Dullameh boots your shifter in scion so you make a paladin
with a specific roleplay to kill him

I find it amusing that people time after time make chars
for 1 of the 2 following reasons:

1) This guy screwed me, ill make a char to kill him.
2) This guy was tough, ill repeat his char

The Problem with this is then you end up being vulnerable to whole
new combo of people and then you make a new char to deal with those new people and so the circle continues and continues.

The more this happens, the better the imms are doing with game balance

Specifically your character, I would have thought you would like
all the newbies sending you tells because thats what it felt like
you were doing to us with your scion

I would so never make a dwarf paladin, storm giants are a really nice race, except for 1 major vulnerability, they have to be good align

Your way better off with resist and giant size, pop enlarges and thieves cant jack you, specially now there are certain hinderances for thieves to use enlarge roots.

Like you said, paladin is the wrong char to kill a lich with, specially when you die to him a few times, he becomes even stronger against you.

Paladins are suppose to be chars that are tough, dish it out and can take it. Paladins arent suppose to be LETHAL, tough and lethal are completly different.

You wanted a power house, depends how you define it, if you want people to have a hard time killing you because you win the battle (but not kill them) then you play a paladin.

But if you want a power house that kills people you need a more lethal char, problem is your also gonna be alot more fragile.
So your gonna need the right prep and tatics.

Dont feel like a power house is the ultimate achievement (dev would disagree with me ), i've made tons of them, but i still play non-power houses like ragers which are fun and its not the end of the world if you die.

You also must note your paladin was fighting alot of skilled scions too. Dullameh is quite good, krivohan had 1300hp when he was raking you. I was resisted to the hilt with resist holy.

You should also note that you tell the imms your roleplay is to kill dullameh and they know why ooc too. Its no wonder they made it hard to get your second virtue. Virtues are so damn powerful, i'd take all 6 virtues with the promise to wield nothing but a weapon and a shield But yeah you need to accomplish your characters goals to get more virtues so set lower goals