Be better off going SoJ or Unity and a ring of granduer once you are able to get them. The ring of grandeur can make some great sets like aug, or captains get the 3 piece bonus for only 2 pieces which can be really powerful. SoJ provides elemental boost of your choice which is awesome or unity if you get 2 of them can increase your survival by a huge amount at higher torment levels (one on follower with can not die relic, one on you). Either way the benefits would outweigh the restraint focus combo I would think.
Man I wish blizz would update their tooltips on their skill calc already. Anyway your holy cause will heal you enough to stay alive, if you have to put some paragon on life on hit. Works up to t4 for sure. The advantage you gain to using jenka is that you don't need to have an extra skill devoted to wrath or a passive devoted only to defense. I used blessed ground fires of heaven instead of phalanx for the single target due to extra fire dmg procs on firestarter, however you could go phalanx bowmen for extra single target dmg instead. Falling sword with flurry hits pretty hard now if your packing holy dmg. Fervor also gives you 15 percent CDR which is huge if your using even more cooldowns since you don't have to use a primary generator. It's all about give and take. I think that as said a shitty rolled glyph will still be worse than a very good 2h....but a mediocre glyph will be better than a good 2h imo.
Side note another user just posted a guide of a build that is almost the same as the falling sword version I have and was doing it on T6, guess with a different gear prioritization it is okay to use ;).
Interesting thanks for the feedback, I'll have to start building towards that for when I can eventually move out of that range. At least this will work well for me until the rng gods grant 5 pieces of akhan and the ring :-S lol.
i ran this build since the patch came out with the mortal drama its great dps build but the main issue here is lack of wrath you must have provoke + shield glare to have to open to sustain your wrath and firestarter is must aswell this build wont work on 5-6 unless you can run it with 6 pieces of akkhan and why go shield bash? its got insane lack of aoe only if you kill a mob it explodes and does damage the way to go is fist of the heavens since you must have wrathful to generate hp you can spam this from ranged aswell so you will still output dmg while healing up
what you suggesting might work on t3 but yes it will only work t3-4 i ran this t5 its weak build only when bombarment is working you actualy doing some damage but its still aint enough specialy if you going shield bash
You using Piro Mirella? Halves the wrath cost and allows you to do 2x as many shield bashes, if not you would DEFINITELY need this to push into t5 w/ this build. I would also say you'd use cindercoat as well. Honestly with this build I would probably skip akhans and stack fire dmg and use those couple resource cost reduction legendaries and you'll have permanent sustain. I haven't been lucky enough to find a cindercoat yet sadly, but the piro mirella more than doubled my dmg when I got it and made things much smoother.
After quite a bit of testing I'm feeling like provoke with hit me is out performing shield glare on the falling sword build. This because even with shield glare that does wrath gen Im getting much more wrath from provoke. In addition it ups my block which give me more survival compared to the small wedge of blind and gives additional roar procs. Im also low on toughness for the torment lvl Im playing at so I made some rune substitutions for more survival. It's interesting the flexiblity you have now that they have fixed many of the passives. You can take a core of a build and push it to a higher torment with a few passive changes. Going to upload the falling sword video in just a minute or two, will update when I have it done.
I've been using this build with a (I think) crappy Thunderfury instead of a 2h, as it feels like I hit to slow to build up the Wrath to use Shield Bash, even if my damage per hit is so much lower.
Do you have any opinion on doing this? Is it a huge loss or is it quite similiar? (Running with Finery instead of Lord Commander for a increase of normal damage as I use Bomb. only doing elite packs)
I'm honestly not sure, I think if I were running a 1h'er I would opt for the falling sword version of the build. I'll be creating a new version of the build that might work better for you too in the next couple of days.
As a side note I have now updated the main guide with video gameplay for the 2h bombardment build with my current gear setup :). Check it out all and hit and subscribe like if you enjoy it :).
Sure I'll add this into the guide tonight or tomorrow morning but I'm still playing around with it to determine what's optimal. At the moment in the bombardment build I am using CDR but Im not sure if crit dmg might be more effective. For base I go movement speed to max then str. For defense I go all resist at the moment but I believe that armor could be decent as well depending on where your resists and armor are at. I go with resource cost reduction rather than area dmg at the moment because I don't have my reaper wraps yet, when I get my reaper wraps for fire I will probably shift this over to area dmg (though maybe not still not sure). Doing this off the top of my head since right now I don't have access to the game so if I missed any categories let me know.
Yeah I think that both builds are good but bombardment is fun times. The cam's rebuttal spec works really well if you get that legendary and good either way tbh. I am teleporting all over and blinding things all the time...almost wondering if I should switch roar to a different rune as Im off the screen or have things ccd so much. I might play around with it tonight after work, but will leave it in the guide how it is for now.
I really like the Mortal Drama/Bombardment build but prefer Shield Glare (Divine Verdict) over Akarat's Champion. With Shield Glare giving +20% damage and Blinding everyone hit coupled with the CDR from Towering Shield plus your normal CDR that you want for Bombardment, you can have 100% uptime on it making it really nice both offensively and defensively.
I tried swapping Wrathful for Renew, and find that it syncs much much better for the shield block build. You don't even really have to watch your hp bar, if 3-5 seconds go by and you don't see a roar proc ( or a string) it's time to move. If you see the procs, just continue smashing face. Wrathful works much better in the FoTH fire build, in that build it feels great.
For the shield glare it looks like that works best with the falling sword spec. For the valor law it looks like that works best with bombard because the hits are auto crit so it doubles their dmg. I think that I agree that renewal is good for lower torment levels. Wrathful will outscale it however as you get more health globe bonus and start needing to recover more and more wrath, combined with more wrath available from having a really good shield with wrath gen and or weapon. I'll put it as a suggested alternative as well though and tweak a few things in the main build suggestions to reflect this feedback :). Thanks for the input.
Definitely get that :). I actually played with consecrate shattered first ironically, but then saw a BIG dps gain when I switched to the law just because of how big your burst gets with it. I could see swapping it for condemn or having both bombard and falling sword for a bit more of a consistent cooldown rotation instead of big burst all at once. I might try that out tonight, thanks for the feedback Raziel!
Honestly even without either of those legendaries the abilities are really good. I'd try them both out and see which one you like the feeling of more. Falling sword is on a shorter cool down but uses wrath. Bombardment is longer cool down but wrath free and has guaranteed crits (which synergizes well with the law). If I had to choose one personally without either legendary I would probably go bombardment. You could always go with Condemn reciprocate as well especially if you have a BOP. I think that without the bop though the former two skills would probably be better. I'll make a variant that utilizes condemn tomorrow morning and add it to the guide as well. I was running both the falling sword and the bombardment version last night without either legendary as I had a warmonger to work with. Finally got a socket on my cam's so I'm going to try switching over to that tonight and see how much better it makes it.
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Man I wish blizz would update their tooltips on their skill calc already. Anyway your holy cause will heal you enough to stay alive, if you have to put some paragon on life on hit. Works up to t4 for sure. The advantage you gain to using jenka is that you don't need to have an extra skill devoted to wrath or a passive devoted only to defense. I used blessed ground fires of heaven instead of phalanx for the single target due to extra fire dmg procs on firestarter, however you could go phalanx bowmen for extra single target dmg instead. Falling sword with flurry hits pretty hard now if your packing holy dmg. Fervor also gives you 15 percent CDR which is huge if your using even more cooldowns since you don't have to use a primary generator. It's all about give and take. I think that as said a shitty rolled glyph will still be worse than a very good 2h....but a mediocre glyph will be better than a good 2h imo.
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EDIT: Falling sword video is now in the guide as well
http://youtu.be/zZwyke2Arf4
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As a side note I have now updated the main guide with video gameplay for the 2h bombardment build with my current gear setup :). Check it out all and hit and subscribe like if you enjoy it :).
http://youtu.be/uDXuKNF8WyE
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Does anyone know how to hyper link abilities and items so that you can hover over them and have them display?