My travincal zealot Q

[zaphodbrx]

I think that's not a good idea because you are giving up 75% blocking then which means that you will be hit 4 times as often.

It is hardly a bad idea, because I did 10,000 p7 runs with 2H zealot!
Though that was using RWM- Fortitude, eDeath and later eBotD.

 

[krischan]

My point was if I use drac's my merc reaper's wouldn't remove PI, as for gimmershred my second slot ocuppated with CTA and don't wanna change it.

I think that you don't need CtA. On bnet, my zealots did Übers without it (and before I had things like a Grief phase blade) and they hit way harder than Councils, Lister's pack, Ancients or basically anything else which you can encounter.

I think only used CtA on my lightning/cold sorc who gathered keys für Über tristram (Nihlathak's corpse explosions are very deadly), but that's just a bnet issue.

Whatever, the question of who's getting CtA is a matter of play style and personal preferences.

I love the life tap too but decripify removes PI and p resistense and also slow them down as nice defensive property.

Decrep is pretty nice, but versus immunes, the reduction of the resistance in question works at only 1/5 strength, so when applying decrep, PIs with 110% or more will stay immune while 100% ones will still have 90% physical resistance. Amp has twice the amount, but nothing else beyond that.

BTW, you have decrep because your merc wears reaper's, correct? When he dies, the curs runs out quickly and he probably dies a lot versus the councils, except you are spending significant amounts of time on rescuing him.

Every character has a weakness and PIs are the weakness of a melee paladin. Even Gimmershreds won't help really well against those PI frenzytaurs in the act 5 ice caves, in particular not against the bosses, but it's probably better than being dealing .

With solid life leech like 25%

LL is reduced to 1/2 in nightnmare and to 1/3 in hell while lifetap is always 50%. In addition, it ignores lack o drain effectiveness, i.e. you can leech from skeletons or Diablo as well.

high minimum damage

I doubt that any +mindmg socketing of Stormlash has a significant effect.

and 4fps zeal paladins don't need life tap (for travincal).

That's right, but perhaps you want to do something else as well...

About 2 jahs

... like getting a Ber as well, make Enigma, give it to your zealot (with Wizardspike and any Spirit in any paladin shield in the weapon switch) and then do Baal runs with him. Versus Lister's pack, you definitely want to have lifetap!

and RWM, I will probably cube them to cham,

I think that would be a tremendous waste. In fact, I think it's one of the most ineffective things you could do with two self-found Jahs, except you have a weird kind of good luck and found 6 Jahs and nothing else. What do you want to do with that Cham rune? If its's putting together Zod, better wait until you have gathered all the other stuff which you need to cube and make use of it.

because I will never use RWM.I know it sounds like a bad decision for most of you, but imo most of the rw are too imbalanced and their purpose is to help ladder characters(6 months) to accumulate wealth before ladder ends.

That's perfectly OK .

 

[pharphis]

Maybe I'm biased because I've found only one jah and cubed another, while having found 6 (7?) cham runes... but jah to cham is a huge waste imo.

 

[Fabian]

I'm biased too because I'm an old curmudgeon who's already made the boring Jah runewords, but to me the best use of Jah is to cube a Cham (for which there are so many fun uses, none of which include cubing a Zod).

Cham and Ral only good runes in d2 etc.

 

[pharphis]

I'll agree with ral but then also throw in 1.07 Ko runes

 

[Fabian]

Yeah yeah this is for 1.13 only of course. 1.07 Ko runes are the actual best items in the game period.

 

[NoisemakerArrow]

What did they do?

 

[BlizzBallerSorc]

Are 1.07 Kos used in crafting or something?

I'm biased too because I'm an old curmudgeon who's already made the boring Jah runewords, but to me the best use of Jah is to cube a Cham (for which there are so many fun uses, none of which include cubing a Zod).

Cham and Ral only good runes in d2 etc.

Now I'm curious about this as well.

 

[pharphis]

They're used to make blood rings which sometimes bug the life leech %

Stone Band
Ring
Required Level: 56
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 57
Fingerprint: 0x6447c6f4
+11 to Strength
+43 to Attack Rating
Lightning Resist +29%
22% Life stolen per hit

Stone Turn
Ring
Required Level: 59
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 99
Fingerprint: 0x24bc09c8
+13 to Strength
+13 to Life
+6 to Maximum Stamina
Lightning Resist +27%
21% Life stolen per hit

One of these was my first roll


Fabian's are about 30x better than mine, though

and rals are just for 1.10+ caster amulets

 

[BlizzBallerSorc]

They're used to make blood rings which sometimes bug the life leech %

Stone Band
Ring
Required Level: 56
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 57
Fingerprint: 0x6447c6f4
+11 to Strength
+43 to Attack Rating
Lightning Resist +29%
22% Life stolen per hit

Stone Turn
Ring
Required Level: 59
Item Version: Expansion
Item Level: 99
Fingerprint: 0x24bc09c8
+13 to Strength
+13 to Life
+6 to Maximum Stamina
Lightning Resist +27%
21% Life stolen per hit

One of these was my first roll


Fabian's are about 30x better than mine, though

and rals are just for 1.10+ caster amulets

Yowza.