The Charge PvP Build & Hustle

Apologies to jsp for my previous posts. They should have been done better.
Please allow me chance to redeem.

I was too fixated on Hustle & Evade. I missed the simplest thing.
Amazon basin had given me incorrect information stating the amazon
skill "Evade" gave a chance to dodge "any attack" while moving.

Wrong. The most accurate way to tell what hustle is doing.
Is to look at the description of the amazon skill itself in game.
Which says "You have a chance to dodge melee or missle attacks
while walking or running." Word for word.

This is what I seen Hustle armor do on my paladin while
walking, running & charging. Which isn't really a big deal.
Spell casters are still overpowered, at first I thought
hustle would allow me to dodge their attacks in a charge.
So jsp was right on the fact it doesn't do that. Only
melee attacks & physical damage projectiles will be
dodged from evade. This I was right on.

Now getting to the build.

The charge pvp build should be made like this in my opinion.

Skills: 20 Fantacism, 20 Charge, 20 Vigor, 15 Might, 14 Holy Shield, 1 Salvation & Holy Freeze
All remaining points in Blessed Aim (I have 6 points there at level 98 to passively raise AR)

Main Setup
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Blood Helm w Visionary Mod (Ber & Ber)
Highlord Wrath
Ravensfrost
Verdungo's Belt
Gore Rider
Phoenix (built in royal shield with +45 to all resistances)
Ravens Turn (Rare ring: 7LL, 21 Str, 11 life, 10 res to cold, fire & poison, 27 res to lightning)
Draculs Grasp
Hustle (built in archon plate)

Weapon: Rare eth Hydra Edge w fools & cruel, adds 18-20 damage, 274 % ED, Repairs durability
Socketed with "Um" rune.

Swap: Widowmaker (Ber)

Inventory
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Horadric Cube: CTA perf, Arachnids mesh, Bk Band, Maras (all these equipped for battle orders)
I also keep a rising sun amulet & one fire resistance small charm in here. To quickly charge
down some random fire sorcs.

1 Sharp LC with 6 max, 43 AR, 31 Life
7 Sharp GC's with 10 Max, 70 AR, 35-39 Life
4 Amber SC's with 11 Light Res & 20 Life
2 Jade SC's of balance w 9 Poison Res & 5 FHR
2 Emerald SC's .. 11 Poison Res & 20 Life
1 Steel SC with 36 AR & 20 Life
1 Anthrax SC .. 451 psn damage over 12 sec
perf torch & anni




Stat Allocation
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Str 133
Dex 177
Vit 489


With this setup heres what some of the other numbers should look like.

Defense: 6.5k
Charge Dmg: 3500 - 11k (calculated with all elemental dmg aside)
Charge AR: 28.5k
Life: 3527 hp

Resists: F 130 L 229 C 130 P 173

Open wounds & deadly strike both respectively at 60% chance to land.
Damage reduction a humble 31%.
FHR at 50%
IAS at 60% base without Fanta (a tonne comes from hustle.. 40%)
LL at 16% to stay within GM boundaries


That's it. won't get into swaps because our main setup can vs all the usual suspects.
I won't get into strategy apart from recommending to charge using vigor aura for speed mostly.

Can't answer any questions unless you can ping me in game. There I can help.
I wish all of you a good day. Good life. That's it buddies. I'm out.

First charge pvp vid on youtube for D2R. In link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yve3PzP8PXY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yve3PzP8PXY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yve3PzP8PXY

What more to say.
Sry guys for some of my old posts.

tldr doesn't work

also



brother

Yes.. yes.. What all you guys say is right. I'm wrong.

O goodie. Bye now.

Righty with that comment though brother.

The abbreviation "too long didn't read doesn't work"... doesn't work.

Because if you don't read the material it won't work!


(built in royal shield for extra defense & pumping points in dexterity is good 4 extra AR. 28.5k hits right spot.)

> Too long didn't read < doesn't work.

Couldn't have said it better myself!

I'll say it one more time!

THE PHRASE: TOO LONG DIDN'T READ.

DOESN'T WORK!


My build does though.

This post was edited by Trevor3413 on Mar 20 2025 10:34am

I think he just means that you should use an elite shield instead of an exceptional shield. Or maybe one with Enhanced Damage?

And yo! Is that hustle better than a fort? I feel like if you rocked fort you could rock an enhanced damage shield too. That’s 365%enhanced damage right there.

This post was edited by MagillaGorilla on Mar 20 2025 10:38am

I get what he means. I'm starting the down with TLDR movement though.. it seems.

Heres the problem with Fortitude, firstly rocking it & phoenix is considered BM.
Secondly, I prefer the 40 IAS Hustle gives me & the 65% movement speed for mobility.

Zeal is used with this build as a finisher, without the IAS from Hustle using an eth fools hydra edge would be too slow.

Enhanced damage shield with attack rating no good on shield. For pub pvp which what the builds for.
We need 70 poison res, or else WW sin will hit with venom causing us 700 or more damage + their regular swing.
With our poison res, that damage should be reduced greatly. Also lightning res needs to be 230ish, when opponents
try to rip away some of that like the VT or mage. We want to use salvation aura if they get us under convict, charge in & out till hits land.

Would like to clarify this as well.

This charger gets 28.5k AR in vigor aura using charge. With Fanta its like 33-34k AR. However Vigor aura allows charger to move so fast
they don't land on projectiles often while running through them. Its a strange occurrence, game changer. Vigor aura also allows the
charger to be faster then chain locking Smiters. So when the Smite or VT din lands on us (while we're charging away) more times
then not their smite misses unless we charge into a puddle. They're they may be able to snip us. Any lower AR then 28k, charges
won't land often vs paladins in general. Anything higher they don't seem to land more often either.

This post was edited by Trevor3413 on Mar 20 2025 11:10am

Charge is a troll build and this one is particularly bad but thanks for posting

At least you tried/10