Unholy Melee Paladin [105-125 content in TU's]

[dfnord]

If anyone wonders what scosglen looks like with UHM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5kkMKOCqs

This is a great showcase, thanks for sharing.

[SeeTwo]

If anyone wonders what scosglen looks like with UHM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5kkMKOCqs

This is a great showcase, thanks for sharing.

There's a few more videos on my channel too! Feel free to have a look

[nubbs]

this guide still relevant 2.0?

[La_minore]

this guide still relevant 2.0?

Still relevant. However, mind the changes of skill names.

Zod-crafted jewels in this guide is equivalent to Fal-crafted jewels now: +(1 to 2)% to spell damage.

[Wotan]

If anyone wonders what scosglen looks like with UHM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5kkMKOCqs

In the video you say that the pierce is kinda high cause of Elemental wisdom and thats not true. Its high cause of Sanguine covenant. I think that skill is an overkill since you can easily get 140-150 pierce.
I would recommend Crafted weapon (with cata or magic missiles on attack) and crafted shield over that RW. The RW is definitely a cheaper option, since you need to sink a lot of shrines into crafts. The RW is a better option single target wise if the target isnt moving too much ex. Riftwalker and dealing with the big guys in Scosglen.
Radiance setup isnt optimal as you lose a lot of spell damage and spell focus compared to having 2x ras alghati + rare 3-4 skill amu and crafted helm/Veil of the Tainted sun SSU. You dont need the pierce and the phys res from Radiance as well which devalues it even more.
One minor complaint about the video from me is when you were showing the stats you didn't show the damage of blood thorns fully buffed. I had to pin point pause the video to see it when you hoover over your skills. Other than that- kudos and cheers.

[bapcja]

guide is being updated to 2.1.6

[Siosilvar]

guide is being updated to 2.1.6

Oh, that's good. I've been working on one myself because I didn't know if you were around.

New spell focus craft on jewels is excellent for the build, btw. Bloodthorns and Lemures get double the effect from synergy (also confirmed myself by calculating what the base damage ought to be from what the tooltip shows) so there's good odds that 4-8 spell focus beats 1-2 spell damage. I would also consider Eerie shrines over Fascinating shrines for the same reason, but it depends on the exact values of spell damage vs. spell focus you've got.

[bapcja]

guide is being updated to 2.1.6

Oh, that's good. I've been working on one myself because I didn't know if you were around.

New spell focus craft on jewels is excellent for the build, btw. Bloodthorns and Lemures get double the effect from synergy (also confirmed myself by calculating what the base damage ought to be from what the tooltip shows) so there's good odds that 4-8 spell focus beats 1-2 spell damage. I would also consider Eerie shrines over Fascinating shrines for the same reason, but it depends on the exact values of spell damage vs. spell focus you've got.

With just 3 fasci crafts/honorific/tiered unique gear and half decent jewels i am sitting at 900+ SF

[bapcja]

added progression tips

[nakieon]

This is such an incredible build. In full perfect rubies (6 perf amethysts in weapon for AR), TU's, 3 honorifics, 0 crafted items or jewels I breezed all content so far up to and including 120. After dying dozens and dozens of times to finally kill Kabraxis or Quov Tsin or [insert difficult boss before 125] on other great characters like WW barb or Psychic assassin I'm able to safely farm Kabraxis and Quov without any deaths. I have never died to these bosses yet. I'm playing on single player so I'm just SSF here.

It's also amazing to see that this guide is being updated! I was following the old guide and am thankful for the updates. Since the OP has returned, I have some questions:

1. Are there any SU's that would benefit this build? Thinking about farming Duncraig to get some upgrades before delving into crafting.

2. Also for jewelcrafting and upgrading from honorifics what modifiers would you look for on an ideal craft? Rubies and the honorifics are already pretty great on their own.

3. What MO's would you do on rings/amulets beyond Fire spell dmg + MF? I saw that Ring of Regha is recommended for MO space but I wasn't sure what to MO on it.

4. What would you do for a Sleep upgrade? I've never done a Sleep upgrade before but since this build is heavily reliant on AR I was thinking of going the Tran Athulua one.