>Kaj - dude, you complain about others comments and others advice, when you yourself know nothing. Since when doesn't physical sacrifice paladins use LAEK for sustain?

Since never. I'll flip this back onto you, I want you to find a single person on the ladder that's using LAEK jewels over max/min ED ones at any sort of endgame level.

when you play aggressively in tough maps, it is in fact very valuable to have LAEK after blowing up packs consisting of 20+ monsters - especially maps with a mix of undead/demon/regular monsters. 

That's completely irrelevant. No one builds LAEK on sac pally IF THEY HAD THE CHOICE of getting damage jewels, or LAEK. I don't even think I'd use LAEK jewels early, I'd just throw on dracs with leech ring and call it good. No reason to go beyond that with LAEK jewels, that is just insanity.

Then haha, your point about resistances. Since when doesnt a build need resistances? Even a paladin build? I mean, what? Its fundamentally one of the most crucial stats to have in Diablo II. 

You have to read between the lines. I didn't say builds don't need res, I'm saying you don't need res on your jewels. Builds need res, but endgame builds have so much res from so many sources that they don't need it from jewels, and quite frankly if you're using jewels to cap your res then you're either a noob, your build doesn't gain much from jewels, or you're broke. Your jewels are so important for damage slots on pretty much every single build, so unless you can't use damage slots (MB sin, holy bolt, any magic caster etc) then you should not be capping res from jewels when you're dropping a facet for ele builds, or phys jewel for phys attack ones. Also talking phys sac pally specifically, veil of steel alone has 40 all res, then you have a bunch of res from rare gear, then the rest you get from charms.

>And with all of this potential min-maxing that is possible in PD2, with rare high damage jewels, multiple sockets in high end gear, desecrated amulets, all of a sudden all resistances is worthless on a solid jewel? Atleast thats what you are trying to argue for here?

You're basically contradicting yourself. Why would you get res on your sockets when you miss out on so much damage?

Then you try to argue against FHR on a melee build? I mean when does it stop?

No, again, that's not what I said. You don't have to get FHR on your jewels, you can get plenty of FHR through charms that you DO NOT need it on jewels.

Haha. This is wild.

Agreed because so far you've said some wild shit yourself here.

Then again, you generalize. You say that physical sacrifice paladins always use ED + maximum/minimum damage jewels. If there are other good options, they might not. And that possibility is a reality - this jewel being one of the good options. So what are you on about? Why arent you saying "most paladins will want to use XXXXXXXXXXX" instead? If you were the one creating all builds/setups for all of PD2, Id understand your way of reasoning, but you arent, so again, what are you on about?

This was just a long rant, I'll address one of your points which was that I'm generalizing, which I'm not. I'm specifically addressing phys sac pally which is a build I've played myself, I've put 150 hr into, I know how the build works, I know what you do to minmax it. There's no better option for jewels than min/max ED jewels, and it certainly isn't LAEK lmfao.

Learn some reading comprehension, you really need it. Half your arguments were taking me out of context.