Fight in the Shade

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by Floomis11 last updated Mar 4, 2015 ( Patch 2.1.2 )

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Skills

Shield Glare Divine Verdict
- Shield Glare
Cooldown: 12 seconds

Light erupts from your shield, Blinding all enemies up to 30 yards in front of you for 4 seconds.
Divine Verdict

Blinded enemies take 20% more damage for 4 seconds.
Phalanx Bowmen
- Phalanx
Cost: 30 Wrath

Summon powerful avatars who charge forward to the targeted destination. Enemies caught in the charge path take 490% weapon damage.
Bowmen

The summoned avatars no longer march forward, but will wield bows and attack enemies, dealing 185% weapon damage. These bowmen follow you as you move for 5 seconds.

The Bowmen can only be summoned once every 15 seconds.
Heaven's Fury Split Fury
- Heaven's Fury
Cooldown: 20 seconds

Call down a furious ray of Holy power that deals 1710% weapon damage as Holy over 6 seconds to all enemies caught within it.
Split Fury

The ray splits into 3 smaller beams, each dealing 1980% weapon damage as Holy over 6 seconds.
Steed Charge Spiked Barding
- Steed Charge
Cooldown: 16 seconds

Mount a celestial war horse that allows you to ride through enemies unhindered for 2 seconds.
Spiked Barding

The war horse deals 500% of your Thorns every second to enemies through which you ride.
Laws of Valor Critical
- Laws of Valor
Cooldown: 30 seconds

Active: Empower the Law, granting you and your allies 15% increased Attack Speed for 5 seconds.

Passive: Recite the Law, granting you and your allies 8% increased Attack Speed.

Only one Law may be active at a time.
Critical

Active: Empowering the Law also increases your Critical Hit Damage by 50%.
Akarat's Champion Prophet
- Akarat's Champion
Cooldown: 90 seconds

Explode with the power of your order, increasing your damage by 35% and increasing your Wrath regeneration by 5 for 20 seconds.
Prophet

Gain 150% additional Armor while Akarat's Champion is active.

The first time you take fatal damage while Akarat's Champion is active, you will be returned to full health.

Lord Commander
- Lord Commander
The cooldown of Steed Charge is reduced by 25% and Bombardment by 35%.

Damage dealt by Phalanx is increased 20%.
Heavenly Strength
- Heavenly Strength
You can wield a two-handed weapon in your main hand while bearing a shield in your off hand.

Your damage dealt is reduced by 20%.
Finery
- Finery
Gain 1.5% Strength for every gem socketed into your gear.
Long Arm of the Law
- Long Arm of the Law
Increase the duration of the Active effect of all Laws by 5 seconds.

Items

Helm of Akkhan

Set Helm

Primary Stats

+626–750 Strength
+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket

Armor of Akkhan
Helm of Akkhan
Pauldrons of Akkhan
Breastplate of Akkhan
Cuisses of Akkhan
Sabatons of Akkhan
Gauntlets of Akkhan
Talisman of Akkhan
(2) Set: Reduce the cost of all abilities by 50% while Akarat's Champion is active.
(4) Set: Reduce the cooldown of Akarat's Champion by 50%.
(6) Set: While Akarat's Champion is active, you deal 600% increased damage and take 15% less damage.
Pauldrons of Akkhan

Set Shoulders

Primary Stats

+416–500 Strength
+91–100 Resistance to All Elements
+4 Random Magic Properties

Armor of Akkhan
Helm of Akkhan
Pauldrons of Akkhan
Breastplate of Akkhan
Cuisses of Akkhan
Sabatons of Akkhan
Gauntlets of Akkhan
Talisman of Akkhan
(2) Set: Reduce the cost of all abilities by 50% while Akarat's Champion is active.
(4) Set: Reduce the cooldown of Akarat's Champion by 50%.
(6) Set: While Akarat's Champion is active, you deal 600% increased damage and take 15% less damage.
The Flavor of Time

Legendary Amulet

Primary Stats

Reduces cooldown of all skills by 4.0–7.0%.
+10–12% Movement Speed
+4 Random Magic Properties
Breastplate of Akkhan

Set Chest Armor

51 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
Sockets (1)

Armor of Akkhan
Helm of Akkhan
Pauldrons of Akkhan
Breastplate of Akkhan
Cuisses of Akkhan
Sabatons of Akkhan
Gauntlets of Akkhan
Talisman of Akkhan
(2) Set: Judgment has no cooldown and gains the effect of every rune.
(4) Set: Attacks from Phalanx Avatars reduce the cooldown of Akarat's Champion by 0.5 seconds, and also apply Condemn when attacking enemies that are affected by Judgment.
(6) Set: While Akarat's Champion is active, you deal 1500% increased damage and take 50% less damage.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Strongarm Bracers

Legendary Bracers

200 - 220 Armor

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 1%
+201 - 230 Vitality

Secondary Stats

Enemies hit by knockbacks suffer 20 - 30% increased damage for 6 seconds.

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Tasker and Theo

Legendary Gloves

Primary Stats

Attack Speed Increased by 5.0–6.0%
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Increase attack speed of your pets by 40–50%.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+330–524 Dexterity

+330–524 Strength

+330–524 Intelligence
The Witching Hour

Legendary Belt

265 - 314 Armor

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Damage Increased by 26 - 50%
Attack Speed Increased by 5 - 6%

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Cuisses of Akkhan

Set Pants

33 - 38 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Armor of Akkhan
Helm of Akkhan
Pauldrons of Akkhan
Breastplate of Akkhan
Cuisses of Akkhan
Sabatons of Akkhan
Gauntlets of Akkhan
Talisman of Akkhan
(2) Set: Reduce the cost of all abilities by 50% while Akarat's Champion is active.
(4) Set: Reduce the cooldown of Akarat's Champion by 50%.
(6) Set: While Akarat's Champion is active, you deal 1500% increased damage and take 50% less damage.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Sabatons of Akkhan

Set Boots

Primary Stats

+416–500 Strength
+416–500 Vitality
+4 Random Magic Properties

Armor of Akkhan
Helm of Akkhan
Pauldrons of Akkhan
Breastplate of Akkhan
Cuisses of Akkhan
Sabatons of Akkhan
Gauntlets of Akkhan
Talisman of Akkhan
(2) Set: Reduce the cost of all abilities by 50% while Akarat's Champion is active.
(4) Set: Reduce the cooldown of Akarat's Champion by 50%.
(6) Set: While Akarat's Champion is active, you deal 600% increased damage and take 15% less damage.
Ring of Royal Grandeur

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
Attack Speed Increased by 5 - 6%
+7737 - 9214 Life per Hit

Secondary Stats

Reduces the number of items needed for set bonuses by 1 (to a minimum of 2).

+ 2 Random Magic Properties
Eternal Union

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Increases the duration of Phalanx avatars by 200%.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+160–179 Dexterity

+160–179 Strength

+160–179 Intelligence
Baleful Remnant

Legendary Two-Handed Flail

Primary Stats

+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Enemies killed while Akarat's Champion is active turn into Phalanx Avatars for 10 seconds.
Empty Socket
One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

+(39–47)–(47–59) Arcane Damage

+(39–47)–(47–59) Poison Damage

+(39–47)–(47–59) Lightning Damage

+(39–47)–(47–59) Holy Damage

+(39–47)–(47–59) Cold Damage

+(39–47)–(47–59) Fire Damage

+(39–47)–(47–59) Damage
Guard of Johanna

Legendary Crusader Shield

Primary Stats

+36–44 Strength
+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Blessed Hammer damage is increased by 200–250% for the first 3 enemies it hits.

More Details

Head
- Helm of Akkhan
- Stat Priority: Str CHC Socket Vit
Shoulders
- Pauldrons of Akkhan
- Stat Priority: Str Vit CDR
Amulet
- The Flavor of Time
- Stat Priority: CHD CHC Socket Physical %
Torso
- Breastplate of Akkhan
- Stat Priority: Str Vit Socket
Wrists
- Strongarm Bracers
- Stat Priority: Physical % Str Vit
Hands
- Tasker and Theo
- Gauntlets of Akkhan
- Stat Priority: Str CHD CHC AS
Waist
- The Witching Hour
- Stat Priority: Str Vit AS CHD
Legs
- Cuisses of Akkhan
- Stat Priority: Str Vit AR Socket
Feet
- Sabatons of Akkhan
- Stat Priority: Str Vit AR
Rings
- Ring of Royal Grandeur
- Eternal Union
- Stat Priority: Str AS CHD CHC
Weapon
- Baleful Remnant
- Stat Priority: Str Dmg % CDR Socket
Offhand
- Guard of Johanna
- Stat Priority: Str CHC CDR

Legendary Gems
- Enforcer
  Enforcer
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  Increase the damage of your pets by 15.00%.
  Your pets take 90% less damage. (Requires Rank 25)
- Bane of the Trapped
  Bane of the Trapped
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Increase damage against enemies under the effects of control-impairing effects by 15%.
- Pain Enhancer
  Pain Enhancer
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Critical hits cause the enemy to bleed for +2500% weapon damage as Physical over 3 seconds.

This build is built around using Baleful Remnant

The shield Unrelenting Phalanx is still listed in the Database as the Amazonian Parma.

Stat Focus:

-Attack speed: our pets attack faster which means more damage

-CDR: needs to be around 50% to have Akarat's champion up permanently

-CHC and CHD: as much as we can get after we get our CDR to 50%

-Phalanx dmg%: It always helps. consider it on shoulders, chest, shield and boots.

Gear Specifics:

Eternal Union: needed to maximise the uptime on our Avatars, it works on our baleful remnant avatars too so they last for 20 seconds.

Strongarm Bracers: Use Steed Charge to proc the damage buff to increase pet dps.

Gems:

Enforcer: Avatar's dont take damage so Enforer's rank 25 bonus is useless, however the pet damage is a must. once you get a few baleful remnant avatars out they can tank alot of damage for you.

Bane of the Trapped: i believe this is the best damage increase gem for our avatars outside of Enforcer.

Pain Enhancer: of all our pets, only our bowmen can proc the bleed, this has issues if the bowmen only focus 1 target, but we can use Heaven's fury and steed charge to help build up the crits and therefore the attack speed bonus.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Primary Stat
Maximum Resource
Vitality

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage
Attack Speed

Defense

Resist All
Armor
Life Regeneration
Life

Utility

Life on Hit
Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Gold Find

Core:

-Get Movement Speed to 25% then dump everything into Strength

Offense:

-Get CDR to 50% then balance out CHC and CHD so it's 10% CHC for every 100% CHD

-I want to test if Attack speed is a better priority but for now i'll put crit skills first.

Defense:

- skill as listed

Utility:

- Avatar's have 0 proc coefficiant so life on hit/area damage doesn't get triggered by pets... however our heaven's fury and steed charge can gain benefit from these paragon points.

Build Guide

Disclaimer: This was just thrown together for fun... Feel free to give feedback or advice!

This build is built around using Baleful Remnant

Keep Akarat's Champion up always, kills with the skill active (even ally kills) turn the enemy into an avatar that fights for you. I believe these deal 560% weapon damage like Phalanx's with the bodyguard rune. I believe you can have up to 8 avatars from baleful remnant on top of your phalanx bowmen but this needs further testing.

All skills need to be used off cooldown, don't forget to use steed charge to proc our strongarm bracers. Our Avatar's don't take damage, so let them tank enemies while we stay out the fire, when steed charge it up, duck in and out of the pack.

From my tests, it seems pet AI prioritises white mobs over Elites which is just stupid... so this means we need to try to clear the white mobs out as fast as we can so we can put down the hurt on the Elites.

The main thing to keep in mind is where your bowmen are positioned, they can stand it the way of your sword avatars and block them from running into combat so make sure you place the bowmen somewhere out of the way.

Skill Variations:

Steed Charge: rune could be Ramming Speed or Draw and Quarter, personal preference, however ramming speed let's you run back out of melee range from mobs.

Heaven's Fury: rune is personal preference, even the skill can be switched out for something more to your taste (like falling sword with rise brothers), I like heaven's fury as it helps clear white mobs so the bowmen can focus on elites.

That's it! please feel free to use this build and let me know how it goes!

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