Build Guide
Build Guide - 2.6.1 T13 Akkhan Sage Condemn DB Farming
Intro
Following the recent changes in the PTR:
- Blade of Prophecy - Two Condemned enemies also trigger Condemn's explosion and the damage of Condemn is increased by 350-450%.
- Frydehr’s Wrath - Condemn has no cooldown and has its damage increased by 450-600%, but instead costs 40 Wrath.
- Akkhan 6PC Bonus - While Akarat's Champion is active, you deal 900% increased damage and take 15% 20% less damage.
Condemn based builds had been significantly buffed.
We are also using Sage set in order to get more DB per run, making this build very good for DB farming early season.
With the proper gear, T13 rifts are around 2:00-2:30 minutes, sometimes even going below 2 minutes.
Update 14/09/17
Since I recorded this video the following changes took place:
- Blade of Prophecy - Increased from 350-450% to 600-800%
- Frydehr’s Wrath - Increased from 450-600% to 600-800%
- Akkhan's set - Damage Increased from 900% to 1000% and DR% increased from 20% to 50%
Runs should be even faster now
Update 29/09/17
Akkhan's 6PC bonus had been buffed from 1000% to 1300%
Update 13/10/17
Akkhan's 6PC bonus had been buffed from 1300% to 1500%
Skills
Justice - Sword of Justice, procs Focus ring, also gives an insignificantly movement boost. I hardly use it for Resource generation.
Condemn - Unleashed, our main damage dealer, also procs Restraint ring.
Akarat's Champion - Prophet, Activates our 6pc damage bonus. Also gives you toughness at the beginning of the rift before you can use GoldWrap+Cheat Death.
Iron Skin - Flash, Toughness, but more important a lot of MS.
Steed Charge - Endurance, a ton of MS to jump between elite packs.
Laws of Hope - Wings of Angels, mostly for the increased MS, also gives some recovery&toughness.
Recommended Passives:
Heavenly Strength - Required to equip Blade of Prophecy with a shield.
Long Arm of the Law - Doubles Wings of Angels MS boost up-time.
Holy Cause - Damage and Recovery.
Finery - Damage & Toughness.
Other notable passives:
Lord Commander - CDR on Steed Charge, use it instead of Holy Cause if you don't have enough CDR. (sufficient CDR means that with In-Geom you have 100% up-time on Steed Charge)
Indestructible - Cheat death, however Prophet should be sufficient.
Items
Akkhan's Set - Damage, Toughness, CDR on Akarat's Champion, RCR.
Sage's Set* - Significantly more DB per rift.
Nemesis Bracers - IMO the best bracers in the game, especially for speedfarming.
Goldwrap - Godlike toughness in combination with BoTH.
Focus & Restraint - Damage.
Blade of Prophecy - Damage, triggers more Condemn.
Frydehr's Wrath - Damage, removes CD from Condemn.
I recommend equipping Sage on Head slot & especially Hand slot. since Sage is craft-able, it gives you more control over it.
Cube
In-Geom - CDR
Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan - Damage & Resource generation (You will be constantly moving)
Ring of Royal Grandeur - Required to equip Akkhan's set+Sage
Gems
Head - Diamond
Chest&Pants - Ruby
Weapon - Emerald
Example items&stats:
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Nice guide. I like how you went over all your choices and potential substitutes. I had a few thoughts I wanted to share about possible substitutes or alternate options.
The damage levels seem outrageous right now after the latest buff, so I'd be looking to shed some of your damage options for more utility once I got geared enough.
F/R would be first to go so I could use Avarice Band + whatever. SoJ seems like the obvious filler ring for more damage (~40%), but if you don't even need that perhaps Obsidian Ring for its minor CDR benefits. Without F/R you wouldn't need a generator so maybe use Provoke instead? There aren't really any great options.
I'd also definitely want to drop Hexing Pants for Gloves of Worship, seriously they are unbelievable for speed farming sessions. Warzechians is another choice for more speed, and Leorics is also possible if you need CDR.
Finally, you don't need toughness once you pick up gold so I'd play around with Rally rune on Akarat Champ for even more CDR. However, having played many squishy builds with Goldwrap+Boon+Avarice, you are liable to be one-shot before picking up gold which is probably not worth the tradeoff.
You mostly use Sage based builds early season, when you need DB for upgrading stuff.
In that time I don't think the damage will be overkill, on lower paragons and with starting gear you need every ounce of damage you can squeeze.
As for toughness, I personally don't like rolling without a cheat death passive, one that Prophet provides. Toughness boost is also handy for not dying when you don't have GW+BoTH combo up, but it all comes to personal preferences.
Later down the road, with more paragon and with better gear, you can choose to switch stuff up if you find it more convenient.
So...I was playing around on PTR. And I was thinking about Crusader speed farming. Akkhan is now so strong 1300% dmg that with Norvald Hervor set(100% multiplicative) you can Perm. Horse ride with Thorns and kill stuff....You can get 225% move speed (25%+150%(horse)+50(wings of angel).
I actually cleared T13 in like 4 minutes. But I think I was lacking dmg. And this was because my akkhan set doesnt have any thorn dmg and my thorn gem only 25. (paragon only 900) My total thorn dmg was only 170k. Just using horse to kill stuff while moving. Now you can also easy combine this with bombardment and belt for more thorn dmg if you need.. This build is very tough and doesnt need goldwrap. Rings you can use unity, stone of jordan(physical) and CoE. I used Aquila Cuirass, Geom and Unity in cube. But im really not sure what is optimal. I dont have everything on PTR and only tested for like 1 hour.
Please guide maker or someone who reads this. Test this combo out. In theory this would be fastest crusader builds cause perm. horse ride thorns dmg. This would also be the ultimate lazy build because you just need to move on horse and kill stuff.
Thank you so so so so much for the GREAT Guide and info and video you are the man but i was wondering are you going to make another guide for GR's ?
o hey DarthKitty1 i was wondering one more thing is this build good for Group T13 or just solo ?
I expect it to really shine in group play where the insane damage of this build have more impact (due to monster having more health with 4 players).
o nice thank you so much for the reply you just sold me on playing Crusader next season
1)Gloves of Worship
2)Cube Goldwrap and equip Witching Hour (more damage)
3)Strongarm Bracers (switch Condemn rune to Vacuum)
4)Krelm's buff belt (more ms)
5)Leoric's Crown (more CDR, could be redundant with better equipment)
You can also keep RRoG cubed and use 2 armor you like instead of Sage's.
If you feel like you're doing enough damage and want more MS, you can drop F&R in favor of using SoJ+Rechel's Ring of Lacrency and switch your generator to Provoke - Flee Fool.
Note - this can also be used on the normal sage build.
Those are just a couple variations I can think of, but I'm sure there are a lot more.
just wondering for Core - MS up to 25% total, Max Resource, INT. ,,,,,,why Int ?
this is for T13 rifts not high GR
great build. i'm rocking with it.
Thanks to your build.. i made my own version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxwUCGABl5o&feature=youtu.be
PS: How to embed youtube video like yours in the post
I prefer using in-geom, cubing blade of prophecy, and switching the passive heavenly str into Fervor. That frees up some stats since Fervor gives cdr and the attack speed it comes with is a bonus.
Really like this build, works great for speed farming rifts(changed out restraint and focus for Avarice and Zodiac which will be swapped for a SoJ when I get enough CDR and use Provoke).
Having a slight issue with bounties though as some bounties enemies don't drop any gold not to mention the long load times before getting to attack most of the bounty bosses and that sometimes rares/elites/bosses/gobs can be far and few between. What would you swap for more survive-ability?
Tried Goldskin in cube in order to have gold drop during boss fights but the proc seems to be rather low. Was going to try out Punish + Angel Hair Braid + Justice Lantern(swap out Provoke and goldwrap/avarice) and see if i can still maintain the speed/dmg output. Thanks in advance for any help!