Alright so I just pieced together some really random gear, no thought behind this or any testing to see what works better... so be gentle if something is stupid, I'm merely excited to inform people that you can build your crusader around thorns and actually DO stuff (Probably only works solo, even left my follower in town)
First, with all the gear and passives below I managed to do Torment 4 Act 1 Bounties. I completed all 5 bounties *Note: You will not get cursed chest/shrine events completed, but you can still complete the bounty* including killing the Skeleton king *Only hits like 3 times a minute! Rage!* I died to the keywarden in the fields of misery once, killed him the next time around and had no other trouble throughout. All total this endeavor took about 40 minutes, ~15 of which was just killing the skeleton king!
Gear:
Helm: Crown of the Invoker
Shoulders: Burden of the Invoker
Chest: Blackthorne's Surcoat
Gloves: Pride of the Invoker
Bracers: Sanguinary Vambraces
Belt: Harrington Waistguard (Had no other belt)
Ring 1: Royal of Ring Grandeur
Ring 2: Random rare ring with thorns damage
Pants: Blackthorne's Jousting Mail
Boots: Random boots (DIdn't have a pair of Blackthornes that would work, but I would suggest using them!!!)
Shield: Vo'toyias Spiker
Weapon: Hack
As you can see, my gear choices weren't all perfect... and a lot of the gear I had rolled REALLY BAD, so you can do this even with bad gear, but you did need just about every piece listed. There's a few items that will really shine here, Countess Julia's Cameo, Blackthorne's Boots (as mentioned), and various other things such as Ice Climbers and other items to prevent damage are highly recommended, but I was too lazy to go get them off alts and test. I had a lot of primary slots on gear wasted on silly things that didn't help thorns at all, so with PERFECT gear I imagine I can do much better.
Skills + Passives
Smite: Shatter *Trying to get multiple small hits to proc bracers + rally!*
Fist of the Heavens: Fissure *Same strategy as above*
Iron Skin: Reflective Skin *Duh?*
Provoke: Charged Up *Forgot to see if rune worked for thorns, but if it does it's amazing - if not then it still works to proc Rally*
Akarat's Champion: Rally *Permanent Iron Skin + Provoke, CDR would help this build!*
Judgement: Resolved *Thorns can't crit, merely trying to do some kind of damage when things won't hit me... sure there is a better choice!*
Passives
Iron Maiden *Duh?*
Wrathful *Healing*
Hold Your Ground *Because why not*
Renewal *Healing*
My sheet stats:
Damage: 179,573
Toughness: 17,685,152
Healing: 12,662
Thorns: 35,785.49 *Str: 6947*
CDR: 27.12%
Globe Bonus: 28,473
HP: 714,628
All Resist: 1186+
Average thorns damage:
650,000 *No buffs*
1.2 million *200% buff!*
2.4 million *200% buff x2*
10.5 million *??? ... Maybe bracers? Math no make sense here, but I was getting 10 million hits --They also looked like crits, but given my damage and skill set nothing else would hit that hard!*
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TERRIBLY SORRY FOR MULTI-POST! Internet issues tonight, double clicked and this happened after a few minutes!
First, with all the gear and passives below I managed to do Torment 4 Act 1 Bounties. I completed all 5 bounties *Note: You will not get cursed chest/shrine events completed, but you can still complete the bounty* including killing the Skeleton king *Only hits like 3 times a minute! Rage!* I died to the keywarden in the fields of misery once, killed him the next time around and had no other trouble throughout. All total this endeavor took about 40 minutes, ~15 of which was just killing the skeleton king!
Gear:
- Helm: Crown of the Invoker
- Shoulders: Burden of the Invoker
- Chest: Blackthorne's Surcoat
- Gloves: Pride of the Invoker
- Bracers: Sanguinary Vambraces
- Belt: Harrington Waistguard (Had no other belt)
- Ring 1: Royal of Ring Grandeur
- Ring 2: Random rare ring with thorns damage
- Pants: Blackthorne's Jousting Mail
- Boots: Random boots (DIdn't have a pair of Blackthornes that would work, but I would suggest using them!!!)
- Shield: Vo'toyias Spiker
- Weapon: Hack
As you can see, my gear choices weren't all perfect... and a lot of the gear I had rolled REALLY BAD, so you can do this even with bad gear, but you did need just about every piece listed. There's a few items that will really shine here, Countess Julia's Cameo, Blackthorne's Boots (as mentioned), and various other things such as Ice Climbers and other items to prevent damage are highly recommended, but I was too lazy to go get them off alts and test. I had a lot of primary slots on gear wasted on silly things that didn't help thorns at all, so with PERFECT gear I imagine I can do much better.Skills + Passives
- Smite: Shatter *Trying to get multiple small hits to proc bracers + rally!*
- Fist of the Heavens: Fissure *Same strategy as above*
- Iron Skin: Reflective Skin *Duh?*
- Provoke: Charged Up *Forgot to see if rune worked for thorns, but if it does it's amazing - if not then it still works to proc Rally*
- Akarat's Champion: Rally *Permanent Iron Skin + Provoke, CDR would help this build!*
- Judgement: Resolved *Thorns can't crit, merely trying to do some kind of damage when things won't hit me... sure there is a better choice!*
Passives- Iron Maiden *Duh?*
- Wrathful *Healing*
- Hold Your Ground *Because why not*
- Renewal *Healing*
My sheet stats:- Damage: 179,573
- Toughness: 17,685,152
- Healing: 12,662
- Thorns: 35,785.49 *Str: 6947*
- CDR: 27.12%
- Globe Bonus: 28,473
- HP: 714,628
- All Resist: 1186+
Average thorns damage:******************************
TERRIBLY SORRY FOR MULTI-POST! Internet issues tonight, double clicked and this happened after a few minutes!
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