| Shadow6773 |
Does anyone have advice for a proper build order for a shield wielding Champion going for a Sheild of Reckoning build? To be honest the feats are very crowded and I've no idea what a reasonable level is to achieve this, or the best way to build toward it.
Currently I have something like this.
Half Elf Redemption Champion
Shields of the Spirit
Blessed Shield
Lvl 2 Blessed One Dedication
Lvl 4 Security
Lvl 6 Shield Warden
Lvl 8 Expand Aura
Lvl 10 Shield of Reckoning
Lvl 12 Devoted Focus or Blessed Counterstrike
Lvl 14 Divine Reflexes
As you can see it gets bloated with feats quickly. Ideally, I'd like Greater Security but its hard to fit that in. Without Expand aura at or around lvl 10 it lowers the effectiveness, but adding to many feats pushes back good ones at 12 and 14. What's a reasonable order? Is there something else that worked for you?
| Tridus |
The only thing you actually need is Shield Warden, Shield of Reckoning, and Divine Reflexes. That's it. Shield of Reckoning works great without anything else (in legacy Expand Aura and Security didn't exist and it was good without any of that).
Quick Shield Block is also good since its reaction is explicitly able to be used for Shield of Reckoning (and also Shield Block if they're targeting you). With that and Divine Reflexes, you have 3 reactions. I'd take that personally.
Greater Security lets you do it from farther away if it's the person you cast Shield of the Spirit on so it's nice. I'd definitely take that over Devoted Focus (which you don't need unless you're in a time-compressed situation and the rest of the group isn't making you wait a half hour to refocus three times anyway).
Expand Aura doesn't seem that necessary for this unless the person you want to cast Greater Security on is going to be a long way away from you when you want to put it up. If it's another melee character it's unlikely to be that critical. So you can delay that if you need to delay something.
So for all the other stuff, you're going to have to prioritize what matters most to you since you don't have enough feats to get everything.