Support Paladin Raid Build Guide

Introduction

Raid Skill Build

• Outburst of Light Skill Tree for Holy Sword unleashes the laser projectile without needing to land the beginning melee stab. This allows it to Counter Attack bosses from a far distance.
• Executor's Sword is taken for its versatility of having decent range Counter Attack when using with Excellent Mobility, Stagger and Destruction Checks while being paralysis immune. If you need an easier time to Counter Attack with it, you can use Broad Slash for its wider swing and slightly longer active window but you will lose some Stagger Check provided by Executioner's Strike extra hit.
• Charge is a paralysis immunity mobility skill that comes with a massive shield for a much more comfortable experience in raids. WIth high Swiftness and lv5 Shining Protection, the skill will have a fairly low cooldown to almost be permanently shielded and because of the low cooldown it is also a good skill to pair Quick Recharge to proc it more frequently.

Alternatives

• Alternatively, if you require even more Stagger and Destruction, take Punishment but be aware that the skill does not have any superarmors, which can be interrupted easily from any random attack patterns.
• Sword of Justice and Holy Area can be use as a multi-hit skill options to proc Conviction and Judgment but that means you have to slot Judgment into Godsent Law, If you plan to use any of them.
• Charge can be swapped out for any other utility skills mentioned above if you have gain enough confidence to not need extra mobility with protective shield or do not plan to abuse the Paralysis Immunity superarmors to stay in position for easier Counter Attacks or just temporary hold bosses in place if it aggros on to you since it does require boss attack patterns knowledge.
• If you want to keep Charge with all the other versatile tools as well and you want to fit in Light of Judgment for more Piety Meter gain, you can sacrifice Light Shock for it's spot but have to tweak Godsent Law with Brilliant Law to keep the debuff. Your protection radius will decreases though, so your allies need to be conscious of tighter grouping.

Gameplay

1. Always use Light Shock when ready to debuff and deal damage and Holy Protection to shield/heal allies.
2. Rotate between Wrath of God and Heavenly Blessings buffs, as they don't stack.
3. Position yourself at the sides of bosses to ensure all party members are in Holy Aura for the damage buff and healing for both Front Attackers(Gunlancers, Destroyers etc.) and Back Attackers(Deathblades, Deadeyes, Wardancers, etc.).
4. For emergency rescue, use Godsent Law to mitigate certain big attacks. It won't save allies from one-shot mechanics.
5. Move to the front of the boss when it glows blue to Counter Attack with Holy Sword or Executor's Sword.
6. Spam Light of Judgment, if you have this skill equipped since it is the best Piety Meter generator skill for Paladin, due to its low cooldown when you have high Swiftness and high base Piety Meter gain that can be further increased by upgrading Faith. Furthermore, If you're using Sustain Enhancement on the skill, it is a great skill to break allies out from imprisonment mechanics(e.g. Night Fox Yoho's Tornados, Vykas's Chain Portals) with its fast multi-hits intervals.
7. If you are using Charge, you can use the skill to shield yourself and rotate between other Paralysis Immunity skills like Light Shock, Holy Sword and delay each hits of Executor's Sword to further extends the Paralysis Immunity window when the boss decides to aggro on you, this helps with giving more damage window uptime for your Damage Dealers without spinning the boss around by keeping it facing at a direction. If you still have boss aggro, after few seconds, you can shield yourself with Godsent Law while also shielding allies if they are close enough or with Holy Protection then rotate back to Charge since it has a low cooldown when you have high Swiftness. You do need boss encounter knowledge since Paralysis Immunity does not stop you from getting knocked off your feet and it does not stop hard Crowd Control effects.
8. If you are using Holy Area or Sword of Justice to proc Conviction and Judgment with Godsent Law, make sure to keep a mental note of the rune effect internal cooldown(30 seconds) and keep the longest cooldown skills if it's close to the end of the runes cooldown to benefit from the extra cooldown reduction.
   
   Skills with the highest Priority to lowest(this does not mean you have to press every buttons below but use any of the following skill that has the longest cooldown that is up to benefit from the extra 15% multiplicative cooldown reduction from the rune effect):
   1. Alithanes's Judgment
   2. Heavenly Blessings
   3. Holy Protection
   4. Wrath of God
9. Basic attack when you have nothing else to do.

Stats Priority

• Standard Build: Full Swiftness focus build except for having Specialization on the necklace. This results in higher Cooldown Reduction, Mobility and Attack Speed. This is generally recommended due to higher cooldown reduction will allow you to rotate your damage buff between Wrath of God and Heavenly Blessings with as little downtime as possible.

Bracelet

Engravings

Starter Engravings

• Blessed Aura adds healing and Damage Reduction to Paladin's Holy Aura. It is the core aspect of any support Paladin.
• Awakening reduces Awakening Skill cooldown to provide more opportunities to shield allies from specific damage soak mechanics. Awakening Skills also fill your Piety Meter, allowing for greater Holy Aura uptime.

Add-On Endgame Engravings

• Expert increases heals and shield efficiency for Holy Protection and Holy Aura. The effectiveness increases further if an ally is below 50% health pool.
• Drops of Ether generate Ethers that can be picked up by allies to grant Attack Damage, Critical Strike Chance, Movement Speed, Defense or Mana Gain.
• Vital Point Hit increases Stagger damage done, which will help loosen the pressure on certain bosses with high Stagger check.
• Judgment increases Piety Meter gain when using Punish Skills. for support Paladins, you only require Level 1 for the 100% Piety Meter gain for greater Holy Aura uptime.
• Spirit Absorption increases Attack Speed and Movement Speed by 15% at level 3. It is mostly use as extra level 1 or 2 luxury optimization in future after your 5 engravings setups.
• Heavy Armor increases defense for higher survivability. Moreover, armor shredding debuffs don't affect the bonus defense from this Engraving.
• Explosive Expert increases the number of consumables you can carry which does provide some convenience and extra safety when extra Stagger Check or Imprisonment dispel is needed with Whirlwind Grenade or Flame Grenade, but the most value to pair with this engraving is Dark Grenade to increase the damage output of the raid for an even longer duration of the boss encounter.

Optimal Setups

Option 1

Option 2

Gear Sets

Runes

Gear Skill Tree

Gems

Card Sets

Beginner Card Set

Optional Card Set

Budget Card Set

Synergy with Light of Salvation Deck

Synergy with Kazeros's Legion Commanders

Summary

• Make sure you rotate Wrath of God and Heavenly Blessings. Their damage buffs do not stack.
• Holy Sword with Outburst of Light can Counter Attack at range with the projectile.
• Executor's Sword is your fast Counter Attack with decent range from it's mini dash.
• Understand boss's mechanics to pre-cast Godsent Law before allies take big damage.
• Keep applying Light Shock to debuff a target for increased damage taken.
• Blessed Aura and Awakening are your 2 core engravings as a support and add in Expert later on to further increase your shields and heals value.