I haven't found the new shield yet on PTR and not super motivated to find it.
so are the new Roland set and bracers and what not just not worth going after? If I've got a semi decent Condemn set is it better just to stick with that?
New Rolands set outperforms Akkhan by quite a large margin.
I was really hoping that they wouldn't go with their plan of adding stacking % dmg onto a shield but alas they did and well I don't want to say it's completely useless without trying, but it's probably completely useless.
The devs apparently want to create a play-style where you use Rolands in this exact fashion
- Sweep Attack for AOE
- Shield Bash for STD
My suggestion was to re-design golden fleanse to give a damage buff so it would be competitive with other Roland viable weapons (Blood Brothers/Furnace to name two).
Make the Sweep Attack shield unlock all Sweep Attack runes and re-design the last rune to be something along the lines of generate 5 wrath per attack and 2-3 additional per target hit.
The current last rune and lightning rune both do pretty much the exact same thing, one freezes 100% and the other stuns 50%.
They will never achieve what they want out of Rolands unless Sweep Attack is turned into a useful utility (unlock runes giving stun/gather/loh/wrath) with an AOE damage buff along the lines of what they did.
Otherwise it's always going to be superior to just go flat out Shield Bash.
But you know, maybe they'll play the set one day and realize that the way their itemization is currently setup for the Crusader class, it makes no sense to give up the shield slot and the weapon slot to make a useless skill do useless aoe damage.
New Rolands set outperforms Akkhan by quite a large margin.
I was really hoping that they wouldn't go with their plan of adding stacking % dmg onto a shield but alas they did and well I don't want to say it's completely useless without trying, but it's probably completely useless.
The devs apparently want to create a play-style where you use Rolands in this exact fashion
- Sweep Attack for AOE
- Shield Bash for STD
My suggestion was to re-design golden fleanse to give a damage buff so it would be competitive with other Roland viable weapons (Blood Brothers/Furnace to name two).
Make the Sweep Attack shield unlock all Sweep Attack runes and re-design the last rune to be something along the lines of generate 5 wrath per attack and 2-3 additional per target hit.
The current last rune and lightning rune both do pretty much the exact same thing, one freezes 100% and the other stuns 50%.
They will never achieve what they want out of Rolands unless Sweep Attack is turned into a useful utility (unlock runes giving stun/gather/loh/wrath) with an AOE damage buff along the lines of what they did.
Otherwise it's always going to be superior to just go flat out Shield Bash.
But you know, maybe they'll play the set one day and realize that the way their itemization is currently setup for the Crusader class, it makes no sense to give up the shield slot and the weapon slot to make a useless skill do useless aoe damage.
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I haven't found the new shield yet on PTR and not super motivated to find it.
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Hi Guys,
From my testing of PTR Rolands set outperforms everything (possibly may be best overall all classes)
I currently have the fastest clear for both barb and crus on PTR and I feel that Rolands will outperform my Barb atm
Here's a video of my 2nd attempt at 53.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6KFoA5sNpM
Most exciting part is that Rolands is def Hardcore viable
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