

Alternatively cleansing could be made into a passive, 'Purity', that reduces the duration of poison/curses on the Paladin. If you can think of a more interesting skill to replace it, Cleansing (excluding the Prayer aspect) could just about be merged with Vigor without making the resulting skill overpowered. In any case +% defence skills are rarely crazily overpowered, because there are so many ifs and buts about defence rating.Ĭleansing: It's hard to make this skill sexy, so I can't think of much to say here.

Perhaps the bonus Defiance receives from Holy Shield is overkill though, as any Paladin who uses Defiance would almost certainly be using Holy Shield at the time anyway. I notice Defiance, Holy Shield and Smite are strongly tied by synergies, which will make for an interesting defence-oriented Vindicator. This is going to be pretty powerful on Clerics, but then again it should be!ĭefiance: This is a lot better than the vanilla version, which is a good thing (though may pose balance issues on mercs). The one thing I'd change is to ditch the bonus from Vengeance, as it's a bit too much of a gift for Avengers, who can then get massive absorb for 1 point in each. Protection from F/C/L: These are good IMO - they're very powerful, but they have to be given they're only one element at a time, and that most players prefer offensive auras. Here's my impression of the skills, looking at the tree and having played a bit with Paladins:
