1.10 new "synergies"

[WarBlade]

Greetings WarBlade.

You seem to have already made a few speculation about Bob, one of which is that he puts points in conviction, vengence, meditation, holy shield and fanatiscm, I do not remember anything about saying he's trying to max those 5 skills.

4 Skills. I gave an either/or option between Conviction and Fanaticism because of the huge Mana expenses involved in maxing Vengeance. You need to put points somewhere to get the leech or regeneration happening.

Secondly, you seem to forget (no matter how justified it is because of the dupes) that not every one has that 100% resist shield and let me remind you that even WITH that shield, the paladin is at 0% resists in hell, not a good thing if you're going against LE.

I seem to forget? :huh:

That the shield slot alone is but one slot and it's practically impossible to run in Hell using such a shield and have 0% Resistance left in anything (unless nekked). On the contrary, typical Lightning and Fire Riesist numbers for me are 75.

You're right in saying not everyone has that 100% Resist All shield. One of my Paladin's carries 106%, another carries a 76% one. Really, if Murphy should opt not to drop a 4 socket exceptional in Nightmare, Larzuk is ready and willing to assist. There's no reason for a Paladin not to carry a 4D shield of some kind (outside of variant/restricted play).

I disagree, if I had a max defiance and a max conviction against a horde of overwhelming monsters surrounding me, I would most definatly use  Defiance instead of conviction as I play HC my survivability is more important than being able to kill a few more monsters in that  5 seconds my character has to live before it dies.

Defiance? *Reads back and notes Defiance mentioned* We were talking abut synergies. How did Defiance get into your debate??? :blink:

And lets picture this, you happen to encounter a MSLE in Hell, your resists, even with that 100% resists shield, doesn't help you much, will you use fanatiscm when fighting him or salvation (at a fairly low level) or a mid-high level lightning resist which will give you far greater bonuses to light resist than salvation.

Depends on the creature. Salvation won't boost an already maxed resistance so that skill will never have a point invested (except for one character I have where one point is there for the pretty rainbow). Likewise Resist Lightning also does nothing. Depending on the charatcer, my tactics range from ranged attacks to Charge attacks always staying with an Offensive Aura of some kind. I also have a couple of no Offensive Aura Paladins and they'll just stick to their default Defiance and Prayer/Meditation Auras.