Aegis of Valor Heaven's Fury Crusader RGK Variation
On this page, we explain everything that is specific to the RGK variant of Aegis of Valor Heaven's Fury Crusader. Updated for patch 2.6.10 and Season 22.
Aegis of Valor Heaven's Fury Crusader Rift Guardian Killer Variation
The AoV Heaven's Fury Crusader fits excellently with the role of a Rift Guardian Killer in high tier Greater Rifts, and is in high demand for leaderboard Greater Rift pushing.
The Rift Guardian Killer role demands focus from the character entirely into single target damage, eschewing any consideration for Area Damage or trash killing purposes. Your skill and especially your gear choices will reflect that.
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Adapting Rotation
When serving as the Rift Guardian Killer, most of the AoV Heaven's Fury
Crusader rotation remains the same; facing the bigger threats in Greater Rifts
— especially the Rift Guardian, whose death will be largely your task
— and mowing them down with Fires of Heaven shots. You will be using
Fist of the Heavens and
Laws of Valor
Unstoppable Force for resource
maintenance, as well as
Iron Skin and
Akarat's Champion for
protection. Since your Supports will be applying the Crowd Control necessary for
the
Bracer of Fury damage amplification however, you will be using
Blessed Hammer
Thunderstruck in that slot for faster
Bane of the Stricken stacking.
Adapting Skills and Passives
The entirety of your skill and passive selection, as well as the reasoning
behind their use, will remain the same as the GR solo pushing build. The only
difference, as noted in the rotation section above, is the replacement of your
crowd control skill (i.e. Shield Glare) with
Blessed Hammer
Thunderstruck; simply taken as a tool to spam and build up
your
Bane of the Stricken stacks faster (especially vs. the Rift
Guardian).
Season 22 Modification
Due to the introduction of the Norvald's Fervor set to the build in Season 22,
you will drop the Blessed Hammer from the setup to make room for
Steed Charge. The latter will not only bring some welcome mobility to the
build, but also procs the valuable damage buff of the Norvald set. You can
supplement the skill's usefulness by taking the monster displacement rune
Draw and Quarter.
Adapting Gear
Most of the gear from the Greater Rift solo progression build will still make sense for the group RGK variation, but a few alterations will be necessary in order to maximize your potential in this role.
You will maintain the entirety of your armor set splits, still incorporating
the 5 Aegis of Valor - 2 Captain Crimson's Trimming ratio. You will also be
including a fully damage-oriented jewelry setup: Convention of Elements
and a Fire damage
Stone of Jordan. Note that "Fire" is not an error here;
you will still be dealing Holy damage, but with the powers of the equipped
Stone of Jordan (equalizing your elemental damage to your highest) and your
cubed
Magefist, you will be able to elevate your overall Holy damage via
the numerous boosts available to Fire damage. To complement your Rift Guardian
Killer role, you will also be using
Squirt's Necklace as your amulet, and
rely on your Support teammates to keep you safe to maintain its damage buff.
Of course, the loss of Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac means you will have to
play around your non-permanent
Akarat's Champion, which will now sport
about ~60% uptime. Your goal is to reach the 64.5% CDR breakpoint with
Gogok of Swiftness stacks, in order to bring your
Akarat's Champion
to a 32 second rotation that will properly align it to your
Convention of Elements damage cycles.
The duo of Heaven's Fury-specific items that you know from the solo
build —
Bracer of Fury and
Shield of Fury — will remain
intact, but you will replace
Pig Sticker with
Johanna's Argument to
double the attack speed of
Blessed Hammer and stack your
Bane of the Stricken even faster.
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To help you with farming the gear you need for your builds, we have two very useful guides that you can access by clicking the links below: a Salvage Guide to help you quickly check whether or not you can safely salvage a piece of gear and a Legendary Farming Guide to help you efficiently farm legendaries and set items.
Season 22 Modification
Due to the 4th Kanai's Cube slot in Season 22, replace
Johanna's Argument and
Shield of Fury as your worn weapon and offhand
with the Norvald's Fervor set,
Flail of the Charge and
Shield of the Steed, for their additional damage multiplier.
Shield of Fury should be moved to the 4th Cube slot.
Adapting Gems
Bane of the Trapped and
Bane of the Stricken remain as universally
desired damage amplification gems during progression. As you will not be
responsible for the trash clearing, you will drop
Pain Enhancer for the
extra attack speed and cooldown reduction from
Gogok of Swiftness.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
Fate of the Fell is still a required legendary effect in the build, and
stays locked in the weapon Cube slot.
As your support teammates will be taking care of your sustain and
survivability in group GR progression, you will be dropping
Stone Gauntlets from this slot for additional damage. By slotting
Magefist here, you will attain another 20% boost to Fire elemental
damage, which you will convert to Holy with the use of the equipped
Stone of Jordan.
Lastly, in order to maintain the Aegis of Valor / Captain Crimson mixture,
you will need a Ring of Royal Grandeur: a cache legendary ring from Act I
bounties.
In Season 22, where you will be wielding the Norvald's Fervor set, you will
gain the powers of Shield of Fury — a mandatory part of this build
— by cubing them away in the seasonal 4th slot.
The Kanai's Cube can be used for much more than simply extracting Legendary powers from items. Please refer to our Kanai's Cube guide for more information.
Changelog
- 18 Nov. 2020: Revised the guide to reflect proper equipment in the 4-slot Cube variant in Season 22.
- 30 Jun. 2020: No changes required for Season 21.
- 12 Mar. 2020: Guide added.
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