I obtained my 5th akkhan's piece a week or so ago, after playing around with the popular builds I decided it wasn't for me and shelved the set. I went off to do a fire build and can speed run T5 with ease. Rather than letting my 6pc bonus rot in the bank, I threw it on my other crusader for a laugh and it slowly turned into something with potential!
Basic idea behind this build: Lightning strikes starting forest fires!
Key items in build: Lightning skill bonus, 6 pc Akkhan's set, Lidless Wall. (O.K., maybe the Lidless Wall isn't key... but it definitely helps!)
(Slot 1*): Your first passive is pretty open, go for wrathful if you have the globe bonus to support it.
Finery: Most of us have 7 sockets, so this isn't much of a choice. Works even better if you have a socket in your RoRG due to non-perfect rolls.
Holy Cause: 10% more weapon damage is nothing to sneeze at, but I may think of switching this for more survivability
Fervor: Swap for Heavenly Strength if you are using a Schaefer's, but you will need even better gear to support perma-akarat's!
Due to the sheer amount of attacks I unleash each second, Fire Starter stacks up quickly and effectively adding to the already massive damage I am dealing. Charged up + Hammers + Phalanx! It's pretty crazy.
> Armory <- I am thinking of switching back to Witching Hour instead of Thundergod's Vigor, but we'll see how it plays out. Also, I need a perfect roll Akkhan's Gloves!
CC - 45.5%
CHD - 407%
IAS - 37%
CDR - 52.44%
Lightning Dmg - 83%
Due to toughness issues in my current gear, my max torment is T4 without a unity. The clearing speed is nuts, just need to stack some toughness back up here and there.
Eh, I wouldn't know. You aren't someone famous, nor do I feel like you are someone I would get along with... Probably just some asshole who assumes that everyone read your thread and tries to copy you. But hey, who knows. I almost never go on the forums, I just share a build every now and again. If you do a 6 pc akkhans fire starter build with blessed hammers and lightning skills... that would be scary. Your build was shit anyway. I saw it and you use falling sword as well? and prophet, and you use a wrath generator? my build is quite a lot different than your build... and I can clearly see that mine is WAY better. I'm doing T4 without a unity and some fairly bad rolls. I can easily get this into T6 with some better gear. You need to step the fuck back for a minute.
As for less damage, no... It deals ridiculous damage, if I wanted a fire build... I would do a fire build like my other crusader's. But hey, good thing we aren't assholes right? Well, one of us at least.
Edit 1* - Added some stuff about how shit your build is, and how it clearly doesn't work as well as mine.
Edit 2* - Added in this edit information
Edit 3* - Just because my build is better doesn't mean you get to suggest I based it on your build
Basic idea behind this build: Lightning strikes starting forest fires!
Key items in build: Lightning skill bonus, 6 pc Akkhan's set, Lidless Wall. (O.K., maybe the Lidless Wall isn't key... but it definitely helps!)
Skills:
Blessed hammer - Thunderstruck: Main source of attacks.
Falling Sword - Part the Clouds: Survivability, dodging frozen and stunning champions. On boss fights, this is a perma-stun for it's duration.
Phalanx - Bowmen: Additional attacks with no cast animation, also work as a human shield!
Laws of Valor - Critical: Can't go wrong with more crit damage to go with your faster attack speed.
Provoke - Charged Up: Additional attacks added to everything!
Akarat's Champion - Fire Starter: Main source of damage!
Passives:
(Slot 1*): Your first passive is pretty open, go for wrathful if you have the globe bonus to support it.
Finery: Most of us have 7 sockets, so this isn't much of a choice. Works even better if you have a socket in your RoRG due to non-perfect rolls.
Holy Cause: 10% more weapon damage is nothing to sneeze at, but I may think of switching this for more survivability
Fervor: Swap for Heavenly Strength if you are using a Schaefer's, but you will need even better gear to support perma-akarat's!
Due to the sheer amount of attacks I unleash each second, Fire Starter stacks up quickly and effectively adding to the already massive damage I am dealing. Charged up + Hammers + Phalanx! It's pretty crazy.
> Armory <- I am thinking of switching back to Witching Hour instead of Thundergod's Vigor, but we'll see how it plays out. Also, I need a perfect roll Akkhan's Gloves!
CC - 45.5%
CHD - 407%
IAS - 37%
CDR - 52.44%
Lightning Dmg - 83%
Due to toughness issues in my current gear, my max torment is T4 without a unity. The clearing speed is nuts, just need to stack some toughness back up here and there.
As for less damage, no... It deals ridiculous damage, if I wanted a fire build... I would do a fire build like my other crusader's. But hey, good thing we aren't assholes right? Well, one of us at least.
Edit 1* - Added some stuff about how shit your build is, and how it clearly doesn't work as well as mine.
Edit 2* - Added in this edit information
Edit 3* - Just because my build is better doesn't mean you get to suggest I based it on your build
It's Kapsu...I mean
How is Fire Starter your main source of damage when you stack +lightning?
Why are you so defensive?! It's?! A gaming forum?!
Just what.