Manifest Destiny - Forge Guard Army Build Guide

Very tanky

Decent damage

Monos are quick to traverse with the use of Shield Rush

You and your army stand and deliver

Bosses can feel slow unless you've got your Armor Shred high

While there aren't any uniques, the gearing has some strict requirements

Odd Multistrike/Smite quirk (see gameplay notes)

We are making prolific use of our Multistrike to spam Smite (Hallowed Arsenal 1/1) for healing, boost our armor and to power up our Forge Strike with Armament stacks (Heated Forge 1/1 to generate Summon Forged Weapon.

At the beginning of a mono, or any big battle for that matter, cast Ring Of Shields. Then, Shield Rush to the nearest pack of enemies and immediately spam Multistrike. At four full stacks of Armament cast Forge Strike which will give you upwards of half of your 12 total spawns. Then repeat. The Summon Forged Weapon last for 20 seconds so you only really need to cast Forge Strike about every 15 seconds or so. I tend to do it more because FS has a good stun chance at base.

Once all 12 are on board, let your Manifest Armor and your Summon Forged Weapon go to work, occasionally hitting the A (minion attack) button to shove them toward the bigger enemies. With good shred chance you can watch the hit bar melt.

Rinse. Repeat.

With monos you can even skip big sections of it with your unspecced Shield Rush.

The interaction multistrike has with single target can at first appear odd and some might think it's a bug. It isn't. It was designed this way. We're just using it a bit off-kilter. See this thread on the main LE forum for more info.

My recommendation for levelling would be to just do a typical Sentinel setup until you unlock monos, your idol slots and get your fifth skill.

You could switch out when you get your fourth skill to take Manifest Armor.

Endgame is simple. Push fast to get your 5 buff blessings.

Rush your monos using Shield Rush which you can put on your bar as we don't manually cast Smite.

I took this into the low 300s and it was tanky and did good damage.

Monos will get slower at higher levels especially if you hit ones that have a bazillion ranged characters that like to run away as you'll end up having to chase them a bit. But thankfully with high Armor it's mostly just annoyance.