So how do you build this and is it worth it? First off, in order for this build to work at all, you have to complete three objectives: The First: Have enough Life Steal! Sacrifice takes 8% from your health based on the damage you deal. That means if you deal 2k damage, it will remove 160 health from your total, with each successful hit! This means that even if the enemies will not hit you at all, you can kill yourself in ten hits, depending on your health pool. This is the biggest challenge of this build: Do not kill yourself! Having a weapon that does not deal too much damage helps to survive your own attacks, but nerfing your damage definitely not helps you to kill enemies... So with enough life steal, you can actually nullify the damage inflicted on you. However Life Steal has 1/3rd effectiveness on Hell, meaning you need at least 24% life steal on your character, just to make it even! With an incredible 24%, you will not steal a single point of life from your enemies! This is just the bare minimum for you to not kill yourself by attacking them. The Second: Have enough damage reduction! Damage reduction works on self-inflicted damage too, so it is vital to increase your damage resistance to the maximum 50%. This way the 24% life steel requirement will go down to 12%. The Third: Have enough resistance! This is just the standard for most melee build. Souls and Hydras can be very dangerous on Hell, so you need to reach as much resistance as possible! GREAT! You have it all! You have enough Life Steal, Damage Reduction and Resistance! And on top of this, you even have max block! You are good to go, right? No... Not even close. You see... there are enemies in Diablo 2 that are resistant or even completely immune to Life Steal. Which means, that you CAN'T steal life from them. At all! Not just that you can't replenish your life, your 8% Sacrifice damage will be inflicted on you in full force(4% with 50% damage reduction)! Regardless of your 12-24% Life Steal! So this makes fighting with many Undead enemies, like Souls and Skeletons(nor any physical immune monsters), completely impossible without switching off from Sacrifice to your regular attack(killing your attack rating in the process). Using Sacrifice with Fanaticism is even worse when fighting them! You must switch to Redemption, since that way you deal less damage and what enemies you killed, can replenish a portion of your health. This is another extremely important thing with this build: Switch between Redemption and Fanaticism often! Redemption: Helps replenish your life, which you will desperately need and helps you deal less damage to enemies that you can't steal life from, therefore you will not deal as much damage to yourself. Fanaticism: Helps taking out enemies that are not resistant to life steal much faster and the increased attack speed also helps to proc Life Tap. Your Equipment: A gear that gives a chance to cast Life Tap is an absolute must for this build. Exile or Dracul's Grasp. Exile has more chance to proc it, but it is pretty hard to max your Resistances with Exile, while you also have to stack life steal and DR, so I went with Dracul's Grasp. And if you want to reach the level requirement for Exile or Drac's playing with a Sacrifice paladin, it is vital to buy Life Tap wands and keep switching between your weapon and the wand. You have multiple choices between some great Damage reduction gear. Armors like the Stormshield or the Shaftstop or helmets like the Crown of Ages or the Rockstopper can help you out a lot, when trying to reach the 50% cap. For rune word armor, the best choice has to be Chains of Honor. It gives life steal, damage reduction and resistances. For weapons, I tried many, many Elite unique ones... Death Cleaver(Deadly Strike causes too much damage, it can kill you), Ethereal Lacerator(silly me, I thought the Amp damage proc can actually help me with physical immunes, but it just kills you), Rune Master etc. I ended up using the Azurewrath, because of its Sanctuary aura allows me to knock back those annoying undead that you can't steal life from. But usually Azurewrath is used for setting the undead enemies' physical resistance to 0% because of the aura. Sadly this ends up working against you here. Setting their physical resistance to 0% let's you deal more damage on them, therefore more damage on you. And since you can't steal life from them, this can easily kill you. Dealing with Souls and with their constant lightning is already hard enough, but now you also have to be careful not to deal too much damage on them, at least until Life Tap procs, which sometimes can take a while. So your choice is basically either dying from Souls or dying from yourself. Even if you stack life steal more than 24% like I did, the rest is usually not enough for you to significantly steal enough life back from enemies, because of the 1/3 penalty. This means that if you have 30% life steal, you will only leech back 2% from enemies that are not immune to life Steal. With a character that deals 2000 damage, that is only 40 life. This is definitely not enough to counter strong poison damage, so even with 75% poison resistance, you will have to be careful with enemies that can poison you. Especially if they are immune to life steal. Poison length reducing gear can certainly help. Goblin Toe is useful for the Crushing Blow no matter what and String of Ears gives you two things out of the three that you need: Damage reduction and Life Steal. Crown of Ages takes a lot of strength to equip, but it will certainly help you if you socket it the right way, depending on what you need, you can boost it's resistance or damage reduction. The question is: Is it worth it? To put all of this marvelous equipment on a Sacrifice Paladin, just to make it work? Keep in mind, this is not a powerful build with this equipment: you need all this just to make it function! In my opinion, no. This build is definitely not for people who want a functional build, this is more for people who want to suffer and die, so that they can say: "I built a Sacrifice Paladin and I managed to finish the game with it!" Sacrifice with high damage is probably the only skill that actively works against you and the Sacrifice Paladin is the best example of a build that is better at getting you killed rather than the monsters. It is literally the "Judean People's Front" of Diablo 2 builds. It may work better if you can put together a Phoenix rune word in your helm in Multiplayer, since that way, you can run Fanaticism and a level 10-15 Redemption aura at that same time, along with an Exile and a Dracul's Grasp for the 5+15% Lipe Tap chance. But then you would still need to boost up your damage resistance with a Shaftstop+Ber and a String of Ears belt to reach 50%. Which of course still becomes useless when you get Amp damage on you... Then what is left is boosting your life steal, you still need to reach at least 12% to offset Sacrifice, and you also have work hard to reach maximum resistances. Since most of your equipment is already taken, you need a Mara and charms to be able to max them out. And all this effort and top gear for what? For a build that is at least 1/5 as effective as a Zealer? Even when Life Tap procs and you don't have to constantly watch your health, you still have a hard time dealing with most of the more dangerous monsters. In fact this is the only build that will keep you worried, even if Life Tap procs on the enemies. So this is why you do not see people recommending this build to anyone, who is not in for it, for the challenge. As I said, it feels like another difficulty, because of the fact that you are literally being punished for causing too much damage. Which is kind of the point of the game, since on Hell enemies also hit hard and huge damage makes easier to get rid of them before they can kill you. If despite all of this, you feel like giving it a try, I wish you good luck! You will definitely need it...

@akitoyeptho8775

3 жыл бұрын

Painful to watch bro

@AKisHerceg

3 жыл бұрын

@@akitoyeptho8775 I can believe that! And it was even more painful to play... :) As I said it feels like a fourth difficulty. And you haven't even seen me fighting souls and groups of skeletons, or packs of mummies! Absolutely brutal if you use Sacrifice. You can end up with an empty belt of Full Rejuv pots in no time!

@sadp9013

2 жыл бұрын

Monster that you kill in one hit are going to be bad maybe one point in zeal to deal with that. with botd i cant imagine it is weak 900% damage plus fanatism merc might and consentration.must be killer on boss right?

@AKisHerceg

2 жыл бұрын

@@sadp9013 Zeal of course is good for crowds, but then why not just go with a Zealer, right? With high CB, Zeal is also better because of the multiple fast hits give more chance to inflict it. So even with bosses I would go for a normal zeal or smiter. Both can function better with much cheaper gear. Plus smite can't even miss... Worth a shot with EBOTD... which I did not have when I made this Pally. Still, you have no way of dealing with Physical Immunes. Even monsters with high Phys Res will give you trouble(Souls, undead etc.), let alone Immunes. Azurewrath at least gives you the option to deal with them, plus gives crowd control.

@sadp9013

2 жыл бұрын

The synergie are realy cool its a shame its that bad

Thanks for the extensive info. I ****was**** thinking about trying this build, but now.... I ain't no masochist.

@AKisHerceg

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome! :)

also, does sacrifice deal 8% of your damage to yourself, or 8% max hp to yourself?

@AKisHerceg

3 жыл бұрын

It deals 8% of the damage you deal, to yourself. Meaning if you do 2k damage, 8% will be inflicted on yourself. Which is around 160 damage to your health from your own hit. So I could literally kill myself with 10 hits with my current health pool without any enemy even touching me. As I wrote it in my long comment, this can be lessened to 4% if you run with 50% dmg reduction(of course Amp Dmg can remove your dr, so you will be right where you started). And this can be reduced even further with lifesteal, but 4% is not enough, since on Hell you have the 1/3rd penalty, so you need 3x4 life steal. 12%. Sadly, there are so many enemies that you either can't steal life from, or you have penalties for drain effectiveness, like skeletons for example. So all of this means nothing if you go against a group like that.

I'm planning on a Sacrifice build since a few weeks, and on paper I haven't found grave errors yet. Need to try it out for real though. I'll go with upped eth Zodded Vile Husk (yes, 2 hand sword). Kiras for res and cnbf, 2x angelic rings + amu for life regen and the needed chance to hit (about 93% with the passive bonus of maxed blessed aim). Treks, LoH, Verdungo, Duress. With only +1skills maxroll.gg says the own dmg is down to 1%, still I should have some lifeleech from somewhere, still trying to figure out how I can get it. Since I want it theme based, I call it the Graverobber and plan busting Stony tomb and other undead areas mostly. Therefore I'll try a barbarian merc with Lawbringer and Voice of reason. If the calculatiosn are correct I'll have about 2k-4k base dmg, +350% on demons, +~700% on undead (as well as ~900ar). With 2x30light res charms he'll have max res, 2nd best fhr, almost max chance to hit on non-undead, enough life. I think he will obliterate undead with one hit.

I did a sacrifice paladin a few years ago on bnet i finished hell baal but i played with a necro and a barb with bo the huge health and the necros life tap made it easier but in single you dont have that... damn.

@AKisHerceg

3 жыл бұрын

More health and infinite lifetap? Those two are exactly what this build needs! :)

I don't really understand why you take damage reduction when sacrifice go through it

@AKisHerceg

2 жыл бұрын

Well, since Sacrifice already damages you, it is pretty obvious why you would want to lessen the damage you take from enemies.

@DragonsilverXGenesis

2 жыл бұрын

@@AKisHerceg Yeah, btw your weapon, armor and shields are kinda uncommon it was to wait for Exile, Last wish and Fortitude ?

@AKisHerceg

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonsilverXGenesis This is “unmodded” single player. Only Exile is available from those rune words and I only have one, which would not give me enough resistance to cap all. :)

That loot

Been playing Sac Pally for over 20years. Tabbing with a 4hit zeal +life steal and using a two hander is very efficient and much more damage. Should be one shotting all but the the deepest hit point bosses. It never seems that difficult for me. The odd time I have to watch I dont kill myself but thats about the worst of it.

@AKisHerceg

2 жыл бұрын

This was a test for a pure Sacrifice pally. :) Of course a fantastic skill like Zeal can help you out big time(same with Smite against bosses) with the much needed life steal. But this is not a hybrid build. So yup... it is very hard to pull it off.

@mikewellington1151

2 жыл бұрын

@@AKisHerceg Fair enough my friend. I did enjoy the vid.

@AKisHerceg

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikewellington1151 Thanks! :)

Max out sacrifice and might, the intention for sacrifice is sheer physical damage, Things to look for on gear Life Regen Life steal Ed Ar Resistance Dr Sad reality of sacrifice paladins are they're expensive to make viable Vamp gaze Draculs grasp String of ears Grief Fortitude Blood boots and gloves Bk rings And paladin amulet

@AKisHerceg

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure I get you. Sacrifice and Might? Fanaticism gives more damage, increases attack speed and attack. On top of this, it is a synergy to Sacrifice, so there is no point in picking Might over Fanaticism. Yes, leech is very important, that is why I have Dracs, String of Ears and a ton of other leech items. Well, Grief and Fortitude(although they would be prefect for the Sacrifice Pally), they are completely out of the question in this case, since this is vanilla single player. Those runes only work on ladder or with the new Diablo 2 Resurrected. So I went with Azurewrath, since if not, then physical immunes and undead would be an enormous problem, especially since you can't even really leech from them effectively. At least this way they are knocked back and their physical resistance gets removed.