I had recently joined the Crusaders March community and came around something of a discussion in the channel about Akarat's Awakening. For those of you who don't know, this is the shield I am referring to. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/akarats-awakening I had initially two of these shields with some relatively poor rolls, but had around 35% block chance with one of them. I had went to test this proc effect (mine had a 23% chance to proc). and found it very underwhelming compared to the actual bonus of running with Hellskull and the removal of the movespeed cap from Heavenly Strength.
Unfortunately, when I tried to make a case that the proc effect wasn't that strong if you are already around 35%+ CDR, there was a lot of negative comments, and a lot of discussion wasn't really happening more like "ur a noob" kind of comments. So I wanted to ask those Crusaders who have this shield (and have Hellskulls) if the proc on Akarat's Awakening happens often enough to make this shield valuable when you have higher amounts of CDR? Or is the effect of Hellskull movement speed cap removal a better effect to have with the same amount of CDR? I have quite a number of my friends (who play crusader at t5-t6) saying that in higher Torments that movement speed is way more effective than Akarat's proc effect. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Moving faster only really matters if it's enabling to clear faster. If you're able to move more quickly from pack to pack, it doesn't really matter if you're not able to kill things faster to keep up with the increased pace.
Utilizing the Awakening proc will also depend greatly upon your spec, i.e. a blessed shield spammer is not going to get nearly as much use out of it as a build based fully around, say, Akarat's Champion /w Rally.
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I had recently joined the Crusaders March community and came around something of a discussion in the channel about Akarat's Awakening. For those of you who don't know, this is the shield I am referring to. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/akarats-awakening I had initially two of these shields with some relatively poor rolls, but had around 35% block chance with one of them. I had went to test this proc effect (mine had a 23% chance to proc). and found it very underwhelming compared to the actual bonus of running with Hellskull and the removal of the movespeed cap from Heavenly Strength.
Unfortunately, when I tried to make a case that the proc effect wasn't that strong if you are already around 35%+ CDR, there was a lot of negative comments, and a lot of discussion wasn't really happening more like "ur a noob" kind of comments. So I wanted to ask those Crusaders who have this shield (and have Hellskulls) if the proc on Akarat's Awakening happens often enough to make this shield valuable when you have higher amounts of CDR? Or is the effect of Hellskull movement speed cap removal a better effect to have with the same amount of CDR? I have quite a number of my friends (who play crusader at t5-t6) saying that in higher Torments that movement speed is way more effective than Akarat's proc effect. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Utilizing the Awakening proc will also depend greatly upon your spec, i.e. a blessed shield spammer is not going to get nearly as much use out of it as a build based fully around, say, Akarat's Champion /w Rally.