Diablo 3: Patch 2.1.0

[Devile]

Once they fix pets, I'll get back to this topic. For the time being, I don't plan on playing WDs at all.

I did try a few things with Crusaders and my initial test build seems stupidly OP. I need to work on my DPS because I'm use using my old Holy Shotgun items only, but so far it looks VERY promising.

[Multibocks]

For a physical Phalanx build is there a specific weapon or shield or any item I am looking for? What skills are you using?

My crusaders are currently building towards Darklight, 3 of 4 have the weapon. It seems ok, I'm not sure if it can be successful in GRift 30+.

[Devile]

Yes, u are looking for this:

Mandatory
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/unrelenting-phalanx

Recommended
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-furnace
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/heart-slaughter

Without the shield, u will do T6 just fine. The Strongarm stacking will help u increase your damage, but once u get the shields, in theory it will duplicate your damage. My build is the regular Stampede build. U can check this video:



This build is very solid and that's what top Crusaders are using, regardless of what's visible in their profiles. The main issue with this build is how the horses behave with ground objects and walls. Blizzard needs to hotfix Stampede so horses deal with objects in a much better way. Narrow corridors, ground objects, walls, etc. are a huge problem. When a horse hits a wall or an object, it just disappears, so your DPS can go REALLY low in certain maps just cause horses can't go thru.

The waller affix is a HUGE HUGE pain in the butt. Solo u can prolly get around walls, but in a full party, waller is just stupid. Sure u can use a pot to remove walls, but that has a long cooldown and those things spam walls. They literally shut u down. U don't really die cause of your high toughness, but u just get stuck and waste a ton of time. If u can't hit them, they are free casting and spamming more and more walls. I tried a GR31 and got no less than 5 packs with this affix. Uterly frustrating. Of course I failed since I couldn't MOVE, couldn't even skip the damn things. Is not that they spam walls to block u, some times they cast walls ON TOP of u, and u get stuck inside a wall without being able to move. IMO that's a long due bug Blizzard is ignoring.

Introducing Illusory Boots as mandatory could help, but then u won't be able to use Leoric's Crown and lose a lot CDR which is very important for this build. Doable but I don't think this is the way to address this. They should make the horses go thru walls, not u, just your horses. That or have Steed Charge go thru walls, just like Spirit Walk for WDs. If u get a rift with several packs with waller affix, trust me, just leave game and start again. It's not worth the time.

U can also use Falling Sword Rapid Descent but u will sacrifice 1 skill for just the waller affix. Besides the cooldown of this skill is a lot higher than the Elite internal cooldown for waller, so u will get fucked anyway. I will try Illusory Boots and if it hurts the build too much, I'll just go with the regular build with Leoric's Crown and leave game if the rift has too many waller Elites.

Besides waller, build works very good. I used my Holy Shotgun items and was able to do T6 without a problem. Not like T6 is hard anyway, but still it worked very good, better than Holy Shotgun anyway. When I finish my build, I'll create a topic.

PS: Changed the video for Alkaizer's GR41. As u can see, this build is amazing and multiboxing it has a ton of potential but requires some skill in terms of positioning.

[Ellay]

Need the Shield - unrelenting Phalanx, casts Phalanx twice.
The best weapon is considered The Furnace but it's drop rate is insanely low, so low actually I've never gotten one to drop in d3

I think this is a viable build though and Devile was messing around with it last night. I'm sure he can shed further info.

[Mamut]

Laws of hope- Wings of angels lets u pass through waller. During my gearing and lower Grifts i had 2 using this for 100% uptime for the faster movement and running through mobs/wallers.

Now that im mid 30's Grifts Im using Laws of Hope- Stop time on round robin for 12 seconds of damage immunity. My Dps has me stalled out on Grift 34 so im looking for weapon/rings/ammy upgrades. I found one furnace so far on seasons but never seen a heart slaughter or anything over 3400 dps.

Not sure what the best legendary gems are. Atm im using BoT, BoP, with one using the toxin gem to buff party 10%. For the third im trying out pain enhancer and Zei's. Mobs get pushed so far back that im usually at the max distance from them for the Zei 50 yard bonus dmg.

[Devile]

I rather lose CDR or just leave game than cut my toughness by half just to use Laws of Hope. I think I can get my party close to immortality with proper setup without losing DPS. Prolly will try GR40+ tonight just to test survivability (not planning on killing anything). See if I can stand on frozen, thunderstorm, frozen pulse, orbiter, etc.

As for gems, BoT, Pain Enhancer and prolly Gogok of Swiftness (1 with Toxin). BoP could be too but might not help much against RG. Taeguk is amazing but it can be pretty stressing playstyle. Wish they made it to last 5 seconds instead of just 3 or increase the damage per stack. U lose the stacks too easy and getting again max stacks can take forever. Very good against RG tho.

[Multibocks]

Is that shield seasonal? Surprising on weap dps Mamut, I have 3 crusaders with 3700+dps weapons. Still need some Ramaladni's though :/


edit: pains me to think of how many Heart Slaughter's I have destroyed.

[Mamut]

The shield is not seasonal. The seasonal shield is fryders wrath (condemn shield).

[Multibocks]

Ah ok, what about Blessed Shield build with http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/gyrfalcons-foote and the shield that goes with it? No good for high GRifts?

edit: also http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/baleful-remnant is wicked awesome for clearing rifts, just sucks once you hit the boss. I have had my whole screen full of these guys just destroying mobs before I could get to them. Sadly boss fights are very very slow.

[Ellay]

The Blessed Shield was pretty fun when RoS came out but started to show it's lack of DPS once you hit T6, then the Holy Shotgun build came about and took over, now it's the Stampede route if your looking for max damage.