Re: Need advice Frost zealot.
Hi there. I'm also a new player with a frost zealot as my first char. Currently L70 and coming towards the end of NM, it's been a lot of fun so far. Here's some things I have learned that might help you.
Like others have said you NEED max Zeal, you cant really skip that. 200% AR bonus is massive, especially when applied to items like Angelic ring/amulet or Hsarus belt/boots. At L70 I get base 840 AR from the ring/amulet, times 200% is 2,520 AR! From just 2 equipment slots. I have about 6,700 total AR at the moment and 90%+ chance to hit on most things.
I'm going for 20 Zeal, 20 Holy Freeze, 20 Resist Cold, 20 Sacrifice, 5 Holy Shield. Seems to me like that the additional physical damage and life leech from Sacrifice will be more useful than the minimal cold damage increase from Salvation. But I'm a noob so could well be wrong there
Will probably pump Holy Shield more if I get further than that.
Weapons;
Black - I upgraded from a Steel flail to this shortly after starting NM because I found an Io rune and a 3 socket jagged star in the second area of act 1. I HATED it, knockback on a zealot is extremely irritating. Now I just have it on switch for act bosses and other high health monsters (it is very useful for that if you dont have Crushing Blow from anywhere else).
Honor - Highly recommended! Made this in a Knout that I found at the start of act 2. Any white knout you find will get 5 sockets from Lazruk. +1 skills and +250 AR will help your accuracy problems a bit. Yes, it doesn't have any IAS but you dont really need to worry much about that at this point. Imo. And just 10% IAS from any other slot will give you 6 fpa.
I'll probably still be using this weapon in early Hell, thinking of doing it again in a Scourge if I don't find something better.
Question: I see a lot of people that recommend ITD as a solution to accuracy problems. I don't get it. What's the point being able to hit normal monsters and whiffing on any champion/unique/boss? Am I missing something?
Armor;
I am using Smoke, mainly for the resistances. Recently found an Um in a random chest and am thinking of making Duress but will need to make up the resistances somewhere else (better shield hopefully).
Shield;
I used Rhyme for a long time, it's pretty nice. Now I have Spirit in a base +15 crown shield. Badly need to find a better base for that. Or a HoZ (haha).
Head;
Try to gamble a rare +paladin skill circlet. I got quite a nice one with +20 resist all, +9 dex.
Hope that helps!