Diablo 2: The Tesladin - Still the best melee build and my favourite!



Today we take a look at the Tesladin. Still to this day its my favourite melee build, and my most liked paladin build.

Old video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6zL9KT4UMg&ab_channel=Djuntas

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43 thoughts on “Diablo 2: The Tesladin — Still the best melee build and my favourite!

  1. A few things I notice. Also I play on pluggy so I’m all pvm.
    — I’ve tried both conviction from the pally and conviction from infinity. After many hours of testing through many situations, using an infinity merc with maxed fant allows for greater damage output and higher survivability. Especially with the ias on weapons and gear. There’s a small lag time in the conviction aura if your swapping from teleport to conviction whereas with infinity, it’s basically active at all times.
    — yes, the conviction that you can get native to the pally is stronger than your level 12 from infinity, but it’s not that much better, especially at the loss of attack speed and overall dps
    — I prefer an ebotd zerker over grief for the survivability of the added leech. It makes a huge difference on higher player counts with very similar damage output to grief.
    — you HAVE TO HAVE a source of cannot be frozen. Anything else is a sin to efficiency and survival. Gotta rock a raven bud. With a raven and fant, your AR is also really solid around 7k to 10k depending on charms in your inventory. So you can get away with no ignore target defense from grief.
    — secondary ring should also be an fcr ring as it allows you to hit one of the lower breakpoints for teleport making your tele not painfully slow
    — i also find crescent moon with dracs and the same merc infinity setup to be superior to your setup with grief for aoe and overall clear speed. But still prefer ebotd.

    Just some thoughts, but grief isn’t the way to go here and I definitely prefer fant on character versus conviction on character and infinity on merc. You are less of a glass cannon.

  2. FYI, the way aura damage works.. not many people know this. Radial damage for offensive auras gets applied once for each item with that aura. So, since you have 2 dreams, you're lvl 30 holy shock aura damage will be applied twice. Also for a holy fire setup (hoj/dragon/dragon) the lvl 44 holy fire aura damage will be applied 3 times. This why holy fire auradin will always deal more damage. Enjoy!

  3. I made the same build a few years back, but honestly, mine is better ;P

    Dream Helm
    Dream Shield
    Rift Weapon in Divine Scepter (gives Frozen Orbs) (65% IAS needed for 2nd last breakpoint)
    Treachery (45% IAS needed for breakpoint, 60+ resist and 10% DR from fade, plus poison dmg form venom)
    T-Gods Belt ( stats and imminue lightning plus ligh dmg)
    Dual Raven Frost ( added cold damage and AR and dex)
    Goblin Toes (25% Crushing blow) or Infernostride (fire dmg and resist)
    Dracs gloves (keeps you alive because you do low physical damage you need the leech)
    Highlords Ammy (20% ias for breakpoint)

    Demon limb + Dragonscale on switch (fire dmg and AR from enchant)

    Faith MErc = last speed breakpoint reached

    Hit's over 10k dmg with frozen orbs casting at least once every 1-2 zeals
    40% cold absorb
    95% light resist
    85% fire absorb with inferno

    Build is also great with Stormlash / Azure Wrath / Voice of Reason / LAwbringer

    With 2 dreams the weapon almost doesnt matter, I just love seeing frozen orbs cast

    When you change the weapon some of the other equipment changes

    Also, I used an Ormus robes with a 15% IAS jewel at one point… hit 12k+ dmg

    You can also lose 1 dream either helm / shield and add more survivability if you want, dragonscale is fun

    Looks Cool as fuck when fade is cast

  4. Would it be better to use conviction polearm Merc, and Fanaticism yourself?

  5. wow its been a long time since I have seen a build im not familiar with. I've played 10 years and 2 years on plugy and I've never found one jah rune… soooo that sucks

  6. I finished my single player hardcore tesladin a few weeks ago. (ofc its only a holy shock zeal paladin without conviction)
    Lets just say that I aint doing it again.
    But I did find some Single player GG items along the way (3 os PB and upped runes to um) for crescent moon.
    ALso a rare belt with34 hp/20fhr/20+dual resist which is pretty damn good.

    I quit playing d2 on bnet quite a while back, changed my fun to SP HC.

    NIce build tho, I remember playing it back in the days =)

  7. thanks for share bro! i will try this build hehe but im not familiar combinations of RUNES can you help me out?

  8. The fastest weapon in the game is Khalim's Will! Oh and if the mob on Hell is resistant to lightning, then it is immune to lightning.

  9. hamerridin better. btw..lol..evey build can be the best with that kind of equipement and runes u got (i don know how u got them tho, .played for 3 years constantly maybe)

  10. i hate to be "that guy" but yellow scepter with +2 pally skills, 2os, + conviction, + holy shock, + foh, 20fcr is better or even crescent moon phase blade for the -lighting res are better choices, also reapers toll seems useless cuz of confusion, seems to me that for this particular build max damage is better for the merc, with ebotd war pike, forty and cham'd vgaze, or even destruction gpa + dragon armor since you already have max conviction to deal a lot of fire damage.

  11. I haven't played dII in over 15 years, but if most of the damage is coming from the holy shock aura/synergies then why use grief? Try hitting 4 fps, as you appear to be at 5 fps for your zeal, and maximize deadly strike. What percentage of your damage is coming from physical? My guess is not enough to warrant a grief. Perhaps a beast weapon would be in order with a conviction merc?

  12. I like how you mention that your items are worth something, i'm assuming your non ladder so everything is more or less worthless. Cool video though.

  13. Does the double dream aura work in patch 1.13c? (I've seen some say it was fixed in the later patch 1.13d) For us plugy players 🙂

  14. I was thinking about whether this would be viable just the other day. Somehow missed this video when you released it.

  15. Is max damage that useful on grand charms? What if you went for offensive auras? Would that boost your Holy Shock, or just Conviction?

  16. I love using infinity thresher and using lightning Aura. Aura pulses alone deal massive damage. It's more of a glass Cannon build.

  17. Tesla din? So a light sourced pally that is melee..ok. there's a reason why these builds aren't end game..which is PvP. Pvm is for retards that enjoy predictability and clicking the same left mouse button

  18. He called it a tesladin. I knew this as the auradin back in the day! I’d slaughter these with my pk charge/smiter. Goah I miss those days lol.

  19. This is almost identical to my old Dream zealot. Now after 4-5 years of hiatus from D2 I'd try a different rout (not necessarily saying it's better, but definitely a contender). So… even in my old build I used Fortitude, teleporting is cool, but you can also charge, which is poor man's teleport, and giving up so much damage on a primarily melee character that's not Zerker is hard to justify for me personally (although I do see the valid argument, I'm just on the other side). Then I'd switch over to Fanaticism (and use Infinity merc as said before me). Now we suddenly have amazing physical damage, so pursuing Deadly Strike becomes VERY much worthwile. We also have good attackspeed from Fanaticism, so we can settle for a slower weapon and still hit good IAS breakpoint. Here is where Death comes into the picture, it's amazing here, deadly stike with Death + HLW + Gores is around 90% in endgame and with such physical damage it's HUGE. Now Death also has mana leech, so it frees up a ring slot, and also a whopping FIFTY percent crushing blow, which is just ridiculous. Now suddenly the physical damage output just about matches that of a top classic physical zealot, but also has the uber holyshock. Sure no exile and reaper's toll, but you can still deal with every immunity in the game and absolutely WRECK everyhting that's not PI, and also uterrly destroy bosses with the CB from Death. Also note that the merc would be vastly more powerful with this setup in most cases.

    Death is such a heavy metal runeword, I have a fascination with it haha

    (btw — same guy who commented the double dream build on your old zealot build vid back in the day, just different acc 🙂

  20. Holy shock zealot was my first character. Sure it isn’t going to wipe the floor with enemy mobs on high difficulty but it’s a lot of fun at lower levels

  21. Paladin FCR breakpoints 0 / 9 / 18 / 30 / 48/ 75/ 125 when you use tp on offhand you get arach 20fcr and spirit 35fcr soo you pass 48 fcr break point // useing fcr RING is pointless since you use tp when you rush soo you can do it on offhand SRY my bad english i dont use it offten.

  22. Hi, nice video. I think it all looks great except for the low attack rating. I dont believe 5000 is enough

  23. if diablo 2 stacking dream was alive you will see tesladins with eth merc infi in chaos.
    If you have 2 items with lvl 15 aura, you get a lvl15 aura. No stack, no lies.
    The fact he wont even put 1 point into holyshock ( better yet, cant even find the skill in the skill tree ) shows you how poor this stack illusion is ( and shows his ignore of synegries )

    Tesladin is called tesladin because he uses TESLA aka master of electricity — holy shock aura as a paladin class. Not the runewords.
    Where is logic in calling tesladin paladin with dream, two ( useless ) dream runewords. Unless they will be called tesla runeword.

    What a crap

  24. why does my diablo 2 look so blurry compared to his, ive gone through my nvidia control panel options and nothing seems to change it

  25. Always hated the paladin due to left click nonsense.
    Would like to slap whomever designed aura's to right click only.

  26. I have 1 question. What if u take a Act 1 mercenary with Faith? Maybe better or not?

  27. Is holyshock neccessary to max out? wouldnt the aura from dream, get synergies from Resist light? Im asking

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