How I think it should be fixed : The requirements for perma akkhan will have to come down , (say 40% CDR for perma akkhan?? =p) more crusader gears MUST have CDR as smart loot , Our skill damage have to go up and possibly the whole Akarat's champion skill will have to be buffed where we can use all the different runes with cheat death and armor bonus but differing bonus to actually see some build diversity. Eg Fire = firestarter effects but retains cheat death and 150% armor.
PS : The pony build is our only build besides condemn that works for high GR as "fate of the fell" build simply died as the damage could not keep up , but we cannot bloody kill a corrupt angels or wither moths flying OUT of our hit zones like a CLIFF for example and it is stupid. fix it blizzard.
Or... you know...
Roland's could have "Gain 30% armour for 30 seconds stacking up to 5 times on use of shield bash or sweep." There you go. Now roland's is viable.
Issue here is blizzard don't see it. There's also issue with CC immunity. Besides iron skin we dont really have much CC immunity skills. Maybe a belt that doubles iron skin duration ? Lol..
Edit : Maybe if blizzard gives the roland set "reduce cooldown of ironskin by 50%" affix would make it slightly more viable. Then again it kinda lack creativity and is just a reharsh of the akkhan set, don't think many people will want to see that.
If a crusader gets perfect flavor of time and a perfect furnace , we could possibly get to GR45ish onwards given a good density rift.
(The rest of the akkhan pieces are easy to come by so i'll skip that.) but as everyone knows a furnace is f**king rare let alone a perfect 1.
Next issue will be the actually mechanics of Akkhan - 56% CDR for perma akkhan , this should be lowered. And no , non-perma akkhan builds does not work rolands is bad and noobish i will auto salvage it, crusaders melt without akkhan's 150% armor bonus. Yes MELT and die like shit even in T6 ( just short of melting).
Shield / Ring 1 / Ring 2 / Gloves / Shoulder / Belt / Paragon all must have perfect CDR in other to have perma akkhan (The last bit will have to come from either your weapon or amulet which is another loss of damage)
This will also mean the upcoming bombardment belt is suited for salvaging except if you found it when you are on your way to level 70 or if blizz is kind enough to let it rolls CDR ;).
in summary : Crusaders will need to be perfectly geared to do above average tanking and mediocre damage. I can gear a DH in a week and kick ass (ok-ish kick ass) but a few months to gear a crusader (unity with CDR took me 2 weeks, and it's not even funny) and I'm still not done. Blizz need to look into the way "flavor of time" rolls for crusader and smart loot CDR and socket in jeweleries for crusaders to make our life less of a torment (lol) to farm for such gear.
Done get me wrong, I have 3 crusaders, seasons + HC and non-seasons, i love the crusader - just not enough to punish myself for another season for yet another CDR loot collection. So i'll probably just play non-seasons in season 2.
How I think it should be fixed : The requirements for perma akkhan will have to come down , (say 40% CDR for perma akkhan?? =p) more crusader gears MUST have CDR as smart loot , Our skill damage have to go up and possibly the whole Akarat's champion skill will have to be buffed where we can use all the different runes with cheat death and armor bonus but differing bonus to actually see some build diversity. Eg Fire = firestarter effects but retains cheat death and 150% armor.
PS : The pony build is our only build besides condemn that works for high GR as "fate of the fell" build simply died as the damage could not keep up , but we cannot bloody kill a corrupt angels or wither moths flying OUT of our hit zones like a CLIFF for example and it is stupid. fix it blizzard.
Edit : Maybe if blizzard gives the roland set "reduce cooldown of ironskin by 50%" affix would make it slightly more viable. Then again it kinda lack creativity and is just a reharsh of the akkhan set, don't think many people will want to see that.
If a crusader gets perfect flavor of time and a perfect furnace , we could possibly get to GR45ish onwards given a good density rift.
(The rest of the akkhan pieces are easy to come by so i'll skip that.) but as everyone knows a furnace is f**king rare let alone a perfect 1.
Next issue will be the actually mechanics of Akkhan - 56% CDR for perma akkhan , this should be lowered. And no , non-perma akkhan builds does not work rolands is bad and noobish i will auto salvage it, crusaders melt without akkhan's 150% armor bonus. Yes MELT and die like shit even in T6 ( just short of melting).
Shield / Ring 1 / Ring 2 / Gloves / Shoulder / Belt / Paragon all must have perfect CDR in other to have perma akkhan (The last bit will have to come from either your weapon or amulet which is another loss of damage)
This will also mean the upcoming bombardment belt is suited for salvaging except if you found it when you are on your way to level 70 or if blizz is kind enough to let it rolls CDR ;).
in summary : Crusaders will need to be perfectly geared to do above average tanking and mediocre damage. I can gear a DH in a week and kick ass (ok-ish kick ass) but a few months to gear a crusader (unity with CDR took me 2 weeks, and it's not even funny) and I'm still not done. Blizz need to look into the way "flavor of time" rolls for crusader and smart loot CDR and socket in jeweleries for crusaders to make our life less of a torment (lol) to farm for such gear.
Done get me wrong, I have 3 crusaders, seasons + HC and non-seasons, i love the crusader - just not enough to punish myself for another season for yet another CDR loot collection. So i'll probably just play non-seasons in season 2.
How I think it should be fixed : The requirements for perma akkhan will have to come down , (say 40% CDR for perma akkhan?? =p) more crusader gears MUST have CDR as smart loot , Our skill damage have to go up and possibly the whole Akarat's champion skill will have to be buffed where we can use all the different runes with cheat death and armor bonus but differing bonus to actually see some build diversity. Eg Fire = firestarter effects but retains cheat death and 150% armor.
PS : The pony build is our only build besides condemn that works for high GR as "fate of the fell" build simply died as the damage could not keep up , but we cannot bloody kill a corrupt angels or wither moths flying OUT of our hit zones like a CLIFF for example and it is stupid. fix it blizzard.