Looking for some guidance to max my Crusader's current equipment. Should I use a legendary Golden Fleece w/ 3350 dmg., 1000str, 10%resource reduction, socket, orrrr Ancient Grandfather (thus no specific skill comparable to fleece's sweep wrath regen) with 4100 dmg, 1000str, 900vit, 6%attack speed, and socket? I'm using a full Roland build. Thoughts? I have been running with the Ancient but it has been difficult to keep my wrath up. Really don't want to give away the dmg boost, but want to hear others' feedback.
You didn't mention the amount of wrath returned on the Golden Flense, but unless its really bad, you have three options:
1) Use the Flense. Probably the better choice. The amount of damage you sacrifice is offset by actually having the wrath to use the skill.
2) Concentrate more heavily on Wrath return skills like Shield Glare (Zealous Shield), Law of Valor (Unstoppable Force) or Provoke. You didn't link your profile, so I can't tell if you are using them now. If you use them well, you may be able to keep your Wrath up. If you can't, well, a Wrathless Crusader isn't terribly useful to anyone.
3) Use the Grandfather, but move to a Shield Bash build, as it relies on the shield slot for Wrath return and you can use whatever weapon you want.
I'd lean pretty heavily to the Flense. Keeping Wrath up with the Sweep build is a challenge as it is against single targets with the Flense. It will be a challenge to do it all the time.
Looking for some guidance to max my Crusader's current equipment. Should I use a legendary Golden Fleece w/ 3350 dmg., 1000str, 10%resource reduction, socket, orrrr Ancient Grandfather (thus no specific skill comparable to fleece's sweep wrath regen) with 4100 dmg, 1000str, 900vit, 6%attack speed, and socket? I'm using a full Roland build. Thoughts? I have been running with the Ancient but it has been difficult to keep my wrath up. Really don't want to give away the dmg boost, but want to hear others' feedback.
You didn't mention the amount of wrath returned on the Golden Flense, but unless its really bad, you have three options:
1) Use the Flense. Probably the better choice. The amount of damage you sacrifice is offset by actually having the wrath to use the skill.
2) Concentrate more heavily on Wrath return skills like Shield Glare (Zealous Shield), Law of Valor (Unstoppable Force) or Provoke. You didn't link your profile, so I can't tell if you are using them now. If you use them well, you may be able to keep your Wrath up. If you can't, well, a Wrathless Crusader isn't terribly useful to anyone.
3) Use the Grandfather, but move to a Shield Bash build, as it relies on the shield slot for Wrath return and you can use whatever weapon you want.
I'd lean pretty heavily to the Flense. Keeping Wrath up with the Sweep build is a challenge as it is against single targets with the Flense. It will be a challenge to do it all the time.
Flense with wrath return was so much better. Thanks for the reply!