The Diablo’s Immortal Crusader brings to the distribution of playable classes the experience closest to what one can think of as a Templar.
This class is easy to master and has an incredible kit to allow you to take on many enemies at once and protect your allies in any hellish corridors you might encounter. Call on your sacred powers to protect everyone or to lessen the evil you face.
To work your way through Diablo Immortal content with this class, you need to learn how to prepare your crusader – with this page explaining best skills, gear, gemsand how to use your Paragon Points be the greatest crusader you can be.
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If you’re interested in other Diablo Immortal classes, we also have a deep dive into the Necromancer.
How to Play as a Crusader in Diablo Immortal
As a mighty warrior wielding a giant shield and using holy spells to injure and protect themselves, the Crusader is an amazing class, even for beginners. It is inherently a tank class, designed to deal with large groups of enemies while having excellent survival tools.
In combat, the Crusader has the ability to do a massive amount of damage, but the class isn’t meant to be the highest DPS (damage per second) in a group for example. So it’s important to keep in mind that when playing solo, you’re not going to pop enemies.
At the same time, you are very unlikely to die easily even when facing waves of enemies simultaneously.
While Diablo Immortal’s Crusader doesn’t excel in damage, it will shine by grouping a lot of enemies together for you or your party to combine, clearing locations quite easily.
And all of this is accomplished by following simple skill rotations whose purpose is to mitigate damage. One of your main tools is to keep attacking, as the crusader’s best basic attack will increase the chances of blocking attacks when you use it.
On top of that, the Crusader’s Kit gives players incredible skills in crowd control, area of effect damage, and movement.
If you plan to browse Diablo Immortal content in a group, the Crusader will also be a great option.
It brings a lot of utility to party members, stacking enemies so that a wizard or demon hunter can combine with any of their powerful attacks.
Crusader has buffs and shields that are worth having in the party when facing danger.
Best Diablo Immortal Crusader Skills
The skill set listed aims to provide the ability to deal damage while controlling groups of enemies so you can damage them all at once.
This is a build designed with the thought that you could cope with most of the content the single player game offers, so keeping you alive until the end of a dungeon is our top priority.
- Punish (Unlocked at level 1): This will be your choice for the main attack as a Crusader. This is a single target attack that makes up for its lack of area damage by giving you a buff that increases the chance of blocking enemy attacks. This main attack gives you access to the ultimate counter attack which improves punishment by increasing damage and area of effect in addition to giving you a shield based on a percentage of your maximum life.
- Draw and quarter (unlocked at level 15): In order to structure this build around grouping enemies, Draw and Quarter is key for this. Using it, your character will ride a warhorse, receive more movement speed, change your base attack form, and you will also train enemies with holy chains. Use this skill to aggro enemies and lead them to where you will use Consecration.
- Consecration (unlocked at level 20): Once you’ve assaulted the enemies, it’s time to use Consecration while you’re using your basic attack. This is an area of effect skill that damages all enemies within range for six seconds.
- Spinning Shield (Unlocked at level 1): This is the most traditional skill for any class with a shield. By activating it, your character will see the shield dealing damage to enemies hit by it and they will also be pulled in your direction when the shield returns. A good damage dealer while also helping to group enemies together.
- Falling Sword (unlocked at level 8): Using The Falling Sword causes your character to throw a holy energy sword at a location dealing damage to all enemies in the area. Activate it again to jump to the location of the sword. The Falling Sword skill is a great opener and deals area damage, but it can also give you more mobility as well as an evasion option for more daring situations.
Diablo Immortal Crusader best gear
The following equipment listed here has been chosen to improve the skills we have chosen.
However, since Crusader’s role can vary depending on the situation, you may need to consider new pieces of gear to synergize with skills more focused on the contexts you are in a party for example .
It’s also important to keep in mind that Strength and Courage are the most important attributes for a Crusader, so even if you haven’t found the specific pieces we mention here, you should focus on the use of equipment that has both of these attributes.
- Uproar (main hand) – A good option to increase the damage done by Falling Sword, but you lose the possibility of activating it a second time to move your character.
- Sinkhole Cross (secondary hand) – This first option is in case you are looking for more crowd control as it modifies the Spinning Shield skill which will now hover in an area, damaging enemies and slowing them down.
- Gimcrack Buckler (secondary hand) – If you think your build has enough CC and want to focus more on damage, this will make every block of Punish’s passive ability cause an explosion dealing damage to nearby enemies.
- Many-Eyed Aegis (Head) – This helmet modifies the Consecration skill, causing it to move with you. For any player who usually places their AoE attack in the wrong spot, this gear will prevent that from happening.
- Sivket Advantage (Shoulder) – It increases the duration of the Draw and Quarter skill.
- Bladed leg (legs) – Using this piece of gear will alter Draw and Quarter, causing your horse to do more damage, but at the sacrifice of your ability to drag enemies with Holy Chains.
- Besieger (chest) – Added another modification for the Draw and Quarter skill, this chest gear will cause a bombardment to occur from time to time.
For secondary items (hands, feet, waist, neck, and two fingers), you should look for the Windloft Perfection set. These items will not only increase your damage, but also give you a shield to mitigate damage.
Diablo Immortal Crusader’s Best Gems
Gems are a fundamental aspect of building, but some of them are not easy to obtain.
- Eternal Torment – When you land a critical hit, the enemy is inflicted with agony doing damage over time.
- Blood Soaked Jade – This gem is simple yet powerful and increases all your damage and movement speed.
- Seeping bile – With this gem you have the ability to poison enemies that will spread among other enemies if the victim dies. Great ability to face a group of enemies with Consecration.
- fervent fang – Increases damage dealt to an enemy each time they are hit by up to 10 stacks.
- Blessing of the Worthy – With this gem, you will have a chance to damage enemies every time they hit you.
- Chained death – This gem increases your damage based on the target hit, which goes quite well with the Crusader’s AoE skills.
Diablo Immortal is here! If you’re just getting started, you’ll want to know the best class for beginners – including Necromancer and Crusader – and the current Battle Pass rewards. Our Legendary Gems and Charms guides can help you achieve the strongest build, and we also have handy maps for each Hidden Lair location, and a nine light lamp puzzle solution.
Where to Focus Crusader Paragon Points in Diablo Immortal
In Diablo Immortal, Paragon is a system unlocked once you reach level 60 with your character. Every time you level up after this point, you will get a Paragon point.
Although this system will increase important attributes, the first levels are quite basic for each class since the idea is to facilitate progression.
So focus on initially placing your points in the Vanquisher tree until you get Paragon level 50. Then you can start progressing through the Treasure Hunter tree.
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