Combat Paladin?

[Skarz]

I was just looking at all the paladin skills and thinking about how many hundreds of B-hammer pally's i've seen. Of course blessed hammer is indeed very powerful and pretty fun to use, but it seems all the pally's i see have that. I was wondering if theres another, FUN FUN way to play a combat master paladin. I was thinking somewhat along the lines of.....

*Zeal (20 points for more damage, use as my normal attack)
*Vengeance (20 points to add tons of element attacks, figured it could help in hell when everything is immune!)
*Fist of Heaven (20 points? Not sure, i figured if i ran into a tight spot i could use this to shake things up)
*Holy Shield (20 points, if im gonna be hacking away, i definetely need the defense. If i have it maxed, how long does the effect last??)

I'm open for suggestions, whatever works. I wanna be a combat specialist though.

How much damage can fists of heaven do? Is it worth the skill points?

[All-Fear]

dont use foh ether its too common, yes get sheild and no vengance. if ur an actually combat pally get fanat conv or salv. im just building a hybring synergie smite combat pally now eheh

[Skarz]

Alrighty, So could you narrow down the skill points a bit? I want these for sure...

*Zeal
*Holy Shield

If i don't use vengeance, how can i increase my attack damage, i know fana and concentration do that, but will it be enough to boost it up high enough? I wanna be able to kill stuff in hell mode.

[Soldier]

lol zeal is very fast. ur dmg wont matter that much

[Shadow992588]

Max Fant
Max Zeal
Max Sacrifice
Max Holy Shield

thats just for starts

[Skarz]

i think im gonna go with the "holy shock" and zeal thing. More about it in the other forum.