Invoker Thorns Crusader Speed Farming Variation
Speed Farming
The Invoker Thorns Crusader deals with regular Rift farming decently all the way through the highest Torments, making it a viable build for the task. We have speed farming 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.
In speed farming, mobility is a much bigger consideration for Thorns Crusaders,
since you do not have the AoE clear of the more conventional farming builds. You
need to keep up your Laws of Hope
Wings of Angels up at all times, and zip
from one elite pack to another to trigger
In-geom's CDR resets. Instead
of using
Provoke to keep monsters engaged, you will be using the quicker
and larger pull of
Condemn
Vacuum. When in need to cross greater
distances, simply mount up with
Steed Charge.
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.
Punish
Celerity,
Steed Charge
Endurance and
Iron Skin
Flash will remain in your active skill lineup from the progression build.
- When speedfarming, the additional durability of
Laws of Justice or extra 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.
Provoke loses much of its value in the quick skirmishes that populate normal Rifts, so it can be replaced by a quick enemy gathering tool in the face of
Condemn
Vacuum.
Akarat's Champion
Prophet is an omnipresent self-buff in both versions of the build.
- The majority of passives from the progression build are too valuable to
ignore; you will keep
Heavenly Strength,
Iron Maiden and
Finery.
- In speed farming where damage is of lesser concern compared to mobility, you
should take
Long Arm of the Law for the improved uptime of
Laws of Hope
Wings of Angels.
Adapting Gear
You will still be taking advantage of the full 6-piece set bonuses of Invoker,
incorporating 5 of the 6 available pieces according to your best rolls. The
existence of the atypical set bracer allows you to tinker with additional bonuses,
most notably the inclusion of the Sage's Journey set for Death's Breath farming.
Take Sage's Ribbon and
Sage's Passage for example, and then complete
both the Invoker and Sage set bonuses with a
Ring of Royal Grandeur.
The progression-oriented Endless Walk set should be dropped from your jewelry
during farming, since the speed of normal Rifts will ruin the uptime of the
set's damage bonus. In their stead, use a Physical/Thorns Stone of Jordan
for the consistent boost to your damage, and
The Flavor of Time for the
additional duration on Pylon pickups.
When doing bounties, you can take an
extra step in terms of optimization and drop the Pig Sticker for a
Swiftmount; the doubled
Steed Charge allows for some of the best
mobility the Crusader class has to offer.
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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.
Adapting Gems
Both Bane of the Trapped and
Boyarsky's Chip remain universally
desired damage amplification gems for Thorns Crusaders across all forms of
content.
When doing speedruns, health values will be a significantly smaller barrier,
diminishing the value of Bane of the Stricken; you would do well to replace
it with
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 a and cubed
Avarice Band
for practical invincibility of your character.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
In regular Rift farming, the pace at which you kill elites facilitates the
use of the most potent source of cooldown reduction in your weapon Cube slot
— In-geom. As long as you fuel its power by regularly bursting down
elites, it will practically ensure permanent uptime of all of your important
cooldowns.
Belt of the Trove stays as the default recommendation in the armor Cube
slot, in order to maintain the damage reduction of the Invoker 4-piece bonus.
Starting in Patch 2.7, the elite spawning powers of
Nemesis Bracers can
be equipped on your follower, which will greatly help with the proc of
In-geom without causing you to lose toughness from this Cube slot.
As mentioned above, cube Avarice Band during farm to maximize your gold
gain and clear speed through the
Boon of the Hoarder synergy.
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.
Legendary Potion
The preferred potion for this build is Bottomless Potion of the Leech due
to its Life per Hit bonuses, which synergize perfectly for the high attack speed
and sustain-through-attacks playstyle of the build.
Follower
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.
Changelog
- 31 Mar. 2021: Added minor equipment alterations and added a follower recommendations.
- 18 Nov. 2020: Revised equipment, passives, and Cube recommendations for Season 22.
- 30 Jun. 2020: No changes required for Season 21.
- 12 Mar. 2020: No changes necessary for Season 20.
- 19 Nov. 2019: Guide revised and updated for Season 19.
- 22 Aug. 2019: Reviewed for Season 18.
- 17 May 2019: Minor fixes to skill recommendations; guide approved for Season 17.
- 31 Oct. 2017: Adapted the speedfarming variant to the 2.6.1 changes.
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