more crits

Simply put, LD is a very linear destiny that's only ever been popular for it's epic moment. 

Assuming you've already got hasteboost and damage boost, the best things left in LD are the two cleaves, they're easily twisted and outside of blitz there's nothing really left in the tree that's awesome.

Compare a centered divine crusader with 4 twists:
Sense Weakness
Lay waste
Momentum swing
A dance of flowers

With a centered Dreadnought:
Sense weakness
???
???
A dance of flowers

Momentum swing and lay waste are awesome for melee's and outshine most other tier 3/2 twists.

Now that half the power has been taken from blitz and granted to all melee all the time, sticking with the LD tree offers a lot less than it did previously.

Look at the divine crusader abilities:

• Zeal of righteous
• Castigation
• Heavenly presense
• Celestial champion
• The consecration chain

They're all great abilities that made the pre a viable alternate to LD before the shift in power.

FTL wrote on Aug 24^th, 2014 at 5:47pm:


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better than devastating critical imo.

FTL wrote on Aug 24^th, 2014 at 5:47pm:

Stacks with everything including Haste spell or Goatskins etc.

FTL wrote on Aug 24^th, 2014 at 5:47pm:

Probably better off taking another tier 5 anyway. Full BaB isnt good enough on it's own for a tier 5. Unless you went pure or small splashes under 5. Even then can probably get better mileage out of build spreading APs around elsewhere. Scroll Tensers for the BaB or Divine Power spell to save on AP and get a different tier 5.

I run in Divine Crusader most of the time now on my wolf-form 15/3/2 build.  It's just amazing, even without the extra crit threat (because wolf).  Strike Down (the T5 cleave attack) is just disgusting, particularly on a group of helpless opponents (yay Soundburst!), the extra damage, sp and hp are nice, having hp healed every time you kill something is awesome and Zeal of the Righteous combined with Consecration is beyond ridiculous.

If you are a melee with reasonable sp pool, heal amp, devotion and fire spellpower, Divine Crusader is brilliant.  Not a one-trick pony like several other destinies.

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Asheras wrote on Aug 25^th, 2014 at 4:54pm:



Seems to me I have been having issues with these forums since he started spamming!