Melee HC build

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A serious question: How does a HC semi-untwinked Paladin go about soloing Hell in 1.1?

Very very slowly. My conviction zealot paladin who had nearly 900 life and really high resists still took single hits that took down half (or more) of his life. I found a buriza which I switched to for iron maiden situations. The strategy was really cowardly, pull the monsters away from the group, pick em off a few at a time, frequently go to town to raise my merc.

I mean, to Zeal archers you've got to get to them right?

I had two survival methods, one was that I had about ~30% leech and really high resists. Two my holy freeze merc could chil a crowd. Unfortunately the best weapon I aquired was a lightsabre and for anyone OTHER than a conviction zealot it would be grand. For me it didnt do enough physical damage to leech from and didnt do enough elemental damage for my conviction boost to matter. Still it was better than anything else I had.

My strategy for skelton archers I couldn't leech from was to run past them, then as my freeze merc trundled past and froze them run back wack em a few times and run away before they offed my merc or me. Heal and repeat, it was tedious.

He worked fine if slowly right up until the time he died.