Crusader Cannon - Botting Build for Crusader

[Xenetron]

Hello there,

So I've played extensively with the new Crusader class as I am sure you have. I see many posts on these forums asking "what's a good build for a crusader?" etc.

I've had some success with numerous builds but the one I am currently using and prefer is this:

~~~ Crusader Cannon Build! ~~~

Primary/Secondary
Smite - Reaping
Blessed Hammer - Limitless

Cooldowns
Heaven's Fury - Ascendancy
Condemn - Unleashed
Judgement - Resolved
Bombardment - Impactful Bombardment

Passives
Heavenly Strength - Self-explanatory
Blunt - 20% extra damage on your hammers, and they'll be a lot of them!
Finery - Depending on how many sockets makes this worth it, can be swapped out if you don't have many items with a socket.
Lord Commander - The -20seconds is crucical for Bombardment

Stats
Cooldown Reduction!
If you have 50 paragon points to spend in the first tab, put them all in cool down reduction. Also try to get as much gear as possible with CDR. The crusader shield which reduces the cooldown of Heaven's Fury by up to 50% is also crucial for the build to work. It's quite common so shouldn't be too hard to pick one up sooner or later.

Holy Damage %!
Self-explanatory but any item with increased holy damage greatly increases your damage as most skills are holy based.

Reduced Skills Cost & Cooldown!
These stats are really nice, you commonly find them on shoulders and a few other pieces, keep an eye out for rares because even though you may lose sheet DPS having these stats is still a boost.

Feel free to offer variations and have a play around. I greatly improved my botting performance when switching to this build.

Would love to hear feedback/thoughts/your builds in comments

 

[Jay187]

What level are you playing on with this build
What are your stats?

I been playing crusader i cannot for the love of me get past T3/4 with my build haha

 

[ves86]

does DB use akarat champ? no right?

 

[Jay187]

does DB use akarat champ? no right?

It does its part of Trinity

 

[Franco]

Awesome build. Testing it out right now, so far so good. Does a ton of damage and with all the reduced cooldowns makes it a really good build.

 

[D4rkwalker]

Any1 Knows how i can get the bot to use more often Blessed Hammers?
But Really Nice Build

 

[TSNomad]

Hello there,

So I've played extensively with the new Crusader class as I am sure you have. I see many posts on these forums asking "what's a good build for a crusader?" etc.

I've had some success with numerous builds but the one I am currently using and prefer is this:

~~~ Crusader Cannon Build! ~~~

Primary/Secondary
Smite - Reaping
Blessed Hammer - Limitless

Cooldowns
Heaven's Fury - Ascendancy
Condemn - Unleashed
Judgement - Resolved
Bombardment - Impactful Bombardment

Passives
Heavenly Strength - Self-explanatory
Blunt - 20% extra damage on your hammers, and they'll be a lot of them!
Finery - Depending on how many sockets makes this worth it, can be swapped out if you don't have many items with a socket.
Lord Commander - The -20seconds is crucical for Bombardment

Stats
Cooldown Reduction!
If you have 50 paragon points to spend in the first tab, put them all in cool down reduction. Also try to get as much gear as possible with CDR. The crusader shield which reduces the cooldown of Heaven's Fury by up to 50% is also crucial for the build to work. It's quite common so shouldn't be too hard to pick one up sooner or later.

Holy Damage %!
Self-explanatory but any item with increased holy damage greatly increases your damage as most skills are holy based.

Reduced Skills Cost & Cooldown!
These stats are really nice, you commonly find them on shoulders and a few other pieces, keep an eye out for rares because even though you may lose sheet DPS having these stats is still a boost.

Feel free to offer variations and have a play around. I greatly improved my botting performance when switching to this build.

Would love to hear feedback/thoughts/your builds in comments

Going to try this build, I was a full lightning build with similar stats CDR, CHD, and +Lighting Damage (about 84%) I can melt T3 but even with all my defence my bot cant run 4/5 without dieing. I started putting into some +health stats... going to see if that works.

-- Edit:

First 5 mins I had over 20 deaths in Rift Runs. Norm is 1-2 every 30 mins.

My Stats are 650k Dps//14m Toughness //+60% Holy Damage

 

[phxcityslick]

Ok let me know...

my crusader is 8.527 mill tough 358k damage is that good for a crusdaer or no

 

[Aikido]

Blessed hammer is pretty weak for botting. Use FotH Fissure. Huge range and the arch do far more damage in a much greater areas than the hammer archs+hammers.

Hammerarching requires much more finesse than DB/Trinity has right now.

 

[Xenetron]

Blessed hammer is pretty weak for botting. Use FotH Fissure. Huge range and the arch do far more damage in a much greater areas than the hammer archs+hammers.

Hammerarching requires much more finesse than DB/Trinity has right now.

Yeah, going to try it out

Just put this up as a starter build, love the suggestions guys, keep em coming - I will update OP when we find a nice working Crusader build (I don't get that much time to play around with it anymore)

Thanks!

 

[samsondrum]

Blessed hammer is pretty weak for botting. Use FotH Fissure. Huge range and the arch do far more damage in a much greater areas than the hammer archs+hammers.

Hammerarching requires much more finesse than DB/Trinity has right now.

Nice. When i play manually hammers is a bit faster and more fun imo. The bot seems to prefer foth indeed.

 

[Lunkan]

I got a Jenganbord drop, so im currently running blessed hammer setup. Going to try for a Gyrfalcon's to make it free to use as well ^^

Build is fairly simple.
Punish -Fury
Blessed Shield - shattering shield
Akkarats champ - Rally
Heavens Fury - Ascendancy
Condemn -vacuum
Phalanx - bowmen

Passives:
Heavenly strength
Righteousness
Hold your ground
Renewal


Its working well, but im only running T1/T2 with the bot.
Using the custom Crusader script found in this thread to make best use of the blessed shield skill.
Low sheet dps: ~360k
Toughness: ~5.5m

Any advice for the build would be welcome

 

[sparks]

are there any craftable sets that are good for crusader?
T1/T2 good gear?

I would try thorns if I had a Schafers...yea get one of those about the time I get T&T gloves on my WD LOL

 

[Morgenstein]

Running T4 with this setup -

Punish/Roar
Shield Bash / Shield Cross
Heaven's Fury / Ascendancy
Judgement / Resolved
Condemn / Eternal Retaliation
Akarat's Champion / Rally

.: passives :.
Hold Your Ground / Heavenly Strength / Holy Cause / Finery

using the blackthorne set with Grandeur and Fate of the Fell with Defender of Westmarch.
Damage is 1.4m
Toughness is 7.3m
Healing is 16k
AS 11%
Crit Chance 57%
Crit Damage 467%
Area Damage 50%
Thorns is at 7k

 

[Ayrel]

Trying to run the Darklight build...
If I play, I destroy t6. The but just try to use FoTH, forgot to use provoke (ore use it randomly) and so on.
Can someone explain to me how to run a 6/6 Akkhan Crusader @t6?

 

[samsondrum]

I can bot t5 now nice, ty. I took out condemn for akkarat, the pieces seem to drop often for me, except the gloves only once. Im going to try it out later with 1h and about 56% cdr. But damage is already low. Using the 2h that spawns champions.
When i had the set complete i was like, wtf to do now. But runs like shit im not having fun. Didnt figure to put all kinds of cd on my bar and see how that rolls.
Oh and i use the life regen cooldown, concescration. Dont need it that much it seems, so manbe another cooldown. More damage wrwhoaaah

 

[Winchester]

T5/T6 - Physical Pet Build
5 pc akkhan
Crimson Pants/Belt - crafted with Freeze(4% belt) and Slow(3% Pants)
Vaxo Ammy, SoJ(20%Phys,30%vsElite,6%CC,8%CDR(no STR)
Baleful and Hellskull - CDR for both
Strong Arm bracers - Knock back from Phalanx gives additional 30% dmg + the 20% Phys dmg
-----STATS-----
1.2M (minimum) DPS
10M Toughness (600-800 Resist)
55% CDR
----------------
Passive
Finery, Heavenly STR
Holy Cause - for the 10% DMG and 1% life heal (heal using Justice)
Lord Commander - 20% Phalanx dmg

Skills
Justice - ***** or holy bolt (for additional healing - Holy Cause passive)
Shield Glare - Divine Verdict for 20% additional Damage
LoValor - Unstoppable force to allow spamming of skills
Phalanx - Stampede causes knockback for strongarms additional 30% dmg
Falling Sword - Rise Brothers for additional pet
Akarats Champ - Prophet for survivability
----------------
100% AC
Fast CD for Shield Glare
While in AC Baleful can create 10 Phalanx
+ 2 from Vaxo through stun effect of Phalanx Stampede
+ 3 from Falling Sword
if in case you are in a pinch, AC Prophet can help you
I do use Kule-Aid potion, so that if bot gets stuck with a Waller, it can escape without Steed Charge.
If you cant live w/o Steed Charge you can swap out Falling sword.

 

[samsondrum]

T5/T6 - Physical Pet Build
5 pc akkhan
Crimson Pants/Belt - crafted with Freeze(4% belt) and Slow(3% Pants)
Vaxo Ammy, SoJ(20%Phys,30%vsElite,6%CC,8%CDR(no STR)
Baleful and Hellskull - CDR for both
ect..

OMFG THIS BUILD ROCKS. This feels like zombie bears back in the day, except it's WAY BETTER. Im running it with 47% cdr, but when i find balefull again i hope i can cdr it. But it alreayd works wonders! SWEET. Bit wrath starved sometimes, but cdr will fix that i think.

https://www.thebuddyforum.com/demon...683-crusader-using-phalanx-2.html#post1600343
His modded trinity combat file spawns the horses all the time now.

 

[samsondrum]

Trying to run the Darklight build...
If I play, I destroy t6. The but just try to use FoTH, forgot to use provoke (ore use it randomly) and so on.
Can someone explain to me how to run a 6/6 Akkhan Crusader @t6?

edit: try out the build 2 posts above you, works well for me

 

[Winchester]

Updated for 2.1
Change in Helm, belt, and pants
Gems: Bane of Trapped -syncs with Phalanx Stampede
Enforcer - pet damage (phalanx)
Optionals
Bane of powerful - VS elite
Wreath of lightning
Swiftness - Lvl 25 for additional CDR

T5/T6 - Physical Pet Build
5 pc akkhan
Leorics Crown+Diamond = for CDR (frees up pants and belt)
Vigilante Belt - 8% CDR (replaced Crimson Belt)
Vaxo Ammy, SoJ(20%Phys,30%vsElite,6%CC,8%CDR(no STR)
Baleful and Unrelenting Phalanx - CDR for both
Strong Arm bracers - Knock back from Phalanx gives additional 30% dmg + the 20% Phys dmg
-----STATS-----
1.2M (minimum) DPS
10M Toughness (600-800 Resist)
55% CDR
----------------
Passive
Finery, Heavenly STR
Holy Cause - for the 10% DMG and 1% life heal (heal using Justice)
Lord Commander - 20% Phalanx dmg

Skills
Justice - CR@ck or holy bolt (for additional healing - Holy Cause passive)
Shield Glare - Divine Verdict for 20% additional Damage
Law of Valor - Unstoppable force to allow spamming of skills
Phalanx - Stampede causes knockback for strongarms additional 30% dmg
Falling Sword - Rise Brothers for additional pet
Akarats Champ - Prophet for survivability
----------------
100% AC
Fast CD for Shield Glare
While in AC Baleful can create 10 Phalanx
+ 2 from Vaxo through stun effect of Phalanx Stampede
+ 3 from Falling Sword
if in case you are in a pinch, AC Prophet can help you
I do use Kule-Aid potion, so that if bot gets stuck with a Waller, it can escape without Steed Charge.
If you cant live w/o Steed Charge you can swap out Falling sword.