Crusader Invoker Built - Help me trouble shoot

[DragonRaven 0]

Hi,

Really appreciate your guides on the builds. Had followed it and tried to rolled as much as possible the attributes that you had suggested. I cleared gr solo 81 by the skin on the tips of my finger nails. I am now stuck at this level, tried almost everything but still am missing a few minutes to complete gr solo 83 in time. Am hoping that you would advice me. I attached my profile for your reference 

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/RAVEN-6683/hero/44723924  

I also have some questions:-

1) How do i go about calculating the actual damage that i have with this build?

2) Have recently added 2 nos rank 80 legendary gem (this is after i achieved gr solo 81)  to my gear in the hope of achieving better damage but that still wasn't enough to clear the gr fast enough 

3) Should i exchange out my hack for doombringer (extra phy damage) or Pig Stickler (extra attack speed + bonus damage to both human and monsters) 

Am really hoping that there is an issue with my build that i can fixed so that i can move forward with this build. It is a very nice build and more over i get dizzy using the LoN build  

Regards

Raven

[Valks 2,375]

On 11/29/2016 at 3:32 PM, DragonRaven said:

1) How do i go about calculating the actual damage that i have with this build?

What exactly are you hoping to calculate? The damage that your main spell does when used?

On 11/29/2016 at 3:32 PM, DragonRaven said:

3) Should i exchange out my hack for doombringer (extra phy damage) or Pig Stickler (extra attack speed + bonus damage to both human and monsters) 

I'm honestly not sure if you'll see the results you want by swapping. I still think that Hack will outperform the other two.

On 11/29/2016 at 3:32 PM, DragonRaven said:

Am really hoping that there is an issue with my build that i can fixed so that i can move forward with this build. It is a very nice build and more over i get dizzy using the LoN build  

As you get higher in GRifts, it's important to remember how important fishing becomes. I recently pushed an 84 on my DH and I ended up leaving and remaking the game about 50 times or so. A bad affix on an elite can ruin a run, a bad elite pack, a bad level of density, a bad RG. There are so many factors that could cause issues. 

Are you generally rolling "good" rifts?

[DragonRaven 0]

Hi Blainie,

1) Actually am just curious how overall thorns and strength work together. Is it strength x overall thorns? or a percentage of strength x overall thorns, a somewhat newbie question for sure (first time trying a zdps built)

3) Thank you for the advice, there seem to be some major debate on the weapon on the forums here and also on the main battle.net forums. I do have ancients for both the above weapons but both needs to be re-roll and with my luck it will take forever.

You are right on the greater rifts (took me many many tries before i could actually achieve 81 and now most greater rifts now are filled with like 90% of really bad monster affix  (arcane (very bad), reflect damage and exploding ice (bad) 

Apart from that, is my gear rolls ok?

Thank again.

 

[Valks 2,375]

On 12/1/2016 at 4:16 PM, DragonRaven said:

1) Actually am just curious how overall thorns and strength work together. Is it strength x overall thorns? or a percentage of strength x overall thorns, a somewhat newbie question for sure (first time trying a zdps built)

I believe it is a straight correlation, as with any other spell's damage. Thorns value x Str.

Your gear rolls look fine, yeah!