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 Crusader V1, The unbending champions of Faith & Law

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post Mar 29 2014, 03:07 PM

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Hey guys biggrin.gif
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/fthis-6363/hero/43524809

Yet to find any utility legendary besides the flail that doubles steed. ._.

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post Mar 29 2014, 11:25 PM

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Moogle, are u getting your sustain mainly from your gear or from your crusader abilities?

I'm using wrathful as my main sustain, it was ok when i had lower hp but insufficient now as it does'n't scale, require kiting once in a while. lol

Holy cause doesn't work for me as my AS is too low and i experimented with having few k LOH doesn't work too well for me
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post Apr 1 2014, 08:30 PM

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Awesome, with around 35% cooldown reduction it will be perma uptime. Lol
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post Apr 1 2014, 08:32 PM

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I'm also hoping for that loot. I have the shield already.
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post Apr 2 2014, 05:16 PM

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QUOTE(cheer83 @ Apr 1 2014, 08:41 PM)
wow stevie , welcome back long time no see smile.gif
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Haha yeah. Xpac looks fun
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post Apr 4 2014, 01:27 PM

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Finally breached 1m dps lol, but i still massively lack utility

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My helm, shield, and bracer came from Kadala lol.

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post Apr 4 2014, 01:34 PM

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The details lol

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post Apr 4 2014, 01:38 PM

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Can't argue with bonus experience and triple fury lol

Just Str, Vit, CC & Block% oh shield

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post Apr 4 2014, 05:30 PM

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QUOTE(Phonzy @ Apr 4 2014, 04:02 PM)
guys, just being a devil's advocate here. but, honestly, why is everyone so focused on DPS as a crusader? Is that the way to go? People are judging me based on my 400k dps, but when I blast out my 40% crit chance and 500% crit damage + fate of the fell + heaven fury...i'm doing 15-16m crit per beam!

they are like, what are you doing in torment 3? ur dps is shit. but, i have no problem facerolling t3....

am i doing something wrong here?

is DPS really important for crusaders when majority of your damage are Holy or a certain spell (which you can roll/gamble) ? at the end of the day, i don't care about my melee, i'm just generating wrath to blast my heaven's fury,

pls correct me if i'm wrong ya coz we are all here to LEARN
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It's simple really, to get utility you need very specific legendaries. And the RNG masters has not seen it fit to give me fate of the fell or other unique items which I can build my character upon.
As for rolling non-holy damage affix, that's because my gears are common to both my barb and crusader and holy is worthless to a barb. I'm also collecting legendary mats for crafting but you know how random those are...

Nobody here is judging your 400k dps so why are you judging us posting our pics posted for fun eh? tongue.gif



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post Apr 6 2014, 11:59 PM

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QUOTE(Moogle Stiltzkin @ Apr 6 2014, 10:25 PM)
if we play crusader as tank, then we'd need something like provoke to be more effective at grabbing aggro to tank ....

when i try stay ahead of the group, the mobs most the time will also run by me to reach the other ranged members ...... so my choice here is to either stunlock to prevent that, or to use provoke .....

so that would be the role of a crusader....... nobody expects much from us, other than adding that itsy bitsy damage, or the small task of tanking as best as we can..... and that is downright disappointing.

Maybe it's a build we haven't figured out yet, but from what i'm seeing we just aren't pulling the numbers that classes the barbarians are doing.
Maybe this isn't too apparent in the lower torment levels. but having played t3 and t4, my dps is less by far compared to the damage dealers in the group  cry.gif so if dps is not what i'm contributing the most, i'm filling the role as a tank to take the hits every chance i get and stunlock (shako clones), and add some damage with my heavens fury and hope that does a little damage to kill the weaker creeps  rolleyes.gif  my law buff to speed up attacks also helps the team, along the passive it does.

but if your hoping a crusader can take the role of a main damage dealer in your group, this most likely is not gonna happen  sad.gif
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imo, crusader stated dps and toughness divide by 2 = equivalent dps and toughness for other classes.
that's how it feels like for me anyway.

there is an effective build out there which is used by Aureus which requires
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/gyrfalcons-foote
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/jekangbord

Hurl your shield, dealing 280% weapon damage plus 250% of shield Block Chance as damage. The shield will ricochet to 3 nearby enemies.
Blessed Shield ricochets to 4–6 additional enemies.

It's 1H, solves the MS problem
It's 0 cost now, solves the wrath problem
It hits up to 9 enemies at range, mostly solves the move to target/not enough trash mob clearing capabilities of the other crusader primaries
It does more damage too

The other viable build is the thorns/reflect based build.


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post Apr 7 2014, 12:46 PM

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Well, condemn is 1160% every 15 seconds

Impactful bombardment is 3320% every 60 seconds (40 seconds with passive)

That's additional 77% per seconds vs 55.3% (83% if you use passive)

I use condemn-vacuum as it synergizes better with my blessed hammer and is more sutainable. Can use it against big white mobs which you don't necessarily want to use bombardment for.

Also, using bombardment against ranged elites in an open area is annoying as they tend to spread out. lol
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post Apr 7 2014, 02:23 PM

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No love for cooldown reduction gear?
I'm aiming for Born's set once i get the -1 set ring

I already have the 10% bonus from captain's crimson
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post Apr 9 2014, 11:25 AM

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Best part of the patch, 15% DR smile.gif
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post Apr 9 2014, 06:01 PM

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My holy/condemn/crafted crusader build.
Finally can take some damage thanks to set bonus and 15% DR biggrin.gif

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/fthis-6363/hero/43524809

Need a holy dmg amulet, socketed helm for CD reduction gem and will switch a diamond to ruby soon.
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post Apr 11 2014, 01:52 PM

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Mannercookie was demo-ing this 6 piece set bonus for Akkhan's.

90% Akarat's chamption uptime and nearly-perma doube-condemn spam with blade of phrophecy.

Pretty sick.
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post Apr 15 2014, 04:19 PM

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My FotH Condemn crusader geared for lvling.

Going with CDR. above 40% with gem now

Condemn, spam FotH, provoke, spam FotH, whack 2 to 3 times, repeat.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/fthis-6363/hero/43524809
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post Apr 15 2014, 08:40 PM

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Speaking of which, I just looted a CD compass rose today.

I'm out of souls to enchant that and my darklight haha

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post Apr 16 2014, 02:47 PM

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Omgggg how
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post Apr 21 2014, 03:10 PM

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Basically, he's got 72.9 total CD reduction for his Akarats.

If you could achieve 60+ CDR on your gears, you might be able to simulate the same effect.
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post Apr 27 2014, 10:27 AM

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Darklight is good for lightning build.
FotH - Fissure.
Stack lightning damage and the arc does respectable damage.

Imho, an option you can consider in enchanting is to turn the lightning damage to to a higher dps normal damage to fully take advantage of your 10% damage immediately (conversely, you can wait for the bug-fix). 2.3k++ dps

There is one downside to the darklight build, which is stacking lightning damage when the accepted conventional "end-game" route is to stack holy damage.

Use provoke-charged up with your shield glare to keep refilling mana to continuously spam FotH.

In the argument between 1H or 2H is better, if your only options are stalgard's vs. darklight, imho again, darklight wins.

Using the 1H route tho, even tho weapon dps *may* be not too far off (2.3k vs 2.7k is only 17% off) , weapon damage itself is far lower than 2H due to the attack speed and may not be optimal for high cooldown burst skills, therefore I would avoid bombardment.

All this is my personal opinion, based on my limited knowledge and subject to change.

Cheers

P.s: I've tried the darklight build before and it clears T1 rather quickly but I still prefer the condemn route.
P.p.s: 1H's best choice is http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/gyrfalcons-foote with http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/jekangbord

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