Thoughs on these MCs

[Melusina]

which and why

 

Oracle - Animist/beguiler

Liberator - Shieldbearers/Animist

Spiritualist - Soul blade/Skald

Hierophant - evoker/ascendant

 

 

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I'm planning POTD run, possibly veteran.

Edited July 15, 2018 by Melusina

[grasida]

Is there a reason you picked those? It's hard to give specific advice without a clear sense of what you're trying to do. Of them, liberator looks good to me, but here's my full analysis.

 

Animist beguiler could be okay, as a mixed support and cc specialist, since you could lay down wide AoE druid spells to trigger beguiler bonuses. Druid wouldn't be my first choice to pair with beguiler, but it could work.

 

Liberator looks nice as a tough, front line all around character. It should be an amazing healer that can summon, then buff and heal it's summons while tanking well on the front line. Seems like a good candidate for the lance of the midwood stag.

 

Spiritualist looks awkward with soul blade, but there might be some synergy. Cipher spells can grant great accuracy and they can break down resolve, stun or paralyze single targets quickly and cheaply for a boost to phrase generation. But there's a serious action economy conflict with this combo. Between skald invocations and the cipher buffs and debuffs that boost your crit rate, when will you have a chance to attack to build phrases for skald or use soul annihilation? You could probably cycle your actions, like attack to build focus, drop cipher spells, attack to build phrases to max, blast out low level skald invocations until you're out of phrases and repeat, but if you're dead set on spiritualist, something like troubador/beguiler might be better.

 

Evoker/ascendant has no synergy that I can see at all. Evoker spells won't build focus for ascendant. Evokers have access to most of the wizard melee toolkit but that's mostly focused on defense. Ascendants want to pair with a class that lets them reach max focus lightning fast, then blast out cipher spells. Cipher adds a little to wizards, but evoker gives almost nothing at all to ascendant.

Edited July 15, 2018 by grasida

[gkathellar]

Oracle is functional, as Spiritshift's damage is enough to make up for its lack of melee abilities to combine with Soul Whip. I'm not sure if Shifter would restrict Cipher powers. If not, it seems like it'd be a better choice than Animist. Not really sure what Beguiler would be adding here, since druids are not amazing at handing out afflictions.

 

Liberator is solid. Consider Bleak Walker, since druids get access to Spirit of Decay for bonus penetration on FoD (but of course nasty dispositions are nasty). Shifter will give you a huge amount of near-instant self-healing, but paladins don't really need that, so ... maybe not.

 

Spiritualist is not great. You're going to be auto-attacking a lot, and while you'll never really run out of resources, you won't really be super amazing at building them up or using them in the first place. I would avoid Skald, which is mediocre unless you have some way of boosting your odds to crit - Troubadour, on the other hand, works for absolutely everything. I'm also not sure about Soul Blade, which tends to be best when you can get huge amounts of focus off of a single full attack and then drop it on Soul Annihilation.

 

Hierophant is bad. Spells don't build focus and don't benefit from Soul Whip, so there's really no synergy. It's even worse with Ascendant, since spellcasters are disproportionately affected by losing PL.

Edited July 15, 2018 by gkathellar