The Tantrumdin

RustySpork wrote:Man, I am having zero luck getting knife/arrow with tantrum on the craft rolling. I've got a few seriously incredible rolls (up to 1800 max damage!!) on them, but in probably a thousand rolls I can't seem to get that combination. Which shrines are you using? I do weird and creepy because I figure whichever gives me what I want I can then bless it with the other.

To me knife comes a lot more often than arrow. Also suchbalance has said over 1 gazillion times here to simply use any shrine to get your proc/tantrum combo. So just pick up whatever shrines you find and use them.

Just a question, in the end of your guide, you said for the best items: "Rings: Empyrean Glory. Direct upgrade with over double the value."

Does that mean you can upgrade normal unique ring? I don't understand...

Empyrean Glory is a secret (realm only?) unique ring. IIRC, it has all the same stats that Empyrean Bands, but doubled ( up to 10% to all attributes, up to 15% (or 20?) life and mana, etc.)

Excellent guide, in my opinion. Very first build I actually got to take on Kab with.

Really shitty in uberlevels though. To be expected I think.

Thanks, but the uberlevel comment is pretty stupid.

Sure it's not as fast as an endgame geared amazon/druid/melee necro etc. because you cannot spread the damage to the whole screen with 1 button, but cross class comparisons are pointless. In terms of Paladin builds it's actually pretty competitive and considering that with the early game gear you can comfortably farm everything but fauzt, with a death once in a while in dunc, it's definitely the best startup out of all the pallys for farming too.

Oh, I'm sorry if that came out wrong, your paladin is very strong in all cases, but too slow for most large uberlevels to clear in a desirable time. I did not mean to sound rude or dumb there.

I´m loving this build. I was really easy to get most basic and easy charms. Also, why is better to have +minimum dmg oppose to + maximum dmg on crafted bow? Thanks

it's more reliable

sharmi wrote:I´m loving this build. I was really easy to get most basic and easy charms. Also, why is better to have +minimum dmg oppose to + maximum dmg on crafted bow? Thanks

It's because of the way the prefix/suffix system works in Median. When you craft, apart from the shrine bonuses, you only get an extra 1-4 random affixes. This means at most you can have 3 suffixes and 1 prefix. Because Tantrum and all chance to cast X mods are already suffixes, Maximum damage (also a suffix) has to compete with flat elemental damage and the latter is simply better.

Minimum damage on the other hand is a prefix, so it does not interfere with the Tantrum, ctc proc, flat elemental dmg holy suffix trinity.

Ah, i thought minimum dmg is also suffix.