The Revenant

Equipment Overview

The Shield Reaper is built around maximizing shield toss damage and layering as much necrotic scaling as possible. The core weapon synergy starts with Dark Shard, which boosts necrotic damage by a flat 15%, amplifying the build’s already heavy necrotic lean. Paired with the Fade-Touched War Axe, you get a reliable secondary slot that keeps damage output steady when weaving in charge attacks, though its main value is simply padding out the raw numbers while the shield does the real work. The centerpiece is of course the shield, and here Skirmisher’s Round fits perfectly — the added weak point and ranged damage directly boost every toss, and the bonus bounce damage stacks beautifully with Perfect Throw, ensuring each ricochet hits harder. For certain encounters, like against Antom, the Necropolis Defender shield can be swapped in since it layers on more necrotic scaling and applies necrosis on the first hit of a charged toss, but Skirmisher’s Round is generally the stronger default. Together, these weapons are less about versatility and more about reinforcing the single theme: every throw becomes devastating, chaining crits and necrotic ticks across the entire fight.

On the armor side, the entire build revolves around amplifying ability uptime and feeding into shield toss spam. The Field Commander Helm is the most broken piece here, scaling damage by 1% per two rage and pushing this build into absurd territory once you’re sitting at over 300 rage. Combined with Vivify as a rune, it lets you frontload six boosted casts in a row, essentially doubling your opener’s burst. For the chest slot, Veil Jumper’s Leathers slot in perfectly since this is a ranged warrior build — the bonus to ranged and charged shield toss damage, plus added defense while charging, makes surviving in the thick of combat effortless. Hall’s Grace ties everything together by drastically lowering cooldowns while Quickened is active, turning abilities that would normally feel sluggish into near-constant tools for chaining momentum. The accessory suite continues the necrotic theme: Graven Opal and Precious Decay both stack damage multipliers on weak points and necrotic abilities, while the Twin Buckle Binding belt shores up survivability by healing you on Quickened procs. Finally, runes like Vivify, Toss, and Scourge reinforce the loop — Vivify resets abilities after a dump, Toss adds one more bounce to every shield, and Scourge tacks on yet another necrotic boost. When all of these pieces come together, your shields aren’t just ricocheting; they’re detonating entire encounters in a blur of crits, necrosis, and rage-fueled multipliers.