Akkhan Condemn Crusader

[Valks 2,375]

On 21/12/2017 at 2:08 PM, Guest simple as that said:

Obviously you remove them from the build completely and switch strongarm bracers for nems. This frees your boots slot and armor cube slot. To compensate for damage lost by removing strongarm bracers you add hexing pants of mr yan to the mix. Since you put on set boots you can remove one of two set pieces: helmet or pants. You put in its place leorics crown or hexing pants and cube the other one.

But this is completely against the style of the build? At decently high levels of pushing, you struggle horrendously against elites. You'll end up spawning more of the things you can't kill properly, as opposed to playing with Strongarms + Illusory, which plays into exactly what you want to fight: trash. You want to group up large packs, which Illusory lets you glide through, and they are mostly made up of trash, which you can stun for SA. 

I can't see why Nemesis would be a good pick here outside of speed running, but in that case, it's a completely different argument/build.

[Guest botters I believe]

Even with diminishing returns 4k+ paragon points spent in strength give quite a boost to toughness and damage, considerably reducing your struggles fighting elites and allowing you to fight 3-4 packs of elites + trash mobs at the same time, even in very high gr pushing. Lack of the illusory boots is quite a problem on some maps, so you might need to fish for the right map and switch 1 passive for indestructible to gain 2nd cheat death.

I've seen it being used by people who "play" 20+ hrs a day, so I wouldn't pay much attention to it if you are not botting.

[Guest Spes]

Hello,

I have a question and i hope you will reply because I'm really confused and i don't see any answers here. So i think s10 or s11 i played my season with Crusader and got my Akkhan set like that. While i was playing that season i also found Frydehr's Wrath and Blade of Prophecy. When i found them they had blue percentage for their legendary stat but now i guess there must be some update or something they are all orange writing and numbers (legendary writing and BoP is 100% and shield is 200% and i just dropped another shield that is giving me 727%) should i change them? Does this mean every update some of our items will be trash like this? 

If you want i can take a picture of it.

Thank you,
Spes

[TipeaPeti 0]

View Patch 2.6.1 notes

! There is all the necessary infos. Many legendary items changed. Use the new items, the old ones just forgotten souls. 

Edited February 2, 2018 by TipeaPeti

[URMOMSNASTY 0]

On ‎10‎/‎25‎/‎2015 at 1:03 PM, Guest Jygge said:

I tried to update this set-build since it was my first ever D3 build (nostalgia already), I found that by using full Akhan set & Focus+Restraint the damage was pretty high & I can solo Grift 55, not great, but not bad either.

I'm not having any issues at all with the build specs. Currently running T13 GR 97 solo.. Better jewelry rolls will put me over where I am needing this season. I use Deadset's builds for all my Legit builds. 

[Stormwrath 0]

Hello, thank you for the guides.

Under the weapon, it shows to have Condemn as one of the rolls... But I'm looking at both weapons in the enchanter and I do not see Condemn as an option at all...   Is this a mistake?

[Valks 2,375]

On 27.4.2018 at 7:56 PM, Stormwrath said:

Hello, thank you for the guides.

Under the weapon, it shows to have Condemn as one of the rolls... But I'm looking at both weapons in the enchanter and I do not see Condemn as an option at all...   Is this a mistake?

It is referring to the affix that rolls on Blade of Prophecy only, which impacts your Condemn % damage. You can't reroll this.

[SidonisAntares 290]

I have a question for @Deadset regarding the stat choices on Frydehr's Wrath, it seems that with Finery being mandatory, that a socket would be mandatory on any item that can have a socket, barring weapons which we obv get those through Ramaladni's Gift. Shouldn't the order on the shield at least include socket, if not right below Strength?

[Guest Starfly]

Hello there,

I'm quite new to Diablo (endgame) and am building my HC Crusader right now with this build. As I'm playing him solo and with 1 or 2 friends, I'm curious about an alternative for the 50% dmg reduction from Unity when grouping. My idea so far: switch cubed unity to Ring of Royal Grandeur. Then switch either Akkhan's head for leorics head and cube Aquila Cuirass, or switch Akkhan's breastpiece directly with the Aquilla Cuirass.
Does this sound reasonable? Keeping the wrath above 90% means I can only cast 1-2 Comdemns without losing the effect. Or casting it some more and quickly fill wrath up with provocation. Hmmm.
Another Idea would be the endless walk set (ring+amu, give 50% dmg reduce while moving), but I have no clue how to dampen the lost damage increase.
Some ideas?

[Xerberum 0]

The change log states: "...Convention of Elements is now recommended for the Jewelry slot of the Kanai's Cube in place of Unity."
Why was that changed back to Unity and is CoE still a valid choice? I would like to play this build in a 2P coop with a friend, but his build doesn't include Unity.

 

[Guest Starfly]

Ok, switching out The Furnace with Akkhan's Addendum and cubing Ring of Royal Grandeur instead of Unity loses me 50% dmg boost against elites, but gives me 5 more wrath/s. This way, I can keep the bastion of will set on and Aquila Cuirass have always up.

[Starfly 0]

On 7/30/2018 at 8:28 PM, Xerberum said:

The change log states: "...Convention of Elements is now recommended for the Jewelry slot of the Kanai's Cube in place of Unity."
Why was that changed back to Unity and is CoE still a valid choice? I would like to play this build in a 2P coop with a friend, but his build doesn't include Unity.

 

I think unity is only reasonable when using it with a solo companion who cant die because of his charm-slot. When playing with a friend, you lose 50% dmg mitigation because you can't use unity with a companion... therefore you need something else instead, be it itemwise or teamplay-wise to make up for the loss. Else, you'll probably be too squishy for this playstyle. But I dont know, maybe it's because I'm playing HC, where I really need that additional mitigation.
For non-HC, if you can live without the dmg mitigation, you can either use CoE or use Royal Grandeur and switch one piece of setarmor for something better. For example these pants which give +25% dmg+ressource reg when moving. Or to pull the enemies even more together, use johann's essence amulet. But those all are just ideas from a noob ;o)

[Guest Tookis Town]

I have a talisman of akkhan without a socket, should I reroll strength or plus to damage i'm scared

[Guest fosley]

On 8/14/2018 at 9:37 PM, Guest Tookis Town said:

I have a talisman of akkhan without a socket, should I reroll strength or plus to damage i'm scared

Strength and weapon damage both directly multiply your damage output, so you'd want to roll whichever affects the appropriate stat less, percentage-wise. I'm pretty sure you'll almost always want to keep +strength and remove +damage in a case like this.

 

For example, on my PL 732 hardcore crusader with mostly non-ancient gear, my main weapon has a damage range of 2924-3380 (note that you're looking for raw damage, not damage per second). The average is then 3,152.  Each of my rings and amulet can have +damage affixes for [60-80] - [120-160]. Which means the lower end of the +damage will be between 60 and 80, and the upper end will be between 120 and 160. Let's pretend my amulet has +dmg of 73-149. I would take that average, 111, and add it to the average damage on my weapon. Total is now 3263 damage that's being multiplied by skill effect and so forth to get my final damage. My amulet has +721 strength on it right now, and I have a total of 11,524 strength. If I took the +strength off my amulet I would only have 10,803 strength.

So, we need to compare weapon damage with and without the amulet affix, vs strength with and without the amulet affix. 3263 ÷ 3152 = 1.035, which means the +damage affix gives a 3.5% damage increase. 11524 ÷ 10803 = 1.067, so the +strength affix gives a 6.7% damage increase. 6.7% is a lot bigger than 3.5%, so I'd want to keep +strength and roll +damage to a socket.

 

As you improve gear, both your strength and base damage will increase, decreasing the effectiveness of any given affix, but ancient items give better affixes. My PL 929 softcore crusader with mostly ancient gear (and four level 95 augments) has 3,711 average weapon damage, and an ancient amulet has a +damage affix of [88-105] - [168-210]. My particular amulet has a range of 101-199, or 150 average. Likewise its +888 strength is higher than the HC crusader's non-ancient amulet, while my total strength is 16,727.

Comparing these, I get (3711+150) ÷ (3711) = 1.040, or a 4.0% increase for +damage, and 16727 ÷ (16727 - 888) = 1.056, or a 5.6% increase for +strength. 5.6% is still bigger than 4.0%, but it's not as big of a difference as the lower-geared character was.

As paragon levels go up, strength will improve dramatically, while weapon damage is unchanged. At 23,088 strength, +damage and +strength will have the same benefit (exact level will change depending on other factors). That's 6,246 more strength than I currently have, or 1249 more paragon levels. Which means that above paragon 2178, +damage will start to win out for me, if I ever got that high. Realistically, I'd have more augments by the time I hit that paragon level, and better-optimized gear, so the cutoff point is probably more like PL 1800 for a typical player.

[Guest 110+ questions]

What would be the suggest “minimum”stat required for higher solo GR on this build?

im about to push for season 14 end. 

How much health are we supposed to have?

i did a 109 with 560k health. That’s 0 points in vitality. 

I am currently 2116 paragon.  23k strength, 4.9 million holy damage standing in town  

umpaloompa#1651 us server if anyone can answe the health question or have anything else to help I’d appreciate it 

 

[Guest querulant]

is this guide still up to date? noticed that the top 3 crusaders (eu) use cindercoat

[Guest Abyss]

I have a BoP that rolled ancient. However when I looked at the legendary property, it only says that Condemn damage is increased by 100%, not the 600-800% listed on your guide.

Are there more than one version of this weapon from a previous patch you are aware of?

 

Thank you in advance!

-Abyss

[Guest crazyk972]

I have played with both Furnace and a BALEFUL REMNANT.  Why have we not heard using this variant?  It seems to help deflect aggro and even damage.  I am not sure what the max is but I have had a lot of dots running around with me that seemed to be around 15 at a time.  Thoughts?

[Guest sumyunguy]

boots are essential IMO.  need to pass freely through mobs walls and freeze

[XxDeaditesxX 0]

Hi Deadset i wanted to ask if the Condemn build is holy damage. i wanted to know how come alot of the top people on the leader board are using Cindercoat when that has to do with fire damage?

[Guest SirSirio]

Hi Deadset. I followed your guide to start my Akkhan Crusader and I am in love with it. However, I have few questions about the gears

First, why strength is more important than Area dmg in your build? I see the last top solo Crusader have all area dmg instead of strength wherever they can.

Also, the importance of cooldowns. How much that matter after the 56%? i don't understand if it's better to max that stats of if it's just fine to have more than 56%. What do you think?
Thanks.

[Guest guest]

17 hours ago, Guest SirSirio said:

Also, the importance of cooldowns. How much that matter after the 56%? i don't understand if it's better to max that stats of if it's just fine to have more than 56%. What do you think?

Thanks.

It is very important as it allows you to have perma akarats champion. Without it the build simply doesn't work. I mean you can still use it without cdr, but it's not the same. Once you reach the threshold you don't need any more cdr.