You don't want to use Angel Hair Braid with BB. I'm not sure if it is a bug or intended, but right now Roar and Retaliate proc BB's 30% damage bonus after blocking meaning you won't get it for your shield bash or whatever spending you are using.
Well if you are going for thorns, Vo'Toyias seems to be a better choice. Until they fix blessed hammer, it will never be more than supplementary damage.(Currently each hammer can only hit each enemy once)
It works with shield block. Which is basically the entire point of its design (offense for defense)
Very very interesting... Has anyone tested it's interaction with Salvation. Could be interesting if the 20/30% heal procced from Blood Brother's block as well.
Why wouldn't it? It adds to your block chance. Anything that procs off of block chance will benefit from Blood Brother. But what build would you use it with? Every build I can think of requires a specific shield or weapon or both.
You mentioned some DR with F+R but isn't unicity giving more DR ? I mean unicity isn't mandatory for GR 45+ (In hardcore at least). Can you play 50+ with F+R without dying?
My 47 gr worked with iron skin, immovable object unicity and i didn't lack of strenght/wrath/toughness (didn't proc 1 passive)
As mentionned before, don't try another items, the main thing to improve on is your position and spam shield bash and glare, you have enough toughness, especially in softcore, and if you want to play F+R, i suggess you to play taeguk + sweep attack stun + glare
Well I don't play Hardcore so I couldn't say for sure, but I probably wouldn't risk it on 50+. Unity does give great damage reduction, but you lose a good chunk of damage by not having F+R. I don't use Unity and I can run 46's without dying. I have 38 mil toughness without any of my defensive skills(Iron skin, Law, and Prophet) so no real need for unity. Why would you suggest F+R for only Sweep? It's amazing for Bash, I'm critting for up to 1.4 bil without AC or pylons.
Do you think Coven's Criterion would help? 45-60% damage reduction on block, combined with the high block chance of the build could mean some pretty serious damage reduction, especially when combined with the high damage and uptime of Iron Skin.
You'll also have some serious wrath starvation issues. That will force you to run a cindercoat and RoRG giving up the damage boost from F+R. Piro is pretty much mandatory. The only shield that you could possibly consider besides Piro is Final Witness, but you will struggle to keep wrath up against lower numbers of targets and against tougher enemies where you need to keep bashing as much as possible.
Blood Brother provides a 30% damage reduction when you block as well as providing more block chance and giving a damage boost when you block too, making it significantly better than coven's
Thanks for the feedback. I was hoping akarats awakening would reduce enough cooldown but i guess its not enough for infinite prophet. Then what about the damage reduction? I was always wondering how damage reduction on shields work? Is 75% block chance meaningful at all?
For shield bash setting did you use focus and restraint or unity and elements?
No, because akarats is only a chance to reduce cooldown. Plus then you lose out on Piro's wrath cost reduction which is really needed.
Block chance is meaningful for damage reduction only if you have Blood Brother. Otherwise you are only blocking about 20K or so damage. However, it does add to your Shield Bash damage. I wouldn't sacrifice a passive for it though. If you have a good shield with 30% a perfect BB, plus punish, that's 65% right there.
I prefer F+R because the extra damage is there all the time and I don't have issues with toughness right now. Obviously if you have a BB then you probably want F+R so you can take Punish.
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You don't want to use Angel Hair Braid with BB. I'm not sure if it is a bug or intended, but right now Roar and Retaliate proc BB's 30% damage bonus after blocking meaning you won't get it for your shield bash or whatever spending you are using.
Well if you are going for thorns, Vo'Toyias seems to be a better choice. Until they fix blessed hammer, it will never be more than supplementary damage.(Currently each hammer can only hit each enemy once)
Why wouldn't it? It adds to your block chance. Anything that procs off of block chance will benefit from Blood Brother. But what build would you use it with? Every build I can think of requires a specific shield or weapon or both.
Well I don't play Hardcore so I couldn't say for sure, but I probably wouldn't risk it on 50+. Unity does give great damage reduction, but you lose a good chunk of damage by not having F+R. I don't use Unity and I can run 46's without dying. I have 38 mil toughness without any of my defensive skills(Iron skin, Law, and Prophet) so no real need for unity. Why would you suggest F+R for only Sweep? It's amazing for Bash, I'm critting for up to 1.4 bil without AC or pylons.
You'll also have some serious wrath starvation issues. That will force you to run a cindercoat and RoRG giving up the damage boost from F+R. Piro is pretty much mandatory. The only shield that you could possibly consider besides Piro is Final Witness, but you will struggle to keep wrath up against lower numbers of targets and against tougher enemies where you need to keep bashing as much as possible.
Blood Brother provides a 30% damage reduction when you block as well as providing more block chance and giving a damage boost when you block too, making it significantly better than coven's
No, because akarats is only a chance to reduce cooldown. Plus then you lose out on Piro's wrath cost reduction which is really needed.
Block chance is meaningful for damage reduction only if you have Blood Brother. Otherwise you are only blocking about 20K or so damage. However, it does add to your Shield Bash damage. I wouldn't sacrifice a passive for it though. If you have a good shield with 30% a perfect BB, plus punish, that's 65% right there.
I prefer F+R because the extra damage is there all the time and I don't have issues with toughness right now. Obviously if you have a BB then you probably want F+R so you can take Punish.