primordial paladin

[hipnotode]

im having trouble putting together a character concept i have floating about, a paladin that worships a primordial instead of a deity.
i dont know where the original concept came from, but i just had in my head that i wanted to make a divine character that worshiped a primordial. paladin just seamed to fit this in my head. im 9/10 that race should be genasi, human or dragonborn being the other choices. im also thinking multiclassing into sorcerer with soul of sorcery feat feels right.
beyond that i start to flake. im playing with the idea of hybriding into warden, but am generally unsure about it.

can someone help me out here please?
many thanks in advance,
-hip

 

[Dice4Hire]

I cannot find it now, but I thought genasi paladins had a feat that allowed them to do elemental damage with their mark. If so, that would help a lot with a more primordial feel. If you got a weapon of the correct type, flaming, for example, it would be pretty easy to change all damage to the appropriate type of elemental damage.

I think it is a good idea.

 

[aurance]

Alternatively, you could try a paladin / warlock, Charisma primary, and reflavor your pact to be power coming from a primordial. There are also some neat feats that are only for paladin-warlocks.

 

[hipnotode]

a genasi Paladin|warlock/sorcerer would be perfect, its a real shame that genasi dont have cha as a stat bonus. might have to go 18 high stat on this one...

 

[Incenjucar]

I believe that the stat for manipulating elemental chaos matter is Intelligence, which makes it likely to be a major Elemental power source stat, so ultimately it's important for it to be available to genasi. Hopefully things like elemental paladins will be easier to pull off once they finally bring out elemental classes (assuming they don't make them all vampires).

 

[Mentat55]

A genasi swordmage, focusing heavily on elemental attacks (which is easy), could be re-flavored as a paladin or holy warrior pretty easily.

 

[JustKim]

I would personally go for a reflavored warden for a primordial paladin, not a swordmage. Take on an aspect of a primordial with your dailies, deal elemental damage with your encounters, stir the stagnant earth into a malleable state with an at-will that slows or pulls an enemy.

 

[Mentat55]

I would personally go for a reflavored warden for a primordial paladin, not a swordmage. Take on an aspect of a primordial with your dailies, deal elemental damage with your encounters, stir the stagnant earth into a malleable state with an at-will that slows or pulls an enemy.

That is an awfully good idea.

 

[BobTheNob]

a genasi Paladin|warlock/sorcerer would be perfect, its a real shame that genasi dont have cha as a stat bonus. might have to go 18 high stat on this one...

Nah. He can go a str build. Our group had a Str/Chr Pally and he was terrible. The player was about to give up on him and instead I worked with him to "re-optomise" to a Str/Wis build with a few points in Chr. You just dont pick the Chr based attacks. WAY better character that he ended taking through to epic

Honored Foe, Lots of Lay on Hands, Wis rider on powers, Turn undead. All great features, all based on Wisdom.

Fact is Str paladins dont really need a phenomenally high Chr as all it really does is give a little more damage to mark, and even that can be circumvented (Theres a feat, cant remember what its called).

Mind you, do Genasi get Wis as a secondary Stat Option with the new stat layouts (Dont think they do)?

 

[Herschel]

They do not. They're Str/Int or Con/Int.

Genasi Paladin is great. Use one of the Abyssal Manifestations for that "dark" flavor (except Voidsoul, their racial power sucks for a Defender). The INT boost means you get a point of reflex and your religion/arcana rolls are better.