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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yarthok" data-source="post: 4295997" data-attributes="member: 64890">Dragonborn Paladin and Astral FireFinal dragonborn paladin stats...tradeoff discussed below.STR 18CON 13DEX 13INT   8WIS 14CHA 14I stole from wisdom (16-->14) getting 4 build points back, losing a plus to wisdom. I increase dex (10-->13) getting a plus in dex based skills, defenses, etc. and toss the extra point into CON (12 --> 13). I'll use one of my future attr increases to boost CON, getting an increase to dragonbreath damage plus an increase in healing surges and, because its a dragonborn char, an increase in surge. So, if I am a dragonborn paladin doing, with at-will holy strike radiant, 1d8 (longsword) + 4 (str mod), then the +1 from astral fire is an 11.7% increase in average damage.  (8.5 -->increases to--> 9.5). If the target is marked, then damage is increased +9.5% (10.5 --> 11.5). There is a little peter robbing paul tradeoff by reducing wisdom, since a marked target gets the wisdom bonus added to the damage. However, the astral fire damage also scales with level (paragon & epic), and the wisdom base attr bonus doesn't.Further, my dragonbreath (str/fire) avg damage increases by 18% (5.5 --> 6.5)Overall, it works for me and fits my character. Definately, I give up a wisdom bonus making some of the paladin powers not as attractive, but being dragonborn, I will concentrate on the STR based powers. For this character, I don't need to rob from the primary attack power stat (STR) to get use from astral fire.</blockquote>

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