Solo play with casual grouping (non raiding) AA advice

[sarik800]

Hello all <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" />I'm a completely new paladin (with a lvl38 brig benched for now), and this is my first post here so bare with me.I've read 10 pages here, 10 pages in eq2flames.com plus the paladin AA wiki guide and still haven't found what I'm looking for. I have read so many AA threads and i got lost on the way... As the title says - my plan is to level up soloing mostly, with casual grouping (PUGs and groups with guild mates). So, I am looking for decent dps (solo) and decent tanking abilities (for groups). Again, I don't plan to raid at all currently.EoF tree I am planning on Hero and Wraths lines.What would be the optimal KoS tree line for me?  4/4/8 in STA, INT, AGI, STR?  (and in what order?)

[Anurra]

Here is what I did:1. Went down Wrath and got Smite Evil first.2. Did INT line, up to max spell crits (~70%) (4/4/8).3. Did 24 points in STR line (4/8/8/2/2)4. Put 8 points in max heal crit in INT (~50%) (Becomes: 4/4/8/8).5. Went down STA line and got max melee crit(~23%) (4/4/8).6. Put 5 points in AGI, for joust (4/1).7. Put 5 points in Hero for the heal improvement on faithful swing (does divine damage and heals you).8. Put 5 points in Healer for the paladin's aid single target small heal.9. Currently filling out the rest of Hero. I need 2 more points to get Block Mastery.I soloed from 1 to 80. I have done some grouping. I tanked KC tonight at 80 with my tank gear on. I did pretty good. That zone sucks though, so many mobs and if you screw up, its gonna suck. I think I had around 60% mitigation vs those mobs (Had 55% group buffed at 80). Apparently, the other instances are a tad easier than KC so I guess this spec will be OK (But I don't know for sure yet). Anyways, that is what I did.If you're on permafrost, send me (Anurra) a tell, I will help you out with gear and spells, and other things.I can offer more advice in this thread, so just let me know!PS:Oh, on the KC group - I accidentally pulled an extra ^^^ (was trying to pull a ^^^ and ^^), and because I could heal myself, we lived. If I was not able to heal, I would of been brutally owned, lol. Also amends (was on a level 80 wizard) helped a ton during that fight. I had to chain heal myself (dps was so much, I had to use my group heal lol), and chain casting wards. I had a level 75 mystic healing me too. I'm not sure what would of occured with a guardian/berseker/sk here, but I am willing to guess that, things may have ended much worse than they did <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY:)" />

[sarik800]

Thank you Anurra for the fast and coherent reply. I'll give it a go. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Fellindar]

Ok here's the lines that I have gone down, keep in mind that once you breach 70 you can get 140 AA max.CrusaderStr: 4 6 4 8 2 (For haste which i cant guarentee I will get in PUG's or Solo)Agi: 4 4 8 5   (For 40% chance to hit multiple targets in melee range, helps alot when tanking)Sta: 4 4 8 6 2 (For melee critical hit, to go with haste from str and multi attack from agi and for 10 second immunity for all dmg <50% my max HP)Int: I havn't done any but word is that its good, could take points from STR and place them herePaladinHeal     Supt   Wra   Hero    5         0      5      50      5         0      5      5    5         0      5      5           0      0      5    3         0      5      5                   0         0      1      1Hero for block+ and its other bonuses, wrath for AoE dps which helps with agro and heal to improve ward (with my 10% recast timer improvement from STR line in crusader i can cast my ward every 8.6 seconds i think, which is basically about 1500 hp every 8.6 seconds or 10500 per min) and general survival in PUG's or solo.I dont have any agro problems with this build and I find it helps be survive situations inwhich I may overwise die due to a lack of healing power in the PUG or a group member acidentally picking up an add (snap agro from improved dmg AOE helps).Hope that helps.Im not quite all the way yet but getting there, just finishing on filling up the wrath / heal lines.EDIT:OH! and you asked for an order to go down, if soloing I would start with STR for the melee haste. I would then do Agi, then hero, then first 10 points of heal, then Sta, then wrath