[2.1.2] S2 Uber Bombardment Build
Skills
Items
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Head
- Helm of Akkhan
- Leoric's Crown
- Stat Priority: None
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Shoulders
- Pauldrons of Akkhan
- Stat Priority: None
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Amulet
- Eye of Etlich
- Hellfire Amulet
- Stat Priority: None
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Torso
- Breastplate of Akkhan
- Stat Priority: None
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Wrists
- Strongarm Bracers
- Stat Priority: None
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Hands
- Gauntlets of Akkhan
- Stat Priority: None
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Waist
- Belt of the Trove
- Stat Priority: None
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Legs
- Cuisses of Akkhan
- Stat Priority: None
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Feet
- Sabatons of Akkhan
- Stat Priority: None
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Rings
- Ring of Royal Grandeur
- Unity
- Stone of Jordan
- Stat Priority: None
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Weapon
- The Mortal Drama
- Stat Priority: None
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Offhand
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Legendary Gems
Edit: After initiat tests, I can say with sadness that the Mortal Drama+ Trove belt is quite inefficient.
It's worth trying and having fun a bit with them, but it falls miles behind my condemn build at the moment.
Feel free to post different results here, I will try to push it again when I find an ancient Mortal Drama. Who knows.
Till then, have fun a rift or two with this build. Very nice build to farm for a proper Furnace or BoP with, I give you that.
An hybrid between the normal Stampede build and introducing the 2 crucial items listed below, you might see some real nice effects.
Unrelenting Phalanx shield will be the item to go on offhand in this case.
It also apears that The Mortal Drama makes Belt of the Trove proc twice too, making it a huge damage bonus every 6 seconds, adding the bombardments you use too will make 4 bombardments stack at the same time while you nuke the mobs with your " horses" from the plalanx.
I will update the build as we brainstorm on the forums, I have an vague ideea about how the build should be, but I would like to hear all the opinions first as I'm not exactly a crusader expert.
Core items: The Mortal Drama Belt of the Trove
Paragon Priorities
Movement Speed |
Primary Stat |
Vitality |
Maximum Resource |
Cooldown Reduction |
Critical Hit Chance |
Critical Hit Damage |
Attack Speed |
Resist All |
Armor |
Life |
Life Regeneration |
Resource Cost Reduction |
Area Damage |
Life on Hit |
Gold Find |
Love this build. I only have the belt and bracers and I can already see the fun I am going to have. The only thing I'd like to mention is the game won't let me put AC on left click. Yes I have elective mode on. It says "This skill cannot be bound to this key" so I just swapped it with Shield Glare.
I don't have all of the pieces yet, but as soon as I saw this belt as an option for Season 2, I immediately wanted to make this build: phalanx/bombardment. I don't have the shield yet or the mortal drama, but so far, Belt of the Trove is just sick (I did get a nice roll on it). I am surprised you say this build is just for "fun" and not very effective. I'm not at T6 yet or running grifts, but my condemn build in non-seasons play is just terrible compared to what I'm expecting with this build. Even with a 3750 DPS BoP with Ramaladni's gift, my condemn build can't compete with my Phalanx build, and now with Belt of the Trove, my Phalanx build will be even stronger. I will post back once I have more pieces of the set. I'm on T2 right now and probably looking to move towards T3, but I'm having a hard time killing rooms full of gobbies on T2, so I don't want to move up too fast.
I am doing this build in season hardcore and its pretty decent ! im doing t4 so far and i do a lot of dps... I have Mortal Drama and the belt and grind my holy dmg and bombardement dmg... i have jordan and eternal union and eye of etlich... i have 650 000 dps and 25 000 000 toughness... im far from having arkhan (only spoulder) This build is awesome!...
I got a mortal drama this morning. Not ancient, no +dmg, no CDR. So, I lose some CDR and dmg, but the socket was just too much to lose in terms of DPS as my CHD was so low, I was losing over 200K DPS if I went with CDR instead of socket/emerald. That being said, having double bombardment from belt and from my casting was just too nice. I only have Akkhan's gloves and helm, but I'm holding off on using helm until I can get one more piece because I'm also using captain crimson's set pieces and Aughild's set pieces. When I find more Akkhan's, I will swap them out. Hopefully with a better mortal drama, akkhan's, and 56% CDR (will most certainly require a Leoric's crown), then I think this build will be pretty strong. Just hoping that RNG treats me well. SItting at Paragon 110 or so right now.
Im trying desperately to make some sort of Belt+Drama build work, but after pl115, Im still stuck on T3. Granted, I havent finished gearing yet, but Ive noticed even stacking tons of defense, you just cant wait around until Bomb procs and starts doing damage. Needs to hit harder and more often.
Play it as a normal stampede build and its all good.That belt is simply upgrade to stampede build nothink more.
Im currently doing t5 with this build, i have a nice mortal drama (not ancient but high roll) and i droped a consumable so i socketed it... i have the belt and 4 pieces of akkhan... i do like 890 000 dps but with soj and other i have 50% bonus dmg to elite and with all the buff im like 1.8 mil dps and 45 mil toughness... i feel condemn still better but i will make this built good
The build works way better if you focus on CHD and then rune in Annihilate on Bombardment. You get 5 Guaranteed crits per bombardment and the damage is just way more consistent than trying to rely on impactful. I'm running GR24 & T4 Rifts (probably can do T6) without Mortal Drama, Unity, or SoJ like this. I don't know how much further I'll be able to get, but since I can farm T4 for more items I haven't bothered to really try and make this work any better.
Hi folks,
Keep an eye out in the coming days - I believe I've found a way to make a version of this build (Mortal Drama + Belt of the Trove) that is successful. I'm regularly doing 1-2 player T6 rifts and 25-28 greater rifts with this toon. I'll have a guide up soon, though you can likely see for yourself that I've had some luck.
So, with full Akkhan's, I'm running T6 with this now and it functions much like a normal Stampede build. Once I had full Akkhan's and roughly 53% CDR, I was able to get rid of any Wrath issues, and the stampede shield helps of course. T6 and 30ish Grifts are definitely do-able, but I have no SOJ, a crappy amulet, and bad cooldown because I have no Vigilante Belt; I also have crap gems. I think a regular stampede build may actually be BETTER than this combo because you can use a Furnace or Heart Slaughter instead of Mortal Drama, and you don't have to add CDR onto your amulet because you'll use Vigilante Belt instead. I could bump up the DPS on my Mortal Drama a little bit if I got a Ramaladni's Gift to re-roll my socket into 10% dmg, but I'm not sure it's worth wasting a Gift on that.
I'm still debating whether I like Condemn more than Stampede. Stampede is definitely better solo, and Condemn is great in groups because of Vacuum, but I'm not sure I can really go any further than 36 or 37 with my Condemn build, which is about the same as my Stampede build.
I finally dropped the Bombardment build. It's T6 capable, and maybe it's better if you can find an Ancient Mortal Drama, but overall, it's very lackluster. I'm using a regular Phalanx build right now (no bombardment) now that I have a decent Vigilante Belt and an Ancient Heart Slaughter. It's far superior than the Bombardment build, and I think Condemn is even better, but I don't want to waste a Ramaladni's Gift on a non-ancient Blade of Prophecy since my non-seasons character has a better non-ancient one than the BoP I found in this season so far. In the end, it's fun to use the Belt of the Trove in the early Torment levels and below, but it's certainly no game changer.
Hi guys... Where's the item stats ?
I got a Ancient Mortal Drama with good rolls, no socket but switched it out with a secondary stat so it also has a socket now. I also have the belt. i may try this build and see how it goes. Even just having the items on and using a Blessed Hammer build right now it is fun running around while the bombardments kill everything for me.