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Diablo 4 Build

Zenith

Season 11

End Game

M1PY

Verified

Speed Farm

Pit Pusher

Item Reliant

Boss Killer

Infernal Hordes

Paladin

By M1PY

Updated on Dec 20, 2025

Dec 20, 2025

Build Overview

The Zenith Paladin Build Guide teaches you about Gear, Skills, Paragon, Playstyle & Seasonal Mechanics in Diablo 4 Season 11.

Zenith is an Ultimate skill that focuses on dealing the most possible damage once you have reached sufficient Cooldown Reduction. The Empyrean Edge upgrade provides Zenith with a lot of Mobility, especially when paired with Flash of the Blade Advance and Falling Star. We utilize the Disciple Oath, to Ascend into Arbiter Form, providing us with many potent damage multipliers.

With the Glyph Resplendence, we can manipulate our Cooldowns to our liking.

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If you are not level 60 yet, make sure to check out the Paladin Leveling Guides from our Tier List instead.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Has the best visual effects ever
Satisfying to play
Incredible Mobility

Not the best Area Damage
Cooldown Breakpoint reliant
Top-end damage is not competitive

Assigned Skills

Primary

Secondary

Oaths

Ascend into Arbiter Form Disciple through Falling Star or Flash of the Blade Advance.
Glide through enemies with Arbiter's Evade.
- You need Attacks reduce Evade Cooldown as implicit on your Boots.
- Aspect of the Arbiter's Zephyr is also essential.
Use Fanaticism Aura and Defiance Aura for their buffs.
Use Holy Light Aura for a flash of Healing.
- Resplendence will reduce all non-Aura Cooldowns by 2 seconds.
- This is important to keep permanent up-time on Zenith
Use Falling Star for more mobility.
Use Flash of the Blade Advance for even more mobility.
- Cast either of these to maintain up-time on Arbiter Form.
- You want to keep up the stacks from Aspect of Celestial Strife and Aspect of Ascension.
Attack with Zenith.
- Empyrean Edge will lunge you forward onto your target. This applies Weakened.
- This upgrade also resets your Zenith Cooldown slightly when killing Weakened foes with it.

Equipment

HelmHeir of Perdition

Chest armorShroud of False Death

GlovesAspect of Ascension

PantsAspect of the Indomitable

BootsMarch of the Stalwart Soul

AmuletAspect of Celestial Strife

Ring 1Vehement Brawler's Aspect

Ring 2Aspect of Apogeic Furor

WeaponGriswold's Opus

OffhandAspect of Utmost Glory

Lucky Hit Chance: Apply Vulnerable is important to have on either Ring.
You need this to gain the bonuses from Crack in the Armor and Aspect of Celestial Strife.

Sanctifications to chase:

Offensive Slots (Weapons, Rings, Amulet, Gloves):

God-Tier:
- The Grandfather
S-Tier:
- Harlequin Crest, Ring of Starless Skies
A-Tier:
- Nesekem, The Herald
B-Tier:
- Offensive Aspects / Armor Boosting Aspects.
C-Tier:
- +10%[x] Physical Damage
- +% Strength
- + Ranks to Aura / All Skills

If you are unfamiliar with Sanctification, check out our Season 11 Overview for more information.

Skill Tree

Available

0 (0)

Spent59 (12)

Leveling Path

We use the Coat of Arms Key Passive as it provides the most damage out of all the other choices.

Paragon Board

Castle is an uncapped multiplier based on your Armor.

Glyph Leveling Priority

Spirit
Outmatch
Resplendence
Arbiter
Challenger

Board Order

Starter Board
Castle
Relentless
Shield Bearer
Divinity

Divine Gifts

Andariel

CorruptedEssence of Anguish

PurifiedEssence of Screams

Azmodan

CorruptedEssence of Hellfire

PurifiedEssence of Sin

Belial

CorruptedEssence of Shadows

PurifiedEssence of Lies

Duriel

CorruptedEssence of Pain

PurifiedEssence of Squalor

In Season 11 the Divine Gifts do not offer any player power increase. Instead they make some activities more challenging and increase their rewards in different ways. As there are only two choices per slot, we focus on maximizing the defensive bonuses.

Mercenary

How it Works

It's important to run Elixirs and Incenses at all times. Not only because they increase your Experience gain but also because they provide very strong combat boosts.

For Elixirs you will use Elixir of Advantage II to increase our Attack Speed.

For Incenses you will use Spiral Morning for All Stats , Song of the Mountain for Armor and Soothing Spices for All Resistances and more Armor.