Paladin

Overview

Paladin Mousepad

Paladins are masters of long-range combat, well-balanced between weapons and magic. They utilize bows, crossbows and spears to a deadly effect. They advance very fast in distance fighting and are quite capable in magic as well.

Paladins are not severely lacking in any area, but destroying enemies from afar with ranged weapons is what they do best.

Benefits

Arguably the best single target damage capabilities out of all classes
Paladins can often hunt certain monsters at a lower level than other classes because of their high damage and long range
Paladins are cost-efficient and tend to be easy to profit with
Paladins advance very quickly in distance fighting, even faster than knights do in melee skills
Paladins advance quickly in shielding (at the same rate as knights)
Paladins advance quite fast in melee skills (slower than knights, but faster than sorcerers and druids), making melee combat a possible alternative when out of ammunition, though it's likely viable only at a lower level
More capacity than sorcerers and druids
More hitpoints and faster regeneration than sorcerers and druids
More mana and faster regeneration than knights
Faster advancement in magic level than knights
Access to a robust set of spells and two types of support runes
They can use potions that restore both health and mana simultaneously

Drawbacks

Paladins focus on single target damage and have a limited ability to deal damage to multiple targets at once
Paladins are long-range fighters, but, unlike sorcerers and druids, they suffer from decreased accuracy when attacking enemies within melee range. Because of that, their fighting style consists of running around and shooting. Depending on the environment that might be problematic and also not to everyone's liking
Paladins cannot hunt without ammunition and large amounts of it take up a lot of carrying capacity
Paladins have trouble hunting creatures resistant to physical damage. Even though they have access to holy damage abilities, most of their damage dealt is physical
Less capacity than knights
Less mana and slower regeneration than sorcerers and druids
Less hitpoints and slower regeneration than knights
Slower advancement in magic level than sorcerers and druids

Advancement and regeneration

Stat increase per level

After advancing to the next level, every player receives an increase in capacity, maximum hitpoints and maximum mana.

Paladins gain:

20 oz of capacity
10 hitpoints
15 mana

Regeneration

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

Paladins regenerate:

1 hitpoint every 8 seconds
2 mana every 4 seconds

Royal paladins regenerate:

1 hitpoint every 6 seconds
2 mana every 3 seconds

Promotion

When a paladin reaches level 20, they can purchase a promotion and become a royal paladin with certain benefits.

Tips

Spells

The most important spells to a paladin are:

Light Healing (main healing spell)
Divine Healing (desperate healing spell)
Salvation (desperate healing spell)
Divine Missile (main attack spell)
Ethereal Spear (secondary attack spell, use on holy-immune, physically-weak or running monsters)
Haste

Other useful spells every paladin should learn are:

Lesser useful spells:

Recovery (efficient heal over time)
Intense Recovery (efficient heal over time)
Intense Healing (useful until you learn Divine Healing)
Cure Curse (enables hunting e.g. Ghastly Dragons)

Most other spells are never used. Paladins can create ammunition, but the preferred way to get it is 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

While magic level is not as important to a Paladin as it would be to a Druid or Sorcerer, a Paladin with a good magic level can deal a fair amount of damage with a relatively low cooldown time, especially to creatures who are weak to Holy damage. 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	Level	Mana	Price	Group	Effect
Find Person	exiva "name"	✗	8	20	80	Support	Tells you which direction a certain player is, relative to you, and a rough idea of the distance.
Light	utevo lux	✗	8	20	0	Support	Provides illumination in a 3 tile radius around the caster (area effect). Duration is 6 minutes, 10 seconds.
Light Healing	exura	✗	8	20	0	Healing	Restores a small amount of health and cures paralysis.
Levitate	exani hur up exani hur down	✓	12	50	500	Support	Permits vertical movement via levitation, up or down one level.
Haste	utani hur	✓	14	60	600	Support	Increases your base Speed by 30% for 30 seconds. Cures paralysis.
Conjure Arrow	exevo con	✗	13	100	450	Support	Creates 10 Arrows.
Intense Healing	exura gran	✗	20	70	350	Healing	Restores a medium amount of health and cures paralysis.
Conjure Explosive Arrow	exevo con flam	✗	25	290	1,000	Support	Creates 8 Burst Arrows.
Cancel Invisibility	exana ina	✓	26	200	1,600	Support	Makes invisible creatures/players visible again.
Great Light	utevo gran lux	✗	13	60	500	Support	Provides illumination in a 4 tile radius around the caster (area effect). Duration is 11 minutes, 35 seconds.
Enchant Spear	exeta con	✓	45	350	2,000	Support	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	✓	23	25	1,100	Attack	Throws a magical spear at the selected target, dealing physical damage based on the distance fighting skill.
Divine Missile	exori san	✓	40	20	1,800	Attack	Blasts the selected target with divine energy, dealing holy damage. If no target is selected, the damage is focused on the single square right in front of the caster.
Divine Caldera	exevo mas san	✓	50	160	3,000	Attack	Calls down a rain of holy fire to purify the area around the caster, dealing holy damage in a radius of 3 squares.
Divine Healing	exura san	✗	35	160	3,000	Healing	Restores a great amount of health to the target. This spell when used will also cure paralysis.
Sharpshooter	utito tempo san	✓	60	450	8,000	Support	Increases the distance skill of the paladin by 40% for 10 seconds. While the spell is in effect, the paladin's speed is reduced by 70%, they cannot cast healing, support or supply spells.
Swift Foot	utamo tempo san	✓	55	400	6,000	Support	Increases the paladin's speed by 80% for 10 seconds, they however can not attack or use attack spells during this time.
Protect Party	utamo mas sio	✓	32	Varies	4,000	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	✓	50	75	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).
Cure Curse	exana mort	✓	80	40	6,000	Healing	Cures the Cursed condition.
Holy Flash	utori san	✓	70	30	7,500	Attack	Makes the target become dazzled, receiving holy damage over time.
Intense Recovery	utura gran	✓	100	165	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).
Salvation	exura gran san	✓	60	210	8,000	Healing	Heals a huge amount of hitpoints.
Strong Ethereal Spear	exori gran con	✓	90	55	10,000	Attack	A strong version of the Ethereal Spear spell.
Cure Poison	exana pox	✗	10	30	150	Healing	Cures the status of being poisoned.
Magic Rope	exani tera	✓	9	20	200	Support	Teleports you up through a hole when you are standing in a Rope Spot.
Magic Patch	exura infir	✗	1	6	0	Healing	Restores a small amount of health. (Cures paralysis)
Arrow Call	exevo infir con	✗	1	10	0	Support	Creates 3 Simple Arrows.
Summon Paladin Familiar	utevo gran res sac	✓	200	2000	50,000	Support	Summons a Paladin Familiar which lasts 15 minutes.
Divine Dazzle	exana amp res	✓	250	80	250,000	Support	Chains up to 3 creatures prioritising ranged creatures in a 6 sqm range. Creatures hit are turned into melee fighters for 8 seconds.
Find Fiend	exiva moe res	✗	25	20	1,000	Support	Tells you which direction the nearest fiendish creature is, relative to you, and a rough idea of the distance.
Divine Grenade	exevo tempo mas san	✓	300	160	0	Attack	Plants a marker at the feet of your target that explodes after 3 seconds dealing holy damage.
Divine Empowerment	utevo grav san	✓	300	500	0	Support	Deploys a 3x3 field of holy energy below your feet that lasts 5 seconds. As long as you stand in this field, the damage you deal is increased.
Lesser Ethereal Spear	exori infir con	✗	1	6	0	Attack	Throws a magical spear at the selected target, dealing physical damage based on the distance fighting skill.

Old Spells

Note: These spells could be learned in the past from spell scrolls, some older paladins had them until Update 10.55 when vocation requirement was also applied while casting spells, not just while buying them.

Name	Words	Prem	Level	Mana	Price	Group	Effect
Energy Beam	exevo vis lux	✗	23	40	1,000	Attack	Shoots a 5 square long beam directly in front of the caster, dealing energy damage.
Great Energy Beam	exevo gran vis lux	✗	29	110	1,800	Attack	Shoots a powerful, 8 square long beam directly in front of the caster.
Summon Creature	utevo res "creature name"	✗	25	varies	2,000	Support	Summons a creature to help you.

Rune Spells

Name	Words	Prem	Level	Mana	Price	Group	Effect
Disintegrate	adito tera	✓	21	200	900	Support	Makes 3 Disintegrate Runes (requiring 1 Blank Rune). Destroys movable objects.
Destroy Field	adito grav	✗	17	120	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	✓	27	300	1,600	Support	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: