Someone pointed out that you have done some Roland's testing recently, but I couldn't find it in this thread or on your Youtube channel - the only thing I found in this thread was your 2.1 preview. I'm aware that Roland's lacks the survivability of Akkhan's and therefore is a bit more squishy and even less desirable on HC... but since you are doing an incredible amount of theorycrafting I was wondering if you ever looked at it and found any build that "works" (of course not as good as Akkhan's, but I'm just looking for a change). I personally found Punish (AHB)+Shield Bash+Piro Marella+Stalguard's Decimator with high APS a promising combination... haven't found a decent enough Scourge yet to give that a try, some say it's even better. Any thoughts?
Btw, props for all the work you put into this and it's amazing to see you adding new stuff to this thread regularly. Although I'm not playing HC, this thread is just absolutely awesome whenever I re-visit some gearing/skill choices on my Crusader and am looking for some new ideas or confirmation of my own theorycrafting.
His roland build consisted of 4 piece Rolands, cindercoat, fire shield bash, fire condemn+ smite gem. I tried it and I wasnt convinced it killed quicker than a physical shield bash set up I did before.
the testing of rolands, I tried pretty much everything for 8-9 hours, you can see that footage on twitch but the sound is muted, look a few days back.
out of every variation of all elements/gear I tried, this is by far the fastest and most efficient setup and nothing came close for T6, grifts shouldn't be much different
Thanks for the quick reply! That doesn't look too bad, although it would be very disappointing if there's no viable 6 piece build that can compete with that. I'll look into it, but at least that build there is an alternative to AC on T6 group play (just looking for that, nothing for GRifts).
Not Crusader related but I'm putting this here for those of you who have been playing Crusaders and are getting slightly bored, here's a barb build I'm working on to try out that is what I'm liking the best atm.
I deff agree with ancient legs. worst idea in a long time. Only full on hardcore grinders (who WILL only grind for BiS legs) will dominate everything. The more 'casual' player will be totally dominated and reduced to tagging alone. No fun in that.
Though, manner, you seem so negative on many things. Everything alright?
I don't know why people on the internet always think I'm so upset and angry, maybe it's how I word things and speak on twitch.
The tone of the post is no doubt negative not because I'm angry but it's simply my opinion on things and my opinion is that the changes will create new problems and more issues for the game.
It's fairly obvious to me at least what these changes will do to the game as someone who has spent considerable amount of time playing the Season on both PTR and Live, but not everyone will see eye to eye with my opinion on the matter and that's perfectly okay.
There are lots of good changes too but I don't go over them because it's quite trivial to talk about the fact that adding goblin diversity and some other trivial things add some degree of content to the game but they are obvious things that I don't feel the need to write about.
There will be lots of updates coming in the near future regarding the new patch and new stuff.
For now here's something that a lot of you are probably seeking information on, especially those of you who are on PTR and looking to do grifts in groups.
I've noticed a lot of support crusaders go a wrong setup that's popular on the ptr servers.
This is the best way to gear a support crusader for TRIALS.
For GRIFTS I'll make another post in future.
Items are; 5 piece akkhan, leorics crown, strong-arm, bul-kathos wedding band, rorg, condemn shield, azurewrath, string of ears (incase you can't tell by the picture of gear).
Gems you use depending on what group needs, bot/toxen, gogok and a defensive gem.
I'll make a short guide for it in a youtube video sometime in future when I get a chance.
Over in this thread we were discussing potential Roland's builds: http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-class-forums/crusader-the-church-of-zakarum/95704-anyone-with-t6-rolands-experience-how-can-i
Someone pointed out that you have done some Roland's testing recently, but I couldn't find it in this thread or on your Youtube channel - the only thing I found in this thread was your 2.1 preview. I'm aware that Roland's lacks the survivability of Akkhan's and therefore is a bit more squishy and even less desirable on HC... but since you are doing an incredible amount of theorycrafting I was wondering if you ever looked at it and found any build that "works" (of course not as good as Akkhan's, but I'm just looking for a change). I personally found Punish (AHB)+Shield Bash+Piro Marella+Stalguard's Decimator with high APS a promising combination... haven't found a decent enough Scourge yet to give that a try, some say it's even better. Any thoughts?
Btw, props for all the work you put into this and it's amazing to see you adding new stuff to this thread regularly. Although I'm not playing HC, this thread is just absolutely awesome whenever I re-visit some gearing/skill choices on my Crusader and am looking for some new ideas or confirmation of my own theorycrafting.
the testing of rolands, I tried pretty much everything for 8-9 hours, you can see that footage on twitch but the sound is muted, look a few days back.
out of every variation of all elements/gear I tried, this is by far the fastest and most efficient setup and nothing came close for T6, grifts shouldn't be much different
cheers
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check past broadcast if you want to see more
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Anyhow a good source of compiled information on everything for condemn I've done this season.
http://www.diablofans.com/builds/4709-condemn-guide-2-1
May add in some highlights from twitch sometime in the future when I'm free, but that pretty much covers it all.
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http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/15141444700?page=2#32
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The tone of the post is no doubt negative not because I'm angry but it's simply my opinion on things and my opinion is that the changes will create new problems and more issues for the game.
It's fairly obvious to me at least what these changes will do to the game as someone who has spent considerable amount of time playing the Season on both PTR and Live, but not everyone will see eye to eye with my opinion on the matter and that's perfectly okay.
There are lots of good changes too but I don't go over them because it's quite trivial to talk about the fact that adding goblin diversity and some other trivial things add some degree of content to the game but they are obvious things that I don't feel the need to write about.
edit: postiive points of new patch, http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/15141444700?page=3#47
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There will be lots of updates coming in the near future regarding the new patch and new stuff.
For now here's something that a lot of you are probably seeking information on, especially those of you who are on PTR and looking to do grifts in groups.
I've noticed a lot of support crusaders go a wrong setup that's popular on the ptr servers.
This is the best way to gear a support crusader for TRIALS.
For GRIFTS I'll make another post in future.
Items are; 5 piece akkhan, leorics crown, strong-arm, bul-kathos wedding band, rorg, condemn shield, azurewrath, string of ears (incase you can't tell by the picture of gear).
Gems you use depending on what group needs, bot/toxen, gogok and a defensive gem.
I'll make a short guide for it in a youtube video sometime in future when I get a chance.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ24v3FRTc4
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Second half got muted by twitch, will upload later on.
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Is anyone still playing?
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A highlight of the new rolands for those who missed the stream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og8LlgU0B5g
Full Day-1 Testing highlight (long)
http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3844596
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