I have just returned to playing D2, 20 years after having first played it and 15 years after having last played it. This is actually what I was looking for. No ladder, no infinity, no grief, etc.Things you can attain in SSF play. Keep it up!
I just went back playing d2, created a zeal pal. Still low level but this is exactly what I intend to do, make it through hell with all the junks I can piece together. Nice vid man, love it.
I'd max sacrifice before defiance. You'll feel the damage increase much more than defense. Consider lacerator on switch for more reliable source of amp... Not that hard to find. Also, you want to get your life steal above 10% on a zealer for survivability, consider crescent moon as ammy and replace the mana leech ring with dwarf star to survive fire attacks, or a second raven frost for AR.
Really Lacerator “not hard to find”. Started my PlugY in February this year. Been playing consistently with several magic find builds. Found only 2 of them in 5 months. Law Bringer much easier to obtain and also excellent way of dealing with PI monsters.
My first one was messed up. First ever was Barb in demo. In full game I got paladin with thorn aura, redemption and vengeance. Zealot was probably my second character, when I learned a little bit about game, but still messed up probably. :D It was great times, when you could'nt re-make your character with Atma.
Lawbringer pb for immunes would be cheap and op. I've actually used it as a primary to get a smiter through hell. It would free your amulet slot while reducing your mercenary reliance as well. Nice video.
Actually ran a zealer back in the day and, with Resurrected coming in a couple of days, I'm glad you made this video. The thing I like about it is the versatility. You have a great approach to items but you can play jazz with it, which is why I liked the class and the direction of zeal vs other things. It's fun and challenging and I look forward to playing it again soon.
Liked it before it loaded up. Please don't stop making these shorter vids Db, i don't have the bandwidth to watch the stream for long unfortunately, so i really appreciate these. Looking at the comments i would love to see budget builds and more ironman/self found style gaming. A lot of us play single player or with friends like this. Thanks. Started ladder the other day, and at lvl 73 on my way to unlocking hell Meph in the Durance of Hate on my sorc, i dropped a Ber rune, i couldn't effin believe it! Still never dropped a Gheed's or SoJ........my Diablo 2 nemesis.
9:04 The indestructible effect is useful since zeal will take a lot of durability from your weapon, thus you spend more gold and the weapon could break while fighting, So indestructible is indeed useful.
I know this is an old video but im horsing around on a zealot in pd2 finally and came here for a nice look at a first setup, super helpful. love all your videos man, keep up the good work.
I just completed hell on my singleplayer zealer. I put 5 points in sanctuary because it's great CC and it breaks physical immunity on undead. The vast majority of the PI monsters are undead so it was almost never an issue.
Can also do lawbringer in a fast base. 3 os phase is not too bad to find, plus you can cube recipe normal ones. Even just on a cs or dbalde to then switch back to your choice of weapons. It also gives decrepify procs, with a decent chance considering how often you hit.
I can prolly still keep going but it's too easy to die. I got draculs, areats face, some orange armour that I cannot remember. IK gloves, IK belt, 2 baranas stars or whatever they are called. raven frost and another 100+ attac rating ring with resists and i think mana leach or life leach. hmmm bootsI dont remember what I'm using. prolly war travelers. Resists is the name of the game. too easy to die to elemental. Anyway, lightning archers from harem fuck me up, as well as ghosts from arcane sanctuary just because they fuck up my mana and are phys immune. for them i have IK maul on switch and that skill that transforms phys to magic damage
For my p8 solo zealer i ended up picking up a 4 socket eth small crescent on the way to countess and made the oath runeword, it was a really big pickup. Id consider thundergods vigor for the big lightning absorb and also dwarfstar as suggested by some others. Demon limb on switch for high lvl enchant?
Hi Debrunski, the "caster classes" such as Javas, Trapsin, Hammerdin and so on are quite easy to budget build. With Lore, Vipermagi, Spirit to name only a few powerfull items for very strong builds. So i would like to see you making budget Bowazon. Great video. I totally love your work. GL to your holy grail project. I am missing 13 Items, including tyreals....
This is a fair selection of what would be called budget gear. Somethings I would change but thats my own secret recipe in my zealer builds. Good video over all 👍
Nice video , as usual . I'm sure on your streams this has been explained but one thing I'd mention when talking about the raven frost's cannot be frozen mod would be the link between cold damage vs cold aura . I remember being frustrated with that as a new player way back when .
Don’t underestimate smoke (nef lum) body armour as well. I’m using it on my zealer and goddamn it’s awesome, I prefer it over my fortitude actually and helps me farm the shit outta act 3-5 no issues at player 3 setting. Sp self found gear on plugy for the people who may question.
Hey Dbruski. Watching all your videos again as I am so hyped for resurected! I will probably level a paladin with my pals and play sorc solo. Is there any actual reason to play zealot when I have a functional MF bliz sorc? Or should I respec my pala to become a smiter once I hit endgame?
Privet! Thanks for great video bro. I think you could save your Merc at last if you move a little bit up and Diablo change direction of his fire so Merc can goon stab his back :)
@@chrisp2757 what I am getting at is using gear that has since been replaced with runewords but at one time was elite. I aware that alot of good gear is post 08
Are you referring to GAngel? Because Templars Might didn’t exist in .08 You could say TMight is budget because nobody use it, but it’s unique sacred armor. Doesn’t drop every day.
Nice little build and nicely put together gear. The set up would work for any budget melee build obviously I would switch duress for Treachery if I wasn't a pala fanaticism or assassin with burst of speed to keep the attack speed levels up.
nice build, really like the budget videos. the upped butchers and paly sanctuary are pretty clutch, nice use of the atmas as well. another even more budget option for shield would be a paly rhyme if a mal isn't found soon enough. im a huge fan of duress on melee too :D im wondering how you got enough str to use the non eth bonehew on your merc... i usually need to buff his str with another piece of equipment or blow a hel rune in one of the bonehew sockets to achieve this. to get around a little quicker without enigma, you could use a harmony on switch or spec into vigor for a couple points.
Lawbringer on switch for physical immunes with the Decrepify proc works like a charm. Azurewrath too in the same vein with high elemental damage instead
Just an idea hear for your basis of "budget": I'm a new player of Diablo 2. I'm playing single player with plugy. My first toon was a zealer. I got through normal and nighmare without issue, but I can't really progress in Hell. I can't twink my toon because I've never finished hell. I ended up making a summon necro and I'm currently at Act II hell. I think a good basis for "budget" might be a hell viable toon using gear attainable by farming nightmare. If that is even possible. I've been farming Andariel (hell) trying to gear up my necro, but as a farming toon he's very slow. At this point I'm not sure I could really farm Act III or even get through IV and V. For now I'm satisfied because it's slow or no. Anyway, I do truly enjoy your videos and thanks for all the content!!
Great build, very useful for beginners also many other players will try that at ladder start. Its really nice to see an actual working equip with high performance for small value. Good stuff Db, keep it on! A budget kick Assassin would be pretty cool, also i would like to see pretty much all working hybrid/dual builds :-) greetz^^
way too expensive so call budget. tasls guardian, i cant get a mal 4 cheap ... let alone a oth or both these guys are too rich they forgot what poor means.
drop the pupil in favor of a lawbringer runeword. get a decrep proc, sanc aura and some other awesome goodies too. Can then switch out the atma's for something a bit more budget.
Oh another question for you, have you ever used Stormlash on Zealer? Looks cool, but is super difficult to find. Wonder how the damage stacks up against other zealer weapons.
Nice video! I like your "budget stuff" videos, really useful. Keep it up man! PS. What is necessary to do as cold sorceress to defeat Uber Diablo clone when it spawns? I simply can't stop his regeneration, and mercenary can't stand 2 seconds before it...
Veljko Jankovic what you want to do is max blizzard and cold mastery, and use marrowwalk for life tap for keeping your merc alive, while also keeping him out of the way of firestorm, other than that, oh wait also try put a weapon that does poison damage or pmh on your merc, other than that just don’t die and you should kill him
@@starhunter2770 Thanks man! I am currently lvl 85, not so rich with items, what I think that I can afford in this moment is Reaper Tool+Treachery+Guillaume's Face for mercenary. Is that ok, or should I look for something else? And just to ask beside, I heard that cold mastery has some limit above which its useless to spend ability points on it? Do you have any info about that?
Veljko Jankovic when using cold mastery there is a recommenced limit which would in most cases be lvl 17 I think for -100%. Since dclone has around 90 all res, and I’m assuming you don’t have infinity, you want to bring that down as much as you can hence maxing cold mastery. When it comes to your merc, I would recommend insight for the weapon as it is very cheap and does poison damage. If you still can’t seem to beat him then an easy way to get your anni is seal trick him in CS,
Veljko Jankovic glad it worked out for you, an easy way to spawn dclone would be leaving Diablo running at night so in the morning when you wake up, he’s probably spawned, I’ve gotten around 5 by doing that
You should have socketed the weapon with a Shael and helm with a plain 15 IAS jewel because with that setup, you have plenty of FHR. A Shael and 15 IAS jewel are also cheap. You can keep a Spirit sword and shield on switch for a Holy Shield buff. You could also use a different mercenary like the one in Act 5. You can make a Lawbringer in a legend sword to have a nice Decrepify proc plus it's cheap to make. The Act 5 mercenary will have good attack speed paired with the Treachery and Tal Rasha's helm with a 15 IAS jewel socketed. Those three sockets would use up all the quests but would be worth it since the build isn't expensive. The only thing you would need to change is your current amulet since you can only have one of the two curses proc'd. A nice unique amulet to replace Atma's would be The Cat's Eye. You could also keep the Act 2 mercenary and use a Lawbringer phase blade.
Raven frost is good. Also use angelic ring and amulet to pair with it for a mass attack rating bonus. You can land hits on baal more and put those laying of hands gloves to good use.
What would you socket on Butchers Pupil? And have you considered Fleshrender? It's basically the same weapon, little less DS, but 20CB. Little slow but a sheal woulf do it I guess?
My favourite build! I confirm that Atma ammy works greatly with my low-medium budget 89 zealot. It procs almost in every pull shotting down boss and minions (my dmg is 1k-1,5k with 3socket Gris caddys) and ignoring PI, so i don’t need Azurewrath or switching to Vengeance. I use insight on my merc to refill mana vs enemy with Cons Mana and Baal. I clear Pit PL5 in less than 10 min and Baal PL1 in about 20min. MF 200% Merc MF 300%
I have a question. Whenever I see guides people always mention max block when it comes to dex. How is it with attack raring? Is that not a factor to take into account? Or does it simply solve itself before reaching max block? Thanks
I was using an upped headstriker which was good on players 2 up until about act 5 when the damage fell off. Couldn't find a deaths pupil to up but I can see the damage is significatly better. I also use pally spirit since those aren't too hard to find. Spirit is so much cheaper than sanctuary and I don't feel like you get a ton for the increased rune cost.. I never thought about using treachery on the merc, i like that one for the IAS will need to try it. But for merc weapon I usually just have a ton of non eth insights laying around, and they do fine. Sweet video though. I know the Act 2 merc is the standard, but have you ever tried a zealer build with an Act 1 merc? Curious to see if that works.
My budget Zealot: Vamp Gaze Gloom AP Verdungo Gore Rider/Goblin Toe RavenFrost/BloodRing BloodAmulet/Gloves Sanctuary KurastShield Weapons: LightSaber, Uppd HeadStriker+Shael, Crescent Moon, Uppd Butchers Pupil, Razors Edge, RuneMaster,KingSlayer.... Alot of decent options for this guy
Dbrunski, where can I find 3 sox armor to make duress? It it possible to drop it on nightmare? I am barely making it with cows on nightmare. Can it be any kind of grey armor with 3 sox?
Have you tried with grief or oath?? The are many dangerous areas for this build, even the are zombies and demons with physical inmunities that makes them so annoying
Great video I'm basically running the same in Resurrected returning after 15 years, whatever I can pick up. So far the best item I picked up was a Ward shield (47 all Res) lvl 32 normal. Wouldn't one point in vengeance help with the physical immunes?
I dunno about the upped butchers pupil. For lower runes you could make a Lawbringer which is better in every way. You dont even need to hunt for a good base, just pop it in a mythical sword. Crescent Moon is also only slightly more expensive.
Sacrifice synergy provides a greater damage increase than zeal itself. I would max sac and limit zeal if anything A couple skillpoints worth of AR bonus from zeal (given your rocking 4.5k)can be matched by a single charm. Maybe two Bugged out blessed aim merc could easily make up the difference
budget but powerful :D i agree with u not taking Highlord and HoZ, maybe if u take on physical imune Dragonshield-Tiamat+ Pb-Lightsaber could be an idea? Since u hit often, PB =no dura, and a lot of magic dmg (even a bit from the shield), we could even use 1 Larzuk q on the shield for a PDia for some res, just a quick tought of mine :D Still nice vid i never had a zealot, still a Char i want to try
Hard points are the ones you allocate by yourself commiting a skill point by clicking into it, soft points are the ones you get from your equipment, charms etc, for example +1 to all skill points from "the spirit" sword or +1 to paladin skills from the large charms AKA SKILLERS.
Atmas is legit best in slot for most PVM melee builds and no one ever talks about it. For the zealer its pretty mandatory because the merc often gets left behind/distracted/stuck/placed in strange places when charging so relying on him to break physical immunes is garbage.
I agree, you see it in the gameplay. I get a little annoyed when he ignores all the one point wonder skills (cleansing, vigor, redemption, salvation, etc.). Sparing a few points from defiance or fanaticism won't kill the build.
cleansing is excellent to wear off all those annoying amplify damage curses and cure from agresive poisons like radamanthis or Andariel by a little moment
I did a self found zealot but I did holy frost, then when I found Hoz and Lo rune I respecced into fanat. Holy frost was great to get me through hell, use crushing blow from goblintoe and guillames to deal with cold immunes.
What advice would you have for using a conc Barb who has to find his own gear in hardcore single player? I've got him to act two NM pretty easily but now his damage feels kinda puny. He's using Spears only, it's a themed build.
I once was in a group with a paladin who didn't have an attack animation (just holding sword into mob with perma leech), because it appeared he had such high IAS. Does anyone know how that's possible?
great video Dbrunski ! I didnt think you would make it through the chaos sanctuary to be honest !! Glad to see you shredding all those demons with this (very low) budget zealer :) Trivia for those interested : Have you played what i consider the best days/version/era of Diablo 2 ? If so, what color was Arreat's face in this era ? :)
Just found an azurewrath... Can I fit this in the build or nah? Seems underwhelming or a weapon. Over my 17+ years of Diablo 2, I've never used it. O_o For zealer perhaps? idk...
I have just returned to playing D2, 20 years after having first played it and 15 years after having last played it. This is actually what I was looking for. No ladder, no infinity, no grief, etc.Things you can attain in SSF play. Keep it up!
Just install plugy
Infinity, Grief etc are very much attainable on SSF. Infinity takes about 10-20hrs of LK runs.
@@erikmalmberg1295 I'm a hardcore D2 player and I'd rather stab my nuts than do 20 hours of LK.
You know it’s a good video when you been playing this game since 2001 and watch a 24 min budget build video , lol! Awesome video buddy!
I just went back playing d2, created a zeal pal. Still low level but this is exactly what I intend to do, make it through hell with all the junks I can piece together. Nice vid man, love it.
Good luck!
I'm a simple man, I wake up, see a Dbrunski125 video and then delay my day until after I watch it, keep up the great content man!
I'd max sacrifice before defiance. You'll feel the damage increase much more than defense. Consider lacerator on switch for more reliable source of amp... Not that hard to find. Also, you want to get your life steal above 10% on a zealer for survivability, consider crescent moon as ammy and replace the mana leech ring with dwarf star to survive fire attacks, or a second raven frost for AR.
Lacerator might outperform upped Butchers.
I found a demons Arch with 12 life leech and the elemental damage is nothing to frown at. Repairs itself too!
Lacerator is far from budged, you dumbass!
Really Lacerator “not hard to find”. Started my PlugY in February this year. Been playing consistently with several magic find builds. Found only 2 of them in 5 months. Law Bringer much easier to obtain and also excellent way of dealing with PI monsters.
Real world character. Very useful for those of us that don't do d2 for a living
Finally a zealot! My first character:) First one;)
Mine 2 !
same here :)
the first one I ever beat the game with. but my heart will always lie with the necromancer.
My first one was messed up. First ever was Barb in demo. In full game I got paladin with thorn aura, redemption and vengeance. Zealot was probably my second character, when I learned a little bit about game, but still messed up probably. :D It was great times, when you could'nt re-make your character with Atma.
I still have the save files for my Diablo 2 release day zealot.
It's crazy he's almost 20 years old now, I should probably farm him a birthday present
Great choice for budget! Without any charms or attributes in inv! You make good very interesting vids! Thx!!!!
Lawbringer pb for immunes would be cheap and op. I've actually used it as a primary to get a smiter through hell. It would free your amulet slot while reducing your mercenary reliance as well. Nice video.
Actually ran a zealer back in the day and, with Resurrected coming in a couple of days, I'm glad you made this video. The thing I like about it is the versatility. You have a great approach to items but you can play jazz with it, which is why I liked the class and the direction of zeal vs other things. It's fun and challenging and I look forward to playing it again soon.
Is it able to at least clear ACT 5 as Well?
Just remembering the time, when running CS with a melee-char was kinda suicide mission.
and do you remember iron maiden curse, before they withdrawn it? ^^
@@maegeaR multi lightning in act 5>iron maiden before both were romoved hehe
@@maegeaR I used to never understand why I was dying so easy in CS before realizing iron maiden existed
Iron Maiden in CS and at Baal was great fun! I actually miss it.
Iron Maiden days, never forget. Harsh era.
Liked it before it loaded up. Please don't stop making these shorter vids Db, i don't have the bandwidth to watch the stream for long unfortunately, so i really appreciate these. Looking at the comments i would love to see budget builds and more ironman/self found style gaming. A lot of us play single player or with friends like this. Thanks.
Started ladder the other day, and at lvl 73 on my way to unlocking hell Meph in the Durance of Hate on my sorc, i dropped a Ber rune, i couldn't effin believe it!
Still never dropped a Gheed's or SoJ........my Diablo 2 nemesis.
9:04 The indestructible effect is useful since zeal will take a lot of durability from your weapon, thus you spend more gold and the weapon could break while fighting, So indestructible is indeed useful.
I know this is an old video but im horsing around on a zealot in pd2 finally and came here for a nice look at a first setup, super helpful. love all your videos man, keep up the good work.
I just completed hell on my singleplayer zealer. I put 5 points in sanctuary because it's great CC and it breaks physical immunity on undead. The vast majority of the PI monsters are undead so it was almost never an issue.
Can also do lawbringer in a fast base. 3 os phase is not too bad to find, plus you can cube recipe normal ones. Even just on a cs or dbalde to then switch back to your choice of weapons. It also gives decrepify procs, with a decent chance considering how often you hit.
Love these types of realistic or even ladder reset type builds! Thanks!
more to come :)
Used to play d2 when it was released. Started to play again week ago. Zeal palladin.
Got gloves and a sash. I'll keep on working. :)
Zealer is my favourite, used to play GM ZVZ duels. I like playing budget builds in walk throughs. Still have a pro zealer on an account somewhere.
I'm running a frenzy Barbar at the moment, and now I'm rethinking life..
Nice budget example for sure.
I hit a wall on hell act 2 with barb
I can prolly still keep going but it's too easy to die. I got draculs, areats face, some orange armour that I cannot remember. IK gloves, IK belt, 2 baranas stars or whatever they are called. raven frost and another 100+ attac rating ring with resists and i think mana leach or life leach. hmmm bootsI dont remember what I'm using. prolly war travelers. Resists is the name of the game. too easy to die to elemental.
Anyway, lightning archers from harem fuck me up, as well as ghosts from arcane sanctuary just because they fuck up my mana and are phys immune. for them i have IK maul on switch and that skill that transforms phys to magic damage
For my p8 solo zealer i ended up picking up a 4 socket eth small crescent on the way to countess and made the oath runeword, it was a really big pickup. Id consider thundergods vigor for the big lightning absorb and also dwarfstar as suggested by some others. Demon limb on switch for high lvl enchant?
What's your take on Aldur wep as a budget choice?
It's OK I loaded it with + Max Damage jewels
Hi Debrunski, the "caster classes" such as Javas, Trapsin, Hammerdin and so on are quite easy to budget build. With Lore, Vipermagi, Spirit to name only a few powerfull items for very strong builds. So i would like to see you making budget Bowazon. Great video. I totally love your work. GL to your holy grail project. I am missing 13 Items, including tyreals....
Sanctuary is nice cause the 20dex eases your block chance req so you can put more in vit.
Once you can make a grief - stuff melts! 👍
can you do concentrate barb ? not only budget
Great video as always. You prefer my favourite (and probably one of most underrated) weapon also. Thank you.
I remember old Times with the iron maiden debuff in cs^^
Getting IM in the middle of a whirlwind was always fun! :D
A friend was running me through it in Softcore (i think on Nightmare) with his lvl98 Zealer and lost about a month's xp to that
This is a fair selection of what would be called budget gear. Somethings I would change but thats my own secret recipe in my zealer builds. Good video over all 👍
nice vid. keep the budget builds coming
Nice video , as usual . I'm sure on your streams this has been explained but one thing I'd mention when talking about the raven frost's cannot be frozen mod would be the link between cold damage vs cold aura . I remember being frustrated with that as a new player way back when .
Don’t underestimate smoke (nef lum) body armour as well. I’m using it on my zealer and goddamn it’s awesome, I prefer it over my fortitude actually and helps me farm the shit outta act 3-5 no issues at player 3 setting. Sp self found gear on plugy for the people who may question.
Trevor r I’m kinda confused here. Isn’t fort far superior than smoke?
Hey Dbruski. Watching all your videos again as I am so hyped for resurected! I will probably level a paladin with my pals and play sorc solo. Is there any actual reason to play zealot when I have a functional MF bliz sorc? Or should I respec my pala to become a smiter once I hit endgame?
Appreciate this video. Very well explained and well spoken, got a new sub from me.
Privet! Thanks for great video bro. I think you could save your Merc at last if you move a little bit up and Diablo change direction of his fire so Merc can goon stab his back :)
This is still my main build as a Paladin. Many players are just playing as a Paladin using Blessing Hammer.
Since this is a budget build, you should be utilizing the x3 socket quests you get with the character and use Gems/Mid runes on your budget items.
i think making a character using no runewords like .08 days would be really neat to see. using classic gear like templar's might, grandfather, etc..
Templars might is a 1.10 and later item
@@chrisp2757 what I am getting at is using gear that has since been replaced with runewords but at one time was elite. I aware that alot of good gear is post 08
Are you referring to GAngel? Because Templars Might didn’t exist in .08
You could say TMight is budget because nobody use it, but it’s unique sacred armor. Doesn’t drop every day.
There is still a non-expansion ladder. Just play on hardcore ladder non-expansion and you will find all sorts of cool old school stuff.
Nice little build and nicely put together gear. The set up would work for any budget melee build obviously I would switch duress for Treachery if I wasn't a pala fanaticism or assassin with burst of speed to keep the attack speed levels up.
nice build, really like the budget videos. the upped butchers and paly sanctuary are pretty clutch, nice use of the atmas as well. another even more budget option for shield would be a paly rhyme if a mal isn't found soon enough. im a huge fan of duress on melee too :D
im wondering how you got enough str to use the non eth bonehew on your merc... i usually need to buff his str with another piece of equipment or blow a hel rune in one of the bonehew sockets to achieve this.
to get around a little quicker without enigma, you could use a harmony on switch or spec into vigor for a couple points.
Can't you buy Blue Magic Wands from Vendors that have Decrepify or Amplify Damage Charges on them? You could put that on your Switch Set easily.
amplify charges is a 1.08 item decrepify is still spawnable i think though,
@@tonytyla8786 decrepify charge wands have never existed
Life Tap and Lower Resistance only, but no amp or decrep, sadly.
classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/magic/chargedsuffixes.shtml
Lawbringer on switch for physical immunes with the Decrepify proc works like a charm. Azurewrath too in the same vein with high elemental damage instead
Personally i like holy shock for budget zealing purposes - crescent moon pb is super powerful and cheap.
Just an idea hear for your basis of "budget": I'm a new player of Diablo 2. I'm playing single player with plugy. My first toon was a zealer. I got through normal and nighmare without issue, but I can't really progress in Hell. I can't twink my toon because I've never finished hell. I ended up making a summon necro and I'm currently at Act II hell. I think a good basis for "budget" might be a hell viable toon using gear attainable by farming nightmare. If that is even possible. I've been farming Andariel (hell) trying to gear up my necro, but as a farming toon he's very slow. At this point I'm not sure I could really farm Act III or even get through IV and V. For now I'm satisfied because it's slow or no. Anyway, I do truly enjoy your videos and thanks for all the content!!
Great build, very useful for beginners also many other players will try that at ladder start. Its really nice to see an actual working equip with high performance for small value. Good stuff Db, keep it on! A budget kick Assassin would be pretty cool, also i would like to see pretty much all working hybrid/dual builds :-)
greetz^^
way too expensive so call budget. tasls guardian, i cant get a mal 4 cheap ... let alone a oth or both these guys are too rich they forgot what poor means.
drop the pupil in favor of a lawbringer runeword. get a decrep proc, sanc aura and some other awesome goodies too. Can then switch out the atma's for something a bit more budget.
Oh another question for you, have you ever used Stormlash on Zealer? Looks cool, but is super difficult to find. Wonder how the damage stacks up against other zealer weapons.
Nice video! I like your "budget stuff" videos, really useful. Keep it up man!
PS. What is necessary to do as cold sorceress to defeat Uber Diablo clone when it spawns? I simply can't stop his regeneration, and mercenary can't stand 2 seconds before it...
Veljko Jankovic what you want to do is max blizzard and cold mastery, and use marrowwalk for life tap for keeping your merc alive, while also keeping him out of the way of firestorm, other than that, oh wait also try put a weapon that does poison damage or pmh on your merc, other than that just don’t die and you should kill him
@@starhunter2770 Thanks man! I am currently lvl 85, not so rich with items, what I think that I can afford in this moment is Reaper Tool+Treachery+Guillaume's Face for mercenary. Is that ok, or should I look for something else? And just to ask beside, I heard that cold mastery has some limit above which its useless to spend ability points on it? Do you have any info about that?
Veljko Jankovic when using cold mastery there is a recommenced limit which would in most cases be lvl 17 I think for -100%. Since dclone has around 90 all res, and I’m assuming you don’t have infinity, you want to bring that down as much as you can hence maxing cold mastery. When it comes to your merc, I would recommend insight for the weapon as it is very cheap and does poison damage. If you still can’t seem to beat him then an easy way to get your anni is seal trick him in CS,
@@starhunter2770 Big thanks man, that CS trick is crazy! :) Now only to learn how to spawn Uber more frequently and I am fine. :)
Veljko Jankovic glad it worked out for you, an easy way to spawn dclone would be leaving Diablo running at night so in the morning when you wake up, he’s probably spawned, I’ve gotten around 5 by doing that
"Heaven's Light" Mighty Scepter is pretty damn good.
You should have socketed the weapon with a Shael and helm with a plain 15 IAS jewel because with that setup, you have plenty of FHR. A Shael and 15 IAS jewel are also cheap. You can keep a Spirit sword and shield on switch for a Holy Shield buff. You could also use a different mercenary like the one in Act 5. You can make a Lawbringer in a legend sword to have a nice Decrepify proc plus it's cheap to make. The Act 5 mercenary will have good attack speed paired with the Treachery and Tal Rasha's helm with a 15 IAS jewel socketed. Those three sockets would use up all the quests but would be worth it since the build isn't expensive. The only thing you would need to change is your current amulet since you can only have one of the two curses proc'd. A nice unique amulet to replace Atma's would be The Cat's Eye. You could also keep the Act 2 mercenary and use a Lawbringer phase blade.
Will this build work for other than chaos sanctuary or would you suggest different points allocation? Thanks. Love the videos
Whats butchers pupil compared to lightsabre?
It would be so cool if Blizzard hires you for advice on upcoming Diablo projects.
Raven frost is good. Also use angelic ring and amulet to pair with it for a mass attack rating bonus. You can land hits on baal more and put those laying of hands gloves to good use.
What would you socket on Butchers Pupil? And have you considered Fleshrender? It's basically the same weapon, little less DS, but 20CB. Little slow but a sheal woulf do it I guess?
My favourite build!
I confirm that Atma ammy works greatly with my low-medium budget 89 zealot. It procs almost in every pull shotting down boss and minions (my dmg is 1k-1,5k with 3socket Gris caddys) and ignoring PI, so i don’t need Azurewrath or switching to Vengeance.
I use insight on my merc to refill mana vs enemy with Cons Mana and Baal.
I clear Pit PL5 in less than 10 min and Baal PL1 in about 20min.
MF 200%
Merc MF 300%
hey, what gear do you have?
I have a question. Whenever I see guides people always mention max block when it comes to dex. How is it with attack raring? Is that not a factor to take into account? Or does it simply solve itself before reaching max block? Thanks
I was using an upped headstriker which was good on players 2 up until about act 5 when the damage fell off. Couldn't find a deaths pupil to up but I can see the damage is significatly better. I also use pally spirit since those aren't too hard to find. Spirit is so much cheaper than sanctuary and I don't feel like you get a ton for the increased rune cost.. I never thought about using treachery on the merc, i like that one for the IAS will need to try it. But for merc weapon I usually just have a ton of non eth insights laying around, and they do fine. Sweet video though. I know the Act 2 merc is the standard, but have you ever tried a zealer build with an Act 1 merc? Curious to see if that works.
My budget Zealot:
Vamp Gaze
Gloom AP
Verdungo
Gore Rider/Goblin Toe
RavenFrost/BloodRing
BloodAmulet/Gloves
Sanctuary KurastShield
Weapons: LightSaber, Uppd HeadStriker+Shael,
Crescent Moon, Uppd Butchers Pupil, Razors Edge, RuneMaster,KingSlayer....
Alot of decent options for this guy
What do you think about the holy freeze zealer, brother?
are you playing you videos on mode battlenet????}
I'd love to see a budget frenzy barb build. With something like lawbringer in the offhand and a cheap main hand weapon.
Nice build. You can use conversion against Infector. Makes it a lot easier
Dbrunski, where can I find 3 sox armor to make duress? It it possible to drop it on nightmare? I am barely making it with cows on nightmare. Can it be any kind of grey armor with 3 sox?
Have you tried with grief or oath?? The are many dangerous areas for this build, even the are zombies and demons with physical inmunities that makes them so annoying
But you can get a hoz for man but I do appreciate the content keeping the community alive
Sir where to find those items im in hell mode for sc and i keep on dying. Please help
i have the same problem. dont want to use my respec in nightmare to go hammerdin for grinding out hell
Great video I'm basically running the same in Resurrected returning after 15 years, whatever I can pick up. So far the best item I picked up was a Ward shield (47 all Res) lvl 32 normal. Wouldn't one point in vengeance help with the physical immunes?
I dunno about the upped butchers pupil. For lower runes you could make a Lawbringer which is better in every way. You dont even need to hunt for a good base, just pop it in a mythical sword. Crescent Moon is also only slightly more expensive.
Why dont you pick up large charms?
Budget lighting sorceress would be interesting
Impossible without infinity
Yea gonna have to agree. Budget light doesnt exist. Budget cold is good tho.
Sacrifice synergy provides a greater damage increase than zeal itself. I would max sac and limit zeal if anything
A couple skillpoints worth of AR bonus from zeal (given your rocking 4.5k)can be matched by a single charm. Maybe two
Bugged out blessed aim merc could easily make up the difference
could a decent replacement for perfect butchers pupil be a runemaster with 3x shael and 2 amn?
Solid zeal build dude!
budget but powerful :D
i agree with u not taking Highlord and HoZ,
maybe if u take on physical imune Dragonshield-Tiamat+ Pb-Lightsaber could be an idea? Since u hit often, PB =no dura, and a lot of magic dmg (even a bit from the shield), we could even use 1 Larzuk q on the shield for a PDia for some res, just a quick tought of mine :D
Still nice vid i never had a zealot, still a Char i want to try
how do u Up a weapon. i started playing d2 again and trying to learn it properly.
Hello i need some help here, is there a counter to count my runs for me? Please help im losing my mind counting by my self 😁
Why count? Just go for it
You can do it with a timer bro... if you know the average time of a single run
nice this was cool to watch, I just got back into my paladin cause I found a schaefer's and hammerdin was boring me. Thanks for the tips
I really hope in D2R they make it so single player can use ladder items. Single player has really been growing on me since I downloaded plugy.
now u can
Just curious, what is the difference between a Hard point and a Soft point or regular point?
Hard points are the ones you allocate by yourself commiting a skill point by clicking into it, soft points are the ones you get from your equipment, charms etc, for example +1 to all skill points from "the spirit" sword or +1 to paladin skills from the large charms AKA SKILLERS.
Ladder reset was June 5th right so in 2 days?
Atmas is legit best in slot for most PVM melee builds and no one ever talks about it. For the zealer its pretty mandatory because the merc often gets left behind/distracted/stuck/placed in strange places when charging so relying on him to break physical immunes is garbage.
i feel cleansing aura is a must when facing strong monsters on a budget build
I agree, you see it in the gameplay. I get a little annoyed when he ignores all the one point wonder skills (cleansing, vigor, redemption, salvation, etc.). Sparing a few points from defiance or fanaticism won't kill the build.
cleansing is excellent to wear off all those annoying amplify damage curses and cure from agresive poisons like radamanthis or Andariel by a little moment
You mentioned "strength bug" whats that?
Since you had open slots on switch, life tap wand? I don’t think you’d have much problem.
Some bow and maybe assassins builds :)
Bowzon is a good idea
Bowzone or martial art's assassin would be great.
I've got the same Butcher Pupil (199%) Small Crescent...
I want to socket it, just not sure what I'd use
I'm confused what the build is used for. You said he does OKAY in hell difficulty, and he would get one shoted in any pvp game because.
I did a self found zealot but I did holy frost, then when I found Hoz and Lo rune I respecced into fanat. Holy frost was great to get me through hell, use crushing blow from goblintoe and guillames to deal with cold immunes.
What advice would you have for using a conc Barb who has to find his own gear in hardcore single player? I've got him to act two NM pretty easily but now his damage feels kinda puny. He's using Spears only, it's a themed build.
Quest bug andariel and farm her for a while in NM. She drops some really good loot for NM
DB is it possible for you to go into a sorc budget build..specially a cold sorc..i'm having such a difficult time in hell with my current set up
awesome vid idea thanks
How about A5 merc lawbringer for budget , instead of running atma's you could run pretty much everything else there
I once was in a group with a paladin who didn't have an attack animation (just holding sword into mob with perma leech), because it appeared he had such high IAS. Does anyone know how that's possible?
What do you think about oath weapon for this build ?
yea oath would be amazing but a 40s eth weapon is kinda hard to find so I went with butchers pupil instead
What's a good budget shield if you don't find a Mal rune?
rhyme in a paladin base is amazing
What mod u useing?
great video Dbrunski ! I didnt think you would make it through the chaos sanctuary to be honest !! Glad to see you shredding all those demons with this (very low) budget zealer :)
Trivia for those interested :
Have you played what i consider the best days/version/era of Diablo 2 ? If so, what color was Arreat's face in this era ? :)
how about a budget players 8 build?
what would a zealer setup to encounter with ubers, same or different?
Just go smite pally, much more consistent
Just found an azurewrath... Can I fit this in the build or nah? Seems underwhelming or a weapon. Over my 17+ years of Diablo 2, I've never used it. O_o For zealer perhaps? idk...
can you make a godly zealer build?
My biggest complaint in this video is ur weapons are on slot 2 and not 1 and your inventory is backwards from the way it ought to be.
I would put atleast 1-2 points into Res Fire,Cold,Light skills depending on how much + Skills you have on your build.