Build Guide
So, Roland got a significant buff in 2.5.0 and 2.6.1! More damage and more toughness.
Actually Sweeper was the first solid Roland's build that made it to the top of leaderboards. It's very oldschool. And it was the first build which allowed me to enter TOP100 LB for Crusaders during season 3/ERA. I must say the build itself hasn't changed much since then! The skills are the same. Just the items have changed a little.
Here is my GR90 clear:https://youtu.be/BzueSQNcQ4Y
more videos:
Diablo III 2.4.3 PTR: Roland's Legacy HOLY Sweeper Crusader tests (Sweep Attack)
Diablo III Crusader: Sweep Attack & "Critical" rune, is it possible?
Diablo III Crusader: Sweep Attack - Holy vs. Lightning v.s Fire?
GENERAL TIPS:
1) CDR is good of cause for higher uptime of Akarath's Champion and skills, but not mandatory. You can roll less CDR and more allres/vit/area_damage and use GOGOK instead of Bane of the Powerful.
2) I don't recomment rolling a lot of Area Damage. It will melt trash mobs fast, and since we replenish our wrath with Golden Flense in massive packs.. We will have wrath problems if we melt trash too fast. The key is to kill elite INSIDE a huge pack of trash, before we run out of wrath and before all trash melts.
3) Sweeping refreshes our Law and Iron Skin quickly. Akarath's Champion, however is not considered a "defensive skill", and is refreshed purely through CDR and ORotZ.
4) Drag Elites to a fresh trash packs and melt them inside.
SKILL OPTIONS:
1) Endurance instead of Draw and Quarter. Less density generated, but a little more mobility
2) Use Provoke - Charged Up/Cleanse instead of Steed Charge. This is not really bad and will help with CC/Wrath/Crowding/Healing and damage a lot. A matter of choice mostly, if you feel you are mobile enough with just Flash or need wrath for an RG fight.
3) Shield Glare - Divine Verdict/Zealous Glare. Will help a bit with the damage/wrath.
4) In 2.4.2 mobs develop knockback/stun immunity quickly, but unfortunately there is no grouping skill left, better than Vacuum. Just move from pack to pack if you notice that mobs developed immunity, let it wear off.
STATS/GEAR OPTIONS:
You need to recover HP somehow, so LIFE ON HIT on weapon is your #1 priority. Or Life per Wrath Spent on weapon/shield, Life On Hit on bracers/helm. At least that, or you won't be able to survive. It was like that in season 3 and it's the same now. But in season 3 we also used Unity.
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you really do make some great fucking builds and guide videos thank you so much
Thanks for a cool build. I like playing crusader. And not many you tubers do viable builds for the class other than LoN builds. That tells me that sets are lack luster for the most part. Anyway you earned a sub. Cheers Steil.
i got a killer flense, and i liked sweep back in the day, so i'm glad to see that there's a solid grift build still with it. it felt pretty good when i played so far. i'll get on this for sure!
This Build is great, using in hardcore and am not fully geared at all, super fun too thank you Kindly!!
does having extra rcr help vs rift guardians though like on shoulders, dropping both the vit on the gloves and shoulders might be a little drastic though if the rg does not spawn additional help.
I have been keeping my roland set for so many seasons now..you are right that there should be a good build for the roland this season...finally u came out with a great one. Now im back with my roland wooot....its not that good compared to other crus builds but not as bad either..but I find this very enjoyable..after all thats what is this about....My roland is BACK!...thanks dude!!!!
I've just played this on PTR because there's another buff coming, but I run out of wrath sometimes, especially on RG. Any solutions?
2) Provoke instead of steed charge
Enjoy!
Thank. I like the Build but I'm running out of Juice a lot even with provoke. Makes Aquila useless. Putting Topaz in Hat and Leorics crown in cube for now.
Any alternatives for Convention of Elements? Don't plan on going to GR 90 - but being able to do GR70 would be great.