XCOM 2
Paladin Class for LWP & LW2
SerenityNow 4 May, 2017 @ 11:45am
My thoughts on the class, for what they're worth
Overall I enjoyed playing this class and did a full playthrough with the class (vanilla, legend, LW2 mods) and really thought about the different ways I could play it. I have some thoughts and feedback and hope you consider them.

For one, I think that the 'Swordmaster' route is surprisingly weak given the effort you went through to make it strong. This is because for some reason the Paladin lacks the innate 'Fleche' skill (LW2 Perk Pack), so movement distance doesn't improve damage whatsoever. This alone makes the Paladin do very weak base damage with the sword compared to his counterparts. This made me not want to pursue the Swordmaster route even though you give Smite, Bladestorm, and 'Swordsmanship' (Implaceable) perks for free at Squaddie! It's all very strong at first but the lack of Fleche eventually becomes very noticeable. To resolve this issue I would advise adding Fleche and removing Smite, Bladestorm, and the Implaceable aspect Swordsmanship as with them all the Paladin would be extremely OP. You can add these perks to the Swordmaster skill route as many of the current perks in that route have nothing to do with swords and more to do with tanking, which the build already has a ton of.

The 'Guardian' route makes sense. It's a nice reaction-fire build that offers some good perks to get extra attacks and make them count.

The middle route seems to be the tank route. Cutthroat should be swapped with Tactical Sense. You have a lot of different tank perks in the Swordmaster path and I think some can go and be replaced with the sword related perks I mentioned above.

Finally, the Brigadier perk choices really didn't make sense to me. All three choices are very anti-climatic in my opinion and nothing to really look forward to. The sacrifice perk makes sense, if you went the tank route, but the others are also 'tank' perks and have nothing to do with Guardian or Swordmaster skill paths.

Again, I enjoyed the class mod and thank you for working on it and contributing to the community. I hope you consider my feedback.