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2.3 Fastest Bounty Speed-Farm Build

by last updated Sep 22, 2015 ( Patch 2.3 )
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Skills

  • Justice Sword of Justice
  • Laws of Hope Wings of Angels
  • Akarat's Champion Prophet
  • Steed Charge Endurance
  • Condemn Unleashed
  • Provoke Too Scared to Run
  • Heavenly Strength
  • Finery
  • Long Arm of the Law
  • Lord Commander

Items

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  • Legendary Gems

    • Mirinae, Teardrop of the Starweaver
    • Bane of the Trapped
    • Wreath of Lightning

Kanai's Cube

  • Leoric's Crown
  • The Ess of Johan

Updated 9/22 - Added some additional Cube options, Paragon priorities and stat priorities on gear.


So this build is designed around farming T7 for bounties or Grift keys. As such, it's not suitable for progressing through Grifts, though you can use it to level a gem to 25 as it can do Grift 35(T7). So on to the build.


Condemn will be your main attack and as such you are going to need Akkhan's, Blade of Prophecy, and Frydehr's Wrath. Because of Kanai's cube you don't necessarily have to have all the pieces. So whatever you have to do to achieve these effects they are required for the build. Another necessity is getting perma AC or at least very close to it. Kanai's can be very useful here and Leoric's Crown as your armor effect is my recommendation as it allows you to achieve perma AC with relative ease. If you happen to be able to do this with your gear then feel free to use another power here. Other suggestions if you can get perma AC without the Crown are Gloves of Worship, Illusory Boots, and Nemesis Bracers.


Ess of Johan is a great choice for your jewelry power because it procs often and helps suck in enemies who like to run or scatter when fighting. I’ll get into skills further down, but I dislike using the Vacuum rune for this build so Ess also helps mitigate that loss.


The weapon slot of Kanai’s I’ve left open intentionally. This is because with good gear you should be able to slay T7 pretty easily so you have multiple choices here that are useful.


- The Furnace - Of course the Furnace is one of the go to things here because of the awesome boost to damage you get against elites. But while farming bounties you don’t always need it and that lessens it’s usefulness a little. Especially since with this build you’ll be able to bypass any Elites you don’t need to fight. If you intend to take on more than T7 or 8 with this you'll probably want the Furnace


- Swiftmount - This is a great choice if you want extra duration on your Steed Charge. If you decide on this, you won’t need Lord Commander so you can take another passive of your choice, like Holy Cause or Righteousness. This is my preferred cube weapon for farming Key Wardens as you often have to ride all over the board looking for them.


- Kassar’s Retribution - Since we’re using Justice this gives you more speed should you require it. Personally, this is the least useful one.


- Baleful Remnant - I like this one a lot because it's hilarious. Mostly because you will always be running around with an army of 8 avatars following you. They deal decent damage at this level too and you get new ones constantly in battle as you are always in AC.


- The Mortal Drama - If you are wearing the Belt of the Trove this is a great choice and one of my favorites. The extra DPS is solid and is definitely noticeable.


My personal cube favorite for doing bounties is probably Mortal Drama with Baleful Remnant being a close second. Both provide good damage to all types of monsters and passively attack monsters you may not be.


Reapers Wraps is BiS for wrists here because of how wrath hungry this build is and since you aren’t using the Vacuum rune, Strongarm’s are far less useful.

For your belt, if you need to use Vigilante to get to perma AC that’s fine, but if you have spare, Belt of the Trove is great because it’s free DPS and hits a decent sized area.

Rings pretty much have to be the Bastions of Will set(Focus and Restraint). The DPS you get from them is really important to being able to deal damage fast enough to make this build worth it.


For Leg gems, Bane of the Trapped is definitely a must for it's free self procing damage bonus. I also like Wreath of Lighting because it gives a speed bonus which is always helpful. Mirinae is another great damage gem and procs a lot like Wreath. It will also help with Elites especially if you took something other than Furnace in your cube. Finally Bane of the Powerful is a good alternative one because it gives a nice damage bonus to both elites and everything else.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Maximum Resource
Primary Stat
Vitality

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Damage
Critical Hit Chance
Attack Speed

Defense

Resist All
Armor
Life
Life Regeneration

Utility

Resource Cost Reduction
Area Damage
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Mostly standard stuff here but I'll go through the oddities.


Core - Mov speed until you get to 25% total and then Max Wrath. The more wrath you have the more you can continue to cast Condemn as you run around. Also it will fill up as you run around looking for bounties so you will be able to make use of it. Finally More max Wrath = higher % of return from Reapers.


Offense - CDR obivously, then CHD because I've found it's much easier to get CHC than damage so go for that first. Condemn doesn't depend on AS so it's a non factor.


Utility - Again RCR obviously, but Area damage has been changed and is now much better. Since Condemn is an AoE skill this is free extra damage.

Build Guide

Akarats Champion: Prophet - Pretty standard choice here, damage boost plus survivability.

Condemn: Unleashed - I like this rune instead of Vacuum because this build is really made for farming not progression so there the delay in casting on Vacuum is really annoying and will pull you out of Steed Charge if you cast it.

Steed Charge: Endurance - Another standard choice here for farming, The extra duration is great with all the cooldown from Lord Commander and your gear. You’ll only have a few seconds in between casts.

Provoke: Too Scared to Run - Because of the Wrath hungry nature of the build you’ll need help regening that. Provoke is good because it gives you wrath even when you don’t have anyone around you. The rune keeps them from going too far. Also it draws enemies to you which makes it superior to Shield Glare.

Justice: Sword of Justice - Two reasons for this, first it provides more speed which is always good. Secondly it has a 100% proc coefficient to help keep Wreath of Lightning up.

Laws of Hope: Wings of Angels - Pretty much pure mobility with this skill. Combined with Long Arm of the Law, it gives you a nice boost in your speed.


Long Arm of the Law - See above

Lord Commander - Pretty much only for the Steed Charge cooldown, so if you have Swiftmount as your Kanai, then you can go with Holy cause or Righteousness instead.

Heavenly Strength - Needed for Blade of Prophecy

Finery - A staple of Crusader builds.


So that’s the build. Comment if you have any questions and +1 if you like it! Thanks and happy Farming!