Just struggling a bit mid-game in Nightmare due to not having good gear or a ton of HRs to spend. Prices of the items are not that high, but people ask too much IMHO for crap.
Ok well thanks to the kindness of strangers with an IST, OHM and SUR I was able to buy almost everything - not great items like yours, but decent enough to give me about 8k damage. I'll keep working on it. THANK YOU. This build is a ton of fun.
Very nice gUide!! I have linked it to the Catalog of Project D2 builds. On Infinity... Yeah you cannot break cold immunities, right. However you can run that and free up the need for so many gfacets on the gear. That could get you some more res or MF.
Can you please go over where you put all of your skills, I know that you go over them but it would be nice to know exactly where we need to put all of our points. Great video! I'm looking forward to following this build.
Infinity is going to break normal immunes, but wont do it for immune monster with extra cold res. Still even if it doesnt break imunes, that reaper is mostly useless for a cold build. Sure amplify damage is cool in group or for your mercenary, but infinity is better or simply a lawbringer that proc decrepify. Or you could go the extra route and put a lastwish 6os eth tmaul on a merc to get the life tap, with a lvl17 might. You can then put a eth Fort on him and he's going to destroy everything and you get lifetap on top. Also, for cheaper builds, Lawbringer is a decent replacement with a better sanctuary and decrepify.
damn very nice video. i had a dragadin early in the season and retired him cause it just wasnt too great. i think ill start working on a freezadin now. i regret throwing away my ormus with perfect -15 to all res cause it rolled warmth.. rip.
Bon vidéo! Quand même drôle j'ai une coupe d'item pour faire le build et j'ai jamais penser à le faire. J'ai corrupt mon Azurath a juste 2 sockets par contre.
For normal ubers would you swap out ormus for 3os shaftstop? Or how does it handle ubers as is? Looks like it needs a source of damage reduction and helm shield belt seem like a bad idea to change
Hi i feel hitting a wall2 ATM i got the whole gear now as u have + 5 off gc but not lvl 85 yet to use azure my resists are decent to mid , but it feels my Leeching isnt enough? 16 life and 15 mana leech , also does azure do a big Difference in dmg? Atm using Lightsabre Till 85 Also in general how u deal with big cold immunes? Like Phys immune + cold should be Like unkillable? Or i am missing smth.
Hello, your leech numbers seem fine to me. Are you using Draculs? I find that life after each kill gives alot of sustain, I use +11. Maybe you need more all res / life / block so you take less damage? I do think azure will give you a boost in damage from the 1sk and the sanc aura. The phys/cold immune unique monsters are the main reason why I use an eth Reaper's Toll on my merc. They are easily dealt with using that.
Oh oky interesting well i sit on mb and resists are bout 35-75 Light is Max there Also Draculs didnt have there but ill look to get one of these on GCS im kinda fine atm i mean im sitting there with total of 5 there now so like 2-3 left i think ?
i will be making this build mainly for pvp thats why i was curious if doom better or azuwrath but i just saw u answer someone saying azuwarth is better for MAPS so is it still better in pvp or doom could be the way?
I need small help. Seen this build and got craz about it. Scraped my holy bolter and made your holy freez zealer build. Just 1 question . I gabe my merc templar lvl 8 might chest and it is nit effecting my dmg at all. When i equip or unequip to merc nothing changes with MY dmg?? What am i missing? I also have nice fortitude,so i wonder which armor to use
Nightwing's veil for sure. Also Offensive skillers provide a big boost, I had at least 5 when I made the switch to this build. Not sure if you have some of those on hand already since you're playing SSF.
It can probably do an OK job. +3 skills is nice. That being said sockets > skills in this build so being limited to 2 is not ideal. Also the attack speed on Heaven's light is very low which hurts.
its actually kinda funny, i just made doom runeword for my merc a couple of days ago and tought about that the -50%enemy cold res would be sick for a melee cold build and now i see this : D but without all this gg gear and facits damage is probably only like 15k isch ?
I don't recommend this build for Ubers. It's really optimized to do high density maps. I think it can be pretty good against Dclone with some gear changes so stay tuned for my next video.
I tried Doom. Using the aura from Doom and then using resist cold on yourself yields much inferior damage compared to this setup. If you use native aura + Doom the damage is also inferior although you get more phys damage in there. The -cold res is nice but overkill in my opinion with all the facets I am using. Also the ias breakpoints for Doom axes are no bueno.
I don't think an act 1 merc would survive being on the frontlines so much. I will revisit the idea of an act5 merc with beast. The question becomes is Fanat really worth it if I am already hitting my ias breakpoints without sacrificing any damage?
I swapped to this build before I had the facets. I had a 1os shael'd azurewrath with Ptopaz/um rune in my ormus and nightwing. I had a basic hoz with a Pdiamond. I believe my damage was around 10-15k at that point and yes I'd say it was viable. Maybe I'll throw together some starter gear on a single player character and do a second video showing how it does. Thanks for your comment.
I did abit of digging in some screenshots and some discord conversations and I can confirm that I was doing 13-14k damage without the facets. At that point I believe I also had around -5 all skills on my gear/charms.
I recommend leveling as holy bolt. Respec when you have the gear I mention in "starter gear" section of the video and some offensive skiller grand charms (4-5). Cheers.
@@eru4259 Yeah you can use zeal or charge. Both work and will do alot of damage. All the damage comes from the aura. I use charge when I 1-shot stuff and zeal for anything that requires more hits, for example bosses.
hey can i use zerk doom instead of azuwrath ?im mainly going for max cold damage i dont need santuary aura what do u say is it ok to use doom? please tell me
It is "ok" to use Doom. I advise against it because it is inferior damage compared to the faceted azurewrath for this pure frost build. Your max ias breakpoint will be much more difficult to attain with a zerker. You will apply much less frost damage when attacking slow. See for yourself here : d2.lc/IAS/
@@knivez9326 hello knivex looking for a quick reply should i buy 4os lightsabre instead of azuwrath since azurewrath are crazy expansive now and im mainly going to focus on pvp so dont really will face a problem with immunity should i buy lightsabre 4os and use that instead im getting that in fairly cheap price
@@Senpai_something I don't know how the swords compare in PVP. Lightsabre VS. Azurewrath has been discussed in the PD2 discord quite a bit so maybe do some research there using the search feature. A 4os lightsabre with facets will be good for sure if you're willing to invest the facets in it, it's just not optimal. Other cheaper options you can use the Voice of reason runeword or the Lawbringer runeword in a phase blade. Sorry for what this video did to the cost of the items :X
I think Azurewrath is better for mapping. I couldn't get as much damage however I used Doom. The ias breakpoints for Doom are a problem too. See my other answer elsewhere in the comments for more details.
You can do what you want with the extra points. You can put them into zeal or charge if you prefer. I prefer zeal because the extra points are mainly used for attack rating bonus. The dmg bonus itself doesn't do much since we're getting all the damage from HF aura. Why more attack rating on zeal rather than charge well I think charge performs fine as it is to clear standard mobs but extra attack rating is useful on bosses and I use zeal to kill bosses.
feels like you should use a shaftstop w/ +1 and 2os over the ormus. You have zero dr from what i can tell with this setup. Not to mention you are already overkilling majority of stuff, I think its probably fine to drop some dmg lol.
He is getting 20% of his damage from Ormus, you would probably get half that with Shaftstop and it doesnt seem like survivability is an issue. Would agree for Dclone or ubers though, just for maps it doesnt seem necessary and would slow down kills.
@@Bakerking3 This! plus If I were to add some DR I would start with pieces of gear that don't have facets in them to minimize the impact on my damage. I would probably start with a verdungo's.
@@knivez9326 Thank you for your reply. Diablo 2 resurrected is about to come out and I'm so excited about it. It would be great if you cover it in your future videos.
Why... this was literally one of the builds that senpai was unaware of. Nice now this will also get half damage nerf... well rip this build once senpai sees. My dragondin does 17k damage in this season with high tier gear, used to be 35k before so expect this to be nerfed to similar damage soon.
Finally a real guide and not a ""I show u my gg item look that s good" type of video. Appreciate that ma dude thx for the hard work !
So.... do you want to see my GG items or
@Misael Jorge really tho ?
I hope this is one of many future guides made by you. Subscribed!
Ran some maps with you today and got to see this build in action. Great video and killer build! Congrats!
Really chill yet informative video and guide!
Thanks for the awesome guide, really appreciate all the details you go into!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Started my Paladin today. I wanted one for a while, but didn't know what build to shoot for. I like this one a lot. Thank you.
Just struggling a bit mid-game in Nightmare due to not having good gear or a ton of HRs to spend. Prices of the items are not that high, but people ask too much IMHO for crap.
Any suggestions @Knivez ?
Ok well thanks to the kindness of strangers with an IST, OHM and SUR I was able to buy almost everything - not great items like yours, but decent enough to give me about 8k damage. I'll keep working on it. THANK YOU. This build is a ton of fun.
Great guide. Will be on the lookout for your future videos. Keep it up.
don't let senpai showcase this or it will be nerfed!!
jk very nice pally you got great guide
Damn, this is really well done dude!
Damn, awesome video and explaining it all
This build is so damn cool. I love azurewrath, its one of THE coolest unique weapons in the game.
Great video mate, I enjoyed it!
awesome guide man! gonna try this out :)
Very nice gUide!! I have linked it to the Catalog of Project D2 builds.
On Infinity... Yeah you cannot break cold immunities, right. However you can run that and free up the need for so many gfacets on the gear. That could get you some more res or MF.
Pretty cool idea for a build looks super fun!
Good build guide, you did a good job. TY!
this build looks so satysfying to play
Can you please go over where you put all of your skills, I know that you go over them but it would be nice to know exactly where we need to put all of our points. Great video! I'm looking forward to following this build.
He's pretty clear on the skills.
Max Holy freeze and all it's synergies.
1 holy shield
1 joust
1 vigor
The rest into zeal
@@CD-hy6fg Thanks for that
Just a tip, run a little bit of Deadly Strike via Highlords and Nos belt. Deadly Strike is way better than “sheet” damage.
Deadly strike doesn't work for elemental damage. So the crit would only apply to my very low phys dmg. I don' think it's worth it.
Infinity is going to break normal immunes, but wont do it for immune monster with extra cold res. Still even if it doesnt break imunes, that reaper is mostly useless for a cold build. Sure amplify damage is cool in group or for your mercenary, but infinity is better or simply a lawbringer that proc decrepify. Or you could go the extra route and put a lastwish 6os eth tmaul on a merc to get the life tap, with a lvl17 might. You can then put a eth Fort on him and he's going to destroy everything and you get lifetap on top.
Also, for cheaper builds, Lawbringer is a decent replacement with a better sanctuary and decrepify.
Awesome build!
Hi. Nice build. Jewels are for what? Cold damage and ias?
Nice vid bro
Dual Dream + Dragon Armor + hand of Justice weapon. Concentration and salvation will boost both fire and lightning damage.
This is really nice. What do you think about using doom? Should really help a lot against cold immunes.
Unfortunately the -res doesn't work against cold immunes.
Very nice. I think I will start this build soon. Do you think it would be viable with Gris set all facets?
It would probably be decent with all the facets. Helm and armor are good, weapon and shield less so.
Super cool idea! One question: how did you get additional 15% max cold res? I can see 5% from Snowclash, but where does the other 10% come from?
Its a passive bonus from putting points into resist cold.
damn very nice video. i had a dragadin early in the season and retired him cause it just wasnt too great. i think ill start working on a freezadin now. i regret throwing away my ormus with perfect -15 to all res cause it rolled warmth.. rip.
I’m new to PD2, nice build. Is it SP or multiplayer?
MP
Bon vidéo! Quand même drôle j'ai une coupe d'item pour faire le build et j'ai jamais penser à le faire. J'ai corrupt mon Azurath a juste 2 sockets par contre.
hey, what do you think about voice of reason in pb or +3hf scepter? azure still better?
For normal ubers would you swap out ormus for 3os shaftstop? Or how does it handle ubers as is? Looks like it needs a source of damage reduction and helm shield belt seem like a bad idea to change
Hi i feel hitting a wall2 ATM i got the whole gear now as u have + 5 off gc but not lvl 85 yet to use azure my resists are decent to mid , but it feels my Leeching isnt enough? 16 life and 15 mana leech , also does azure do a big Difference in dmg? Atm using Lightsabre Till 85
Also in general how u deal with big cold immunes? Like Phys immune + cold should be Like unkillable? Or i am missing smth.
Hello, your leech numbers seem fine to me. Are you using Draculs? I find that life after each kill gives alot of sustain, I use +11. Maybe you need more all res / life / block so you take less damage? I do think azure will give you a boost in damage from the 1sk and the sanc aura. The phys/cold immune unique monsters are the main reason why I use an eth Reaper's Toll on my merc. They are easily dealt with using that.
Also, finish your GCs asap it will be a big help.
Oh oky interesting well i sit on mb and resists are bout 35-75
Light is Max there
Also Draculs didnt have there but ill look to get one of these on GCS im kinda fine atm i mean im sitting there with total of 5 there now so like 2-3 left i think ?
i will be making this build mainly for pvp thats why i was curious if doom better or azuwrath but i just saw u answer someone saying azuwarth is better for MAPS so is it still better in pvp or doom could be the way?
I need small help. Seen this build and got craz about it. Scraped my holy bolter and made your holy freez zealer build. Just 1 question . I gabe my merc templar lvl 8 might chest and it is nit effecting my dmg at all. When i equip or unequip to merc nothing changes with MY dmg??
What am i missing? I also have nice fortitude,so i wonder which armor to use
Your phys dmg is really low in this build, might wont buff you too much i think. Also make sure you are out of town so might aura is actually on you
wow that build
What sword could you use pre lvl 85?
why do the jewels have to be all of the same color when socketed in a particular item?
For aesthetic reasons. Vanity really.
I just got Grisworld Helmet and armor with full sockets..what should I put in it? Thanks
Hello are you still playing? Any idea if this build will work for season 5?
How do you sockect an unique elite item?
Mad...!
Damn! Now I can’t decide if I wanna make a freezadin or dual dream tesladin!! 😩
What would you say the most important item is for the build?
I'm playing SSF with plugy, I have an azurewrath, ormus, snowclash and dracs so far.
Nightwing's veil for sure. Also Offensive skillers provide a big boost, I had at least 5 when I made the switch to this build. Not sure if you have some of those on hand already since you're playing SSF.
thoughts on +3 skills 2 socket Heaven's Light? Cant get my hands on azurath.
It can probably do an OK job. +3 skills is nice. That being said sockets > skills in this build so being limited to 2 is not ideal. Also the attack speed on Heaven's light is very low which hurts.
Have you consider using a doom runeword as a weapon?
very coold build would doom weapon aura stack with urs?
The Doom aura does not stack with your own. I prefer to use my own as opposed to Doom's + resist cold. It does more damage.
@@knivez9326 Even with conviction aura?
So what value you put to that gear for this build value in hr?
its actually kinda funny, i just made doom runeword for my merc a couple of days ago and tought about that the -50%enemy cold res would be sick for a melee cold build and now i see this : D
but without all this gg gear and facits damage is probably only like 15k isch ?
Can you uber with this or is just a little to slow with life leech maybe if you switch to zeal and get higher ar?
I don't recommend this build for Ubers. It's really optimized to do high density maps. I think it can be pretty good against Dclone with some gear changes so stay tuned for my next video.
What about using doom with resist cold aura?
And a act 1 merc with faith and tmight or act 5 with beast
I tried Doom. Using the aura from Doom and then using resist cold on yourself yields much inferior damage compared to this setup. If you use native aura + Doom the damage is also inferior although you get more phys damage in there. The -cold res is nice but overkill in my opinion with all the facets I am using. Also the ias breakpoints for Doom axes are no bueno.
I don't think an act 1 merc would survive being on the frontlines so much. I will revisit the idea of an act5 merc with beast. The question becomes is Fanat really worth it if I am already hitting my ias breakpoints without sacrificing any damage?
Dude! Did I trade you those boots? Also this build is sick I might try and play this
runeword wise which runeword will be better Doom or famine ?
Do you think that in the beginning without cold facets could be viable also?
I swapped to this build before I had the facets. I had a 1os shael'd azurewrath with Ptopaz/um rune in my ormus and nightwing. I had a basic hoz with a Pdiamond. I believe my damage was around 10-15k at that point and yes I'd say it was viable. Maybe I'll throw together some starter gear on a single player character and do a second video showing how it does. Thanks for your comment.
I did abit of digging in some screenshots and some discord conversations and I can confirm that I was doing 13-14k damage without the facets. At that point I believe I also had around -5 all skills on my gear/charms.
@@knivez9326 thank you. I think its really interesting build and it looks really fast mapper.
@@knivez9326 I currently have 14 all skills no facets and i deal 6-7k with charge. damn :D
how i level paladin.
when should i respec.
im new and noob.if u answer my questions, i will be very happy.
thanks.
I recommend leveling as holy bolt. Respec when you have the gear I mention in "starter gear" section of the video and some offensive skiller grand charms (4-5). Cheers.
@@knivez9326 thanks a lot. I hope i will be succesfull. i have one last question. What if i ise zeal instead of charge. Ty for quick reply. Cheers !
@@eru4259 Yeah you can use zeal or charge. Both work and will do alot of damage. All the damage comes from the aura. I use charge when I 1-shot stuff and zeal for anything that requires more hits, for example bosses.
@@knivez9326 is breath of dying works instead of azurewrath ? thanks :)
Nice build! I'm doing the same thing but I got no cold facits
hey can i use zerk doom instead of azuwrath ?im mainly going for max cold damage i dont need santuary aura what do u say is it ok to use doom? please tell me
It is "ok" to use Doom. I advise against it because it is inferior damage compared to the faceted azurewrath for this pure frost build. Your max ias breakpoint will be much more difficult to attain with a zerker. You will apply much less frost damage when attacking slow. See for yourself here : d2.lc/IAS/
@@knivez9326 yeah make sense ty for the reply and may i know how much this build cost you? in HRS?
@@knivez9326 hello knivex looking for a quick reply should i buy 4os lightsabre instead of azuwrath since azurewrath are crazy expansive now and im mainly going to focus on pvp so dont really will face a problem with immunity should i buy lightsabre 4os and use that instead im getting that in fairly cheap price
@@Senpai_something I don't know how the swords compare in PVP. Lightsabre VS. Azurewrath has been discussed in the PD2 discord quite a bit so maybe do some research there using the search feature. A 4os lightsabre with facets will be good for sure if you're willing to invest the facets in it, it's just not optimal. Other cheaper options you can use the Voice of reason runeword or the Lawbringer runeword in a phase blade. Sorry for what this video did to the cost of the items :X
@@knivez9326 ty bro but i changed my mind i will use doom and 2sk HL for my ias bp and Dstrike for pvp
Could this build apply to a cold melee sorc possibly?
that how you break the cold facet market :D
Did you consider doom runeword? How do you think it compares to azurewrath?
I think Azurewrath is better for mapping. I couldn't get as much damage however I used Doom. The ias breakpoints for Doom are a problem too. See my other answer elsewhere in the comments for more details.
Great build funny how everyone keeps asking same questions you have already answer
Would Doom be a good runeword for this build
Infinity for merch? For the aura
What about vengeance or is that gone?
If you just use Charge then why would you put so many stats into Zeal?
You can do what you want with the extra points. You can put them into zeal or charge if you prefer. I prefer zeal because the extra points are mainly used for attack rating bonus. The dmg bonus itself doesn't do much since we're getting all the damage from HF aura. Why more attack rating on zeal rather than charge well I think charge performs fine as it is to clear standard mobs but extra attack rating is useful on bosses and I use zeal to kill bosses.
Do you think this build is pretty much optimized in its current form?
feels like you should use a shaftstop w/ +1 and 2os over the ormus. You have zero dr from what i can tell with this setup. Not to mention you are already overkilling majority of stuff, I think its probably fine to drop some dmg lol.
He is getting 20% of his damage from Ormus, you would probably get half that with Shaftstop and it doesnt seem like survivability is an issue. Would agree for Dclone or ubers though, just for maps it doesnt seem necessary and would slow down kills.
@@Bakerking3 This! plus If I were to add some DR I would start with pieces of gear that don't have facets in them to minimize the impact on my damage. I would probably start with a verdungo's.
wait is this open server? why is there 4 socket azure?
is doom runeword not better as weapon?
Is this a mod? (I'm new to your channel)
Yes, the mod is called Project Diablo 2.
@@knivez9326 Thank you for your reply. Diablo 2 resurrected is about to come out and I'm so excited about it. It would be great if you cover it in your future videos.
do you know if its still viable in s3?
what do you think about doom in this build?
does that even stack?
@@emotionbirnemelisse no the auras are not stacking...but still -40-60 enemy cold res. + 2 skills + nice phys damage
Hi! Thanks for your comment, I've already answered this question if you want to scroll up abit.
Hey why not use a doom?
whats your shader?
Why... this was literally one of the builds that senpai was unaware of. Nice now this will also get half damage nerf... well rip this build once senpai sees. My dragondin does 17k damage in this season with high tier gear, used to be 35k before so expect this to be nerfed to similar damage soon.
Deep.
SIN ERRR GEEZS not SIGN ERR GEEEZ lolol but good video
And they are not Face-it's. They are Facets (FASS-ITS)
ggg build
This gear itself can build a dragondin
LOL cool
Gg
still alive in season 3?
Nope, learned it the hard way
@@joelboivinroy4620 Damn really, I haven't seen any patch notes saying they nerfd holy freeze tho
32k damage and 36k views
no oficial diablo !
Hey Joe can u pls give me ur pde pls
Use doom
Start gear i cheap, shows off gear that is easily worth 30hr XD
cheap build lul
Give me ! File drop item
This mod looks dumb. Just play vanilla d2 or wait for resurrected