Even in budget gear at the early days of a new ladder season, Uber Diablo or Uber Tristram can be easily dealt with. The main utility of a smiter is to kill endgame bosses. 🔸 Only requires minimal attention, no skill switching is needed 🔸 Hell Chaos run and Hell Baal run both within 2-3 minutes They have a very simple playstyle, if you like melee builds, you will definitely enjoy this one. They are very good ladder starters, and their auras help the whole party in a variety of situations, when more survivability, more damage output, or single target damage is required. Smiters are amongst the most popular characters in D2R, as they are the best build for killing single targets quickly, and their survivability is awesome.

Hence combining both of them is enough to mow down waves of enemy hordes.Īdditionally, Zealot has an extra advantage where it can use Holy Shield to defend as Zealot Paladins focus on swift one-handed weapons.The Smiter is a Paladin build using Smite as it’s primary attacking skill. Fanaticism increases attack speed meanwhile Zeal skill inflicts tremendous melee damage. On the other hand, a Zealot requires several expensive and hard to obtain equipment to excel at PvP. Making Zealots one of the most popular classes in PvE playthroughs. They can attack in quick succession, attack multiple enemies at a time. Zealot, also known as Zealadin or Zealer is an extremely strong build for players who only like to attack head one. Charms: Hellfire Torch, Annihilus, Grand charms with +to Combat Skills (Paladin)/Max damage/Life.

Weapon Switch: Call to Arms Runeword Weapon + Spirit Runeword Shield.

Weapon: Breath of the Dying Runeword Weapon + Herald of Zakarum.

Dexterity: Enough to wear all your gear and reach max block chance.

Diablo 2 paladin builds