Paladin SOLO early game

You can also kill Primus on normal/nightmare. He gives a good chunk of xp. Yes I test stuff, yes i'm random

Getting Superbeast for UHP before Act 3 Terror is a must. Otherwise you gonna get raped and soon.

I like the oskill version with apoc boots and magister staff. Once you get sorc morph it's pretty smooth. I level up vor while leveling to make it more tolerable. Another thing I have started doing is using sol bow and enough hard points in sod to reach the lowest cast time. Just chains of punishers everywhere. It's not an amazing late game spec but for clearing trash while leveling it's pretty sick.

mindflay all the way to 110k dmg

xzmnick wrote:mindflay all the way to 110k dmg

you either didnt ever play paladin or just ignored the first post. next time raise your post count in forum games subforum, please.

For all the other posters, thank you for suggestions, will use those ideas once I start pal.

I levelled as Holy melee ie retaliate, until around 100 then I found a stormcall shield. Then I went uhc and stormcall just rapes.

cool story bro
Lvled this guy with MF rightclick hardmode without sorcmorph, MFlay gear:

Thats best in slot gear, except missing charms/trophies/top jewels, also missing some mos on gear.
Now that we settled my game experience, back to the topic: mindflay is just too stronk, even from the start... It is really strange nobody mentioned it in topic (or did I miss it?).

mahitovec wrote:I levelled as Holy melee ie retaliate, until around 100 then I found a stormcall shield. Then I went uhc and stormcall just rapes.

Takes me ages.

Yea, man, I did not enjoy this strategy either. Feels slow and unprofitable to me.

Okay. Some feedback of my HC paladin:

VOR annihilates hatred difficulty. Very sober way to go. Starting from terror I started taking insane bursts of damage, so had to switch for hierodule+slayer. Got 70 lv in sewers iirc, after that crawled to durance w/o serious issues. Got nice rng with emeralds, but even if I would get unlucky, they are easily farmable in h k3k, for example. So, made some exp pots and tortured que hegan packs till 90. After that, rest of terror was pretty straight-forward. Right after baal, went into cow lv and got 120 level no problem. Emeralds are amazing.
After reaching 120 level, my goal was BRC, for obvious reasons. Suprisingly it wasn't that terrible at all, scariest guy was Koth, haha. Everything was done w/o much struggle with 120 k def and zero dr/flat dr on my gear. A5 merc was very helpful.
EASY charms were'nt problem, all early game stuff would be definetly doable with gear I had (on SC ofc)

► GEAR BEFORE RIP

What you should't do:
Mindflay pre 90- complete bs, as expected. Damage is really awful, barely worth 1 point even, haha.
Leveling in tal rasha tombs- bs dumb idea, will take ages. Leveled my pal in a3 durance, que hegan packs give decent exp.
Sotf sucks for bosses. I DID NOT stack poison pierce though, so I might be wrong in this aspect, but it doesnt feel any sober idea anyway.

Early charms are managable with tu/honorific gear. But overall, mind flay is totally uncomparable to the thunderstone at this stage of the game. Ubers like dp/akarat/other joke stuff is doable, but anything more serious will take years to kill. Obviously, on softcore I would go full glass (all ene/orts/etc), but honestly it won't make THAT significant damage difference. Question is, how to pass this early->mid breakpoint? My ideas:

1) Nila runs for 500 sig.
2) Terror fauzt for shrines. Managed it no problem for brains, and with blessled life/early charms it should be pretty easy and fast.
3) K3K/tran farm.

My paladin died to Malic today, so sadly cannot test any of those. So I'm asking for your advice/experience.

One last request, keep your amazing theorycraft to yourself, please. If you didnt do it SOLO, UNTWINKED, SELFFOUND, BY YOURSELF, just do not post anything. You will look smarter. Sooner or later I will test it anyway, and you can trust me, I will let everyone know, whos word costs nothing