New D2R 2.4 Dragondin Build - Best Holy Fire Paladin Build In Diablo 2 Resurrected 2.4 PTR

New D2R 2.4 Dragondin Build - Best Holy Fire Paladin Build In Diablo 2 Resurrected 2.4 PTR

2/2/2022 6:24:11 AM

What are best builds to use for the start of Diablo 2 Resurrected 2.4 PTR? Check this new D2R 2.4 Dragondin build guide and we are going to be going over the new Holy Fire Paladin that is taking the community by storm and PTR.

New Holy Fire Paladin Build In Diablo2 Resurrected 2.4 PTR

This is powerful in some certain scenarios, but this build falls flat on its face in certain areas compared to other characters like the Hammerin, Javazon, and Necromancer, it's a good build and it's interesting and cool, but it's super expensive and can only farm a few niche areas. So we are going to quickly break it down, we explain the attributes, Paladin gear, merc gear, skill points, and more about the Holy Fire Paladin build D2R 2.4 PTR.

Attributes For Dragondin Build 2.4 PTR

Strength: 187

Dexterity: 141

Vitality: 441

Energy: 56

This is a level 95 single-player Paladin, so enough strength to equip gear, enough dexterity from x block and everything else is put into vitality. An okay res split lightning and cold, it's a little bit low, not perfect optimized charms.

Paladin Gear

This whole build centers around three D2R items:

- Hand of Justice Phase Blade: Level 16 holy fire aura

Hand of Justice*

100% Chance To Cast Level 36 Blaze When You Level-Up
100% Chance To Cast Level 48 Meteor When You Die
Level 16 Holy Fire Aura When Equipped
+33% Increased Attack Speed
+280-330% Enhanced Damage (varies)
Ignore Target's Defense
7% Life Stolen Per Hit
-20% To Enemy Fire Resistance
20% Deadly Strike
Hit Blinds Target
Freezes Target +3

- Dragon Archon Plate: Level 14 holy fire auro

Archon Plate[4S & ETH & 10-14 ED]

Sale [4 Sockets ]
Sale [ETH]
Sale [+10-14 EDef ]

Archon Plate

Defense: 410-524
Durability: 60
Req Strength: 103
Req level: 63
Quality level: 84
Treasure class: 84
Max sockets: 4
Weight: Light

The rest gears:

- Helmet: Bone Visage

Bone Visage

Defense: 100-157
Durability: 40
Req Strength: 106
Req level: 63
Quality level: 84
Treasure class: 84
Max sockets: 3

- Amulet: Highlord’s Wrath

Highlord's Wrath

Required Level: 65
+1 To All Skills
+20% Increased Attack Speed
+ (0.375 Per Character Level) 0-37 % Deadly Strike (Based On Character Level)
Lightning Resist +35%
Adds 1-30 Lightning Damage
Attacker Takes Lightning Damage Of 15
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.09 or later)

- Belt: String Of Ears Demonhide Sash

String of Ears

Defense: 102-113 (varies)(Base Defense: 29-34)
Required Level: 29
Required Strength: 20
Durability: 22
16 Boxes
+150-180% Enhanced Defense (varies)
+15 Defense
6-8% Life Stolen Per Hit (varies)
Damage Reduced By 10-15% (varies)
Magic Damage Reduced 10-15 (varies)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.09 or later)

- Rings: Raven Frost, Viper Whorl

Raven Frost

Required Level: 45
+150-250 To Attack Rating (varies)
Adds 15-45 Cold Damage, 4 sec. Duration (Normal)
Cannot Be Frozen
+15-20 To Dexterity (varies)
+40 To Mana
Cold Absorb 20%
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.09 or later)

- Gloves: Laying of Hands Bramble Mitts

- Boots: Gore Rider

- Runeword: Call To Arms, Spirit

- Charms: Fine Grand Charm of Vita, Fine Small Charm of Vita, Annihilus Small Charm, Hellfire Torch Large Charm

Hellfire Torch(Sorceress)

Required Level: 75
5% Chance To Cast level 10 Firestorm* On Striking
3 to Random Character Class Skills (varies)
10-20 To All Attributes (varies)
Sale [15-17 To All Attributes (varies)]
All Resistances 10-20 (varies)
Sale [All Resistances 15-17 (varies)]
8 To Light Radius
Level 30 Hydra (10 charges)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.13 or later)

Merc Gear

The mercenary is just a Barbarian merc is using Death, Fortitude and Arreat’s Face

Arreat's Face

Defense: 302-363 (varies)(Base Defense: 121)
Required Level: 42
Required Strength: 118
Durability: 55
(Barbarian Only)
+150-200% Enhanced Defense (varies)
Sale [+200% Enhanced Defense]
30% Faster Hit Recovery
20% Bonus To Attack Rating
+2 To Barbarian Skill Levels
3-6% Life Stolen Per Hit (varies)
Sale [6% Life Stolen Per Hit]
All Resistances +30
+20 To Strength
+20 To Dexterity
+2 To Combat Skills (Barbarian Only)
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.09 or later)

. You could use an act 2 mercenary if you wanted a little bit of a decrep aura might boost your physical damage a little bit, some of these little things will help a little bit, but they won't help a ton because you don't have a ton of raw physical damage with a Phase Blade. It's 125 to 142 damage. If we were using like grief and then maybe like a reaper's tall mercenary, that would speed you up on a tesla then if you really want to stack the holy fire auras, it's not really an option.

Skill Points For Dradondin Build 2.4 PTR

Offensive Aura Tree

Put 24 hard and soft points into Conviction, that's a negative 145 all resist, so battle command brings it up to negative 150, that's the highest you can go these are all prerequisites.

Combat Skill Tree

Put one hard point in the Holy Shield and then 20 into Sacrifice and then all the remaining Zeal.

Defensive Skill Tree

Put 25 hard and soft and to Resist Fire, and then 25 heart and soft into Salvation. So these defensive skills on the defensive tree boost the damage synergy of holy fire. So holy fire receives resist fire and salvation damage. So that's what gives you the crazy dragon pulse damage.

D2R 2.4 New Dragondin Build & Holy Fire Paladin Build Tips

This is a very cool build, it's fun, it's outside of the norm. There are a lot of different options that you can run for mercenary like you could get a tiny bit more damage with decrep, with the reaper control mercenary, but you don't have a lot of roth physical damage with the Hand of Justice Phase Blade. So this is an interesting build with lots of variation, kind of niche and where you can farm, but it needs three Sur runes, three low runes and a Chairman and half of the community seems to think it's fine, , leave it hard to achieve build. But others think it's op.

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