You should have pent in almost any build, and as far as oak as a "healer," I think the closest thing is playing him as an assassin with 1-2 point(s) in divine justice and maxed out surge of faith. Shield is the only thing that makes him seem like a paladin in the general sense. He's kind of cool imo with his paladin/necromancer mix (sort of like Arthas only more extreme and badass looking)

Box wrote up one quite some time ago.  Give it a shot.  http://forums.demigodthegame.com/360215

No Shield III == not very "supporty" :-/ You don't have to get it early but get it eventually. Plus it makes BSW uninterruptable.

DJ is awesome against minions, esp with Nature's Reckoning which actually works in conjunction with DJ.

Basically, my Anti-Minion Oak build roughly corresponds to this build except it gets Blood and not BSW. You could probably go BSW, I've never tried it. Irek likes it though and it works decently, so you could talk to him about it.

1. Pent I /Shield I (not going to start a holy war here. I prefer Pent over Shield level 1 unless I'm laned with or against a Rook or if there is a Reg on the enemy team then get Shield. If you get BSW you will probably need Shield for sure).

2. Divine Justice I

3. Pent I / Shield I (get the other one)

4. Shield II

5. Surge I

6. DJ II

7. Shield III

8. Pent II

9. Pent III

10. Surge II

11. DJ III

12. Pent IV

13. Shield IV

14. SAVE

15. Surge III + Shield V (note that if you use Shield V on an ally you can BOTH be immune to interrupts and stuns)

16. Last Stand I (Suiciding on Citadel/Portal clusterfucks)

17. Last Stand II

18. Rally

19-20. Soul Power I + II (+40 Weapon Damage for 2 points. Pretty Meh but what else can you get?)

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Typically if I have an Oak on my team I try to let him get the kill because of DJ. If an Oak doesn't have DJ and I let him get the kill, I swear violently at him. You have a weak Pent early game so you probably won't be getting last-blow so don't trip about it too much. Unless a more Pent-focused Assassin build you don't have nearly the same mana costs and can last up 'til level 12 with just NR + Unbreakables + Scaled Helm (instead of a typical BotF Assassin that basically needs Plenor + Vlemish to do anything at all, CoN builds typically don't have quite as bad of an issue but it's still rough). You also don't have to Surge creeps like a typical Assassin because NR typically does the job for you. Save your surges for killing minion swarms.

Unless they are a FULL morale+Ring of Divine Might build you'll heal roughly the same amount they damage you. Even full morale's have the "drawback" that by having more HP they are healing you more. Typically it works against your favor however.

Know that anti-minion isn't exactly what you were looking for but subsitute BSW for BotF and you're going to be pretty close to it.

Celerity flag. Mag Presense late-game if you have a Sedna on your team (not that 1000 hp is much late game).

Mkay, I have a replay of a 62 minute game of me trying BSW. All level 20 etc etc. I fed early game really bad because I was used to BotF and then died a few times because people said they were porting and ended up not :sigh:

Anyway, here it is:

http://www.box.net/shared/o8utnyrji3

Wrong replay. Fix'd

synn,

If you would like a Demigod that has flexibility, try Rook. At least five different favor items are viable on him, each with different playing styles. (SoR, BotF, AoT, DCV, and even EoM if you want a little challenge). EoM Rook is unorthodox. It's not the best favor item, but it's different and usuable. I would say WotS would work better on Rook than on Oak.

I'm so vehement about this because many Oaks frequently deviate from the best-ish type build. If I have an Oak on my team, he needs to have a strong hybrid build of some sort (or perhaps a good minion build. I've never tried that, though.)

Having said that, Eskendale used to play a pretty mean WotS Oak. http://forums.demigodthegame.com/357493 That is what I would recommend if you really want to try this strategy. Actually, now that I think about it, if WotS gets fixed, that's 1400 healing with shield 3. That is actually pretty decent.

(I must confess that I have been playing DG again over the snow break. School has been cancelled. w00t!)

I am interested in a minion Oak build. I've played nothing but hybrid and have won about 80% of my games with it. What does a minion build look like?

EDIT: Damn, Eskendale mentions shielding then using Wand of Speed. That's about as good as a shield tele in most situations, I would imagine.

@Specter: Minion Oak counts as a tank in my book.

The problem, as I see it, is it is impossible to get team mates not to kill creeps so you can recharge them with DJ. Maybe if you practiced ahead of time this could be great... I mean really, the mana recharge of DJ is potential greatness for focus fire skills.

Also, SoF + DJ is great against minion builds, as the SoF dammages enemy minions just enough so you can whack them and get the DJ recharge inbetween, and then SoF again to finishe the rest off.

This also means that spirits and soul pow`er is a good idea, so you can ensure you get the AA kill to trigger DJ easier.

I made a build along time ago when I was young and naive at DG... the basic idea was to keep myself and allies in play.

It is a bad build in retrospect, but the concept might be valid if you have good team mates, Take the soul power II and III and put them in Pent for the interrupt, and maybe rearrange a couple of skill points.

http://forums.demigodthegame.com/352768

Hybrid Oak > All. I've never lost in a balanced match with this build against any other oak build.

Epip,

I could careless about rook because I don't play as, or want to play rook. If you are fine with a set in stone build for oak then fine, but I am not you just because it is fun for you doesn't mean it will be fun for me. I choose to deviate from what everyone else is doing because it is fun; which is what games bring to me fun and enjoyment. If you don't like when people do this then we best not play wth one another.

delete damn forum go boom

That was kind of harsh synn, he was just suggesting that rook would be a fun character for you to play if you don't like demigods that have only 1 or 2 playstyle's (like oak). He's not demanding that you do it, he's just trying to be helpful.