I found a nice pair of Promise of Gloryand since I was already running a Holy Jekangbord spec, it would be pretty easy to add Smite and Shield Glare, change Laws of Valor to Answered Prayer, and add the NG passive to keep 3 stacks of NG up pretty much 100% of the time.
Spec here:http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/crusader#WSYdQf!aUgX!cYbYbc
100% uptime is cool, and I haven't played around with it too much but the NG buff seems underwhelming. The move speed is nice but the energy blast doesn't seem to do much. I'm giving up a little bit of DPS (Finery and Heaven's Fury) and and the 50% Laws of Valor wrath reduction, although Shield Glare ends up being a pretty decent wrath generator.
Is it worth speccing for this? I would be using the wrists anyway because they were an upgrade.
You don't really need to change that much in order to get the 100% uptime on NG-orbs. I ran with ONLY the Law of Valor - Answered Prayers as my provider (Without any of the passives) and I had about 90% uptime. It took some getting used to in order to learn when to use it, but once you got that figured out it was really sweet. The 3 stacks do pack a rather nice punch aswell so I think it's a great idea.
If you find out that you have troubles with the uptime you can change one passive to Nephalem Mastery and you should be golden.
Pretty much this, with Law of Valor - Answered Prayersyou don't need to use the passive or any other items to maintain high up time on NG solo. Group play you will have 100% up time.
Thanks for the feedback - I have been a little disappointed with the bracers overall... I can shield glare a good-sized pack and still not spawn a globe half the time. However, like you guys say, Answered prayer is pretty much all you need to keep NG buff up almost all the time. Still, the bracers were an upgrade so I'll hang onto them but I might look into swapping out shield glare and the passive.
Spec here:http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/crusader#WSYdQf!aUgX!cYbYbc
100% uptime is cool, and I haven't played around with it too much but the NG buff seems underwhelming. The move speed is nice but the energy blast doesn't seem to do much. I'm giving up a little bit of DPS (Finery and Heaven's Fury) and and the 50% Laws of Valor wrath reduction, although Shield Glare ends up being a pretty decent wrath generator.
Is it worth speccing for this? I would be using the wrists anyway because they were an upgrade.
My char:http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Krentz-1513/hero/45207191
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Krentz-1513/hero/65760215
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Krentz-1513/hero/65760215