Welcome to our Paladin Justicar Tanking Guide, updated for Mod 18: Infernal Descent and Mod 19 Avernus.

In this guide, we will give you tips and info on how to play the Paladin class, previously called Oathbound Paladin.

To learn more about the new mod, check out our mod 19 Avernus guide.

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The Paladin is a holy warrior, introduced in mod 6: Elemental Evil. They can either be Healers through the Oathkeeper paragon path or Tanks through Justicar.

Consider using one loadout for an Oathkeeper build so that you can fill both roles.

The purpose of our class guides is not just to show you a build that you can copy and use on your character, but to show you a base build and teach you the mechanics and stats of the game, so you can understand and play your class to its fullest capabilities.

Try different gear, feats, and powers and learn to tailor your own build for your playstyle. See our guide to making your own build for more info.

Basic Paladin Justicar Info

Other Paladin Builds

Best Paladin Justicar Races

  1. Metallic Ancestry Dragonborn – 3% + Healing – +2 to Any two stats – 1500 Crit – 3% Increased Damage
  2. Dragonborn – 3% HP + Healing – +2 to Any two stats – 1500 Crit – 3% Increased Damage
  3. Tiefling – 5% + Damage to targets below 50% health – +2 Cha and +2 Con or Int – 10% to reduce damage of target for 5 sec by 2.5%
  4. Human – 250 to all ratings (offensive & defensive) – +3 to any stat.
  5. Dwarf – 20% Resistance to Knock and Push – +2 Con and +2 Str or Wis – 2000 Defense bonus.

Paladin Justicar Ability Score Priority

Put all your available Ability Scores into Constitution and Charisma.

Paladin Justicar Stat / Rating Priority

Offensive Stats:

  • Armor Penetration (Caps at 90K)
  • Critical Strike (Caps at 90k)
  • Accuracy (Caps at 90k)
  • Combat Advantage (Caps at 140k)
  • Power (No Cap)

Defensive Stats:

  • Defense (Caps at 90K)
  • Deflection (Caps at 90K)
  • Critical Avoidance (Caps at 95K)
  • Awareness (Caps at 100K)
  • Health (No Cap)

Paladin Justicar Paragon Path, Powers & Rotation

Paladin Justicar Combat Powers

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At-Will Powers:

  • Oath Strike
  • Radiant Slam / Shielding Strike

Encounter Powers:

  • Sacred Weapon (ST) – Bane (AoE)
  • Binding Oath (ST) – Templar’s Wrath (AoE)
  • Smite (ST) – Relentless Avenger (AoE)

Daily Powers:

  • Shield of Faith – Heroism
  • Divine Judgement (ST) – Radiant Charge (AoE)

Class Features:

  • Divine Challenger – Composure (AoE)
  • Aura of Valor (ST) – Aura of Vengeance (AoE)

Paladin Justicar Feats

  • Sacred Shield
  • Burning Vengeance / Baneful Strikes (AoE)
  • Divine Pursuit
  • Sheltering Light
  • Unyielding Champion

Paladin Justicar Boons

You should always choose boons based on what stats you currently need. Therefore a selection of several viable boons is available to you for each tier.

At end-game, you should hit the stat caps without needing any of the boons.

Tier 1 Boons

  • Recruit’s Training – 250 Power
  • Critical Avoidance – 250 Critical Avoidance
  • Cultist Bulwark – 1000 HP
  • Cultist Power – 1% Increased damage and damage resistance vs. Cultists.

Tier 2 Boons

  • Squire’s Training – 250 Power
  • Defense – 250 Defense
  • Demonic Bulwark – 1000 HP
  • Demonic Mastery – 1% Increased damage and damage resistance vs. demons.

Tier 3 Boons

  • Knight’s Training – 250 Power
  • Awareness– 250 Awareness
  • Dino Bulwark – 1000 HP
  • Simple Support – 2% Companion Influence
  • Dino Power – 1% Increased damage and damage resistance vs. dinos.

Tier 4 Boons

  • Captain’s Training – 250 Power
  • Deflect – 250 Deflect
  • Necrotic Bulwark – 1000 HP
  • Necrotic Mastery – 1% Increased damage and damage resistance vs. undead.

Tier 5 Boons (Choose 2)

  • Second Wind – 1% Stamina Regen
  • Welcome Blessings – 1% Incoming Healing
  • Call of Power– 1% AP recovery

Master Boons

  • Focused Retaliation 3/3

Guild Boons

  • Offense – Power
  • Defense – Hit Points

Paladin Justicar Weapons & Gear

If you are new to Neverwinter and need to know how to get better gear and increase your item level, check out our Gearing Up Guide.

The best way to gear up in Neverwinter is by making a lot of Astral Diamonds, check out our Astral Diamond Guide to learn all the secrets of AD farming.

Head

  • Lion Guard’s Barbute

Armor

Slot
  • Lion Guard’s Ward Cuirass
  • Protégé’s / Spy’s Guild
  • Barkhide

Arms

  • Spiked Defender Vambrace
  • Plated Gauntlets of the Successor

Feet

  • Lion Guard’s Poleyns
  • Infernal Forged Cuisses

Weapons

  • Celestial Set
  • Lionheart Set
  • Legion Guard Set
  • Alabaster / Burnished Set

Main Hand Modification

  • Oath Strike

Offhand Modifications

  • Stamina Regen
  • Health Points
  • Incoming Healing

Rings

  • Ring of the Condemned
  • Ring of the Overwhelmed
  • Tanner’s Hardened Leather Ring
  • Gold-plated Ring

Neck & Waist

  • Tales of Old Set (Scar & Sash of Embelishments + a Journal)
  • Reflective Armaments (Reflective Collar, Mirror-Plated Belt, Erratic Drift Globe)

Shirt

  • Infernal Forged Shirt
  • Protege’s Shirt

Pants

  • Infernal Forged Trousers
  • Protégé’s Pants

Paladin Justicar Artifacts

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Primary Artifact

  • Halaster’s Blast Scepter
  • Wyvern-Venom Coated Knives
  • Erratic Drift Globe

Secondary Artifacts

Choose secondary artifacts based on the stats you are lacking.

  • Frozen Storyteller’s Journal
  • Flayed Storyteller’s Journal
  • Darkened Storyteller’s Journal
  • Arcturia’s Music Box
  • Trobriands Ring
  • Staff of Flowers
  • Halaster’s Blast Scepter

Paladin Justicar Enchantments

When getting enchantments, always get the ones with the stats you are lacking in with your gear, boons, etc in mind. For example, if you’ve capped Crit with your gear and boons, don’t get azure enchantments for your offense slots. If you still need to refine your enchantments, see our Refinement Guide for tips on how to farm refinement.

Offense Enchantments

  • One Tenebrous Enchantment
  • Triple Stat Enchantments like Assassin’s Enchantment or whatever you might need for stats

Defense Enchantments

  • Radiant Enchantment

Armor Enchantments

  • Elven Battle Enchantment
  • Negation Enchantment

Utility Enchantments

  • Tactical Enchantment
  • Dark Enchantment
  • Fey’s Blessing / Dragon’s Hoard / Quartermaster’s Enchantment

Weapon Enchantments

  • Vorpal Enchantment
  • Bronzewood Enchantment

Overload Enchantments

  • Resiliency of the Depths / Bulwark Of Brimstone from Hell Pit
  • Various Marks from Stronghold Vendor
  • Corrupt Black Ice / Lethal / Piercing
  • Black / Red Dragon Glyph

Armor Reinforcement Kits

  • Hit Points Armor Kit

Jewelry Reinforcement Kits

  • Awareness / Stamina Regen Jewel

Paladin Justicar Consumables & Buffs

Consider getting VIP for the Power of VIP HP buff if you aren’t already. Also always stand in campfires to get the +1 ability campfire buff.

Get one from each of the rows below:

  • Empowered Chain of Scales (Best in Slot) > Adorable Pocket Pet > Tymora’s Lucky Coin
  • Foehammer’s Favor Elixir – Wild Stor Elixir
  • Caprese – Sambocade
  • Superior Flask of Potency +1

Paladin Justicar Companions

Summoned Companion

The most important thing to consider for a summoned companion is to get an Augment Companion. There are a bunch to choose from, some have more useful powers than others.

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  • Deepcrow Hatchling
  • Owlbear Cub
  • Ioun Stones
  • Quasit

Enchantment Power

  • Redemption
  • Potent Precision

Companion Powers

Below is a selection of viable companion powers.

Offense Powers

  • Rimfire Golem’s Presence – 16000 HP and 2000 Armor Penetration

Defense Powers

  • Harper bard – 12000 HP and 15000 Awareness
  • Red Dragon Ioun Stone – 10% Incoming Healing and 8000 HP
  • Alluring Insight – 10% Healing and 2000 Power
  • Monshea Druid’s Wisdom – 16000 HP and 2000 Critical Avoidance
  • Iron Golem’s Presence – 16000 HP and 2000 Defense

Utility Powers

  • Xegyi’s Insight – 32000 HP
  • Energon – 32000 HP

Companion Equipment

Double slotted “Of the Companion” gear

Companion Runestones

  • Pick the runestones that has the stats you are lacking

Paladin Justicar Mounts

When choosing a Legendary Mount for the Mount Powers, look for a mount that has both a useful equip and combat power.

What other mounts you use is not that important. What is important is to get the right insignia bonuses, and many different mounts can offer the various bonuses. To find out what mount has the bonus you want, check out our Insignia Bonus Guide.

Mount Insignia Bonuses

All classes and specs should consider using Wanderer’s Fortune before you have refined all your gear and enchantments, for extra refinement every day.

  • Survivor’s Blessing
  • Oppressor’s Reprieve
  • Barbarian’s Revelry
  • Gladiator’s Guile
  • Knight’s Rebuke
  • Champion’s Return

Insignia Type

  • Fortitude
  • Prosperity
  • Dominance

Paladin Justicar Mount Powers

Mount Equip Power:

  • Stalwart – 50000 HP

Mount Combat Power:

  • Trample (War Triceratops)

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This guide has been updated for mod 18, Infernal Descent.

So you’ve hit level 80 in Neverwinter, but you don’t know what to do now. Fear not, this is what most fresh level 80’s feel like. End-game in Neverwinter can be quite confusing, but this guide is designed to help you out on your way to gear up your character. This guide is also great for new level 80 alts. In this guide, I will be showing you how to get to around how to increase your item level after hitting level 80.

Maybe the best way to get a higher item level is by using Astral Diamonds. You can use AD to buy gear, enchants, mounts, companions and even to skip campaigns. See our Astral Diamond guide, for methods on how to make hundreds of thousands or even millions of AD per day.

Armor, Weapons, and Artifacts

First things first! Getting some new gear after hitting 80, to increase your item level. To see what gear is best in slot for your class, go to our Neverwinter class guides.

Undermountain 644 Ilvl Gear

At level 70 click Neverember’s Letter behind Sergeant Knox and get the quest “An Important Invitation”. This is a very short quest that will start the Undermountain campaign as well as reward you with a full set of Undermountain gear that is item level 644 as well as gear for your companion!

Weapons

The “An Important Invitation” will also provide you with a weapon set. Upgrade these to at least blue quality. When you get to level 80, there are several options open to you like the Alabaster set.

The Alabaster set is acquired from the “Master Expedition (Three Daily)” quest from Obaya Uday in the Yawning Portal.

The Burnished Set is also good and easy to get, and the Lionheart set is often BiS but is harder to acquire.

Refining your weapons to at least Epic quality is pretty easy and low cost and should be done early. See our Refinement Guide for more info on how to farm refinement.

Armor – Head – Arms – Feet

Do queues and spend your Seals on gear at the Seals Trader.

The next step when it comes to armor should be to get your best in slot items. To see suggestions for your class go to our Neverwinter class guides.

Many good and best in slot items come from rare mobs in Avernus and from the bags from Yuma which are easy to get as soon as you can do mod 18 content.

Cloak, Belt and Set

Most sets can be bought for AD. Don’t put too much refinement into your set before you got the one you want for your class and build. Some builds use a full set and others break them up or use items that aren’t part of sets. For the most part, getting your cloak and belt probably won’t be too hard. Some are bought through the AH for Astral Diamonds and others through campaign currencies.

Once you have the one you want, you can start putting RP into them to upgrade them. Try to get them to at least Epic quality as quickly as possible, working to upgrade the whole set at once, rather than one item at a time.

Rings

Decent Epic quality rings can be bought from the Auction House, and some BiS legendary rings can be bought as well although these are quite expensive. Get the purple quality ones first if you can’t afford legendary. Rings of the Shadowstalker from Chult are still good for DPS. Ebonized Rings from Master Expeditions are also very good.

Shirt and Pants

Ebony Stained from Master’s Expeditions.

Protégé from the Seal Vendor

Various shirts and pants are also available for AD on the Auction House.

Artifacts

Getting and upgrading all your Artifacts will take some RP and time. I would recommend getting all your best in slot artifacts before upgrading anything past Epic quality. Upgrading to Epic quality is done pretty quickly, but slows down towards Legendary.

The best way to go about refining your artifacts is working on all of them at the same time. Refine all of the to the next tier, instead of working on them one at a time.

As of mod 16 try to get the new artifacts for the most stats unless you are using a older artifact for a set.

Enchantments

As a fresh level 80 you will get some enchantments with your free Undermountain gear. Focus on getting Bonding Runestones and ranking them before focusing on enchantments as they will give you the most stats. Then you can start on either refining your enchantments or buying better ones. Like with Artifacts, it is much better to work on all of them at the same time. Take them all to rank 8, then 9, etc.

The most important enchantments to get are Weapon, along with Bonding Runestones (see below). Having a good Weapon Enchantment will make a huge difference in your DPS and on how fast you can do all sorts of content.

You will the free Heart of Fire Enchantment, Rank 14 from completing the Heart of Fire campaign.

You will also want to get Dragon’s Hoard, Quartermaster’s and Fey Blessing Enchantments for your utility slots, so that you can earn extra RP. See our Refinement Guide, for more info.

Armor Reinforcement Kits

These can be made or bought on the Auction House and will boost your stats and item level a little bit. These are good to keep in mind when you need a little extra item level to be able to do new content.

Companions

Next up we have companions. These also give you a higher item level. The problem with companions is that they can be really expensive. So you might have to wait with the ones you actually want. So before you can get the good companions, get some cheap rare and epic quality ones.

Your end-game companions will mostly come from the AH. They are expensive but usually worth it as they can provide you with some big boosts to DPS, healing or to you defensive capabilities

In mod 18 most players will want to try to get a legendary Augment companion as they give the most stats.

Next up you want to pick your companions for the offense, defense and utility powers.

Gear for your companion will be rewarded as you progress through the Undermountain campaign, or can be bought from the Auction House.

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Bonding Runestones

Bonding Runestones are some of the most important items you are going to get. Buy the highest rank of these that you can afford. Bonding Runestones will grant you your companions stats.

Mounts

As a new level 80 you can buy cheap mounts off the AH, or from the mount vendor, or they can be gotten from events. Slot each of your mounts with 2 or 3 insignia’s.

You will then want to look at what insignia bonuses you want for your character. Wanderer’s Fortune is a good one to get for any character as it will provide you with some extra RP every day to upgrade your gear. When you know what bonuses you want, start saving up for mounts with slots for these bonuses. Our Mount Insignia Bonus Guide has more info on this.

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Finally, you can start saving for your Legendary mount.

Boons

Boons also affect item level. Work your way through the modules by doing daily and weekly quests. You can also buypass them by buying completion tokens from the auction house or from the zen store. Check out the campaign completion guide for the fastest ways to complete each module.

Joining a guild and activating the guild boons, is one of the quickest and best ways to increase your item level quickly.

Summary

In the end, Neverwinter is a game you need to take one day at the time. Work on everything mentioned above, a little bit every day and you will eventually get there. The main things to keep working at daily are:

  • Hitting Astral Diamond cap. AD is one of the most important factors to improve your character. Remember our Astral Diamond Guide.
  • Getting your best in slot gear.
  • Getting your Artifacts, Weapons and Enchantments so you can farm RP to upgrade them.
  • Working on your uncompleted modules.

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If you have any questions or need some help improving your character, leave a comment and we will get back to you! See you in Neverwinter.