03-24-2003, 09:51 AM
Well I have an all around fun fun fun zealadin with tricks that can pretty much handle about any pvm situation.(msle PI is a toughy mind you)
prereqs aside this is how I divied them (he's 86 now... so it's sorta guess and shove I guess)
9 zeal
10 vengeance
20 holy shield
1 redemption(good for times when you have bodies and no life)
1 meditation(party aura, good for pi fighting where you can take with little threat as well)
1 salvation(good for corpse retrieval, party with zon situations etc.)
20 fanat
6 holy freeze
11 conviction
first off, if you go with foh, you can drop vengeance, zeal only needs to be 4 if that, holy freeze can be skimmped but I like the increased radius and it works well with foh...
SO let's say...
20 foh
15+conviction
20 fanat
11+holyshield
1+holyfreeze
1+smike(I'd say this is optional if you use hoz, can be good on a weapon switch though, and works great with fanat)
4+ (w/fx) zeal (and just pick up some ar charms if you're having issues)
You'll probably want a point in meditation for those times leech just isn't happening and you're just using foh like a silly guy to blast the kingts in the chaos sanctuary. Remption also helps if you want to free up leech gear in favor of mana regen, xx% damage to mana, and resist items...
A decent gear setup would be...
Weapon-Blessed Hand of Light/runeword (honor, kings grace, fury, silence etc. etc.), or even a good rare (w/+paly/combat skills) scepter with mods to FOH(+3 preffered) and perhaps holyfreeze/holy shield... maybe also some decent melee weapon that adds to your ar (barnars) ignores defense (lightsabre, also has lower str reqs by far) or -xx% targets defense (malice runeword etc.) if your scepter is lacking
Shield-Herald of Zakarum, hands down about as good as it gets if you use foh(+4 to foh, with up to 5 or so more from you scepter is already +9)
Helm-Shako sounds good, rare circlets can be awesome as well
Ammy-Anything with a bonus skills, such as maras (has good restis), rares, magicals(hard to get other useful mods, but +2 is+2) etc.
Rings-+skills via SoJ or Bul Kanthos is ideal
Armor-I'd really suggest a good resist Vipermagi
belt-good place to pick up cannot be frozen, deaths sash can do this, as can tal's blet
gloves-death's gloves go good with the sash (30 ias, 8% life leech, cannot be frozen, 15 res all, hard to beat, and also quite useful) or frostburn/ias depending on if you're at 4 frame zeal or not (there are numerous charts to help you with this around)
belt-silkweaves are hard to beat, but rares with perhaps high elemental and r/w would be best... you can gamble these with a level ~40ish character at a fairly reasonable price I'd think
Between Socketing and charms, you'll want to make 32% (iirc) faster hit recovery, as this is just another useful thing to have... and as for skill charms, combat charms help you out the most by far adding to holyshield, a bit to your foh, more on your zeal helps the ar and if you chose to use smite on a switch this will also help that out considerably as well (10 smite is a fairly reasonable goal in terms of usefulness... just remember to have an elite paladin shield for smite if you can, and a REAL fast weapon on the switch)
Just my take on the build... hope it's useful to you (all)
-Saga_Keeper
prereqs aside this is how I divied them (he's 86 now... so it's sorta guess and shove I guess)
9 zeal
10 vengeance
20 holy shield
1 redemption(good for times when you have bodies and no life)
1 meditation(party aura, good for pi fighting where you can take with little threat as well)
1 salvation(good for corpse retrieval, party with zon situations etc.)
20 fanat
6 holy freeze
11 conviction
first off, if you go with foh, you can drop vengeance, zeal only needs to be 4 if that, holy freeze can be skimmped but I like the increased radius and it works well with foh...
SO let's say...
20 foh
15+conviction
20 fanat
11+holyshield
1+holyfreeze
1+smike(I'd say this is optional if you use hoz, can be good on a weapon switch though, and works great with fanat)
4+ (w/fx) zeal (and just pick up some ar charms if you're having issues)
You'll probably want a point in meditation for those times leech just isn't happening and you're just using foh like a silly guy to blast the kingts in the chaos sanctuary. Remption also helps if you want to free up leech gear in favor of mana regen, xx% damage to mana, and resist items...
A decent gear setup would be...
Weapon-Blessed Hand of Light/runeword (honor, kings grace, fury, silence etc. etc.), or even a good rare (w/+paly/combat skills) scepter with mods to FOH(+3 preffered) and perhaps holyfreeze/holy shield... maybe also some decent melee weapon that adds to your ar (barnars) ignores defense (lightsabre, also has lower str reqs by far) or -xx% targets defense (malice runeword etc.) if your scepter is lacking
Shield-Herald of Zakarum, hands down about as good as it gets if you use foh(+4 to foh, with up to 5 or so more from you scepter is already +9)
Helm-Shako sounds good, rare circlets can be awesome as well
Ammy-Anything with a bonus skills, such as maras (has good restis), rares, magicals(hard to get other useful mods, but +2 is+2) etc.
Rings-+skills via SoJ or Bul Kanthos is ideal
Armor-I'd really suggest a good resist Vipermagi
belt-good place to pick up cannot be frozen, deaths sash can do this, as can tal's blet
gloves-death's gloves go good with the sash (30 ias, 8% life leech, cannot be frozen, 15 res all, hard to beat, and also quite useful) or frostburn/ias depending on if you're at 4 frame zeal or not (there are numerous charts to help you with this around)
belt-silkweaves are hard to beat, but rares with perhaps high elemental and r/w would be best... you can gamble these with a level ~40ish character at a fairly reasonable price I'd think
Between Socketing and charms, you'll want to make 32% (iirc) faster hit recovery, as this is just another useful thing to have... and as for skill charms, combat charms help you out the most by far adding to holyshield, a bit to your foh, more on your zeal helps the ar and if you chose to use smite on a switch this will also help that out considerably as well (10 smite is a fairly reasonable goal in terms of usefulness... just remember to have an elite paladin shield for smite if you can, and a REAL fast weapon on the switch)
Just my take on the build... hope it's useful to you (all)
-Saga_Keeper