Kali's Paladin Knight of the Chalice THF CHA Melee DPS build

Kalibano · Aug 28, 2024

Magic of Myth Drannor changes
New Epic feat + Epic Destiny feat
I have not yet levelled every alt to 34, so this is what I am aiming to try-and-test.

Eerie Aim (lvl 33)
- +5% Dodge bypass, bringing the total to 10% {5% of which for 20s while and Action Boost is active}
- +5% Deflection bypass
- +10 Attack
Guarded Actions (level 34)
- whenever you use an Action Boost, you take 20% less damage for 6 seconds
  - this will go nicely together with all the other 'while an Action Boost is active' recently acquired in Legendary Dreadnought
  - to me, DDO is not a DPS race and neither a DPS competition: this choice reflects my approach to investing in both DPS and some survivability/defensiveness, as per what I shared in this thread.

The image below was updated in the main post (also here for ease of access):

The sections/effect values that were affected have been updated accordingly.
The DDOBuilder (v2) file has been updated with these changes.

Enjoy!

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Kalibano · Sep 1, 2024

Extra info and breakdowns added to this

section of the main post (also added below for ease of access):

L. Survivability & Defenses (after all, soul stones do zero dps):

> The image above ? includes:

> +8 CON Tome

> Temporary HPs: Paladin spell 'Virtue'

> Values @ lvl 32, out of reaper mode

> Toughness feats: Heroic + Epic

> % Hit Point bonus = +35%:

Competence bonus

> +25%: Sacred Defender [T3]

Sacred bonus

> +10%: Sacred Defender [C5]

> Damage Avoidance

> Max DEX bonus to armor = 17

Armor

> 6: Heavy Armor (Vecna)

Heroic

> +3: Sacred Defender's 'Sacred Armor Mastery [T1]'

Epic Destinies

> +6: Legendary Dreadnought's 'Armor of Dusk [T3]'

Airship buffs

> +2%: 'Game Hunter'

> Dodge cap = 27%

Base

> 25

Airship Buffs

> +2: 'Fencing Master'

> Dodge chance = 14% {capped @17%}

Gear bonuses (inc Set bonuses)

> +14% enhancement bonus

> Incorporeality = 10%

Augments (inc Set bonuses)

> +10: 'Legendary Wraithborn Emerald'

> Concealment = 50%

> Legendary Dreadnought's 'Untouchable [T4]' {while any Action Boost is active}

> Displacement scrolls {for 30s} {UMD 28}

Some info on how incorporeality (e.g. Ghostly) and concealment (e.g. Blur and Displacement) are reduced in reaper mode.
My understanding is that this info is based on player testing, not officially from the Devs. Info below (inc link) from the DDO Wiki:

> Deflect Arrows (1 projectile every 6s)

> GMoF's 'Deflection [T2]'

> Damage Reduction

> PRR = 281 {73.75% less dmg from slashing, bludgeoning and piercing attacks}

Breakdown:

Armor

> +50: Heavy armor PRR (BAB*2)

Feats: Past Lives

> +3: 'Divine Sphere: Power Over Life and Death' x1

Feats

> +10: 'Epic Damage Reduction' (taken @ lvl 27)

> +3: 'Embodiment of Law' (taken @ lvl 28)

Heroic Enhancements

Paladin - Sacred Defender

> +15 sacred bonus: 'Durable Defense [T1]'

> +6: 'Commanding Presence [T1]'

> +10: 'Sacred Defense [C2]'

> +5: 'Redemption [C4]'

> +5: 'Glorious Stand [C5]'

Vistani Knife Fighter

> +3: 'Mist Stalker I [T1]'

Epic Destinies

Divine Crusader

> +5: 'Weather Any Blow [C3]'

> +10: 'Heavengly Presence [T4]'

> +10: 'Mighty Crusade [T5]'

Legendary Dreadnought

> +15: 'Thick Skinned [C3]'

Grandmaster of Flowers

> +5: 'Disciple of Material: Silver [C2]'

Gear bonuses (inc Set bonuses)

> +30 artifact bonus (set bonus)

> +30 profane bonus (set bonus)

> +36 enhancement bonus

> +0 insightful bonus

> +0 quality bonus

Sub-total 1 = 251

Gear: Mythic bonuses

> +1 necklace

> +1 boots

> +2 armor

Sub-total 2 = 255

Spells

> +26 racial bonus: Paladin's 'Angelskin' (lvl 2 spell)

Sub-total 3 = 281 (as per current live game)

*** Still to be acquired (not enough sentient xp yet:

Filigrees (inc Set bonuses)

> +5: 'Dreadbringer: PRR' (rare)

Grant total = 286

> 20% less damage (for 6s while any Action Boost is active}

> 'Guarded Actions (feat)'

> Energy Absorption

Heroic Enhancements

> +25% {Negative}

> Vistani's 'Mist Stalker I [T1]' {permanent}

Epic Destinies

> +10% {Cold, Acid and Electric}

> Divine Crusader's 'Heavenly Presence [T4]' {permanent}

Airship buffs

> +15% {Fire}: 'Sign of the Silver Flame' {permanent}

> +15% {Acid & Cold}: 'Shrine to the Devourer' {permanent}

> +15% {Electric & Sonic}: 'Stormreaver Memorial' {permanent}

> Immunities:

> Energy Drain: KoTC's 'Improved Courage of Heaven [C4]'

> Fear: 'Aura of Courage' (feat auto-granted @ Paladin lvl 3)

> Diseases (natural, magical & supernatural): 'Divine Health' (feat auto-granted @ Paladin lvl 3)

> Petrification: Divine Crusader's 'Heavenly Presence [T4]'

I share some strategies for general defensiveness and survival in this thread. Come visit if you feel it could be useful to you!

Kalibano · Dec 19, 2024

Build update

In the recent Black Friday Sales, I got an excellent deal upgrading from Standard edition to the Vecna Ultimate Fan bundle ...

... so I now have a Universal tome (Morgrave) for all my characters. Well worth the wait for this price, and I got to enjoy the content/gear all long!

The following changes/additions

were made to this build:

+1 Knight of the Chalice (new total = 43 APs):
- [T3] Divine Sacrifice (rank 1):
  - +20% Damage attack that increases the critical multiplier of your weapon by 1 and deals some additional Light damage, but costs 5 hp and 1 sp, whether or not the attack is successful. Gain +15 Temporary Spell Points if striking Undead or Evil Outsiders (cooldown: 3s)
  - AoE via strikethrough

Heroic enhancements: 85 = 80 + 3 (Racial tomes) + 2 (Universal tome)

The sections/effect values/images that were affected have been updated accordingly in the original post.
The DDOBuilder (v2) file has also been updated with these changes.

Enjoy!

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Kalibano · Mar 6, 2025

30k+ views!

Together with my Dark Hunter build, (and likely thanks to the U72 changes, now also my Monk Henshin build), this has always pretty consistently been the second build with the highest number of views out of all the builds in my repository:

Slowly working towards updating gear sets to include a few pieces of gear with S/M augments to existing set bonuses (similarly to the gear set I recently put together for my Bard swashbuckler hybrid).

The long-term plan is to revise all gear sets to achieve similar results, but highly likely I will:

start from the hybrids, since I now have the Bard Swash sample to adjust from
then move on to the casters, since their gear set was not updated at the same time as the pure melee gear sets
and finally move on to the pure melee builds, which were the most recently updated to also include the gear planner spreadsheet

In the meantime, hopefully lots of new pieces of gear with S/M slots get released, to create the volume, range and flexibility that level 29-32 gear has been offering so far.

Enjoy, and thanks for everyone who has taken the time to contribute with ideas, compliments and support

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Kalibano · May 7, 2025

Gear update

I just finished putting together a new gear set for this build using Sun/Moon augments combined with previous set bonuses (I got all the pieces ready in game too, but not quite all the S/M augments I need).

The main post has NOT yet been updated to account for the changes: if anything, numbers will increase, but there were no losses really.

(Posting the gear below for ease of access, but bear in mind only the main post will be updated in time, not here).

Suggestions for gear
(not part of the core build: choices based on what supports the main aims of the build best, with the intention to suggest/ inspire)

Gear Set bonuses:

Gear:
(PS: Some choices ref gear cater to a much larger personal scheme/tetris where items need to get shared between several alts at endgame, where I normally play in reaper mode 6-10 skulls).

Paladin KoTC Gear planner spreadsheet above is available to download too. More Gear Set suggestions & planners in this thread.

Main Filigree Set bonuses:

Filigrees: 15 = 5 (artefact) + 10 (weapon)

Filigree master plan:

Primarily invest in Melee Power and Imbue die.
Smite evil charges, Strikethrough and CHA are secondary aims, if/when possible to squeeze in
other effects get the least priority.

Note: Since the gear set above

requires quite a bit of farming, here's the previous gear set

if it proves useful:

Gear Set bonuses:

N.B.: the Perfect Silence augment Set {+3 SA die} could replace the Tough Shields augment set {+30 PRR}, if more DPS is desired.

Gear:

More Gear Set suggestions & planners in this thread.

The S/M system is so much more flexible, but it requires you to farm so much more. Before we'd get the 13-14 items we'd need, and the set bonuses were just automatically there, requiring you to simply equip the items. Now it's 13-14 items to be farmed, and then, additionally, farm each piece of the set bonus to slot in them. But once it's put together, you can fit so much more, it's real nice.

I wish the S/M system could be adjusted to be a bit easier to acquire while farming the 13-14 items. Maybe a token system that drops in every chest where S/M currently drop, that can be accumulated to be traded for the specific S/M augment one needs?

Really pleased with the results: enjoy!

Kalibano · May 8, 2025

The main post has been fully updated to account for the gear changes.
Spreadsheets and DDOBuilder file have also been updated.

I have now included a breakdown for MRR, since this new gear set added a massive +60 MRR to this build. Posting below for ease of access, but only the main post will be updated, not here:

> PRR = 290 {74.40% less dmg from slashing, bludgeoning and piercing attacks}

Breakdown:

Armor

> +50: Heavy armor PRR (BAB*2)

Feats: Past Lives

> +3: 'Divine Sphere: Power Over Life and Death' x1

Feats

> +10: 'Epic Damage Reduction' (taken @ lvl 27)

> +3: 'Embodiment of Law' (taken @ lvl 28)

Heroic Enhancements

Paladin - Sacred Defender

> +15 sacred bonus: 'Durable Defense [T1]'

> +6: 'Commanding Presence [T1]'

> +10: 'Sacred Defense [C2]'

> +5: 'Redemption [C4]'

> +5: 'Glorious Stand [C5]'

Vistani Knife Fighter

> +3: 'Mist Stalker I [T1]'

Epic Destinies

Divine Crusader

> +5: 'Weather Any Blow [C3]'

> +10: 'Heavengly Presence [T4]'

> +10: 'Mighty Crusade [T5]'

Legendary Dreadnought

> +15: 'Thick Skinned [C3]'

Grandmaster of Flowers

> +5: 'Disciple of Material: Silver [C2]'

Spells

> +27 racial bonus: Paladin's 'Angelskin' (lvl 2 spell)

Gear bonuses (inc Set bonuses)

> +30 artifact bonus (set bonus)

> +30 profane bonus (Moon Augment)

> +36 enhancement bonus

> +0 insightful bonus

> +0 quality bonus

> +5 fortune bonus (Deck Curse: I got lucky!)

Sub-total 1 = 283

Gear: Mythic bonuses

> +2 armor

Sub-total 2 = 285 (as per current live game)

*** Still to be acquired (not enough sentient xp yet):

Filigrees (inc Set bonuses)

> +5: 'Dreadbringer: PRR' (rare)

Grant total = 290

> MRR = 184 {64+% less dmg from acid, sonic, fire, electric, cold, alignment, light, negative, poison and rust attacks}

Breakdown:

Armor

> +00: Heavy armor (Armors do NOT grant any MRR, just PRR)

Feats

> +3: 'Embodiment of Law' (taken @ lvl 28)

Heroic Enhancements

Paladin - Sacred Defender

> +15 sacred bonus: 'Durable Defense [T1]'

> +10: 'Sacred Defense [C2]'

> +5: 'Redemption [C4]'

> +5: 'Glorious Stand [C5]'

Vistani Knife Fighter

> +3: 'Mist Stalker I [T1]'

Epic Destinies

Grandmaster of Flowers

> +5: 'Disciple of Morality: Chaos [C3]'

Spells

> +27 racial bonus: Paladin's 'Angelskin' (lvl 2 spell)

Gear bonuses (inc Set bonuses)

> +30 artifact bonus (Sun Augment)

> +30 profane bonus (Moon Augment)

> +35 enhancement bonus

> +0 insightful bonus

> +0 quality bonus

Filigrees (inc Set bonuses)

> +8: 'Sanctified Fervor/Reverberation: CHA' (rare) x2

> +2: 'Sanctified Fervor: Smite Evil' (rare)

> +2: 'Sanctified Fervor: CHA' (rare)

Sub-total 1 = 180

Gear: Mythic bonuses

> +2 armor

Sub-total 2 = 182 (as per current live game)

*** Still to be acquired (not enough sentient xp yet):

Filigrees (inc Set bonuses)

> +2: 'Long Shadow: CHA' (rare)

Grant total = 184

Enjoy!

nenetteblackmoor · May 9, 2025

Kalibano said:
Gear:

Thanks for the post! I always use your build posts as a reference.
There aren’t many gear setup posts that use MD gear on the forums, so I really appreciate you sharing your puzzle using that gear.

I’ve never gotten a Melee Power +12 augment and thought it wasn’t in DDO right now.
Is the +12 MPw on the Katra Ring referring to the Melee Power +12 augment?

Kalibano · May 9, 2025

nenetteblackmoor said:
Thanks for the post! I always use your build posts as a reference.
There aren’t many gear setup posts that use MD gear on the forums, so I really appreciate you sharing your puzzle using that gear.

I’ve never gotten a Melee Power +12 augment and thought it wasn’t in DDO right now.
Is the +12 MPw on the Katra Ring referring to the Melee Power +12 augment?

Hey there,

Really glad this has been helpful to your planning

Ref the +12 Melee Power augment:
- Yes, the +12 MPw I listed for the katra ring is an augment
- You are right that they aren't currently available to purchase from the augment vendor (Randal Lyric), but hopefully it will become available to purchase through one of the future expansions (

Lamordia)
- However, I do believe +12 MPw augments are currently dropping in chests. Though I have not looted one myself yet, I have definitely looted other level 32 augments that are not yet available to be purchased via Randal (e.g. +22 Accuracy; +294 Spell Points, etc: these will go in the red boxes in the image below

when they become available in game via Randal Lyric)

(This

is available in the gear planner spreadsheets I share, under a separate tab)

All in all, I currently have the +10 topaz on my gear. If you have't looted one yet, they can be purchased from the Randal Lyric in Sharn (outside of the Drunken Dragon tavern)

Kalibano · Aug 26, 2025

Just reached 40k+ views!

This remains one of the top 5 most viewed builds in my repository:

Really pleased with the newest gear set using S/M augments: it has worked really well for this build, and will help farm the new Lamordia gear:

It's a shame I never managed to pull the rare MD Heavy armor of the Warblade, but if you do happen to have it, you could aim for a gear set very similar to the one I put together for my Barbarian Ravager:

Enjoy, and thanks again for all the support for this effort!

Kali's Paladin Knight of the Chalice THF CHA Melee DPS build

Kalibano

Build Designer. Having fun since 2006!

Kalibano

Build Designer. Having fun since 2006!

Kalibano

Build Designer. Having fun since 2006!

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