Today I decided to try out something close to a Paladin build going for sacred dmg with the hammer and shield setup with good defensive capabilites as well. Since I use a hammer + shield I am kind of limited in terms of skills but bleeding edge & anvil´s woe seems like a pretty decent combo but since I need to be in melee range and charge anvil´s it´s mandatory to go almost full tank to avoid oneshots on highest levels.

I also wanted to avoid any special uniques with this build making it more accessible for most people though I wouldn´t excactly call it easy to gear for. The reason for that is that you want to reach at least 1 of 2 hardcaps one being 100% block chance and the other 80% block effeciency with block chance being your main priority as you want to absord all incoming dmg. In most cases you can fairly easy get that but you might struggle to get block effeciency to 80% which is of course nice as you then take less dmg but outside of lvl 187+ maps it´s much easier to do well with less though. If your block effeciency is lower or much lower than the 80% hard cap then I would recommend putting 50% of your attribute points into toughness for that extra HP and 50% into ferocity to get your crit chance up for more dps overall. You might have to put even more points into toughness if you struggle to survive though due to having rather low block effeciency but you might have to experiment a bit yourself to adjust to your needs. In this video since I am almost at the 80% block effeciency hardcap I chose to put all attribute points into ferocity for that extra dps and crits.

To help further with the dmg reduction I picked the node Branded Burst that let you get up to 5 points, each reducing dmg taken by 20% but also reduces 1 point when hit. Another good node to get is Virtuose Stance that give you 20% block chance and 10% block effeciency. I also picked Kingless Aegis node providing me another 10% block effeciency on the cost of 15% dmg which might not be a good tradeoff but I decided it was better to stay alive than to clear a bit faster.
Another important thing is to get some life leech to regen your health if you can cause potions alone probably won´t be sufficient enough, You could also make a small variation to the build and remove the node The Heat of Battle and get the node Feast for the Crows instead giving you 0.5% global life leech.

Other than that I mainly focused on nodes that buffs dmg, rage generation & cooldown etc.

Link to build: [ Ссылка ]

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