Aight, ill explain first. (This is D2LOD btw, not D2R)

Made holy shocker paladin on hcl with selfcasting holy shock.

Wanted to build a char to do everything possible without changing gear/items. Meaning: Rushing everywhere, killing, not dying.
Which means, I need:

Teleport
48fhr in teleport switch
75fcr in teleport switch
Max possible dmg with current gear (will list below)
High fire/light resistance for safety (playing hcl)

Gear using:

20/15 griffon (-5/5 LF)
Nigma
Zakarum (-5/5 LF).
Grief (40/398)
Laying of Hands
Gorerider
Arach
Ravenfrost
Dual leech ring
Highlords

Using full Offensive skillers and Torch (anni's are not rly available :D)

(Btw, if improvements can be made with above, I'd be all for it. Gonne go for 4sox 40@ -20/20% light if I can get facets)
Vs bosses i can activate Fana instead of Holy Shock to get merc to get faster CB hits in

Merc
Option 1:
Infi Tresher
Forti
Anda's (15ias - fire res)

Pro:
Higher survivability with higher max light/psn res
Higher constant dmg due to forti
Con:
No Cannot be frozen and 'only' 40% crushing blow

Option 2
Infi Tresher
CoH
Guillaume's (Cham)

Pro:
CBF
75% Crushing blow (i got low CB on pala gear vs bosses so prefer merc to have it).
Con:
Lower constant dmg
Lower light res (75 instead of 80)

Merc is not really required to kill since my pala clears fast enough in p1-3 and reasonable fast in p7-8. I mostly use him for crushing blow and might aura

Any tips are appreciated

Looks like you have all the correct gear. 20/-20 is the best DPS shield.

first of all you'd do way more dmg with self convi and dual dream and an act2 merc with eth crescent moon polearm for static procs (one static proc with self convi always does 50% current life unless the mob is immune)

but if you rly wanna stick with it, go for merc option 1 imo

merc dmg isnt that important but its good to have some ias at least (which option #2 doesnt have) you're also not gonna cb much if he has low attack speed

since you mentioned you clear fast enough i'd pick merc survivability over a little bit of cb dmg

This post was edited by Stefbef on Aug 23 2024 02:53am

Yeah. Dis that dreamer last ladder but disliked it due to slow fcr in the build.
Hence why I try this.

Thanks for the advice.

Hmm I guess it makes sense. You could get 48 with it tho from arach trang and 1 ring and still maintain highlord and use sprit swap 75 fcr

But I guess this setup could work also, more hs damage but quite a lot less damage overall cos of lower convi

Like Taurus mentioned tho, 20-20 shield will make you deal muuuch more damage than zaka tho

Yeah, but got trouble getting fire resist up and ias without LOH.

Did dreamer self conc and self fana but not with crescent moon merc yet. Will try that in the future

How is the dmg that much lower than woth self conv? Infi is -85% and -20% shield and -20% griffon = -125. Does the extra -25% eqate to that much dmg different or am I missing something?

its rly only worth having crescent moon merc if you play p8 (cos static will always do 25% current health, scaling with -res) so on p8 it will be much more effective.

well yea 25% is a lot in pvm, but i guess your build is more effective vs light immunes as convi is only applied at 1/5 there so

i think the build could work, i just dont think its better than normal tesladin

anyway to stay on topic i'd just go for merc option #1