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Kanai's Cube

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  • In-geom

  

  Legendary Sword

  • 4.2 Damage Per Second
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Your skill cooldowns are reduced by 8 - 10 seconds for 15 seconds after killing an elite pack.
    • One of 8 Magic Properties (varies)
    • +10 - 15% Damage

    • +(132 - 308) Physical Damage

    • +(132 - 308) Fire Damage

    • +(132 - 308) Lightning Damage

    • +(132 - 308) Cold Damage

    • +(132 - 308) Poison Damage

    • +(132 - 308) Arcane Damage

    • +(132 - 308) Holy Damage

  • + 2 Random Magic Properties
  In-geom
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  • Leoric's Crown

  

  Legendary Helm

  • 72 - 89 Armor
  • Primary Stats
  • • Sockets (1)
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Increase the effect of any gem socketed into your helm by 100%. This effect does not apply to Legendary Gems.
  • + 3 Random Magic Properties
  Leoric's Crown
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  • Ring of Royal Grandeur

  

  Legendary Ring

  • Primary Stats
  • • Attack Speed Increased by 5 - 6%
    • +152 - 224 Life per Hit
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Reduces the number of items needed for set bonuses by 1 (to a minimum of 2).
  • + 2 Random Magic Properties
  Ring of Royal Grandeur

Intro

Condemn is back and better than ever in Patch 2.6.1 due to the damage buffs to the Akkhan 6-piece set bonus, Blade of Prophecy Legendary Power, and Frydehr's Wrath Legendary Power. The sword and shield used to come with a generous amount of Condemn damage skill %, but those have been removed in this patch and instead, the multipliers have been added to the Legendary powers to take the damage to the next level.

Gearing

Several patches ago, Akkhan also received an amulet to make it a 7-piece set, so we are taking advantage of that to work in the Sage set and maximize our Death's Breath farming. Adding these items does not compromise the power of the build, thus still keeping all of the kills incredibly quick and the speed of the rift clear nice and fast.

There is flexibility in the gearing when it comes to where you get your cooldown reduction. You only need enough to reach 55-56%, which, when combined with the Akkhan set, will give you 100% up-time on Akarat's Champion. With Leoric's Crown in the cube and a Flawless Royal Diamond in your helm, as well as maxed out CDR in your paragon points, you can go without CDR on one piece. It will likely be your Stone of Jordan, since that's rather hard to itemize.

You can also decide on which Sage pieces to swap out for Akkhan. Getting gloves with the right stats can be difficult, so it's likely you'll farm Akkhan gloves with the right stats and then craft the Sage helm and boots, which is what I recommend above.

Otherwise, put Flawless Royal Rubies in your chest and pants and a Flawless Royal Emerald in the weapon.

Skills

Having a generator helps to smooth out Wrath usage in the moments where you might not have killed an Elite recently and don't have a lot of up-time on Provoke, but you may choose to swap it out for Judgment, Iron Skin, or Shield Glare for more utility. I tried all of those and ended up preferring a melee generator personally.

I also use Indestructible and Akarat's Champion - Prophet because I play Hardcore and dying from running out of gold to pick up sucks. You may want to swap those out for something else. If you drop Indestructible, you'd probably take Holy Cause for more damage and faster kills. If you change away from the Prophet rune, you'd probably go with Embodiment of Power for better Wrath regeneration.

You might also go with a different rune on Provoke, but it really doesn't matter. Too Scared to Run will at the very least keep your clumps of monsters from dispersing too quickly, but Charged Up will give you a tiny bit more damage.

The other skills I feel are all mandatory in order to make the build operate as powerfully, smoothly, and quickly as possible.

Check out the video below to see the build in action!

Paragon Priorities