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I finally stopped being lazy and finished making my thorns crusader gameplay guide. I decided to do it in a form of running rifts. I might do another one. I did over 6-7 retakes on this video cause all of the rifts I got sucked balls. This video was requested by lots of people. I hope I didnt miss anything.

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Thorns Crusader Rift Guide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIgPD5rAOm0

Thorns Crusader Introduction Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrld7JHr3W8

Thorns Crusader Gear Guide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrld7JHr3W8

Killing Lord of Bells instantly with around 1bil damage burst!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuhiOchnWvs

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http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/crusader#aeXdif!ThUa!YZaYab

My Battletag is Fantasmagore#1144

Ahhh shucks, sorry for not commenting sooner.. new job, keyboard broke and had to reformat. Thanks for the heads up. Fixing those now! let me know what you think about the build/videos.

Working on a new gear/skill video will be uploaded soon.



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Cant wait for the new 4 set bonus for the invoker set!!



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The 4pc invoker radius is small, and the vambraces that I am currently using pretty much do what the 4pc would do but WAY more. On top of that Id either have to get rid of my helm or my bracers which im not okay with that. Id lose lots of stats, and if I wanted to use a RRoG id also lose out on a ring slot which again id lose a lot.

Actually I just made a new updated gear guide. The one that you watched the pre 2.0.5 patch.Here is a link to the updated one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=947UDirBtt4&feature=youtu.be

Same as I said to the other guy, the 4pc invoker set is lacking for how much you haft to do in order to obtain it when you can just get the bracers from the act1 cashes that do a lot of damage and they do it in an AoE.



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Have you considered the shield that deals double thorns damage to enemies affected by provoke? Or is that too conditional?

Sorry for the long wait on the reply. Work has been busting my ass and I decided to take a break from the internet.



I do have the shield and it is nice, but you lose a lot when using it. I could see it being very good if you got perfect rolls on it, aswell if you had very high CDR atleast 40-75%

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Hello! i'm using thorns build crusader too and can consider that full-thorns build are not viable for t6.

I've found that the best way to crash t6 it's combine fires of heavens + reflective skin(save,dmg,hard affixes disabler). (old video http://youtu.be/31smyO1FHl8?t=43s and this is without merc/unity/soj) profile now : http://eu.battle.net/d3/ru/profile/noskill-2510/hero/38611116

Got some ideas/tips for thorns-brothers, mb it will help someone.

1. Thorns means block. Best shield for thorns build : http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/akarats-awakening <= game changer

(25-31)%+15%+11%+16%+ provoke with block chance rune = 99% of block chance. That's very good and works pretty fine with shield.

2. Godly belt : http://eu.battle.net/d3/ru/item/string-of-ears , here is no comments, this is as*-saver

3. 50k of thorns with reflective skin will annihilate some hard affixes like frozen/chains/electrify/orbiter at t6

4. http://eu.battle.net/d3/ru/calculator/crusader#lYPQXj!baTU!caaYac pvp ownage, noone can stand with thorns crusader

Good luck! Hope this post will be useful for someone.

Thanks for the tips. Ive actually use all of the items you have listed and use them a lot. Although I have a love hate with akarate awakening. I feel like with 35-45% CDR will be better then using that shield. Then again my version of the shield has the WORSE stats possible.

I love string of ears. Its a very underrated belt. Just wish the defensive stats showed up on toughness.

I use to have 50k thorns, but I had to lower it cause of new items, which didnt roll thorns on them.

and if people actually pvp in this game.. then...........well...yeah..



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I am starting a HC thorns crusader. I hope I dont end up getting killed a lot before I actually get this build going on HC.

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Just finished act1, Rolling with 6 thorns!



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How well does thorns perform in a group? Since theres less targets hitting you.

Sorry for the long wait for a response. It actually runs really well in a group. Just dont focus the white mobs and focus on being an elite killer.



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I'll have to watch these videos when I get outta work... I wanna run thorns on my HC crusader which may be a bad idea but hey, I got a set of balls so why not...



One quick question... do you know if thorns damage is considered physical? If you stack physical skill % does that change the damage they take at all? Thanks!

Sorry for the really late response. The regular thorns damage is.. well.. thorns damage however the iron skin/reflective skins is considered physical.



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I ended up dieing =[ Makling a new HC thornsader!



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now on my 5th HC crusader! This one will not die!! im currently level 65! If I die ill be doing a stream giveaway!

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Physical is not viable, its fun for just hitting big numbers, but when they changed element type of a lot of the skills from phys to holy it really effected the build.

Never built a thorns sader, leveling as we speak. Looks like a nice change.

My question is about% lightning vs physical. If I'm understanding you correctly physical is worthless and I should go for lightning% on gear. I see you have one piece still physical is this by design or simple a upgrade that hasn't dropped yet?

Thanks for your input