Tesladin - Insanely Strong/Versatile Melee Build!! Best in Diablo 2 Resurrected??

[Hocoino]

The true takeaway is that with godly enough items, you can do any build you want.

[eldarm]

It just insane how many builds this 20 year old game has to offer and i cannot even imagine how proud original creators are for their masterpiece, so glad they remastered it, all my friends are playing non stop again this game.

[bodieh]

For those grumbling about the cost of this build. The problem is folks having grief and fortitude fever for every melee build and this is perpetuated by every streamer and youtuber out there. Are they good? Sure, not debating that, but are they necessary for a tesladin to function excellently in any way? Nope. That's 2 unnecessary Lo runes. Max dmg life charms are likewise unnecessary, you don't need the dmg nor the ar, many forget that max conv reduces target def by 90%. ~5-6k ar on a lvl 90+ toon gives u about >80% chance to hit ubers, your final cth is not reflected in the stat screen. So just skip the stupidly overpriced 3/20/20 small charm nonsense and go with plain large or grand vita charms which cost a fraction of what small vita charms cost.

What you are left with is a build that tops any melee build(by a large margin, both in boss kill speed and clear speed, less smite for boss killing obviously), with the ability to mindlessly solo ubers(you don't even need a cta if u kill them individually, or u can just tank and kill all 3 if u do have a cta). All that for effectively 2 jah's and change, I.e. less than an enigma, which is yet another item what half the world uses in virtually every build. Don't get me wrong, 2 jah's aren't cheap, this isn't a starter friendly build, but the point is tesladin's needn't be nearly as expensive as many guides make them out to be. As someone who mains a zealer(regular phys until I could afford just 1 then eventually 2 dreams) I'd pick this any day over any other pally build, even enigma hammers. With max conv there are literally 2-3 mobs in the entire game that are remotely immune to you and that can be easily(and cheaply) solved.

Here are my gear recommendations for a more budget friendly version.

Weapon: Azurewrath, shael'd or 15ias jewel(nothing will be immune to you), the 250-500 cold dmg is also buffed by conv, don't sniff at it. Crescent Moon works well too for obvious reason, or any runeword that gives cb/open wounds that is socketable in a sword(u want a pb for an easy 72ias 5.2 breakpoint). My choice for ubers and boss killing is kingslayer for cb/ow but really any of the budget cb runewords work. I personally use botd, it's half the price of a grief atm, brings 60ias and dual leech.

Gloves/boots: any gloves work, 20ias res rares, chancies for mf/gf etc. I prefer dracs for general safety/utility and gob toe's for cb. No I haven't had any issues with confuse conflicting with life tap. Also, LoH is unnecessary cos dmg to demons doesn't affect lightning dmg(I.e. majority of your dmg if u don't use grief) the 20ias/50fr is nice tho.

Belt: nos coil or gold wrap if u need the IAS, tgods/dungos/string if u don't

Armor: any 4os armor with 4 cheap light facets, I personally prefer -3/+5 facets cos they cost a pul-um each and u don't need the -res. +light dmg applies twice(double dips) to holy shock's melee portion, giving u 40% more lightning dmg(adds 10k lightning dmg per hit vs 7k without facets). Any cheap +15 light ormus works too. Alternatively, 3os Nat's or black hades works too. If you need the IAS, just substitute 1 or 2 facets for IAS jewels as required. Treach works fine too but u rarely need that much IAS. Wealth or skulders for mf/gf. Duress if u don't have a cb/ow weapon.

[vincentkellner]

Wow that was criminal! 9:15 Dr dropped the dracs and u did not give him the mal to pay for it, then 10:14 you deny stealing when you got caught. You know what u did, bad carma bro! You owe a mal to Dr...

[KaizenLegacy]

A couple tweaks to this gives you another damage type. I was Ares on your Sinbear stream. I was using Dream Helm, Dream Shield, Dragon Armor, Hand of Justice Weapon, Highlords, Dracs, Thundergods, Bul-Kathos Wedding Band, Ravenfrost, and Gore Riders. Max Zeal, level 25 conviction, Max Resist Fire, max Resist Light, Max Salvation, and you can decide between Sac and Holy Shield for remaining points. That gives you a level 30 Holy Fire Aura, level 30 Holy Shock Aura, and level 25 Conviction Aura pulsing. Trash mobs typically die in 1-2 pulses in 8-Player Hell. For Ubers, if you want to kill them a little faster, you can swap out Hand of Justice for Grief or Last Wish (or, if you want to go for even more leech, EBOTD). And before people start screaming - yes, this is a ridiculously expensive build, but that doesn't make it any less fun!

This is my favorite build in the game (made it for the first time ~15 years ago). The only thing it lacks is teleport, but when everything falls over around you, walking isn't so bad.

[angrypenguin]

One of my all-time favourite characters. Back in the day, like almost 10-15 years ago, I even ventured a written guide (Yes that was a thing back then) that you can still find around the internet (Wurmer Tesladin guide). I never had godly gear like Mr. Lama is sporting here but I was doing pretty good nevertheless. Even with less than optimal gear you can still deal a tone of damage.

[Oaty]

I would love to see a budget version of builds like this and maybe a progression plan to get to this.

[darrencarpenter]

After seeing your first guide on the Tesladin I am happy to say I have completed the build

[amfitness]

If you swap out the Grief for a LW it solves your lifetap issues without sacrificing IAS on the gloves slot, plus you can run a Faith act 1 merc and still have a lvl 17 might!

[mattsmith]

Wow, super cool. So glad you got so much stuff. You know what would be cool? True budget builds, like hobest to God poor man builds.

[GB-jpqo]

@MrLlamaSC there is something more fun and more expensive than Tesladin. Dream helmet/shield, Dragon armor and Hand of Justice as weapon. Everything just dies as u walk around.

[Rievax]

Wow I didn’t realize how smooth the new charge animation looks now. Looks very nice

[edwilson]

This build has a glitch with the holy shock turning on and off. It isn't just a visual bug either. Watch the character page and the damage output will drop every time it cycles on and off. This has been reported since beta but Blizzard has not addressed the bug. I would highly recommend staying away from this build until the bug is fixed. I wasted 2 Jah's on it.

[darkfocust]

hey what happened to the mal you were supposed to give for those dracs?!

[mbernert]

Ran this build for a while on my pally, fun but I feel like the holy shock does more damage when I wear dual dream on my sorc, the lightning mastery bonus damage is huge and it’s fun having a passive whole screen damage tick while running around as sorc

[neiska]

Running this build myself, my only complaint is I wish there was a way to tell how much damage your auras are doing.

[galdersrontgorrth]

if you're so focused on phys dmg, then you can use pride as your merc's polearm. with grief you'll need only 1 % manaleech from any source to compensate the minimal mana cost of zeal.

[ilkeraribas]

Everything you did for us amazing. Appreciate it.

[zachariasd]

My favorite has always been dual dream hoj dragon for 30+ shock and fire. Then speccing into holy freeze, using vengeance

Can still get enough + to skills for a point in zeal for the 5 hit swing. Damage comes from all the elements + merc infinity

[OmegaGuess]

OMG thank you, you're the first person I've seen that isn't "Enigma or nothing" on this build.