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Crusader No Shield Leveling Build Season 15

by last updated Sep 30, 2018 ( Patch 2.6.1 )
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Skills

  • Smite Shatter
  • Fist of the Heavens Fissure
  • Condemn Unleashed
  • Steed Charge Nightmare
  • Laws of Valor Unstoppable Force
  • Falling Sword Rise Brothers
  • Righteousness
  • Holy Cause
  • Wrathful

Items

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  • Head

    • Stat Priority: None

  • Shoulders

    • Stat Priority: None

  • Amulet

    • Stat Priority: None

  • Torso

    • Stat Priority: None

  • Wrists

    • Stat Priority: None

  • Hands

    • Stat Priority: None

  • Waist

    • Stat Priority: None

  • Legs

    • Stat Priority: None

  • Feet

    • Stat Priority: None

  • Rings

    • Stat Priority: None

  • Weapon

    • Stat Priority: None

  • Offhand

    • Stat Priority: None

No Items or Cubed stuff as this is a leveling build.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Primary Stat
Vitality
Movement Speed
Maximum Resource

Offense

Attack Speed
Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage

Defense

Life
Armor
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Gold Find

no paragons

Build Guide

The build above represents a "build breakpoint" wherein your power reaches an acceptable level. Play around with the runes before you reach the runes listed above - the skill set, however, is generally what you want - barring game-changing legendaries.

LET GO OF THE SHIELD!!!
USE A 2 HANDED WEAPON

Please refer to our Crusader Leveling Guide for a detailed discussion on how to level your Sader.

Below is the skill/rune progression per slot:

L - Punish (1) ; Slash (3) ; Slash - Electrify (9) ; Smite - Shatter (14) ; Smite - Surge (37) this is optional
R - Shield Bash (2) ; Sweep Attack (5) ; Sweep Attack - Blazing Sweep (11) ; Fist of Heaven - Divine Well (32) ; Fist of Heaven - Fissure (42)
1 - Shield Glare (4) ; Shield Glare - Divine Verdict (12) ; Condemn (21) ; Condemn - Vacuum (26) ; Condemn - Unleashed (33)
2 - Provoke (9) ; Steed Charge (13) ; Steed Charge - Spiked Barding (19) ; Steed Charge - Nightmare (25)
3 - Laws of Valor (14) ; Laws of Valor - invincible (21) ; Laws of Valor - Unstoppable Force (45)
4 - Falling Sword (19) ; Falling Sword - Superheated (24) ; Falling Sword - Rise Brothers (38)
P1 - any (really depends on what weapon u have on) ; Righteousness (16)
P2 - Fanaticism (20) ; Holy Cause (27)
P3 - Wrathful (30)

DO NOT USE A SHIELD: USE CRAFTED 2H AXES

That is not a joke, the insane power level of a slow 2Hander without Heavenly Strength is very surprising.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTES

- Only use FERVOR if you're absolutely forced to (picked up an amazing 1-hander). The +AS% Is difficult to manage with massive wrath costs - it also reduces our "damage per skill" quite a bit. Be cautious.

- Found an amazing 2-Hander? Again, DO NOT USE HEAVENLY STRENGTH. Simply go without a shield.

- Found an amazing shield? Well, sadly, adjust your build accordingly with either of the passives mentioned just above. If you picked up one, consider Insurmountable (passive).

Between Wrathful, Smite+Holy Cause, you have a beefy amount of sustainability thru healing. Basically, as you go along your easy road to 70 - Use your "basic attacks" to kill trash, and SAVE CONDEMN AND FALLING SWORD FOR ELITES. While you can be a little trigger happy with Condemn, avoid using Falling Sword as a traveling tool except in the utmost important scenarios (IE, not just for covering ground - use it to leap through ravines and go to higher/lower platforms).

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