How I play my soldier / Vollen (1.08) ....

So let’s see … this is how I play my soldier at the moment. Essentially it is the typical „shotgun build“ - loads of guides floating around - with some changes due to my personal preferences. I don't claim that this is the perfect setup but it is how I like the gameplay!

If you are looking for people for coop play or trading join us at Chaosbane Pals. Everyone is welcome!

Equipment

• Armor: Skaven Set
  
• Weapon: Grudge Settler Sword
  
• Shield: Pavise of Anger
  No other good green shield drop sofar. Meteoric Shield wanted!
  
• Ring 1: Old Ring of Resonance*
  from Invasion / AOE stun & little damage
  
• Ring 2: Signet Ring of Fortification
  
• Amulet: Thrice-blessed Copper Medal
  Would like to swap for Medal of Destiny if I'd finally find a nice one.

*If you don't have one available choose the ring that compensates for what your character lacks, like e.g. more healing.

I like to stack crit chance, cooldown reduction and block chance = more damage & crit chance.

Skills

Active

• Pistolier Heroic
  
• Shielded Charge
  triggers slow for the set damage bonus & stun from resonance ring
  
• Sigmar’s Bastion Mastered
  
• Taunt Mastered
  triggers taunt for the sword damage bonus & stun from rsonance ring
  
• Banner of the Empire
  
• Sigmar’s Blessing

Passive

• Devine Judgement
  
• Bastion against Corruption Mastered
  
• Indestructable Mastered
  
• Wisdom of the Apothecary Heroic*
  
• Duelist’s Chain Reaction
  
• Blessing oft he Brave Mastered

*Only available due to some "good“ bug. The Medic’s Pavise is equiped on "skill set II“, but still all effects are available while using I. Without this it was Master Blacksmiths.

Usual skill rotation is

• Sigmar’s Bastion
  
• Sigmar’s Blessing
  
• Shielded Charge
  
• Banner of the Empire
  
• Taunt
  
• Pistolier
  if SC still on cooldown
  
• Shielded Charge
  again to trigger more +CD from Skills
  
• spam Pistolier ...

If the enemy is not down directly, I do a refresh of the buffs like Bastion, Taunt, Charge etc. inbetween spamming Pistolier as needed.

God Trees

Summary

Works well on C5 for me.

Yields

• 999% CD*
  
• 80% CC*
  
• crits maxing @ 40-50M in solo play without any group buffs
  
• some nice amount of damage reduction
  
• the possibility to stun enemies with each cooldown skill use

*permanently depending on your CDR

Main healing source is through the god skills due to the amulet.

For all group members it offers

• crit chance
  
• damage
  
• imunity to control effects
  
• damage reduction
  
• healing

While Sigmar's Bastion is active, the function changes to a "mighty shield smash". This then triggers the amulet's healing skill. In the end you can perma heal spam without any cooldown if you manage to keep Sigmar's Bastion up. Just in case of emergency.
(In case I'd finally get Medal of Destiny the perma heal is not true anymore, but still it is not needed that badly due to the high damage reduction of the character - usual potion is enough to survive - within banner effect 6 secs only.)

Unbuffed vs Buffed (solo)

Maybe we see you at ...

Chaosbane Pals

for some trading or coop play. Small group but nice people / THX to Gnk*!

EDIT: At least the build was able to finish Invasion Rank 10. So it cannot be that bad! :D

[Kanonen-Gerda]

Hehe .. did not play for a long time. But nice to hear that the old build still works in the recent release. :D

[[FBU]KSagnac]

Thx for the build ! I'm block to 230k dmg and 1M def, i will test with your shield and sword