Paladin subclasses - what are these?

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Shockadin, or Shock Trooper, uses holy shock and zeal for a good mix of lightning and physical damage.

with the addition of holy freeze's damage there's now also frost zealots too. combined with HF's slowing and cold damage charms, these are very powerful.


also with the addition of vigor synergy to BH there's frenzied hammerdins(my build name ;))

you use stealth armour and 40% r/w boots(sanders are common, later 40% resist magic ones are easy to find in shops), get BH to 100 damage and HS to 10, then get 1-5 in redemption and pump vigor to 20, then max BH, and lastly concentration/holy shield.

thanks to the uber fast charge you move faster than frenzy barbs, put on vigor and charge on your weapon switch to use whenever you're not throwing out hammers.

this build is also great for getting away from real nasty monsters/packs: you turn off running so you don't always get hit, and walk in hyper speed away. also since you're producing so many corpses quickly you can switch to redemption when you're mobbed and nearly dead, and you get a free total refresh(or 2 or 3).

since you're so fast there's no point in relying on mercs: you'll outrun them all the time! but with BH's damage you shouldn't have a problem.

also a few points in smite can never hurt: when you get to hell archers will be a real pain, the trick here is to charge into them, then smite them to a wall and mix between smite and BH all the time. this can also work well for frenzytaurs(if you manage to get only 1-2 on you) and hephasto.


i know i know, this requires a lot of hot-keys and switching, but i :wub: :wub: frenzied hammerdins ^_^ :wub: :wub: