The Holy Terror

The Holy Terror

Primary Combat Role: Buffing
Secondary Combat Roles: Drawing Attacks, Single-Target Damage
Out of Combat Roles: Social, Healing
Lineage: Half-Elf
Background: Lowlife

Build Notes

This is not your grandma's smite-happy Paladin. For one, our DEX is higher than our STR. That has a couple of advantages: first, we are competent with a bow, which means we can start doing decent damage right away without giving the enemy extra opportunities to hit us by doing something silly like moving toward them. And if we do need to engage in melee, which will happen, we can pull out a trusty rapier and duel them to death with some flair, like the foppish dandy we are.

We play first and foremost as a buffer, casting Bless early and often, along with the occasional Shield of Faith, and head straight for the class's signature ability, Aura of Protection. Once we have that, it's over to Warlock so we can join the Repulsion Beam party where our Sorlock friend has been dancing like nobody's watching for the last several levels. We already have armor and a shield, and even the shield spell from the lovely Solasta twist on the Devotion subclass, so we don't need Soul Blade. Instead we can afford to take the Elementalist subclass to do some extra damage with our blasts (and pick up a handy resistance while we're at it).

Ability Scores

STR: 13
DEX: 15+1
CON: 13+1
INT: 8
WIS: 9
CHA: 14+2

Level Progression

1: Paladin 1 [Feat: War Caster] 2: Paladin 2 [Fighting Style: Defense] 3: Paladin (Oath of Devotion) 3 4: Paladin 4 [ASI: +2 CHA]
5: Paladin 5 6: Paladin 6 7: Warlock (Elementalist) 1
8: Warlock 2 [Eldritch Invocations: Agonizing Blast, Repelling Blast]
9: Warlock 3
10: Warlock 4 [ASI: +2 CHA]
11: Warlock 5
12: Sorcerer (Mana Painter) 1

Spell Selection

1: --
2: Bless, Divine Favor, Heroism, Shield of Faith
3: ^Protection from Evil and Good, ^Shield
4: +Cure Wounds, +Detect Evil and Good
5: -Heroism, -Detect Evil and Good, +Magic Weapon, ^Aid, ^Lesser Restoration
6: +Protection from Poison
7: +Pact Mark, +Longstrider
8: +Expeditious Retreat
9: +Spike Growth
10: -Longstrider, +Misty Step, +Hold Person
11: -Hold Person, -Expeditious Retreat, +Fireball, +Fly, +Hypnotic Pattern
12: +Expeditious Retreat, +Feather Fall, ^Entangle

^signifies a spell which is automatically learned due to the subclass