Opinion on Crest of Perandus Pine Buckler

Depends on build.Daresso's Courage is pretty nice too.

It is the best defensive shield in the game by far. All shield melee should use it. The reduction of damage is better than any high armor or resist shield gives. Its is devastating combine with Tempest Shield and Blind.

Tempest Sheild + Blind + Reduce Mana + Mana Leech
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Tempest Shield and any support gems without mana cost.

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deadlylag wrote:

It is the best defensive shield in the game by far. All shield melee should use it. The reduction of damage is better than any high armor or resist shield gives. Its is devastating combine with Tempest Shield and Blind.

Tempest Sheild + Blind + Reduce Mana + Mana Leech
or
Tempest Shield and any support gems without mana cost.

The bad thing about tempest shiled+blind is it's useless with unwavering stance. With US even blind mobs can still hit you. If you are going with a block build chances are you will have US.

I use it with every single Duelist and Ranger I make, get their awesome block clusters and push it up to 50%. The Life Leech, life regen, and high life bonus makes it extremely good Act 1 and 2. Generally I'm pretty sure it would last you till Act 2 Merciless just from block chance. But never got a character above 60 so I'm not too sure.

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rahven32 wrote:

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deadlylag wrote:

It is the best defensive shield in the game by far. All shield melee should use it. The reduction of damage is better than any high armor or resist shield gives. Its is devastating combine with Tempest Shield and Blind.

Tempest Sheild + Blind + Reduce Mana + Mana Leech
or
Tempest Shield and any support gems without mana cost.

The bad thing about tempest shiled+blind is it's useless with unwavering stance. With US even blind mobs can still hit you. If you are going with a block build chances are you will have US.

Yeah, blind is useless with unwavering stance. With that said, I never use unwavering stance in any of my build. All my build have huge amount of life leech and regeneration that help me migrate stun.

I'm doing a max block build, this is my rare shield.

As you can see, the additional block chance puts it close to Perandus.

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IchiMorghulis wrote:

I'm doing a max block build, this is my rare shield.

As you can see, the additional block chance puts it close to Perandus.

So just for fun lets compare your rare shield to using a perfect Perandus.


Perandus: 2% more Block. 32 more life, 3% life leech

Your shield: about 460 ER .. is it higher % evade than % block late game ?
Total 18% more resistance ... vs 3% life leech / 32 life


I still woould think the unique might b better.... a rare shield IMO beats if contains high chaos resist

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miraclechipmunk wrote:

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IchiMorghulis wrote:

I'm doing a max block build, this is my rare shield.

As you can see, the additional block chance puts it close to Perandus.

So just for fun lets compare your rare shield to using a perfect Perandus.


Perandus: 2% more Block. 32 more life, 3% life leech

Your shield: about 460 ER .. is it higher % evade than % block late game ?
Total 18% more resistance ... vs 3% life leech / 32 life


I still woould think the unique might b better.... a rare shield IMO beats if contains high chaos resist

A good rare with additional block and higher evasion (like 1k or son) with increased defenses from shields nodes (you take those since you take shield nodes) combine into friggin huge bonuses but till you find that good shield this one is really good since you get life leech and lots of hp with nice block chance.

It's pretty good but the low evasion rating just makes it almost unusable at endgame.

The shield has a lot of things going for it. Highest block %, high life and life leech. A high armor shield later on with high HP will be more attractive later on though. Or maybe a kite shield with high resists + HP. Getting a ton of resists on a shield, so you can free up the resist burden from other slots that could potentially get you more useful stats, or lower your overall gear cost for a specific slot is pretty good. Decent shields for melee are relatively cheap also. Lioneye remorse goes for about 3gcp?