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You can google "crusader no gear dependant build", there are even some with only crafteable items.

One item that improves a lot your survival, is the gold wrap belt. If you get one, every time you get gold, you become invincible.

I don't know if this is your first char, but if you had been in the Vault, and killed Greed, you must have the boon of the hoarder legendary gem.

If you level it, combined with the gold wrap belt, you can forget survival skill/items/passives, and go full dps. You will never die.

(sorry for my English)

So no need of forgotten souls? My main is a crusader, and for crafting a Piro Marella shield in 2.2 you need 2 forgotten souls (plus the other crafting materials).

I am looking for a perfect Piro, and the forgotten souls is (and will be in 2.3) my bottleneck.

In a normal bounty run, you get 4 (8 with the bonus) crafting mats.

If in 2.3 you only need 1+1 bounty mats, with 2 bonus bounty run, you will be able to craft 8 Piros. Am I right?

2 bounties versus farming 16 forgotten souls... I think I prefer the first, you don't depend on RNG to get legendaries to forge.

You can do split bounties with a speed build...

I am Spanish, and my English is only average, so I am not sure what the exact words would fit better... When I started with the mannercookie fire shield bash build (just when Roland set became bis), I tried all the skills, items and passives I could think that improves block chance, and they didn't raise my dps, so I thought the shield is the only item related with the 300% part of the damage...

I used to wear the bombardment belt in T6 speed farming for free trash mobs kills.

I don´t know how to make bombardment works in this patch, but in 2.3, I am thinking this: bombardment 2h weapon + In-geom 10 seconds CDR affix in the cube + bombardment belt. If you are able to achieve a 10 seconds cooldown in bombardment (vigilante belt affix in cube), after an elite kill, you will have 15 seconds of free unlimited bombardment spam. 2850% total weapon damage to enemies within 12 yards of the impact zone with 100% critical chance.

With the commander passive and/or all that cooldown reduction, in that 15 seconds you can spam steed charge to find the next elite group.

You can use Roland + Piro Marella + leg bracers with shield bash, with close perma Akkan Champion. Icing on the cake.

Sounds good...

(sorry for my English)

Edit for some math (hope numbers are right). You need a 83% of CDR to achieve the perma bombardment (for 15 seconds after elite group kill and the in-geom passive). It is hard, buy doable. You need perfect CDR on nearly every slot, commander and 1 hand passives, even 2 Crimson set pieces:

CooldownReduction (CDR)
%
PIECE CDR


Paragon
10
0,9


Shoulder
8
0,92


Gloves
8
0,92


amulet
8
0,92


Ring 1
8
0,92


Ring 2
8
0,92


weapon
10
0,9


Shield
8
0,92


Leoric Crown (100%)
25
0,75


1h Passive
15
0,85


Commander Passive
35
0,65


Vigilante belt
8
0,92


Captain Crimsons 2 set
10
0,9




0,8314860474

You need nearly perfect Leoric Crown, vigilante+bombardment combo in the belt (cube), and a Rorg ring or its passive cubed.

To use shield bash with 4 Roland+Piro Marella+leg bracers:

- Leoric Crown: helm

- vigilante+bombardment combo: belt

- 3 Roland: shoulder, chest, gloves

- 2 Crimson: pants, boots

With rorg affix and in-geom affixes cubed, you can equipo free rings (Focus+Restraint, Unity/Coe/SoJ) and free amulet.

You must use a 1 hand weapon, so maybe a combo with Envious Blade (100% critical chance to full health monsters) or Sunkeeper...

Thoughts?

Yep. Same for a more offensive option, the witch hour with the angel affix...

Hi mannercookie!!!! Wellcome back! I can't wait for the PTR to add to your great fire shield bash 3 great improvements: Furnace+Blood Brother affix weapon combo, the unity ring affix to the F+R and the String or Ears affix to the Angel Hair Braid. With all that mitigation, the sky is the limit!!! (sorry for my English)

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Swiftmount for Key warden farming

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/justinians-mercy

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/cams-rebuttal

-for the new crusader Hammer spec or http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/jaces-hammer-of-vigilance

Yeah, I have an ancient Cams and the 2 others waiting for the new set...

I agree with you in the other classes changes...

My main used to be WD, but when the sader arrived, I moved to my favourite hero archetype: armor, sword and shield!

Now, maybe it is time for dust my old wd or the monk...

Let's see what happens in the ptr and after that...

With the future perma-CC nerf (not 100% sure), I think I will return to shield bash (mannercookie fire build) instead of sweep.

With the new cube, in jewelry and armor passives, now you will be able to equip Focus+Restraint with the unity affix, even combine String of Ears with Angel Hair Braid affix for more survival.

What do you think is the best combo for weapon?

At this moment, BIS weapons are supose to be Furnace, Maximus and Blood brother.

If Furnace 50% elite damage can be use as a cube passive, the maximus has 2 nice affixes (fire + chain), so I go for:
1) ancient maximus (fixed chain affix, not the fire damage) + furnace affix (you get always max 50%)
2) ancient blood brother (15-20% block chance) + furnace affix (you get always max 50%)

If you can't use in the cube the elite damage (is a normal affix, not unique):
1) ancient 50% elite furnace (hard to get) + blood brother affix (fixed 20% block chance)

Any other possible affixes?
- Envious Blade. 100% crit chance with full mobs health. The patch notes said they will change the Rifts clear balance, less time with the rift guardian, and more clearing the rift...
- Schaefer's Hammer. Casting a Lightning skill charges you with Lightning, causing you to deal 650–850% weapon damage as Lightning every second for 5 seconds to nearby enemies. (Only light skill?)

Another possibility (if you have a very good weapon), is to use the weapon passive in your shield. Thoughts:
- Ancient Piro Marella (easy ancient with craft, hard the 50% reduce cost) + The Final Witness affix (shield glare in every direction)
- Ancient The Final Witness (easy fixed affix) + Piro Marella affix (you get the 50% reduce cost)
- Piro Marella + Hellskull combo (10% enhanced damage)

What do you think?

(as always, sorry for my English)

The description of the SB is very clear: 700% weapon damage plus 300% of your shield Block Chance.

So, max value is 20 natural block chance (Piro Marella) + 11% enhanced block chance roll = 31% block chance.

The base final top SB damage is 700 + 3 * 31 = 793.

I agree, I am not going to roll anything searching for LpW, it already was in the golden flense I got, so it was a nice bonus.

I only need another Ramaladni's Gift for the socket (I wasted last week 2 of them just improving my Swiftmount and my templar weapon), I rolled for the 10% enhanced damage.

Then I will finally try the sweep attack build.

Thanks to all!

Good news about the wrath returned from the Flense, but i have read (can't remember where) that the LoH have been nerfed, no matter how many targets you hit with 1 blow, you only recover the fixed amount of LoH you have in your stats. Am I wrong?

Wow! It is even better than Life on Hit! (I read it was nerfed, so you only gain the same amount of life per hit).

45k life on each swing is nice with the Roland Sweep Attack build.

Thanks!

P.S. I will test it at home, just in case the wrath returned by the weapon makes the healing lower...

Hi!

I want to try the sweep attack build (actually doing Fire SB).

I got a Golden Flense with 2500 life per wrath spent. It restores 6 Wrath for each enemy hit.

Is it always the same amount of life per swing (2500) or it is multiplied per the amount of wrath spent?

With the 10% cost reduction of Paragon Points, the sweep attack cost is 18 wrath.
- If I hit 1 monster, 18-6=12 wrath cost * 2500 = 30000 life restored

- If I hit 2 monster, 18-12=6 wrath cost * 2500 = 15000 life restored

Am i wright?

P.S. Sorry for my English

I am not an expert, but after I saw this build, I change from Condemn to Roland Shield Bash:

http://www.diablofans.com/builds/53544-2-2-fire-rolands-grift-50

I was tired of wasting time killing the GR guardian with bad single target damage. If you can farm the new Roland Set, I think it is the way to go.

You don't need a specific weapon (untill 45/50 GR), you can craft the shield (Piro) and you only need to farm shards for the new legendary brazers.

With a Rorg, you only need 3 pieces to farm T6 very quick. You can use Cindercoat and magefists if you want.

Actually, I kill 45 GR guardians in 30 seconds, and I only have a regular Furnace (non ancient) and a few 4 ancient items...

Hope it helps...