Aegis of Valor Heaven's Fury Crusader Speed Farming Variation
Speed Farming
The Aegis of Valor Heaven's Fury deals with regular Rift farming with ease all the way through the highest Torments, making it a viable build for the task. We have solo speed GR rankings and solo speed T16 rankings if you want to know more about which builds are best for speed farming.
Within the limited scope of regular difficulties, the necessary damage and toughness to triumph over the enemy is significantly smaller. Thus, your best course of action is to improve utility and speed.
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Adapting Rotation
When you are speed farming regular rifts, parts of your playstyle will adapt to the lowered challenge and focus more on speed and utility.
Your playstyle will not alter significantly from the GR build during regular
rift farming; you will be focusing a lot more on speed however, chaining
Laws of Hope
Wings of Angels casts for shorter bouts of movement and
Steed Charge
Endurance when you need to cross longer distances. Simply
spreading one or two
Fist of the Heavens
Fissures per screen should be more
than enough for Wrath upkeep, as you oneshot the bigger targets, loot them and
move on.
Adapting Skills and Passives
Parts of the skill and passive selection will overlap with the base Greater Rift progression build, but others will have to change according to the task at hand. Ability to cross over great distances faster and more efficiently take precedence.
Heaven's Fury
Fires of Heaven and
Fist of the Heavens
Fissure will remain your primary damage and resource upkeep dynamic in regular rifts, as you oneshot enemies with the former and restore Wrath and maintain set bonuses with the latter.
Akarat's Champion
Prophet is an omnipresent self-buff in both versions of the build.
- When speedfarming, the additional durability and attack speed of
Laws of Valor will be overkill, so you can safely swap this slot out for the movement speed buffs of
Laws of Hope
Wings of Angels.
- The GR-progression oriented
Judgment
Debilitate is too defensive of a proc for the effects of
Bracer of Fury, so you will do better with the straight damage buff of
Shield Glare
Divine Verdict.
- Finally, the progression-oriented hybrid of mobility and protection,
Iron Skin
Flash, should be replaced by the long distance champion
Steed Charge
Endurance.
- The majority of passives from the progression build are too valuable to
ignore; you will keep
Fervor,
Long Arm of the Law and
Finery.
- In speed farming where damage is of lesser concern compared to mobility, you
can swap
Holy Cause for the improved
Steed Charge uptime from
Lord Commander.
Adapting Gear
The vast majority of the Heaven's Fury-specific items will remain unchanged
during speed farming. You will still be taking advantage of the full set bonus
of the Aegis of Valor set,
and potentially including an extra utility legendary for speed farming in the
place of Cpt. Crimson's set. The trio of (cubed) Fate of the Fell,
Bracer of Fury and
Shield of Fury are too valuable to pass up in
this build, so they also remain locked in place. In the place of the
progression-oriented
Pig Sticker, you can run the speedfarm staple
In-geom to enjoy carefree spam of all your important cooldowns.
It is worth noting that in the limited challenges of regular rifts, both the
Endless Walk set and Convention of Elements greatly diminish
in usefulness. A better jewelry split is a Holy damage
Stone of Jordan (for
the permanent damage increase), and
Avarice Band (for the synergy with
Goldwrap and
Boon of the Hoarder), as well as
Squirt's Necklace for an extra damage multiplier.
This damage reduction from the Cpt. Crimson set will be redundant in regular
rifts, where you can get all the protection you will ever need via
Goldwrap's interaction with
Avarice Band and
Boon of the Hoarder. In order to use your freed up slot, take off one of
the Valor set pieces and replace them with a utility legendary. Our
recommendation are the
Gloves of Worship (Act II cache legendary), as their
Shrine bonus extension mateches
The Flavor of Time nicely, but there are
other decent options —
Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan's resource upkeep and
damage buff bonuses while on the move, or even
Homing Pads for the
uninterrupted teleportation.
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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 29: Paragon Cap
Season 29 introduces a season-specific cap to stat benefits from Paragon levels, all while updating how Paragon point distribution is handled. For the duration of this Season, you can only assign 800 Paragon stat points to your character, removing the long-standing practice of main-stat stacking (with some gearing implications — see below) after you reach Paragon 800.
On top of that, you could only allocate 50 Paragon stat points to each of the four stats in a given Paragon category (Core, Offense, Defense, and Utility). In Season 29, you can allocate up to the full 200 points per category into any attribute, allowing you to more easily reach necessary build breakpoints (as outlined in the Gear page of the guide) for Cooldown Reduction, Resource Cost Reduction, etc.
With the changes to Paragon in mind, we recommend using the following Paragon distribution for this build:
- Core: Movement Speed: 200 points.
- Offense: Cooldown Reduction and Critical Hit Damage: Allocate points
to Cooldown Reduction so you get improved uptime on
Akarat's Champion (65%+ sheet CDR), and then distribute points to get as close as possible to the desirable 1:10 ratio between the Critical Hit Chance and Critical Hit Damage stats, as displayed in your Character Details sheet.
- Defense: Life and All Resistance: Allocate points to maximize survivability; for Crusaders, this is usually achieved by evenly splitting 100 points into Life (directly increasing your Health pool) and All Resistance (to complement the naturally high Armor stat of Strength-based characters).
- Utility: Resource Cost Reduction: 200 points.
Season 29: Gearing Considerations
In terms of gear, keeping the Paragon cap in mind is paramount, as it stymies the traditional endless supply of main stat after Paragon 800. This means re-rolling mainstat off your gear is no longer desirable, and full equipment augmentation with your main stat is even more critical. Additionally, you should take a careful look at your build and consider if you can fit the following changes to strengthen your damage and survivability:
- Guardian's Jeopardy: This is a craftable armor set, and the recipe
for its creation drops from Bounty farming. Guardian's 2-piece provides a
decent damage reduction bonus, but the true powerhouse of the set is the
3-piece bonus, which nets you an additional 100% of your main stats from
equipped items. This is a tremendous benefit in an 800 Paragon capped Season.
If the Guardian set can fit into the build with minimal sacrifices (other
craftable sets, tertiary damage multipliers, etc.), consider its
implementation. The available pieces are
Guardian's Aversion (Wrists),
Guardian's Case (Waist), and
Guardian's Gaze (Head). Of course, you can wear 2 pieces of the set and complete the full 3-piece bonus with a
Ring of Royal Grandeur (found from Act I bounty caches).
- Endless Walk:This is a jewelry set consisting of
The Traveler's Pledge (Amulet) and
The Compass Rose (Ring), and is randomly found through farming, gambling Blood Shards, and/or Kanai's Cube recipes. The Endless Walk set is a nice compromise between damage bonuses (building up while stationary) and defensive bonuses (building up while moving). It can replace glass cannon choices like the Bastions of Will set (
Focus and
Restraint) and
Squirt's Necklace with acceptable losses to DPS.
Unity: A character wearing this ring, along with another
Unity on their follower plus an immortality relic for them (i.e.,
Enchanting Favor), will reduce their damage taken by 50%.
Unity can roll excellent offense-oriented stats and has an innate Extra Damage to Elites roll, which somewhat offsets losing all-out offense jewelry.
Adapting Gems
Bane of the Trapped remains a universally desired damage amplification
gem.
During speed farming, Pain Enhancer will be a progression-oriented
overkill and should be replaced by
Boon of the Hoarder. The latter is a high
utility gem that feeds you practically infinite gold, gives you a massive
short-term speed boost while picking it up, and synergizes excellently with the
worn
Avarice Band for a sizable speed boost, and the
Goldwrap for
near-invulnerability.
Since monster health is much more tame in the standard difficulties, you
should also replace Bane of the Stricken with
Bane of the Powerful for
the consistent, easily sustained damage increase. If you overpower content so
much that even
Bane of the Powerful is unnecessary, you can consider using
Wreath of Lightning for the extra speed.
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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.
Your armor Cube slot should be taken up by Warzechian Armguards, whose
environment destruction-based speed buffs trigger consistently off the AoE of
this build. You can still maintain the power of the former favorite in this slot,
Nemesis Bracers, when you equip them on the follower — their power
transfers to you via the Emanate mechanics. Note that this only applies in solo
play where you can have a follower; in groups, you should still carry your own
Nemesis Bracers here.
Lastly, in order to maintain the valuable 6-piece bonus of the
Aegis of Valor set and a utility
legendary instead of a set piece, you will need to cube a
Ring of Royal Grandeur in the jewelry 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.
Follower
The recommended follower for this build during standard rift farming for keys is the Enchantress due to her numerous utility bonuses, allowing you to smooth out your speed runs even further.
For more information regarding followers, we advise you to read our Follower Guide, which contains detailed advice for choosing the skills and the gear of your follower.
Legendary Potion
The preferred potions for this build are
Bottomless Potion of Amplification (the highest pure health recovery pot,
as its healing amplification procs itself for 75% health restoration), or
Bottomless Potion of Rejuvenation (for the extra resource recovery proc
when used below half HP — useful in a resource-intensive build such as
this one). Pick whichever you feel helps you out the most.
Changelog
- 13 Sep. 2023: Added Season 29 Paragon Cap and Gearing recommendations.
- 22 Feb. 2023: Added Season 28 Altar of Rites recommendations.
- 26 Aug. 2022: Added Season 27 Angelic Crucible recommendations.
- 13 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 09 Dec. 2021: Added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
- 23 Jul. 2021: Added S24 Ethereal recommendation.
- 01 Apr. 2021: Minor revision to the build.
- 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: No changes necessary for Season 20.
- 03 Dec. 2019: Guide fixed to include a proper utility legendary recommendation.
- 19 Nov. 2019: Guide revised and updated for Season 19.
- 22 Aug. 2019: Reviewed for Season 18.
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