One of those builds that looks cool on paper but then when you don't have the gear to support it... crumbles. I mean, you need a lot more than a grief (of doom or regular) and enigma to make this build shine. Perhaps in D2:R the FoH can carry a bit more punch when people don't have max res and silly amounts of HP.
Everytime I see people speaking about pvp in Battlenet is so weird for me... I have never played bnet (well I only have 1 sorc there but meh) mostly because I'm from Argentina so playing on bnet it's impossible due to lag ofc. So here in Argentina we had a very famous server that... everytime there was a new patch, like from 1.09 to 1.10 and then to 1.11 and so on we get a server wipe, worked as Seasons you may say, so all those "Bugged" items we never saw. And more importantly we were actually organize in terms of pvp. What I mean, there was always PvP Tournaments, but the Tournaments were like "Pally vs Pally" 1v1, "Sorc vs Sorc", and so on, and then "3v3" and I guess some 1v1 AllvAll also. But those Class Specific 1v1 and 3v3 was the most important ones. So builds were made with the solo intention of winning in those situations, I make a Necro for Class Specific 1v1 and all my gear was Ethereal... just because it looked sick and I knew nobody was going to hit me, also less STR req. But not only that but also we had rules, for example Enigma was banned from PvP, more than 20 LR was banned from pvp, using, for example, Guardian's Angel + Thundergod's Vigor was banned, in the actuall PvP was banned to stay more than 5 secs inside a House, all PvP were made in Nightmare and Act 1, the A1 outside has to be wiped of all mobs and every stone turned, the use of potions were also banned so in a Tournament you have to be able to pick up TPs and put them in your belt and after that show your charms and you have to have all inventory whit charms, you could change gear before the fight but not during the fight... all those and more a LOT more were rules for Tournaments but because everyone wanted to practice for Tournaments everybody followed those rules and the one that doesn't we just don't let them fight, ofc most PvP was on closed games, but for example open pvp games were created and some with rules, for example "Duels" games should be no free hostile and "Duels FH" were the Free Hostile games, FH on a Duels game could mean a server ban.... now all this stuff seems like too OP in a way but also interesting if you think on "Oh I should do a build that can deal with every situation" it creates builds but at the same time it also make a lot of builds not viable, the idea of those rules in our server was to be able to maintein build diversity... For PvP I actually had a Vindicator, of course not as disgusting as that one lol :P
Tampoco se permitía grief ni doom en ppvpp y se limitaba el replenish life y el open wounds😂. Así que los vt iban con caduceo. Qué hermosos eran los 4v4 de chill
Just a single charm(except anni) is worth more than most people’s entire account, and possibly their entire net worth. Seriously this character is one of the most GG I’ve ever seen. I wonder what this guy is rockin in d2r.
How about +3 to holy shield, +3 to FoH, and +3 to conviction on the CTA? Seems worth grabbing. That way, you can switch weapons and definitely have 3+x points into conviction depending on your gear.
@@zanido9073 Sure, but most of the items he has either can't be found/made anymore, or are perfect enough that one cannot expect to find it in a lifetime of magicfinding. If it existed on battle net, this person would have the funds to obtain it.
I'm curious how he keeps the 75% fcr with the hoz setup for max block. 20 from circlet, 20 from ammy, 20 from arach if he doesn't use verdungo, 10 from a ring = 70. Since other ring needs to be raven for CBF. unless he drops down to 48 fcr breakpoint which would be circlet (20), ammy (20), ring (10). then can use hoz and verdungo.
@Cooley, there is something mess up here.. you are showing Phoenix and show 2 to all / 35 FCR wtf ? The same for Weapon - I believe it's a Grief not a Doom.
I got a sick 20fcr amu but without skills sadly. You think it’s worth? I play on low fcr atm with coa Mara verdungo but I guess I wanna try out this 75fcr more telesmite char
Oh man, I miss those days when bnet was still a good place and there was enough people with decent skills and chars. Duel games were actually fun, even those bm duels. Those were the days... Anyways, nice video...
That’s nearly identical to my V/T build back when I played but I used a perf COA upped hoz for smite and then on switch what makes the build so great is I used a foh stick made into a CTA so when I would wep swap I had access to conviction with out putting a hard point into it. I also only use 7x 40+ lifer pcombs and the rest were 20-5s with a few 5fhr-5res scs
Thanks so much for this vid! Joby's MTL has inspired me to rethink my Paladin setup for PvP and I'm going back to the drawing board to figure out my own V/T. On a side note, are you guys getting the crazy queue right now over one East? I'm on West and we currently have a ~2k queue for every game and it's been like this for several weeks now. I'm contemplating starting over and jumping on East. Seems like your PvP seen is more alive anyway. PvP is the only thing keeping logging in anymore. The West is pretty dead too.
Thanks man! Queues are starting to show their ugly faces on nonladder lately. 20-30 ppl in line every game you create. But yeah... That's another reason to just get a good pvp game up with some GM people and play
Hey man, can you explain why some items on land when they are dropped in the city, e.g. to craft items, some of them are lost forever? Are you (US) queues to create the game for battle? A tragedy on Europe.
All items "poof" after being left on the ground for long enough, untouched. Except for quest items. And yeah, queues are getting bad on East. They've been bad for a while on ladder, but now NL is seeing some, too.
I used to play against a guy called venq alot in like 2010-2013... huge bmer.. always ran a similar build of smite/hammers.. v annyoing to play against lol
The Correct Answer Is: You should be using both. PB should be used when ias can be affected by who you duel, like a Necro can decrypt you. The PB is faster. The Zerk should be used in a BvC scenario, they can clip you, you want as much reach as possible and the Zerker Axe will outreach the PB in this scenario.
@@bonkosuckacocka983 Traded for it on d2jsp of course. That site is still the best place to trade d2 items. If only the dex was a p 20 I never woulda let it go 😂
@@HeySpecimen yeah I recently started using jsp after years of playing on and off. It's tough, but it's the only practical way to get the godly items. At a certain point you'd be trading entire characters full of hrs and they're not worth much with bots when they find 2 or 3 maybe more a day anyway. I'm working on a vt myself right now, the what I do have was funded by a 20/5 res life sc I found lol that has payed for 3/4 of the gear I have, but I'm still at the entry tier overall you know? Love d2
I'm ashamed to say this but ill say it. Years ago, I bought maxed VT gear. My foh hammer was the best foh weapon in the game it costed a ton of real money sadly. Pathetic when I think of it
There's still some items that go for loads of money, man. Even to this day. But hey, we ain't just payin' for the item, we're paying for the experience and joy it brings, right?? haha
@@Coooley thats right haha I was just a young idiot in those days. Its whats holding me from getting D2 remastered. D2 is the game that got me addicted. Great videos! Maybe someday I'll play again since I'm older now.
I play V/T myself, and I can assure you that you just need grief pb for 90% of your duels as you can hit max ias breakpoint with just fana aura on. Additionally, your primary gloves should be trangs for the 20fcr. How do even chainlock without having 75 fcr?? The cb gloves are good against characters that show you down.
@@Maty514 you can change a lot better with PB. Depends who you are facing. I have both, but using on V/T PB 90 % of the time. Plus, it gives you open the slot for gloves, unlike BA where you need ias gloves
@@georgivlahov5958 zerker has way better range esp against barbs.. using pb hurts you in many ways.. I like spirit 20fcrammy arach if I need 75fcr vs necros. most matchups are fine with 48fcr
I’m looking to find the most GG smiter setup I can find I’m going back to my memory banks but I remember having 45l pcombs with perfect anni and torch with 20/5’s IAS / CB gloves with str and life Up’d hoz (looking for jstod) And my smiter had around 5.7k life with crazy smite damage
@10:44 2 open socket, you say? Looks like those sockets have Bers in them. Can sockets still be open when they've got something in them? It's almost like... It's a 2 socket diadem. I mean... they're not fucking open, are they, if they've got something stuffed in them. Fucking redundant language. When you go looking for runewords online, you don't have to add 'open' to the search terms.
Grief of Destruction cant be made into a zerk. So grief of doom is the best option for zerk. Zerk > PB as far as range/dmg goes but PB > zerk for base ias. Grief of Destruction PB would be better than regular grief PB ofc
PSA - anyone making a VT in d2r should be using an upped HoZ with a ber rune in it. These hybrid runewords don't exist anymore and a spirit Smite dmg is laughable. Use a hoz
Do not follow this build,this is a shitty v/t build. Plus v/t's dont tele around they charge to desync. Also without conviction your foh is useless you might as well be full smiter. If you are having trouble with curse or poison necs as a v/t then you should just delete your char
Seen this guy joby pking with his 2 other friends in public duels and typing racist and offensive trolling with nking he's a real scum bad and if you dnt think he uses an aimbot you're a fool.
Well that's the most GG pally I've ever seen
One of those builds that looks cool on paper but then when you don't have the gear to support it... crumbles. I mean, you need a lot more than a grief (of doom or regular) and enigma to make this build shine. Perhaps in D2:R the FoH can carry a bit more punch when people don't have max res and silly amounts of HP.
Smiter Vt fanboy here. Love this build in my soul !
I remember V/T's that also ran Widowmaker with an Um rune were Devastating as fuck!! That open wounds was just a game changer.
Everytime I see people speaking about pvp in Battlenet is so weird for me... I have never played bnet (well I only have 1 sorc there but meh) mostly because I'm from Argentina so playing on bnet it's impossible due to lag ofc. So here in Argentina we had a very famous server that... everytime there was a new patch, like from 1.09 to 1.10 and then to 1.11 and so on we get a server wipe, worked as Seasons you may say, so all those "Bugged" items we never saw. And more importantly we were actually organize in terms of pvp. What I mean, there was always PvP Tournaments, but the Tournaments were like "Pally vs Pally" 1v1, "Sorc vs Sorc", and so on, and then "3v3" and I guess some 1v1 AllvAll also. But those Class Specific 1v1 and 3v3 was the most important ones. So builds were made with the solo intention of winning in those situations, I make a Necro for Class Specific 1v1 and all my gear was Ethereal... just because it looked sick and I knew nobody was going to hit me, also less STR req. But not only that but also we had rules, for example Enigma was banned from PvP, more than 20 LR was banned from pvp, using, for example, Guardian's Angel + Thundergod's Vigor was banned, in the actuall PvP was banned to stay more than 5 secs inside a House, all PvP were made in Nightmare and Act 1, the A1 outside has to be wiped of all mobs and every stone turned, the use of potions were also banned so in a Tournament you have to be able to pick up TPs and put them in your belt and after that show your charms and you have to have all inventory whit charms, you could change gear before the fight but not during the fight... all those and more a LOT more were rules for Tournaments but because everyone wanted to practice for Tournaments everybody followed those rules and the one that doesn't we just don't let them fight, ofc most PvP was on closed games, but for example open pvp games were created and some with rules, for example "Duels" games should be no free hostile and "Duels FH" were the Free Hostile games, FH on a Duels game could mean a server ban.... now all this stuff seems like too OP in a way but also interesting if you think on "Oh I should do a build that can deal with every situation" it creates builds but at the same time it also make a lot of builds not viable, the idea of those rules in our server was to be able to maintein build diversity... For PvP I actually had a Vindicator, of course not as disgusting as that one lol :P
Good story sounds like you guys had a cool server for the Argentina players
Tampoco se permitía grief ni doom en ppvpp y se limitaba el replenish life y el open wounds😂. Así que los vt iban con caduceo. Qué hermosos eran los 4v4 de chill
Just a single charm(except anni) is worth more than most people’s entire account, and possibly their entire net worth.
Seriously this character is one of the most GG I’ve ever seen.
I wonder what this guy is rockin in d2r.
Nice video ;)
epic gear :D
Cooley I'm ready for that 1v1 bow paladin fight son!!!
How about +3 to holy shield, +3 to FoH, and +3 to conviction on the CTA? Seems worth grabbing. That way, you can switch weapons and definitely have 3+x points into conviction depending on your gear.
as he said getting +3 holy shield alone is almost impossible, idk if any items like that even exist.
@@zanido9073 Sure, but most of the items he has either can't be found/made anymore, or are perfect enough that one cannot expect to find it in a lifetime of magicfinding. If it existed on battle net, this person would have the funds to obtain it.
I'm curious how he keeps the 75% fcr with the hoz setup for max block. 20 from circlet, 20 from ammy, 20 from arach if he doesn't use verdungo, 10 from a ring = 70. Since other ring needs to be raven for CBF. unless he drops down to 48 fcr breakpoint which would be circlet (20), ammy (20), ring (10). then can use hoz and verdungo.
@Cooley, there is something mess up here.. you are showing Phoenix and show 2 to all / 35 FCR wtf ? The same for Weapon - I believe it's a Grief not a Doom.
Hybrid runewords - they're bugged and they don't exist in d2r
v/t is vindicator/templar, not just vindicator
I got a sick 20fcr amu but without skills sadly. You think it’s worth? I play on low fcr atm with coa Mara verdungo but I guess I wanna try out this 75fcr more telesmite char
Love it, great video and insight. xD
It’s 2020 and we still out here brining in the heat
edit: skill aside his gear is nuts..
Are those weapons and shields modified? How is it spiriti of phoneix and grief of doom?? They look combined lol
Love ur content man I’m binging ur stuff rn haha
That BO stick is sick.
Oh man, I miss those days when bnet was still a good place and there was enough people with decent skills and chars. Duel games were actually fun, even those bm duels. Those were the days... Anyways, nice video...
That's not all it is now man. Come play 🙂
@@thetavibes9021grinding the same bosses solo or fighting with characters you built with friends? Go be alone. We wont notice.
Ahhh, soul spurs... great for either expansion or classic
I had a hammer/foh pally back in the day and it was extremely good i think they called mages it’s a rarer hybrid but was pretty dam efficient
Hello I have a questio the smiter in pvp is good with the weapon last wish or is better grief?
Has anything changed in d2r from this?
FOH is better. Gear to take Hybrid assassins and trappers. Those with BVA and BVC. Otherwise get fucked.
Fire sorc pk'd my sin in NM Diablo quest game. Brought back my vt and it was game over.
Are the shield and weapon bugged? Stats from two different runewords?
Can someone please explain what a grief of doom berserker are is?
Vindicators are super PVP champs above all other classes even godly beast/grief barbs
Is us east ladder poppin right now? Might hop back on and create a guy
I play daily
That’s nearly identical to my V/T build back when I played but I used a perf COA upped hoz for smite and then on switch what makes the build so great is I used a foh stick made into a CTA so when I would wep swap I had access to conviction with out putting a hard point into it. I also only use 7x 40+ lifer pcombs and the rest were 20-5s with a few 5fhr-5res scs
COOLEY WIT THE TOOLEY
Your channel is dope man. You make it very interesting to watch. I don't even do duels anymore lol.
good channel, bro. my fav build is vengeance but hard to find the video pvp and tutorial
this build is op today ???
Phoenix shield rolls +2 skills?
Bugged runeword its called Spirit of Phoenix
Thanks so much for this vid! Joby's MTL has inspired me to rethink my Paladin setup for PvP and I'm going back to the drawing board to figure out my own V/T. On a side note, are you guys getting the crazy queue right now over one East? I'm on West and we currently have a ~2k queue for every game and it's been like this for several weeks now. I'm contemplating starting over and jumping on East. Seems like your PvP seen is more alive anyway. PvP is the only thing keeping logging in anymore. The West is pretty dead too.
Thanks man! Queues are starting to show their ugly faces on nonladder lately. 20-30 ppl in line every game you create. But yeah... That's another reason to just get a good pvp game up with some GM people and play
Guy is decent 😉
Him and his bro = not bad. haha D2 Legends!
Dudes gear is gg as fuh
There will never be a better video game theme song than the Tristram acoustic melody
Sub'd BTW I love your vids
Sux we can’t make hybrid runewords on d2r
Hey man, can you explain why some items on land when they are dropped in the city, e.g. to craft items, some of them are lost forever? Are you (US) queues to create the game for battle? A tragedy on Europe.
All items "poof" after being left on the ground for long enough, untouched. Except for quest items. And yeah, queues are getting bad on East. They've been bad for a while on ladder, but now NL is seeing some, too.
6:38 This Phoenix is showing Spirit stats
Is V/T viable for pvm too??
Wow... just wow.
sweet baby jebus, what are these items (starting 5:43)
Is there a way to DM u brother? I know ur probably busy but I do want to ask a few questions! Much love man
Yeah! Check out my About Page for Discord info!
@@Coooley sick I sent a request. I’m Jinfernal666
I used to play against a guy called venq alot in like 2010-2013... huge bmer.. always ran a similar build of smite/hammers.. v annyoing to play against lol
A hybrid ama Build would by nice.
Who's using Andariel's? Just drink a bunch of Antidotes beforehand, the 30 seconds stack + 50% res and 10% max res
When I play diablo 2 patch 1.14d it looks nothing like this and the gameplay is laggy. is it my internet or is he playing on a weird server?
Just regular ol' BNet, man.
@@Coooley I was downloading cod and playing diablo 2 online at the same time that's why
@@Coooley I play on us east ladder and non ladder right now I'd be down to duel you just got back on after 10+ years
@@Coooley actually no im gonna keep my XP but it'd be cool to quest
@@ApexHooper11 you don't lose xp from pvp. So we're good ;)
what happend to the weapon and sheild , 2 rune word combine 0.o
Those are called Hybrids. Their regular runeword counterparts do just fine though, as mentioned
the real reason to use grief zerk over grief pb is that grief zerk has longer range (3 i think) than pb (2)
correct. pb has a better charge tho.
The Correct Answer Is: You should be using both. PB should be used when ias can be affected by who you duel, like a Necro can decrypt you. The PB is faster. The Zerk should be used in a BvC scenario, they can clip you, you want as much reach as possible and the Zerker Axe will outreach the PB in this scenario.
Man i miss those old gg rares like soul spurs lol
I sold him that amulet lol
When does the shaolin monk get his own video?
Insane. How did you get it to begin with, if you don't mind?
@@bonkosuckacocka983 Traded for it on d2jsp of course. That site is still the best place to trade d2 items. If only the dex was a p 20 I never woulda let it go 😂
@@HeySpecimen yeah I recently started using jsp after years of playing on and off. It's tough, but it's the only practical way to get the godly items. At a certain point you'd be trading entire characters full of hrs and they're not worth much with bots when they find 2 or 3 maybe more a day anyway. I'm working on a vt myself right now, the what I do have was funded by a 20/5 res life sc I found lol that has payed for 3/4 of the gear I have, but I'm still at the entry tier overall you know? Love d2
8:02 Doom with Grief stats?
bugged item using 3rd party exploits
I'm ashamed to say this but ill say it. Years ago, I bought maxed VT gear. My foh hammer was the best foh weapon in the game it costed a ton of real money sadly. Pathetic when I think of it
There's still some items that go for loads of money, man. Even to this day. But hey, we ain't just payin' for the item, we're paying for the experience and joy it brings, right?? haha
@@Coooley thats right haha I was just a young idiot in those days. Its whats holding me from getting D2 remastered. D2 is the game that got me addicted. Great videos! Maybe someday I'll play again since I'm older now.
I’ve played almost perf mage and vindicator builds(full inv 32020) they both slap! But mage is op with aa foh
I play V/T myself, and I can assure you that you just need grief pb for 90% of your duels as you can hit max ias breakpoint with just fana aura on. Additionally, your primary gloves should be trangs for the 20fcr. How do even chainlock without having 75 fcr?? The cb gloves are good against characters that show you down.
Personally, the only time I would use pb is if I get slowed(golem slow, holyfreeze). Zerker has better range and should be your #1 pick IMO
@@Maty514 you can change a lot better with PB. Depends who you are facing. I have both, but using on V/T PB 90 % of the time. Plus, it gives you open the slot for gloves, unlike BA where you need ias gloves
@@georgivlahov5958 zerker has way better range esp against barbs.. using pb hurts you in many ways.. I like spirit 20fcrammy arach if I need 75fcr vs necros. most matchups are fine with 48fcr
Shout out to my sspurs. Rizla's
Those are called Hybrids. Their regular runeword counterparts do just fine though, as mentioned.
Rizla's soul spurs aren't hybrids coooley. They were mine 6years ago.
@@AlexLegault Lol. Somehow this got thrown into the wrong comment/reply. Everything's crashing today >
BM Doom?!?
Yes crap smiter bugged And bm not legal on tournanment jovy sucks
why doom?
watched 8 15 22
Someone with JSP market expertise sum up a total FG price for this paladin, just for laughs
Pre d2r about 30k, post d2r about 10k
My old VT was about 80k, sold it for this cheaper version
wtf is that phoenix/spirit shield atributes? XD
I’m looking to find the most GG smiter setup I can find
I’m going back to my memory banks but I remember having 45l pcombs with perfect anni and torch with 20/5’s
IAS / CB gloves with str and life
Up’d hoz (looking for jstod)
And my smiter had around 5.7k life with crazy smite damage
@10:44 2 open socket, you say? Looks like those sockets have Bers in them. Can sockets still be open when they've got something in them?
It's almost like... It's a 2 socket diadem. I mean... they're not fucking open, are they, if they've got something stuffed in them.
Fucking redundant language. When you go looking for runewords online, you don't have to add 'open' to the search terms.
Why is Doom ignoring targets defence when I made one it's -cold res
Bugged item.
Pvp noob here.. why a grief of doom and not a grief of destruction?
Cheaper? Haha I Agree with you though.
Grief of Destruction cant be made into a zerk. So grief of doom is the best option for zerk. Zerk > PB as far as range/dmg goes but PB > zerk for base ias. Grief of Destruction PB would be better than regular grief PB ofc
@@staxxgg Thank you for this clarification!
PSA - anyone making a VT in d2r should be using an upped HoZ with a ber rune in it. These hybrid runewords don't exist anymore and a spirit Smite dmg is laughable. Use a hoz
Spirit Sacred Targe >
Tales of a pub dueling bm vt haha. Sadly you can't build a vt like this on d2r. Normal gm vt it is
I lost interest when I saw "Grief of Doom Berserker Axe".. 🤦♂
Do not follow this build,this is a shitty v/t build. Plus v/t's dont tele around they charge to desync. Also without conviction your foh is useless you might as well be full smiter. If you are having trouble with curse or poison necs as a v/t then you should just delete your char
I'm sorry but I think you don't get the point of the build
Is this true? I just did this exact thing minus the cleansing aura and I mean its working decently well against all
Gloves and amulet are ok , rest nothing special or hard to obtain
I'm glad somebody thinks so :)
10x 20/5 small charms and 9x pcombs with +45 life...all with the same skin and all 100% legit I imagine right??
i mean he could've just bought ones with all the same skin, that's what a lot of people do
Seen this guy joby pking with his 2 other friends in public duels and typing racist and offensive trolling with nking he's a real scum bad and if you dnt think he uses an aimbot you're a fool.
how does he get 75 fcr tho?
23% grief... poor joby i still got screenshots of owning joby hahaha
this is why joby lost too TaXi all time on d2lod he didnt even hav lr on his fkin cb gloves LOOOL poor af bro