hey guys i just got my 2 dreams and i wonder what the best in slots are for a Tesladin trying to get 99 so doing TZs player 8 ? currently rocking dual dream and crescent moon with Hustle, wanting to go Enigma and maybe Grief ?

If you're trying to get to 99 I would go Phoenix sword, dream shield helm, enigma with lw/grief barb merc. Use physical sunder and zeal everything to death players 8 any level. The sustain is great with phoenix sword and life tap from merc plus both physical and elemental dmg is really good.

or he could just use a good weapon like grief and tap redemption for a second whenever he needs it.

Zeal using Pheonix ... doesn't Firestorm interrupt your attack sequence anymore? Maybe works for smite because smite is a single attack and you don't notice the interruption.



I like this idea... 1 base point in Redemption and hotkeyed, another way is to have Pheonix (shield) on switch and press w for the Aura.

So many options, but I am learning more.

Thanks for the idéas

You could do that sure, I play PVP and I don't wanna waste points to get redemption and spend tokens to be able to duel when I want. Grief does good DMG but Phoenix with the holy shock does enough and clears almost just as fast while constantly refilling your life and mana. Grief is good but it's not the only choice and plus your frenzy merc has it so you are doing high physical dmg to mobs already.

It's not a big deal, this set up clears mobs easy and safely. Use whatever you want but this is what I do for my PVP tesladin when I'm leveling him.

This post was edited by Aurasmiter on Aug 1 2025 06:33am

I have use Phoenix many times on different setups including Zeal builds... 2x Dream, Fana Aura (pally) with max Light Res... Pub PvP games to kill off all Light builds (sorc, trap, java) while Mfing in full game, the Phoenix was great to crash open game, all dropped, also used same technique with Phoenix Strafe Zon mf in pub duel games just to drop everyone.

So much fun... but that was 1.09 when the 1.10 runewords came out on LoD and 1.10, can you imagine when a person drops an open Organ hunt game, oh the hate...

You use it for the 300% ED more than anything else... I do the same with other characters.

so you don't want approx 300 higher avg damage and a massive leech increase at the cost of 1 skill point?

I think he got lost in his posts, I will quote him and highlight his comments previously. This is his reply to your post.



Now this made me smile... only the Merc gains the ADDED damage from the Grief it is holding, not the player. Did I get that correct?

Now if Grief was on the player using Phoenix Shield, then the +ADDED damage from grief increases by +350 to 400% ED.

Same as a Berserker Barb with Griefpb and Phoenix Shield, the difference here is that the Berserk Skill converts the physical damage into magical damage:

1060% x 400 (added grief dmg) / 100 = 4240 (This is without the weapons damage, & the 400% off hand from the Phoenix)



Dang, lost my train of thought, sorry about that.

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Aug 1 2025 08:44am