THIS IS THE STARTER CR’s FOR S37, SO KEEP THEM FOR SEASON START IF YOU WANNA USE THEM TO LEVEL OR FOR THE ALTAR.
CHALLENGE RIFT 441
Crusader this week.
AMERICAS/CONSOLE:
A pretty straightforward Invoker build, with practically no CDR. So, in case you need defense, try to use all skills (besides Slash that you spam) one after another as all of them are kinda defensive in their nature:
Bombardment - defense backed into set
Akkarat Champion - damage boost and some defense
Bathed in Light - Heals you
Iron Skin - gives defense
So, go forward and destroy mobs!
EUROPE
This is a problematic build for season start on Europe. Basically it’s an LoD Blessed Shield set-up, however it includes Stone Gauntlets, and there is no way in the build to counter their negative effect (not sure if they timed out or I managed to break their effect sometimes while casting the law or Falling Sword.
Still, even though I died once in this run and got completely slowed down by the Gauntlets a few times I still managed to do it on time.
So, throw your Blessed Shields while keeping your distance and be blessed!
I’m actually surprised at how easy this challenge rift was. I suck at crusader, and by suck, I mean suck-diddly-uck. It just isn’t my class, but this was one of those rare treats where you get to open the season with something that doesn’t make you want to /headdesk. The build could have used some mobility, but other than being tanky as hell against trash mobs and squishy as hell against elites (and a couple deaths due to that), I had more than 1.5 minutes left to spare.
Here’s hoping the next CR isn’t annoying so the altar will be more of a side hustle than main bustle this season.
I got ths crusader CR done before 7 AM today so it looks like I got it in just in time. Not a real fan of Marauder, but at least I’m familiar with it since I play a DH almost exclusively.
Pretty standard Marauder set-up, without the right multipliers for the skills used.
For Marauder it’s important to get to 5 Sentries on a map level as fast as possible - since this will give you max damage. At least when switching to a new level have at least one Sentry ready.
There is Dawn in the build so the Vengeance cooldown is not to long, use it freely.
LoN rings in the build have no effect, since there is 6pc Marauder active.
Use Multishot, if low on resources use the generator.
EUROPE:
At the moment it’s giving an error when trying to run it, will update when it can be played.
Jesse Hamilton has done the EU. It’s fairly easy. It’s a Marauder DH. Just set up sentries right away (and keep setting them as you move) and fire away and move/vault as the monsters get cleared.
Jesse gets his CR videos up pretty quick. He had all three Regions up yesterday. I don’t think the Europe servers started having issues until later today.
I still have this error from last night. Do you know what can I do? for challenge rift demon hunter.
There was a problem creating a game. the game servers for yout game mode ….. code 317002. I can enter the game and do lever, rifts, all, but challenge rifts I can t . Help?
Nothing really but wait until it gets fixed sadly. Of course you can still play, get ready for the remaining requirements for the altar, farm stuff, grind paragon points, level up gems etc.
Pretty standard Marauder set-up, without the right multipliers for the skills used.
For Marauder it’s important to get to 5 Sentries on a map level as fast as possible - since this will give you max damage. At least when switching to a new level have at least one Sentry ready.
Use Cluster Arrow on elites, otherwise the generator should give enough damage.
This set-up is pretty squishy, but you have a lot of time to finish it, so even if you die it shouldn’t be to big of a problem.
Main issue of this build is that it is very hard to get Essence back if you completely deplete it.
Therefore, try to shoot into big groups only (so you have enough corpses afterward that Devour can replenish your Essence back. Try to maximize use of the Pylons you run into.
Mostly important try to keep your Simulacrums ready for the Rift Guardian and at least 2/3 of your Essence so you can burst it down.
EUROPE:
Pretty straightforward Rathma set-up.
Always have Skeletons commanded to a target (that way you will get your set defense up faster and the cooldown of Army of the Dead shortened a lot).
At the start you should use Revive on 10 corpses (that I totally forgot through the whole rift…).
Otherwise try to hunt Elites and/or big groups of mobs, jump into them, press Bone Armor and Army of the Dead.
We have a squishy no-set WW build (kinda only multiplier is WW ring in cube). Even though I died multiple times I made the RG kill on time.
Use generator to get to some Fury to start WW-ing. Activate Battle Rage as soon as you get enough Fury. Use Rend on groups/elites. Overpower you can kinda use freely.
Try to keep Ancients ready for the RG.
EUROPE:
Pretty straightforward Waste set build with the mention that Ambo’s Pride is not in the build - so it is recommended to use Rend manually, at least on Elites/big groups.
On the start of the rift activate War Cry to get initial Fury, so you can activate Blood Rage. You can reuse War Cry through the rift to boost your Fury in case needed.
There is not enough cooldown to have 100% uptime on Band of Might (that you activate with Ground Stomp), but as long as you WW you should be fine in the damage reduction part (set DR and shoulders in cube).
Try to keep Wrath of the Berserker ready for RG, for faster kill.
