It’s barely anymore. What drives it up more than the concertation level is the rating. A 300-rated item will provide less than a 500-rated one. But it’s not worth the resources upgrading to 500, and it’s not worth going up to orange tier either.
The best way:
Buy the matching item from the normal armory of there is a green or blue item available and sacrifice
Buy grey items from brunt and upgrade ONLY to green and then sacrifice
If you don’t need MELK money for anything else, buy matching 500-rated + orange items from melk to sacrifice.
In case you use the scoreboard mod, i suggest that you get the plugin to see more detailed dmg information.
You can see damage dealt with bleeds for example.
It would not surprise me, if the bleed talent that you picked, would provide maybe 2k extra dmg per mission.
It is not great in combination with the thunder hammer.
I guess you could make use of the talent, when attacking bosses and jumpstarting it with your ability. But still questionable and highly situational.
There are a few other talents in there, that do not provide you a lot of value either.
not ironically it’s not even needed for DS that much
btw yea scourge is not good.
also blood for the emperor honestly, if you are not running multiple wounds, and martydom build, i’d say to dump as well. not that needed for survavibility imo!
keystone for thammer inexorable judgement would be nice
I would recommend Blazing piety and Invoc of Death instead of Martyrdom, to better take advantage of the Dmg reduction on crit, and then go full Toughness on the Curios (and maybe one Stam Curio)
mmh fair, but the damage over time is so low that barely kills anything over time for zealot, when it comes to scourge at least with Thammer.
scourge is meant more for high crit weapons that are fast and rely a lot on crits cause you get 10% + crit chance if enemies are bleeding (thammer sadly isnt lot of crits unless you charge)
second wind only procs on dodges, viscous offering is an alternative.
does other chars have something similar to until death/holy rev and or need it? if zealot really needs it then your extra dodges from IJ must not be very good.
MAW POWAH is never a waste.
refer to 1.
nothing clears a room better than imo nades and flamer, anything left standing is what the Hammer is for.
enduring faith procs every FOTF activation still helpful especially when you only activate FOTF when engaging enemies.
why do you need more HP if IJ is there to dodge everything and you have INVUL and HP regen every 2 mins to abuse.
refer to 7 again why IJ is considered a must pick when it seems to require several crutches to fall back on.
Yes. But the thunderhammer is a slow weapon that does not tend to need many hits per target.
How often do you think, you will actually stack this blessing’s crit buff up, when using the thunderhammer?
