Zealot Guide

[._| 3 Vv |3]

Here goes, short and sweet:

Gear:

Helm:
2x40%ed/15ias jewel socketed Crown of Ages-Corona (Primary Choice)
or
"Delirium"-Bone Visage/Corona (Pain in the *** habit of xforming u into fetish at the worsty times )

Armor:
Templars Might-Sacred Armor
or
Gaurdian Angel-Upgraded to Hellforge plate (ladder only)
or
"Chains of Honor"-Boneweave/Balrog/Wyrmhide

Belt:
Verdungo's Hearty Cord-Mithril Coil
or
String of Ears-Upgraded To Spiderweb Sash (ladder only)

Gloves:
Steelrend-Ogre Gauntlets
or
Dracul's Grasp-Vampirebone Gloves

Boots:
Gore Rider-Upgraded to Myrimidon Greaves
or
Ethreal Sandstorm Trek-Scarabshell Boots

Weapons 1/2:
Primary Weapon-

"Breath of the Dying"-Ethreal Berzerker Axe
or
5x40%ed/15ias jewel'd Runemaster-Ettin Axe
or
"Famine"-Superior Legendary Mallet

Secondary Weapon-
"Call to Arms"-Flail
or
"Doom"- Cryptic Axe

Shields 1/2
Primary Shield-
"Exile"-Ethreal Vortex/Zakarum Shield *<--Necessary for build*

Secondary Shield-
Lidless Wall- Upgraded to Troll Nest(ladder only)
"Splendor"- Troll Nest
Amulet:
Seraph's Hymn-2 All skills/2 Defensive auras
or
Mara's Kaleidoscope-2 All skills/20-30 All resistances
or
Highlord's Wrath-1 All skills/20increased attack speed/%Deadly Strike (bocl)

Rings:
Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band-1 All skills/3-5% Life leech
or
Wisp Projector-10-20% MF/10-20% Lightning absorb
or
Nature's Peace-Slain Monsters Rest in Peace/Prevent Monster Heal
or
Dual Leech Rare Rings

Build:

Stats:
This character's stat build can vary greatly depending on which equipment setup one prefers. In other words, enough strength and dex to use equipment, rest into vit.

Skills:
Sacrifice-20 (synergie to Zeal +12% dmg per lvl)
Zeal-20
Fanaticism-20
Holy Shield-20
Defiance-20 (synergie to Holy Shield +15% defense per lvl)
*Note: Defiance will be the last skill to max

Tactics/Techniques:
It's a Zealot, you use zeal, what else is there to say? You wack the shit out of everything at a bajillion miles per hour... have fun. Just remember to put Holy Shield on.

Overall:
The general direction of this character is an extremely high defense, extremely powerful, extremely fast melee attacker.

Defense will be explained first: "Exile" gives a passive lvl 13-16 Defiance aura (190-220% enhanced defense) allowing you to use your fanatacism at the same time, while your own maxed 'Defiance' skill ups your holy shield defense (not including +skills) by 300%, that is on top of the 310% already given by lvl 20 Holy Shield.... This means that your eth "Exile"... with approximately 1.1k defense naturally, will have roughly 6.7k defense on your shield alone, compounded by "Exile's" passive 'Defiance' aura (another 190-220%) the shield alone balances out to between 12.7k-14.7k defense. Now total in all defense from other items... Delirium/CoA, Templars, Steelrend, and all those goodies, and then add your 190-220% overall defense bonus to them... and you start to get a feel for how much defense you can really have.

Remember, this is WITHOUT plus to skills... and as for damage, (60%-Steelrend; 80%-2xsocketed CoA; 240%-lvl 20 Sacrifice; 373%-lvl 20 Fanaticism...) all totals to 753% enhanced damage

Attack Speed: 60%IAS from "Breath of the Dying"; 30% from jewels in CoA; 35% from Fanatacism; and god knows how much from Zeal lol...

so... make up your own mind about my build and rate it!

[dOMaz23]

[dOMaz23]

do we need to put any in to mana? and charge?

[._| 3 Vv |3]

no points into energy no... zeal takes almost no mana, 2 i believe, and your lvl alone should give you enough mana to cast holy shield... and the ML from botd will keep you goin.... as for charge, do not max it, you only need 1 point into it to get around, and you have to have at least 1 point into, it's a prereq for holy shield

[Silver Ice]

no points into energy no... zeal takes almost no mana, 2 i believe, and your lvl alone should give you enough mana to cast holy shield... and the ML from botd will keep you goin.... as for charge, do not max it, you only need 1 point into it to get around, and you have to have at least 1 point into, it's a prereq for holy shield

so your own defiance aura stacks with exile when u have fant on?
cool

[._| 3 Vv |3]

wait wait no, your own defiance aura doesn't stack, but it adds 15% ed to holy shield, so you have 610% ed on holy shield when both maxed, so you end up w/roughly 6.7k def on shield.. w/o the shields OWN defiance aura of an extra 190-220%

[Nightwish]

Do you own peolpe in hell also how much dam do you do with your zeal ? alos waht weapon do you use ?

[._| 3 Vv |3]

the weapon selection is listed above, BotD zerker, and yes i rapage ppl lol

[dOMaz23]

the weapon selection is listed above, BotD zerker, and yes i rapage ppl lol

k thx bro

[vUUGH]

i dont know but you say:

String of Ears-Upgraded To Spiderweb Sash (ladder only)

Herald of Zakarum-Upgraded to Zakarum Shield (ladder only)

how do you upgrade those items?

[._| 3 Vv |3]

well, if you have a ladder zealot, there's a formula (ko+lem+ p dia for exceptional to elite armor/ pul+lum+p eme for exceptional to elite weapons) that allows you to upgrade the base item, so that the unique's stats are attributed to a higher version of that item... (for example, higher base defense, or base dmg) sorry forgot to clear that up..

[Legolas]

How much dmg does ur zealot do?

[thatn2]

Well I have a palidan exactly like yours but slightly different. My paladin is part zeal/smite/charage. And he has almost the exact gear like you.

This is what he wears:

Eth Botd zerker axe
80ed/40ias/15/20 coa
Viper Torc ammy
Verdungo belt
Eth sandtrek
Eth Exile Vortex shield
Secondary weap: Cta Flail/Lidless wall
Raven Sprial/Raven Frost
Dracula Glove
160ed/30ias/30max/24%fhr archon armor

I maxed out:
zeal-20
fant-20
holy shield-20
smite-20
charge-leftover skill

He is so godly. My battle tatics for PvP is good. My paladin zeals when i duel against paladin. Whenever someone tried to run away from me i always use charge. Whenever my paladin duels a barb or other chars with shield w/ high def i use smite to kill them. With a lot of def from the eth exile. It is hard for barb to hit me when i smite.

Well that was just my battle tatic skill. It is godly to me in my opinion, but i own a lot. My paldin weakness is necro, thats the only char i go PvP with having trouble.

[._| 3 Vv |3]

and isn't that zealot a shitload more fun than an Avenger? i know what the answer will be i wish items like yours were as readily available on ladder, and btw, q on ur archon, how does 1 get 4 mods on a jewel? i mean 40/15/15/6%fhr jewels? i mean christ 1 of those would be worht god knows how much on ladder, and 4... jesus

[Warslut]

I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but Doom can't be make out of a Legendary Mallet

Also for PvP might want to up Charge or Smite a bit instead of maxing Defiance

[._| 3 Vv |3]

lolz... wow i feel retarded -_- i initally wrote "famine" in "doom"'s place so when i edit'd it i forgot to change it from mallet o_O ack... ah well thx for pointing it out, i'm editing it right now. and i suppose that if one were so inclined (and had the +skills) that you could put sum to smite for pali v barb... or other high def pali's... depending on what skills they were using good thinking, although this build was based entirely on personal preference, feel free to make alterations if u feel like it to your own..

[Warslut]

Well it is a good build

[Silver Ice]

Here goes, short and sweet:

Gear:

Helm:
2x40%ed/15ias jewel socketed Crown of Ages-Corona
or
"Delirium"-Bone Visage/Corona

Armor:
Templars Might-Sacred Armor
or
Gaurdian Angel-Upgraded to Hellforge plate (ladder only)
or
"Chains of Honor"-Boneweave/Balrog/Wyrmhide

Belt:
Verdungo's Hearty Cord-Mithril Coil
or
String of Ears-Upgraded To Spiderweb Sash (ladder only)

Gloves:
Steelrend-Ogre Gauntlets
or
Dracul's Grasp-Vampirebone Gloves

Boots:
Gore Rider-Upgraded to Myrimidon Greaves
or
Ethreal Sandstorm Trek-Scarabshell Boots

Weapons 1/2:
Primary Weapon-

"Breath of the Dying"-Ethreal Berzerker Axe
or
5x40%ed/15ias jewel'd Runemaster-Ettin Axe
or
"Famine"-Superior Legendary Mallet

Secondary Weapon-
"Call to Arms"-Flail
or
"Doom"- Cryptic Axe

Shields 1/2
Primary Shield-
"Exile"-Ethreal Vortex/Zakarum Shield *<--Necessary for build*

Secondary Shield-
Herald of Zakarum-Upgraded to Zakarum Shield (ladder only)

Amulet:
Seraph's Hymn-2 All skills/2 Defensive auras
or
Mara's Kaleidoscope-2 All skills/20-30 All resistances
or
Highlord's Wrath-1 All skills/20increased attack speed/%Deadly Strike (bocl)

Rings:
Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band-1 All skills/3-5% Life leech
or
Wisp Projector-10-20% MF/10-20% Lightning absorb
or
Nature's Peace-Slain Monsters Rest in Peace/Prevent Monster Heal
or
Dual Leech Rare Rings

Build:

Stats:
This character's stat build can vary greatly depending on which equipment setup one prefers. In other words, enough strength and dex to use equipment, rest into vit.

Skills:
Sacrifice-20 (synergie to Zeal +12% dmg per lvl)
Zeal-20
Fanaticism-20
Holy Shield-20
Defiance-20 (synergie to Holy Shield +15% defense per lvl)
*Note: Defiance will be the last skill to max


so... make up your own mind about my build and rate it!

ur missing eth zoded templars might its pretty nice 2800 defense
and there is a godly 08 paladin ammy its got something like 8/8 leech +2 to skills +20 to str and dex and some to life

i cant remember its name though

[Warslut]

I think it's Viper Torque, and you're rght it is a good pally ammy

[Silver Ice]

I think it's Viper Torque, and you're rght it is a good pally ammy

its viper torque? then whats the godly 47% rare mf ammy called?