Sacred Fist

Paladin
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Sacred Fist is a variant Paladin archetype introduced in Update 56. Sacred Fists are handwrap-using Paladins who combine ki with divine energies, enchanting their strikes with holy fire. The archetype is Free to Play for all players.

Changes from Base Class

Ability	Lose	Gain
Enhancements	Knight of the Chalice enhancements Vanguard enhancements	Sacred Fist enhancements Radiant Servant enhancements
Granted Feats	Choice of Deity Feat at level 1 Deity-based Feat at level 6	Flurry of Blows, AC Bonus (Charisma), Follower of the Path of Light Unarmed Strike at levels 1, 4, 8, 12, 16 & 20 Evasion at level 2 Divine Dream at level 6
Proficiencies	Light Armor Proficiency, Medium Armor Proficiency, Heavy Armor Proficiency, Shield Proficiency Martial Weapon Proficiency	Proficiency: Handwraps
Spells	-	Ki Bolt (Spell level 1) Sacred Flame Empowerment (Spell level 2) Incinerating Wave (Spell level 3) Ki Explosion (Spell level 4)

Class Summary

Alignment: Lawful Good Hit die: d10

Class Skills

Skill points at 1st level: (2 + Intelligence modifier) x4

Skill points at each additional level: 2 + Intelligence modifier

Concentration (Constitution)
Diplomacy (Charisma)
Heal (Wisdom)
Intimidate (Charisma)

Weapon and Armor Proficiencies

	Simple weapons
	Exotic weapons (Handwraps)

Past Lives

Past Life: Sacred Fist

You were a Sacred Fist in a past life. You occasionally find yourself contemplating the flickering flame in campfires. Each time you acquire this feat you gain +5 Positive Amplification and +5 Positive Spell Power. This feat can be stacked up to three times. Archetype: This class counts as a Paladin for the purposes of Completionist. Past Life: Sacred Fist is a Free Feat, which means it is permanently added to the character that unlocks it and you won't need to choose it, neither at new life nor at level up.

Enhancements

• Sacred Fist
• Sacred Defender
• Radiant Servant

Advancement table

Table: The Paladin						Preparable Spells
Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Spell points	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
1st	+1/+1/+6	+2	+0	+0	Aura of good, Smite evil (1/rest), Armor Class Bonus, Flurry of Blows, Unarmed Strike, Follower of the Path of Light	0	-	-	-	-
2nd	+2/+2/+7	+3	+0	+0	Divine grace, Lay on Hands (1/rest), Armor Class Bonus, Evasion	0	-	-	-	-
3rd	+3/+3/+8	+3	+1	+1	Aura of courage, Divine health, Fear Immunity	0	-	-	-	-
4th	+4/+4/+9	+4	+1	+1	Turn Undead, Unarmed Strike	20	1	-	-	-
5th	+5/+5/+10/+15	+4	+1	+1	Smite evil (2/rest), Armor Class Bonus	35	1	-	-	-
6th	+6/+6/+11/+16	+5	+2	+2	Remove disease (4/rest), Divine Dream	50	2	-	-	-
7th	+7/+7/+12/+17	+5	+2	+2	-	65	2	-	-	-
8th	+8/+8/+13/+18	+6	+2	+2	Unarmed Strike	80	2	1	-	-
9th	+9/+9/+14/+19	+6	+3	+3	Remove disease (5/rest)	95	2	1	-	-
10th	+10/+10/+15/+20	+7	+3	+3	Smite evil (3/rest), Armor Class Bonus	110	2	2	-	-
11th	+11/+11/+16/+21	+7	+3	+3	-	125	2	2	1	-
12th	+12/+12/+17/+22	+8	+4	+4	Remove disease (6/rest), Unarmed Strike	140	2	2	2	-
13th	+13/+13/+18/+23	+8	+4	+4	-	155	2	2	2	-
14th	+14/+14/+19/+24	+9	+4	+4	-	170	3	2	2	1
15th	+15/+15/+20/+25	+9	+5	+5	Remove disease (7/rest), Smite evil (4/rest), Armor Class Bonus	185	3	2	2	2
16th	+16/+16/+21/+26	+10	+5	+5	Unarmed Strike	200	3	3	2	2
17th	+17/+17/+22/+27	+10	+5	+5	-	215	3	3	2	2
18th	+18/+18/+23/+28	+11	+6	+6	Remove disease (8/rest)	230	4	3	2	2
19th	+19/+19/+24/+29	+11	+6	+6	-	245	4	4	4	3
20th	+20/+20/+25/+30	+12	+6	+6	Smite evil (5/rest), Unarmed Strike, Armor Class Bonus	260	4	4	4	4

Foreword

Sacred Fist uses many systems native to Monk, such as Ki and Centering. For brevity's sake, the descriptions of those systems can be found on their individual articles. (Note that for a Sacred Fist, maximum Ki is based on Charisma, not Wisdom).

Centering

The same things which uncenter a monk will uncenter a Sacred Fist. At level 6, being centered with a Ki weapon allows you to benefit from Divine Dream. You can use Charisma to hit and damage with that weapon. (This weapon does not need to be Favored). You are also considered to be wearing Heavy Armor for the purpose of Sacred Defender enhancements.

Uncentering

Things that don't work uncentered:

• Sacred Flame imbue.
• Specific Sacred Defender stance bonuses (exception listed below)

Things that work uncentered:

• The bonuses to hit and damage with Favored Weapons from Sacred Fist enhancements.
• Casting Ki Spells / Ki-spending attacks. However, you will rapidly lose Ki, and cannot gain additional Ki, while uncentered.
• Anything that specifically doesn't mention centering. (E.g. Exalted Smite, Deflect Arrows, Divine Striker, Fast Movement).
• Wearing Heavy Armor or a Shield will uncenter you, but will allow you to benefit from Sacred Defender bonuses as a normal Paladin. You however do not natively have proficiency with either shields or armor.

Favored Weapons

Sacred Fist get Handwraps as a favored weapon at level 1, however gaining other favored weapons will need to be granted from another sources (such as from feats, Divine Crusader enhancements or multiclassing into Cleric / Favored Soul). To get the most out of Sacred Fist enhancements, it is suggested to use a weapon that is both Favored and Centering.

Currently Sacred Fist is the only way to get Handwraps as a favored weapon without Curse of Divine Fortune.

Multiclassing a Sacred Fist with another Divine class will allow them to choose a second Deity, granting them access to that deity's Favored Weapon.

Ki Spells

Note that the new spells unique to the Sacred Fist Spellbook - Ki Bolt (1), Sacred Fist Empowerment (2), Incinerating Wave (3) and Ki Explosion (4) - are cast using Ki rather than Spell points. However, Metamagic feats applied to these spells still add spell points to the spell's cost, so a Sacred Fist spell cast with a metamagic will cost spell points and Ki.

• For example: Sacred Fist Empowerment costs 18 ki and lasts for 20 seconds. If you were to use the Extend metamagic feat, it would cost 18 ki, 10 spell points, and would last for 40 seconds. If you were to Quicken it as well it would cost 20 spell points on top of the 18 ki.
• This means that Sacred Fist users need to consider ways to increase their spell pool, as the class default pool is small. A Wizardry item may be useful if you activate metamagics frequently.

Class feats

Level 1

• Aura of Good (passive): Grants +1 bonus to AC and +1 bonus to saving throws to all characters within range.
• Religious Lore (passive): This feat grants represents your knowledge of religion. This feat is received once for every paladin level.
• Smite Evil (active): When activated, this feat triggers a special melee attack against Evil creatures. The Paladin adds his/her Charisma modifier x 2 (if any) to his/her attack roll and deals extra damage based on his/her paladin level. The extra damage done is 7+3*level. For instance, a 6th level paladin does 7+(3*6) (or 25) extra damage on a successful smite. If the paladin accidentally smites a creature that is not evil, or is not in range, the smite has no effect, but the ability is still used up. Paladins get one base use of this ability at level one, plus one more at level five and every five levels after 5th (at 10th, 15th and 20th, for a maximum of 5 uses). Smite Evil recharges at a rate of 1 every 90 seconds, and all uses return after any rest period.
• Follower of the Path of Light (passive): Handwraps are a favored weapon.
• Flurry of Blows (passive): While centered (unarmored, unencumbered, and wielding monk weapons), you get an increase to your attack bonus, and a 2% dodge bonus at Sacred Fist levels 1, 2, and 3 for a total of 6%. The attack bonus increase starts at +1 (at level 1) and increases by +1 for every four additional Sacred Fist levels.
• Unarmed Strike (passive): While centered (unarmored, unencumbered, and wielding monk weapons), your fists and feet are lethal weapons.
• Armor Class Bonus (passive): While unarmored and not equipping a shield, Sacred Fists gain a passive bonus to Armor Class equal to their Charisma modifier, if their Charisma modifier is positive.

Level 2

• Divine Grace (passive): Allows the paladin to add its charisma modifier to all saving throws. Divine Grace is capped at 2+(3*paladin level).
• Lay on Hands (active): Heals a friendly target for ( 10 + Paladin level ) x Charisma modifier amount of hit points, or deals that much damage to an undead target. The amount healed does not suffer a penalty when used on Warforged.
• Evasion (passive): Successful Reflex save to avoid damage: suffer no damage instead of half damage.
• Armor Class Bonus (passive): +3 bonus to Armor, and as you increase in power, you will receive +3 additional bonus to Armor Class at levels 5, 10, 15 and 20.

Level 3

• Aura of Courage (passive): Beginning at 3rd level, a paladin is immune to fear (magical or otherwise). Each ally within 10 feet of the paladin gains a +4 morale bonus on saving throws against fear effects. This ability functions while the paladin is conscious, but not if she is unconscious or dead.
• Divine Health (passive): Makes the paladin immune to all diseases.
• Fear Immunity (passive): A paladin is immune to fear effects.

Level 4

• Gain the ability to cast Sacred Fist spells. Your effective caster level is equal to your Paladin level, contrary to PnP (thus, the starting duration for a Bless spell is 4 minutes).
• Turn Undead (active and passive): This feat allows the character to turn or at higher levels destroy undead creatures. The character can do this (3 + their charisma modifier) times per day. While turning undead is an active skill, this feat is passive as it adds to the total amount of turns per day. While enhancements from both Cleric and Paladin stack, as far as number and power of turns, the base number of turns do not stack with each other.
• Unarmed Strike (passive): While centered (unarmored, unencumbered, and wielding monk weapons), your fists and feet are lethal weapons.

Level 5

• Smite evil (active): Paladins can use this ability one additional time per rest period. You can now Smite evil 2 times per rest. Smite evil also recharges at a rate of 1 every 90 seconds.
• Armor Class Bonus (passive): +3 bonus to Armor, and as you increase in power, you will receive +3 additional bonus to Armor Class at levels 5, 10, 15 and 20.

Level 6

• Remove Disease (active): At 6th level, a paladin can produce a remove disease effect, as the spell, once per rest period. It can use this ability one additional time per rest period for every three levels after 6th (twice per rest at 9th level).
• Divine Dream (passive): While centered, you may use your Charisma score for attack and damage with weapons. In addition, while centered, you qualify for the bonuses from the Greater Sacred Defense enhancements, regardless of equipped armor.

Level 8

• Unarmed Strike (passive): While centered (unarmored, unencumbered, and wielding monk weapons), your fists and feet are lethal weapons.

Level 9

• Remove Disease (active): Paladins can use this ability one additional time per rest period. You can now Remove Disease 2 times per rest.

Level 10

• Smite evil (active): Paladins can use this ability one additional time per rest period. You can now Smite evil 3 times per rest. Smite evil also recharges at a rate of 1 every 90 seconds.
• Armor Class Bonus (passive): +3 bonus to Armor, and as you increase in power, you will receive +3 additional bonus to Armor Class at levels 5, 10, 15 and 20.

Level 12

• Remove Disease (active): Paladins can use this ability one additional time per rest period. You can now Remove Disease 3 times per rest.
• Unarmed Strike (passive): While centered (unarmored, unencumbered, and wielding monk weapons), your fists and feet are lethal weapons.

Level 15

• Remove Disease (active): Paladins can use this ability one additional time per rest period. You can now Remove Disease 4 times per rest.
• Smite evil (active): Paladins can use this ability one additional time per rest period. You can now Smite evil 4 times per rest. Smite evil also recharges at a rate of 1 every 90 seconds.
• Armor Class Bonus (passive): +3 bonus to Armor, and as you increase in power, you will receive +3 additional bonus to Armor Class at levels 5, 10, 15 and 20.

Level 16

• Unarmed Strike (passive): While centered (unarmored, unencumbered, and wielding monk weapons), your fists and feet are lethal weapons.

Level 18

• Remove Disease (active): Paladins can use this ability one additional time per rest period. You can now Remove Disease 5 times per rest.

Level 20

• Smite evil (active): Paladins can use this ability one additional time per rest period. You can now Smite evil 5 times per rest. Smite evil also recharges at a rate of 1 every 90 seconds.
• Unarmed Strike (passive): While centered (unarmored, unencumbered, and wielding monk weapons), your fists and feet are lethal weapons.
• Armor Class Bonus (passive): +3 bonus to Armor, and as you increase in power, you will receive +3 additional bonus to Armor Class at levels 5, 10, 15 and 20.

Spells

See also: Sacred Fist spells

• Sacred Fists cast divine spells.
• A Sacred Fist casts spells from the Sacred Fist spell list.
• Paladins get bonus spell points based on their Wisdom scores. The minimum Wisdom score needed to cast a Paladin spell is 10 + the spell’s level.
• See also spell usefulness.