LoN Bombardment Crusader Guide

1. Do the Challenge Rift for the materials to cube Legendary Powers. You can complete this once a week for additional resources and we always update the guide for you!

2. This is a Legacy of Nightmares/Legacy of Dreams build and in the latter case its success is heavily dependent on this gem's rank. The first order of business is to equip a(n ancient) Legendary or Set item in every slot to take advantage of its power. Make sure to not have any Set Bonuses equipped or the rings/gem will be nullified and you will deal no damage! Farm speed Greater Rifts (in under 5 minute clears) to find the items and level your gems as high as possible.

3. Gamble from Kadala in this order:

1. Belt of the Trove and Goldwrap
2. Aquila Cuirass
3. Akarat's Awakening
4. Nemesis Bracers and Strongarm Bracers
5. Stone Gauntlets
6. Ice Climbers
7. Leoric's Crown
8. Blackthorne's Jousting Mail
9. Any Shoulder

4. Craft using Recipe 3 in Kanai's Cube in this order:

1. 2-Handed Flails to get The Mortal Drama
2. 2-Handed Axes to get Messerschmidt's Reaver
3. Rings to get Convention of Elements, Stone of Jordan, Unity, Justice Lantern, and The Wailing Host/Litany of the Undaunted.
4. Anything from the Gamble list in Step 3 that you haven't already acquired.

5. Do Bounties to acquire several important items for this build:

• Act 2: Illusory Boots and Gloves of Worship (for your follower)
• Act 3: Avarice Band
• Act 4: Can drop any bounty item from any act
• Bounty Turn In: Recipes for Cain's Destiny and Sage's Journey (for your follower)

6. At this point you can somewhat comfortably farm Nephalem Rifts or low GRs where you can find all the remaining items you need for different variants of the build. It's better to spend your mats improving your set pieces, getting ancient pieces etc. Finally you can spice up your season by doing some Ubers to craft Hellfire Amulet (recipe can be bought from Squirt the Peddler in Act 2).

7. Use Primordial Ashes in Kanai's Cube with the new Curiosity of Lorath Nahr recipe to obtain a free Crafted Primal Ancient. Since you can only equip one of them, choosing the right item to focus matters! Great candidates are Weapons, Offhands, Jewelry or any item with an important multiplier. With that in mind, we recommend getting one of the following items:

• Belt of The Trove
• Akarat's Awakening

• Boyarsky's Chip is our most powerful damage gem. It provides more than half of our total Thorns, effectively being an over 100% damage increase.
• Bane of the Trapped adds an extra 60% multiplicative damage. This is a melee build, so nothing special needs to be done in order to activate the damage bonus.
• Other gems vary depending on what you do: Bane of the Stricken to kill the boss in high GRs, Boon of the Hoarder for gold in T16, Legacy of Dreams in Speed GRs to equip extra rings.

• Bombardment Barrels of Spikes is the main source of damage. Belt of the Trove uses the equipped rune, so we must have this on the skillbar even in T16 build.
• Punish Celerity is used to proc Life per Hit and stack Bane of the Stricken. It also provides 15% Block Chance and Attack Speed.
• Akarat's Champion Prophet is a staple in every single crusader build. One skill providing 35% damage, more than double toughness, Crowd Control Imunity, Wrath regeneration and full heal on "death" is just too good to pass up.
• Iron Skin Reflective Skin increases Thorns by 300%.
• Condemn Vacuum lets us pull enemies together and destroy them with Area Damage.
• Finally the last skill slot is usually occupied by a law: Laws of Justice Decaying Strength, Laws of Hope Wings of Angels or Laws of Valor Unstoppable Force.

• Fervor provides 15% Cooldown Reduction and Attack Speed.
• Iron Maiden increases Thorns, and therefore damage, by 50%.
• Finery is the strongest generic Crusader passive providing for 15% damage and 12% toughness.
• Hold Your Ground gives 30% block chance for more Cooldown Reduction via Akarat's Awakening.
• Lord Commander massively reduces cooldown of Bombardment letting you use it on every cycle.
• Long Arm of the Law is used in T16 and GR Speeds for movement speed.

¹ Add a bit of Vitality if you feel too squishy (a total of 800,000 Life is recommended).

Patch 2.7.0 revamped the follower system giving all 3 hirelings new powers and the emanate system. The first thing you should do is read our complete follower guide and remember the key takeaways:

1. The emanation system allows followers to share certain legendary and set powers with you. The most important ones are: The Flavor of Time, Nemesis Bracers, Avarice Band, Sage’s Journey and Cain’s Destiny. Click the guide above for the full list.
2. Follower’s powers are based on their main stat (maxed at 25.000, but they have a 2.5x multiplier so you only need 10.000). This means we stack Intelligence on the Enchantress, Dexterity on the Scoundrel and Strength on the Templar.
3. Guardian's Jeopardy (3) Bonus works for followers by improving their inherent stat multiplier from x2.5 to x3.5, making it slightly easier to hit the 25,000 main stat threshold if needed.
4. Followers share 20% of their Experience, Magic and Gold Find stats with you.
5. Legendary gems do not work on followers, except Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard.
6. Cooldown Reduction does not work for any follower skill except the Templar’s Heal.
7. Followers never deal significant damage; you’re on your own to clear the content.

Select Follower

Bombardment is the main damage skill. In high GRs you cast it every 16s, for every Physical cycle of Convention of Elements. In speeds you just spam it as much as you can.

Use Punish whenever possible to get some healing and to keep up the Attack Speed and Block Chance buffs.

Akarat's Champion should be used every 20s. Without Akarat's Champion you will get slowed by Stone Gauntlets!

Iron Skin should be used before every Bombardment cast to buff its damage.

Condemn Vacuum is used all the time to group up mobs and before/during Physical to apply Strongarm Bracers debuff.

For Hardcore, your last passive must be Indestructible. You can make this build extremely tanky by playing the Legacy of Dreams version and using either Unity or Justice Lantern (or even both). Check out our dedicated Hardcore Survival Guide to learn more about how to succeed in this game mode!

• All damage done by Thorns is Physical.
• Thorns Damage cannot critically strike (except with Envious Blade).
• Iron Maiden passive provides a separate 1.5 multiplier to your total Thorns.
• Read the full guide on Thorns Mechanics here.

• Only pulls in enemies that are at least 15 yards away.
• Pulls in every 0.5s for 6 pulls over 3 seconds in total.
• Maximum pull range is increased by 2.5 yards with every pull, up to 30 yards.
• Each pull can suck in a maximum of 10 enemies.
• Enemies caught within the same pull ignore unit collision, however, they still need a space to be pulled into.

• Drops 5 barrels over 2 seconds.
• The Mortal Drama doubles both the number of barrels and the skill's duration.
• The first barrel drops 1 seconds after the skill is activated.
• When used manually, there's also an animation delay between starting the attack and skill actually activating.
• The first barrel drops at the cast location, the rest drop on nearby enemies.
• Each barrel deals 200% Thorns + 570% Weapon damage.
• Your Thorns are snapshot at the time of cast.
• Cannot crit, including the weapon damage part.
• Can proc Area Damage.
• Only procs Life per Hit once per cast.

• Bombardment cast by the item uses the equipped rune.
• Can proc Area Damage and stack Bane of the Stricken.
• Cannot proc Life per Hit.
• Casts Bombardment only when there are enemies nearby.
• Item's cooldown is reset upon drinking a Health Potion or switching area.