Vengeance? Whats the lowdown on it?
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I worked up some gear for the "Static Conviction Zealot" and here is what I came up with so far:

I'm going to assume we can get 40% of our resists from charms (3 rows of 10% small charms). Also noting 60 IAS is 9/5 frame zeal for scourge and 110 is 8/5. Next breakpoint is 145 to 8/4 which is doable but sacrifices too much.

Weapon: Stormlash socketed with shael -- 15% chance to cast level 10 static , big physical and lightning damage, 50% ias
Helm: Andy's visage -- +2 skills, 20% IAS, life leech, 30 strength, massive poison resists, -30% fire resist
Amulet: Maras -- +2 skills high resists (Mine has 27 so I'm calculating off that)
Armor: Guardian angel -- +1 paladin skills, +15 to max resists, better and faster blocking
Shield: Paladin shield with Sanctuary(ko ko mal) runeword -- Relying on this to get 100% resists, also adds 20 dex and decent block
Gloves: Lava Gout -- Fire damage, chance of enchant for more fire damage, 20% IAS
Rings: Either 2 ravenfrosts if we can rely on potions to keep up zeal mana, if not 1 frost and 1 mana leech ring (manald, whatever)
Belt: Tgods -- 20 str, lightning absorb, lightning damage
Boots: Infernostride -- fire damage, 30 fire resist, + max fire resists

Freeze Merc
Weapon: Reaper's Toll
Helm: Delirium
Armor: Shaftstop

To max out resists andy's and GA need to be socketed with UM or 15% res all jewels

Totals:
110% IAS for 8/5 frame zeal
95% resists in hell if enough charms are carried
lightning and cold absorb, if fire absorb is necessary mana leech/2nd raven frost ring can be replaced with dwarf
A couple of hundred elemental damage from the armor + 1 to 473 lightning damage from the Stormlash
+5 skills

Stat distribution
str 110 total and gear will add ~50
dex ~100 depending on gear, so you have about 160 total at level 99 to keep 75% block
energy base
vit rest

Skills
20 conviction
20 holy shield
10 resist cold (to get to 95% max cold resists)
10 resist lightning (to get to 95% max lightning resists)
20 sacrifice
1-5 zeal -- depends on how impatient you are, gear will provide the skills but it will take a while to equip. I'm pretty sure conviction will take care of any AR issues but this might have to be where the rest of the points go.
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Overview:
You will be one tough nut with 95 resists in hell and absorbs. If you go all out with resist charms or are lucky enough to have an Annihilus replace the Maras with a Highlord and the Gouts with Hellmouth for even more damage. There is no room for damage reduction so big physical damage might be a problem but the max block and high vitality should help with that.

Any thoughts or improvements? I'm still missing a couple of crucial pieces of gear but when I get them I believe this will be THE melee PVM build for both dishing it out and taking it. With the full resists/absorbs I can see this shredding sorcs in PVP, not sure how it will do against other melee characters though.
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Vengeance? Whats the lowdown on it? - by LucianDK - 02-15-2004, 05:59 PM
Vengeance? Whats the lowdown on it? - by gekko - 02-15-2004, 11:31 PM
Vengeance? Whats the lowdown on it? - by Taem - 02-15-2004, 11:46 PM
Vengeance? Whats the lowdown on it? - by adeyke - 02-16-2004, 12:06 AM
Vengeance? Whats the lowdown on it? - by LucianDK - 02-16-2004, 12:36 AM
Vengeance? Whats the lowdown on it? - by Vash - 02-16-2004, 04:54 AM
Vengeance? Whats the lowdown on it? - by adeyke - 02-16-2004, 05:04 AM
Vengeance? Whats the lowdown on it? - by adeyke - 02-16-2004, 06:03 AM
Vengeance? Whats the lowdown on it? - by gekko - 02-17-2004, 04:39 AM
Vengeance? Whats the lowdown on it? - by LucianDK - 02-17-2004, 06:18 PM
Vengeance? Whats the lowdown on it? - by arrunique - 02-18-2004, 03:10 AM

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