Zealot's Oath question

VP+ZO results in at least two wasted skill points, I believe.

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anubite wrote:

The only build I can even conceive of functioning with this keystone is Righteous Fire builds, using a very low max life pool with chaos resistance, accumulating tons of regeneration passives to apply to your larger ES pool to cancel out the self-damage. No other build has any relevance by my estimation.

It'll also be good for builds taking advantage of pain attunement and, say, couple auras with blood magic keeping your health around that magical 30%. Without zealot the regen would be pretty wasted as 30% of your health isn't large enough of a pool for regen to be useful.

I have to agree that zealot seems to be for very specific builds, but doesn't the same apply to a lot of the big keystones?

High life regen with reserved life makes perfect sense, the regen is based on your max pool.
If you reserve 66% life, you can use things like Springleaf for a permanent 6% regen.
Also, if this Keystone would affect flasks, that'd mean that non-CI users would have no way of regaining life but leech.
That's really Vaal Pact territory.
I already plan for an RF build with this, which I haven't tried in the slightest yet, though I certainly would like the Keystone to be based of life for regen to make hybrids better.
Well, not that I really ever played one.

But aren't the % based regens counting off your maximum hp ? meaning that if you have low hp but high ES the regen will be pathetic ? this would also mean any %regen will be wasted if you took CI.
In my opinion - this could work for builds that benefit from being on max hp rather than on low hp.
Get templar with high hp , some % regen , add Discipline and try to keep your ES up and benefit from things that work when you're on max hp.