I created a profile, just so I can comment on this. I appreciate all the help and guidance you've posted in this forum for Crusaders MannerCookie. It has helped me a ton as I gear my own Crusader. Keep up the good work, also your stream is awesome and great entertainment!
MC all I want to say is thank you for giving me the drive to gear my crusader...Starting out when RoS was released crusader seemed very slow/clunky and felt so far behind with means of farming speeds and Dps compared to the other classes.However reading/watching your guides have completely changed by PoV.
Just managed to get my 2 piece Akkhan a few minutes ago and t3 is feeling like a faceroll managed to roll a near perfect Sword of Prophecy yesterday as well
If you have time can you advise on where i should focus my next upgrade, excluding Akkhan set as those are defs. Tried t4 and while its playable I feel 4-5 deaths per rift is too much and not efficient enough for farming
Hey man, first of all I'd like to thank you a lot for all the testing and advising you do. It's extremely helpful.
That said, I've started playing RoS quite recently with a Crusader, and I'm quite fond of the Holy builds. I've managed to get a Jekangbord and it's simply amazing (hoping for Gyrfalcon now). My question is: for a Blessed Shield build, just how valuable IAS is? I have saved a lot of rings (many that can be awesome trifectas), but I'm not sure if that's optimal, or if I should go for a CHD/CDR route and use Judgement. Any thoughts?
So I got my hands on an Eberli Charo with 46% reduction on Heaven's Fury, and using a slightly tweaked version of your Fire build came up with a spec that, so far, is absolutely melting packs in Torment 3.
That is my Crusader at the moment. Basically it revolves around Akkarats Champion, Heavens Fury, Provoke, and Shield Glare. When you pop Akkarats Champion, you can CD the other abilities quickly thanks to the Rally rune, using Provoke with the Charged Up rune causes Heaven's Fury to deal quite a HIGH amount of damage (I rune that for Split Fury so it can hit more targets easier...and if they are clustered you can kind of double dip from each beam)BUT it also gives you a lot of Wrath. This spec/gear has a lot of life on wrath hit, so this allows spamming of Sweep Attack healing large chunks of health per cast. Shield Glare is spammed during Champion to keep them stunned, but mostly to keep up the 20% damage increase for your HF.
I might have to take this to Torment 4 soon, as I am killing Elite/Champion packs without much issue at all. Most are dead in <30 seconds.
EDIT: Did some testing in torment 4. Yeah it's still working wonderfully, it just takes a bit longer to kill the packs.
mannercookie, i dont post often, but i am really a fan of your work, helped me a lot on my crusader. I have seen your streams and you say the heaven´s fury build is broken, and i get it (no procs of rally). One thing i noticed just now while i was playing, is that the bleed effect that can be rolled both on weapons and shield can proc rally, it is helping me a lot, with fate of the fell i get many monsters to bleed, helping me get more judments and all shit, i dont know if it is viable to lose a primary stat on shield or weapon to get the bleed effect though. Could you give it some try and comment about it ?
ps: sorry about the bad english, not my native language
for blessed shield build IAS is better performing than a CDR/CHD setup
@improve
if your gonna swap to holy eventually, gamble on shields and try to get a shield and roll wrath regen on it (hellskull would be ideal for progressing)
@formigah
bleed proc'ing rally is an interesting synergy indeed but not sure if it's needed, if HF was working properly there would be no need for it really and the weapon/shield are only places we can get WR and also a good place to get CDR.
Dunno if anyone else is experiencing this but if you get the proc from Akarat Champ that brings you back to full life,the rally rune no longer works.Tried it a lot of times,left the mobs to kill me in order to for the "revive" to proc,and after that I started spamming and neither of my cds were getting reduced.
Dunno if anyone else is experiencing this but if you get the proc from Akarat Champ that brings you back to full life,the rally rune no longer works.Tried it a lot of times,left the mobs to kill me in order to for the "revive" to proc,and after that I started spamming and neither of my cds were getting reduced.
I have noticed this as well. Not sure if it is a bug or intended....
As soon as the revive procs from Akkarat's Champ you lose allof the other effects of the spell. If you watch when you "Die" you lose the buff and gain the debuff.
Hey Mannercookie,I haven't had a chance to really look at all your gear since it swaps a lot but, do you have a lot of wrath regen? It always seems like yours regens pretty quickly. I have that condem sword (forget the name) but trying your build, I find myself standing around doing nothing because I never have any wrath.
Does full akarat set + certain items only make this build viable?
Hey MC, what build would you recommend for T6 once I have gotte 6 piece crus set bonus? atm im stacking alot of cooldown reduction to be able to keep akkarat active all the time, what are your suggestions?
Hey MC, what build would you recommend for T6 once I have gotte 6 piece crus set bonus? atm im stacking alot of cooldown reduction to be able to keep akkarat active all the time, what are your suggestions?
so far HF or Condemn builds are the only ones I like for T6 (Both holy)
Condemn build with BoP is DEF END-GAME (already been displayed in latest twitch highlight doing T6 Rifts)
FoF HF build will be even better than BoP if it's mechanics get fixed
also what about cooldown reduction, should is till go for cdr?
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Just managed to get my 2 piece Akkhan a few minutes ago and t3 is feeling like a faceroll managed to roll a near perfect Sword of Prophecy yesterday as well
If you have time can you advise on where i should focus my next upgrade, excluding Akkhan set as those are defs. Tried t4 and while its playable I feel 4-5 deaths per rift is too much and not efficient enough for farming
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Gamble on boots,helm
@Samurro
No, if you look closely at my profile I have 3 Crusaders (one is being lvl'd to 70) and I also have multiple barbs.
I am currently building multiple characters/builds, my items hop around between characters very frequently.
If you would like to see my gear, best is to try and catch it on streams or wait for videos on youtube where I will discuss them.
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That said, I've started playing RoS quite recently with a Crusader, and I'm quite fond of the Holy builds. I've managed to get a Jekangbord and it's simply amazing (hoping for Gyrfalcon now). My question is: for a Blessed Shield build, just how valuable IAS is? I have saved a lot of rings (many that can be awesome trifectas), but I'm not sure if that's optimal, or if I should go for a CHD/CDR route and use Judgement. Any thoughts?
Was hoping you could give me some advice on what to improve/upgrade on my gear, I would greatly appreciate it.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/adversa-1984/hero/45403079
I'm currently a fire build but I plan on going Holy after I get the right pieces for it. What do you think I should focus on upgrading?
Much appreciated.
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That is my Crusader at the moment. Basically it revolves around Akkarats Champion, Heavens Fury, Provoke, and Shield Glare. When you pop Akkarats Champion, you can CD the other abilities quickly thanks to the Rally rune, using Provoke with the Charged Up rune causes Heaven's Fury to deal quite a HIGH amount of damage (I rune that for Split Fury so it can hit more targets easier...and if they are clustered you can kind of double dip from each beam)BUT it also gives you a lot of Wrath. This spec/gear has a lot of life on wrath hit, so this allows spamming of Sweep Attack healing large chunks of health per cast. Shield Glare is spammed during Champion to keep them stunned, but mostly to keep up the 20% damage increase for your HF.
I might have to take this to Torment 4 soon, as I am killing Elite/Champion packs without much issue at all. Most are dead in <30 seconds.
EDIT: Did some testing in torment 4. Yeah it's still working wonderfully, it just takes a bit longer to kill the packs.
ps: sorry about the bad english, not my native language
for blessed shield build IAS is better performing than a CDR/CHD setup
@improve
if your gonna swap to holy eventually, gamble on shields and try to get a shield and roll wrath regen on it (hellskull would be ideal for progressing)
@formigah
bleed proc'ing rally is an interesting synergy indeed but not sure if it's needed, if HF was working properly there would be no need for it really and the weapon/shield are only places we can get WR and also a good place to get CDR.
if it was to be dropped it would be for CDR.
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Does full akarat set + certain items only make this build viable?
Done with OPCrus for now, going to finish OPBarb now
Will make full guide in near future and will re-visit HF/judgement build once it's fixed.
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Condemn build with BoP is DEF END-GAME (already been displayed in latest twitch highlight doing T6 Rifts)
FoF HF build will be even better than BoP if it's mechanics get fixed
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