Warrior / Paladin / Shadow Knight

The combo

Primary PaladinTank Plate armor

Secondary Shadow KnightTank Plate armor

Tertiary WarriorTank Plate armor

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Role coverage

Tank

100%

Heal

29%

DPS

62%

Utility

52%

Not a natural D4 raider yet. To make higher-difficulty content comfortable it would want to add a slow. It can still shine at lower difficulty, for leveling, or with a well-geared player driving it.

Strengths & watch-outs

✔ Strengths

A real plate tank (Warrior) to hold aggro and eat the big hits.
Hybrid healing and lifetaps give you real sustain without a pure healer.
In-group rez means a death doesn't end the session.

⚠ Watch-outs

No slow — big single-target fights come at you at full swing speed.

How it plays

Lead with Warrior to grab and hold aggro while the fight sets up. Warrior carries most of your damage; focus-fire one target down rather than spreading hits. Paladin patches you up between pulls; without a dedicated healer, respect your downtime.

Suggested AA focus

From your Paladin

Unbound Life — Innate healing potency.
Improved Lay on Hands — Lay on Hands becomes a full heal.

From your Shadow Knight

Unbound Drain — Innate lifetap on hit.
Harm Touch (DoT ranks) — Adds damage-over-time ranks to Harm Touch.

From your Warrior

Flurry — Chance for up to 2 extra main-hand attacks.
Warcry — Group fear immunity, 10s per rank.

Signature class abilities worth prioritizing. Plan the full board on the AA guide, or wire it into a saved build in the Forge.

Gear direction

This trio wears Plate. Stack AC and HP on your tank first. Melee want haste and DEX (for procs) once the basics are covered. See the gear-by-class guide and weapon guide for the specifics.

Ratings are computed from each class's role weighting — the same scoring the Build Forge uses — and EverQuest Legends is new and soloable by design, so treat tiers as a starting point and confirm what works in-game. The level cap is 50.

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