Zealot pairs two one-handed weapons with a builder/spender loop of Oaths: Righteous Lunge and Vindication bank Oaths — Vindication also triggering Zealotry, the spec's core proc, which is likewise armed by your off-hand auto attacks through the same-named passive.
Banked Oaths are then spent on an Oath Breaker (Chastise, Blade of Faith, Divine Fury, or Righteous Upheaval), chained roughly every 20 seconds rather than spammed — a proc-driven melee identity closer to a Retribution Paladin than a bare-fisted fighter.
Your off-hand auto attacks now trigger Zealotry. Zealotry (proc) deals 40% off-hand weapon damage as Holy damage.
Zealot is closest to a Retribution Paladin's Holy Power loop (builders bank a resource, a finisher spends it), but dual-wield and DoT-forward (Condemn + Blade of Faith), with a Zealotry proc engine off the off-hand rather than one clean nuke finisher. It can also bolt on a Discipline-Priest-style overlay through Chakra of Light, which turns its Oath Breakers into ally heals — but its default identity stays straight melee damage.
Moderate complexity: the builder → Oath → Oath Breaker loop runs fine on autopilot, but picking the right finisher (Righteous Upheaval at max Zealotry stacks, otherwise Blade of Faith) and keeping five Librams cycling takes real timing discipline.
Vindication banks Oaths and fishes Zealotry procs off your off-hand, which you spend through Righteous Upheaval finishers that scale in power with how many times Zealotry triggered during the Oath Chain — a fast, proc-chasing single-target loop.
Force of Golganneth and the capstone Norgannon's Wrath give it genuine AoE for solo/duo grinding, while Testament of Fortitude and Sacred Style (class tree) cover its sustain, since the spec tree itself invests almost nothing in self-healing. In a group it's a straightforward single-target/cleave DPS slot whose value is sustained Zealotry uptime and Oath Chain synergy with other Templars.
- Builder loop — Righteous Lunge and Vindication generate Oaths; Vindication also triggers Zealotry, and your off-hand auto attacks arm the same proc through the Zealotry passive.
- Signature (Zealotry): your off-hand auto attacks trigger Zealotry. Zealotry (proc) deals 40% off-hand weapon damage as Holy damage.
- Relentless DoT and proc damage — Condemn is a huge share of your damage per press, Blade of Faith adds a hard-critting 21-second DoT, and your off-hand swings constantly fish Zealotry procs (Holy damage plus a stacking Iron Penance physical-damage-taken debuff on the target).
- A genuine burst button — Force of Golganneth, on a two-minute cooldown, explodes for Holy damage and triggers Zealotry on every nearby enemy for several seconds, feeding Divine Fury procs and Iron Penance stacks across the pack.
- Flexible identity — the same rotation can be pointed at support: Chakra of Light turns your Oath Breakers into ally heals, so a Zealot can respec from pure DPS into a damage-into-healing bruiser without relearning the loop.
- Fully melee-locked with no ranged escape — every tool closes distance (Norgannon's Wrath, Force of Golganneth), so an opponent that keeps you out of melee shuts off the Zealotry engine and your whole Oath economy at once.
- The builder → Oath → Oath Breaker chain is fragile under pressure — a miss or a control effect can strand you with no finisher up and drop your Condemn/Blade of Faith uptime, where most of your damage lives.
- Uneven tuning inside the kit — Divine Fury currently scales poorly in single target (pressed mostly for the free global/Energy, not the damage), and the strongest finisher, Righteous Upheaval, needs its Zealotry stacks built first, so a chopped-up chain loses a lot of its payoff.
Approachable, with a couple of systems to learn. A combo with few moving parts.
Strong skill expression — optimizing your stack/combo economy.
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