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Kanai's Cube

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  • In-geom

  

  Legendary Sword
  In-geom
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  • Aquila Cuirass

  

  Legendary Chest Armor

  • Primary Stats
  • • +3 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • While above 90–95% primary resource, all damage taken is reduced by 50%.
    • Empty Socket
    • One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

    • +49–60 Dexterity

    • +49–60 Strength

    • +49–60 Intelligence

  Aquila Cuirass
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  • Convention of Elements

  

  Legendary Ring

  • Primary Stats
  • • Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5–6.0%
    • +2 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Gain 150–200% increased damage to a single element for 4 seconds. This effect rotates through the elements available to your class in the following order: Arcane, Cold, Fire, Holy, Lightning, Physical, Poison.
    • Empty Socket
    • One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

    • +220–349 Dexterity

    • +220–349 Strength

    • +220–349 Intelligence

  Convention of Elements

(EDIT: PTR Patch 2.4.3 adds amulet to the Akkhan set. This opens up alot more options and more strength to this build).

(EDIT: Added Heart of Iron and Aquila Curiass to cubeslot / build. Was not selectable when guide was made).

You do want Heart of Iron or Aquilas Cuirass in armor slot in cube. Diablofans wont let us select it. If you are lucky with early Ring of royal grandeur, you can use both, or one of them combined with hexing pants for more damage or leorics crown for more CDR. If you dont die, go for more damage, and if you die, go for more defence...

Rings and amulets are wide open. You can use anything. A physical stone of jordan will give you a big damage boost. Justice lantern will give you nice defence boost. Convention of elements is a given. Anything goes. A hellfire amulet with a nice passive is the best way to go, but anything can be used in this slot. Aim for decent stat values.

You need gold? Without disrupting too much of the builds efficiency, you can equip Goldskin chest, Kymbos Gold amulet, Goldwrap belt, Avarice Ring and Boon of the Hoarder.

The key here is to have the 450% damage bonus (600% on ptr) from the 6p akkhan up as much as possible. Combined with Norvalds flail/shield, decent cdr and ingeom, you should have infinite steed, permanent akarats champion and iron skin/concecrate/bombardment up on almost all elitepacks you encounter...

I chose Laws of Hope - Wings of Angels for speed, but you can use whatever aura you want here.

You could use Mortal Drama in cube instead of ingeom, but at t10 a 5 barrel bombardment should be more than enough to kill anything. Double bombard is overkill and you miss out on the speed and momentum you get from ingeom.

As for normal gems, you always want a topaz socketed in your weapon. Early game, this is your main source of thorns. Rubies in armor will give more damage, but early game, diamonds might give more value.

As with all the other thorns builds, weapon damage gives you nothing. Think of your weapons as stat-sticks and ignore the damage. For the end-game LoN weapon, you pretty much always roll away weapondamage to a different stat. This is hard to do and will consume a ton of mats in rolls, so I would not recommend this for your starting Norvalds.

Keep in mind: Thorns NEVER crit. Crit chance and crit damage on your gear has no value at all.

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