Tri-element ranger question

[Pukankite]

Should I use conviction as my main aura , or fanaticism?
I have no Infinity on my merc,but I use "Ice" as a bow which is damn slow.

And if I should use both , how should I distribute the points between them?

[Clervis]

So, what, you're doing Ice, Dragon armor, and Dream helm? I would either do Faith merc and Conviction on main, or Infinity merc with Fanat. Ultimately, though, and you probably know this, Holy Fire isn't going to do hardly any damage without explosive arrows. I'd personally suggest letting your merc handle the Holy Freeze and Conviction and grabbing a bow with explosive arrows and better physical damage (like Brand!). But I guess either way, I'd suggest you go with Fanat and let your merc handle the Conviction provided you can afford all this.

[Pukankite]

Hmm , I might as well splash a Demon Machine as the main weapon and put the "Ice" on an A1 merc or trade it away for "Doom" and slap it onto an A2 might one .The physical damage from DM will most certainly suck though[as does Ice's] ,even with the 20 points freed from Resist Cold that will probably go into conviction and salvation .Though the crazy IAS on the DM gives me as well versatility for the belt [Razortail] , the aura [Conviction] as well as the gloves [Cleglaw's for even more versatility or just plain Draculs]

Please note that I wasn't planning to do a fire ranger - I'll equip Widowmaker and use Conviction in PVP for sure.

So the most cost-effective way to do this would be to slap Twitchthroe with a Pamethyst on the merc , some helm with str/dex jewels or just a CoT , Ice for the weapon and stick to a shael'd Demon Machine.Crossbows are way cooler for paladins anyways.
Ought to work nicely with the load of poison charms I've got as well - I've got about 1000 dmg per element [physical , cold , fire , lightning , poison] , with three getting boosted about twice.No worries about the immunities it seems.

p.s. I'm using Alma Negra with a Holy Shield / Smite pally sceptre full of shaels against bosses ,so having an A2 merc won't be necessary.