Zealot questions

[Irontorch]

I have read the guides and many threads in this forum and I have a few questions still...
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I am making a zealot who will be pure pvm with the odd uber.

I currently have an ebotd zerker on my barb, as well as a 5 socket etheral zerker stashed to make death.
As well, is a decent grief weapon worth looking at or no?
What would do more damage and be the most effective for my character?

I like the mods on all 3 weapons, but the cb and ds are almost too hard to pass up on death.

also,
I am torn for my merc.
Doom with a might merc?
or
Pride with HF merc?

any help would be appreciated
thanx guys
Iron
:xmas10:

[lCE]

Death BA is a very good pvm weapon, if u can muster 60% ias on other equipment.
For merc, IMO might merc with Reapers toll. Its way more effective than pride, not to mention 100000 times cheaper as well.

[kingdryland]

First of all deadly strike is a mod that grants you a chance to double your physical damage. Crushing blow reduces monsters life by a percentage regardless of your raw damage. Which means that deadly strike when you use a low damage weapon is practically useless.

For pvm my choice is Grief>botd>death. All three weapons are great ,I have spent endless hours zealing with all,grief wins by far.

[MegaFlame]

Last ladder season my zealer had a setup like this:
Grief Zerk
Highlord's
Bk ring
Ravenfrost
Dungos
Gorerider
Dracs
Fort
Phoenix
Guillame

and an inventory full of offensive/life gc's and torch/anni and some godly poison sc's for PI's.

So the result was 17k+ average damage per swing and all normal hell monsters were gg in about 1 hit. Because this setup offers: 50% CB, 25%OW, and 80%+ DS and all these mods were gosu with a high damage weapon like Grief.

[MegaFlame]

Last ladder season my zealer had a setup like this:
Grief Zerk
Highlord's
Bk ring
Ravenfrost
Dungos
Gorerider
Dracs
Fort
Phoenix
Guillame

and an inventory full of offensive/life gc's and torch/anni and some godly poison sc's for PI's.

So the result was 17k+ average damage per swing and all normal hell monsters were gg in about 1 hit. Because this setup offers: 50% CB, 25%OW, and 80%+ DS and all these mods were gosu with a high damage weapon like Grief. And btw the Firestorm from Phoenix would not interrupt zeal at all because zeal is consecutive hits unlike smite or anything else which are not consecutive. So with a Phoenix for my zealer it was only good and no bad!