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Tovak is named after author Marc Alan Edelheit’s dwavern paladin. Having just finished a Frost Zealot I wanted to use as little as possible of the same gear. So, breaking with my traditional approach of not using swords I decided to go with swords as much as possible. It is also fitting that Tovak carried a sword in the books and since in the book Tovak is given his gear by his god I should give him the best that I could.
With that in mind I made Crescent Moon and Grief Phase blades before I even started. I also made a Passion Dimensional blade, but didn’t use it. At the beginning of Hell, the Runeword bug bit and I cubed a Ber from the two Sur runes that I had and made Chains of Honor. Then when an Ohm dropped in Act 4, I made a Call to Arms phase blade.
Finally, I decided to go with a Cold Rogue instead of the Fire Rogue, but that I would not use the Faith Bow. My intent was to equip her with the Delirium helm, an upped Witchwild String bow and some armor. I was disappointed with the Witchwild bow as the Amp damage didn’t happen very often, 2% isn’t much, but it seemed way less than that. Finally, in Hell Act 4 I switched it for a Harmony Great Bow and Fortitude Armor and she stopped dying so often and actually contributed a little. Frankly, for much of Nightmare and Hell the only reason I kept her around was to cast Confuse.
Here are the pertinent stats:
Name: Tovak
Class: Paladin
Experience: 1304806749
Level: 87
Naked/Gear
Strength: 94/179
Dexterity: 129/165
Vitality: 292/312
Energy: 15/15
HP: 1088/1195/1935 with BO
Mana: 144/184
Stamina: 442/500
Defense: 32/2597/ 8208 with BC and Holy Shield
AR: 630/25872
MF: 180 Block: 70
GF: 115
FR/W: 40
FHR: 37
IAS: 76
FCR: 25
And the skills with Battle Command cast:
Sacrifice: 13/24
Zeal: 20/31
Holy Shield: 6/17
Holy Freeze: 5/14
Holy Shock: 20/29
Resist Cold: 2/13
Resist Lightning: 20/31
Salvation: 6/17
Here’s what my final equipment looked like read outs at the bottom):
Helm: Griffon’s Eye
Armor: Chains of Honor Archon Plate
Gloves: Immortal King’s Forge
Belt: Immortal King’s Detail
Boots: Immortal King’s Pillar
Main Weapon: Grief Phase Blade
Shield: Herald of Zakarum
Amulet: Seraph’s Hymn
Ring 1: Raven Frost
Ring 2: Bul Kathos Wedding band
For Normal and Nightmare he was invincible and really over powered everything. The reason he finished at level 87 is because I had no deaths in Normal and Nightmare (a first for me) and that in Hell I cleared the blood moors, Den of Evil, Cold Plains and the Burial grounds all at Players 8 and then played at players 4 until I had cleared the Outer Steppes in Act 4. I died 8 times in Hell, but at least 5 of those were from inattention or sheer stupidity.
Forge drops: NM a Sol and Hell a Lem
The Outer Steppes in Hell were very good to me on my first clear I found an Ohm and a Pul and a Titan’s Revenge. Then on a second clear trying out Call to Arms I found my very first Stone of Jordan.
Thoughts on Equipment
My decision to use as little equipment over again from my Frost Zealot (Raven Frost and HoZ were the only two items I reused) meant no Laying of Hands, Gore Riders, Thundergod’s Vigor, Mara’s ammy or Fortitude armor. After looking at a bunch of gear I ended up on using the three pieces of the IK set. Combining all of the gear stats and bonuses gave me:
+45 Strength
+20 Dexterity
+44 life
+225 to Attack rating
+401 to defense
31% Lighting resistance
28% Fire Resistance
40% faster Run/walk
25% IAS
25% FHR
25% magic find
All of this is nothing to sneeze at, but the final deciding factor was the additional 5% IAS of the 3 piece bonus over the over the 20% IAS on the Laying of Hands gloves. This meant that I only needed 12% more IAS to make the 4FPS break with my Grief Phase blade. I took care of this by socketing Griffon’s eye with a fervor jewel, thus giving me more options with what to use as an amulet.
Originally I was planning om using Arkaine’s Valor and Highlord’s Wrath until I decided to make Chains of Honor. The final decision on making the Chains of Honor was a combination of how to handle resists in Hell and have adequate life leach in Hell. I didn’t want to use Mara’s and the rare amulet I had been wearing in Nightmare also had 5% leach. The Bul Kathos ring only offered 3% leach which I considered inadequate by itself. I also wanted to minimize the number of charms I needed for resistances. Chains of Honor took care of all three. The 8% LL meant that I could keep the BK ring for the +1 skills and put up with the measly 3% LL and other mediocre attributes.
Since I didn’t need the additional IAS from or Lightning resists from Highlords, I went with Seraph’s Hymn for the +2 to all skills and the +2 to defensive skills. Plus combining the damage to demons from CoH, Grief and Seraph’s I had more damage to demons than Laying of Hands provides, so while that 350% would have been nice I didn’t really miss it.
Thoughts on Weapons
Since this was my first time playing with swords I tried to experiment with some unique and set swords along the way.
Weapon progression:
Death’s touch - 10
The General's Tan Do Li Ga Flail - 21
Cold steel eye - 31
Honor knout – 31 far superior to Cold Steel Eye.
Ginther’s rift – 37
Head striker – 39
The Atlantean – 42
Crescent Moon – 54
Grief - 59
In addition, I also tried Light Saber and Azurewrath. I actually used Azurewrath as my alternate weapon for PI/LI monsters till Made Call to Arms.
Death’s Touch and Angelic Sickle are both awesome beginning weapons. I went with Death’s touch this time and I really didn’t need to switch it out when I did.
The Atlantean is a great mid game weapon and I really didn’t think that Crescent Moon was all that much better. Frankly, I was disappointed with Crescent Moon and didn’t look back when Grief became available.
Based on my experience of two zealots the two weapons that offer big reductions to cold or lightning resistances are not the best weapons available.
Thoughts on skill distribution
There are two build guides that discuss Tesladins. The excellent “Build your own Zealot” by Kitteh and Tesladin by Wurmer. Wurmer doesn’t think much in putting 20 points into Zeal and likes to have a backup attack. Based on my Frost Zealot my initial plan was that I didn’t need a backup attack for the Lightning immunes and the few PI/LI monsters I’d find could be handled by another weapon on switch or with help from the rogue who would have cold damage.
I started questioning this plan in Nightmare Act 2 having run across some LI monsters plus the Lightning towers in the Arcane sanctuary and I realized that I would have to rethink how to handle the LIs. I was very familiar with static from my Frenzy barb using Stormlash as one of his weapons. Unfortunately, Crescent Moon casts static half as often as Stormlash and also has much less average damage than Stormlash or Heaven’s light. As a result, it simply takes too long to take down LI monsters using its physical damage.
Once I had Grief, I realized that while it was a vast improvement over Crescent Moon It still wasn’t as deadly as the Heaven’s Light that I had used on my Frost Zealot. As a result, I decided that I did need a second attack and ended up putting 4 additional points into Holy Freeze and 2 points into resist cold and instead of switching weapons I would switch auras. This paid additional dividends when I put Call to Arms on switch as I didn’t have to worry about what to do when I ran across PI/LI monsters.
This is ultimately a combination of skills and weapons choices. I’d been puzzling over why it was so much easier for Heikki to kill cold immunes than for Tovak to kill Lightning immunes and the answer is that Heaven’s Light and Fortitude do more damage than Grief and Chains of Honor. I finally did a direct comparison at level 82 with 30 to zeal and 17 to Sacrifice. I imported Heaven’s Light and Fortitude to put them on Tovak for a direct comparison using the super trustworthy LCS.
On an average damage basis that is 1,274.5 hit point difference per hit. I had two sockets on the Heaven’s Light with a total of 59% ED, but no IAS. As a result, while Grief hits the 4 FPS limit, Heaven’s Light is only 6 and will never reach 4 FPS. I could get it down to 5/5/5/9 with two IAS jewels. Other than the frost zealot guide neither the build your own zealot or Wurmer’s Tesladin guide even mention Heaven’s Light, yet it has to be considered one of the top choices for any Zealot. Yes, you want one with +3 to skills and 2 sockets.
Interestingly, I found a lot more LI/CI monsters in Hell than I did PI/CI so, I was glad that I had maxed Zeal and dumped as many points as I did into Sacrifice. I also found that about the only time I used Holy freeze on plain LI monsters was packs of LI frenztaurs.
I do think Wurmer is clearly wrong to only sink 4 points into zeal. Yes, you get the five swings, but none of the increased damage and AR that zeal and sacrifice provide.
Tovak's Griffon's Eye
Diadem
Defense: 210
Durability: 20 of 20
Required Level: 76
Fingerprint: 0xe5ecf12a
Item Level: 86
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+1 to All Skills
+15% Increased Attack Speed
+25% Faster Cast Rate
-17% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+13% to Lightning Skill Damage
+156 Defense
Cold Resist +10%
1 Sockets (1 used)
Socketed: Lapis Lazuli Jewel of Fervor
Lapis Lazuli Jewel of Fervor
Jewel
Required Level: 31
Fingerprint: 0xbbe17aec
Item Level: 85
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+15% Increased Attack Speed
Cold Resist +10%
Seraph's Hymn
Amulet
Required Level: 65
Fingerprint: 0xe1366fe7
Item Level: 86
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to All Skills
+2 to Defensive Aura Skills (Paladin Only)
+41% Damage to Demons
+235 to Attack Rating against Demons
+41% Damage to Undead
+232 to Attack Rating against Undead
+2 to Light Radius
Raven Frost
Ring
Required Level: 45
Fingerprint: 0x349e9b60
Item Level: 58
Version: Expansion
+238 to Attack Rating
Adds 15 - 45 Cold Damage Over 4 Secs (100 Frames)
+16 to Dexterity
+40 to Mana
Cold Absorb 20%
Cannot Be Frozen
Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band
Ring
Required Level: 58
Fingerprint: 0x76b57c91
Item Level: 85
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+1 to All Skills
3% Life stolen per hit
+43 to Life (Based on Character Level)
+50 Maximum Stamina
Immortal King's Detail
War Belt
Defense: 194
Durability: 24 of 24
Required Level: 29
Required Strength: 110
Fingerprint: 0x5dea0468
Item Level: 99
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+36 Defense
+25 to Strength
Lightning Resist +31%
Fire Resist +28%
Set (2 items): +105 Defense
Set (3 items): +25% Faster Hit Recovery
(2 items): +50 to Attack Rating
(3 items): +75 to Attack Rating
Immortal King's Pillar
War Boots
Defense: 122
Durability: 24 of 24
Required Level: 31
Required Strength: 125
Fingerprint: 0x4ae41fa
Item Level: 87
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+40% Faster Run/Walk
+110 to Attack Rating
+75 Defense
+44 to Life
Set (2 items): 25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Set (3 items): +2 to Combat Skills (Barbarian Only)
(2 items): +50 to Attack Rating
(3 items): +75 to Attack Rating
Immortal King's Forge
War Gauntlets
Defense: 237
Durability: 24 of 24
Required Level: 30
Required Strength: 110
Fingerprint: 0xaba9a730
Item Level: 71
Version: Expansion 1.10+
12% Chance to cast level 4 Charged Bolt when struck
+65 Defense
+20 to Strength
+20 to Dexterity
Set (2 items): +25% Increased Attack Speed
Set (3 items): +120 Defense
(2 items): +50 to Attack Rating
(3 items): +75 to Attack Rating
Chains of Honor
Archon Plate
DolUmBerIst
Defense: 880
Durability: 60 of 60
Required Level: 63
Required Strength: 103
Fingerprint: 0x8e15eb1e
Item Level: 83
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to All Skills
+200% Damage to Demons
+100% Damage to Undead
8% Life stolen per hit
+70% Enhanced Defense
+20 to Strength
Replenish Life +7
All Resistances +65
Damage Reduced by 8%
25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
4 Sockets (4 used)
Socketed: Dol Rune
Socketed: Um Rune
Socketed: Ber Rune
Socketed: Ist Rune
Call to Arms
Phase Blade
AmnRalMalIstOhm
One Hand Damage: 120 - 135
Indestructible
Required Level: 57
Required Strength: 25
Required Dexterity: 136
Fingerprint: 0x6098c520
Item Level: 85
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+1 to All Skills
+40% Increased Attack Speed
288% Enhanced Damage
Adds 5 - 30 Fire Damage
7% Life stolen per hit
Prevent Monster Heal
+6 to Battle Command
+1 to Battle Orders
+1 to Battle Cry
Replenish Life +12
30% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
5 Sockets (5 used)
Socketed: Amn Rune
Socketed: Ral Rune
Socketed: Mal Rune
Socketed: Ist Rune
Socketed: Ohm Rune
Herald of Zakarum
Gilded Shield
Defense: 437
Chance to Block: 52
Durability: 50 of 50
Required Level: 42
Required Strength: 89
Fingerprint: 0xc28fcc2f
Item Level: 87
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to Combat Skills (Paladin Only)
+2 to Paladin Skill Levels
+30% Faster Block Rate
30% Increased Chance of Blocking
20% Bonus to Attack Rating
+159% Enhanced Defense
+20 to Strength
+20 to Vitality
All Resistances +69
1 Sockets (1 used)
Socketed: Perfect Diamond
Tovak's Grief
Phase Blade
EthTirLoMalRal
One Hand Damage: 31 - 35
Indestructible
Required Level: 59
Required Strength: 25
Required Dexterity: 136
Fingerprint: 0xcd05eebd
Item Level: 83
Version: Expansion 1.10+
35% Chance to cast level 15 Venom on striking
+36% Increased Attack Speed
Damage +381
Ignore Target's Defense
-25% Target Defense
+163% Damage to Demons (Based on Character Level)
Adds 5 - 30 Fire Damage
-23% to Enemy Poison Resistance
20% Deadly Strike
Prevent Monster Heal
+2 to Mana after each Kill
+12 Life after each Kill
5 Sockets (5 used)
Socketed: Eth Rune
Socketed: Tir Rune
Socketed: Lo Rune
Socketed: Mal Rune
Socketed: Ral Rune
Herald of Zakarum
Gilded Shield
Defense: 476
Chance to Block: 52
Durability: 50 of 50
Required Level: 47
Required Strength: 89
Fingerprint: 0x91947033
Item Level: 84
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to Combat Skills (Paladin Only)
+2 to Paladin Skill Levels
+30% Faster Block Rate
30% Increased Chance of Blocking
20% Bonus to Attack Rating
+182% Enhanced Defense
+20 to Strength
+20 to Vitality
All Resistances +72
1 Sockets (1 used)
Socketed: Um Rune
Mercenary:
Name: Heather
Race: Rogue Scout
Type: Ice - Normal
Experience: 69939118
Level: 87
Dead?: false
Naked/Gear
Strength: 141/141
Dexterity: 213/223
HP: 1500/1587
Defense: 1237/3071
AR: 2270/2270
Fire: 176/136/76
Cold: 176/136/76
Lightning: 176/136/76
Poison: 176/136/76
Delirium
Superior Tiara
LemIstIo
Defense: 301
Durability: 27 of 27
Required Level: 52
Fingerprint: 0x973e241a
Item Level: 86
Version: Expansion 1.10+
1% Chance to cast level 50 Delirium when struck
6% Chance to cast level 14 Mind Blast when struck
14% Chance to cast level 13 Terror when struck
11% Chance to cast level 18 Confuse on striking
+2 to All Skills
+261 Defense
+10 to Vitality
50% Extra Gold from Monsters
25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Increase Maximum Durability 10%
Level 17 Attract (60/60 Charges)
3 Sockets (3 used)
Socketed: Lem Rune
Socketed: Ist Rune
Socketed: Io Rune
Fortitude
Superior Wire Fleece
ElSolDolLo
Defense: 1533
Durability: 32 of 32
Required Level: 59
Required Strength: 111
Fingerprint: 0x733dae0b
Item Level: 85
Version: Expansion 1.10+
20% Chance to cast level 15 Chilling Armor when struck
+25% Faster Cast Rate
300% Enhanced Damage
+215% Enhanced Defense
+15 Defense
+87 to Life (Based on Character Level)
Replenish Life +7
+5% to Maximum Lightning Resist
All Resistances +30
Damage Reduced by 7
12% Damage Taken Goes To Mana
+1 to Light Radius
4 Sockets (4 used)
Socketed: El Rune
Socketed: Sol Rune
Socketed: Dol Rune
Socketed: Lo Rune
Harmony
Great Bow
TirIthSolKo
Two Hand Damage: 48 - 179
Durability: 36 of 36
Required Level: 51
Required Strength: 121
Required Dexterity: 107
Fingerprint: 0x9af249c9
Item Level: 87
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Level 10 Vigor Aura When Equipped
228% Enhanced Damage
+9 to Minimum Damage
+9 to Maximum Damage
Adds 55 - 160 Fire Damage
Adds 55 - 160 Lightning Damage
Adds 55 - 160 Cold Damage Over 4 Secs (106 Frames)
+6 to Valkyrie
+10 to Dexterity
Regenerate Mana 20%
+2 to Mana after each Kill
+2 to Light Radius
Level 20 Revive (25/25 Charges)
4 Sockets (4 used)
Socketed: Tir Rune
Socketed: Ith Rune
Socketed: Sol Rune
Socketed: Ko Rune
With that in mind I made Crescent Moon and Grief Phase blades before I even started. I also made a Passion Dimensional blade, but didn’t use it. At the beginning of Hell, the Runeword bug bit and I cubed a Ber from the two Sur runes that I had and made Chains of Honor. Then when an Ohm dropped in Act 4, I made a Call to Arms phase blade.
Finally, I decided to go with a Cold Rogue instead of the Fire Rogue, but that I would not use the Faith Bow. My intent was to equip her with the Delirium helm, an upped Witchwild String bow and some armor. I was disappointed with the Witchwild bow as the Amp damage didn’t happen very often, 2% isn’t much, but it seemed way less than that. Finally, in Hell Act 4 I switched it for a Harmony Great Bow and Fortitude Armor and she stopped dying so often and actually contributed a little. Frankly, for much of Nightmare and Hell the only reason I kept her around was to cast Confuse.
Here are the pertinent stats:
Name: Tovak
Class: Paladin
Experience: 1304806749
Level: 87
Naked/Gear
Strength: 94/179
Dexterity: 129/165
Vitality: 292/312
Energy: 15/15
HP: 1088/1195/1935 with BO
Mana: 144/184
Stamina: 442/500
Defense: 32/2597/ 8208 with BC and Holy Shield
AR: 630/25872
MF: 180 Block: 70
GF: 115
FR/W: 40
FHR: 37
IAS: 76
FCR: 25
And the skills with Battle Command cast:
Sacrifice: 13/24
Zeal: 20/31
Holy Shield: 6/17
Holy Freeze: 5/14
Holy Shock: 20/29
Resist Cold: 2/13
Resist Lightning: 20/31
Salvation: 6/17
Here’s what my final equipment looked like read outs at the bottom):
Helm: Griffon’s Eye
Armor: Chains of Honor Archon Plate
Gloves: Immortal King’s Forge
Belt: Immortal King’s Detail
Boots: Immortal King’s Pillar
Main Weapon: Grief Phase Blade
Shield: Herald of Zakarum
Amulet: Seraph’s Hymn
Ring 1: Raven Frost
Ring 2: Bul Kathos Wedding band
For Normal and Nightmare he was invincible and really over powered everything. The reason he finished at level 87 is because I had no deaths in Normal and Nightmare (a first for me) and that in Hell I cleared the blood moors, Den of Evil, Cold Plains and the Burial grounds all at Players 8 and then played at players 4 until I had cleared the Outer Steppes in Act 4. I died 8 times in Hell, but at least 5 of those were from inattention or sheer stupidity.
Forge drops: NM a Sol and Hell a Lem
The Outer Steppes in Hell were very good to me on my first clear I found an Ohm and a Pul and a Titan’s Revenge. Then on a second clear trying out Call to Arms I found my very first Stone of Jordan.
Thoughts on Equipment
My decision to use as little equipment over again from my Frost Zealot (Raven Frost and HoZ were the only two items I reused) meant no Laying of Hands, Gore Riders, Thundergod’s Vigor, Mara’s ammy or Fortitude armor. After looking at a bunch of gear I ended up on using the three pieces of the IK set. Combining all of the gear stats and bonuses gave me:
+45 Strength
+20 Dexterity
+44 life
+225 to Attack rating
+401 to defense
31% Lighting resistance
28% Fire Resistance
40% faster Run/walk
25% IAS
25% FHR
25% magic find
All of this is nothing to sneeze at, but the final deciding factor was the additional 5% IAS of the 3 piece bonus over the over the 20% IAS on the Laying of Hands gloves. This meant that I only needed 12% more IAS to make the 4FPS break with my Grief Phase blade. I took care of this by socketing Griffon’s eye with a fervor jewel, thus giving me more options with what to use as an amulet.
Originally I was planning om using Arkaine’s Valor and Highlord’s Wrath until I decided to make Chains of Honor. The final decision on making the Chains of Honor was a combination of how to handle resists in Hell and have adequate life leach in Hell. I didn’t want to use Mara’s and the rare amulet I had been wearing in Nightmare also had 5% leach. The Bul Kathos ring only offered 3% leach which I considered inadequate by itself. I also wanted to minimize the number of charms I needed for resistances. Chains of Honor took care of all three. The 8% LL meant that I could keep the BK ring for the +1 skills and put up with the measly 3% LL and other mediocre attributes.
Since I didn’t need the additional IAS from or Lightning resists from Highlords, I went with Seraph’s Hymn for the +2 to all skills and the +2 to defensive skills. Plus combining the damage to demons from CoH, Grief and Seraph’s I had more damage to demons than Laying of Hands provides, so while that 350% would have been nice I didn’t really miss it.
Thoughts on Weapons
Since this was my first time playing with swords I tried to experiment with some unique and set swords along the way.
Weapon progression:
Death’s touch - 10
The General's Tan Do Li Ga Flail - 21
Cold steel eye - 31
Honor knout – 31 far superior to Cold Steel Eye.
Ginther’s rift – 37
Head striker – 39
The Atlantean – 42
Crescent Moon – 54
Grief - 59
In addition, I also tried Light Saber and Azurewrath. I actually used Azurewrath as my alternate weapon for PI/LI monsters till Made Call to Arms.
Death’s Touch and Angelic Sickle are both awesome beginning weapons. I went with Death’s touch this time and I really didn’t need to switch it out when I did.
The Atlantean is a great mid game weapon and I really didn’t think that Crescent Moon was all that much better. Frankly, I was disappointed with Crescent Moon and didn’t look back when Grief became available.
Based on my experience of two zealots the two weapons that offer big reductions to cold or lightning resistances are not the best weapons available.
Thoughts on skill distribution
There are two build guides that discuss Tesladins. The excellent “Build your own Zealot” by Kitteh and Tesladin by Wurmer. Wurmer doesn’t think much in putting 20 points into Zeal and likes to have a backup attack. Based on my Frost Zealot my initial plan was that I didn’t need a backup attack for the Lightning immunes and the few PI/LI monsters I’d find could be handled by another weapon on switch or with help from the rogue who would have cold damage.
I started questioning this plan in Nightmare Act 2 having run across some LI monsters plus the Lightning towers in the Arcane sanctuary and I realized that I would have to rethink how to handle the LIs. I was very familiar with static from my Frenzy barb using Stormlash as one of his weapons. Unfortunately, Crescent Moon casts static half as often as Stormlash and also has much less average damage than Stormlash or Heaven’s light. As a result, it simply takes too long to take down LI monsters using its physical damage.
Once I had Grief, I realized that while it was a vast improvement over Crescent Moon It still wasn’t as deadly as the Heaven’s Light that I had used on my Frost Zealot. As a result, I decided that I did need a second attack and ended up putting 4 additional points into Holy Freeze and 2 points into resist cold and instead of switching weapons I would switch auras. This paid additional dividends when I put Call to Arms on switch as I didn’t have to worry about what to do when I ran across PI/LI monsters.
This is ultimately a combination of skills and weapons choices. I’d been puzzling over why it was so much easier for Heikki to kill cold immunes than for Tovak to kill Lightning immunes and the answer is that Heaven’s Light and Fortitude do more damage than Grief and Chains of Honor. I finally did a direct comparison at level 82 with 30 to zeal and 17 to Sacrifice. I imported Heaven’s Light and Fortitude to put them on Tovak for a direct comparison using the super trustworthy LCS.
Lightning Aura Active | ||
Heaven's Light | Grief | |
| Chains of Honor | 967 - 9451 | 575 - 7579 |
| Fortitude | 1439 - 9264 | 658 - 7038 |
On an average damage basis that is 1,274.5 hit point difference per hit. I had two sockets on the Heaven’s Light with a total of 59% ED, but no IAS. As a result, while Grief hits the 4 FPS limit, Heaven’s Light is only 6 and will never reach 4 FPS. I could get it down to 5/5/5/9 with two IAS jewels. Other than the frost zealot guide neither the build your own zealot or Wurmer’s Tesladin guide even mention Heaven’s Light, yet it has to be considered one of the top choices for any Zealot. Yes, you want one with +3 to skills and 2 sockets.
Interestingly, I found a lot more LI/CI monsters in Hell than I did PI/CI so, I was glad that I had maxed Zeal and dumped as many points as I did into Sacrifice. I also found that about the only time I used Holy freeze on plain LI monsters was packs of LI frenztaurs.
I do think Wurmer is clearly wrong to only sink 4 points into zeal. Yes, you get the five swings, but none of the increased damage and AR that zeal and sacrifice provide.
Tovak's Griffon's Eye
Diadem
Defense: 210
Durability: 20 of 20
Required Level: 76
Fingerprint: 0xe5ecf12a
Item Level: 86
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+1 to All Skills
+15% Increased Attack Speed
+25% Faster Cast Rate
-17% to Enemy Lightning Resistance
+13% to Lightning Skill Damage
+156 Defense
Cold Resist +10%
1 Sockets (1 used)
Socketed: Lapis Lazuli Jewel of Fervor
Lapis Lazuli Jewel of Fervor
Jewel
Required Level: 31
Fingerprint: 0xbbe17aec
Item Level: 85
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+15% Increased Attack Speed
Cold Resist +10%
Seraph's Hymn
Amulet
Required Level: 65
Fingerprint: 0xe1366fe7
Item Level: 86
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to All Skills
+2 to Defensive Aura Skills (Paladin Only)
+41% Damage to Demons
+235 to Attack Rating against Demons
+41% Damage to Undead
+232 to Attack Rating against Undead
+2 to Light Radius
Raven Frost
Ring
Required Level: 45
Fingerprint: 0x349e9b60
Item Level: 58
Version: Expansion
+238 to Attack Rating
Adds 15 - 45 Cold Damage Over 4 Secs (100 Frames)
+16 to Dexterity
+40 to Mana
Cold Absorb 20%
Cannot Be Frozen
Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band
Ring
Required Level: 58
Fingerprint: 0x76b57c91
Item Level: 85
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+1 to All Skills
3% Life stolen per hit
+43 to Life (Based on Character Level)
+50 Maximum Stamina
Immortal King's Detail
War Belt
Defense: 194
Durability: 24 of 24
Required Level: 29
Required Strength: 110
Fingerprint: 0x5dea0468
Item Level: 99
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+36 Defense
+25 to Strength
Lightning Resist +31%
Fire Resist +28%
Set (2 items): +105 Defense
Set (3 items): +25% Faster Hit Recovery
(2 items): +50 to Attack Rating
(3 items): +75 to Attack Rating
Immortal King's Pillar
War Boots
Defense: 122
Durability: 24 of 24
Required Level: 31
Required Strength: 125
Fingerprint: 0x4ae41fa
Item Level: 87
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+40% Faster Run/Walk
+110 to Attack Rating
+75 Defense
+44 to Life
Set (2 items): 25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Set (3 items): +2 to Combat Skills (Barbarian Only)
(2 items): +50 to Attack Rating
(3 items): +75 to Attack Rating
Immortal King's Forge
War Gauntlets
Defense: 237
Durability: 24 of 24
Required Level: 30
Required Strength: 110
Fingerprint: 0xaba9a730
Item Level: 71
Version: Expansion 1.10+
12% Chance to cast level 4 Charged Bolt when struck
+65 Defense
+20 to Strength
+20 to Dexterity
Set (2 items): +25% Increased Attack Speed
Set (3 items): +120 Defense
(2 items): +50 to Attack Rating
(3 items): +75 to Attack Rating
Chains of Honor
Archon Plate
DolUmBerIst
Defense: 880
Durability: 60 of 60
Required Level: 63
Required Strength: 103
Fingerprint: 0x8e15eb1e
Item Level: 83
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to All Skills
+200% Damage to Demons
+100% Damage to Undead
8% Life stolen per hit
+70% Enhanced Defense
+20 to Strength
Replenish Life +7
All Resistances +65
Damage Reduced by 8%
25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
4 Sockets (4 used)
Socketed: Dol Rune
Socketed: Um Rune
Socketed: Ber Rune
Socketed: Ist Rune
Call to Arms
Phase Blade
AmnRalMalIstOhm
One Hand Damage: 120 - 135
Indestructible
Required Level: 57
Required Strength: 25
Required Dexterity: 136
Fingerprint: 0x6098c520
Item Level: 85
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+1 to All Skills
+40% Increased Attack Speed
288% Enhanced Damage
Adds 5 - 30 Fire Damage
7% Life stolen per hit
Prevent Monster Heal
+6 to Battle Command
+1 to Battle Orders
+1 to Battle Cry
Replenish Life +12
30% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
5 Sockets (5 used)
Socketed: Amn Rune
Socketed: Ral Rune
Socketed: Mal Rune
Socketed: Ist Rune
Socketed: Ohm Rune
Herald of Zakarum
Gilded Shield
Defense: 437
Chance to Block: 52
Durability: 50 of 50
Required Level: 42
Required Strength: 89
Fingerprint: 0xc28fcc2f
Item Level: 87
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to Combat Skills (Paladin Only)
+2 to Paladin Skill Levels
+30% Faster Block Rate
30% Increased Chance of Blocking
20% Bonus to Attack Rating
+159% Enhanced Defense
+20 to Strength
+20 to Vitality
All Resistances +69
1 Sockets (1 used)
Socketed: Perfect Diamond
Tovak's Grief
Phase Blade
EthTirLoMalRal
One Hand Damage: 31 - 35
Indestructible
Required Level: 59
Required Strength: 25
Required Dexterity: 136
Fingerprint: 0xcd05eebd
Item Level: 83
Version: Expansion 1.10+
35% Chance to cast level 15 Venom on striking
+36% Increased Attack Speed
Damage +381
Ignore Target's Defense
-25% Target Defense
+163% Damage to Demons (Based on Character Level)
Adds 5 - 30 Fire Damage
-23% to Enemy Poison Resistance
20% Deadly Strike
Prevent Monster Heal
+2 to Mana after each Kill
+12 Life after each Kill
5 Sockets (5 used)
Socketed: Eth Rune
Socketed: Tir Rune
Socketed: Lo Rune
Socketed: Mal Rune
Socketed: Ral Rune
Herald of Zakarum
Gilded Shield
Defense: 476
Chance to Block: 52
Durability: 50 of 50
Required Level: 47
Required Strength: 89
Fingerprint: 0x91947033
Item Level: 84
Version: Expansion 1.10+
+2 to Combat Skills (Paladin Only)
+2 to Paladin Skill Levels
+30% Faster Block Rate
30% Increased Chance of Blocking
20% Bonus to Attack Rating
+182% Enhanced Defense
+20 to Strength
+20 to Vitality
All Resistances +72
1 Sockets (1 used)
Socketed: Um Rune
Mercenary:
Name: Heather
Race: Rogue Scout
Type: Ice - Normal
Experience: 69939118
Level: 87
Dead?: false
Naked/Gear
Strength: 141/141
Dexterity: 213/223
HP: 1500/1587
Defense: 1237/3071
AR: 2270/2270
Fire: 176/136/76
Cold: 176/136/76
Lightning: 176/136/76
Poison: 176/136/76
Delirium
Superior Tiara
LemIstIo
Defense: 301
Durability: 27 of 27
Required Level: 52
Fingerprint: 0x973e241a
Item Level: 86
Version: Expansion 1.10+
1% Chance to cast level 50 Delirium when struck
6% Chance to cast level 14 Mind Blast when struck
14% Chance to cast level 13 Terror when struck
11% Chance to cast level 18 Confuse on striking
+2 to All Skills
+261 Defense
+10 to Vitality
50% Extra Gold from Monsters
25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Increase Maximum Durability 10%
Level 17 Attract (60/60 Charges)
3 Sockets (3 used)
Socketed: Lem Rune
Socketed: Ist Rune
Socketed: Io Rune
Fortitude
Superior Wire Fleece
ElSolDolLo
Defense: 1533
Durability: 32 of 32
Required Level: 59
Required Strength: 111
Fingerprint: 0x733dae0b
Item Level: 85
Version: Expansion 1.10+
20% Chance to cast level 15 Chilling Armor when struck
+25% Faster Cast Rate
300% Enhanced Damage
+215% Enhanced Defense
+15 Defense
+87 to Life (Based on Character Level)
Replenish Life +7
+5% to Maximum Lightning Resist
All Resistances +30
Damage Reduced by 7
12% Damage Taken Goes To Mana
+1 to Light Radius
4 Sockets (4 used)
Socketed: El Rune
Socketed: Sol Rune
Socketed: Dol Rune
Socketed: Lo Rune
Harmony
Great Bow
TirIthSolKo
Two Hand Damage: 48 - 179
Durability: 36 of 36
Required Level: 51
Required Strength: 121
Required Dexterity: 107
Fingerprint: 0x9af249c9
Item Level: 87
Version: Expansion 1.10+
Level 10 Vigor Aura When Equipped
228% Enhanced Damage
+9 to Minimum Damage
+9 to Maximum Damage
Adds 55 - 160 Fire Damage
Adds 55 - 160 Lightning Damage
Adds 55 - 160 Cold Damage Over 4 Secs (106 Frames)
+6 to Valkyrie
+10 to Dexterity
Regenerate Mana 20%
+2 to Mana after each Kill
+2 to Light Radius
Level 20 Revive (25/25 Charges)
4 Sockets (4 used)
Socketed: Tir Rune
Socketed: Ith Rune
Socketed: Sol Rune
Socketed: Ko Rune
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