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Akarat's Awakening

Akarat's Awakening

Legendary Crusader Shield

  • Legendary
  • Level 70

Properties

1,980–2,277 Armor

Primary Attributes

  • +11% Chance to Block

Secondary Attributes

  • Every successful block has a 20–25% chance to reduce all cooldowns by 1 second. (Crusader Only)

Random Affixes

  • +626–750 Strength
  • +626–750 Dexterity
  • +626–750 Intelligence

Ancient & primal values

Ancient

  • +825–1,000 Strength

Primal

  • +1,000 Strength

Fixed properties of the ancient form; primal items roll the top value of the ancient range. Game files, version 2.8.0.

All possible random properties (33 primary, 24 secondary)

Besides its fixed properties, this item rolls 2 primary and 1 secondary properties at random from these lists.

Primary

  • Critical Hit Chance Increased by 8–10%
  • Reduces cooldown of all skills by 5–8%.
  • Reduces all resource costs by 5–8%.
  • +10–15% Life ancient +14–18%
  • Regenerates 4,643–5,528 Life per Second ancient 6,080–7,185
  • Increases Wrath Regeneration by 1.85–2 per Second (Crusader)
  • Gain 1,077–1,276 Life per Wrath Spent ancient 1,408–1,660 (Crusader)
  • Chance to Deal 10–20% Area Damage on Hit.
  • +91–100 Resistance to All Elements ancient +110–130
  • +626–750 Strength ancient +825–1,000
  • +626–750 Dexterity ancient +825–1,000
  • +626–750 Intelligence ancient +825–1,000
  • +626–750 Vitality ancient +825–1,000
  • +11% Chance to Block
  • +559–595 Armor ancient +654–775
  • Increases damage against elites by 5–8%
  • Reduces damage from elites by 10–11%
  • 34–39% chance to inflict Bleed for 300–400% weapon damage over 5 seconds.
  • Sockets (1–1)
  • Crusader +10–15% damage: Punish, Slash, Justice, Smite, Shield Bash, Fist of the Heavens, Sweep Attack, Blessed Shield, Blessed Hammer, Phalanx, Condemn, Bombardment, Falling Sword, Heaven's Fury

Secondary

  • +32–35% Extra Gold from Monsters
  • Monster kills grant +140–200 experience. ancient +220–260
  • Reduces duration of control impairing effects by 20–40%
  • Health Globes and Potions Grant +20,001–29,713 Life. ancient +32,684–38,625
  • +8–10 Maximum Wrath (Crusader)
  • +141–160 Physical Resistance ancient +176–210
  • +141–160 Fire Resistance ancient +176–210
  • +141–160 Cold Resistance ancient +176–210
  • +141–160 Lightning Resistance ancient +176–210
  • +141–160 Poison Resistance ancient +176–210
  • +141–160 Arcane Resistance ancient +176–210
  • +5,334–7,696 Thorns Damage ancient +7,697–9,500
  • Level Requirement Reduced by 2–30 ancient 30–40
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Fear on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Stun on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Blind on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Freeze on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Chill on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Slow on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Immobilize on Hit
  • 1–2.6% Chance to Knockback on Hit
  • Reduces damage from ranged attacks by 6–7%.
  • Reduces damage from melee attacks by 6–7%
  • Ignores Durability Loss

Pool of the item type from the game files, version 2.8.0. Skill damage bonuses only carry weight for their class. All properties of this slot

"And Yaerius appeared unto Akarat and showed him the Light that illuminates all souls with its blessed power. So long as we trust in this sacred force, we shall have strength everlasting and falter not in our trials." —Excerpt from a mystic’s account of the life of Akarat

Akarat's Awakening

Akarat's Awakening turns blocking into cooldown reduction: every successfully blocked hit has a chance to shorten all of your cooldowns. For Crusaders this is powerful, since they already lean on high block chance and defensive cooldowns like Akarat's Champion, Bombardment, or protective skills. By intercepting many hits, you keep your key abilities active almost permanently.

The effect clearly scales with block chance and hit frequency, meaning dense packs. That makes the shield ideal for tanky builds standing in the thick of battle. You can wear the shield or extract the power into the weapon slot of Kanai's Cube (off-hand powers count as weapons there); combine it with additional block sources to trigger the cooldown reduction reliably.

What a Single Block Is Worth

Every successful block has a 20–25% chance to reduce all cooldowns by 1 second. Two levers decide how often that happens: how often you get hit and how many of those hits you block. The shield itself brings a fixed +11% Chance to Block. A high roll on the power pays off, and a Primal Ancient gives the full 25%.

Because one trigger hits every cooldown at once, the value grows with each cooldown skill on your bar. A bar with several of them gets more out of every hit than one that relies on a single cooldown.

The Right Stats on the Shield

Next to the fixed block value, the shield rolls +626–750 Strength, Dexterity or Intelligence - as a Crusader you take Strength. For the other slots, Cooldown Reduction, Area Damage, Bombardment damage and Thorns fit well. The shield is often combined with Burden of the Invoker, the Aquila Cuirass, Convention of Elements, Belt of the Trove, Greaves of Valor and Stone Gauntlets.

The Light of Yaerius

The flavor text is taken from a mystic's account of Akarat's life: Yaerius appeared to Akarat and showed him the Light that illuminates all souls. Those who trust in it are promised lasting strength through every trial - a fitting motif for a shield that draws new power from every blow it stops.

by eRnstl