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Overview

Paladins are masters of distance weapons, e.g. Bows, Crossbows, Spears and Stars. Paladins are balanced between physical and magical abilities. They advance very fast in Distance and are not totally inept concerning magical skills. Compared to Knights, Paladins increase at the same rate in Shielding and advance slightly slower in Melee.

Paladins are not severely lacking in any ability, but their forte is the use of distance weapons.

Benefits

Fastest advancement in Distance skills.
Fast advancement in Shielding and Melee skills.
Only vocation able to conjure ammunition using magic.
More Capacity and Hitpoints than Mages.
More Mana than Knights.
Faster Hitpoint regeneration than Mages.
Faster Mana regeneration than Knights.
Faster advancement in Magic Level than Knights.
Able to learn a robust set of Spells and make 2 types of support Runes.
Can use stronger and heavier Sets. (See also: Paladin Set)

Drawbacks

Can only learn a few Spells and make 3 types of Runes.
Less Capacity than Knights.
Less Mana than Mages.
Less Hitpoints than Knights.
Slower Hitpoint regeneration than Knights.
Slower Mana regeneration than Mages.
Slower advancement in Magic Level than Mages.

Gains and Regeneration

Gains by level

With each level, every player receives an increase in Capacity, maximum Hitpoints, and maximum Mana.

With each level, a paladin will gain:

Regeneration

As time passes, every player will regenerate lost Hitpoints and Mana, as long as they have eaten recently (see page on Regeneration for more information).

A paladin will regenerate:

1 Hitpoint every 8 seconds
2 Mana every 4 seconds

a Royal Paladin will regenerate:

1 Hitpoint every 6 seconds
2 Mana every 3 seconds

Promotion

When a paladin reaches level 20, he can purchase a Promotion and become a Royal Paladin with certain benefits.

See the page on Promotion for more information.

Tips

Spells

By far the most important spells to a paladin are:

Other useful spells every paladin should learn are:

Lesser useful spells:

Most other spells are never used or used only in very specific scenarios. Paladins can create ammunition, however, they usually do not because all ammunition can be bought from NPCs.

Equipment

See also: Paladin Set

Paladins generally look for as much distance fighting boosts as possible.

Paladins do not get access to magic level or melee boosting equipment (except for melee skill rings which are applicable to all vocations).

As for resistances, the high-end paladin equipment contains a lot of death resistance. Otherwise, paladins are limited to very few pieces of armor that resist elements. These items are usually very expensive and not available to the average paladin. They have a few pieces of physical resistance (most notably Zaoan and Dwarven pieces) which can be used for blocking.

Hunting

Hunting as a paladin is simple in comparison to other vocations.

Paladins are distance fighters. Paladins do not stand in close combat. They use the environment and run from their enemies. Fighting in melee reduces their hit rate and makes them more vulnerable. They may make use of Field Runes to help distance themselves from enemies.
Paladins are single-target fighters. Paladins have no efficient area attacks to use and for this reason they usually do not do well in dense hunting grounds. One of the main drawbacks of paladins.
Paladins are physical fighters. Paladins have elemental arrows and their main spell element is holy, but they are primarily physical fighters.
Paladins are efficient. Paladins have decent healing/gp ratios and high damage/gp ratios.
Paladins are decent blockers. Although they lack the ability to challenge, many monsters' retargeting behaviors permit a paladin to substitute a knight. Paladins have less health than knights but can also heal more efficiently than knights where druids are not present. Paladins also miss out on some knight-only blocking equipment.
Paladins have strong healing capabilities. Although not nearly as strong as a druid's, paladins can combine Strong Health Potion (or Great Spirit Potion) (200-400hp) and Salvation (varying with level and magic level, but usually 400-700hp) in the same turn.

Training

Do not train on Rookgaard. A common mistake by new paladins. When on the mainland, skills will go up faster. It is much more efficient to use melee on Rookgaard to get to the mainland as quick as possible. It is a good idea to train at the Isle of Destiny because you will gain the skill rate increase when you receive a vocation, the trolls drop spears and the cave is usually empty.

Distance

Distance fighting increases faster than a knight's melee skills because hitting creatures ("bloodhits") contribute as well. However, training distance can be expensive as ammunition is required to train distance. Small Stones are generally used for their low attack value.

Many paladins choose to not train at all, and this has lesser consequences than a knight because a paladin will gain more skills by hunting than a knight will.

Shielding

Although paladins are distance fighters, shielding can help in the case that melee cannot be avoided. Training shielding is the same as for knights (see Shielding).

Paladins may have problems training shielding at higher distance levels. In this case, paladins can either try a new creature or a different means of attacking (melee).

Note that your shielding does not apply if you are wielding a two-handed weapon, such as a crossbow.

Magic

Magic level is not very important for a paladin. A paladin will gain from magic level in all healing spells and in holy-based attack spells Divine Missile and Divine Caldera. Most other spells will not receive a substantial boost, including Ethereal Spear (mostly dependent on distance fighting).

Manasitting is generally a waste of time (for any vocation). Paladins cannot create any useful runes. They can Enchant Spears but for the time spent it is not worth manasitting.

The best way to train magic level for paladins (indeed for any vocation) is to hunt. Use Divine Missile or Ethereal Spear every turn in a battle; not only are they efficient but they increase your experience rates and may count for 20-50% of your spent mana. Experiment with different creatures to determine which are not wasteful to hunt and which of those contributes the most to magic level.

Additional Information

Related Pages

Pages of Particular Interest to Paladins

Creatures

Creatures: Full list of creatures organized by type.
Convince Creature

Hunting

Vocation

Promotion

Equipment

NPCs

Instant Spells

Name	Words	Prem	Mana	Level	Price	Type	Effect
Cancel Invisibility	exana ina	yes	200	26	1600	Support	Makes invisible creatures/players visible again.
Conjure Arrow	exevo con	no	100	13	450	Supply	Creates 10 Arrows.
Conjure Bolt	exevo con mort	yes	140	17	750	Supply	Creates 5 Bolts.
Conjure Explosive Arrow	exevo con flam	no	290	25	1000	Supply	Creates 8 Burst Arrows.
Conjure Piercing Bolt	exevo con grav	yes	180	33	850	Supply	Creates 5 Piercing Bolts.
Conjure Poisoned Arrow	exevo con pox	no	130	16	700	Supply	Creates 7 Poison Arrows.
Conjure Power Bolt	exevo con vis	yes	700	59	2000	Supply	Creates 10 Power Bolts.
Conjure Sniper Arrow	exevo con hur	yes	160	24	800	Supply	Creates 5 Sniper Arrows.
Cure Curse	exana mort	yes	40	80	6,000	Healing	Cures the Cursed condition.
Cure Poison	exana pox	no	30	10	150	Healing	Cures the status of being poisoned.
Divine Caldera	exevo mas san	yes	160	50	3000	Attack	Causes Holy Damage in a 3 tile radius from the caster (area effect).
Divine Healing	exura san	No	160	35	3000	Healing	Restores a huge amount of health to the target. (Cures paralysis.)
Divine Missile	exori san	yes	20	40	1800	Attack	Causes Holy Damage focused on the square directly in front of the caster, or hits a target at a distance of up to 4 square meters away.
Enchant Spear	exeta con	yes	350	45	2000	Supply	Turns one ordinary Spear into an Enchanted Spear. You need to have at least one ordinary spear in your backpack to make one.
Ethereal Spear	exori con	yes	25	23	1100	Attack	Attacks the target causing Physical Damage.
Find Person	exiva "NAME"	no	20	8	80	Support	Tells you which direction a certain player is, relative to you, and a rough idea of the distance.
Great Light	utevo gran lux	no	60	13	500	Support	Provides illumination in a 4 tile radius around the caster (area effect). Duration is 11 minutes, 35 seconds.
Haste	utani hur	yes	60	14	600	Support	Increases Speed. (Consult the Formula page to determine the enhancement.) Duration is 31 seconds. Cures paralysis.
Holy Flash	utori san	yes	30	70	7500	Attack	From 7 to 21+ hits doing 20 hitpoints via Holy Damage.
Instant Spells	'
Intense Healing	exura gran	no	70	20	350	Healing	Restores a medium amount of health to the target. (Cures paralysis.)
Intense Recovery	utura gran	Yes	165	100	10,000	Healing	A healing effect in intervals over time. that heals 40 health points every 3 seconds for 60 seconds (total of 800 health points).
Levitate	exani hur up exani hur down	yes	50	12	500	Support	Permits vertical movement via levitation, up or down one level.
Light	utevo lux	no	20	8	0	Support	Provides illumination in a 3 tile radius around the caster (area effect). Duration is 6 minutes, 10 seconds.
Light Healing	exura	no	20	8	0	Healing	Restores a small amount of health. (Cures paralysis.)
Magic Rope	exani tera	yes	20	9	200	Support	Teleports you up through a hole when you are standing in a rope spot.
Protect Party	utamo mas sio	yes	Varies	32	4000	Support	The Protect Party spell will raise the shielding by 3 for 2 minutes for every party member standing on one of these fields.
Recovery	utura	Yes	75	50	4,000	Healing	A healing effect in intervals over time. that heals 20 health points every 3 seconds for 60 seconds (total of 400 health points).
Salvation	exura gran san	Yes	210	60	8,000	Healing	Heals a great amount of hitpoints.
Sharpshooter	utito tempo san	yes	450	60	8000	Support	Increases the distance skill of Paladins by approximately 50% for 10 seconds. While this spell is in effect, the paladin's speed is reduced by 70%, they cannot cast any healing, support or supply spells, and they cannot block attacks.
Strong Ethereal Spear	exori gran con	Yes	55	90	10,000	Attack	A strong version of the Ethereal Spear spell.
Swift Foot	utamo tempo san	yes	400	55	6000	Support	Increases the paladin's speed by 80% for 10 seconds, they however can not attack or use attack spells during this time.

Note: These spells were buyable in the past from spell scrolls, some older paladins still have them.

Energy Beam

exevo vis lux

no

40 mana

lvl 23

1000 gp

Shoots a 5 tile long beam in front of the caster.

Summon Creature

utevo res "creature name"

no

varies mana

lvl 25

2000 gp

Summons a creature to help you.

Rune Spells

Name	Words	Prem	Mana	Level	Price	Type	Effect
Desintegrate	adito tera	yes	200	21	900	Support	Makes 3 Desintegrate Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Destroys movable objects.
Destroy Field	adito grav	no	120	17	700	Support	Makes 3 Destroy Field Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Destroys fire, poison and energy fields, from any distance as long there's nothing blocking the path.
Holy Missile	adori san	yes	300	27	1600	Attack	Makes 5 Holy Missile Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Shoots an attack that inflicts Holy Damage.

Possible Hotkey Assignments

If you are having trouble with too many hotkeys to remember, then the following table may be useful for you. It provides an organized set of hotkey assignments for the most commonly used spells for this vocation.

This table is only an idea to help you build your own set of hotkeys, you obviously do not need to use these key assignments if you do not want to. See the page on Hotkeys for a blank template.

You can also print this table out and place it above your keyboard as a quick-reference. Make sure you print "landscape" instead of "profile", or you will not print the entire table.

Healing/Support

Attack

Support

F1

F2

F3

F4

F5

F6

F7

F8

F9

F10

F11

F12

exura gran san

^{exura san}

exura gran

exura

utito tempo san

exori san

exori con

exori gran con

Great Spirit Potion

Strong Mana Potion

Utani hur

Exevo mas san

Standard

SHIFT+

Great Light^.

Antidote^.

Food^.

Find Person^.

Explosive Arrow^.

Power Bolt^.

Levitate Down^.

Magic Rope^.

Powerful

CTRL+

Destroy Field^.

Desintegrate^.

LMM^.

HMM^.

Fireball^.

Runes

Missing Spells:

A lot.

Missing Runes: