The only skills I can really view as feasible are Zeal, Vengeance, the Might aura, the Thorns aura, and the Vigor aura.

Contradict this if you will, but please tell me why. I haven't played in a while though, so I don't know how feasible that really is.

I can imagine holding on to a couple of skill points in the first few levels in this case, because as far as I know the Paladin doesn't get really good skills until the second and third tiers (in other words, the level 6 and level 12 skills). Let me contribute the first couple of possibilities: No, I'm posting this because of the rule that allows characters with different abilities to have separate runs. Keep in mind, I doubt this run would compete proper with the Sorceress or Assassin runs available, since the Paladin requires more toe-to-toe combat to my knowledge. This is for gathering Paladin-specific ideas at this time to be used in a run in the future, and if someone else is really up to doing the run, they can feel free to do so and I'll just sit back and enjoy. Will I do a run? If I did, it would be the run after the next one I'm doing. Therefore, I am starting a topic to gather a good general idea of what would be best for a Paladin speedrun of Diablo 2. However, as far as Diablo 2 runs go, this still leaves the Paladin and the Barbarian untouched to my knowledge. Plus I have heard rumors that someone wanted to work on an Amazon run. All right, I've seen a Necromancer topic, a Druid topic, and I know there are runs for an Assassin and a Sorceress already up on SDA.

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