Aura Crusader (PvPvE)

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by Zoidberg last updated Jul 21, 2022 ( Launch )

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Skills

Punish
- Punish
Strike an enemy for 1115 to 1338 damage and gain Hardened Senses, increasing your Block Chance by 30% for 2 seconds.
Falling Sword
- Falling Sword
Impale your holy sword at a location where it deals 1451 damage over 5 seconds to all nearby enemies. Activate again to launch yourself into the heavens and come crashing down at the sword's location, dealing 1499 damage to all nearby enemies and retrieving the sword.
Consecration
- Consecration
Consecrate the ground around you, dealing 3288 damage to all nearby enemies over 6 seconds.
Condemn
- Condemn
Build up a massive explosion, dealing 959 damage to all nearby enemies after 3 seconds. Activate again to detonate early, but for less damage in a smaller radius.
Holy Banner
- Holy Banner
Plant a holy banner that inspires nearby allies for 10.8 seconds, increasing Critical Hit Chance by 100%, but decreasing Critical Hit Damage to 135% instead of double. Critical Hit Chance over 100% will grant up to 65% additional Critical Hit Damage.

Items

Arrowkeeper

Legendary Helm

The inspiration from Holy Banner now moves with you.
Faith Ascendant

Legendary Shoulders

Deal 10% increased damage for a few seconds after using either stage of Falling Sword.
Iron Suzerain

Legendary Chest Armor

Condemn now continuously drags enemies toward you.
Bloody Hand

Set Bracers

All continual damage, Channeled damage, and persistent ground damage increased by 15%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you damage an individual enemy 5 times, you will do 287 additional damage to that enemy.(4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you deal damage, you have a 4% chance to unleash a lightning strike, dealing 1724 damage to all nearby enemies and Stunning them for 1 seconds. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Mountebank's Bravado

Set Belt

Each time you take damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 13% of your maximum Life. Cannot occur more often than once every 9 seconds.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you take damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 13% of your maximum Life. Cannot occur more often than once every 9 seconds.(4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you take damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 13% of your maximum Life. Cannot occur more often than once every 9 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Permanent Reproach

Legendary Pants

Condemn radius increased by 20%.
Little Lance

Legendary Main Hand

Falling Sword instead causes you to surge forward with your sword up to three times, damaging all enemies in your path.
Zaynula's Last Hymn

Legendary Off Hand

Consecration also slows enemy movement by 30%.
Torn Sole

Set Boots

All continual damage, Channeled damage, and persistent ground damage increased by 15%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you damage an individual enemy 5 times, you will do 287 additional damage to that enemy.(4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you deal damage, you have a 4% chance to unleash a lightning strike, dealing 1724 damage to all nearby enemies and Stunning them for 1 seconds. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Mountebank's Flourish

Set Necklace

Each time you take damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 13% of your maximum Life. Cannot occur more often than once every 9 seconds.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you take damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 13% of your maximum Life. Cannot occur more often than once every 9 seconds.(4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you take damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 13% of your maximum Life. Cannot occur more often than once every 9 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Mountebank's Marvel

Set Ring

Each time you take damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 13% of your maximum Life. Cannot occur more often than once every 9 seconds.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you take damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 13% of your maximum Life. Cannot occur more often than once every 9 seconds.(4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you take damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 13% of your maximum Life. Cannot occur more often than once every 9 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Mountebank's Misdirection

Set Ring

Each time you take damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 13% of your maximum Life. Cannot occur more often than once every 9 seconds.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you take damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 13% of your maximum Life. Cannot occur more often than once every 9 seconds.(4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you take damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 13% of your maximum Life. Cannot occur more often than once every 9 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)

More Details

Head
- Arrowkeeper
- Stat Priority: None
Shoulders
- Faith Ascendant
- The Folly of Zakarum
- Stat Priority: None
Torso
- Iron Suzerain
- Stat Priority: None
Wrists
- Bloody Hand
- Mountebank's Shirking
- Stat Priority: None
Waist
- Mountebank's Bravado
- Open Gut
- Stat Priority: None
Legs
- Permanent Reproach
- Stat Priority: None
Weapon
- Little Lance
- Stat Priority: None
Offhand
- Zaynula's Last Hymn
- Gimcrack Buckler
- Stat Priority: None
Feet
- Torn Sole
- Mountebank's Slyness
- Stat Priority: None
Amulet
- Mountebank's Flourish
- Slit Throat
- Stat Priority: None
Rings
- Mountebank's Marvel
- Mountebank's Misdirection
- Severed Thumb
- Stat Priority: None

Legendary Gems
- Berserker's Eye
  Berserker's Eye
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  Increases all damage you deal by 16.00% and increases your Critical Hit Chance by 2%, but also increases all damage you take by 5%.
- Everlasting Torment
  Everlasting Torment
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  Your critical hits inflict agony, dealing 30% base damage + 122 every second for 6 seconds. Each nearby enemy afflicted with agony increases your Attack Speed by 6%. Each enemy cannot be affected by this more often than once every 20 seconds.
- Chained Death
  Chained Death
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  Increases damage done by your attacks by 2.50% per target hit, up to a maximum of 17.5% with 7 targets.
- Power & Command
  Power & Command
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  Power and Command alternates states every 9 seconds. Power increases your Primary Attack damage by 24%. Command increases all other skill damage by 24%. Each time these states alternate, you have a 30% chance to dispel a harmful effect from yourself.
- Seeping Bile
  Seeping Bile
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  Your attacks have a 4% chance to poison enemies, inflicting 65% base damage + 263 every second over 6 seconds and decreasing Movement Speed by 24%. This poison spreads to nearby enemies if the victim dies. Cannot affect the same target more often than once every 20 seconds.
- Phoenix Ashes
  Phoenix Ashes
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  Prevents fatal damage, and then grants a shield for 6 seconds that absorbs damage equal to 1050% of your base damage. When the shield expires, heal for 80% of the remaining value. Cannot occur more often than once every 180 seconds.

Main Idea:

This is sort of a PvPvE build, since I got tired of switching back and forth and just made a build that would work with both. It focuses on ground damage and DoTs, buffing those and uses the inspirational banner to get big crits.

Basically, this will be a 4 Mount / 2 Grace when full set is done. Before H4, I recommend going 2 Mount and 2 Grace. There's no point in going past 2 Grace in my opinion, and that extra 15% from most of your attacks is nice. You can do the 4 Mount 0 Grace for more survivability, particularly for a "Pure PVP" version of this build.

Also, Grimcrack (shield) may be a better option for damage, I just like the slow for grouping enemies and PVP.

Disclaimer

I am not a theory crafter. I put this together to showcase the build I came up with and share with guildies.

I do not have Sleeping Bile and Phoenix Ashes. I'm F2P so i dont see myself ever getting those lol. They just seem like they'd work well here for the PVP and PVE aspect of this build. I'm using Saleeds Awakening and Bezerker's Eye instead. Prob could use better ones, feel free to suggest.

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Active Tree

I actually wanted to show the Treasure Hunter to explain that. I basically use this to level up, but I only dump 37 Points there. The rest will go into Vanquisher, prioritizing Damage and Armor Penetration before Life (Since we lose damage activating Treasure Hunter). On a week I want power, I'll take out those 37 and dump them into Vanquisher, activating that.

You can also simply "activate" vanquisher within week for a bit more power, but it's slightly under full vanq.

Build Guide

Aura Crusader

Hey friends. Wanted to throw this together to add some builds for my clannies. Hopefully this helps some people out. I'm not a theory crafter, so apologies if it sucks. Hopefully you get some inspiration from this outside of the "Recommended Builds". I hated those so much so I just sat down and built this one.

This build can work for both PVP and PVE. You can make small tweaks to get it to a 'top-tier' pvp mode, but it will work great in BGs.

Playstyle

This build focuses on ground damage, auras, etc with the Holy Banner buff. I use the Leg that makes Holy Banner move with you, since I noticed planting it can have it get killed by enemies early. The idea is to have your full Cooldowns, pop your Holy Banner, then drop consecration, condemn, falling sword. After falling sword, attack a bit. Just before the timer on Falling Sword ends, activate it again. Start attacking again, then hit the last Falling Sword. This will spread out and extend your Damage increase. Falling sword can also help escape damage, such as teleporting to the back of t he boss right before a telgraph hits you.

BG Playstyle

You're the backline brawler. When you have your team with you, you can use Falling Sword to jump over any CC pools into the enemy backline. Use Condemn to continuously Pull enemies towards you, disrupting their channels and casts. Keep applying pressure and pulling them together. Hopefully, this disrupts the AOE pool enough for your backline to move in and drop them. You may die in the process, but your team will win (just dont Rambo in solo, wait for your team).

TO VALHALLA!

Feel free to comment and suggest. Hope it helps!

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