This is going to blow everyone’s mind, but if you free up those 20 points, with 110 skill points, you can max out prayer, get all the synergies for holy bolt and fist of heaven, with a single point in holy shield!!!

One option I’ve considered was just maxing out prayer so I’d still have the healing synergy with holy bolt and could use plague to do the healing/debuff and then use a prayer merc with an insight to put in 2 other forms of healing and that would free up 20 skill points to place somewhere else. Not only are you double healing with a good radius, but you can further heal with holy bolt, you can wear a shield in addition to the Plague, and the cleansing aura reduces curses and poisons for everyone, which removes negative buffs.Įxile sounds like a great idea My first thought months ago was to get a prayer merc with an insight doing a double heal while I put out a maxed out cleansing aura, but with a plague and exile, I could be a double healer/debuff/party defense build, then I can max out holy bolt synergies and kill bosses single handedly, or heal other players. Max out prayer and meditation and the new Runeword Plague from the 2.4 PTR with a cleansing aura. I just posted a build idea you might find interesting. The insight had a fairly good healing radius, but only a single point in cleansing wasn’t getting that extra healing to my comrads.

The problem I ran into running around with cleansing aura holding an runeword insight was the radius of effect of the aura. I’ve been playing around with the idea of a healer myself.

Diablo 2 paladin prayer cleansing