Mortal Online 2 – Dagger Paladin Builds Guide

Guide to Dagger Paladin Builds

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Introduction

Paladins are magic-capable heavy armor combatants in Mortal Online. The dagger is a lethal weapon that can be used in a variety of ways. When you combine these two, you have a devastating combination capable of chasing down the toughest foes while also having a full mana bar for healing and finisher magic. The goal was to create a fully functional melee fighter that sacrificed mana regen in favor of increased combat powers. This guide shows you how to make example builds that you may modify to fit your needs.

Playstyle

In contrast to the dagger mage, this build is designed to be a front-line fighter. The magic is secondary to your stabbing. With the speed of a sheevra, you should be more than capable of stickybacking enemies who are low HP and killing them with high fast damage with the chance at big weakspots.

The downside to this build over dagger mage or hybrid is that you do not care about magic regeneration. You sacrifice that by wearing heavy armor. The mana pool that you enter battle with is what you get, at the benefit of wearing much heavier armor.

The magic within this build has four primary uses:

1. Recovery – should you get low HP, back out of the fight and utilize bandages plus healing to return to full HP and get back into the fray.
2. Peeling – Throwing lesser heals/purifies on a focused teammate helps give them the chance at getting away. Throwing offensive magic on a pusher/diver is a great way to dissuade them from continuing their attack.
3. Finishing – Spells like mindblast, corrupt, outburst, and lightning can be used to kill a target from range. The most capable of these is mindblast, which generally will hit for 36. If you decide to specialize more into magic, you can use thunderlash at level 62 ecumenical spells.
4. Opener – Starting a fight with an offensive spell can be a great way to apply hard pressure and forces the enemy to react – or they die. A group of dagger paladins/mages can initiate a fight with a salvo of heavy hitting spells to hopefully kill at least 1 target.

Be warned, however; daggers and magic require a high level of player skill to be proficient in. The build is not what makes you lethal – you are. Experience with the mechanics of the class are what will make you effective.

Character Build

Clade: Pureblood Sheevra

You can adapt this build to other clades, but it is specifically designed for Sheevra. I do not recommend using other races because they do not have the weakspot bonus, and their dex is too low for weakspots. I am also very partial to the Alvarin environmental gifts (fall damage, jumping, and swimming). Having those allows you to use terrain to your advantage over all other races.

Attributes:

• Age: 31
• Size: Minimum
• Strength: 82 OR 89 (4% vs. 7% damage bonus)
• Dex: 110
• Constitution: 101
• Psyche: 15
• Intelligence: 100 OR 94 (higher mana and spell power vs lower)
• Weight: 129% Stout

The advantage of a minimum height Sheevra is it has the potential to re-roll to basically any other viable build. You can become a pure mage, a dagger mage, a dex/psy fighter, a mounted archer, a tamer, or any other number of niches. While less versatile than humans, Sheevra have a lot of options.

Action Skills

Shard 1: The Tanky Dagger Paladin

This variant prioritizes physical defense. It is capable of wearing steel/cronite armor.

• 100 Aggressive Stance
• 100 Anatomy
• 100 Armor Training
• 100 Combat Manouvering
• 100 Daggers
• 100 Defensive Stance
• 40 Ecumenical (lesser heal + purify + corrupt + outburst + greater heal)
• 100 Endurance
• 100 Heavy Armor Training
• 100 Mental Offense
• 100 Mental Training
• 100 Sprinting
• 65 Survival

Shard 2: The Agile Dagger Paladin

This utilizes only 14 weight armor, but is better at surviving and has the addition of 100 archery for Best-In-Slot shortbows. Can be used as a budget mounted archer for PvP and PvE.

• 100 Aggressive Stance
• 100 Anatomy
• 100 Archery (Use +25 archery clade gift)
• 100 Armor Training
• 0 Heavy Armor Training (Attribute bonuses makes this effective level 9 for free)
• 100 Combat Manouvering
• 100 Daggers
• 100 Defensive Stance
• 30 Ecumenical (lesser heal + purify + corrupt + outburst)
• 100 Endurance
• 100 Mental Offense
• 100 Mental Training
• 100 Sprinting
• 100 Survival

Shard 3: The Beastly Dagger Paladin

Sacrifices heavy armor training and some slight environmental utility to hold powerful pets. Requires another character for taming and transferring pets. Broker pets work, too. 79 CC + 0 advanced CC should be enough for level 125 turtles and razorbacks. Adjust your creature control levels to the specific pets you have access to.

• 100 Aggressive Stance
• 100 Anatomy
• 100 Armor Training
• 100 Combat Maneovering
• 79 Creature Control
• 100 Daggers
• 100 Defensive Stance
• 30 Ecumenical Spells
• 100 Endurance
• 100 Mental Offense
• 100 Sprinting
• 92 Survival

Each of these builds have different uses. Shard 1 is probably the most effective at surviving, while shard 2 has the most PvE utility. Shard 3 is just degenerate. Please do not play as shard 3.

Some people might question the lack of blocking skill. This is a personal preference based on what gear you use. I personally use ironwood shields which are probably bugged because they do not receive a stamina reduction when blocking from the skill. If you plan on playing without a shield, drop survival for the blocking skill.

Clade Gifts

Clade gifts for this build are fairly straight forward.

I have left it at 19/20 gifts. If you choose to do archery, get the +25 Bow Training gift. Otherwise your 20th point should be used at your discretion.

Equipment

Equipment is tailored around your specific build and what resources you have access to.

Weapon: The best in slot daggers are Tungsteel or Oghmium. You can use metal handles for maximum durability, or incisium/dense crepite for increased weakspot. The best coating material is platescales for durability, or placoid scales for weakspot. I personally do not value weakspot over durability as it really reduces the longevity of the daggers.

Dagger head materials: Oghmium -> Tungsteel -> Cronite -> Steel -> Maalite -> Jadeite -> everything else. While Oghmium is the ideal, tungsteel is a viable alternative.

Armor: For a 14 weight armor set you can use bone/carapace. For a heavy dagger paladin you can use 23.81-24.29 (depending on str). This allows the user to wear full Mercenary plate of cronite with ironfur backing. Steel armor will require selective downgrading of certain armor parts for weight, but it is still possible wear mostly steel.

Spells and Reagents

Most of the versions of this build I have explained run 30 or 40 ecumenical spells. This allows for use of the following spells:

1. Spurt – used to disrupt mages casting spells, to break magic reflection, and a small finisher
2. Corrupt – denies healing and does modest damage
3. Purify – removes corruption/fulmination
4. Lesser Heal – Mana efficient heal
5. Mindblast – Burst damage of 36 on non-hybrid characters
6. Outburst – Long range burst damage.
7. Greater Heal [40 Ecu] – Burst healing. Less mana efficient than lesser heal.
8. Lightning [40 Ecu] – Burst damage, but smaller than mindblast. More mana efficient.

There is the option of raising ecumenical to 50 for magic reflect or 62 for thunderlash. If you decide to go this route it is probably best to take skill points out of survival.

A common reagent loadout for this build is 125 water, 125 calamine, 50 ichor, 50 sulfur, 50 nitre. If you have 40 ecumenical, throw in 25-50 cuprum.

Conclusion

A dagger paladin has the potential to be a murder machine, as well as one of the most survivable characters possible. Adapt the build to your needs. Nothing is set in stone, and the meta evolves. Do what works best, and do not be afraid to experiment. Hell, even feel free to substitute any other weapon over dagger (just be sure to not take the weakspot clade gift).