I dont understand why the new essences now focus at lightning damage again, the devs just released new horse stuff and i was hopeing that the new essences would bring something that supports this new builds like a heal or more shielding but now we got again total different lightning things. Lightning wasnt working good in the past and i dont think that they will do now, i wished the devs would follow a major plan to make one thing good at sader but mostly essences felt like thrown in without a bigger concept.
I agree, we need shielding and the ability to re-gen shields and life.
The crusader is the only melee class with no mobility, no shields, and no life or shield re-gen.
It’s even worse when you realize that the crusader is the only character in the game that actually carries a shield, yet we have no shields. Explain that one Blizz. I understand we get mobility on the horse but that comes with a 45% damage reduction. Again, explain that one. Our AOE is useless in almost all PVP scenarios. We are trying to fight toons who can go untargetable, disappear, dash, kill us around corners as a ghost, can last stand, and can full re-gen life & shields, while we swing our little sword. The best we can do is walk away slowing with a 20 & 30 second cool down on a shield that requires a skill slot to use. It’s just sad at this point. The class is just garbage in PVP. Much lesser stat toons can kill us with ease and move themselves out of our AOE.
WE NEED SHIELDS AND THE ABILITY TO RE-GEN SHIELDS AND LIFE LIKE EVERY OTHER MELEE CLASS IN THE GAME.
Blizz, why do you hate the crusader so much? Please let the team that works on the barbarian/ddruid work on the crusader. At least they are trying to make the barb fun.
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Reworked Zealflair gives perma regen shield 
(so dev have listened to you).
Shocked ennemies take 50% more lightning damage so we may have quite huge DPS new essences depending on cd and base damage range. These new essences should unlock the potential of old lightning essences/skills.
Let’s see the details and (maybe) hidden description of each essence before judging.
I agree mostly, the only good thing is that we have now this wind horse and can pass the -45% dps reduction but it comes to the high price of feeling like a piece of paper at bg. Mobility and even cc immunity is ok at horse but this survival is just ugly, i even think we are more squishy then dh atm. Sader is in dire need of better shielding or even new heal skills like the druid has and then we must be able to use this skills at one of our two working builds.
We’re getting damage essences, but still no anti-cc (horse won’t do due to the huge damage reduction), no real shield other than a 3sec bubble than can be cc’ed in place and on top of that, most classes have mobility+anti cc and even untargetables which renders most of our skill utterly useless. I tried all of them, I theorycraft also, sader is just the weakest class imo. Until we get survivability (see druid and barbs), we’re just easy prey for other classes. Again, we get cc’ed or juggled to death, and no way to use other skills to get away from that situation like other classes.
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Yep, with the barbar buff we are even falling more behind now, thats why i really was wondering that we get absolute no help on the survival side. We in such a need of healing, shields, better bubble with longer duration and faster cooldown, lifeleach or something else that really works to keep us alive but i feel like i ride a paper horse atm and have nearly no impact at the idol anymore with horse build. Sadly circle isnt much better and a gameplay in slow motion which is hard to get back to after you was trying horse, so far sader still at best a B class hero.
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