I have made a defence aura zealot, hope for ideas and suggestions, thanks

[kisekinecro]

I have find that most of the pal build tends to using aura to build up damage, and then using gear to fix the resist problem, which is offensive aura paladin. So this bring to me a question......Will a build using aura for resist, and gear for damage actually work? Which being me to this build.

At the beginning I do max out salavation, but after I talked with my friends, I have deceided to split points into 3 auras: salavation, cleansing and prayer, and turn from a salazealot into a tri-defence aura zealot

For this char build's states:

Str: I put it to 102, and the gear will cover up the rest
Dex: I put it to blocking % is 75% after I have my holy shield up, which is around 174
Vit: I put the rest into here
Eng: None

Gears:

Helm: Andy Visage
Armor: Shaftstop
weapon: Death runeword on a Eth Basaker Axe
Shield: Exile on a ed/ar base Sacred Targe
Belt: Thunder God
Glove: Bloodfist
Boot: Gore Rider
Ammy: Highlord's Wrath
Ring1: Raven Frost
Ring2: rare ar ll ml ring

Secondary weapon: CTA / Fleshrender
Secondary Shield: Spirit

Skills:

Sacrifice: max
Zeal: max
Holy Shield: max
Prayer: 17
Salavation: 7
Cleansing: 7
Meditation: 1
Redemption : 1
Vengance: 1

The reason I use Death runeword is for it's high Crushing Blow (CB) and Deadly Strike (DS), CB is very usful when facing boss type monster, and DS can double the physical damage. and the other thing I really like is the undestructable, which means I can use eth items, and that increase the damage a lot.

At first, there are e weapon choice for me to scoket Death, They are Phase Blade (PB), War Spike (WS) , and Baserker Axe (BA), personally I do not like War Spike and Baserker Axe because the Durability for Axe class is pretty low, but in this case, undestructable solve this problem. PB is a good weapon because it's base speed is fast, but the problem is it's base damage is too low, and Eth PB does not exist in D2, so I give up PB, WS has an advantage by it's base speed, but again, the damage of WS is too low, and the range is shorter than BA as well, so I choose BA at last.

If u look at the gear, you will find that this is DS base gear set, and in fact, this char's DS% is pretty high, about 93%, which mean I will almost have a double damage from every hit with Zeal, which boost up damage very nicely.

For the aura, I mainly use salavation, if I get poisoned or get curse with IM, I will switch to cleansing, which can reduce 70% of poison and IM's Durability. and putting point into prayer, this will increase the healing rate of cleansing.

Because of th high DS%, I hire Might Merc so it can boost up my char's damage even more , and I equipped him with Vampire Gaze, Duriel's Shell and The Reaper's Toll

[koeraokse]

its basically a zealot using prayer or cleansing insted of fanaticism? I think he is going to be weak, better max fana and use prayer merc with Plague
rw armor :xmas1:

:cheesy:
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[kingdryland]

You see,by ingoring fanaticism,you do not only lose damage but attack rating and attack speed as well. A 40% ias grief phase blade would be the ideal weapon for your build . You would need only 35% extra ias to reach max speed,attainable with highlords amy+15 ias jewel somewhere. Attack rating wouldn't be much of an issue because grief is itd.
You could get crushing blow and deadly strike from guil face and gore rider boots. Grief and highlords have ds as well.

Don't use reaper's toll in merc.You don't want decripify to cancel your life tap. Cleancing isn't effective vs IM casters. Even if you sit back and wait the aura to take the curse away, you can be cursed again instantly.

Defense aura paladins aren't uheard of. Clerics are party friendly chars that use a variety of defensive auras. Defiant smiters used to exist as well.
Good luck with your build, let us know how it worked. By the way,If you can get your resists maxed without salvation consider using redemption as main aura,it will make you really hard to kill.

[kisekinecro]

its basically a zealot using prayer or cleansing insted of fanaticism? I think he is going to be weak, better max fana and use prayer merc with Plague
rw armor :xmas1:

:cheesy:
*priit2

Nope, the basic damage this paladin got is 1246~3652 and with 93% DS, u can just basiclly add 93% damage on that, which is 2404~7048 damage, and this is the damage per hit with a 5F zeal.....I really do not think it is weak

[kisekinecro]

You see,by ingoring fanaticism,you do not only lose damage but attack rating and attack speed as well. A 40% ias grief phase blade would be the ideal weapon for your build . You would need only 35% extra ias to reach max speed,attainable with highlords amy+15 ias jewel somewhere. Attack rating wouldn't be much of an issue because grief is itd.

You could get crushing blow and deadly strike from guil face and gore rider boots. Grief and highlords have ds as well.

Fanaticism is a pretty good offence aura indeed, but this is a build that talks about defence aura, so...I don't think there's any reason talking about fana here. And just talk about Grief......I personally think this is a overpowered weapon, every melee build will just become powerful when using grief. And that does make me feel boring using a weapon that is so...overpowered.

and for this build I do have like 10k ar

Don't use reaper's toll in merc.You don't want decripify to cancel your life tap. Cleancing isn't effective vs IM casters. Even if you sit back and wait the aura to take the curse away, you can be cursed again instantly.

Sorry this is my mistake, my merc's wepon actually is Kelpie Snare

Defense aura paladins aren't uheard of. Clerics are party friendly chars that use a variety of defensive auras. Defiant smiters used to exist as well.
Good luck with your build, let us know how it worked. By the way,If you can get your resists maxed without salvation consider using redemption as main aura,it will make you really hard to kill.

I give up b.net for long because I hated the MFing cycle, but I do create this build at single player, I would love you upload it here, so you guys can dl this save file, but it seems the forum does not allow me to do so....~~

[Pucho]

[...] better max fana and use prayer merc with Plague
rw armor :xmas1:

:cheesy:
*priit2
what RW are you talking about?