Please, do the right thing. We need it.
Buff Phalanx.
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Phalanx you very much.
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Crusader
- Armor of Akkhan (2-piece bonus): Judgment has no cooldown and gains the effect of every rune.
- Armor of Akkhan (4-piece bonus): Attacks from Phalanx Avatars reduce the cooldown of Akarat’s Champion by 0.5 seconds, and also apply Condemn when attacking enemies that is affected by Judgment.
- Eternal Union: Increases the duration of summoned Phalanx Bowmen and Bodyguard indefinitely.
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I guess a by-product of the set changes is that this effectively kills off the Akkan/Invoker hybrid, and the golden-oldie Akkan Condemn is a goner too.
Killing off that Akkhan/Invoker hybrid is fine by me, builds combining bonuses from 2 different class sets shouldn’t even a thing for any class.
Classic Condemn Akkhan going exint however, I’m slightly sad about that. Although if the Phalanx Avatars can now “autocast” Condemn through their attacks, that might be even better solution.
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Close cow portals after 60 seconds too!!
Akkhan Condemn was the first build I played. And Akkhan Bomb was the build I did my one and only solo 150 with at the very end of season 25 - I’ll probably keep the pieces and the armory slot as a tribute ^^
Another build that’s gone is Akkhan Blessed Shield, even though it was irrelevant since we’ve haa LoD BS. I was keeping the pieces just in case, though.
Well, one good aspect of the rework is that it’s gonna allow me to make a lot of cleaning in my stash and mules!
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Don’t be so shure about that. Your Phalanx warriors apply Condemn. Now the question is, will that get buffed by Condemn items?
Anyway. A dmg buff on Phalanx legendaries would be nice.
Well, it’s a possibility for seasonal Akkan / Phalanx / Condemn, but that’s no help to my non-seasonal Condemn Crusader who, whilst I’ve not played her in ages, will effectively be rendered pointless by 2.7.4
Ok I get that. You’ll need to swap some items and skills.
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Weird idea but with the recent changes to Akkhan would it be viable to create an Akkhan-Roland 3-piece-each build? I admit I haven’t thought this throughly but I think you can make it work. I have to spend time with d3 planner but on paper it seem to be fine. Besides the fact that you may need to have Condemn with Sweep or Shield Bash to be any effective. Granted, you need a huge battery skill for resources.
So you’ll get the 4p bonus of both whit RoRG? 
Could be some interesting setup.
I completely disagree with the idea that combining class sets shouldn’t be a thing. it should be a thing for every class, and every class set. right now you have 13 slots to equip items with, but because of the way class sets are and the power associated with them, you effectively have 7. the game wouldn’t really be any different if your helm/chest/pants/shoulders/gloves/boots were fused into one slot.
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For some make that even 5, since you also need to equip the class set weapons. For some reason i would not be surprised if in some way we will find out Norvald will still be optimal for Akhan Crusader … to name the one weapon set that is likely the worst offender in game. Now would love to see that set and Shenlon’s nerfed through the ground, rather as Inna’s.
completely agree with you here.
mixing and matching sets is a good thing. crimson and aughilds also add to that.
man I would love if every season we would get a random 7th/8th piece of gear for all the sets.
It would help so much in keeping things interesting beside having seasonal themes.
suddenly you could wear this, cube that, or mix another 2, 3 or 4 piece set in that was usually impossible.
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If the Phalanx condemns get buffed by Condemn items:
Akkhan - head, chest, glove, ammie, boots
Aughilds - shoulder, bracer
Crimson - belt, pants
Illusory boots in cube
COE, Eternal Union / RRoG in cube
Blade of Prophecy, Fryders Wrath / Unrelenting Phalanx in the cube
Justice - Sword of Justice (movement speed)
Iron Skin - Flash (movement speed)
Akarat - Prophet
Condemn - Vacuum (you need a pull to counteract the immobilize on Judgment)
Judgment
Phalanx - Bowmen (8 bowmen with phalanx shield)
Heavenly Strength, Finery, Holy Cause
Righteousness (wrath gen) or something defensive
Gems = Stricken, Trapped, Esoteric
Play style will be the same. Move slowly, spam judgement to pull trash to the center. Pull elites from mob to mob and wear down their life.
Damage = Manual condemn + 8x condemn from bowmen
I’m looking forward to being one-shotted by reflect damage from my bowmen. I wonder if that will happen with condemn damage.
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Yeah I was talking about making Akkhan compatible with Roland’s or at least somehow reliant on Shield Glare before this update. Maybe developers heard this and liked it enough?
There were tons of outcries about Phalanx too and I suggested it to be somehow diversed from other clone/pet reliant builds. I can’t talk for sure before trying PTR but am getting warmed up to the idea. Attacking enemies in Judgment area with anything will have its echo by Condemn blasts from Phalanxes.
In my opinion, Shenlong should have been dedicated only to generative skills.
I’d like to see how that ends up.
Cant disagree more. 7 pc sets should be allowed the flexibility and creativity of mix and match. I am not certain the trend of reworking global multiplier sets into specific playstyle is a positive direction. At least 6pc Akkhan is still untouched unlike Inna.
Phalanx need multipliers…asap. It should be a tier 1 sader play style, not just utility skill for casting condemn. 800% is bottom line buff. Condemn has 56x multiplier, Phalanx is what? 60% or 1.6x each from both Kassar/UP. making 2.56x multiplier. I d suggest rework these to be 600x each, then 49x multiplier is acceptable somewhat, however still not really enough for high gr pushings. Consider eternal union + CoE + Endless walk type of jewelry, kassar takes helmet slot, along with tasker and theo. It struggles to squeeze in captains or augilds. True squirts can replce EW in a way, but not everybody is comfortable up keeping squirts in high GR or its upkeeping affect playstyle. If Eternal union can work a 200% multiplier and adding another bracer of 150% ish, then pure phalanx will be around 367.5x ish multiplier. If its too high, maybe limit kassar/UP to be 450% each.
I hope pure phalanx is capable at pushing solo or rgk (single target) with 5pc akkhan + captains + steed charge set with UR in cube. Kassar or TNT in cube and Rorg. Hoping a new bracer to be added (boring yes i know but need power), such as promise of glory rework. No one wants to pick up nephlem glory anymore (exclude console), its about time to rework their items.
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