

levels: 16/20/23/27/36 are some of the main breakpoints. Holy shield has different breakpoints for adding 1% block, this is not affected by hard points.

Defense is not very important compared to your %chance to block/FCR/Resis/FHR If you farm mainly chaos sanctuary you could put some points into resist fire as well, but i would recommend you wear hotspur/waterwalk/infernostride boots to increase max fire res instead. extra points should go into resist lightning for farming baal and uber mephisto. In summary: if you have decent endgame gear, only 1 point in holy shield is necessary.

(1 point into fanaticism, redemption, salvation) i have pretty gg gear with average rolls (enigma/hoto/anni/torch/5 pcomb) my combat skills are +22 and my holy shield is lvl 23 with 1 pt into it. I have level 97 hammerdin that i gear swap for ubers and wanted to report my findings after about 5 respecs. I wanted to post this after seeing so many builds putting so many points into holy shield.
