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Kanai's Cube

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  • The Final Witness

  

  Legendary Crusader Shield

  • 9 - 10 Armor
  • Primary Stats
  • • +10 - 20% Chance to Block
    • 0 - 0 Block Amount
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Shield Glare now hits all enemies around you.
  • + 4 Random Magic Properties
  The Final Witness
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  • Aquila Cuirass

  

  Legendary Chest Armor

  • 51 - 68 Armor
  • Primary Stats
  • • Sockets (1)
  • Secondary Stats
  • • While above 90 - 95% primary resource, all damage taken is reduced by 50%.
  • + 3 Random Magic Properties
  Aquila Cuirass
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  • Oculus Ring

  

  Legendary Ring

  • Primary Stats
  • • Sockets (1)
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Chance to create an area of focused power on killing a monster. Damage is increased by 70 - 85% while standing in the area.
  • + 4 Random Magic Properties
  Oculus Ring

Before I start, this build began off Icy-Vein's top tier Akkhan Blessed Shield build, if you haven't seen it yet. I would highly recommend it, Deadset does an excellent job creating builds to allow this sort of flexibility.

https://www.icy-veins.com/d3/akkhan-blessed-shield-crusader-bis-gear-gems-paragon-points

The key differences in gear between his build and this one revolves around stat priority. Where Deadset prefers raw offensive power in his build with the tried-and-true trifecta of attack speed, crit chance, and crit damage. The sheer utility that Cooldown Reduction offers is outstanding! We take CDR where we can get it with the exception of the amulet and rings. The Vigilante Belt bonus can be swapped out for Witching Hour's CD and CHC if you want a more rounded out build.

Another key difference in gear is the presence of the Final Witness shield... I love this shield's ability of being able to shield glare an ENTIRE SCREEN of enemies. The weapon that Deadset recommends is Akkhans Leniency (sp?) While this is an excellent weapon that I would recommend as a filler until you get the Witness, it actually does *LESS* damage output than the shield glare's buff combined with your blessed shield spam, not to mention the survivability you get when an entire screen of enemies can't attack.

The Oculus Ring brings the damage up an extra notch, unfortunately there's not a lot of rings that lend themselves to this build very well, you could go with a Zodiac Ring but with such a large amount of CDR already, it seems a bit redundant. The Oculus Ring provides an excellent filler for the CHC and CD we passed up for CDR.

I recommend diamonds across the board for the resists but you can mix n match diamonds and rubies, definitely put a diamond in the helm. Crit damage gem in the weapon.

Paragon Priorities