Sazaaaaabi...

Well...kinda like when I said Sov's Griswold Templar would be silly here I am with my own silly idea.

I came into a full sazabi set finally off baal drops and was thinking "Hmm...always wanted to use this but never had the resources or desire to burn into something substandard".

Well..I still don't really but I want to anyways.

This is for pvm strictly just to see if I can get it to work and still kill stuff at a reasonable rate and not totally suck. (I can burn skillers into this but I prefer not to ...never had a stash half empty before )

I must say its kind of a challenge though (I like challenges..makes the game fun) so I'd appreciate help.

This is what Ive come up with thus far:

At first i wanted to use Dracs...the ultimate melee pvm glove but given the speed of the cryptic sword I dont think I can...

Helm: Sazabi (15%IAS)
Armor: Sazabi (15%IAS)
Weapon: Sazabi (Shael)
Shield: HoZ or Alma or SS or Griswolds (15%)
Amulet: Highlords
Rings: BK/Ravenfrost
Belt: Dungoes
Glove: Laying of Hands...or would Lava Gout be better with enchant?
Boots: Gore Rider

Skills:

Zeal 20
Sacrifice 20
Holy Shield 20
Blessed Aim 20 (last)
Holy Freeze 20

(Done around level 94..alternative is to boost Resist Cold for cold synergy instead of BA)

or

Sacrifice 20
Zeal 20
Holy Shield 20
Holy Shock 20
Blessed Aim 20

(Alternative is to boost Resist lightning instead of BA)



With these setups I make the 4fps Zeal without Fanaticism (60% sword, 15% helm, 15% armor, 15% shield, 20% amulet, 20% glove = 145%) and have some elemental damage to make up for the low min damage on the Sazabi weapon (lightning also has low min but has much higher max to avg out)

Not sure about the shield..HoZ gives more skills alma better phys damage SS gives DR that I'd be lacking. Griswolds gives much needed socket options but I lose other mods then.

In any case it looks like with the 300%+ to demons on the sword AND on the gloves (unless i use lava gout where i get fire enchant damage instead) combined with some deadly strike and a small crushing blow...probably could do decently against most demons.

Now....to make this a tesladin or a frostadin....

Teslas would have more lightning damage but im not using classic tesla stuff (no CM pb or Griffons even). Also without dracs I might want the holy freeze to slow monsters down...though I wont be invincible...the problem with holy freeze is that the damage is much lower. Hmmm....

What? No one wants an actual challenge? ;-)

Too bad there are no 20% IAS belts just 10% otherwise Id definately switch out the life/dr of Dungoes for dracs.

So I guess the big things are Tesla vs Frost (unless someone has another suggestion), Shield choice, glove choice....plus anything else anyone can come up with.