What to reroll on primal Oathkeeper

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Oof, ok, it’s complicated.

Some of it depends on what gearing option you’re talking about. For instance, right now it looks like you’re pretty light on healing, so getting some LoH on a weapon might be pretty beneficial. But, if you switched over to Vambraces, maybe you wouldn’t need that healing after all.

Right now you’ve got a 9.5 frame frenzy (9 on the AZ, 10 on the OK). If you pick up that IAS on the Primal one, you’ll go down to 9F. You’re very close to the ideal range of CDR, which is between 48 - 50.33% (because this lets you sync up your WOTB cooldown to your CoE cycle, as you probably know). Hmm…

Ok, ultimately I would say that in an ideal situation, you would want your OK to have IAS, AD, CDR.

Assuming good rolls elsewhere, this will let you get down to an 8F Frenzy, which adds at least 12.5% damage over having a 9F Frenzy (plus a bit more, from extra Stricken stacks). If healing is needed, it’s probably easier to pick it up on an Azurewrath, since you have a better chance getting the proper rolls on this weapon because it always rolls cold damage and usually rolls STR.

I put together a D3 planner that has what I think is probably the best overall setup for pushing. Keep in mind that this is still somewhat paragon dependent. For instance, it has no STR on either weapon or on gloves, so at lower paragon this would cost you a lot of damage (and toughness), in which case STR could be superior to AS or AD in some situations. But, once you roll that OK, you’re locked in, so while choosing STR over AD or AS right now might make sense, later on it will be suboptimal.

Oh, and a note on Area Damage: it is good in this build, it’s just that it’s not as important as it is for some other builds, for instance Leapquake, HOTA, or Pro-Slam. That said, you definitely still want it.

I wrote this the other day about AD’s place in this build:

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So, here’s an example: Let’s say you’re fighting 30 mobs, all packed into the 10 yard AD radius (this is near the max for monster density on most mob types). And let’s say 1x Frenzy does 100 damage, so the Bastion’s chain does 1000 damage. That’s 1100 damage total, split up among those 30 mobs.

When you hit Mob 1, he’ll take 100 damage from Frenzy, plus 1000/30 = 33.33 damage from the chain, for 133.33 total. Mobs 2-30 will also take 33.33 damage from the chain.

With good rolls of CHC and CHD, 91.4% of your damage comes from critical hits. So Bloodshed will do 1100 (base dmg) * 0.914 (crit damage share) * 0.75 (Frenzy proc rate) * 0.40 (Bloodshed proc rate, doubled by H90 2 piece) = 301.62 damage to each of those 30 mobs.

And I still think 114% is a good amount of AD to aim for, so, in this case, Mob 1 will deal an average of 133.33 (Frenzy / Chain damage dealt) * 0.2 (AD proc rate) * 1.14 (AD%) = 30.40 damage to Mobs 2-30, while all Mobs, 1-30, will take 33.33 * 0.2 * 1.14 * 28 (# of mobs dealing AD) = 212.78 damage.

So damage dealt to enemies is:

Mob 1: 133.33 from “Frenzy Effects”, 301.62 from Bloodshed, 212.78 from AD.
So that’s 647.73 total, 20.6% from Frenzy, 46.6% from Bloodshed, 32.8% from AD.

Mobs 2 - 30: 33.33 from “Frenzy Effects”, 301.62 from Bloodshed, 243.18 from AD.
So that’s 578.13 total, 5.8% from Frenzy, 52.2% from Bloodshed, 42.0% from AD.

And note that that damage to Mobs 2-30 is really the most important number, since that’s really what’s filling your progression bar during most of a rift.

So: for solo pushing, you really want both Bloodshed and a good amount of AD. There really isn’t a reasonable way to collect a whole bunch of Attack Speed on your gear without surrendering a ton of damage.

Ok, now that I’ve bored you to tears, here’s the d3planner link:
https://ptr.d3planner.com/231602265

Note: this setup only includes 94% AD, and one more AS roll, which is probably a better arrangement than the 114% AD, with one less AS roll, than I figured in the example above.