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[HCKull]

My lvl 79 zealer was attempting to do the hell forge yesterday until he was charged by 3 extra fast Udars and his life dropped from 1300 to almost zero. I ran and alt-F4'ed out of the game. I am worried about him playing further into the game and eventually doing ubers.

My gear is decent, but just does not seem to be sufficient. I will be getting a Guill. helm soon. For max smite I will put IAS jewels in helm and shield and replace the maras with hilords. I will override Meph's conviction with my aura so resist should not be a problem. Also, considering getting a Grief PB for better leach and reduce time to kill bad guys or switching to stormlash.

How do you guys survive with pally's in A4-A5 Hell ? I am afraid to play there with my guy now. What do you think I should do ?

He has the following gear and skills:

Gear:

Tals Mask helm
Smoke (700 def) armor
Cressent moon PB
Gore rider boots
Drac gloves
Noft belt (10% IAS and 10% slow)
Maras (25% rez)
raven frost ring
carrion wind ring
HOZ with PDiamond

Skills

5 hit zeal
20 sacrifice
19 HS
Max Fanat.
MAX Conviction (greater than Meph's)

I have max block and 1.3k life (no boo).

Merc is A2 Holy Freezer with

Obedience

[AgentMarth]

How do you guys survive with pally's in A4-A5 Hell ?

Battle Orders >_>


Really, you gear setup looks fine except maybe try switching out your weapon. Lionheart is a decent armor to look at as well. Also, String of Ears is my preference for the LL and DR. The IAS from nos doesn't seem needed, and 10% slow doesn't do to much.

Best piece of advice, rather than the usually "get elite gear" thing is just try to not waste extra stats that could have gone in vita. Str glitch if needed, its annoying, but gives you more life. Get some charms as well to boost your life up even if you lose out on maxers space

[MYK]

Dracul's Grasp makes living pretty easy. Once tap triggers it's pretty hard to die.

Get a good merc. Make him fight the Urdars and other monsters that will bring the hurt down.

As they say, "There's a difference between melee and suicide."

[come back zinc]

Don't know much about Pallys, but would a Duress Armor and ML/LL AllRes ring do you a little better than the Smoke and Carrion Wind?

[HCKull]

I have max resists in hell because of Smoke armor only problem is it's only 700 def.

I have lots leach from Carrion and Tals mask.

I think that Guill helm will help with lots more crushing blow and deadly strike.

[Arusha]

I agree w/ Marth also, might want to look at switching your belt to get a little bit of DR - if not string of ears a dungos is always a good choice for the huge life bonus

[STINGER]

Your Defense isnt an issue, it would take an LARGE amount more to actually make a big difference unless you ran a Defiance Merc and in that case I would consider it a poor choice unless you did do a good deal of investment in high D stuff.

The Freezer Merc is nice, but there are things that cant be frozen so know that, and if it were me I would of used a Might merc for the extra damage and extra hard thumping Merc so in tuff spots I can rely on him, and Udars can be a tuff spot as they can lay some thump!

I would also think Smoke (resists) wouldnt be needed by a Pally, you could probably go with a Durress.

An issue you might be having with the Udars is hit recovery. Without looking up all the items I dont seem to recall much being there in the items. That might even make you consider a Stone armor even.

I have never been a big fan of the Crescent Moon, but its not bad. YOu might consider other options here also.

Now, Gullieums is nice, but really with zeal and Gores you should have plenty of CB for normal play. Adding the helm shouldnt hurt, but if you add the helm you could look at other options at the boots also, maybe more resists to free up for differnt armors, or get some rares with FHR. You might even consider a Rockstopper. Even a Darksight could pan out......BTW, what helm/armor does the Merc have?

[HCKull]

Made a few changes to my gear now I am lvl 82:

Mine:

1) Weapon is Stormlash.
2) Using Dwarf Star instead of Carrion Wind.

Still need to get Guill. helm

Merc:

1) Obedience thresher
2) Tals Mask

Glitch socketed armor so it has defense of 850 hopefull will be a 3.4k def fort for merc.


He kills much better now with lots more damage and crushing blow. Merc is surviving pretty well. He made it through hell cows!