Blessed Hammer Crusader

[Guest Cheve]

I have a question, I got a new pants that seems cool.

759 base armor

625 strengh - 626 vitality -117 all element

34% gold - 231 extra xp per death

 

My question is.. should i go for 130 on all elements? Or maybe get 5% slow on hit on second stats as first are nice? Any idea, hope I get an answer before I just go to slow on hit hehehehe

 

[Guest flowsen]

hey, i just compared my build to one of the top gr-ranked builds...it's literally the same ( except for another law) and the guy makes like 4 x my damage and has 3 x more toughness. yes, he's very hight paragon and got better augments. still the + str difference is"only" about 30% - how on earth can that be?

if some1 has time to compare the 2 builds and lemme know what im doing wrong, that'd be highly appreciated - thx a lot!

 

mine: https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/flow-2331/hero/70301372

his: https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Rxt-2444/hero/90224088

[Guest The Bruiser]

Can someone please explain to me the true benefits of the equipping Johanna's Argument vs Faithful Memory?  Obviously, the non-equipped one will be cubed, but I see a massive on dps drop on the stat sheet when I have switch to the Argument.  I haven't tried it out in game to see how it performs, but It seems universally accepted that the Argument should be equipped... When looking at the leaderboards, this is how all the top crusaders are gears.  Any detailed help would be appreciated.

[Guest guest]

On 2017-6-6 at 0:27 PM, Guest The Bruiser said:

Can someone please explain to me the true benefits of the equipping Johanna's Argument vs Faithful Memory?  Obviously, the non-equipped one will be cubed, but I see a massive on dps drop on the stat sheet when I have switch to the Argument.  I haven't tried it out in game to see how it performs, but It seems universally accepted that the Argument should be equipped... When looking at the leaderboards, this is how all the top crusaders are gears.  Any detailed help would be appreciated.

Cause a 1-hander has a higher attack speed, plus switching heavenly strength for Fervor adds attack speed again, PLUS a big chunk of cooldown reduction.

The build strives on attack speed, as more hits means more cooldown reduction from the (2) Light bonus,
allowing for lots of Provoke and Falling Sword use.
Also ring of the Zodiac will aid you more, as more hits =  more cooldown

All this together makes it worth it to trade off the extra dmg of a decent Faithful Memory

[Guest The Bruiser]

I guess that makes sense... trading off the extra damage for the constant cooldowns needed at higher greater rifts.  I'll stick with my faithful memory for now until I get an ancient Argument...currently, I'm 0-16... :(

[Guest Cheve]

On ‎27‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 9:55 PM, Guest Cheve said:

I have a question, I got a new pants that seems cool.

759 base armor

625 strengh - 626 vitality -117 all element

34% gold - 231 extra xp per death

 

My question is.. should i go for 130 on all elements? Or maybe get 5% slow on hit on second stats as first are nice? Any idea, hope I get an answer before I just go to slow on hit hehehehe

 

 

Finally as I didn't get any answer I went for the slow on hit. Wasted already like 2b and max was 3.4% (and was on the first 50 tries (/cry). I'll keep trying some times.

Btw got to GR99, need get a better  traveller pledge with 20% sacred to improve my gear. I'm on #7 now, #1 is on GR100 on Xbox but he has 7 primals, me only one :(

 

[Guest Cheve]

On ‎08‎/‎06‎/‎2017 at 11:38 AM, Guest Cheve said:

 

Finally as I didn't get any answer I went for the slow on hit. Wasted already like 2b and max was 3.4% (and was on the first 50 tries (/cry). I'll keep trying some times.

Btw got to GR99, need get a better  traveller pledge with 20% sacred to improve my gear. I'm on #7 now, #1 is on GR100 on Xbox but he has 7 primals, me only one :(

 

and.. Gr100 done in 12'12", now at #2 on Xbox, first one did gr101. I'll try tomorrow

[Guest Berko]

Would switching out the rings for the legacy of nightmare set work in this build?

[Guest inf3rno]

On 2/16/2017 at 8:18 AM, Guest inf3rno said:

Could you explain a little bit more pls? I'm still not really convinced :)

What I see is a guaranteed 40% DR for 6 seconds vs. a slightly less guaranteed "100% DR" for 4 seconds. What exactly do you mean by "it will do nothing against RGs"? Even at GR80 RGs are by far my smallest issue, as I can continuously Blind them and they are just sitting ducks during the Blind. Yes, they will come out from Blind and do their attacks, but that's what Iron Skin, the dodge with Falling Sword or the Toughness buff of Akarat's Champion is for.

I'm no pro or anything whatsoever, playing only casually so I might not know the underlying mechanics very well. What am I missing here?

Could anyone provide any answer to this?

[Deadset 108]

On 7/5/2017 at 9:25 AM, Guest inf3rno said:

Could anyone provide any answer to this?

It boils down to Cord of Sherma's diminished usefulness the higher you climb in GRs. Because it has an internal cooldown, it might not proc when you need it most. And even when it does, the successive applications of hard CC (like Sherma's Blind effect) get diminishing returns, so you'll CC for less and less, while Sacred Harness will provide you with unconditional 40% DR from the Debilitate (even if its own rooting effect also hits dim. returns).

[Guest Eckowz]

Finally beat Grift 70 in S11, this build is amazing!!!

Thank you!!!!

[Guest Rince]

I´ve been running this build and variations of it for a few seasons now. It´s a fun build as hell, but damn the learning curve is really steep for mastering all the CD´s all the time. 

I lost my first one this season yesterday due to the boss in gr70 destroying both akkarat and triggering indestructable directly for some reason and then i had no chance to recover after that.

I run 75 normally and was about to start pushing towards 80+. But was at the time speeding 70:s for augment gem upgrades.

What i´m still struggling with (around paragon 600-700) in GR 75+ is that the DPS is there without taking STR-gems and rolling out vit/CDR to crit hit and crit chance. But the reflections i´ve done the past seasons and this current season is that a minimum of 55% CDR is needed without the gogokk to keep it safe. Without the 55% base CDR; the akkarat champion might to easily fall off from permanent uptime and then you´ll be in a hell of a problem as the iron skin and provoke CD´s will be prioritized by the obsidian over the akkarat, and you´l loose the dmg buff, extra life and the dmg reduction on a much longer time span than just a few seconds.

The DPS is still there, without the paper dmg being as high as with crit instead of CDR, it´s just that you need to hit the big packs with every falling sword, no exception, to keep pushing and getting proper timers. Only issue will be the guardians that take a bit longer to kill, but at least keeps you safe. 

On my new toon i´m running esoteric and mutilation with gogok as i lost my gogokk, stricken and trapped. In this variance i´m running full crit and i´m still feeling squishy as hell, even though the paper dps is much higher than it was with better gear on my dead toon, and i think the main reason for that is due to not having the 55% base CDR to keep iron skin + akkarat upp almost all the time.

I do know that my gear is not good enough to keep pushing beyond 80, but i was working on that part, until i died and have to somewhat start over for most of the slots :)

Also running Laws of Valor with the unstoppable force rune, pretty much will let you stutter-step the entire rift, without worrying about wrath costs and hitting provoke for regenerations on small packs.

I know there is a difference in SC and HC, but based on the current ladder, but looking at those with the similar gear and grift lvls, it still seems that most are taking crit over CDR. 

Not sure if my mechanics are way off or my gear just sucks but i feel that CDR on gear slots is much higher valued than crit. Even though the paper DPS is much lower with CDR, the permanent uptime of akkarat and iron skin is much more valued in when pushing higher grifts in HC. 

But still feel that i need to manage my CD´s perfectly with lower CDR and have to all the time hit the correct number of mobs with falling sword, which can be a hassle in lower density rifts.

[Guest Raz']

So, rediscovering the cursader again, and I think this spec is quite fun to run. Have a question regarding the gear/stat prios.

For the shoulders, the description says "A Cooldown Reduction roll is also taken as the fourth primary alongside Strength, Vitality and All Resistance on the Mountain of the Light, adding to the solid foundation of CDR present in the build. ". This would give the following prio;

1. Strength
2. Vitality
3. All Resistance
4. Cooldown Reduction

but the detailed stat breakdown in the table that follows, indicates;

1. Strength
2. Vitality
3. Cooldown Reduction
4. Area Damage
5. All Resistance

 

And now you find me sitting with two comparable items with each of the top four stats above. Should I go for the All Resistance or the Area Dmg a the last stat?

Cheers,
/Raz'
PS. I know, I could add a lot of information about my current stats, but it's really the recommended prio from the guide that I'm looking for here...

[Arkpit 101]

13 hours ago, Guest Raz' said:

So, rediscovering the cursader again, and I think this spec is quite fun to run.

Just a heads up, this build is going to be incredibly nerfed in the next patch. They are re-working the rune that makes hammers spawn additional hammers on impact due to lag issues and replacing it with a straight up dmg increase which is not even close to the same overall potential.

[positiv2 953]

23 hours ago, Guest Raz' said:

And now you find me sitting with two comparable items with each of the top four stats above. Should I go for the All Resistance or the Area Dmg a the last stat?

Thanks for pointing the issue out! I passed it on to Deadset.
The tables should be the up-to-date information in this case, so you should go with the CDR as the third stat priority. I will let you know once Deadset replies and I know for sure.

[positiv2 953]

Deadset confirmed that the table has the correct information. He said he would change the text. Thanks again for pointing this out!

[Guest Davez]

I just got primal ancient johanna argument! It rolls eith strengh, vitality and increased attack speed. I guess I should roll the IAS into %damage?

[Valks 2,375]

On 10/26/2017 at 2:14 PM, Guest Davez said:

I just got primal ancient johanna argument! It rolls eith strengh, vitality and increased attack speed. I guess I should roll the IAS into %damage?

Personally, I'd drop Vita for % wep damage. If you're really suffering and dying a lot, or playing HC, keep Vita and roll away IAS. But IAS > Vita.

[Guest GuestSomeNumber]

Can someone explain something to me? This build has hammer jammers in Kanai and a belt that supports judgement. However: There is no judgment in this build. I tried a run without hammer jammers and with the witching hour and my Crusader was just as fragile and the damage was the same, because I ended the rift in the same time.

 

Is judgement passively given someway?

[Guest Yes]

11 hours ago, Guest GuestSomeNumber said:

Can someone explain something to me? This build has hammer jammers in Kanai and a belt that supports judgement. However: There is no judgment in this build. I tried a run without hammer jammers and with the witching hour and my Crusader was just as fragile and the damage was the same, because I ended the rift in the same time.

 

Is judgement passively given someway?

The  Sacred Harness belt is a dedicated legendary for Hammerdin builds, which adds a free  Judgment  Debilitate effect at the landing location of your  Falling Sword — an indispensable effect for the GR variation of the build.

Its in the gear explanation page fam

[Valks 2,375]

On 11/4/2017 at 2:03 AM, Guest Yes said:

Its in the gear explanation page fam

Thanks for helping with that :)

[Guest Hey]

So, when I equipped faithful memory on the cube, the hammers stopped orbiting around me. Is this a glitch?

[Valks 2,375]

14 hours ago, Guest Hey said:

So, when I equipped faithful memory on the cube, the hammers stopped orbiting around me. Is this a glitch?

I would assume so, yeah - did you change anything else? Have you tried selecting another weapon in cube and testing it?

[Guest Hey]

On 25/11/2017 at 2:49 PM, Blainie said:

I would assume so, yeah - did you change anything else? Have you tried selecting another weapon in cube and testing it?

Yeah. Just happens with faithful

[Valks 2,375]

19 hours ago, Guest Hey said:

Yeah. Just happens with faithful

That's pretty odd if you're not changing anything else either. Runes are all staying the same?