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Jun 19 2009 07:56am
Hello, so I noticed the lacking of zealot guides so I decided to share some knowledge on zealots to try and help out anyone new to the class or an experienced player wanting to try out another setup. I have been making zealots since .09 so I know quite a bit about them. I tried to include all of the builds that I felt were worth mentioning. There is no #1 zealot setup just some setups work better against a certain setup than another may. This is a guide on a gm melee Zealot which is a paladin that uses zeal as its main attack.


Skills

No matter what setup you decide to go with skills will always be the same.

Zeal
Fanaticism
Holy Shield
Defiance
Sacrifice (maxed at level 96)

Remaining points go into blessed aim for the 5% Bonus to Attack Rating per lvl.


Defiance should be maxed before Sacrifice, because the defense bonus from defiance is more important than the damage increase from Sacrifice.



Stats

Strength: On every setup you only put enough str in to use the gear and no more.

*Note: It is a good idea to find out how much str you need to put in before you start dumping points in, or else you may waste a lot of points.

Dexterity: On most setups you only put in enough dex to get max block.

Vitality: As much as you can spare goes in here.

Energy: Delete char and make a caster if you put points in here.




Setups

Finally the important part, the gear. A zealot can be a very expensive character to make so be prepared to spend some fg on one.


ETH VALOR SETUP

Weapon: ebotdz
Armor: +2 all skills Ethereal Zod'd Valor
Shield: Glitched exile ed/ar
Helm: Coa ber/ber 31 dr
Rings: 2x ravens
Amulet: Highlords
Gloves: Steelrends
Boots: Upgraded Gore Riders
Belt: 15% Damage Reduce Verdungos

Switch: +3 holy shield / +6 bo cta / Hoz

Charms: 9x 132/45 ar/life gcs
10x 36/20s
Torch/anni











GLADIATOR'S BANE SETUP:

Weapon: ebotdz
Armor: Ethereal Gladiator's Bane Ber'd
Shield: Glitched eth exile ed/ar
Helm: Coa ber/ber for 31% dr
Rings: 2x Angelics
Amulet: Angelic
Gloves: Steelrends
Boots: Upgraded Gore Riders
Belt: 15% Damage Reduce Verdungos

*Note: You ber the gladiator bane even if you don't have a glitched one because it has a durability of 120 which lasts a long time before you will need to zod it.

Switch: +3 holy shield / +6 bo cta / Hoz

Charms: 37 32020s or dmg/ar/life charms
torch/anni











C/C SETUP -COOKIE CUTTER

Weapon: Ethereal Zod'd Death Cleaver
Armor: Leviathan chamd
Shield: Glitched eth exile ed/ar
Helm: Coa 80/30 (2x 40ed/15 ias)
Rings: 2x Angelics
Amulet: Angelic
Gloves: Steelrends
Boots: Upgraded Gore Riders
Belt: 15% Damage Reduce Verdungos

Switch: +3 holy shield / +6 bo cta / Hoz

Charms: 37 32020s
torch/anni





This post was edited by dark-soul on Jun 19 2009 07:59am
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Jun 19 2009 07:57am
FORT SETUP

Weapon: Ebotdz
Armor: Fortitude
Shield: Glitched eth exile ed/ar
Helm: Coa 15% base dr ber/ber
Rings: 2x ravens
Amulet: Highlords
Gloves: Steelrends
Boots: Upgraded Gore Riders
Belt: 15% Damage Reduce Verdungos

Switch: +3 holy shield / +6 bo cta / Hoz

Charms: 37 32020s or dmg/ar/life charms
torch/anni










SHAFT SETUPS

Shaft has 30% dr on it giving the zealot multiple setups to use while maintaining max or close to max dr. I will give a few of the setups that I found to be most effective.



SETUP #1 - VISIONARY

Weapon: Eth death cleaver
Armor: Eth upgraded Shaftstop
Shield: Glitched eth exile ed/ar
Helm: Visionary mod helmet (ar% per lvl) with 2 sockets cham/ber'd (+2 pally skills with + str would be ideal)
Rings: 2x Angelics
Amulet: Angelic
Gloves: High stat/def gloves
Boots: Gore Riders
Belt: 15% Damage Reduce 40 vitality Verdungos

Switch: +3 holy shield / +6 bo cta / Hoz
Charms: 37 32020s
torch/anni







SETUP #2 - SHAKO

Weapon: Eth death cleaver
Armor: Eth upgraded Shaftstop
Shield: Glitched eth exile ed/ar
Helm: Cham’d Shako
Rings: 2x Angelics
Amulet: Angelic
Gloves: High stat/def gloves
Boots: Gore Riders
Belt: 15% Damage Reduce 40 vitality Verdungos

Switch: +3 holy shield / +6 bo cta / Hoz

Charms: 37 32020s
torch/anni









Strategy(lol)

Step 1: Make sure walk is ON (running lowers your block %)
Step 2: Hit ! and say go
Step 3: Click on opponent and hold
Step 4: Close your eyes and hope he dies first

Some info on gm dueling:

It is considered bad mannered to use life tap vs barbs and druids in gm melee duels. To avoid life tap the best shields to substitute in for exile is an eth alma negra or a stormshield.

Hope this guide has helped anyone out there who has wanted to make a zealot but wasn't sure what to use or someone just looking for another setup to try out. Hope to get some positive feedback, feel free to pm me if you have any questions. Thanks :)
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Jun 19 2009 08:01am
this ought to have been stickied, like yesterday already.

gd job ^_^
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Quote (hengster @ Fri, Jun 19 2009, 09:01am)
this ought to have been stickied, like yesterday already.

gd job ^_^


Thanks! :wub:
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Jun 19 2009 08:03am
I love the earlier one but this is better. lovely pics<3
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Quote (Rassler_90 @ Fri, Jun 19 2009, 09:03am)
I love the earlier one but this is better. lovely pics<3


Yeah I added them so you could see the differences between each of the setups to see the strengths/weaknesses of each one. Thanks for the comment :)
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Jun 19 2009 08:21am
:wub:

but get a new zealot !!!!!!!!!!
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Jun 19 2009 08:29am
Still alot of other differents setups but impossible to cover them all obviously.
Maybe you should make v.4 with some other non c/c setups.
For generally melee duelling.

Anyways gg guide bud ;)
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Quote (Lombimars @ Fri, Jun 19 2009, 09:21am)
:wub:

but get a new zealot !!!!!!!!!!


Hehe one day I will :)

Quote (Mevonis @ Fri, Jun 19 2009, 09:29am)
Still alot of other differents setups but impossible to cover them all obviously.
Maybe you should make v.4 with some other non c/c setups.
For generally melee duelling.

Anyways gg guide bud ;)


Yeah I was thinking about adding some more setups but decided to just fix some errors from the last one instead hehe. Thanks :)
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Jun 19 2009 09:26am
no templar's might setup?
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