Thorns vs hell durial?

[BSU]

I'm making a classic holy freeze/zeal palladin and am trying to think of a way to beat hell durial (and maybe other cold immunes if needed). Anyone know if 1010% returned damage would be enough to make him beat himself into the ground?

[Sir SDG]

I'm making a classic holy freeze/zeal palladin and am trying to think of a way to beat hell durial (and maybe other cold immunes if needed). Anyone know if 1010% returned damage would be enough to make him beat himself into the ground?

thorns used to be rather nasty in classic ( back when hammerdins first showed up) but it got heavily nerfed in 1.08 and 1.09

I used to have a paladin zealot who would flash thorns and do some nasty damage in pvp. but I tthink its been nerfed beyond use since those days.

[KillJoyBob]

What's wrong with using Zeal on Duriel, while wearing some CB gear?

I don't think it's wise to spend 20 skill points just to handle a single monster in the game.

[Zipje_en_Zopje]

Duriel (as well as Ball's Minions for example) will go down pretty fast with a high lvl Thorns (lvl 20 seems a bit low). Keep in mind that you yourself will take a heavy beating too.

But as KillJoyBob said, don't bother wasting 20 points on a skill for a single monster. If you're using zeal as your main atttack any point in thorns seems a waste to me anyway.

[Ragnarod]

I'd probably rather spend 20 points in Fana for cold inmunes rather than Thorns, since Thorns is only useful against melee attacks and all...

[BSU]

If you mean fana and an eliete weapon, I'm playing classic. Also, doesn't durial use holy freeze? That would make him very hard to beat melee without thorns. Oh, and btw, I wasn't planing on maxxing zeal, only enough points for 5 hits per zeal.