That build takes a lot of damage so it requires rather high toughness from a pretty high paragon level, which I doubt the OP will attain. There is a variant of the valor set in which the goal is to get constantly punched in the face, so you keep blocking and spawn fires of heaven (heaven’s fury) from the “ivory tower” legendary shield effect. (Side note: thorns damage can never crit, so both the thorns builds I mentioned originally run zero crit chance and zero crit damage on gear)Įvery crusader build uses a shield, so that’s not a useful criteria for the OP. If you are playing with the S28 altar, then one of its buffs also gives resource generation on a crit attack. In your case shield bash is a pretty wrath hungry skill, so the resource cost reduction of crimson should help a lot. the resource cost reduction component of captain crimson set can also be useful for some builds that require wrath consumption, but even for no resource builds like invoker, captain crimson is still used because it’s just that good.the crimson set is particularly good for crusaders because of the huge cooldown reduction → every crusader build uses multiple cooldown skills, especially akarat’s champion.with ring of royal grandeur (RROG, act 1 bounty bag) in your jewelry cube slot you can equip 5 pieces of a crusader set and 2 pieces of the captain crimson set to get both the 6 piece bonus of the crusader set AND the 3 piece bonus of the captain crimson set.this set has belt + pants + boots pieces.the captain crimson set crafting plan drops from bounty bags.

invoker or valor) and 2 pieces of the “captain crimson trimmings” set, except for the LOD/LON bombardment build that can’t use set bonuses outside of the LON rings Every crusader build runs 5 pieces of a particular set (e.g.There’s one more thing I want to note if you are new to crusader builds: Both the equipped weapon and cube weapon/shield slots are open.

Shield bash only has two supporting items, so you have lots of flexibility here.

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