Hi guys, I'm thinking about making a budget gm melee zealot - since I can't afford otherwise lol

I'd like to know if there is any budget guide around? Like what breakpoints should be capped, what gear can help me doing so... - any guidelanes in general that help me not sucking hard lol

I thought about getting 10x 19life/30def scs, 10x 19 life/36ar and some cheap max/ar/life gcs.

Also I'd like to know what is the best budget weapon: eth runemaster, eth death cleaver, eth deathz, ebotdz?

I'll appreciate any kind of help, tyvm!

They won’t help you.

Build:

10 ds armet viso- 20 bucks
Edc - 10 bucks
Fortitude hellforge 15/0 - 10 bucks
Stormshield - 1 buck
P upd gores - 1 buck
Angelic ammy and ring - 1 buck
P raven - 2 bucks
40/15/150 dungo - 2 bucks
High def Cb gloves - 30 bucks
9x 10/76/30 gcs - 20 bucks
10x 36 ar 16+ life scs - 10 bucks



How to jewel and adjust:

Look at legendary mallet highest damage number. Match it with min or max jewels to bring your 1 hand damage to the same.

Keep in mind ias bps, fhr bps, defense and ds:
26k ar
High defense
Same average as legendary mallet (grief dmg average)
50% dr

Upgrades:

10 fhr 400+ def 10 ds 2os viso armet
1x 8 fhr 48 ar 35 life sc (I forget what can roll but ya 27 fhr is bp)
40/280+ foolz 2os Lo Lo


Optional build swap based on 08 hell mouth gloves and Phoenix build:


Shael/ shael. 2x Lo runes 1x zod rune master
20 ias Cb gloves
2x 15 ias 100 ar jewels in helm
Full angelics
Cbf from rune master
Phoenix vortex 65/121

Haven’t figure out how to make the 08 hellmouth Phoenix build yet but that’s where I was going with it.

I can’t edit my posts because of the goblins. But it’s eth shaft with Phoenix

20 min on foolz if you get one.

Dont really recommend gm melee if you dont want to spend much on it. It's basically a just wallet fight to improve your odds of winning.

Scs will be significantly better than gcs. Too much life loss.

yeah sorry there's no such thing as a budget gm zeal build. go wolf if you wanna be sort of gm melee competetive without blowing your heritage money on it

or just v/c

No #1 zealot from west to east in the last 10 years has used 37x 3/20/20.

You cannot just put on an inventory and not adjust your attack rating. Each item has a feature and an affordance and must be balanced.

It’s true, multi millionaires in real life post in the trophy room with 37 scs on and 0 ias fools. This means nothing and only shows their lack of intelligence. Not smart enough to throw in a few extra charms to hit the ar number lol.

Example: a upd hoz has less ar than an Alma if your both using 37x scs and the same build.

So I want to match the ar of the alma so I will go 18x 6/48/35 large charms using the hoz.

Now we have the same ar.

This is called balancing and should be used with all types of melee charms.

It’s not so much the charms that’s the problem, it’s using things like steel rends with out the items providing the stats, that’s how to make a glass cannon.

And don’t listen to the guys they are extremely dumb. A fools has 40 ds 280 Ed and an attacking rating mod from like the hsaur boot and belt, angelic combo or viso helm. This isn’t rocket science, you don’t need a 0 ias fools for 10k. That’s called joining the clown party.

Grief + Pheonix
Eth shaft
Dungo
Highrlod
Blackhorn's face
Gleglaws
Waterwalks
Raven
Wisp (use oak ofc)
Offhand: Amp maul(Prebo ofc)

Use pretap of holy freeze aura, smite them and watch the rage, dont forget popcorn.

Charname must be something along the lines of:
Best-ZealPro-xXx

Now, stand in town and claim to be the best GM zealer out there. "UNBEATEN NR1 GM ZEAL ALL REALM!"

Actually, if u want them to really feel ur slow setup, you should avoid the amp and secure the win with eth exile ST.

If they say u used Smite, just refuse and say u did not even skill smite...

This post was edited by gel87 on Jan 13 2025 11:20am

This might work better than your budget plan.

I mean, I'm just doing it budget cause I'll play with some friends going budget, not vs jsp whales

And I'd appreciate real help instead of just trolling or bm "guides"

Choose setup that you think is best for you to afford,

https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=32187727

Good luck!