This gives a large chunk of thorns at the cost of a passive slot.

Also another slice of bread and stick of butter for a Crusader thorns build.

The rest of the Active skills depends heavily on your gear and build.

It is not really thorns damage, but would still make them take damage for hitting you.

On block this would give you a little extra 'thorns' damage.

This would just need to be paired with some decent cooldown reduction.

This has good synergy with Laws of Valor - Critical and Iron Skin - Reflective Skin.

So you are going to need to mitigate a lot of that damage. You are going to be getting hit a lot and you want to be.

This would help out with survivability.

Just need to time your cooldowns correctly. The Critical rune on this Law would also go really well with Iron Skin - Reflective Skin. Helping out with Hack and Akarat's Champion - Rally.

This would help you deal more damage faster.

This would also go well with a cooldown reduction build. Thorns becomes worthless if you are not getting hit. Helping you keep creatures attacking you instead of your friends. Provoke can also help you out tremendously in multiplayer games.

This shield Vo'Toyias Spiker was made for this skill.

Allowing you to keep things like Iron Skin - Reflective Skin activated more often.

This has great synergy with a cooldown reduction build.

And i believe you will have the most success with Cooldown reduction builds.

Cooldown reduction has great synergy with this ability.

This is the bread and butter for almost all thorns builds for the Crusader.

If you block an attack you are still getting hit and it will still activate thorns. Because it works decently in multiplayer games, allowing you to hold agro a higher percentage of the time with Provoke.ĭO NOT pick any skills or runes that prevent you from getting hit. My favorite is probably a cooldown reduction thorns build. I will only point out certain skills and runes that are focused strictly on thorns and skills/runes that have good synergy with thorn gear and thorn skills/runes.

With the Crusader you have a few ways you can achieve a decent thorns build. Therefor, you could have 6975 from your weapon. If you are wearing a Neanderthal or Nailbiter, those can come with an extra 2000 thorns.1 socket in weapon with a Flawless Royal Topaz.

Max amount of thorns with the following assumptions:

Thorns crusader build guide diablo 3