Are there any good PvE guides for a Tank Paladin?

[Foxhound3857]

What skills I should take and what I should avoid, etc?

I'm hoping that the Paladin at least has some kind of self-healing spell and some kind of group buff that makes them welcome in parties.

[NearLawlet]

Tank Paladin = Guardian, while Offensive Paladin = Crusader; Just to help you differentiate between both classes.



Guardians are desired for their Divine Barrier (also known as Guardian Force in DN SEA), which allow you to give a protective barrier that shield your teammates for 30% of their HP.
Guardians have self-heal capability in the form of Stance of Faith EX; any successive block with this skill will recover your HP by 10% (reduced to 5% for successful block, 3% for failed block in future update).

That being said, I would advise you to refrain from choosing this class: 1) If this Guardian will be your first character in the game; and 2) If you cannot afford to gear him highly right off the bat from the start or somewhere near in the future.

[Foxhound3857]

Why, is Guardian an expensive class or something?

They also get Aura of Healing, right?

[NearLawlet]

1. Destroyer (another tank specialization from Warrior class) has superior damage.

2. Destroyer is a better tank because he got better damage reduction skills (up to 100% damage reduction with Crash Mode and Resentment, practically making him invulnerable).

3. Destroyer has better AoE.

4. Nowadays, players would only take a Guardian for 8-man raid nest, something that requires extremely high gear rating.

[Foxhound3857]

Well, I'd like to take Aura of Healing for my build. Could I dump some Attuned Mind to get it?

[Foxhound3857]

So I took the build NearLawlet recommended me and I tweaked it just a bit to suit my playstyle more, sacrificing a few levels in a passive or two to get access to a couple other skills, notably Aura of Healing and Sacred Hammering. How does it look?

[ceruulean]

You need to set the skill builder to strict mode
mode, technically sacred hammering needs goddess relic as a prerequisite. I don't know why the lines showing the skill paths are missing :/

you also need 6+ shield blow to get class mastery 3

https://dnskillsim.herokuapp.com/na/...-0-00-----0--0

This is the build I would use, if you want to get smite for the iframe you can lower shield charge and drop awakening. However the crusader skills in general are a waste of sp and don't contribute damage. Toughness is good but i recall having this build and running out of sp and not being able to get toughness, so the extra 11 in the skill sim is making me wary.


I wrote this guide a while ago, hopefully it would be of some use. However I don't actively play the game anymore due to the paladin revamps.
http://forum.dragonnest.com/forum/ge...372-tank-guide

[ceruulean]

Lmao ok this forums approval thing is annoying but disregard the skill build in the other post because I forgot to input max justice crash,the advice is the same though, if you want more sp

- lower shield blow to 6
- drop shield charge awakening + lower to 1
-lower mp passives
- drop parabolt

https://dnskillsim.herokuapp.com/na/...-0-00-----0--0

BTW max stance of faith is useless leave it at 1

The group buff that guardians have, the divine bubble,was increased to a 75 second CD when it used to be 5 sec. It was a lot more useful in the past when it used to give superarmor so basically the tank class archetype got butchered and became a tankier dps. Aggro control is the main role but in general people don't care about aggro anymore. So the game is mostly a dps race and that's why guardian is a "bad" class

[Foxhound3857]

I've actually put Guardian on the backburner for now because I wanted to try Saint as well, as I prefer playing a class focused on support and healing, and so far I'm actually really liking it. NearLawlet advised me not to play a Guardian as my very first toon anyway. I guess it's a difficult class to play?

Anyway, I took advice from the Saint thread and put together my own build using the information inside: Hopefully it will do well later.