main gear
ebotdz 15LL 400+ed (grief is for youtubers who tries to play the auradin like a mf caster)
dream winged helm because bone visage looks like a budget halloween disguise
dream sacred targe
enigma
LOH
tgod
gores
ravenf
good dual leech ring (minimum 7%LL)
hilord
lots of 3frw/30+ar scs (yeah cheap inventory !)
few 3frw/175pd and 3frw/resist scs
NO gheed/sunder/mf gear
NO fcr gear

act1 cold merc
faith 15aura
fort
andy

skills
conviction lvl 25
max light res
max salvation
max zeal
max sacrifice (last)
1 hard point in holy shield
1 hard point into cleansing (optional)
if you have extra points put it in blessing aim for the passive ar bonus

You run into the crowd and kill, you will never die if you keep on killing things, even in 8 player terror zones.
The only thing you have to care about is how you use the teleport skill:
- use teleport only to go over walls and to save your merc stuck in the crowd, otherwise keep on running.
- never teleport in the middle of the crowd (unless you sure the monsters are weak), you need to keep the merc alive.

It works and it will fail with grief pb (8 player terror zone hardest areas), dont ask me why just try it. If you really care about killing fast over surviving, then stormlash or crescent moon will kill faster than grief, because it kills all the crowd around, not just a couple of monsters. Grief pb is only good if you wanna mf teleport / kill boss packs but its a waste because your fcr gear does not help you to kill like it does for a caster.

be sure you have no room available in you inventory, because you will constantly being grabbing unwanted items. Carry the cube, be very picky with items you grab and keep 4x id scroll + 4x teleport scroll in you belt (8x remaning spots for full reju)

This post was edited by PKSubban on Jun 10 2023 01:21pm

Very nice. What I’ve been looking for. Thank you for posting this.


This post was edited by Tarisus on Jun 10 2023 01:45pm

Just minor tweak, I could be wrong on this but is t it true that Conviction Pally with BotdZ has -100% defense on monsters, thus AR becomes irrelevant? Can you confirm this? If this is true then, Sacrifice > Zeal.

A1 merc will always be too far unless you teleport to readjust.
ar charms not necessary
ebotdz has enough leach by itself to sustain, nn leach on ring if you opt for this
grief pb will still yield more damage, requires less ias for max bp, more phys damage = better leach -- This also allows you to use a2 might merc wielding hustle (which will always stay near)

Nn frw charms when you can charge, swap belt to arach for fcr and use spirit on swap for 48fcr bp for those far places.

Pretty sure this is troll post

E: Alternatively using infinity on merc and swapping charms to dmg/life while using fanaticism will yield better results.

This post was edited by WWI on Jun 10 2023 02:20pm

Your explaination sounds logical but it doesnt work in game, grief pb sucks in highest pvm difficulties.

This post was edited by PKSubban on Jun 10 2023 02:31pm

30k + (roughly double that of ebotdz) more physical damage with roughly same elemental damage output.

Would easily take stormlash over ebotdz

You dont understand, damage is not the only matter, specially when you kill in one shot most of the time. Did you try solo 8 player terror zone with your auradin ? Because the youtubers who use same set-up as yours are doing pretty bad in there videos.

Cool story now please explain why botd is better than grief ?

This post was edited by Stefbef on Jun 10 2023 02:56pm

grief is just too slow in 8 player TZ

see here how they struggle in 8p chaos, and its even not terror zone:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hwFh9Zsrqo&ab_channel=NorthDakota

This post was edited by PKSubban on Jun 10 2023 03:09pm

Is this a joke?