auradin build

[domroth]

hi, i am making my an auradin. using hoj phase blade (dont know if berserker whould be better, but i hate using runes and money for repair, lazy boy) dragon archon plate, dream healm and shield. amu will be highlords for rings i will use raven frost on both hands. boots will be gore riders and gloves will be draculs or laying of hands. verdungo belt.

skills
20 resist fire
20 resist lightnig
20 conviction

i have build pure dreamers before and used grief sword then i have used 20 sacrefice and 20 zeal. but since i have hoj know i was thinking that i whould go for pure elemental. maxing salvation . and only 1 point in zeal. dont know if the damage from hoj is good enough for zeal build.

question, why does everyone say that conviction should not be higher than 25?
should i go dmg route with hoj (20zeal 20 sacrefice)
or aura (20 salvation and more to holy shield)

i am pvm btw

[tmd turka]

Conviction is caped at -150 and thats why you should never max it. Instead let your +skill gear boost it to 25. Im pretty sure that Salvation is another synergy to those auras but im not positive.

Im not a fan of Auradins in either Pvm or Pvp but I try to help when I can. The build just reminds me that Items not Skills run D2. I miss the old days pre 1.10 when all the skills in the game were not whored out in runewords.

[domroth]

how are things going. well i am at level 80 now. skills are.

20 resist fire
20 resist lightnig
20 conviction
20 holy shield

i am using an act1 rogue with eth perf fortitude, faith shadow bow and guilliums face helm with 15ias 15resist all jewel (at level 83 andy face)

i think the rest of my points will go into zeal for more ar.

killed baal hell at level 77.

equipment

dream sacred R
dream bone V
hoj phase blade
dragon arcon plate
verdungo belt
gore riders
cta flail 5bo
spirit shield
laying of hands/draculs(have not used draculs yet)
highlords amu
ravenfrost 20dex 239ar
bk 5
anni charm and hellfire torch
small ar life charms and life resist and hr resist charms
3 combat skillers 3 off skillers

things are going great. fun build. kills alot faster than my last pure dream build. will try it on the ubers soon (around level 87-90)

[drWho]

things are going great. fun build. kills alot faster than my last pure dream build. will try it on the ubers soon (around level 87-90)

Domroth, good to know you're enjoying this build, I'm thinking of building one too, I'm just curious how fast can this build kill in 4ppl game? How many pulses of the aura does it take to kill the monster? How well will this build do in cow? I'm mainly want to build a lazy strictly PVM character so I can just sit and watch monster die. I'm worry that this may not be fast kill type of build.

What do you think about going all 3 elemental, mainly:

Max Resist Fire/Cold/Lightning/Salvation
Max if possible Holy freeze, and use this as active aura
1 in holy shield and prereq

Merc will use Infinity.

Thanks for the opinion.

[drWho]

Some input someone, anyone? I'm really interested in do this build, and don't want to waste the runes to figure out that the aura damage alone is not good enough to kill monsters quick. I am really hoping 1 pulse of the aura will kill most of the monster.

I've been thinking and infinity level 12 conviction will not cut it, need -150 in order for the aura to be effective. So look like I'll stick to fire/light build.

Please let me know your opinion.

[Undercat]

I don't think the aura damage alone is nearly enough to kill anyone, no matter the enhancements. lvl 20 holy shock does 1-156. Even if you multiply that by 4 (piles of skills and synergies), you're only talking 600 max, or less than 2k with lvl 25 conviction on to a monster with no resistance.

Say you get way out there with skills, synergies, and -res, I don't think you'd hit more than 10k per pulse (with both fire and lit combined), which is not enough to kill quickly in hell, especially when you're having to break at least one immunity on 50% of monsters, and the pulses are only coming every 3-5 seconds.

On the other hand, this is based largely on my conjecture... maybe someone else has experience or math skills to prove me wrong.

[NacRuno]

Well i didn't try it but it just struck me that maybe the use of auras from runewords can be combined with an avanger. Maxing vengeance instead of HolyShield maybe or using both in a balance. Resist auras give great snergies to vengeance and the auras might give the little crowd control to avanger which is more than it already has.

Did anybody tried such a build or do you think the other mods than auras make this gear setup useless? It is worth a try imo

[niner]

Yes I made one. posted a guide nobody seems to notice it.
http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=414604

check it out and if you have any questions about it please ask me there.

[stevey wonder]

well pulse auras r fun 4 cows and basically u could hav a friend stack u 10 times or more 4 ultimate damage with conviction so hell cows is easy 4 a 25lvl conviction+stack+def from ur holy shield 4 when they touch u and u could throw a couple points into fanatism so u can smite them

[Shanksie1337]

What is it with this spate of new posters finding the oldest thread they can and then bumping it :)
Not that i have anything against it, but finding a 3.5 yr old thread to reply to must have taken some searching :D.