So as I’ve been exploring various builds (even leveling a BWC Sorcerer) I keep coming across people saying that Challenger Crucible is a very viable means of getting legendaries that carries a lot less of the stress and randomness of Gladiator. While the return is lower per run, the runs can be completed smoother and quicker, so the net result, they say, is about equal or only slightly lower.
I’ve taken this to heart as I don’t have an incredible amount of time to devote to this game these days, so I prefer sure-fire returns on my time investments. So I got to wondering… what are the best builds to clear Challenger Crucible quickly and easily with a minimum of problems? I assume that since the resistance caps are lower, the builds would be more free to concentrate on damage, so the tier list would be significantly different than for Gladiator. Does anyone have any ideas?
Dreeg Evil Eye Witchblade, BWC Sorcerer and Stun Jacks Elementalist are some of the best builds to clear Crucible. Not very gear dependant, they do function with top notch viability with their respective sets but that can be said for a lot of builds.
Cold Spellbreakers are insane, in the best sense, regardless.
Downgrading the difficulty only makes them that much better.
The veritable rainbow of Sab builds is also worth mentioning.
And Tempest Sorcs.
Those are definitely the top tier list for Gladiator. With the decreased difficulty the tier list doesn’t change?
I’ve been looking into cold Spellbreakers! This is good to hear.
Using pure offense, extreme DPS builds such as cold breakers to solo Challenger will probably result in similar or possibly even higher legendaries-per-hour than tanky builds soloing Gladiator. That said, both farming methods are massively inefficient compared to starting/joining multiplayer Gladiator games with any mix of random level 85s, especially if you bring that same extreme-DPS build into multiplayer.
If you’re solo-farming, you’ll receive far superior returns on your time hunting MI’s (primarily rings/pants) rather than Crucible, whether Challenger or Gladiator. Save Crucible farming for multiplayer.
Soloing Gladiator is strictly for challenge, not for optimal farming.
You know, I’ve never actually tried the multiplayer aspect of the game. That advice coming from the person who made two of the coolest (in my opinion anyway) pet builds of all time, I’m going to take your word on that and try it out. I’ve been dying to try those builds, btw. We’ll see if I can ever level them up.
PRM is pretty good if you stick to Challenger, since it has good AoE clear.
I had a Battlemage with a shield that could reliably clear Glad in around 30 mins (so it’s pretty slow for that purpose), but he ripped through Challenger with little effort needed.
I was mainly using different CT characters until 1.0.0.7 to solo Crucible. Other characters i used to clear Glad were Stun Jacks Elementalist and Justicar Cadence Commando.
Both of latter were really tanky due to set items they use. Havent had a chance to play much lately but i’ve seen CT characters were nerfed but they should still faceroll through Challenger same with traditional Vit Conjurer. I used these a lot for fast challenger speedruns.