Shield Crush Armor Stacker Champion Build - 4 trees / item sets for all budgets - POB in comments

Hey all! Ronarray here and this is my take on Champion Shield Crush Armor Stacker! If you like the guide please make sure to Like the video as well - subscribe to the YouTube channel for more content too! Ifhave questions or you want to discuss anything build related - feel free to hit me on twitch or discord, I wil lbe glad to help. Discord https://discord.gg/xDQVEQahMT Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/ronarray YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@ronarray |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| FAQ |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 1. This is NOT lvling setup since you will need 2-3 uniques to properly play the build. You can still lvl with Shield Crush but it will be slower - in this case just always take the rare shields with highest armor / evasion. Overall any other lvling strategy such as Bladestorm or Splitting Steel will work as well. 2. The build is intended as a single target DPS so the clear could be slower - you can swap in Pulverize or Area of Effect to make it better if you like so. For single target make sure to stay close and hit with 2 overlapping waves for huge dps boost. 3. Since the build is really heavy on Auras you can encounter mana problems at early versions of setup. To fix them you can use %reservation efficiency tattoo / get enlighten / temporary drop Blood and Sand or Haste. 4. Mageblood is good here and can provide more dps than for almost any other build but NOT really needed. You can still comfortably clear all of the content without it if you use the *High Budget 97+* setup I have provided in this POB. 5. Why not Juggernaut? I have discussed it in the video with some examples but the short answer is Champion have MUCH more dps / can work better with mana and survivability is good on both so I went for damage and convinience. 6. Whats up with Chaos Ressitance? Due to my own playstyle I do not really boost Chaos Resistances higher than 2-30% most of the times - if you feel diferrent you can roll some additional ones on Gloves / more on Rings or use a flask. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| List of Tips and Items |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 1. The MUST HAVE unqiues you will need to start the build in the order if importance: Emperor's vigilance / Replica Dreamfeather / Seething Fury 2. Since we are aiming to get 90% Elemental Resistances always make sure that they are maxed - especially after Melding of the Flesh (which will lower your overall resistances). To max them out get Boots / Rings and possibly Gloves with a lot of resistances and recheck it after every upgrade. 3. In the earlier version of the build you will need Dexterity / Intelligence on your rings and possibly in the tree as well. You can take both +30 and drop them later. 4. Even without Mageblood Flasks could give a huge dps increase - so make sure to always use 20% Armor Basalt / 20% Evasion Stibnite and Critical Strike Chance Diamond Flasks. 5. Forbidden Flame and Forbidden Flesh for Headsman could be relatively cheap so make sure to get them as fast as possible since 20% Culling strike is amazing. 6. Make sure that you are using Lifetap for Assasins Mark since otherwise you might not have enough mana to cast it. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Gear |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Weapon Replica Dreamfeather is our only option here, corrupt is not needed since we need that sweet 475 accuracy boost. You can harvest enchasnt it for even more accuracy. Shield Emperor's vigilance is the only option as well. Make sure to get the one with highest armor / energy shield possible. Corrupt is not necesarry but you can get % of Life or % of less critical damage taken. Helmet Rare - Grab a T1 Fractured Life Regeneration Rate Armour Helmet and get a lab enchant on it (or don't, it is expensive). Enchant - A lot of options here, Berserk effect / Dread Banner effect / Ancestral Protector Grants increased attack speed / Shield Crush attack speed The best probably bee the protector buff with berserk being close second if you use it. Body Armour Rare - perfectly with Life / resistances and for higher budget with Armor is increased by overcapped Fire resistance Gloves Rare - With 14-16% attack speed / some Life / Some resistances Implicits - Hits can grant Rage / Efffect of your marks is increased Rage is really important here since only with it we can properly use Berserk so make sure to roll it as soon as you can. Boots Rare - Just Life / movement speed and as many resistances as possible Implicits - +1% to max fire resistance, increased armor from equipped helmet and gloves Enchant - Regenerate 2% of Life per second if you were Hit Recently Amulet Ashes of the Stars - perfect option, you need to aim for higher quality % when reservation efficiency % could be lower. Rare? - if you dont have acess to Ashes then a simple rare with Life / critical strike multiplier / resistances should work. Anoint - Charisma Rings Rare - Most of the time you just need life / resistances and a -mana with non chanelling skills craft (IMPORTANT) on both On one of those you will also need Curse Enemies with Vulnerability on hit if you are using the Impossible escape to get the second curse. Belt Stygian Rare - simple stygian with Life / resistances and stats (dexterity / intelligence) if you need some Mageblood - this will be a big dps increase since we can get damage from ALL the flasks instead of 2-3. It is not necasarry but it can literally double your damage since armor stacker can benefit from the mageblood the most. Jewels Watcher's Eye - We can only a few diferrent mods for it, the most important would be Impales you Inflict last 2 additional hits so grab it as soon as you can. The second best modifier would be Your Hits Intimidate Enemies and the last one is not that important. Forbidden Flame / Forbidden Flesh for Headsman Aleternatively Forbidden Flame / Forbidden Flesh for Bane of Legends. Melding of the Flesh - our main source of MAX resistances, get it as fast as possible - with it we can reach 90% resistances relatively easy. Impossible escape (Chaos Innoculation) - great boost that will give us more mana reservation / stronger auras and additional curse (about 25-35% of dps) Cluster Jewels Large Cluster Rare 1 - the most important one so try to get it first, it should have Feed the Fury, Martial Prowess and Fuel the Fight you can allocate them all to get your leech and just get rid of the Fuel the Fight later when you will get the second cluster. This is the main source of all leech in the build and a good source of additional ccuracy as well. Large Cluster Rare 2 - Veteran defender / Fuel The Fight / Martial prowess - allocate only Veteran defender and Fuel The Fight to compensate the leech and get some attributes /resistances. Small clusters x2 - Reservation efficency / 25% increased effect / Introspection - we just need those to fit in all the auras and get some sweet aura effect so get them as soon as you can. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Tattoos |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| For this we just use incresed effect of Non-Curse auras from your skills tattoos until we hit the 90% resistances out of the increased effect - the rest should be 8% armor tatoos |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Thank you for checking the build out! Please like the video and subscribe to the channel if you enjoyed it. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|