Great guide and really helpful discussion going on in this topic. I was planning on making this build with HoJ/Dragon/Dream/Dream but now I'm not sure about using Dragon or Dream as the shield. My main question is having a lvl 44 Holy Fire along with lvl 15 Holy Shock really going to do that much more damage than just a lvl 30 Holy Fire and 30 Holy Shock? I know by using a Dream helm it really kills a lot of my resists but it also really ups my damage along with the Dream shield. I was wondering if there was a good damage calc to check the difference in damage, or should I just make a test character on single?

hi, nice auradin, i want make and fire pala, and i will use your construction, but i have one question, maybe i can use shako+jewel 5/5? dunno...coa is nice idea too, but nn 17x str, and kira...maybe kira is nice...but dunno...i like shako,i can use it in this pala? ^^ ty 4 all

The maximum damage is higher with holy shock/holy fire combination, however the minimum damage is dropped down. I built a fire+light hybrid this season to test against this one and so far I've come to believe that my holy fire auradin is far superior in dueling because of a few things:
-range of aura (level 44 holy fire extends what appears to be about 2-3 screens away)
-minimum damage of the aura is higher (if holy shock it's with 1 damage your opponents do not lose much hp from it)
-the damage added to melee attacks (while the max is higher in the hybrid, it's only by about 2k, but the minimum is also dropped at a relative rate, leaving the average damage about the same if not lower)
-the hybrid has a much harder time surviving in duels (kira's guardian really helps with getting stacked resists which the hybrid lacks because of dreams)
-the pure fire has a higher holy shield to add defense and charge to add AR.

those are just the ones that popped into my head at the moment...




You can use a shako with a 5/5 facet, but from the tests I've done kira's works much better. Plus you would have to make up the cannot be frozen, fhr, and resists in another item(s) or charms. The plus 2 skills really only would help with allowing 2 less points into conviction and boosting holy shield and charge slightly higher. The defensive bonuses of kira's are far superior in my opinion.

Thx for this lovely guide

You are very welcome

nice guide

Thanks.

I know this is a pvp build, but I was wondering how well it can take on the mini-ubers/ubers?

I have never tried it vs the ubers, of course I never used a glitched merc on this char but using one would really help a large amount for not only ubering, but pvm as well. Give it a shot. If you want me to do it and have 3x key sets on USEast NL softcore I'll give it a shot to test it and we can post the results here.

I'd help, but I'm making this character on ladder right now, once it's made I'll take on the ubers and see what happens.