So we got another broken/boring character, the only one which solves ANYTHING in this game in a crap gear. Its almost like hammerdin was in last patch, but even stronger.
Double spirit, vipermagi, lore helm - runs CS/Travincal easily. I can play with 1hand and dont need pots, on a hardcore. Ive put my skill points pretty randomly, it might be even stronger. Thats FoH, absolutely broken.
But its not all, you can invest 3! points into smite(which you already have for holy shield), salvation and fanaticism, throw in some extremly budget gear and clear ubers…
No character can do anything like that using that crap gear. Paladin is absolutly broken and boring to play. After 3 CS runs in a row ive almost puked on my keyboard.
I hope its not too late to fix this nonsense.
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Hey, there are many other locations except CS/Travi.
And when you’re going to CS and travi, you gonna be encountered by animals (they are immune to bolts, and lightning does not damage them so well).
FoH is beam of light in new patch!
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You can turn on your conviction aura which is 1 point, you can teleport using staff you bought in normal act3 and get to sweetest spot in the game, sit there in your crap gear from normal and farm best items/rune in the game. Also if you get keys somethere, which isnt hard, i bet its possible to make Foh+Hammer+smite in ONE character, you can replace your “basic farm” crap gear from normal with crap crushing blow gear and farm toches - supposed to be TOUGHEST CHALLENGE IN THE GAME. For anyone, but paladin…
Magic damage should be reworked(removed) or there should be much more magic immune monsters. Current state is ridiculous. The only place you really face magic immunes are Tal Rasha’s Tombs.
Hammerdin is much more overpowered, if honestly.
FOH now stands along (or near) with lightsorc with infi, traps with infi, CE necr - playing with fun.
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They are both not okay, because of “magic” damage type and lack of immune to it monsters. The point is - we had 1 broken build, now we got another one, on same character.
Why bother and play anything else?!
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If you don’t like Paladin, then why do you play it? Just don’t (as I) Problem solved.
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Shut up. Not a single mention to nerf hammerdin which can faceroll 95% of content. Thats how I know youre full of s###.
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Thank you, wonder why these original players dont mind hammerdin being OP for 20 years straight. Is it because its always their second char after sorc? Hypocrites.
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Smells like a poo in pants 
then don’t play paladin? Whats the point? now we can play more than just hammerdin and people still crying. you guys need to shut up
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That’s very true. The biggest problem with Diablo 2 has always been Elemental damage nearly always trumps physical damage. 2.4 does nothing to address this.
imagine running trav on a paladin and not on a barb…
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Ive got 92 lvl pal, i took off everything except shield(zaka, cause it wasnt suicide mission), belt(craft fcr for pots) and boots for some run/walk speed. Done CS easily, and thats hardcore.
For those who say Hdin is stronger - go try something like that. Or with any other hero if ud like. This CS run took me ~3 minutes and i wasnt in a rush. With this nonsense holy bolts you literally need no equipment at all to clear CS in hell. Isnt that ridiculous?
And yes, hammerdin is way too strong too. Paladin is way too strong with his ability of killing ubers with slight swap of gear and 2 extra skill points investment. Magic damage+aoe is way too broken, not enough immune monsters.
In conclusion either paladin needs a rework or at least magic damage does.
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And how does the fact that it has an ‘easy’, ‘boring’ ,or whatever you want to call it gameplay, impact your enjoyment of the game? How is the existence of the Fohdin triggering you so much? You don’t like/enjoy it…just don’t play it.
Of course i wont play it. But i play online and trade a lot, its kinda sad that paladin users gonna have such an advantage. Also its just bad for a game overall. Its a GREAT PALADIN and the rest of the heroes.
yep, let all those ppl that play the pally just because of cookiecutting things play sorc instead. That will be so much better for the trade economy
So basically it distils down to envy… There will always be better builds than others.
Some will be able to farm /p8 with a 2ist investment(Full Tal blizz sorc), some will pe able to barely do it after investing a wealth in gear(looking at you Faith Bowazone with Pride merc and 90MF).
Fohdin is good until /p4-5…after that it begins to boggle. Can’t even hold a candle to the most clunky and boring build in D2: the trusty Hammerdin, witch demolishes everything.
Instead of rejoicing that patch 2.4 introduced so many new viable builds(Throw barb, Lighting Strike Zon, Jav Fenzone) and made other existing once finally viable(marital arts assassin, nova sorc) you are bickering that your buddy running Hammerdin is able to farm better and quicker than your build…with just a fraction of the cost.
yeah, im done. go try urself this entertaining build which does CS naked in hell.
So does the blizz sorc. Even a barb can do it, not as easily albeit.
or bonemancer
or hammerdin
or wind druid
there are quite some builds that can do cs basically naked
tbh tried FoH paladin and it felt fine in some regions like cs, it didnt feel broken nor overperforming, like f.e. a lightning sorc or a javazon slaughtering cows.
So even if the build is quite good its quite a bit strange that you consider exactly this paladin build a problem esp. when there is a build of the same char around which actually is stronger