I'm really sick and tired of Hammerdin builds, yeah, I can kill stuff super fast and rarely die, but it's just not fun.
So I've been working on solo farming builds for my Crusader for Torment I and above focusing on shields and block - yet still dealing high enough damage to not be too slow.
Passives: Righteousness, Heavenly Strength, Hold Your Ground, Renewal
With a 30% block chance shield, I've hit the 75% block cap. Puts out pretty insane damage and healing for as "tanky" is the build is. Groups of mobs just melt like butter, with all damage buff skill (except Akarat's) being on 15-20 second cooldown, you can pretty much use them all the time even on white mobs. You are constantly, and I mean CONSTANTLY exploding with fire damage which is also healing you. I've got fairly Crit and Crit damage heavy gear as well, but with Resolve it's just nothing but rapid fire Yellow numbers.
It does have some issue with single target DPS.
I'm debating subbing the Shield Bash with Blessed Shield - Shattering Throw, which will also give some ranged damage potential, but has anyone else had much luck with Block focus builds?
I see a lot of Hammerdin or Nuke builds or Bombardment etc. but not many Block builds.
I dont want to steal your thread but I did put up a shield bash based build video a couple of days ago you can check it out here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4EKdBrBkh8
Since the video my gear has improved alot and am currently in t2/3 (haven't tried t4) with a couple of changes to the build to give me more damage.
I also have a comparable Mortal Damage (double bombardment) But I find condemn especially with the vacuum rune a good compromise between damage and utility when compared with Heaven's Fury and Bombardment.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Heerobya-1188/hero/43765784
Most of my rolls suck, I've had to add strength to everything, but I'm pretty much invincible due to extremely high block chance, renewal, and the judgement/condemn/heaven's fury/laws of valor (critical) combo is just nasty.
Going to be pushing into T2 and T3 and will hopefully start replacing some of my more garbage legendaries with decent rolls.
So I've been working on solo farming builds for my Crusader for Torment I and above focusing on shields and block - yet still dealing high enough damage to not be too slow.
This is what I've got so far:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/crusader#aZRilQ!YaUh!abYaZb
Punish - Roar
Shield Bash - Shield Cross
Judgement - Resolve
Condemn - Vacuum
Heaven's Fury - Ascendancy
Akarat's Champion - Rally
Passives: Righteousness, Heavenly Strength, Hold Your Ground, Renewal
With a 30% block chance shield, I've hit the 75% block cap. Puts out pretty insane damage and healing for as "tanky" is the build is. Groups of mobs just melt like butter, with all damage buff skill (except Akarat's) being on 15-20 second cooldown, you can pretty much use them all the time even on white mobs. You are constantly, and I mean CONSTANTLY exploding with fire damage which is also healing you. I've got fairly Crit and Crit damage heavy gear as well, but with Resolve it's just nothing but rapid fire Yellow numbers.
It does have some issue with single target DPS.
I'm debating subbing the Shield Bash with Blessed Shield - Shattering Throw, which will also give some ranged damage potential, but has anyone else had much luck with Block focus builds?
I see a lot of Hammerdin or Nuke builds or Bombardment etc. but not many Block builds.
Thoughts? Advice?
Since the video my gear has improved alot and am currently in t2/3 (haven't tried t4) with a couple of changes to the build to give me more damage.
This is what I'm currently running
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/crusader#aZRifQ!WaUh!aaYabb
and my Profile
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Slybacon-6148/
seems to not be showing shield (currently using defender of westmarch)
Do you find the Valor w/ Critical does more burst damage with the Judgement/Condemn combo than using Heaven's Fury?
Got my Helm of Rule yesterday, between that, shield, and the Justice ring I'm sitting at like 60%+ shield block chance w/o using Punish.
Would love to get a Blade of Prophecy or the 3-beam Heaven's Fury.
I'm wrecking T1 solo and creating lots of great synergy w/ group play to really burn down elite packs/bosses real quick.
Build:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/crusader#aZRilf!aUYh!aaYaZb
Character sheet:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Heerobya-1188/hero/43765784
Most of my rolls suck, I've had to add strength to everything, but I'm pretty much invincible due to extremely high block chance, renewal, and the judgement/condemn/heaven's fury/laws of valor (critical) combo is just nasty.
Going to be pushing into T2 and T3 and will hopefully start replacing some of my more garbage legendaries with decent rolls.