Screamheart's Pit 125+ Zeal Paladin Build

⭐ FAVORITE THE BUILD HERE ⤴

• Click HERE to see all of my builds! Or HERE to see my Druid builds only.
• 💜Watch me LIVE on Twitch HERE
• ▶️ Find my video guides on YouTube HERE
• Try my Universal Dopamine Loot Filter HERE

If you prefer your enemies minced while running around like the Flash, then this is the build for you.

Zeal holds a special place in my heart as one of the first Paladin builds I created back in Season 11 and it's really cool to boot! Zeal is an insanely strong skill that attacks extremely fast while echoing strikes for even more slice and dice chaos! This build is unmatched in mobility and Attack Speed.

• Check additional tabs for Mid-Game and End-Game variations of the build.
• The loot filter on the right will help you spot the important items for the build and even some other items that can work until you get what you need!

Skill Rotations

1. Use Fortress to generate Resolve, grant Unstoppable, and increase damage by a significant amount.
2. Use Condemn for movement speed and run into battle. This will also pull enemies in and apply Vulnerable.
3. Rally can be used up to three times to grant additional Critical Strike Chance and Movement Speed.
4. Spam Zeal to apply Weaken and kill everything.

Yes... it's that easy.

• Fanaticism Aura and Defiance Aura are passive.

Main Synergies

This build utilizes various synergies around Zealot Oath and Zeal. with scaling from Critical Strike Damage, Zealot Skills, Core Skills, Physical Damage, and Resolve stacking.

• Red Sermon increases Zeal damage and gives the Death or Glory on Zeal for free which means we get a second upgrade for even more damage.
• Berú of Dauntless Faith gives damage and Cast Speed which goes beyond the normal Attack Speed cap. It also auto-casts Rally and gives it a Damage Reduction buff as well.
• Fortress scales our damage by a ton based on Resolve stacks and we can use it almost constantly due to Flickerstep which reduces Ultimate cooldown when we Evade through enemies.
• Aspect of Interdiction gives us max Block chance from Resolve stacking which scales Shield Bearer while offering an additional defensive layer.
• Maxing out our Block chance means that we can utilize Aspect of Redirected Force for a very large multiplier.
• Aspect of Glynn's Anvil also scales survivability by giving a huge amount of Damage Reduction based on Resolve stacks.
• Embattled Aspect and Zealot synergize to counter the life lost from Death or Glory and Blood-Mad Idol.
• Aspect of the Zealot's Covenant gives an additional Fervor on top of the three that Zealot already gives. This means more damage and Critical Strike Chance from Fervent and more damage from Aspect of Jacques' Fervor.

As you can see below, we are able to basically max out our Critical Strike Chance and Attack Speed with very minimal gear investment. This allows us to focus more affixes into damage multipliers instead.

Critical Strike Chance = 100%+

• 5% base Critical Strike Chance
• 1%+ from Intelligence
• Heir of Perdition gives about 15%
• Rally gives 15%
• Fanaticism Aura gives 15%+
• Fervent gives 12%
• Death or Glory gives 20%
• The Penitent's Aspect gives 15%
• Critical Strike Chance Zeal 6-12% (Optionally use Weaken Zeal instead)

Attack Speed = 97%+

• Preacher gives 15%
• Preacher's rare and magic nodes give about 20%+ with a bonus to magic/rare Glyph
• Weapon Temper gives 24%
• Fanaticism Aura gives 38%+
• Before being fully optimized, Varyana can be used as Reinforcement to get an additional 10% to cover missing Attack Speed.

Cast Speed from Berú of Dauntless Faith goes beyond the 100% cap.

• Changed away from Cull the Wicked because the 25% damage doesn't seem to work. (Yay, we're stronger for free)
• Season 13
• Update for S12
• Modified the build to be the most balanced version. Check text below sections for additional options.
• Added the new 1h/Shield version of the build for similar damage and MUCH more survivability.
• Various minor adjustments to Tempers, recommended Affixes/GAs, Skill Tree passives, and Paragon boards. Runes changed.
• Changed a glyph and pants Affix, changed Runes, also changed 1 skill.
• Re-added En Garde to Amulet Temper. My block was glitched.
• v2.0 update, lots of tweaks to make it as good as possible.
• Fixed bugs that showed the wrong Oath and Aspects
• Build created! Season 11 Start