[1.3.0.8] Skyfall - Stormfang cold devastation Templar - [most Celestial] [easy SR32] [Gladiator 200]

I’m late to the party in recognizing that cooldown reduction is a very versatile weapon to have at your disposal. Between cooldown on your different attacks, your procs and your devotion procs, you can really leverage that to create a multi-layered system of defense that will take care of your character for you.

The Stormfang set gives you a very good addition in that regard, by reducing the cooldown on devastation on each hit (Which includes the heart of wrath subsequent pulse) allowing you to have permanent uptime on it. You can get it back so fast in fact, that you can actively recast it to reposition it within about 2.5 seconds. Coupled with the conduit that adds 2 extra projectiles (for a total of 4) and Devastation is really all you need to kill almost everything this game can throw at you.

Judgment is also reaching near the edge of the screen, and pulls enemies toward you, so devastation can do its thing. Very few times will you have to run around for stragglers.

This is not a full build guide, just a showcase

Special thanks to @RxJunkie for the theorycraft help and advise :slight_smile:

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Grimtool

Defensive features:

16% dodge chance
28% damage reduction
35% damage absorbtion
8% health restored per second (with 34% healing increased, so it’s more like 11%)
over 30% physical resist
under 2 second cooldown on dryad
under 2 second downtime on chariot (which adds another 6-7% health restored per second)
under 2 second downtime on phoenix
Multiple layers of flat absorption, all on a short timer: Turtle, crab, Aurora, seal of ancestry
Quicker movement runes and evade than normal
150+ movement speed

Offensive features

Effective 4300 OA
VERY potent devastation
amazing AoE

Results:

SR 32 was a cakewalk

Most bosses go down pretty easily with almost no additional input besides moving around and casting your 2 offensive spells.

The only place where the build is not at its best is when facing hard single targets that happen to be small, since the rocks from devastation have a radius.

SR 32: (Featuring Shriek in the boss room)

Crucible (no banners, no blessings)

Beronath:

Avatar of Mogdrogen:

Mogdrogen 2.0:

Ravager of souls:

Callagadra:

Will add more pictures as I beat more celestials. (This character is not even finished, most of my devotions are not even maxed out yet, and I need to go find the other celestials, break some crates, find some swords, etc…)

That’s it!
Let me know if you have any comments, suggestions or other things to say :slight_smile:

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Reserved for probably nothing but you never know

Congrats on your build, your Mog kill and best of luck with the rest! :+1: :+1:

Don’t forget you’ve got that nice permanent Wayward Soul for 5% more Health per second, DA and Armor - it’s a fantastic and helpful extra layer of defense. :sunglasses:

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You just inadvertently saved me a lot of embarassment XD I completely forgot the Cold Devastation conduit exists, was gonna make my Evoker version without it.

I thought the Templar side of this was going to be super awkward but the fact that Heart of Wrath procs the CDR seems insane. Nice job.

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I tried all 3 (Evoker, Templar and zealot) and while Evoker has the best “big hit” fueled by onslaught stacks, Templar was the most versatile and easiest to play. Evoker constantly has to stop to recharge WoA. Templar just moves around and kills stuff as it goes.

Zealot is fun but not exactly powerful :stuck_out_tongue:

Shit :frowning: I was really looking forward to that one. Those Judgment Frostburns looked insane on paper.

Edit: also wanted to ask, how does the Templar feel with this little DA? Especially on Ascendant Mode where enemies get +40% crit damage, I would have thought that’s a recipe to getting exploded out of the blue.

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I tried this to be specific:

Basically you stack onslaught with WoA, then finish with judgment.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s good, I even beat the dread on ascendant with it… just not as good as the other 2.

Honestly ? … I don’t really notice at all…
I’m not exactly a good pilot, so for me things must be pretty straightforward, or it’s not gonna work. I beat the bigger celestials with only 3 builds in 2000 hours of play.
All of them were absolute tanks with just ok damage.

It’s plenty tanky :slight_smile:

Against Mogdrogen, I had to drink health potions a few times, against the dread I had to go there once… and against Beronath I never needed to.

I couldn’t tell you exactly WHICH of the dozen layers of defense was saving my skin all those times… all I know if that I have yet to die once with it.

Why whole 12 points in Heart of Wrath? It’s fire, burn and retal dmg. What am I missing? Wouldn’t those points be better used in Ascension?

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Points increase the radius, and each tick lowers the cooldown on devastation.

Yes, ascension would be a GREAT addition to the build, but I wanted it to be very straightforward, so no extra buttons for me :slight_smile:

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The radius isn’t that great, the difference between 1+5 points vs 12+5 points is 1.1meter, which is nothing, that’s still melee range. The ticks wouldn’t be affected with only one point.

Not trying to be some karen telling you what to do with your own build. You made your design choice with a fewer button build, and I respect that.

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I would actually take points out of the main node first if I wanted to find some for ascension.
Heart of wrath pulls a lot of weight, and the damage on the main hit isn’t all converted anyway. (In fact, I sunk 3 more points into manifestation just to get a bit more out of it)

Hey, all good, I didn’t post this to then be offended by legitimate criticism :slight_smile:

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Wait is Battle Surge so good it alone keeps you alive? Outside of 4% lifesteal from offhand on WoA I’m not seeing any source of leech, and then it’s just a couple of shield procs, % healing from the Maiven mod on helmet and Behemoth without major CDR.

Ok… that ring takes 130+ rolls

Holy…! :neutral_face:

I got really lucky with mine then.

To be honest, I don’t know what held this thing together. :rofl:
Battle surge is good, but not that good.
The mod on WoA is probably a big help, yeah.

Otherwise… kiting ?
I don’t really know, I pretty quickly moved on to the templar

Edited the OP
Added (original) Mogdrogen and Calla kill

It’s a lot easier to farm several of those, specially if the MI is easy to reach. Try to get one of the affixes while farming the MI, that way you only focus in the other affix in the rerolls. If it takes more than say 10-20 rerolls, try with any other ring you had previously farmed. That way you won’t spend that much with higher rerolls.

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That’s exactly how i did those rings, badluck maybe