New Zeal impressions

[HallowedOne]

So how is the pally population is reacting to ner...new Zeal? Is anyone noticing any good things happening with it?

Personally I'm feeling that my attack speed is the same as an old woman with osteophorosis with a heavy cane. It is even worse because my main is a S&B tank ... even more sluggish :(

[bunkerhugger]

Ran a few raids last night, saw no problem with my attack speed, things still died quickly and the two weapon fighters were still top of the kill counts for trash mobs.

[Quikster]

triple smites /dsIII are nice on my pure twf'r. I still plan to switch to thf one I pull sos shard. It helps my feat situation too much to pass up.

[nitronisto]

i agree for us tank type builds zeal was a nice way to get that extra swing out there since we are only using 1 wep and the shield is sleeved on our other arm, i played mine for a little bit and was suddenly flashed back to pre lv 14 when i didnt have zeal and am now considering taking fighter attack boost again even though its 20seconds it beats the hell out of 0 seconds now that zeal speed is gone :(
i dont blame the dervs for taking it away i mean they had to do a little evil to get a greater good but ouch that little evil hurts alot for me

[Delacroix21]

A 10% double attack bonus should Ideally outperform a 10% speed increase. Dont be stuck on just the visual swing speed of your character.


Thats a 10% chance to double hit (if S&B or THF) triple hit if TWF=
Smites
Trips
Stunning Blow
Divine Sacrifice
Regular attacks

[gradeys]

TBH I was disappointed with it and kinda still on the fence. But I have to say, when you get those double hit crit smites it is some awefully nice damage.

[zipperhead]

I feel the same as some of the rest of you. I know in theory (as I understand it) zeal should be better for my pure twf'er. Maybe its just the speed thing but I cant help but feel I'm doing less damage now. Going to give it another day or so, but I think I will go back to thf and free up a feat and some stat points.

P.s. I still had terrible lag in the shroud.

[lord_of_rage]

I saw triple smites last night. I saw a couple of triple smites with lighting strike procs. That was really fun. I still plan to tr light as soon as I get the gear I want, and work a human twf dos build. I am however going to change my dwarf back to S&B/TWF vs S&B/THF. TWF still has the advantage and its still a big one. To all the S&B players outthere I continue my plea. Please build in a dps option either twf or thf. It benifits the group so much more.

[Nick_RC]

Working on my pali life at the moment and got zeal last night. Was running with another pali and we exchanged notes. It really felt like there was a significant dps boost while it was up- more so than a 10% speed bonus. I did no testing or anything but it 'felt' like my too hit was a little better with it up. This could be completely bogus but il check it out later.

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[Gercho]

zeal actually is a nerf to twf and a boost for thf and s/b paladins... i did a run last night but didnt really put much attention to it...

[HallowedOne]

With all the input saw here, I started putting more attention on my combat feedback when using DS's and Smite's

I think I might be just plain unlucky but I didn't see any double light damage beeing applied. Is it applied just once by any chance?

As for smites, I think I might be just plain unlucky, but since there is no kind of markup when you strike it is easy to get confused, so I still have to check more.