Zealot’s Oath

Ah, Zealot's Oath! A potent keystone for Templar exiles, it indeed comes with the intriguing quirk of converting life regeneration to energy shield regeneration. Let's delve into the intricacies of this unique mechanic:

The Essence of the Oath:

  • Zealot's Oath fundamentally alters your health management, prioritizing energy shield over life.
  • Instead of directly regenerating life, any source of life regeneration you have gets converted into energy shield regeneration at a 1:1 ratio.
  • This opens up unique build possibilities and forces you to consider different strategies for healing and mitigating damage.

Embracing the Shielded Path:

  • The benefits of Zealot's Oath can be significant:
    • Energy shield generally recharges faster than life, offering more responsive recovery in the heat of battle.
    • Certain mechanics and items that work with energy shield become highly valuable, like energy shield leech or recharge passives.
    • Combined with strong energy shield regeneration sources, you can achieve incredible levels of survivability.

Navigating the Challenges:

  • However, Zealot's Oath also comes with its drawbacks:
    • You lose access to traditional life-based recovery options like life leech or life flasks.
    • Builds heavily reliant on specific life regeneration mechanics might not be well-suited for this keystone.
    • You prioritize investing in energy shield over life, which can affect your overall health pool and require adjustments to your defensive strategy.

Building around the Oath:

  • To truly shine with Zealot's Oath, consider focusing on:
    • Strong sources of energy shield regeneration: invest in passives, auras, and uniques that boost your shield recharge rate.
    • Energy shield leech: convert a portion of your damage dealt into shield recovery for additional sustain.
    • Block and mitigation: minimizing incoming damage becomes crucial as you rely mainly on energy shield for recovery.

Beyond the Mechanics:

  • Zealot's Oath offers a compelling thematic shift, transforming you into a warrior whose very faith fuels their shield's resilience.
  • It encourages creative build design and mastery of alternative survival strategies.
  • Remember, even in Wraeclast's harshness, resilience can manifest in different forms. Embrace the unconventional path of the Zealot, and let your shielded faith become your unwavering defense!

Feel free to ask further questions about specific build ideas, synergies with other mechanics, or any challenges you might face while navigating the path of the Zealot's Oath. Together, we can explore the full potential of this captivating keystone and forge a champion whose defense shines as brightly as their devotion!

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Zealot’s Oath is a keystone passive skill. It applies life regeneration to energy shield instead of life. Just like Ghost Reaver making the ES leech rate based on max ES instead of max life, % life regen becomes % ES regen, and based on max Energy Shield.

Zealot's Oath Effect

As shown in the above example, the life is 1 and the energy shield is 12,011.

Percentage based life regeneration becomes percentage based ES regeneration based on maximum ES. Percentage based life regeneration can be gained from several unique items and passive skills.

Zealot's Oath

Zealot’s Oath Build

  1. Life Regeneration. If you have life regeneration of 10% per second, this is applied to Energy Shield, meaning you now have Energy Shield regeneration of 10% per second.
  2. Anything which says it’s life regeneration will work with Zealot’s Oath.
  3. Life Flasks are not regeneration, and not affected. Note that life leech, among other things are not regneration.
  4. Chaos Inoculation(Maximum Life becomes 1, Immune to Chaos Damage). This works fine with Chaos Inoculation. If you have only 1 life, but 10% life regeneration, it turns into 10% Energy Shield regeneration.
  5. Vaal Pact(grants doubled life leech speed and maximum life leech rate, but causes life regeneration to have no effect). You won’t regen ES if you have Vaal Pact and Zealot’s Oath.
  6. Eldritch Battery(Energy Shield protects Mana instead of Life). If the character also has Eldritch Battery, life regeneration will apply to ES.
  7. Vitality(grants life regeneration to the caster and their allies). After getting Zealot’s Oath, life regeneration becomes based on your %shield. With the passive tree and level 20 vitality you can reach like 7.7% regen. 10000 energy shield + zealot’s oath = 770 ES regen per second = unkillable.

Does Life Recovery Rate benefit energy shield regeneration granted by Zealot's Oath?

No. That's Energy Shield Recovery, not Life Recovery.

Location

Zealot’s Oath is located in the southwest side of the tree, close to the Templar’s area.

Different distance distance from start: Templar(11), Witch(11), Marauder(14), Scion(15), Shadow(20), Duelist(22), Ranger(25).

Zealot’S Oath Uniques

The following unique items are related to Zealot’s Oath:

Item Base Item Category Lvl. Stats
Skin of the Lords Skin of the Lords Simple Robe Body Armour 1 Item has no level requirement and Energy Shield (Hidden)
Sockets cannot be modified
+1 to Level of Socketed Gems
100% increased Global Defences
You can only Socket Corrupted Gems in this item
Item has 6 Sockets and is fully linked (Hidden)

<Random Keystone>(Zealot’s Oath, etc.)

Corrupted

The Sorrow of the Divine The Sorrow of the Divine Sulphur Flask Life Flask 35 Creates Consecrated Ground on Use(25-50)% increased Duration
Zealot’s Oath during Flask effect
Life Recovery from Flasks also applies to Energy Shield during Flask Effect
Zeel’s Amplifier Zeel’s Amplifier Polished Spiked Shield Shield 49 4% chance to Dodge Attack Hits(40-50)% increased Spell Damage
+(60-80) to maximum Energy Shield
+(50-70) to maximum Life
1% increased Area of Effect per Enemy killed recently, up to 50%
You have Zealot’s Oath if you haven’t been hit recently
Geofri’s Sanctuary Geofri’s Sanctuary Elegant Ringmail Body Armour 64 (50-75)% increased Armour and Energy Shield
+(30-40) to maximum Energy Shield
+(60-70) to maximum Life
+(14-18)% to all Elemental Resistances
+2 maximum Energy Shield per 5 Strength
Zealot’s Oath

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