
Smite is the primary Boss-killing skill in Paladin's arsenal, so you should boost it with some of your remaining points and use it when needed. This skill is guaranteed to hit what you aim it at which makes it extremely useful against bosses.
Smite - An Attack that uses Shield to damage, stun, and knock back your enemies. This synergizes with Zeal, so you should put some of your remaining points here. Sacrifice - An attack that deals increased damage at the cost of health. From this tree, you'll get some extra mobility in the form of Charge, increased defenses given by the Holy Shield, and a significant boost to your melee damage provided by Zeal and Smite. While this build is mainly based on Auras, Combat Skills make it much more versatile and even more powerful than it already is. Energy - Adding points to Energy is an extreme waste - don't do it. Vitality - You should put all your remaining points here - main stat. You should equip all your gear, cast Holy Shield, and dump any needed Dexterity to have it capped at 75%. Dexterity - You should aim for Maximum Block with this build, thus the amount of Dexterity you want is going to depend on your gear. Strength - All you want, in terms of Strength, is enough of it to equip everything you will want to use on your character. There are multiple variants of the Auradin build available, so you can experiment and tweak the build to your liking Not viable as a starter/early ladder build Very high DPS that mixes Fire Damage from Holy Fire Aura with physical Damage from Zeal and Smite Requires some specific and very expensive items to work properly You can also check our other Diablo 2 Resurrected Builds
All in all, this is one of the most powerful but also the most expensive builds in the game. It's capable of eliminating packs of regular monsters by simply running circles around them and can quickly eliminate any stronger enemies with Zeal or Smite (the latter has much better single-target damage if you are aiming at Ubers, for example). As a result, Holy Fire Auradin has become one of the most powerful melee-focused builds in Diablo 2 Resurrected (at some point on the PTR, Holy Fire was simply ridiculous and the build was flat-out OP).īelow, we present you with our take on the new Holy Fire Paladin build that takes full advantage of the changes introduced in patch 2.4 of Diablo 2 Resurrected.
Moreover, the new Runeword, Flickering Flame, has given it an indirect buff by providing another source of the "-X% to Enemy Fire Resistance" modifier. Patch 2.4 has brought some very important changes to Paladin's Holy Fire Aura: Among others, its Damage level scaling was significantly increased and its Salvation Synergy was boosted. Paladin Build For Diablo 2 Resurrected v 2.4