D3 Crusader Fresh Level 70 Guide S22 | 2.6.10

Fresh 70 Crusader Items needed (yellow / rare items are fine). Crafting or picking up L70 yellows and REROLLING THEM is legit. A lot of people forget you can reroll yellows cheaply – and for amazing results. As a general rule, STR VIT and ALLRES are good.

WEAPONS: For Roland’s, most of the time we will be using a 2h Weapon and a shield. While the Heavenly Strength passive sucks compared to Fervor, Roland inevitably scales a bit better in the midgame with a good 2H weapon. 2H Mace + Life per Hit, or 2H Flail + Life per Fury Spent is what you want.

Self-Healing note: Life per hit is amazing and having excess rolls of this early on is great. Life per Wrath Spent is GODLIKE for Roland’s – but it’s a bit harder to obtain. LpWS appears ONLY ON Crusader Shields and FLAILS.

A good CRUSADER SHIELD: Honestly, don’t stress out about having a godlike shield early on. Life per Wrath Spent is enough for me, with STR+VIT. It can roll a bunch of random stats so it can serve as a piece for filler defensive stats too.

Crusader is a STRENGTH TO ARMOR class. 
You get so much Armor for free – stack ALLRES instead!

Each point of strength gives you 1 point of Armor as a crusader. Since you have too much of it, it becomes diluted. ALLRES then becomes your premium defensive stat. Ideally, you DO NOT WANT any Armor rolls on gear – take as much ALLRES instead!

Rings and Amulet WITH SOCKET: for when we get our legendary gems. Generally speaking, jewelry is great to roll filler stats on. You can never go wrong with defensive jewelry in the early game.

Belt is a huge source of defensive power. STR VIT ALLRES LIFE%.

Physical% on Amulet and Bracer: is a good offensive boost. (There are other viable elements we can use, but Physical is best early on.) Fire% is used in the mid-endgame due to stacking DoTs of Blazing Sweep. So roll Phys on gear you don’t mind getting old.

Chest and Leg armor with sockets. Should have STR VIT, too, if possible. Not too important as we get it as our final free set pieces, but if they drop, why not.

GEMS: For the vast majority of content that will challenge you, DIAMONDS on generic slots will do wonders. The ALLRES you get from them is almost impossible to replicate!

Hire Templar. His lower left-most skill gives you some Hatred gains and healing. Also get your Pet out to pick up gold for you.

TLDR: Remove trash-tier stats like…

• Life Regen – absolute trash.
• Attack Speed – Usually an end-game refinement stat.
• Excessive Armor – Useless compared to Allres.
• Excessive CDR – Meh… it’s good but not really for right now.

For good early to midgame stats like:

• STR+VIT on most gear is okay.
• ALLRES in place of Armor for massive defensive gains.
• Life per Fury Spent is godlike.
• Crit related stats for DPS.
• Life per Hit can be okay early on.

If you’re not allowed to put two skills on your bar because they’re from the same category – FEAR NOT! This isn’t a bug or a permanent in-game restriction. You simply have to CHECK ON ELECTIVE MODE, via Esc > Options > Gameplay > Elective Mode!

Binding Force Move to Mousewheel up & down is a value change that every player should make IMO. It prevents misclicks and skill misfires, and forces you to move to where otherwise an enemy might be.

Here’s an overview of what you should accomplish per chapter for this season. Or press Shift+J in game to check.

1st set: Helm + Gloves
2nd set: Boots + Shoulders
3rd set: Chest + Pants

If you followed our leveling guide, you may be using the NO SHIELD 2-HANDER CRUSADER. I have TWO BUILDS for you to choose from: 2H No Shield and Shield.

Both of these builds are easily adjustable to accommodate any powerful legendaries you may have looted.

Chapters 1 & 2: Do these in Hard mode. Why make things harder for yourself? Only up the difficulty when needed. Entries here are quite easy to accomplish. You should have no problems leveling up your artisan. And as for the bounties and boss killings, I usually do these before I hit 70. And just in case you get to have a bounty in Ruins of Sescheron, might as well drop by the next floor (Elder Sanctum) and unlock Kanai’s Cube. Killing 2, or 3, birds with one stone….

Always keep in mind the “Setting up” tab must haves for your gear. Those items with the “correct” stats will greatly ease your seasonal journey and you’ll have your free set in no time.

Roland 2pc isn’t bad – The main thing we can abuse it with is Laws of Valor-Unstoppable Force, reducing our Wrath costs by 50%, with a much larger uptime now. Actually, let me remind you of our core mini-strat for the times to come…

ABUSE Laws of Valor-Unstoppable Force.
Each time you Sweep Attack, the cooldown reduces by 1 second.

Although there are entries here in Chapter 3 that needs to be done on Master Difficulty, the rest can be completed on Hard mode. If you haven’t done the bounties in all Acts entries, try to do this and rune your Steed Charge with Endurance. If you can squeeze in Lord Commander, you’ll complete all bounties in no time.

Complete on Master difficulty:

• Beat a Nephalem Rift: This is pretty much doable. If your gear is crap, expect to complete this at a crappy pace.
• Kill the following Bosses
  • Maghda – Act II, Road to Alcarnus 
  • Belial – Act II, City of Caldeum

Complete the rest of the chapter’s entries and let’s go get the last pieces of the (set) puzzle.

Roland 4pc is very, very powerful compared to most 4 set bonuses. Of course, we are going to squeeze every bit of value from that. Our DPS checks are all but secured, so we’re going to stack a little more defense – which is this sets only downside.

Even though GR20 is the main entry for this chapter, there are still a lot we have to do…

Upgrade a Rare to Legendary w/ Kanai’s Cube: The most value is 2H Flail, there’s a lot of valuable ones you can snag here. Ascended, Golden Flense, Norvald’s…

Complete a Torment I Rift: this should be a piece of cake. This will also be your minimum level to farm. But I’m guessing you won’t be stuck here for long….

Set Difficulty to Torment II: Kill Queen Araneae – Act I, Caverns of Araneae

Set Difficulty to Torment IV: Go straight to the bosses! No need to kill those creeps you charge past!

• Kill Skeleton King – Act I, The Royal Crypts
• Kill Odeg the Keywarden – Act I, Fields of Misery
• Kill Sokahr the Keywarden – Act II, Dahlgur Oasis
• Kill Xah’Rith the Keywarden – Act III, Stonefort
• Kill Nekarat the Keywarden – Act IV, Garden of Hope 2nd Tier
• Keywardens maps have a key icon next to the waypoint. Purple arrows point you to their location after a short while once you’re in their respective map.

Finally done with all other entries? The time has come to conquer GR20! But first, check the neph obelisk for the highest GR you can do. If GR20 is still locked for you, you will need to do a couple of high GRs. Torment 3 and above should do the trick.

See our Video: GR20 Roland’s Legacy clear

FIX PARAGONS: STR | CRIT | ALL RES | LoH

Heavenly Strength + 2H worked a lot better for me compared to 1H + Fervor. But, of course, accommodate your best weapon if it’s worth it.

YOUR ONLY RISK OF LOSING IS DYING A LOT.
You damage should be more than enough. Prioritize defensive rolls!

Life on Hit and All Res will carry you past this with “safety” and dealing with bad elites. Socket diamonds on body armor will greatly increase your survivability. LoH on a 2-Hander gives you a mega load off your mind. You can even get creative and put an Amethyst on weapon. I cannot reiterate it enough: defense is your only problem here.

Hopefully, you’ve scrounged up some yellows that are half decent. Also don’t forget –TEMPLAR is very important for the heals. Remember the Topaz on your helmet!!!

To have an idea of how powerful you need to be, here’s my stats of my tests:

• Offense (sheet): 250,000 (min. 180k?)
• Toughness (sheet): 15,600,000 (min. 10m, dangerous…)
• Recovery (sheet): 600,000 (varies…)
• STR: 7250
• NO ‘special’ legendaries aside from the 4PC Roland.
• NO Pylons taken.
• NO Legendary Gems.
• NO Cubes powers used.
• Remaining Time: 2 MINUTES 30 SECONDS

Well, I tried this a bunch of times with varying stats and let me reiterate that damage is easily reached, but dying can be a massive problem.

Every bit helps… the block bonus on Punish, Life regen with Rebirth, Life per hit, socketed diamonds USE COOLDOWNS since Roland 2PC gives a Zodiac effect!!! Provoke is mainly for refilling Wrath. Every little bit of the build helps towards the clear!

Offense numbers DO NOT take into consideration most Legendary Powers and Gems. But since I did it RAW – these will serve as a great estimation. Just be safe!