Couple of skill rants

[WarBlade]

Hmm, are you quite sure about that?  The synergies for vengeances are salvation, resist cold, resist lightning, and resist fire respectively.

I'm well aware of what the Synergies are. What I'm saying is I don't have points to spend in them.

The battle.net 1.10 forum confirms that each point in a resist aura adds 5% to base vengeance damage, so 15% total.  This means you don't really have to max all the synergies.

For example the build I'm thinking of trying:

20 Vengeance
20 Fanatacism
20 Resist Lightning
1 Meditation
1 Vigor
As many points in charge and holy shield as possible.

Personally I think your emphasis on mana consumption is exaggerated. A point in meditation was sufficient to recover mana between battles, esp as the base mana pool grew.  A few % mana steal combined with fanatacism was more than sufficient to recoup the mana loss.  Now that the global physical resistance has been removed replacing fanaticism with conviction for even more UBAR DAMAGE should be viable.

I was using Conviction. Trust me when I say "You WANT Conviction". Using Conviction over Fanaticism means crappy leeching and hence the need for Meditation. Your case at a quick look, looks to be about 74 points without anything in Charge and Holy Shield. The way the game is now, I'd say you'd have to forget either Holy Shield or Charge and face the fact that what you have left is only your end-Hell build.

And have you tried an Avenger in Act 5 Hell yet? I've tried a couple of Paladins, one being and Avenger, and let me just say that Holy Shield becomes very very inviting for one who stands and swings with the likes of Vengeance, Zeal and Sacrifice. :blink:

Also don't discount Redemption. I've just tried that out and discovered it rocks by comparison to its old self, purely because the pulse is almost immediate instead of the old 3 second wait.