a holy shock paladin is not item dependent at all. +skills are nice, of course, but not neccessary till act3 lower kurast, where I lost mine against stormtree. I just ran around mobs till the aura killed them. the rebuild is lvl48, the aura doing 1-700 lightning damage. some bosses might need to be meleed, though, because ~350 damage every 2 seconds are not enough to kill them. if at all possible, I let the holy freeze merc do the melee. you could go for max block of course and do it yourself with the 1-4k lightning damage on melee attacks at that level.
one of the best items for this char IMO is the holy thunder runeword. if you manage to find a 4s sceptre with holy shock skills already in it, take a minute to celebrate :)
I do not know if this char will be hell viable in the way that i play it (the aura making the kills). with max block and played as a melee char, it may be doable.
pro:all item positions are free. in my case for mf gear, which I either came across or gambled for (PTopazes assemble themselves once you hit nm ;) )
cons: holy shock is a lvl24 skill; probably not hell viable
EDIT: typo
one of the best items for this char IMO is the holy thunder runeword. if you manage to find a 4s sceptre with holy shock skills already in it, take a minute to celebrate :)
I do not know if this char will be hell viable in the way that i play it (the aura making the kills). with max block and played as a melee char, it may be doable.
pro:all item positions are free. in my case for mf gear, which I either came across or gambled for (PTopazes assemble themselves once you hit nm ;) )
cons: holy shock is a lvl24 skill; probably not hell viable
EDIT: typo
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