Zealot/Builds


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General Playstyle
As a melee frontline career, Zealot should funnel enemies in front of you as much as you can and buy space for your range focus and more squishy teammates. When there is a Boss on the field, focus on the weaker mobs first then help your team deal with the Boss. Or pull the Boss aggro onto you with so your low health teammates have a better chance surviving.

Recommended Range Weapon Choice
The breakpoint list here is when Zealot has 6 stacks of Fiery Faith passive. All range weapons are very viable on Zealot, with Brace of Pistols and Crossbow perform better than others most of the time.

Low push/push attack consumption tank build
https://www.ranaldsgift.com/12/112233/31,1,3,6/19,1,5,7/3,2,1/1,6,2/3,2,2

Description:

This build is meant for melee weapons/playstyle that don’t use push/push attack a lot in your combo.

With this build, you should utilize your high tankiness good damage reduction to absorb trash damage, minimize your melee weapon downtime.

The core talent of this build is Level 20 talent Holy Fortitude and Level 25 talent Calloused Without and Within. Both talents provide great tankiness to the career. Combine with Necklace Trait Barkskin you can easily take most of the trash damage without dying.

Recommend to pair with melee weapons like Flail, Axe, Two-Handed Sword.

High push/push attack consumption tank build
https://www.ranaldsgift.com/12/111223/39,1,3,6/19,1,5,7/3,2,1/1,6,2/3,2,2

Description:

This build is meant for melee weapons/playstyle that use push/push attack a lot in your combo.

With this build you should utilize your tankiness to take some trash damage, and abuse the stamina from damage taken to push/push attack. With a weapon with strong push attack, you can use the infinite stamina to crowd control and dealing high damage.

The core talent of this build is Level 20 talent Holy Fortitude and Level 25 talent Redemption through Blood. Holy Fortitude provides good tankiness to the career. Combine with Necklace Trait Barkskin you can take some of the trash damage to trigger Redemption through Blood. And Redemption through Blood gives you the stamina to spam push/push attacks.

Recommend to pair with melee weapons like Falchion, Rapier, Axe and Falchion, Billhook.

Dodge dancer build
https://www.ranaldsgift.com/12/111113/39,1,3,6/19,1,5,7/3,2,5/1,6,2/3,2,2

Description:

This build is meant for a pure dodge dance playstyle.

With this build you should utilize your high movement speed and no movement slowdown to avoid all possible damage rather than tanking some of them. It is way harder to execute than other tank builds, but has a very high skill ceiling.

The core talent of this build is Level 20 talent Crusade and Level 25 talent Devotion. Both talents increase your ability to avoid damage.

Recommend to pair with melee weapons like Axe, Falchion, Rapier, Axe and Falchion, Billhook.

Infinite volley build
https://www.ranaldsgift.com/12/121233/32,1,3,6/20,3,2,7/3,2,1/1,3,2/3,7,2

Description:

This build is meant for utilizing Volley Crossbow.

With this build you can have an infinite ammo Volley Crossbow. Each alt-fire volley shot counts as 3 hits, so you can trigger a guaranteed crit every 2 volley shots. You can also stack 4 hits with your melee, and use your range weapon to trigger the guaranteed crit.

The guaranteed crit Volley Crossbow serves as your best Boss damage. It can also kill Elites and clean horde quickly if necessary, but you should share the job with melee weapon.

The core talent of this build is Level 10 talent Smite. The generated crit gives you infinite Volley Crossbow ammo and 50% crit chance alt-fire volley shot. It also free the Crit Chance property from your melee weapon, range weapon and Trinket.

Recommend to pair with melee weapons like Flail, Falchion, Two-Handed Sword, Rapier.