Lanceor's FoH Zealot Guide

I tried this on a paladin I was wanting to respec.

Gear

Helm: Gface, socketed with an

Um
Weapon:

Heaven's Light

Mighty Scepter (+3 all paladin skills, 33% chance of crushing blow, socketed with

Shael for IAS and Pskull for life+mana leach)
Switch Weapon: rare staff with

Teleport charges.
Amulet: rare +2 all pally skills, 8% mana steal, +9 all res, 1-4 cold damage and +2 light radius
Shield: HOZ (not upped yet) socketed with Pdiamond
Gloves:

Laying of Hands
Ring #1: dual leech

Blood Ring (2% mana, 3% life) with 22% light res and 24% poison res and 9% cold res
Ring #2: BK ring with 4% LL

Boots:

Blood Boots with 3% LL and 29% light res

Belt:

String of Ears with 7% LL, 11% Damage reducation
Armor: Que Hegan's Wisdom rolled Exalted (I am in single player using a mod called relics of Sanctuary that gives uniques chances to roll with Exalted stats. See link below to see the stats of Exalted Que Hegan's.)
https://relicsofsanctuary.com/#/items/uniques

Merc:
Act 2

Blessed Aim (might switch to a different aura)

Helm: Andy's (no socket yet)
Weapon: Etheral Reaper's toll
Armor:

Duriel's Shell

Currently this character is level 85. I was able to clear players 5 Chaos. FOH Holy

Bolts do almost 3k damage.

Zeal damage is only 1699-2414 but the mobs are a lot easier to clear in Chaos with the FOH on F3 hotkey and I have

Zeal on F4. When I run low on mana I either use a pot or go in and hit a few monsters to leech some back. When merc decripify procs I kill pretty quickly with

Zeal using

Heaven's Light.

Overall a fun build. I was speced into the

Holy Shock build but unless you have the right runeword armor and some type of way to break resistances it's hard to get anything going with that one. I may try to add a lightning sunder charm to this character and maybe switch to Schaffer's hammer to see how that does.

This build currently does need a source of open wounds. Finding some war travs or crafting a good

Blood Belt is the next move. Ideally Chains of Honor would be the best choice to maximize the +skills as well as resistances increase. Gface is great but I do think that COA could be a fantastic

Helm too.

Sure this can work, but Id believe full foh or full

Zeal would be stronger than mixing it. Unfortunately in d2 you lose more if you have multiple "elements" to go for.

I play a lot of FoH hybrids, and my suggestion is yeah,

Holy Shock and

Conviction are huge traps.

The core is so strong because it's only 40 points to max

Holy Bolt and FoH, after that it's all gravy. I highly recommend a point in

Redemption, it gives you a ton of survivability and makes spam casting FoH a joke.

Salvation is also a nice 1 point wonder until you get higher res.

Zeal is underwhelming imo,

Smite hybrid is way better but I imagine you want to play with

Zeal.

With proper gear you can clear things as fast (if not faster) in some areas than even Hammers because of FoH's tracking, especially in CS/WSK outside animal type.

Ah yes, Lanceor's old Zealot Guide, started back before he was killed in the Dclone wars.

Morgormir wrote: 3 months ago

I play a lot of FoH hybrids, and my suggestion is yeah,

Holy Shock and

Conviction are huge traps.

The core is so strong because it's only 40 points to max

Holy Bolt and FoH, after that it's all gravy. I highly recommend a point in

Redemption, it gives you a ton of survivability and makes spam casting FoH a joke.

Salvation is also a nice 1 point wonder until you get higher res.

Zeal is underwhelming imo,

Smite hybrid is way better but I imagine you want to play with

Zeal.

With proper gear you can clear things as fast (if not faster) in some areas than even Hammers because of FoH's tracking, especially in CS/WSK outside animal type.

When I was playing with FOH still, almost fell for that

Holy Shock

Conviction trap.

Redemption is insanely useful, I didnt need my merc who happened to die constantly! and drained my money >:(
The moment I changed into hammerdin, noticed that merc is needed much more than with FOH. I would love to continue as FOH but downside is; you cant run everywhere and I love to boost / rush people through and thats something not possible as foh.
I wonder if this would be possible as FOH

Zeal combo? most likely better than just FOH.

When I was playing with FOH still, almost fell for that

Holy Shock

Conviction trap.

Redemption is insanely useful, I didnt need my merc who happened to die constantly! and drained my money >:(
The moment I changed into hammerdin, noticed that merc is needed much more than with FOH. I would love to continue as FOH but downside is; you cant run everywhere and I love to boost / rush people through and thats something not possible as foh.
I wonder if this would be possible as FOH

Zeal combo? most likely better than just FOH.

Honestly I have no problems clearing and rushing people with FoHdin. 80ish percent of the mobs are demons or undead anyway, and you just

Teleport past animals. The only must kill animals are what? Woodfist and

Frozenstein for quests? I just

Smite them to be honest, but

Zeal could probably work too (I just don't like how AR works in this game, especially in hell).

If anything, I feel FoH is about as fast as hammers when optimally built, because while you do less damage (5k per bolt of FoH vs 10k+ per Hammer), it's a lot more targeted and hits harder the more enemies there are on screen. Tele into FoH into Tele into Foh into Tele into FoH wipes screens even on players 6+. Granted I can't hit the side of a barn with Hammers, they always seem to miss but that's a me problem.

Build is 20

Holy Bolt-20

Fist of the Heavens-20-

Smite-20

Holy Shield-pre-reqs and the rest into

Fanaticism to hit the 6 frame breakpoint per attack, which is easy with Grief on swap.
Fana maxed over

Holy Shield is probably correct but it's plenty for ubers between plus skills etc so I don't really care either way. It's also nice to have higher def when teleporting in and out of mob packs.

Edit: Only thing you can't do is cows in all honesty.

Semirotta wrote: 3 months ago

Sure this can work, but Id believe full foh or full

Zeal would be stronger than mixing it. Unfortunately in d2 you lose more if you have multiple "elements" to go for.

I have a full 1 point smiter zealot build with most of the BIS gear (Guilliam's face, Fortitude, Verdungos or

String of Ears,

Phase Blade Grief or Ethereal Death Berzerker

Axe, upped HOZ, etc.)

This older more meta build that has been used for years does very well one on one, especially against bosses. Where it does not do well is the mobs especially like in

Chaos Sanctuary where you get cursed constantly and decripify hurts the worst due to the slower speed, reduced damage output, increased damage you take.

On the updated build I posted I just found a

Ber rune in Chaos. I think the clear speed is a bit faster although diablo does take a good 10-15 seconds longer to take down since I am using

Zeal with a decent elite unique weapon rather than one of the godly runewords.

This is running hell Chaos on players 5. You do have to play it correctly. I try to get a massive mob together, let the merc take the agro away from me then I spam FOH. When the mana runs down I run in and

Zeal away which is a quick cleanup since the merc is using Reaper's Toll to cast

Decrepify and most of the demon and undead monsters' health is at a minimal level. I usually gain all my mana back after killing 1-2 monsters. Rarely need to use pots.

With the

Ber rune I found I am thinking of making Chains of Honor and putting it on this character for added stats. I know Fortitude is recommended but I like the +2 to all skill COH adds. I have an Enigma on a zon and luckily can just swap that around on my other characters as needed.

Thats the kind of stuff that I will never have wont even bother trying to get such items in ladder as I barely manage to build up one character to do anything to begin with.

Semirotta wrote: 3 months ago

Thats the kind of stuff that I will never have wont even bother trying to get such items in ladder as I barely manage to build up one character to do anything to begin with.

I totally understand. This is a single player character. I have done multiple ladders and due to work and other time constraints I like single player better. Allows me to enjoy the game at my own pace and time that works for me.

PrimeOmega wrote: 2 months ago

Semirotta wrote: 3 months ago

Thats the kind of stuff that I will never have wont even bother trying to get such items in ladder as I barely manage to build up one character to do anything to begin with.

I totally understand. This is a single player character. I have done multiple ladders and due to work and other time constraints I like single player better. Allows me to enjoy the game at my own pace and time that works for me.

Id love to play in singleplayer, so much more to gain in that compared to the bot infested ladder and nonladder. But I like to rush people / help people, thats what I would miss in singleplayer and eventually would be the drive towards the ladder again