2015-03-01, 10:39 PM
Spent a little bit of time trying out the new Roland's on my Crusader with what I had. It's really powerful, like Sunwuko's (since it's the same multiplier) though not quite M6 11x bonus. I had just rearranged my gear on my Crusaders, and tried out my Roland-4 that I had equipped on live to get a feel for its current effectiveness. It was pretty difficult to justify. I only had resource issues on single targets, i.e. RG, but the high level of squishiness and low damage was too much, especially with such poor defensive capabilites on the skills, so getting a try on PTR made a great comparison.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/cr...SeR!YYaYYZ
Since I only had Fire gear, but I would love to give this in Holy a try, and otherwise, probably just end up taking a different support instead of Sweep Attack since it's so bad.
With Crumble, it felt really powerful since it was so easy to get the effect to activate.
Divine Verdict was up so often, I may have ended up recasting it too soon and wasting actions. It provides a great damage effect and crowd control, and if more crowd control is needed Uncertainty is excellent.
I looked at Judgment, and it always comes back to Resolved. Conversion could be good depending on what you're doing, but don't think it would have been effective with the speed I was able to kill things at. Mass Verdict is really bad. It can't pull a lot of things and Gathering Sweep is way more effective.
Unstoppable Force is a no-brainer running no generators, but if I had Shield Glare - Zealous Glare, I'd probably take Critical.
Steel Skin is really the only good choice here. Flash if you're speed running maybe, but purely as defensive, everything else is bad. I could maintain it pretty well, though the situation got a bit sticky if I was low on Wrath.
If I had the 6-piece bonus, I'd be much more reliably maintaining all of these active at the same time, and I think it's fairly good. The damage output is definitely there with the 4-piece, and this addresses the survivability without forcing Akarat's Champion on a build that can't support it well.
I look forward to regearing my Crusader now.
Quote:Every use of Shield Bash and Sweep Attack reduces the cooldown of your Laws and Defensive Skills by 1 secondThe new 2-piece bonus is quite interesting. I ended up trying this build
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/cr...SeR!YYaYYZ
Since I only had Fire gear, but I would love to give this in Holy a try, and otherwise, probably just end up taking a different support instead of Sweep Attack since it's so bad.
With Crumble, it felt really powerful since it was so easy to get the effect to activate.
Divine Verdict was up so often, I may have ended up recasting it too soon and wasting actions. It provides a great damage effect and crowd control, and if more crowd control is needed Uncertainty is excellent.
I looked at Judgment, and it always comes back to Resolved. Conversion could be good depending on what you're doing, but don't think it would have been effective with the speed I was able to kill things at. Mass Verdict is really bad. It can't pull a lot of things and Gathering Sweep is way more effective.
Unstoppable Force is a no-brainer running no generators, but if I had Shield Glare - Zealous Glare, I'd probably take Critical.
Steel Skin is really the only good choice here. Flash if you're speed running maybe, but purely as defensive, everything else is bad. I could maintain it pretty well, though the situation got a bit sticky if I was low on Wrath.
If I had the 6-piece bonus, I'd be much more reliably maintaining all of these active at the same time, and I think it's fairly good. The damage output is definitely there with the 4-piece, and this addresses the survivability without forcing Akarat's Champion on a build that can't support it well.
I look forward to regearing my Crusader now.