QUEsTION: My Attempt aT a Zealassin

[SweetBabyRay]

QUEsTION: My Attempt aT a Zealassin

Last summer i quit for the school year, but before quitting i attempted a zealassin using a passion phase blade and it failed but then again it didnt have really good +skill items. anyone else tryed this build b4. yes i am a noob to this forum and the "tech" talk and abbreviations for d2 LOD but i am a veteran of the game

 

[BIGeyedBUG]

I know a few people who've done it. Your damage won't be great, but you'll be fast, so look for things like Crushing Blow and elemental damage. You'll also want +all skills for Zeal. I'll quote my friend Heather (at the AB):

So, revised equipment list:
Hat: Shako
Armor: Duress runeword (still not sure in what yet)
Weapon: Passion phase blade/Demon Limb
Shield: Stormshield
Switch: dual +3 Shadow claws
Belt: TGods
Gloves: Trang-Oul's/Blood Crafted
Boots: Gore Riders
Ammy: Mahim Oak
Ring: Raven Frost
Ring: Blood craft, hopefully with dual leech

With the ridiculous amounts of %pdr on that shield, I can back off on maxing Fade. Pulling 10 points will give me a casting level of 20, which still more than caps my %pdr and only loses me 5% resist all.

So that leaves my resists at:
30% (anya quests)
64% (level 20 Fade) - 94%
11% (annihilus) - 105%
15% (um in armor) - 120%
10% (mahim oak curio) - 130% res all

That leaves me with cold maxed plus %absorb, lightning at 55% plus direct absorb, and the other two at 30%, which is a little much to make up for in charms (fire and lightning, at least, need to be at 75%, and getting 85% lightning would be better since the belt lets me). I'll see what my blood gloves and ring end up looking like, I usually get at least one or two nice resists on crafts. If I have to, I'll diamond the shield. But.... but... I don't want to... if I had 2 jewels of fervor plus 20 IAS on gloves, that would let me hit the 4 frame breakpoint without a ridiculously hard to find amulet and without sacrificing my belt slot... (2 jewels of fervor with resist prefixes would be even better, of course. Looks like it's jewel hunting time.)

(I'm not addicted to speed, no, not at all... whistling.gif But I mean really, you just have to try a sin with a 4 frame zeal to see why. Borrow a Passion phase and put on BoS, and you'll see!)

I do know I don't need to max Death Sentry. My BF Sin spent most of the game with it at 5, and has since increased it to 10, and it works just fine. Maxing it was more of an "Okay, I need somewhere to throw points" thing. I'd like to keep it at a decent level, since I like to spam it myself rather than just leaving it to my shadow, but pulling 10 points out of it would be fine.

So, what to do with the 20 points I just freed?

I don't really like the idea of an incredibly long CoS, too annoying for recasting when I move to a different area, but a few more points wouldn't do any harm. My BF sin casts it at about level 7 or 8 right now, and I don't think that's unreasonable. Putting 4 points base in it would give me a level 8 casting level, which is enemy defense -36%, and a tolerable 15 second duration. Add my rogue casting Inner Sight and that brings enemy defense down a little more yet. Which should help my chance to hit.

It ended up working pretty darn well, though she made some equipment changes. Delirium instead of Harley is the big one I can think of. This was before the latest batch of runewords too, so there's some powerful options there.

 

[OhNoMatt]

Hey, I made a Passion runeword out of a Small Crescent axe (mostly because I got tired of looking for a 4 soc berserker every day and not finding one). Do you think this is okay even though it's slower, or should I make another Passion runeword with a phase blade for the increased speed? I plan on using Passion for more than one char anyways, it looks like fun.