Crusader inscribes its runes onto steel: it's the most weapon-forward branch of the Templar, trading faster strikes for heavier, rune-empowered hits laced with Holy after-shocks and a measured self-heal. A steady, durable melee built around a builder chain that banks Oaths before dumping them into a devastating finisher.
Has a 20% chance to trigger on your direct damage, dealing additional Holyflame damage scaling off your spell power and attack power.
The closest retail cousin is Retribution Paladin: the builder → Oath → Oath Chain finisher loop is a near 1:1 analog of Holy Power builders feeding Holy Power spenders, right down to the shared 2H-weapon gate on its best finishers and the Holy/Physical damage split. Its Argent Blade and Titanfall self-heals play the role of Word of Glory — burst mitigation folded into its damage rather than a real healing kit. The real departure: Crusader also carries pure utility tools (Interdict's silence, Crusader's Brand, Divine Charge's group speed leap) that read more like bolted-on PvP kit than anything in Retribution's actual retail toolkit.
How is this number calculated?
World bosses only (Conquest of Azeroth has no instanced raid yet) — Snowgrave, Setis, Lord Kazzak, Azuregos, The Will of Soggoth, Kaldros Depthbreaker.
These numbers come from Ascension Logs’ public combat logs, not an in-house guess.
The index compares each spec to the median player — the one sitting exactly in the middle of the ranking — on the same boss and the same group format: 1.00 matches that median player, 1.40 means 40% more damage than them. Only each player’s best fight counts, never their average — otherwise a player posting fifty fights would count as much as fifty different players, and averaging would mostly reward beginners still learning the spec rather than those who’ve mastered it. The comparison always happens on the same boss and the same format: a two-minute fight and a seven-minute one aren’t comparable, and a flex raid doesn’t give the same support as a 25-man.
Tiers (S, A, B…) aren’t picked by hand: the cutoffs are calculated from the real spread of every measured spec. A spec under 15 distinct players or 30 fights isn't ranked at all, rather than given a made-up grade.
How is this number calculated?
Mythic dungeons only — Ascension CoA has no Mythic+ tier yet (216 tracked encounters).
These numbers come from Ascension Logs’ public combat logs, not an in-house guess.
The index compares each spec to the median player — the one sitting exactly in the middle of the ranking — on the same boss: 1.00 matches that median player, 1.40 means 40% more damage than them. Only each player’s best fight counts, never their average — otherwise a player posting fifty fights would count as much as fifty different players, and averaging would mostly reward beginners still learning the spec rather than those who’ve mastered it. The comparison always happens on the same boss: 92.4% of dungeon fights are played in 5-player groups, and splitting by group size as well would discard more usable damage rows (4.5% lost against 1.4% when comparing by boss alone) for zero additional publishable spec — group size is therefore not part of the comparison.
Tiers (S, A, B…) aren’t picked by hand: the cutoffs are calculated from the real spread of every measured Dungeon spec — this column has its own distribution, it doesn’t reuse Raid’s cutoffs. A spec under 15 distinct players or 30 fights isn't ranked at all, rather than given a made-up grade.
Each performance above links to its own real combat report. Ascension Logs, however, doesn’t offer a rankings page covering every Mythic dungeon — unlike Raid, there’s no « View the source rankings » button here.
On paper the rotation is two steps — bank Oaths, then spend them — but the real difficulty is choosing WHICH finisher to spend on for the situation (AoE, single target, execute) while keeping Scourgebane rolling and Titanfall ready to heal at the right moment.
Argent Blade is both the main finisher and the sustain engine — it heals for the damage it deals and extends the Oath Chain — so Crusader can grind indefinitely with almost no downtime, while Righteous Tempest, Holy Tempest, and capstone Templar Rituals give it real AoE for pulling and clearing packs solo. In groups it's a burst single-target DPS with strong execute scaling from Judgement and a built-in defensive DPS cooldown (Argent Knight's -20% damage taken while Righteous Tempest is active).
- Core loop — chain Energy-costing builder strikes to bank Oaths, then dump the Oath Chain into its devastating finisher.
- Signature — Scourgebane: your direct damage has a 20% chance to trigger it, dealing additional Holyflame damage scaling off spell power and attack power.
- Real gap-closers that open a kill window — Divine Charge tramples enemies while leaping to a priority target, and Righteous Lunge charges straight in.
- Self-sufficient bruiser sustain independent of a healer — Argent Blade heals for the damage dealt and Titanstrike heals for double via Titanfall, folding recovery straight into the rotation.
- Genuine caster shutdown in melee — Interdict silences a target (and locks Undead/Demons out of healing), and Crusader's Brand pins a runner so it can't mount, flee, or speed away.
- Healing is mostly incidental self-heal off its own damage (Argent Blade, Titanstrike), not sustained throughput — it can't function as a group healer, and while Testament of Fortitude and Libram of Tenacity add damage-independent self-heals if you spend picks on them, they're occasional cooldowns rather than a sustain engine — it still wears down once it can't land hits to heal from.
- Full damage potential requires banking Oaths through its builders before a finisher pays off — a peel, an interrupt, or a kite before that threshold neuters its best tools (Titanstrike, Righteous Tempest, Argent Blade) — and its whole finisher kit is gated behind a two-hander.
- Fully melee-range dependent, with only forward gap-closers (Divine Charge, Righteous Lunge) and no blink or escape — a sustained kite or a hard CC chain shuts off both its damage and its damage-fed self-heals at once; no dispel-all, no magic-immunity button.
Very easy to pick up. Builder-spender with few moving parts.
Strong skill expression.
See also: all Ascension builds · the talent tree builder
Talent data: ascension.gg
· Spec tiers & analysis: ascensionsidekick.com
Editorial rewrite, interactive talent tree, tooltips and fact-checking: KAMI LABS
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