Paladin - leveling up with Holy Fire: Zeal or Explosive bolt Bow/Crossbow?

Hi

I will start a fresh new Paladin, and pretend to use as my end build dual Dragon + Hand of Justice
At first I want to level up as a Holy Fire Paladin, to test and "get used" to the playstyle

I know that I would level faster with other builds (like Blessed Hammer) and I will need to respec anyway latter (as my end build will have just 1 hard point on Holy Fire as a pre-requisite for Conviction....)

But, deciding to do that, what would be the best approach:

To use Zeal with a melee weapon
(playstyle closer to the end build)
or
To use a Bow/ Crossbow with Explosive bolt
(can deal better/faster with groups)
or
both (put one on swap, but will not be able to use Teleport Staff )

Realistically, you don't need either.

Just gt HF + synergies and you can self-lvl until you start hitting immunities without ever touching a single mob as the ticks are more than enough dmg for that.

Once you do hit immunities though...bad juju and time for a lvling respec imo. Unnecessarily painful to stay HF through late nm/hell.

fredkid wrote: 2 years ago

I will need to respec anyway latter

Then i recommend HF build going Full Sigons with Hellforge Hammer into Raven Claw with full Irathas and Angelic Rings + Armor into Kuko Shakaku. At A4NM/A1 Hell respecc Full Blessed Hammer build. Level up as you desire and then respecc final HF build

Imo smoothest way to level up pala