So after basically 10 years, I have returned to GS and am looking for suggestions on training/cmans/shield manuevers with the upcoming fixskills that I've ready we will all get. I'm sure at the time I had a rationale for all of the training decisions made...but now I don't recall what those are. Any advise or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Raliver (at level 77), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 250 150
Shield Use.........................| 256 156
Combat Maneuvers...................| 209 109
Blunt Weapons......................| 256 156
Multi Opponent Combat..............| 155 55
Physical Fitness...................| 177 77
Dodging............................| 136 38
Arcane Symbols.....................| 120 30
Magic Item Use.....................| 90 20
Harness Power......................| 177 77
Spirit Mana Control................| 105 25
Spiritual Lore - Blessings.........| 40 8
Spiritual Lore - Religion..........| 105 25
Perception.........................| 140 40
Climbing...........................| 140 40
Swimming...........................| 120 30
First Aid..........................| 105 25

Spell Lists
Minor Spiritual....................| 20

Spell Lists
Paladin............................| 40

Raliver, your Combat Maneuver training is as follows:

Skill name Mnemonic Ranks
Shield Bash sbash 4
Feint feint 4
Precision precision 2
Specialization I wspec1 3
Surge of Strength surge 3

Available Combat Maneuver Training Points: 4

Raliver, your Shield Specialization training is as follows:

Skill name Mnemonic Ranks
Tower Shield Focus tfocus 5

Available Shield Training Points: 116

Also, can you change the type for Weapon Spec without unlearning it? If not, I will just unlearn prior to new fixskills. Obviously I took shield bash as a CMAN because shield manuevers didn't exist.

Thanks in advance.

Paladins shouldn't be expecting a fixskill from HSN, but you ought to have your annual one from May, should to want to use it.

My paladin is mid-50s, so I won't be an expert for training advice. All-in-all it looks totally reasonable, though I'd say you'd want more lore probably. The lore benefits are really good these days, and even my level 53 or 54 paladin has more ranks than you!

Given that you already have the CMAN Surge, I'd think you'll be happier to continue in Voln for a bit. There was a big overhaul for Voln, and I think for a paladin it's really tough to beat these days. You use 1607 to keep Surge perpetually running and eating your stamina, and use favor for Courage, Protection, Supremacy, Restoration, and Transcendence.

3 Surge is exactly what I like. Between that, 1625, and an adv guild badge you can be near your max strength of 140. Most the other CMANs are very race or gear-oriented. I had Toughness for my halfling, or Precision for use of a flail (guess which paladin I play), and now have Tainted Bond for the ensorcelled flail. I've personally never been big on Feint, but it's what almost everyone else loves so I'm not going to steer you down the dark path.

I assume for ARMOR points you're full up on Fluidity to T4.

Never used a shield in recent years, so I'm no help there.

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The Paladin Base / Lore Review last summer, as well as the Voln updates about 2 or 3 years ago, have gone a long way to improving a class I already loved. I think you're definitely going to enjoy your return. I converted my 2003-era warrior to a paladin on a whim shortly before the release of monks and the Voln overhaul, and I've absolutely been loving that character.

If you decide to stick it out for Voln, check out Voln armor, it's amazeballs. https://gswiki.play.net/mediawiki/index.php/Voln_armor

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Thanks so much for the advice. I loved the benefits of lore and its good to see some of the changes that make it moreso. Sticking with Voln makes sense with how surge can be used with 1607 (which means I should probably max out surge ASAP).

As far as the fixskills, I'm pretty certain I read somewhere where a GM was quoted as saying everyone gets a fixskills after HSN, but I could be wrong. If I find it again, I'll repost. Either way, looks like I do have that earlier fixskills so it doesn't much matter.

Thank you again. I loved this class back before I took my hiatus and has been a lot of fun so far.

Voln has changed since you've been about and has new symbols so I'd take a look first before you make the switch. Abilities such as getting your spells back after you get raised are nice... just for starts

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