Cleric|Paladin/Hell's Keeper/Ceaseless Guardian

One who bears the pain of the world, Divine Prostration is designed as a fifth man character who enables allies to throw off any condition that a save can end, in exchange for spending his time between turns stunned.


The Build

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Note: This build is an experiment. I've never quite done something like this, but I think it has the potential to be quite cool.


Tiefling for the feats is mandatory. This build cannot operate without access to Dispater's Iron Discipline. Similarly, Cleric and Paladin are also mandatory, although one could probably make a build that operates via multiclassing- what really matters is feat access.

The Basics


This build operates by utilizing the feat 'Superior Will' in conjunction with the feats 'Pacifist Healer' and 'Hero's Poise'. Making an attack against an enemy and dealing damage, Divine Prostration stuns himself at the end of his turn, makes a saving throw against the stun at the start of his turn (and succeeds) and grants his allies a significant bonus to saving throws against conditions a save can end. He then continues his turn as normal.

This build's primary focus, granting allies bonuses to saving throws, comes into effect at level 12- before then, it functions as a hybrid paladin|cleric and can spend its time being fairly effective as a controller of sorts, handing out debuffs as if they were candy and letting the heavy hitters do the heavy hitting.

At 12, the build begins to operate, succeeding on saving throws against the stun condition 95% of the time, and granting the next ally within 5 squares that makes a saving throw an automatic success, and each ally thereafter in 5 squares a +5 bonus to their saving throws until the end of your next turn, +7 versus effects that daze, stun, immobilize, or restrain.

At 30, the build automatically succeeds on saving throws vs Stun, lets the next ally in 5 to make a saving throw automatically succeeds (gaining a +12 bonus to the save), and each ally thereafter a +8 bonus to saving throws, +9 if they're bloodied, +10 if they're making a save against daze, stun, immobilize, or restrain, and +11 if they're making a save against daze, stun, imobilize, or restrain, and are also bloodied.



Ah, but what if your enemies aren't laying the status conditions on your party as if they were candy? Well, there's two possibilities: One, something has gone horribly horribly wrong in epic tier, and you've endered a strange alternate universe of magical butterflies, unicorn ponies, and pretty flowers made of bacon. The alternative is to not give a damn, and continue to lay out the debuffs, mark enemies as normal, and punish them as a solid leader|defender can. Weakening challenge and forceful challenge ensure that your enemies will make the intelligent choice and attack you instead of your allies- and hey, if they don't, everyone wins regardless. Moreover, you have a potent host of dailies and other powers that let you lay on debuffs so that allies think twice about hurting your allies.


Oh, so I hear you asking about defenses? Granting combat advantage all the time can't possibly be healthy. And to a degree you're right, but that's where a few items and feats come in, in particular Torc of Fortune, which lets you shift 2 when you succeed on a save on your turn; Shield of the Barrier Sentinels, which gives you a +1/2/3 bonus to AC and Reflex when you are flanked; Boots of the Fencing Master, which grants a +1 to AC and Reflex when you shift, and the feat 'Uncanny Dodge', which means that when you grant combat advantage, enemies do not gain the +2 to attack rolls against you.

These items and feat engender the specific movement of starting your turn, succeeding against your daze, shifting 2 into flank, and gaining a +4 bonus to AC and Reflex on top of your current defenses.


There's more to this build than I can write about in a single sitting, like interesting action point functionality, or cool items I haven't purchased yet, but the core essential of this build is laid bare for all to see. If you have any suggestions or ideas for improving it, I'm open to hearing them.

In the meanwhile, stay classy Charop!

This is a very interesting build, to be sure. The ability to help allies shake conditions off this easily is (as you mentioned) absolute gold in Epic, and I'm liking the defensive measures that you put in there to deal with the consequences that you are subject to. Good stuff.

Ya what they said, outside the box builds like this really get my blood pumping.  Kudos mate.

I like it.

This is my kind of build.