numbers is what this is all about....

Much appreciated!

I will try to find that thread, but if you happen to have a link to it, I'd be grateful!

And it turns out your resources weren't enough to blow in Boss encounter, while extra smites from Paladin made it possible. And yes you are correct you will have 3x 5th level, which is still only 5k8, while I will have 2 x 5k8. But I have option to have more resources to blow or not. Also 1d8...

Lifedrinker is not really "better". It's 5 dmg vs av. 4.5 dmg. But IDS comes for Paladin at level 11, while LD at level 12 for locks. Meaning since you always want 6 levels of Paladin you will get LD at 18 level fastest, while you can get IDS at 12 (with 1 level dip first in Hex). That is having...

I am thinking best are: 19/1 - CHA SAD, shield, curse etc. Full Paladin progression and slots. 5th level Paladin spells. 18/2 - Agonizing Blast + Devil Sight. But you lose one 5th level slot. 5th level Paladin spells. 17/3 - Darkness and 2x 2nd level slots (3k8 smites). No more slots lost vs...

Ok, what I need to fix? First Paladin. Level 17: Target has VoE on him and Paladin has Haste on him. 20 STR. Spear +2, PAM. 1 Turn: Burn smite for each attack starting from highest slot. 2 Turn: same, smite for each attack, starting from highest slot available. Second Paladin. Level 17...

Could someone please calculate for me what is better for Vengeance Paladin on level 17- Holy Weapon or Haste vs VoE target? Test requirements: PAM, 20 attack stat, Spear +2. Haste vs Holy Weapon on. We burn in first turn 4x 5k8 smites for Haste test and 3x5k8 smites for Holy Weapon test. Next...

Nice. This is what I was looking for. Around AC 17 the all pros of Spear hexadin build wins over raw dmg of GWM build. And usually the biggest bad guys (smite mode target) have good or very good AC. At around 17 AC the difference in Nova starts to be minimal and gap is shrinking from there...

This is wrong. I knew many DMs who like to throw higher CRs than they should at party and HAM while strong early is not as strong as PAM or RES (CON)/Warcaster. There is a reason if you look on every optimized thread ever on Paladins- that no one ever recommend HAM. Again- it's not bad feat...

To add to that, it's also worth to note that Shield Master shove can comes only AFTER you use all your attacks. As per description: "If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield." - you have to take first...