Taunt all nearby enemies and instantly generate an additional 5 Wrath for every enemy taunted. Taunted enemies will focus their attention on you for 4 seconds.
Hit Me
Gain 50% increased Block Chance for 4 seconds after casting Provoke.
As a thorns crusader main, I will say that Vo'Toyias Spiker isn't ideal for T5 and above - since ideally we want to be hit (standing in fire chains with Provoke - Hit Me making block 100% is hilarious, for instance), we need a mitigation shield to survive. Typically I use Coven's Criterion (there's a lot of negative feedback on this item - "I can't see the difference" - my anecdotal evidence is ENTIRELY the opposite), but Stormshield works well in a pinch.
Kudos on the Illusory boots, I didn't even THINK of that and getting blocked into a wall or corner with mobs was one of my main causes of death on T6 (well, that and freaking arcane...wish it at least procced thorns damage). I prefer Blessed Shield to Sweep Attack because I stack a lot of block chance (60% on sheet before Punish, Punish brings me to 72%, but even without it up Provoke takes me to 100%) and the damage increase is nice, but to each their own. I do recommend taking Stand Your Ground over Divine Fortress though, and I tend to drop Law for Akkarat - Prophet.
Hack is Terrible with the low amount of thorns we have, a 100% hack with 30k thorns is only 30k damage. Doombringer would be better as it boosts reflective Skin.
For the Shield would reccomendAkarat's Awakening and stacking Block chance and CDR to get maximum up time on Ironskin, and provoke.
Hack got changed way back in 2.0.5 to scale with strength the same way normal thorns do. Sanguinary Vambraces were changed in the same patch. So it's more worthwhile now.
For the record, if you're unlucky with A2 bounties you could always go for Irontoe Mudsputters for the increased movement speed the lower health you have, but you don't get the unhindered movement I think.
For the record, if you're unlucky with A2 bounties you could always go for Irontoe Mudsputters for the increased movement speed the lower health you have, but you don't get the unhindered movement I think.
At the moment I use Firewalkers just for the additional damage since my thorns set is largely Fire-based (Punish - Roar, Fire Consecration, Akkarat - Firestarter in T1-4, Blessed Shield - Combust), but I did use Mudsputters for a little while, just found them somewhat sub-par since I face tank everything other than Arcane even in T6.
Kudos on the Illusory boots, I didn't even THINK of that and getting blocked into a wall or corner with mobs was one of my main causes of death on T6 (well, that and freaking arcane...wish it at least procced thorns damage). I prefer Blessed Shield to Sweep Attack because I stack a lot of block chance (60% on sheet before Punish, Punish brings me to 72%, but even without it up Provoke takes me to 100%) and the damage increase is nice, but to each their own. I do recommend taking Stand Your Ground over Divine Fortress though, and I tend to drop Law for Akkarat - Prophet.
All in all, good guide!
For the Shield would reccomendAkarat's Awakening and stacking Block chance and CDR to get maximum up time on Ironskin, and provoke.