Paladin

Paladin
Control Type		Hovercraft
Unlock Requirement		Level 5 Quad
Starting Weapon		Laser Knife
Primary Weapons		Sword
Secondary		Aura of Healing
Maneuver		Hasty Retreat
Initial Stats (Base Stats)
Armor		8.2 (10)
Damage		104% (100%)
Armor Self-Repair		0.6/s
Steam Recharge		1.6/s (0.4/s)
Turn Rate		1440°/s
Max Speed		3.5
Super Speed		6.9
Plane Multipliers
x0.8 Armor +2.4% Armor per Level +4% Damage per Level +300% Steam Recharge x0.4 Turn Rate while superspeeding

More mecha than plane, the steam-hungry Paladin slices through swathes of enemies with a signature 50-foot plasma chainsaw.

The Paladin is a class in Steambirds Alliance.

Maneuver

The Paladin has one maneuver, Hasty Retreat, with a Steam cost of 10. On activation, the Paladin moves a set distance backward relative to the plane's facing, gaining an invulnerability shield for the maneuver's 0.13-second duration.

Hasty Retreat has a 1-second internal cooldown which is represented by a shading effect on the plane's Armor slot.

Upgrade Limits

The Paladin has the following non-elemental upgrade limits (and the associated numerical effects at these limits):

• Damage: 40 (+40%)
• Armor: 23 (+23)
• Armor Self-Repair: 25 (+0.3/s)
• Max Steam: 10 (+10)
• Steam Recharge: 50 (+0.2/s)
• Super Speed: 10 (+0.3)

Pilot Skills

Skill Tier	Pilot Rank	Option A	Option B
1	5	Armor Shell Armor: +18% + 4% (+34% at max)	Leviathan Max Steam: +18% + 4% (+34% at max) Steam Recharge: +0.1/s + 0.1/s (+0.5/s at max)
2	16	Ancient Depths On kill: Armor: +60% + 10% (+100% at max) Duration: 2s Cooldown: 0.5s	Snapper On maneuver end: Damage: +30% + 5% (+40% at max) Duration: 3s Cooldown: 1s
3	68	Feeding Time On kill: Armor Self-Repair: +60% + 10% (+100% at max) Duration: 2s Cooldown: 0.5s	Monster Heart Secondary Steam Cost: -20%
4	113	Emergence Damage: +30% Superspeed: -10%	Frenzy On kill: Weapon Cooldown: -95% Duration: 1s Cooldown: 2s

Notes

• At level 1 with its T0 initial loadout, the Paladin will have Armor, Damage and Steam Recharge values of, respectively, ~8.2, 104% and 1.6/s due to the effects of plane and leveling multipliers.

Plane Variants

Tier 1 (Common) Variants

• Pepper Chopper: Pepper never talks about her past. But she's got an old tattoo with a blurred name set in the dead center of a flaming heart.
• Armored Suit MRKXII: An experimental set of powered armor funded by a reclusive Lord. The lab shut down after the noble family's mass murder suicide, due to public rumor the patriarch had been canoodling with a pied parakeet. Such times we live in.
• Stars of St. Stevens: To the north lies a small town ignored by most. In a dirt basement, three children dug up a metal chest of glittering star-shaped ornaments. Upon touching the points to their heart, throat and foreheads, they could see time itself. Thus commenced the gentle winter murders.
• Lord of Claw and Fang: In the evening, the flock performs a calming ritual. They keep a cage of mice in the corner, who've been told that this is their way into heaven.

Tier 2 (Rare) Variants

• Lumberjack: The burly birds of the Northern forests use these rigs to haul logs. Fueled by flapjacks.
• Bunyan: When the fire's gone and the whiskey's half gone, they whisper tales. Once there was a bird, as tall as a mountain. And his trusty blue fox.
• Mud Druid: The careful application of poverty is an essential ingredient to any religious fervor.

Tier 3 (Epic) Variants

• Ghost Paladin: There are always those who seek out religion after traveling a rougher path. For such souls, repentance is, by necessity, an ongoing act.
• Iron Gregory: They say Iron Gregory once sliced through 30 feline ships with a single swing of his plasma chainsaw. They say a lot of things about Iron Gregory.
• Ice Paladin: Sometimes the ice is on the inside.
• Pretty John: The ever youthful lord ordered his lone servant to polish his rig to an impeccable shine. Tonight, he is out. On the town.