chronicking
14-02-2008, 06:03
hello. i'm trying to build a viable fanatical avenging paladin. i guess that means i'm going to go for fanaticism instead of conviction at level 30. i know that conviction is probably the best route for an avenger but i have heard of but never tried a fanatical avenger. to me it would be easy to decide which direction to go at level 30 with fanaticism or conviction if i new a little more about fanaticism.
for example lets say my max damage when looking at the character screen during the game is 100.[ill use might instead of fanaticism in example cuz i have might at this time and not fanat yet but they both are similiar] ok with might on at level two it's supposed to give me +50% damage. now here's where i get confused. is this +50% just calculated from the physical damage or both the physical and elemental damage created by the skill vengeance? now IMO it would just be the physical damage that gets the bonus but i'm unsure.
here's another confusing aspect of this for me. now.......lets say i'm right and might is just augmenting my physical damage by +50% and not the elemental damage supplied by vengeance. is the elemental damage that comes with vengeance based on my character's original melee damage or the original damage +50% [from the might aura] ? if auras like might, concentration, and last but not least fanaticism give you the melee bonus then vengeance bases it's bonuses on the melee damage increased from one of the three aforementioned auras, it seems that the fanatical avenger would be a viable build, but if the elemental damage from vengeance is based on original melee damage and not an aura boosted melee damage, one would be crazy not to go with conviction over one of the damage boosting auras [might, concentration, fanaticism] due to damage output[a bit diff in convictions case because it weakens opponent instead of increasing damage induced].
well hopefully i worded that correctly enough so that when someone whom might know where i'm coming from can decipher it.
basically i'm trying to decide whether to create a fanatical avenging paladin or the conventional avenger of conviction paladin. if someone can understand my question and answer it for me , they may save me from scrapping a character at level thirty..........
thanx for reading and your time.
for example lets say my max damage when looking at the character screen during the game is 100.[ill use might instead of fanaticism in example cuz i have might at this time and not fanat yet but they both are similiar] ok with might on at level two it's supposed to give me +50% damage. now here's where i get confused. is this +50% just calculated from the physical damage or both the physical and elemental damage created by the skill vengeance? now IMO it would just be the physical damage that gets the bonus but i'm unsure.
here's another confusing aspect of this for me. now.......lets say i'm right and might is just augmenting my physical damage by +50% and not the elemental damage supplied by vengeance. is the elemental damage that comes with vengeance based on my character's original melee damage or the original damage +50% [from the might aura] ? if auras like might, concentration, and last but not least fanaticism give you the melee bonus then vengeance bases it's bonuses on the melee damage increased from one of the three aforementioned auras, it seems that the fanatical avenger would be a viable build, but if the elemental damage from vengeance is based on original melee damage and not an aura boosted melee damage, one would be crazy not to go with conviction over one of the damage boosting auras [might, concentration, fanaticism] due to damage output[a bit diff in convictions case because it weakens opponent instead of increasing damage induced].
well hopefully i worded that correctly enough so that when someone whom might know where i'm coming from can decipher it.
basically i'm trying to decide whether to create a fanatical avenging paladin or the conventional avenger of conviction paladin. if someone can understand my question and answer it for me , they may save me from scrapping a character at level thirty..........
thanx for reading and your time.