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My lightning sweeper gr95 patch 2.4.3
Considering the build got a *(26/13.5) buff, it will be able to clear at least 100 this patch.
I already cleared gr95 with the same gear in a really average/bad rift on live 2.5.0 and tried some 102. Build is extremely tanky and very fun to play, you can literally stand in every thing and not suffer any damage as long as you have density.
In 102 the damage starts to be really lacking sadly, but I have yet to play on my big computer (right now I am on my laptop) and to really fish for a decent rift (festering woods & battlefields are more or less mandatory because you need so much trash to make progress).

As far as holy version is concerned, I am afraid you will be much more squishy for the added bonus of absolutely nothing. You can play lightning, fire is... about on par, a bit behind. Holy just won't do anything lightning can't, honestly.

Well the running around part on lon usually happens when u start pushing. The thing with it is most of your damage is based around 3 things; the CoE, the belt and the manual proc on bombs, and the optimal way to play the build is sync everything up and have it do dmg during the phys CoE. Well actually technically 4 I guess since you've also got hexing pantalones, thats the big difference between lon and invoker I guess, since you're FORCED to move all the time, so why not have extra move speed as well there..

I guess, if you had a gun to my head and I HAD to drop the steed, I would go with falling sword, rapid descent, since you want to have some kind of mobility skill. You will have to go with something like ingeom and mortal drama cubed tho (thats my normal setup with horsie anyway in 70s). The one problem with falling sword is that it can get seriously infuriating with closed doors (same as monk or wiz, if you played those classes you should know what I'm talking about).

Anyway since you dind't link your profile I'll link you mine. This is basically the best setup I've found in my exp for t13/70-75 rifts, since you said you were doing those (the 70s were done on season with no problem with about 2k para). https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Glimwick-2274/hero/84316422 Obviously you'll change the boon and gloves if you're running grs for something else and the shoulders arent as good as they used to be since the newly crafted ones only roll 2 pickup but yea, you get the point I hope.

My Stampede sader is listed at 895k DPS//10m toughness on the sheet. With perm-Akarats (~58.8CDR), he's just shy of 1.3m DPS//22.7m toughness.

That's overkill for T6 however, I'd shoot for around 800k//20m toughness with Akarats, but it does depend on your build, and other factors (other mods such as elite damage, %elemental, etc).

Ingame (with law/Akarat on) http://tinypic.com/r/rr3vko/8

Profile: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/VTMatt-1240/hero/52075565

The main reason would be that you don't have 56% cooldown reduction to reach 100% uptime on Akarat's Champion. This skill is basically the only reason people survive GR80+ since it increases your armor by 150%. To get that much cdr you will need to cube Leorics crown, equip Illusory Boots to keep their effect and swap your Hellfire Amulet for the Set Amulet to keep the 6-piece bonus. I also don't understand why you rolled Life per Hit on so many slots. This stat does next to nothing for condemn builds. I'll list some other stuff I noticed really quick:

• Get crit chance on helmet
• Go for Strongarm bracers with crit chance and Holy damage% (change condemn rune to vacuum to trigger the bonus damage)
• You will need to get new rings, go for ones with crit chance and crit damage and (if you can) cdr, killing enemies faster will help you survive too since you won't have to tank as many hits
• Go for cdr on every slot possible until you hit 56% cdr (Vigilante Belt may help since it's the only belt that rolls cdr)
• Roll LpH on your gloves to crit damage
• Roll the socket on your shield to crit chance; 280 Vitality isn't worth giving up that much damage
• Swap the Rubies in your pants for Diamonds
• Leveling that Esoteric Alteration will help you a lot with surviability

If you follow all this you will fly through GR80 :)

Check my Crusader or the leaderborads for reference. I can speed farm GR90 with that build. If you have any more specific questions feel free to ask.

Cleared 100 today with a primal Ashbringer - https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Aegle-2722/hero/100980593

Might be missing ring's on profile, check my barb for them, there F&R /w BotT+Eso Leg gems

I am rolanding those GR as well :D Currently GR68... that one level maaan! :D Group clear is fun, but I need extra 3 minutes and 1 loif just to slay the boss..

(https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Saco-2429/hero/96968386)

• Get a better Helm and Shoulders - you are lacking a lot of vitality (You have ~4500Vit, I have ~7700 at the same gear/paragon lvl)
• Get all res whenever possible
• Use Provoke: Hit Me - You need the additional block chance for Justice Lantern
• Change Bombardment with Akarat's Champion: Prophet
• You dont need the %dmg on your weapon, reroll it to vitality - Weapon dmg, crit chance and crit damage are useless stats as thorns sader
• You can change your strength gems to all res gems if needed

My Profile as small reference. Thats my "speedfarm" setup. I change the passive "Lord Commander" to "Hold your Ground" and the cubed Weapon to "Akarat's Awakening" for higher grs

Nice to see some lightning builds and variations. My build works fine (t4 under 7min) but for t5+ I get a toughness problem with the skills setting. I would love to have some more lightning skills for variation. Here my build https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/RaphaFluffa-2887/hero/38490492 maybe it helps.

Slash Electrify - for generating fury if needed, the stun helps to keep them in the fissure lightning beams and avoid dmg taken FotHFissure - hits hard (up to 50m crit) and is nice to activate the Warzechian Armguards from some distance to keep running Falling Sword Part the Clouds - Hits hard (up to 100m crit) and is nice to clear big groups. The stun is sweet on packs and also triggers fire starter. Provoke Charged Up - generates wrath and deals extra dmg + surrounds you with monsters to make Falling sword more effective. Laws of Valor Crit - dmg Akarats Fire starter - "Crazy" extra dmg next to skills also triggered by gear (Schaefers, Thundergod...) can be switched in favour for toughness at higher torments. Passives aim for dmg and bit of survivability.

My main weakness in the moment is the lack of proper cdr. Somehow afraid of giving up crit dmg and rolling cdr instead. Dont claim this build is op but fun to play for sure. Appreciate some input.

I'm a casual player who just wants to have fun playing D3 when I have the chance. I'm not looking to spend hours finding that perfect piece of rare gear (Akkhans, RoRG, FoTF, Foote, etc.). I try to work with whatever drops for me and see if I can improve bit by bit. I have chosen to aim for +holy and CHR on my gear to keep it as general as possible and to leave as many options open as possible if I decide to change things up in the future :). I recently crafted my first ever set pieces (Aughilds & Crimsons) \o/. Currently doing T3/4 with relative ease. I was wondering where you guys think there is room for improvement on my gear/build. So far the things I'm looking for are:

• Andy's with %holy
• SoJ with %Holy
• Reapers with CHC
• Better RoRG (don't really feel like it's worth the investment to farm)
• Reroll Ouroboros to CHD
• Reroll damage on Thunderfury (not sure how much I would gain by that)?
  

I'm currently using Blessed Hammer as my main dmg skill because I like the nostalgia feel of the old D2 hammerdin, but seeing as no one else uses it it probably isn't the most effective skill :(

> My profile: https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Badkuip-2208/hero/42807511

EDIT: formatting

https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Highfat-1206/hero/100985369 my T13speed(gold farm) build with blessed shield. The satisfaction of finally puting some of em primals to use :) oneshooting everything.

This is my setup and it is absolutely relaxing to play... just running around blowing all up in T13 rifts, being invincible all the time thanks to all the gold :) https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Boonatix-2950/hero/64388716

Ts the Shield of Fury stacking from other crusaders? There appear to be people on EU server 2 man GR using it for a support crusader with rolands set IAS bonus.

support build, the DPS build is the standard FotF SoF holy machine gun build

I also really like shield bash, I find my way around much easier in that, than Hammerdin. I still don't have all items for Hammerdin, so that could be one of the reasons, but Roland's Legacy set is really cool, and I find I have to press 1-2-3-4 a lot less often than with Hammerdin.

What Paragon level are you, since you can do a solo 50 rift (I only did 40)? Here's my crusader.

Hi guys , i recently started a run with my bro in hardcore, i am a Crusader and he is a Barb. I dont even reached a 70lvl . So, is there a good starting Spec for Crusaders? What should i aim for and stuff like that. Here is my Char: https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/%D0%90%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%BE-2773/hero/98255535

You can definitely go higher than t13. My Akkhan Condemn crusader can do GR70 in <10mins, at <1k paragon, without Holy Cause for 5th passive (need Leoric's atm in cube due to not enough CDR). I fully expect that dedicated players could crack GR80+ in a season, if they weren't playing all Hammerdin instead.

By far the biggest issue that surfaces is toughness, not damage. This is why I think it's moot to look for greater damage in LoN. Akkhan instead halves the big wrath cost of Condemn, without which you surely need a lot of RCR and/or wrath regen on your pieces.

Playing LoN Bombardment, any suggestions on what to upgrade next? https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Matsimoko-2150/hero/79541868

I cleared grift 65 with these items, and my goal would be to be able to clear grift 70 in order to be able to find primal ancient legendary items. I also have the item that could add 1 socket to an item. Should I save it until I get a good ancient swiftmount (or some other weapon, if so, what weapons would be acceptable?) and add the socket to it in order to get more dps? Or does the weapon damage actually even matter that much with LoN bombardment?

Don't use Steed Charge, go Iron Skin - Steel Skin. Also you might want to get the Travelers Pledge for the set bonus.

Got similar problems with trying to push for 70 to get me those juicy primals. Some ranged enemies hit like a truck ... https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/RainMaker-2232/hero/65419707

Well the wpn, like I said, 2x healing makes it easier to survive but I still think its not rly needed, your shield is also ancient so you got more life per wrath than me, and you have a few pcs with life per kill. It's a matter of personal pref tbh so try it, it might work for you.

https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Glimwick-2274/hero/84316422 But I think its with the t13 spec, so you might need to log on eu to check my profile.

Norvalds Fervor with Steed Charge - Spiked Barding. Its your basic attack with Akkhan thorns build.

Your burst comes from aligning iron skin and bombardment cooldown with Physical convention of elements rotation. (Ideally 61% cooldown reduction)

As /u/Yes_No_Jim says. I'm currently at Grift 73.

https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Dirtyherbst-2603/hero/91377555

I still need to get a Furnace, but I'm doing quite alright with In-Geom at this moment.

Toughest battles are mainly the Grift bosses.. wrath doesnt generate as easy on singletargets.

EDIT: As youre going to stand right in their faces, put an Oculus ring on your follower and try to put yourself in the rings. Its a noticeable damageboost.

Wow 93 is top1 right? Congrats! I cleared 79 yesterday and should easily do 80 today. Here is my setup, would be great to hear some recommendations from your side: https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Xedriell-2582/hero/91319899

Somewhat off the hammerdin topic but :

I've been trying the Akkhan bombard build and other than the once every cooldown nuke with bombard, i can't kill much on T4, normal mobs take long enough .. blues / rares, i can group up a few and hope the bombard takes them out in one shot and then wait it out for the next. Takes longer than the 15mins tho this way.

Any further suggestions on how you're doing it ? I've basically spec'd around the items that have dropped, to see if i can get some synergy.

My last item last night was the belt of the trove and i havn't tried T4/GR20 since then.

https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/MooTiger-2666/hero/91340722

Sure, here you go: https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Askada-2245/hero/44731266

*In case it displays some movement speed skill setup that's only for lower rifts/nephalems. For pushing high I generally use Laws of Valor - Critical and Iron Skin - Steel Skin.

Interesting, really all about damage. My sader goes a little more into stability, because right now I try to master 30+ rifts. And I need so much condems for packs and bosses that some constant ressource management is mandatory (that's why I decided to go for Unstoppable Force and not for Provoke/Charged Up.

https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Luceferous-2582/hero/47438375

Do you change the AC rune when grifting btw?

I have very similar issues, mate. Very recently dinged 70 so i have been doing Grifts one level at a time and just waiting for something significant to drop :/

quite similar gear also

https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/doiten-2295/hero/48132207

The issue might be that the hammer-build doesn't just cut it in the higher rifts without synergizing gear (ex. cindercoat and obviously the akhan's set)

yeah... my friend was running a BS build, but he dropped it once he had his full set, he had a FotF lying around. But if you don't have a FotF or a Darklight, it's still possible to make a decent firestarter build.

My profile.

The lightning arc proc fire starter. I tried with maximus + fire hammer, but Schafer's + lightning hammer still do more damage (and the AoE tick proc fire starter aswell). As for the shield, I used an Eberli Charo for some time (Heaven's Fury/Blessed ground), but the Final Witness had CDR, and the AoE blind+20% damage synergize well with hammers.

For T6, replace Blunt by Indestructible.

my profile. I was testing Renewal, but I usually use this. Still need to reroll allres on my belt and fire on my SoJ. I may also try to get blackthorn boots to get even more gold find :p

I'm a casual player who just wants to have fun playing D3 when I have the chance. I'm not looking to spend hours finding that perfect piece of rare gear (Akkhans, RoRG, FoTF, Foote, etc.). I try to work with whatever drops for me and see if I can improve bit by bit. I have chosen to aim for +holy and CHR on my gear to keep it as general as possible and to leave as many options open as possible if I decide to change things up in the future :). I recently crafted my first ever set pieces (Aughilds & Crimsons) \o/. Currently doing T3/4 with relative ease.

I was wondering where you guys think there is room for improvement on my gear/build. So far the things I'm looking for are:

• Andy's with %holy
• SoJ with %Holy
• Reapers with CHC
• Better RoRG (don't really feel like it's worth the investment to farm)
• Reroll Ouroboros to CHD
• Reroll damage on Thunderfury (not sure how much I would gain by that)?

I'm currently using Blessed Hammer as my main dmg skill because I like the nostalgia feel of the old D2 hammerdin, but seeing as no one else uses it it probably isn't the most effective skill :(

> My profile: https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Badkuip-2208/hero/42807511

I'm currently using this build. I like Punish for the added block chance, which synergize well with Shield Bash (added damage). And with high block (70%+), Punish really proc quite often.

Then there's Consecration vs Falling Sword. I like those skill for the DoT which proc Fire Starter, I like the mobility of Falling Sword, but the larger AoE of Consecration and increased duration may proc more often Fire Starter. But I need to do more test.

I run with block chance, crit chance, strength. Honestly, that is one of a crusaders biggest defences, all the block passives so might as well run with a shield that has a near perfect block chance.

I run a fire build and Blessed shield has a 20 Wrath cost. Coupled with some fire reduction items I only pay 14 Wrath to Captain America some mobs. It really helps having that and constantly spamming wrath generators. I am mostly full wrath always.

Here is my profile to have a look: https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Wip3out-2145/hero/39453299