Wing Strikes Leveling

The Arbiter Wing Strikes Paladin Leveling Build Guide teaches you about Gear, Skills, Paragon, Playstyle & Seasonal Mechanics in Diablo 4 Season 13.

Avengers, assemble! This build fully focusing on juicing up the Arbiter Form from the Disciple Oath to unleash smiting Wing Strikes upon all enemies while Gliding through the battlefield. Later on, you can equip the Unique Amulet Sanctis of Kethamar to truly enhance your Wing Strikes with angelic might! You need to pick up your Disciple Oath as early as possible (Level 15, through the Class Specialization Quest) to benefit from the Wing Strikes as damage dealer. Before that, use Advance.

The goal is to remain in Arbiter Form from Disciple Oath at all times, to have the Wing Strikes destroy everything around you. You can keep up Arbiter Form through persistent use of Falling Star, Condemn and later on Advance Flash of the Blade. Even without any Arbiter Duration tempers on your items, keeping up Arbiter Form becomes very easy through the use of these three abilities.

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If you are level 60 already, make sure to check out the Wing Strikes Endgame Paladin Guide instead.

1. Use Aegis for Unstoppable, maximum Block Chance and Resolve stacks for damage reduction.
2. Use Falling Star on Cooldown to ascend with Disciple Oath.
3. Use Condemn to group up Monsters and apply Vulnerable.
4. 1. Condemn also ascends you into Arbiter Form through Disciple.
4. Use Fanaticism Aura and Defiance Aura for their buffs.
5. 1. Once you have access to Resplendence Glyph, using either of these also reduces your non-Aura Cooldowns by 2 seconds.
5. Use Advance Flash of the Blade for mobility and more Arbiter uptime.
6. 1. Before level 15, leave out the Flash of the Blade upgrade to be able to spam it.
   2. Flash of the Blade turns Advance into a Disciple Skill but also adds a Cooldown to it, allowing you to ascend with Disciple Oath into Arbiter Form.
6. Glide through everything
7. ???
8. Profit.

Wing Strikes Mechanics

• Wing Strikes is a sub-skill of Arbiter Form, which is triggered from Disciple. It benefits from all Disciple Skill Tag benefits.
• Wing Strikes have a fixed Attack Speed of around 4 hits per second, with a short pause after each 4.
• Wing Strikes benefit from Critical Hit Chance
• Wing Strikes can not trigger Lucky Hit Chance
• Why are we still stacking Attack Speed then?
• • Because of Preacher (see below)

Frequently Asked Questions

Why are we using Preacher instead of Shield Bearer as Paragon Board?

• TL;DR: It's much more damage.
• Preacher gives much more damage than the description might insinuate - the tooltip is wrong.
• At +0% increased Attack Speed, it is already a 65%[x] multiplier.
• The Damage Formula for Preacher is approximated to be:
• • 1.65 * (1 + [Sum of AS / 100] x 0.4)
• At 100% increased Attack Speed, this results in
• • 1.65 * (1 + 1 x 0.4) = 2.31 => 131%[x] multiplier.
• However, with the Attack Speed Bonus from Fanaticism Aura being in Cap2, we can reach even higher than 100%.
• "But my Block Chance from Shield Bearer! Is losing that a problem?"
• • Not if you have tempered Ranks to En Guarde on your Shield.

Why are we stacking Attack Speed even though Wing Strikes does not benefit from it?

• Because Preacher scales absurdly well with it and it still speeds up all of your casting animations.

Elixirs and Incenses

It's important to run Elixirs and Incenses at all times. Not only because they increase your Experience gain but also because they provide very strong combat boosts.

For Elixirs you want to use Elixir of Advantage II to increase your Attack Speed. If you are already capped on Attack Speed, use Elixir of Iron Barbs II for more Armor.

For Incenses you want to use Spiral Morning for All Stats to reach requirements for Paragon Nodes if you do not have Shroud of False Death, otherwise use Ancient Times for Strength. Song of the Mountain for Armor and Soothing Spices for All Resistances and more Armor.

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