There is no consensus because the general consensus is that support crusader is dead. It's mainly because of the CC changes: most of the crusader's abilities have cooldown, so can't be spammed, but you need to spam skills in order to get applied because of the ridiculous CC resistances in groups. This is even more so the case for the crusader as many of his skills have no effect at all if they get "resisted" by the mob (especially talking about Judgment here).
The question is: how fast is your group. If you're regularly going over 8-10 minutes, fights are more stationary and you might try using Gathering Sweep to create nicely stacked groups. For any other occasion, or in general, I suggest Condemn-Vacuum. The Steed Charge - Draw and Quarter rune is unfortunately more gimmicky than anything else because the mobs will resist a "pull" in 19 out of 20 attempts when they have max CC resistance.
Besides that, just the usual group buffs: Critical for DPS or (more likely) one of the defensive laws to buff toughness. Of course stack CDR like crazy. Regardless of whether you use Sweep or Condemn, you should definitely also stack lots of wrath regen and RCR to be able to spam those skills indefinitely and therefore proc Obsidian A LOT, which helps even more with CDR.
The exact choice of skills depends on your group's needs, composition, and speed. It's like the monk: the #1 spec that the top players use is not the best one for speed farming or GR65s, you'll have to improvise and take whatever you think complements your group best.
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There is no consensus because the general consensus is that support crusader is dead. It's mainly because of the CC changes: most of the crusader's abilities have cooldown, so can't be spammed, but you need to spam skills in order to get applied because of the ridiculous CC resistances in groups. This is even more so the case for the crusader as many of his skills have no effect at all if they get "resisted" by the mob (especially talking about Judgment here).
The question is: how fast is your group. If you're regularly going over 8-10 minutes, fights are more stationary and you might try using Gathering Sweep to create nicely stacked groups. For any other occasion, or in general, I suggest Condemn-Vacuum. The Steed Charge - Draw and Quarter rune is unfortunately more gimmicky than anything else because the mobs will resist a "pull" in 19 out of 20 attempts when they have max CC resistance.
Besides that, just the usual group buffs: Critical for DPS or (more likely) one of the defensive laws to buff toughness. Of course stack CDR like crazy. Regardless of whether you use Sweep or Condemn, you should definitely also stack lots of wrath regen and RCR to be able to spam those skills indefinitely and therefore proc Obsidian A LOT, which helps even more with CDR.
The exact choice of skills depends on your group's needs, composition, and speed. It's like the monk: the #1 spec that the top players use is not the best one for speed farming or GR65s, you'll have to improvise and take whatever you think complements your group best.