Preferred Outcomes
- recover 4%+ life when you block
Crafting Steps
Early league I usually use Rise of the Phoenix or Dawnbreaker. Switch to a Shaper shield when you're ready to go block based (loadout in the POB).
- 1Use
Pristine FossilPristine Fossil5cMore Life modifiers. No Defence modifiers. or Harvest Reforge Life until you get "recover #% of life when you block" (preferrably 4%+).
- 2Harvest swap any ele resistance modifiers into fire resistance, craft maximum life if you can, and use
Exalted OrbExalted Orb2cAdds a new random modifier to a rare item. to fill any remaining open affixes.
If you get lucky you can also hit "socketed gems have 30% increased reservation efficiency", additional physical damage reduction, maximum fire resistance, etc.