Titan Rake and Shield Wall Bleed Build
- Class: Warrior
- Ascendancy: Titan
- Build by LexD
- Patch 0.5.5
LexD's Titan fights with a spear and a shield and kills through physical bleeding and poison. Rake does the clearing: every enemy it strikes starts to bleed, and the deaths set off Herald of Blood chains through the pack. For bosses the build pairs Shield Wall with Fortifying Cry to leave very large bleeds. LexD started it as an experiment near the end of patch 0.5, partly to practise for a sword-and-board character in 1.0, and the creator rates it as one of their best builds.
The defence is armour and life stacking. The Brass Dome and the Titan ascendancy push armour high, and gear rolls that let armour apply to elemental damage extend that protection to elemental hits. On damage, LexD reports pinnacle bosses going down in one or two shots. The Herald clear is slow in the early acts and picks up from roughly Act 3, once its support gems are in place.
This guide follows the seven stages LexD publishes: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, Act 4, Interludes, Early Maps and Endgame. The build is tagged as a league starter, and by LexD's account it starts to work once you own a shield with high armour and a reasonable spear. The creator's 0.5.5 video on the build is below. A possible ignite and bleed version on Avatar of Fire with Saitha's Spear, prompted by changes to Blistering Bond, also gets a mention; that version is not one of these stages.
