Which paladin is best for rushing?

[FlayerOfMinds]

I was wondering which paladin you guys would recommend for rushing my friends through hell.

[Lanceor]

Hammerdin without a doubt. Heftly damage and no real weaknesses except tight spaces and wailing beasts. Also a large mana pool and FCR for teleporting.

[tSDt]

Hammerdin no doubt. ESPECIALLY with teleport.

[kingdryland]

Teleporting hammerdin. Arguably the best rusher in the whole game.

[soonborn]

Hammerdin.

[HCKull]

An Auradin makes a great rusher. As you walk through the regular bad guys they just melt. Any that survive can just be womped with huge elemental damage added to your attack from your aura.

5 points zeal
20 points sacrifice
20 resists lightning
20 conviction
1 point smite

20 points holy shield


Dual dreams
Fast low damage weapon (ie PB with 6 shaels)

Your set

[FlayerOfMinds]

Thanks for the replys, i dont really like playing a hammerdin so auradin might be the way to go for me. I was reading the guides for diffrent auradins and was wondering about the torchadin, is that a pvp only build or can you beat the fire immunes in hell easily still with it?

[xpumafangx]

Theres alot of great rushing builds out there, for any class. But if your talking paladin go with a hammerdin.

[HCKull]

Holy fire is pretty wimpy. There are tons of fire immunes in hell and it is very hard/impossible to break there immunities even with -150 to resists from your conviction.

Holy freeze is pretty much the same.

IMHO, the only practical aura for your guy is Holy Shock using dual dreams.

[FlayerOfMinds]

Do you guys think a max vit dreamadin with infinity and enigma would work good or would I get raped with not having max block? or can cresent moon break imunitys too?

[Moon]

I was wondering which paladin you guys would recommend for rushing my friends through hell.

Hdin, hands down best to use for hell rushing.

[HCKull]

A dreamer should run conviction aura as it will double your damage and break most LIs.

[Atrokkus]

God, it's obvious that hammerdin is the cheater build of the game and perfect for masskilling. BUT IT"S SO PAINFULLY NOT FUN TO PLAY, I would never make him. I really hate holy hammer as a spell - the way it looks and the way it works. Just dumb.
That's just me though, but I have many friends who feel the same. It's not because it's so cheesy -- Wind druid is also very cheesy (insane tornado dmg, cool auxiliary cold dmg, BEST elemental defence (only avenger is anywhere near)), but for me he's MUCH more fun to play with than a h-din.

So, are there any other viable masskilling Paladins?

Fact is, you dont' need a rusher that can rush in Hell, because, well, what's the point? My belief is that your character HAS to go through the whole Hell (all acts) if you want to call him "hell-viable" otherwise he's a pussy-char. So basicallly a rusher doesn't need to worry about immunes -- so i think auradin is the best choice here -- easily rush through normal and NM.

[mpbu mpsu]

hamerdins no doubt for the monsters smiters for bosses no doubt smiters for ubers no doubt smiter in pvp no doubt ;)

[kingdryland]

A strafer, a javazon or a light sorc with infinity are more capable mass killers than hammerdins,who have range limitation. The most capable paladin masskiller is an auradin probably.

[niner]

Whateverdin- http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=414604

I rush 8 player games and destroy all on the way, and anyone who want exp can tag along.

Hammy is more efficient though speed wise cuz zealers have zero fcr...... But yeah very boring after a while and very cookie cuttage.