Blazing Piety or Inexorable Judgement

[Ultimate Pheer]

I've recently been trying out Zealot after leaving it on the shelf for most of my playtime, and I'm wondering which capstone is better, both for general purpose use and for specific situations a zealot might find themselves in. So far I've been pretty firmly stuck on a left-side build that uses Blazing Piety but I'm not sure if I should swap over to Inexorable Judgement with for my thunderhammer.

[靐]

I use Blazing Piety for crit build cd reduction.

[Forblaze]

I also have a hard time moving away from blazing piety. It's just too good.

[xDaunt]

Messaggio originale di CazadorTheEverhungry:

I use Blazing Piety for crit build cd reduction.

This is the primary advantage that blazing piety has over inexorable judgment. And yes, I use it even with my thunderhammer simply because I like having regular access to FOF. Beyond that, and if you are using a high finesse damage weapon, you basically should always use blazing piety now.

[DLCI]

frankly, i think rage is overrated

there are only a handful of weapons that benefit more from +25% crit chance than +15% damage/attack-speed; judgement is better in general if you are using a weapon with weaker finesse bonuses (ie 50% or less)

judgement is better than it looks because it does more than add damage + attack speed, it gives a few other bonuses not listed in the ability description

it also gives a bonus to
dodge speed (x1.005% multiplier per stack)
dodge distance (+0.5% added per stack)
and dodge reset time (+1% faster dodge reset per stack)

so especially because of the flat bonus it gives to dodging that can cancel out a weapon's poor dodge profile, it is surprisingly good on heavier weapons

however, judgement is quite bad with a low melee mobility weapon if you don't pair it with a high mobility ranged weapon like revolver, bolt-pistol, or hacker shotgun

you build stacks based on how fast you are moving and if you are trying to sprint with a thunderhammer it is going to make it hard to get the full benefit

[Mugman Lord]

Messaggio originale di Ultimate Pheer:

I've recently been trying out Zealot after leaving it on the shelf for most of my playtime, and I'm wondering which capstone is better, both for general purpose use and for specific situations a zealot might find themselves in. So far I've been pretty firmly stuck on a left-side build that uses Blazing Piety but I'm not sure if I should swap over to Inexorable Judgement with for my thunderhammer.

Inexorable Judgement any day of the week. Its just S tier on high level play period. The node about toughness regen close to the keystone is just +30% toughness every 6 seconds. Its just so good its not even funny. Also is in proximity of Shroudfield I think? The stealth Ult that 4x your damage since its multipliers on top of multipliers? Yeah, no this is insane if you want to min-max.

If you want TRULY min-maxxed Zealot, go see Tanner Lindberg's video on generic Zealot meta build and you will get everything you need to know.

[Slymoon]

hmmm...
When I'm on my bleed/ crit loner build. I have No Keystones.

I pop mastercraft shroudfield, all the time. In the thick of it, I am nearly spamming it.

[Taiji]

Messaggio originale di DLCI:

frankly, i think rage is overrated

there are only a handful of weapons that benefit more from +25% crit chance than +15% damage/attack-speed; judgement is better in general if you are using a weapon with weaker finesse bonuses (ie 50% or less)

That 25% crit chance, along with Shred blessing and +5% crit chance perk, makes FotF recharge fast enough to more or less sustain it's 20% attack speed when there's enough enemies around.

What I don't think it works so well with is weapons like axes that 1 shot. Because you don't get the crit that causes the bleed that enables more crits as often.

[cith]

Messaggio originale di Ultimate Pheer:

I've recently been trying out Zealot after leaving it on the shelf for most of my playtime, and I'm wondering which capstone is better, both for general purpose use and for specific situations a zealot might find themselves in. So far I've been pretty firmly stuck on a left-side build that uses Blazing Piety but I'm not sure if I should swap over to Inexorable Judgement with for my thunderhammer.

neither. martyrdom forever and ever.

[box]

Theyre all good in that they make Zealot shine in specific areas (crits, survival or speed)

I used to run almost exclusively blazing piety since the crit + cd reduction was ridiculous.

But if you want to do a run around zealot then blazing piety isn't your best choice.

Martyrdom is a bit of a mixed bag especially when things get hectic and you're going all in with that one wound bar...

[Arani]

Messaggio originale di Ultimate Pheer:

I've recently been trying out Zealot after leaving it on the shelf for most of my playtime, and I'm wondering which capstone is better, both for general purpose use and for specific situations a zealot might find themselves in. So far I've been pretty firmly stuck on a left-side build that uses Blazing Piety but I'm not sure if I should swap over to Inexorable Judgement with for my thunderhammer.

People really need to get out of this "is X better than Y, no context or other variables" mindset. :D

Blazing Piety is better if you need the crits or want the talents on the way there anyway (Invocation of Death & Punishment are both pretty pog after all). Inexorable Judgement is better if you need the attack speed or the talents on the way there.

Typically I favor BP, since I usually do crit builds and I love shotguns. Scattershot & Man-Stopper / Flechette really love Blazing Piety.

But IJ is fantastic on builds that get plenty of crits on their own anyway and can afford to pick IoD. After all IoD doesn't care how often you crit, as long as it's at least once every 4s. But with more attack speed you compensate a lot for slower weapons like hammers, or less finesse-heavy weapons that don't really care about crits as much. The extra attack speed is fantastic for anything that procs on hit like bleeds, Dumdum etc, and the BAG guns really love it.

[ナルゴ]

Blazing piety because I like crit sounds

[PJ]

I switched to Blazing Piety because of the endless flame blessing that the Flamer got. So that's what I would recommend if you're planning to use the Flamer.

[Sea Base]

BP is the better choice for most builds, so it is just better then IJ. But if you want to be that one Zealot that people complain about on the forums all the time, IJ is king for that build xD

[J.P.]

I like all 3 zealot keystones and you can have really strong builds either way.

It really depends on what weapons you are using. For instance I love braced auto guns and running Inexorable gives you ranged attack speed which is great in autoguns!

[JuX]

I find inexorable judgement pointless, when you can just go with martyrdom. While piety has it's own uses to stack cooldown reduction and make use of everlasting flame.