Paladin - Chaos Dungeon/Cube AoE Build

Intro

Paladin is normally a support class in raid content, however in cube and chaos dungeons you need to build for AOE damage for fast and efficient clears. Paladin has one of the fastest chaos dungeons clears due his immense amount of AOE damaging skills that you can rotate per each mob group. Chaos dungeons and cube are fairly easy content and Paladin just excels in both with this AOE build.

Skill Progression

• At 268 skill points add Execution of Justice, Acuteness on Execution of Justice
• At 284 skill points add Flash Thrust, Chain Attack on Flash Thrust
• At 296 skill points remove Flash Thrust, Chain Attack from Flash Thrust and add Execution of Justice, Express Fury on Execution of Justice
• At 312 skill points add Flash Thrust, Chain Attack on Flash Thrust
• At 340 skill points add Flash Thrust, Flash Enhancement on Flash Thrust
• At 340+ skill points start getting Heavenly Blessings and Holy Explosion to level 11, while getting other level 10 skills to level 11 as you unlock more skill points.

Skill Breakdown

• Heavenly Blessings is the bread and butter of AOE damage. It has massive range and one-shots every mob in the area and on top of that gives you an attack power buff for your next AOE attack.
• Holy Explosion is the 2nd best mob clearing skill that has smaller AOE but deals a lot of damage and clears whole packs of mobs in one go.
• Wrath of God is similar to Heavenly Blessings where it has lower damage but stuns all the mobs in the AOE range while also giving attack power buff.
• Holy Sword is good for dealing with Elite mobs and bosses due to its high damage to single targets.
• Executor's Sword has massive AOE damage when you combine it after attack power buffs. Efficiently clears whole packs of mobs and deal with Elites as well.
• Execution of Justice deals massive AOE damage also after self buffing with attack power.
• Flash Thrust cannot be interrupted while casting, has decent damage and low cooldown while staggering mobs it hits.
• Charge is movement skill for repositioning and grouping up mobs.
• Alithanes's Judgment is the preferred awakening as the other one is more support oriented and you want damage.

Combat Stats

This build focuses heavily on high Swiftness as a primary stat and Specialization as a secondary stat on necklace which will give you you high mobility, high attack speed and low cooldowns.

Runes

Runes will help you by enhancing your skills with extra stats or abilities, they are not mandatory in chaos dungeons and cube but will help with faster clears.

• Bleed, 4 on Flash Thrust to apply bleeding effect and clear groups of mobs faster
• Galewind, 3 on Holy Sword, Executor's Sword, Execution of Justice and Holy Explosion to increase casting speed even more and clear groups of mobs faster
• Wealth, 4 on Heavenly Blessings and Wrath of God to farm identity gauge
• Quick Recharge, 3 for a chance to refresh cooldowns when you use the skill for mobility

Gameplay and Rotation

Since this build is based arround AOE skills, the rotation is as following.

1. Rotate between Wrath of God and Heavenly Blessings to apply attack power buffs before using other skills for higher damage.
2. Group as many mobs as possible then blast them with Holy Explosion and Execution of Justice depending on which one is off cooldown first.
3. To clear Elites and bosses make sure to activate your identity for more damage on Holy Sword
4. Use your Awakening skill Alithanes's Judgment whenever you group up 3 Elites in Stage 2 as they will reduce the cooldown of it and you will get it back before Boss spawn to use it again.
5. Your filler skills are Flash Thrust and Executor's Sword but they also deal a lot of damage to big groups of mobs.
6. Repeat the same rotation of skills as they come of cooldown. You don't need to have perfect rotation so don't be conservative with using any skill whenever it is available.

Summary

• Paladin has one of the fastest and most efficient chaos dungeons clears due to high AOE damage skills
• Group mobs before self buffing with Wrath of God and Heavenly Blessings as they both deal massive AOE damage
• Combine the buff with even more high AOE damaging skills.
• Use the awakening whenever you feel it is needed as the cooldown gets reduced when you kill Elites and the Boss in stage 2.
• Only activate your identity at the start of the Stage as the effect doesn't carry into the next stage.