I'd honestly need to see your bnet character page to really know what's going on. Just the gear list doesn't help much. There are some gear things I'd change, but a lot of that can fall into the "still working on that" section.
Make sure you are using full Roland so you can use focus and restraint. Use the prophet rune for Akkarats champion. Switch long arm of the law to finery. For fire Shield bash use ancient maximus, blood brother, or furnace. Also you can use the lightning Shield bash with ancient Schaeffers hammer if you want. Personally I run fire.
Also, make sure to use the fire rune for Punish (Roar) to make use of your fire %. For legendary gems I use Gogok of swiftness (helps to stack Roland's buff faster as well as gives CDR), Bane of the trapped, and Wildebeest Gizzard for survivability, since shield bash is a kite-heavy build on higher GR. As for the amulet, if you can find a good Eye of the Etlich you will gain 33% ranged resistance, making you much harder to kill. Typically its not the close up enemies that pose a threat to Roland's, its elemental and ranged enemies. Gems in the armor for GR are usually 2 diamonds + 3 rubys, or 2 rubys + 3 diamonds. If you still have a resist problem then use full diamonds. Use Unstoppable Force for the Laws of Valor rune to keep your resource costs down, which synnergizes well with Piro Marella and A.C. Prophet. I like to use Iron Skin Steel - Steel skin instead of provoke, helps make you hard to kill close up, but thats a matter of preference.
Thank you - after the first changes I ran a rift and never died. I will check all this out and make more changes! I appreciate the time to look into my build.
After making all these adjustments (and crafting a better PM shield) I am hardly dying at all now on T6 rifts. Sometimes I'll get caught in a pack and someone who dies will explode and catch me in it but that's about the only way I've been dying. Thanks a bunch for the help!
Also, make sure to use the fire rune for Punish (Roar) to make use of your fire %. For legendary gems I use Gogok of swiftness (helps to stack Roland's buff faster as well as gives CDR), Bane of the trapped, and Wildebeest Gizzard for survivability, since shield bash is a kite-heavy build on higher GR. As for the amulet, if you can find a good Eye of the Etlich you will gain 33% ranged resistance, making you much harder to kill. Typically its not the close up enemies that pose a threat to Roland's, its elemental and ranged enemies. Gems in the armor for GR are usually 2 diamonds + 3 rubys, or 2 rubys + 3 diamonds. If you still have a resist problem then use full diamonds. Use Unstoppable Force for the Laws of Valor rune to keep your resource costs down, which synnergizes well with Piro Marella and A.C. Prophet. I like to use Iron Skin Steel - Steel skin instead of provoke, helps make you hard to kill close up, but thats a matter of preference.
I'm going to have to disagree with some of this.
Your generator doesn't need to match the element of your spender, mostly because it's damage is so pathetic you are only taking it for the F+R proc. Instead you should look at the secondary effects of the rune. In this case, Roar is probably the worst one. Instead I'd take Punish - Fury if you need more offense for the extra crit chance or if you need more defense, I'd take Slash - Guard.
Gogok is subpar for Roland's. You shouldn't need that much CDR and Roland's already has insane attack speed so a few extra % won't make a difference. Instead, Esoteric is a much better choice and provides much needed defense for higher grifts.
Finally Unstoppable Force is an imaginary crutch. 5 seconds of extra wrath management doesn't really help that much. If you are ok on defense then I'd go with Critical instead for extra damage, or if you need the defense Law of Justice - Immovable object for basically a second Iron Skin.
Also, make sure to use the fire rune for Punish (Roar) to make use of your fire %. For legendary gems I use Gogok of swiftness (helps to stack Roland's buff faster as well as gives CDR), Bane of the trapped, and Wildebeest Gizzard for survivability, since shield bash is a kite-heavy build on higher GR. As for the amulet, if you can find a good Eye of the Etlich you will gain 33% ranged resistance, making you much harder to kill. Typically its not the close up enemies that pose a threat to Roland's, its elemental and ranged enemies. Gems in the armor for GR are usually 2 diamonds + 3 rubys, or 2 rubys + 3 diamonds. If you still have a resist problem then use full diamonds. Use Unstoppable Force for the Laws of Valor rune to keep your resource costs down, which synnergizes well with Piro Marella and A.C. Prophet. I like to use Iron Skin Steel - Steel skin instead of provoke, helps make you hard to kill close up, but thats a matter of preference.
I'm going to have to disagree with some of this.
Your generator doesn't need to match the element of your spender, mostly because it's damage is so pathetic you are only taking it for the F+R proc. Instead you should look at the secondary effects of the rune. In this case, Roar is probably the worst one. Instead I'd take Punish - Fury if you need more offense for the extra crit chance or if you need more defense, I'd take Slash - Guard.
Gogok is subpar for Roland's. You shouldn't need that much CDR and Roland's already has insane attack speed so a few extra % won't make a difference. Instead, Esoteric is a much better choice and provides much needed defense for higher grifts.
Finally Unstoppable Force is an imaginary crutch. 5 seconds of extra wrath management doesn't really help that much. If you are ok on defense then I'd go with Critical instead for extra damage, or if you need the defense Law of Justice - Immovable object for basically a second Iron Skin.
He is using angel hair braid, which gives all the runes to punish anyways. You might as well use roar if you are going fire as opposed to one of a different element
I picked up a Blood Brother today so I equipped it and am trying it out.
In that case dump the angel hair braid and run punish - fury because roar and retaliate currently use up the 30% damage bonus after blocking. We're pretty sure it's a bug and will hopefully be fixed but for now that's what's happening.
Just got to T6 and am loving it but am dying now and then, and in grifts 30 is about as high as I can go.
http://www.diablofans.com/builds/55985-dlknives-crusader-build
I'd honestly need to see your bnet character page to really know what's going on. Just the gear list doesn't help much. There are some gear things I'd change, but a lot of that can fall into the "still working on that" section.
Make sure you are using full Roland so you can use focus and restraint. Use the prophet rune for Akkarats champion. Switch long arm of the law to finery. For fire Shield bash use ancient maximus, blood brother, or furnace. Also you can use the lightning Shield bash with ancient Schaeffers hammer if you want. Personally I run fire.
Thanks guys! That's exactly what I'm doing nitro, working on it. :-)
Also, make sure to use the fire rune for Punish (Roar) to make use of your fire %. For legendary gems I use Gogok of swiftness (helps to stack Roland's buff faster as well as gives CDR), Bane of the trapped, and Wildebeest Gizzard for survivability, since shield bash is a kite-heavy build on higher GR. As for the amulet, if you can find a good Eye of the Etlich you will gain 33% ranged resistance, making you much harder to kill. Typically its not the close up enemies that pose a threat to Roland's, its elemental and ranged enemies. Gems in the armor for GR are usually 2 diamonds + 3 rubys, or 2 rubys + 3 diamonds. If you still have a resist problem then use full diamonds. Use Unstoppable Force for the Laws of Valor rune to keep your resource costs down, which synnergizes well with Piro Marella and A.C. Prophet. I like to use Iron Skin Steel - Steel skin instead of provoke, helps make you hard to kill close up, but thats a matter of preference.
Thank you - after the first changes I ran a rift and never died. I will check all this out and make more changes! I appreciate the time to look into my build.
After making all these adjustments (and crafting a better PM shield) I am hardly dying at all now on T6 rifts. Sometimes I'll get caught in a pack and someone who dies will explode and catch me in it but that's about the only way I've been dying. Thanks a bunch for the help!
I'm going to have to disagree with some of this.
Your generator doesn't need to match the element of your spender, mostly because it's damage is so pathetic you are only taking it for the F+R proc. Instead you should look at the secondary effects of the rune. In this case, Roar is probably the worst one. Instead I'd take Punish - Fury if you need more offense for the extra crit chance or if you need more defense, I'd take Slash - Guard.
Gogok is subpar for Roland's. You shouldn't need that much CDR and Roland's already has insane attack speed so a few extra % won't make a difference. Instead, Esoteric is a much better choice and provides much needed defense for higher grifts.
Finally Unstoppable Force is an imaginary crutch. 5 seconds of extra wrath management doesn't really help that much. If you are ok on defense then I'd go with Critical instead for extra damage, or if you need the defense Law of Justice - Immovable object for basically a second Iron Skin.
He is using angel hair braid, which gives all the runes to punish anyways. You might as well use roar if you are going fire as opposed to one of a different element
Fair enough, but realistically you'll want String of Ears in the long run anyway as it's vastly superior.
I'll keep an eye out for one of those.
I picked up a Blood Brother today so I equipped it and am trying it out.
In that case dump the angel hair braid and run punish - fury because roar and retaliate currently use up the 30% damage bonus after blocking. We're pretty sure it's a bug and will hopefully be fixed but for now that's what's happening.
Thanks, made the changes.