Build Guide

Pros

• High AoE damage through Condemn
• Moderate Single target from Punish
• Significant buffs from each block with Punish

Cons

• Requires being in the middle of everything
• High toughness requirements
• High gear requirement

Skills

• Punish (Retaliate) - Combined with Depth Diggers and Angel Hair Braid, your high damage and high utility single target generator
• Condemn (Unleashed) - Your wrath spender. This has no attack animation, so you can freely use it with Punish spam. Vacuum rune is also very strong for this, Unleashed is a matter of my personal preference. Very high AoE damage with Blade of Prophecy
• Laws of Valor (Unstoppable Force) - Attack speed passive and more Condemns. More damage, pure and simple. Alternate: Laws of Valor (Critical) - Group play or for when Wrath cost reduction isn't needed.
• Akarat's Champion (Prophet) - Combined with 6pc Akkhans, gives a very large toughness boost and halves wrath costs. A staple of this build for higher rift tiers, but not needed when starting out.
• Steed Charge (Endurance) - Pick your rune here, I prefer endurance for the extra duration, but the healing rune and others are also viable. Your mobility skill/get-out-of-jail-free card.
• Provoke (Hit Me) - Large Wrath gains and increased block chance to maximize procs from Punish.

Passives

Recommended:

• Finery - More strength, a strong choice overall
• Heavenly Strength - Absolutely required for this build to function
• Long Arm of the Law - Higher uptime on Laws of Valor.
• Holy Cause - 10% more damage and a small heal, what's not to love?

Optional:

• Fanaticism - Higher Single target damage than Finery (especially with lower strength) at the expense of AoE damage from lower Condemns
• Towering Shield - Same as Fanaticism
• Divine Fortress - Can be a significant toughness gain with a high block chance shield
• Renewal - A sizeable heal on block, can be very powerful with this build due to the high block chance from Punish and Provoke
• Wrathful - Another sizeable heal, this time on Condemn use, can outperform Renewal with high +health Globe healing on gear
• Indestructible - Death protection, a huge survival gain in higher rift tiers.
• Insurmountable - Extra wrath generation, lackluster compared to other options

Gear

• Blade of Prophecy and Frydehr's Wrath are required to make Condemn effective as a wrath spender.
• Angel Hair Braid and Depth Diggers give Punish a significant boost making it the obvious choice for wrath generators.
• Ring of Royal Grandeur is required to make Akkhan's 6 piece in this build with Depth Diggers.
• Unity or Stone of Jordan are interchangeable depending on drops and group vs solo play
• Reapers Wraps generate a significant chunk of wrath, making them a solid starting choice for this build considering the ease of crafting them.
• Strongarm Bracers with Vacuum are the highest damage combination available.
• Amulets are largely interchangeable, just find anything with good rolls. Immunity Amulets are preferable for obvious reasons.
• Cooldown Reduction (CDR) is important with 6pc Akkhan's for 100% uptime on Akarat's champion, but is largely ignorable before then.
• +%Holy Damage, +%Condemn damage, and +%Punish damage are all significant increases in effective damage.

Gems

• Gogok of Swiftness - Attack speed for extra wrath generation and damage as well as cooldown reduction after rank 25 to help with Akarat's uptime
• Mirinae, Teardrop of the Starweaver - Benefits from holy damage and significantly increases single target damage, the build's biggest weakness
• Bane of the Trapped - Increased damage against snared targets, not useful until 25 when it adds an aoe slow around you.
• Bane of the Powerful - Best alternative to Bane of the Trapped, straight damage buff and elite damage.

Playstyle