LoD Condemn Crusader Skills and Runes
On this page, we explain how to choose and use your skills when playing LoD Condemn Crusader in Diablo 3. Updated for Patch 2.7.3 and Season 26.
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Passive Skills |
Rotation
The LoN Condemn Crusader begins runs similarly to its set counterpart, by
activating and staying in Akarat's Champion for as long as possible,
hammering
Condemn explosions into massive groups of enemies and
sustaining the massive costs through a combination of
Unstoppable Force,
Provoke and
Slash. When exposed to massive bursts of damage
— practically inevitable with the close range fighting style of the
build — you can pop
Iron Skin as a last line of defense, and allow
yourself a moment of respite and repositioning.
Skills and Runes
The primary damage dealer of the build is Condemn, a 15-yard circular
AoE skill centered on the character, whose damage is amplified by various
Crusader-specific items, and due to picking the rune
Vacuum, several
Holy- and displacement-synergistic legendaries as well.
Vacuum edges over
the other runes (including the former favorite
Reciprocate) due to its
monster pulling properties; the ability to create density through sheer movement
through the Rift makes it the progression favorite.
Akarat's Champion is a signature Crusader steroid skill that provides a
base of damage amplification and resource restoration, as well as a defensive
bulwark through the rune
Prophet in the form of extra armor and a cheat
death proc. The potency of this skill is a major reason for your investment in
Cooldown Reduction across gear, and its moments of downtime are your most
vulnerable by far. When
Akarat's Champion falls off, or in any moment you
anticipate great spikes of damage — incoming projectiles, elemental affix
bursts, etc. — you have the emergency
Iron Skin cooldown, taken
with the extra length of the
Steel Skin rune.
The remainder of your active skill arsenal is dedicated to restoration and
upkeep of your Wrath resource, which is quite demanding due to the gluttonous
Condemn costs (40 per cast, due to
Frydehr's Wrath, see this build's gear page for more information).
The attack speed passive and active values of
Laws of Valor are lost to
the build, but the resource cost reduction properties of the
Unstoppable Force rune are not — 50% RCR, lengthened by
Long Arm of the Law.
Provoke acts as a three-in-one tool for Wrath
generation, keeping enemies in the
Condemn range through a taunting
effect, and even a sizable debuff from the
Too Scared to Run rune. Last
but not least, you have an Armor-increasing primary attack in the form of
Slash, whose
Guard rune provides an extra protective layer
during GR progression.
This concludes the overview of the Active Skills, now let us look through the Passives.
Passives
Heavenly Strength is a signature Crusader passive, allowing you to
wield two-handed weapons in one hand, and have a shield in the other. This
The Furnace-wielding
Condemn build is no exception.
Finery is another Crusader staple, adding 1.5% Strength for every
socket across your gear, including weapon and jewelry. Assuming an average of 10
sockets across a well-equipped character,
Finery amounts to a decent
boost of both damage and toughness.
In order to maximize your damage and add sustain, Holy Cause should be
added to the passive mix, since it synergizes elementally with your main damage
dealer and has a healing side effect. Its base 10% damage buff is also important
to a build that can make good use of any DPS not reliant on AoE situations.
Long Arm of the Law doubles the duration of the active effects of Laws and
ensures constant availability of
Unstoppable Force. Aided by this passive,
you will have an easy time maintaining spam of Condemn during the prolonged
fights of Greater Rifts. If you want
to go a safer route, you cannot do wrong with
Indestructible, Crusader's
cheat death passive. Since
Indestructible procs second in the chain of
on-death skills, with
Prophet taking priority, this results in a nice
juggle of your survival skills, and the almost constant availability of a buffer
between you and death.
Changelog
- 13 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 09 Dec. 2021: Reviewed for Season 25.
- 23 Jul. 2021: No changes necessary for Season 24.
- 31 Mar. 2021: No changes necessary for Season 23.
- 18 Nov. 2020: Reviewed for Season 22. No changes required.
- 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.
- 15 May 2019: Guide added.
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