The Herald of Sloth (Noob Friendly Solo POTD Idea)

[Marigoldran]

Difficulty: POTD.

Solo: Currently testing.

Class: GoldPact Paladin/ Troubador Chanter

Race: Pale Elf (for more Armor Rating)

 

Items: any good large shield, Patinated Plate Heavy Armor (Crookspur Merchant), Gladiator Sword or Xoti's Sickle or Squid's Escape (so you can't be flanked).  Giftbearers Cape.   

 

Class abilities: Summons, deflection and armor rating bonuses, and the lightning and frost invocations.

 

Chants: Soft Winds of Death/ Ancient Memory/ Extra Deflection Chant.  

 

Stats (With Berath's Blessing)

20 Might

10 Con

10 Dex

20 Int

20 Per

10 Res

 

Athletics and History are Must-Haves for Second Wind and Giftbearers Cape.  Whatever for everything else.

 

 

Build idea:

 

Get as much armor rating as possible from equipment and Paladin abilities.

Start off every combat with Gilded Enmity for Extra Armor Rating.  

Keep Summons permanently up.  

Use Brisk Recitation for the Occasional Offensive Invocation to speed fights up.

Literally just stand there and watch the enemies slowly die.  

Lay off Hands for Burst healing.

 

And that's it.  All your damage comes from Offensive Invocations and Summons so you don't need action or recovery speed.  

 

Use the large shield Modal for protection against ranged damage.

 

Otherwise, you literally sit there and auto-attack and watch your enemies futilely bounce their attacks off your massive defenses and armor.   By end-game, you can have 120+ Deflection and potentially 20-30 armor rating and lots of auto and self-heals and infinite resources.  Your summons tank and your offensive invocations provide the damage.

 

Pros:

 

Noob-Friendly for Solo POTD run.   

Most of the equipment (Patinated Plate, Xoti's Sickle, and Gladiator Sword) is easy to get early on, especially if you know the Bounding Boots Steal Trick.  

You'll never run out of resources (especially once you get the Lvl 7 Paladin talent that gives back zeal for every kill)

 

Con: 

 

Most of the combat will consist of... just standing in place.  

Edited June 20, 2018 by Marigoldran

[Marigoldran]

Soloed Cave Grub and Finished Old City at Lvl 9.  More details tomorrow.  

[Myztik]

Is Giftbearer Cloak + History worth more than Cadhu shield + Metaphysics?

[Marigoldran]

Good point.  Get both I guess.  

[Marigoldran]

You're almost unkillable at lvl 13.  It literally takes 4 Xaurip high Priests and 3-4 champions and 1 GrubMaster to kill you. 

 

Or several Risen Armsmen, Mages, and Champions.  

 

It's a great build for first time solo POTD players.  Most of the fights are slow but you can literally handle anything.  

Edited June 21, 2018 by Marigoldran