The Tesladin - Is this the strongest melee build in Diablo 2? Build Guide 

Jim Bob's Arcade you could only do that if you ran a doom axe as your weapon. You need to run fant or conviction as your main aura. And running doom is a huge damage decrease. It would look cool though.

Jim Bob's Arcade ok - that’s not a Tesladin at that point because you’d have no conviction aura so the lightning damage you’re adding does little to nothing, but you do you buddy. Playing DBs setup with a holy freeze merc, reapers roll and conviction aura on yo pally works well or holy freeze merc with infinity and fant on your pally as it’s aura - but doing what you’re suggesting is a mess of missed breakpoints and unoptimized gear. Not to mention grief is always better than EBOTD in this build because of the raw damage you get out of it and how physical damage translates to life leech - I.e. you don’t need high life leech to have crazy good survivability with a grief so you don’t need dracs - at all. So running the gloves in the video is best in slot. Also, you’d never run a doom on a sorc...you’d run deaths fathom as it’s a huge damage increase with fcr. Sooo not sure what you’re going for there. You can play your version of the builds, but they aren’t efficient in any way really.

Jim Bob's Arcade I went back and read your comment again and I truly don’t think you understand what this build consists of...especially in a PVM capacity.

Jim Bob's Arcade I don’t even play online anymore, but I know 😂 “no one uses grief or enigma” is complete horse shit - you lost me there dude. That’s just not true. Never has been, never will be. Maybe in your circle of online friends. I play on pluggy, so single player with no PvP. But EBOTD in a dimensional blade? Easily the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard considering you can do the same thing in an ethereal zerker axe and have 3x the damage with the same ias if you’re using fant and maybe one frame less if you’re not than you’d have with a grief PB. Again, if you wanna use holy freeze - go for it. But you’re losing out on max efficiency in a Tesladin build. What YOU are describing is a hybrid holy freeze/dual dream zeal build, very similar I suppose but not lightning focused, without the ability to teleport and honestly completely unnecessary and just boring to play. On a side note - D2 is borderline unplayable without using enigma on almost all characters. Sorry to burst your bubble dude. It’s the meta and it has been for 20 years. I don’t know what else to tell you. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it not true.

@Jim Bob's Arcade Except there is a problem with both builds,When you run into packs that are immune to Shock or Cold,And this was an issue even years ago.These were a far more common build for PKer's and invariably these POS would go after players of lower level and one of the biggest reasons and or problems of Diablo II 'Griefers' one of the very few things Diablo III got right is and was the fact Griefing while it has been done in Diablo III when someone found a way to do it that bug was very quickly fixed so the Griefer no longer could do it

You love to see it

I Said the same thing. I started playing again and am experienced the fun times all over again. This time more mature and higher IQ. It's fantastic.

@@Trojanmachine69 Right? I grew up playing diablo 1 and 2 and now I can re-live my childhood fun but with more experience as a gamer. Been loving every minute of D2R

what more surprising is people still theory crafting builds all these years later

While i regret not playing it 20years ago, i was 16 when d2 released, im glad that i did start to play it now... i would have sucked so bad without all the d3 and PoE experience.

Glad you enjoy it!

It's super expensive and nowhere near the strongest melee build. The best melee weapon is crafted or rare with 300 ed 20 ias and fools mod with amp on striking.

1 word: plugymod

@@IveBeenWithBruma what do you use for weapon to craft? and what is that fools mod

@@kosterix123 blood zerker axes and fools is the ar+max damage per level mod.

Super excited about D2R hopefully they release it soon trying to remember as much as possible for the game and watching lots of vids maybe they will let pc play the beta lol im just being impatient

You could stack it on your a3 merc back in the day too

@@skaarm3170 lol curse necro + phoenix and dream

@@harveycardigan3340 yeah agreed. Since this post Ive played project d2 with PlugY and its great. However I'm just starting to lose my patience after not having found anything decent in over 200 Meph runs on my 500mf sorc.. Lol

Glad you like them!

In a month, did you reach this build on a new character or on an existing one?

500% light damage allow easily kill mob packs on sorc, while palain havent that power over fallens :D

Haha you here bro nice 🤟 Didnt know u play d2.

wtf superstitum here lol

Hell yea Super!!

Now we need how Dbrunski smashes d2 vid.

How Dbrunski125 Really plays diablo 2

Dragon fucking owns. If i were DB i would use a Faith, or even a Doom or death.

Sacrifice?

@@dude_8434 yeah. It's very powerful, but you have to have massive LL - life tap on switch is a must. I'd typically life tap, charge in and smite to stun, then destroy the bosses. Very fast, but difficult to use. Especially if you don't get enough leech.

@@jameshaulenbeek5931 since I play Zealot, I've experimented some. Fans is a synergy as you know.. I think I used Doombringer. The damage was good I just didn't have life tap, was using full rejuv potions.

Think while u teleporting, u appears in middle of a bosspack? The one frame can save u

Even with 200 fcr breakpoint you are not save, the teles distance is the important thing, at least in Hardcore.

@Jim Bob's Arcade what the fuck are you going off about

I have tried this two hander yes for farming travincal as a zealer. Its super deadly agreed. Never tried the botd warpike version tho

No it doesn't. If it it did, everyone would do it. For some reason, in this case the +skills from the items only stack with +skills from other items and not with your native skill points. I forgot the exact reasoning for this but I read it somewhere. Although I'm pretty sure it is because it doesn't actually give +points to holy shock. If you read the item description, it actually says "Level 15 Holy Shock Aura When Equipped" instead of +15 to holy shock. So it is a separate instance. If you had holy shock from your own paladin, you technically would have 2 separate holy shock auras equipped, a lvl 30 from the item and your own aura, whatever level it is. Then the way the game handles 2 separate identical auras is the highest level overrides the other one, so if your native aura is above level 30, it would override the item one or vice versa. This is why you need conviction level over level 20 to cancel out Uber Mephisto's Conviction in Uber Tristram, if your conviction is higher than his, only yours counts (since conviction is an aura that affects both the caster and the enemies), or if you have 2 paladins using the same aura, (say for example, fanaticism) only the highest level aura will affect the party

😂 we all do anyway

iz a high rune don't jah kno

This is what I will never understand with these builds. It's unholy expensive. My highest rune drop was Gul...

As a teen and stopped playing I'm 2004ish, highest rune I found was an ist. I got back onto playing in 2018, and dropped a Jah from pindle. Then logging back in every two month so my characters dont get deleted, last week I dropped a cham from a council member in travincal. I love this game so much that I hate it.

@@BZAD1989 It's been a while since I played, but i'm kinda hyped up for the remaster and getting back into it. I used to play a similar build. You don't need all this stuff, but is like the absolute highest end stuff, so you don't even have to put points in Holy Shock because the gear gives it to you. You can easily take a Pally with basic shopable from vendors gear through Normal with holy fire and resist fire build hit around level 35 maybe a few more and respec for Nightmare into Holy shock, resist lightening, and some points in holy shield (damage boost from salvation not worth it, and you can breeze through most og Nightmare with a shopped decent attack speed +3 Holy shock spector. In Hell because it gets so gear dependent a lower cost not very used runeword is Lawbringer (amn, lem, Ko) I think those all can drop from NM countess runs you might have to go up to Hell for Lem but you can def get it from NM forge. This can be put in a 3 HS scepter and does like 200 Fire and Ice damage with high chance to decrepify to slow everything down. This helps with lightening immunes if you have to fight them sometimes it's best to just use vigor and run by in Hell difficulty. Also Lawbringer has sanc aura which melts undead monsters. But with this set up you can def run NM Meph and NM and Hell Andy to get Hell level gear. Cheap runewords anyone can make with countess rune for body would be Smoke or Stealth. Rhyme, Ancient's pledge, or spirit in a All res pally shield, rhyme is probably the best until you find another source of Cannot be frozen because that sucks on a melee to try and do without. You can do Lore or Nadir in a helm, but i don't think they're that good. You might just want a 3 socket help with P topaz for MF or some basic runes in whatever your lowest resistance is. Or if you don't like the Holy Shock Pally you can always respec to hammerdin, zealot, or smiter once the difficulty really starts to ramp up in A3 hell (fuck ton of lightening immunes.) Sorry for the monster post i'm exciting to play, but did not get picked for alpha. Take care.

ye that was the normal auradin i think that has been fixed tho

shingami sorc (dual dream sorc) has much more survival and dmg.

Good idea, I think i'm gonna try this one with the self cast holy shock. I got all other gear for it witch is not the case otherwise... I miss the 2x dream :(

@delosombres not even close. Conviction makes lightning better than phys in dual dreamers case (convictions breaks every lit immune in the game afaik). My single player barb with double grief forti highlord laying of hands etc. does not even come close. And the pally has more versatility with weapon choice and setups.

Yes, self cast Holy Shock was an idea too, and it really depended on the rarity of high tier runes. Basically on the forums back then, people say that the build with 2x Dream were so expensive that you might as well push further and get a top tier Holy Shock build. I imagine with the current Plugy meta, Dream might be easier to get than before and you can't always trade for the facets you want in single player.

@@90Rush I play vanilla sp with ladder runewords enabled and a muling tool. I mainly farm travs with a ww barb, mostly for runes, but I run 150ish mf. With that I'm drowning in facets, yet I haven't found a single Jah. I could cube to one, but that would be insane. Overall I think hs is way more affordable (unless if you are humanly capable of LK farming... I'm not).

@delosombres at that point I rather do a 2handed Death zerker for a fraction of the price... and still the dreamer can go afk in p8 wsk while you have a coffee...

1.14d changed nothing from a gameplay or balance point of view so you're safe.

Since he is splitting physical and lightning damage cresent because of lack of stats vs. grief is a loss. However, if you run a max plus skills build and self cast Holy shock cresent is huge. That, griffins with a facet, and either 4/8 facets between shield and armor can boost your lightning to near lit sorc levels. You will not only break every immune (I think) everyone will be at or near the -100 res cap. And you do that damage 5x with one zeal. You may need a blessed aim merc however, since you want either 3 offensive or 2/2 seraphs ammy so you cant angelic plus raven.

static field procs would be amazing on it

Gumdrops losing tele from enigma is too much of a loss. Can’t do it.

Dragon on merc is very weak. Level 14 aura without synergies is only about ~80 fire damage per hit. The only reason Dreams work so well on Paladin is because they both stack to make a level 30 aura and then the synergies from Lightning Res and Salvation boost the damage higher.

@@CeramicWeasel ye and all the - ress conviction gives + all your melee dmg multipliers and so on, these 80 fire dmg transform into roughly 5 k on a doubble dream bear sorc with enchant and firemastery its even higher, like much higher, and since you nearly deal NO physical dmg on a dreamer (compared to a zealer or smiter) i think dragon profits you much more, since you then can wear CoH or maybe Forty on your own. I mean you deal such ridiculus Damageamounts, that if the melee damage of your merc dropps you simply don't care, short said, Dragon on Merc is worth it.

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