Aegis of Valor Fist of the Heavens — Crusader

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Aegis of Valor Fist of the Heavens for the Crusader: tier B, Season 39, with gear, cube powers, gems and 3 variants.

At a glance

Class: Crusader
Tier: B
Season: S39
Main skill: Fist of the Heavens
Items: 13
Cube powers: 4
Updated: 25.08.2026

Equipment

Helm Crown of Valor
Shoulders Aughild's Power
Amulet Squirt's Necklace
Chest Brigandine of Valor
Gloves Gauntlets of Valor
Bracers Aughild's Search
Belt Vigilante Belt
Pants Chausses of Valor
Boots Greaves of Valor
Ring 1 Focus
Ring 2 Restraint
Main Hand Flail of the Charge
Off Hand Shield of the Steed

Active Skills

Fist of the Heavens Fissure

Justice Burst

Iron Skin Steel Skin

Steed Charge Nightmare

Laws of Hope Wings of Angels

Akarat's Champion Prophet

Passive Skills

Heavenly Strength

Lord Commander

Finery

Indestructible

Kanai's Cube

Weapon Darklight

Armor Khassett's Cord of Righteousness

Jewelry Ring of Royal Grandeur

4th slot (Season 39) Convention of Elements

Stat Priority

Strength
Critical Hit Chance
Cooldown Reduction
Physical Resistance
Pickup Radius
All Resistance

Legendary Gems

Zei's Stone of Vengeance Rank 150

Bane of the Stricken Rank 150

Bane of the Trapped Rank 150

Regular Gems

Helm Diamond

Armor Diamond

Weapon Emerald

Crown of Valor

Helm

✦ Strength

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Fist of the Heavens Damage

✦ Physical Resistance

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Socket

✦ Strength

✦ All Resistance

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Healing Bonus

✦ Area Damage

Brigandine of Valor

Chest Armor

✦ Strength

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Ranged Damage Reduction

✦ Melee Damage Reduction

✦ Socket

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Physical Resistance

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Area Damage

✦ Thorns

✦ Strength

✦ Vitality

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Strength

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Life per Hit

Chausses of Valor

Pants

✦ Strength

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Life per Hit

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Socket

✦ Strength

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Fist of the Heavens Damage

✦ Pickup Radius

✦ Healing Bonus

Squirt's Necklace

Amulet

✦ Gold Find

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Physical Resistance

✦ Socket

Focus

Ring 1

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Physical Resistance

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Socket

Restraint

Ring 2

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Physical Resistance

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Socket

Flail of the Charge

Main Hand

✦ Physical Damage (Weapon)

✦ Damage %

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Maximum Wrath

✦ Life per Hit

✦ Area Damage

✦ Socket

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Fist of the Heavens Damage

✦ Area Damage

Gameplay

The configuration

This setup is stored as a complete build — gear, skills, runes and all four cube slots work together and are not assembled from individual statistics.

Set: Aegis of Valor
Rating: tier B across all classes
Kanai's Cube: Darklight, Khassett's Cord of Righteousness, Ring of Royal Grandeur, Convention of Elements
Skills: Fist of the Heavens (Fissure), Justice (Burst), Iron Skin (Steel Skin), Steed Charge (Nightmare), Laws of Hope (Wings of Angels), Akarat's Champion (Prophet)
Passives: Heavenly Strength, Lord Commander, Finery, Indestructible
Variants available: Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts, GR push, Speed farming

Use the variant switcher above to move between the versions. What changes between them is spelled out below — read it before you rebuild.

What the set does

This build wears Aegis of Valor. These bonuses apply once the matching number of set pieces is equipped — the damage multiplier hangs on them, not on the individual stats of the pieces:

2 pieces: Attacking with Fists of the Heavens empowers you, allowing Heaven's Fury to deal 125% increased damage for 5 seconds. Stacks up to 3 times.
4 pieces: Hitting with Fist of the Heavens returns 5 Wrath and reduces damage taken by 1% for 10 seconds. Stacks up to 50 times.
6 pieces: Increase the damage of Fist of the Heavens and Heaven's Fury by 20,000%.

How the variants differ

Measured against the push version. Anything not listed here stays the same:

Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts: swaps in skills Provoke (Flee Fool), Fist of the Heavens (Reverberation), Iron Skin (Flash); cube Vigilante Belt, Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac, Echoing Fury; gems Boon of the Hoarder, Gogok of Swiftness.
Speed farming: swaps in skills Justice (Hammer of Pursuit); cube Echoing Fury; gems Gogok of Swiftness, Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard.

Sockets and gems

The 3 legendary gems (Zei's Stone of Vengeance, Bane of the Stricken, Bane of the Trapped) belong in the jewellery slots — that is the only place their rank counts, and the only place they keep growing when you upgrade after a Greater Rift.

The remaining 7 sockets are filled with Diamond: the multiplier already comes from the set and the legendary powers, so one more base stat does more there than another effect would.

On the season theme

Shades of the Nephalem spawns a shadow clone of your class at every shrine and pylon that fights along for one minute. Activate shrines inside the pull, not on the way there. The fourth cube slot is already filled in every variant above.