Divine Night (Clr 39 / Mnk 1)

[buddhamind]

Divine Night



Purpose of this build
A general-purpose cleric capable of instakilling most critters that can be instakilled.

Two versions are posted here: A single monk-splash version, and a double-splash version. The double-splash sacrifices 1 CL and SP, and gains Greater Ruin (or, optionally, Empower Spell).




Divine Night (Clr 39 / Mnk 1)
Race: Human
- FC: Any
- Bonus Feat
- +1 Skill Point/Level

Subrace: Half-Celestial (secret Beyond UltraRare subrace)
- no race requirement
- adds wings
- FC: Cleric
- WIS +6, CHA +4
- Free Feats: Spell Focus Evocation, Greater Spell Focus Evocation, Epic Skill Focus Heal
- SR 10 + 1/lvl
- Levitation

Alignment: Lawful Evil
- Evil alignment allows you to cast Heartbane, and use the Soul Jar from Dulvuroth.
- Lawful alignment is required for the Monk level

Abilities at Creation
- Str 8
- Dex 14
- Con 10
- Wis 18
- Int 14
- Cha 8

Evil Domain
- Level 1 Negative energy ray
- Level 3 Negative energy burst
- Level 5 Enervation

Fire Domain
- Level 4 Wall of fire
- Level 5 Energy buffer

Skills
- Save 83 points for level 40 (Monk level)
- Max Concentration
- Max Parry (Optionally, swap for Persuade, or drop 2 Int for 2 Con)
- 47 points Heal (This is more than enough for 127 at level 60)
- 43 Discipline at level 40
- 40 Tumble at level 40
- Max Craft Armor in LLs

All stat points go to Wisdom!

Feats
1. Extend Spell, SF: Div
3. SF: Necro
6. SF: Ench
9. Spell Penetration
12. GSF: Div
15. GSF: Necro
18. Greater Spell Pen
21. GSF: Ench
23. ESF: Div
24. Great Wis I
26. ESF: Necro
27. Great Wis II
29. ESF: Ench
30. Great Wis III
32. Epic Spell Pen
33. Great Wis IV
35. ESF: Evocation
36. Great Wis V
38. Great Wis VI
39. Great Wis VII

40. MONK LEVEL - dump discipline (43) and tumble (40)

Read Transmutation book

Epic Spells:
- Divination (Miracle)
- Evocation (Conversion)
- Necro (Eternal Return)
- Trans (IOF)
- Ench (Gird)

42. Legendary Spell Pen
45. LSF: Div
48. LSF: Evo
51. LSF: Necro
54. Great Wis VIII
57. Great Wis IX
60. Great Wis X

Artifact: Wisdom

Pandect: Spell Resistance

63. Paragon Spell Pen
66. PSF: Necro
69. PSK: Necro (Eradicate and 2x Eternal Return)
72. PSF: Div
75. PSK: Div (2x Miracle and Serendipitous Forethought)
78. PSF: Evocation

Gear guide
- Use robes and torch. Your AC will range from ~130 at level 60, to ~142 at level 80. Plus you will be unslaggable. You also have the option to use plate and shield for higher immunities, but this is not advised on a run with slagging monsters (Phleg, Nessus, Shed).
- Find a CL ego item to get full CL60. This will boost your spell pen and your buffs considerably.
- Find a GSF: Abjuration augment. You will want Abjuration for Banishing things in Abyss, Ely, and Aboleths. It will also boost your Energy Immunity spell.

[buddhamind]

Divine Night II



Purpose of This Build
The dual-splash version may help a bit with survivability in LLs, but losing 1-2 caster levels is harsh. My current opinion is that you should skip this build. Stick to the 1-splash version, and find or buy a CL ego item to get the full CL 40.



Divine Night II (Clr 38 / Mnk 1 / Rgr 1)

The ranger level allows some feat shuffling which enables you to pick up Greater Ruin. You will also need spellcraft, so there are some changes to skill points as well. However, you sacrifice 1 CL and 1 Spell pen compared to the previous build, and you cannot get CL 60 buffs with a CL ego. If you don't like Greater Ruin you can change this to Empower Spell or Armor Skin, but IMO those feats are not worth the double splash CL penalty.


Race: Human
- FC: Any
- Bonus Feat
- +1 Skill Point/Level

Subrace: Half-Celestial (secret Beyond UltraRare subrace)
- no race requirement
- adds wings
- FC: Cleric
- WIS +6, CHA +4
- Free Feats: Spell Focus Evocation, Greater Spell Focus Evocation, Epic Skill Focus Heal
- SR 10 + 1/lvl
- Levitation

Alignment: Lawful Evil
- Evil alignment allows you to cast Heartbane, and use the Soul Jar from Dulvuroth.
- Lawful alignment is required for the Monk level

Abilities at Creation
- Str 8
- Dex 14
- Con 10
- Wis 18
- Int 14
- Cha 8

Evil Domain
- Level 1 Negative energy ray
- Level 3 Negative energy burst
- Level 5 Enervation

Fire Domain
- Level 4 Wall of fire
- Level 5 Energy buffer

Skills
- Save 83 points for level 40 (Monk level)
- Max Concentration
- 50 Spellcraft (25 points before level 39 to take the feat)
- 47 points Heal (This is more than enough for 127 at level 60)
- 43 Discipline at level 40
- 40 Tumble at level 40
- Max Craft Armor in LLs

All stat points go to Wisdom!

Feats
1. Extend Spell, SF: Div
3. SF: Necro
6. SF: Ench
9. Spell Penetration
12. GSF: Div
15. GSF: Necro
18. Greater Spell Pen
20. RANGER LEVEL - GSF: Ench
21. Great Wis I
24. Great Wis II, ESF: Div
27. Great Wis III, ESF: Necro
30. Great Wis IV, ESF: Ench
33. Great Wis V, Epic Spell Pen
36. Great Wis VI, ESF: Evocation
39. Great Wis VII, Epic Spell: Greater Ruin

40. MONK LEVEL - Take discipline (43) and tumble (40)

Read Transmutation book

Epic Spells:
- Divination (Miracle)
- Evocation (Conversion)
- Necro (Eternal Return)
- Trans (IOF)
- Ench (Gird)

42. Legendary Spell Pen
45. LSF: Div
48. LSF: Evo
51. LSF: Necro
54. Great Wis VIII
57. Great Wis IX
60. Great Wis X

Artifact: Wisdom

Pandect: Spell Resistance

63. Paragon Spell Pen
66. PSF: Necro
69. PSK: Necro (Eradicate and 2x Eternal Return)
72. PSF: Div
75. PSK: Div (2x Miracle and Serendipitous Forethought)
78. PSF: Evocation

Gear guide
- Use robes and torch. Your AC will range from ~130 at level 60, to ~142 at level 80. Plus you will be unslaggable. You also have the option to use plate and shield for higher immunities, but this is not advised on a run with slagging monsters (Phleg, Nessus, Shed).
- Find a GSF: Abjuration augment. You will want Abjuration for Banishing things in Abyss, Ely, and Aboleths. It will also boost your Energy Immunity spell.

[thenut68]

wheres the build Bhud? Waiting to roll him up with my brand new HC ;p

[buddhamind]

May 9, 2013 15:34:07 GMT thenut68 said:

wheres the build Bhud? Waiting to roll him up with my brand new HC ;p

It's posted now. Grats again on the H-C find.

[Deleted]

I would be hesitant taking Paragon Spell Pen at 69 instead of 63. It's definitely the most useful paragon feat.

[buddhamind]

May 9, 2013 18:08:12 GMT @laser said:

I would be hesitant taking Paragon Spell Pen at 69 instead of 63. It's definitely the most useful paragon feat.

OK, I put the Spell pen first.

[Test]

Just a quick question.

What is your perceived issue with pure ploders as a third option?

[buddhamind]

May 9, 2013 22:49:59 GMT Test said:

Just a quick question.

What is your perceived issue with pure ploders as a third option?

I don't like getting slagged.

If you want a pure ploder then just use the first build and drop the monk level. Take Disc and Tumble cross-class as much as possible.

[Test]

May 9, 2013 23:46:39 GMT buddhamind said:

May 9, 2013 22:49:59 GMT Test said:

Just a quick question.

What is your perceived issue with pure ploders as a third option?

I don't like getting slagged.

If you want a pure ploder then just use the first build and drop the monk level. Take Disc and Tumble cross-class as much as possible.

I already have a pure ploder with what was then (when I was playing) totally maximized gear for spell pen using all of the special items available. To avoid slagging I usually just swapped to robes in Phleg and the Asmo fight.

Really I was just curious if something had changed.

[Torin]

Two number crunching ideas:

- With a monk splash at level 40: Would going elf + able learner and max. tumble to 60 be a better option? (Elf could get 16 DEX at start as bonus)

- The +4 Cha from Half Celestial are on an evil character wasted. I guess some other +6 WIS BUR races are good candidates for that build too (Rilminai, Drow Noble (female), Sidhe).

[buddhamind]

May 10, 2013 5:27:51 GMT Torin said:

Two number crunching ideas:

- With a monk splash at level 40: Would going elf + able learner and max. tumble to 60 be a better option? (Elf could get 16 DEX at start as bonus)

- The +4 Cha from Half Celestial are on an evil character wasted. I guess some other +6 WIS BUR races are good candidates for that build too (Rilminai, Drow Noble (female), Sidhe).

An elf H-C would receive one less feat, which means you'd have to splash Ranger AND drop a feat from the 2nd build-- probably Ruin. You might could make it work without the monk level, though I forget if Rangers get Tumble as a class skill. You'd also need significantly more Int... let's see base skill points are down 60 from human, so you'd need +2, then you want to max disc and tumble on Able learner which is 40*3=120 points, so +4 again for a total of +6 starting Int. You could probably make it work with Drow Noble. You could also drop Parry or Craft Armor.

H-C also receives SF: Evo, GSF: Evo, and Epic Skill Focus: Heal. Let's ignore the ESF: Heal since you should have no trouble maxing Heal even without it. Drow Noble would probably work, since you need Div anyway, but you're still down one feat from a human H-C. Sidhe might work, but you're still down one feat, and you'd get a 20% Exp penalty. A Human Rilmani would also be down one feat (or Elf down two), and would get a whopping 40% Exp penalty.

[buddhamind]

May 9, 2013 23:52:59 GMT Test said:

May 9, 2013 23:46:39 GMT buddhamind said:

I don't like getting slagged.

If you want a pure ploder then just use the first build and drop the monk level. Take Disc and Tumble cross-class as much as possible.

I already have a pure ploder with what was then (when I was playing) totally maximized gear for spell pen using all of the special items available. To avoid slagging I usually just swapped to robes in Phleg and the Asmo fight.

Really I was just curious if something had changed.

Not in that regard. You'd still get +1 spell pen from a pure build, and spell pen is still an issue. Just drop the monk level.

The only major thing that's changed recently has been Paragon levels. You need LSF: whatever to get PSF: and PSK: whatever, which is an issue with some builds. The builds that are posted on the forums will still work, but when people ask for a good Cleric build, I can't point to one as the best or optimum for the current end-game state of the server. They all need tweaking IMO.

[Torin]

Buddhamind, thanks for the analysis.

[Raj]

May 9, 2013 15:10:58 GMT buddhamind said:

build that is, by vet cleric player consensus, the optimum for the current server status (as of Spring 2013, pre-Limbo but post-PLs).

This build isn't Raj approved™.