Undead Hunter
by PrinceOfOuch

Class: Paladin
Tag: UH

Introduction

While away on an mission for the church of Zakarum, the home city of this group of Paladins (the Undead Hunters) was destroyed by an army of undead, lead by the scourge of the earth and Mephisto's General, Lord De Seis. Upon returning to their village the paladins found it burned to the ground and most of the bodies were missing. Those bodies that were still there were too mangled to be recognized, thus they may not have been good for the horde of undead to use as new 'recruits'. You returned home to find your house burned to its foundation and the bodies of your family strewn asunder, and evens the body of your children mangled to a bloody globs of red ooze on the grounds outside many of your ruined houses.

Items

No items that deal with death, undeath or unholiness may be used. If he uses unholy items he will loose his god's blessing and will then loose his powers to turn undead, thus reducing him to nothing more than normal melee attacks.

Disallowed Basic Items
Bone helms, bone shields and all variations, all wands, the same applies to any elite or exceptional items.

Disallowed Enchantments
Any thing that describes a quality of the Undead is not allowed to be used.

Deadly, Vicious, Brutal, Savage, Merciless, Devious, Slayers, Necromancers, Tireless, Maiming, Slaying, Gore, Carnage, Slaughter, Blight, Venom, Pestilence, Vampire, Vileness are all bad.

Any rare item containing in the name something of death, undeath or unholiness, cannot be used. Any effects on rare items are allowed to be used so long as the name does not include any aspect of the above.

Disallowed Unique Weapons
Axes: Death Spade, Blade Bone, Skull Splitter, GoreShovel, Brainhew
Maces: Bloodrise, BoneSnap
Pole Arms: Soul Harvest, Grim Reaper
Spears: Bloodthief, Tanner Gore Rod
Staves: Bane Ash
Swords: Blood Crescent, Hell Plague, Shadow Fang, Soulflay, Black Tongue
Wands: All, they are a Necromancers weapon and unholy in themselves

Disallowed Unique Armors
Armors: Bone Flesh, Dark Glow
Gloves: BloodFist
Boots: Gore Foot, Goblintoe
Belts: Snake Cord, Night Smoke
Shields: Wall of the Eyeless
Helm: Dusk Deep, Face of Horror, Undead Crown, Wormskull
All unique jewelry can be used.

Use your own judgment for exceptional and elite uniques.

Skills

He may not use any Auras that heal him or any other person, for he is not concerned on his health or that of his party, he merely cares to avenge the death of his house, he may use these skills as perquisites but is not allowed to have them on. When available must use any skills that do extra damage to undead, when fighting undead (holy bolt, blessed hammer, Fist of the Heavens) , mana may be a problem in early parts of the game though, but have no fear the retreat to town and get Akara to heal you strategy works :P

When available Sanctuary must be used whenever you encounter ANY undead, this is his ability to turn undead. Sanctuary must have one point put in every 3 levels after it is available, as his power of turning undead becomes stronger as he grows stronger.

Any other combat skills are allowed to be used but restricted to 5th level. The skill that does extra damage verse undead you choose to use must be pumped to at least 10th level And any non +damage to undead skill may not be used if there is undead in the fight.

Quests

1) Act 1
No skills may be distributed until after Blood Raven the first master of undead has been destroyed and the mausoleum and crypt have been purged.

2) Act 2
Underneath Lut Gholein the undead have taken over the sewers and any who have dared venture down there have been mercilessly slaughtered, whether they were as innocent a child as Atma's son, or even her husband. Wanting to prove your worth you go down and fully clear out all of the sewers not stopping until you have the gear of Radament to prove yourself. But unknowingly as you enter the sewers the curse that has been put on you, without your knowing takes effect, u charge into battle in a lust for the death of every unholy undead creature, thus you shall not rest or return to receive any aid from the towns people until the Evil Radament has been slain.

Before being allowed to advance into the next act you must clear ever tomb that contains undead and bring their skulls or bones back up to town to be destroyed by a more Experienced Paladin so they shall never rise again (bring any bone shields or bone helms and sell them to Fara). Once this is done hunt down the Dark Elder and Ancient Kaa the Soulless and end their suffering. The Dark Elder is the leader of a cult that turns its members undead, so he is unworthy of any compassion. Rain your holy vengeance down upon him. Ancient Kaa the Soulless had his soul torn away from him when he died while ruling as king of the Aranoch, he should be redeemed, to end the suffering of his captured soul.

3) Act 3
Upon entering Mephisto's lair you can sense his presence and the powerful hate, you know yo7u must destroy him as soon as is mortally possible. You may not return to town and may not stop for anything, as you again go into your lust for the death and destruction of the undead hordes, except of course to destroy the unholy guards of Mephisto. Once everyone is slain and everyone else is dead attack Mephisto with your blessed hammer or holy bolts and do not use another attack until Mephisto has been slain and you have his Soulstone safely kept away in your backpack. Any item dropped by Mephisto may be kept and muled away but is not to be used, the lord of hatred himself touched it and his vile taint has been imbued into the item so the item is evil in itself.

4) Redemption
Once you have gotten redemption (lvl 30) when you do these quests you must redeem the lost souls of the cursed undead, except for the bosses, Each undead boss was corrupted enough or chose his way to become undead, thus their souls are lost forever to the minions of hell to toy with and torture for all eternity. Undead bosses MAY NOT be redeemed, if there is a boss in the area get a barbarian to use find potion/item on the body or a necromancer to explode it. Then redeem the souls of the lost in the area...