[:1]Hi folks, I'm kinda looking for an alternative build to breakout of the usual ones, and am hoping that some here might offer me some advice and insight.
This is what I have in mind so far.
A holy freeze paladin using dragon and perhaps hoj.
20 cold resist
20 fire resist
20 salvation
20 holy shield
1 into prerequisites and split rest into zeal and sacrifice.
In a sense, it's probably gonna be built somewhat like a freezadin, but running holyfire aura from runewords, and not using conviction like a dreamadin. And since I'm kinda hoping to avoid using a merc this time round (unlike my other paladin builds), I am most likely not gonna be getting a source of conviction from infinity polearm.
My primarily concern is to make this viable in hell games, of which I think it should, but just not too sure how effective this particular build will be. I kinda hope this will not be a terrible waste of runes to find out in the end that it gonna be sucky.
Any input will be appreciated.|||I've got some questions about skill arrangement.
If you mean playing holy freeze paladin where exactly are skills invested in holy freeze among skills you wrote?
If you intend to use holy fire than than why spend 20 points in cold resist?
If you will use equipment to get aura what will be your main aura? Salvation?|||Quote:
If you mean playing holy freeze paladin where exactly are skills invested in holy freeze among skills you wrote?
My bad, I kinda left that out by mistake. The skill breakdown should be the following.
20 holy freeze
20 cold resist
20 fire resist
20 salvation
10+ holy shield
1 into prerequisites and split rest into zeal and sacrifice.
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If you intend to use holy fire than than why spend 20 points in cold resist?
If you will use equipment to get aura what will be your main aura? Salvation?
It's gonna be holy freeze as main aura, with a 2nd holy fire aura from hoj & dragon (lvl30 holy fire with max'ed synergies), using zeal primary attack and as a means of delivering the fire/cold bonus dmg from both auras + the pulse.|||I'm not sure how succesful will be upgradeing your character in 2 fronts. Since you attend to make expensive runewords I would suggest to make runewords that will grant you -X% to enemy cold resistances since Holy freeze will be main aura.
The reason why is couse you will eventually engage monsters with fire and cold immunities or at least with high cold and fire ressistances. So no matter how high your damage is you wont be able to hurt them lot and zealers are all about killing speed.
I would use Doom rw instead of Hoj couse Doom has -57% ecr and Hoj has "only"
-20% efr|||Viable, yes, but unless you've got Infinity on the merc it's not going to be that great, especially considering the cost. There's little point in getting a load of elemental damage if most monsters will resist 2/3 or more of it. With no Zeal/Fanat investment or -def% from Conviction you're also going to have AR probs.
Doom's -res will help, but with only Dragon HF's damage will drop from 1200 (not great to be begin with considering it costs 20 points and your armour and weapon slots) to just over 300. Unless you use another Dragon...|||Quote:
I'm not sure how succesful will be upgradeing your character in 2 fronts. Since you attend to make expensive runewords I would suggest to make runewords that will grant you -X% to enemy cold resistances since Holy freeze will be main aura.
The reason why is couse you will eventually engage monsters with fire and cold immunities or at least with high cold and fire ressistances. So no matter how high your damage is you wont be able to hurt them lot and zealers are all about killing speed.
I would use Doom rw instead of Hoj couse Doom has -57% ecr and Hoj has "only"
-20% efr
I initially thought of going with my character's holy freeze aura because it can be higher than what doom rw has to offer, even with the -res benefit differences between doom (lvl12 holy freeze) and hoj + dragon (lvl30 holy fire). The dual elemental immunes would be taken care of by hoj's 280-330%ed on a berserker axe.
My alternative gear would be to go with an oath ethereal cryptic sword and having its high physical dmg complimented with holy freeze and holy fire (from 2 dragons instead of 1). I suppose this 2nd alternative will be doing cold, fire, plus more physical dmg from oath as opposed to hoj berserker axe.
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Viable, yes, but unless you've got Infinity on the merc it's not going to be that great, especially considering the cost.
There's little point in getting a load of elemental damage if most monsters will resist 2/3 or more of it.
I was really hoping to break out of the usual reliance on mercs this time round, even with the obvious benefits infinity/conviction might bring or some would argue necessary for making this an effective build. And yes, I am aware of the cost this particular build will incur, which is why I figured I consulted with you folks before proceeding with making what might be a big mistake.
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With no Zeal/Fanat investment or -def% from Conviction you're also going to have AR probs.
Zeal would likely be at a 1 pointer and boosted only with the +skills from my gear. And you are right, in that going in this direction will cripple me in the AR department; especially when using doom which does not have ITD. Going with hoj might help for regular mobs since it has ITD, but I will face the same AR problem when encountering uniques and bosses.
I suppose a 3rd alternative would be to go with beast rw, holy freeze, dual dragons - which might be a little better. Any advice on this setup?
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Doom's -res will help, but with only Dragon HF's damage will drop from 1200 (not great to be begin with considering it costs 20 points and your armour and weapon slots) to just over 300. Unless you use another Dragon...
True. I suppose this build is in a dire need of further refinement before I go ahead with making it. As of now the following are my alternative setup
Original - holy freeze, hoj, dragon (maybe 2) = low/moderate physical dmg, ar problem, no conviction for enhanced elemental dmg
1st alternative - conviction, doom, dragon x 2 = low/moderate physical dmg, lesser ar problem but with better elemental dmg from conviction.
2nd alternative - oath ethereal cryptic sword, holy freeze, dragon x 2 = better physical dmg, ar problem, no conviction for enhanced elemental dmg.
3rd alternative - beast berserker axe, holy freeze, dragon x 2 = decent physical dmg, lesser ar problem, no conviction for enhanced elemental dmg.
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