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Blessed Shield - Captain America

Season 11
End Game
Verified
M1PY
presentationPaladin
Holy Bolt
Blessed Shield
Fanaticism Aura
Defiance Aura
Holy Light Aura
Falling Star
Speed Farm
Boss Killer
Infernal Hordes
Dungeon Push
By M1PY
Updated on Dec 25, 2025
Dec 25, 2025

Build Overview

The Blessed Shield Paladin Build Guide teaches you about Gear, Skills, Paragon, Playstyle & Seasonal Mechanics in Diablo 4 Season 11.

Captain America is back! Throw Shields at your enemies while zooming through the levels. This build is super easy to pick up and has a clear progression. When you are still starting out, you apply Judgement with Holy Bolt. Judgement is important to fuel your Shield of Justice Blessed Shield. However, once you progress to the Endgame you apply it with Reach of the Law Arbiter of Justice instead, unlocking more powerful synergies.

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If you are not level 60 yet, make sure to check out the Blessed Shield Leveling Guide.

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Shield Throw!
  • Satisfying visuals
  • Great Area Damage
  • Medium Single Target DPS
  • Mediocre Mobility
  • Judgement reliant

Build Variants

You should use this Variant once you have sufficient gear to sustain Words of Sacrifice Rally to reset your Evade through your Boots implicit without a casting animation for maximum Evade Speed.

Assigned Skills

Primary
1
5
Secondary
5
5
1
1
Oaths

In this Variant, your primary form of applying Judgement is through Reach of the Law Arbiter of Justice, spread by Judgement Day. You need to stack a lot of Cooldown Reduction and Arbiter Duration to have permanent up-time on Arbiter of Justice. You glide through all content with Argent Veil and automatically throw Blessed Shield. You reset your Evade by using Words of Sacrifice Rally, as it counts as an attack. This allows you to massively speed up your Evades. However, you need to bring enough healing to properly sustain it. Aspect of the Arbiter's Zephyr is essential for this tech.

The Oath is Judicator

Equipment

HelmHeir of Perdition
Chest armorShroud of False Death
GlovesAspect of Holy Punishment
PantsAspect of the Indomitable
BootsAspect of the Arbiter's Zephyr
AmuletAspect of Celestial Strife
Ring 1Aspect of Proselytizing
Ring 2Argent Veil
WeaponGriswold's Opus
OffhandWard of the White Dove

Ward of the White Dove and Griswold's Opus are not mandatory for the build to function.

Sanctifications to chase:

Offensive Slots (Weapons, Rings, Amulet, Gloves):

  • God-Tier:
    • The Grandfather
  • S-Tier:
    • Other Mythic unique aspects
    • Other relevant damage multiplier aspects
  • A-Tier:
    • +10%[x] Holy Damage
  • B-Tier:
    • Armor increasing Aspects
  • C-Tier:
    • +% Strength
    • + Ranks to Core / All Skills

All other Slots:

  • Best in Slot:
    • +10%[x] Holy Damage
  • Good:
    • +% Strength
    • + Strength
  • Situational:
    • Cooldown Reduction (Check Sheet)
    • Attack Speed (Check Breakpoints)
    • Defenses (if necessary)

If you are unfamiliar with Sanctification, check out our Season 11 Overview for more information.

Skill Tree

Available0 (0)
Spent59 (12)

Paragon Board

Castle is an uncapped multiplier based on your Armor.

Glyph Leveling Priority

  1. Arbiter
  2. Law
  3. Judicator
  4. Spirit
  5. Challenger

Board Order

  1. Starter Board
  2. Castle
  3. Relentless
  4. Shield Bearer
  5. Preacher

Divine Gifts

Andariel
CorruptedEssence of Anguish
PurifiedEssence of Screams
Azmodan
CorruptedEssence of Hellfire
PurifiedEssence of Sin
Belial
CorruptedEssence of Shadows
PurifiedEssence of Lies
Duriel
CorruptedEssence of Pain
PurifiedEssence of Squalor

In Season 11 the Divine Gifts do not offer any player power increase. Instead they make some activities more challenging and increase their rewards in different ways. As there are only two choices per slot, we focus on maximizing the defensive bonuses.

Mercenary

How it Plays

Starter

  1. Throw Holy Bolt to spread Judgement with Judgement Day
  2. Throw Blessed Shield
    1. Shield of Justice Blessed Shield detonates and consumes Judgement for increased Damage.
  3. Fanaticism Aura is used for its buffs.
  4. Defiance Aura provides buffs and Unstoppable on demand.
  5. Use Rally to sustain your Faith.
  6. Use Falling Star for mobility.

Endgame

  • Instead of using Holy Bolt Ascend into Arbiter of Justice
    1. Reach of the Law Arbiter of Justice applies Judgement for Judicator.
    2. Judgement is spread by Judgement Day.

Mythic

  • Glide with Arbiter Form's Evade and throw Blessed Shield through Argent Veil.

How it Works

FAQ

Why are we using Preacher Paragon Board?

  • TL;DR: It's much more damage.
  • Preacher gives much more damage than the description might insinuate - the tooltip is wrong.
  • The Damage Formula for Preacher is:
    • 1 + (0.65 * [1 + Sum of Attack Speed])
  • Without any Attack Speed, this results in:
    • 1 + (0.65 * [1 + 0]) = 1.65 => 65%[x] multiplier.
  • At 100% increased Attack Speed, this results in
    • 1 + (0.65 * [1 + 1]) = 2.3 => 130%[x] multiplier.
  • However, with the Attack Speed Bonus from Fanaticism Aura being in Cap2, we can easily reach:
    • 1 + (0.65 * [1 + 1.7]) = 2.755 => 175.5%[x] multiplier

What makes Judgement Day and Judicator so good?

  • Judgement Day's tooltip is incorrect. Despite the tooltip saying up to 90%[x], the stacks of 6%[x] are compounding, resulting in 1.06 ^ 15 = 2.396 i.e. 139.6%[x] instead. Therefore, we pick it over Coat of Arms as it is simply more damage with how easy it is to stack up Judgement through Reach of the Law and Rite of Judgement.
  • Judicator slots in perfectly and gives us a better Oath than Disciple which does not help us in any way when we already have Arbiter of Justice equipped.
  • The Judgement synergy with Blessed Shield Shield of Justice is very potent.

Why are we not playing Ring of Starless Skies?

  • Because we reset our Evade with Words of Sacrifice Rally. It counts as an Attack and therefore we do not need to cast Blessed Shield after every Evade. So, we do not benefit from Starless Skies passive.
  • This allows us to use a legendary ring with the Aspect of Proselytizing aspect, which is more damage on average, even factoring in the lost +Ranks to Core Skills.
  • You also have less issues with Faith upkeep, as you not only spend less Faith, but can also temper Valor Skills Restore X Faith on your now free Ring Slot.

I can not find an Amulet like the one listed in the build, what others stats can I use?

  • Amulets with so many passives are indeed a very rare, once in a season sight. Instead of passives, other useful stats include:
    • Strength (At least some more damage)
    • Attack Speed (if not capped)
    • Cooldown Reduction (if not capped)
    • Critical Strike Chance (if not capped)
    • Lucky Hit: Chance to make Enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds (if not present elsewhere)
    • All Resistances (generally useful)
    • Fire Resistance (to survive the nasty fire explosion Elite affixes)
  • "What about the other passives?"
    • Conviction only adds a bit of Attack Speed in Cap1.
    • Riposte is a decent choice.
    • Iron Sharpens Iron is a good alternative to the passives listed in the planner.
    • Dizzying Blow is not ideal because we do not apply much Crowd Control.
    • Fortitude is a very good replacement.
    • Crack in the Armor is hinges on Vulnerable which might not be applied at all times.

Where are we getting Fortified from?

  • Essence of Lies as Purified Divine Gift Fortifies you for 1% Life per second.
  • To count as being Fortified, any amount of Fortification will do.
  • We boost the Fortified amount with some magic nodes on Preacher.
  • Raheir, your mercenary, also provides a bit of Fortify through his ability.

Elixirs and Incenses

It's important to run Elixirs and Incenses at all times. Not only because they increase your Experience gain but also because they provide very strong combat boosts.

For Elixirs you want to use Elixir of Advantage II to increase your Attack Speed. If you are already capped on Attack Speed, use Elixir of Iron Barbs II for more Armor.

For Incenses you want to use Spiral Morning for All Stats to reach requirements for Paragon Nodes if you do not have Shroud of False Death, otherwise use Ancient Times for Strength. Song of the Mountain for Armor and Soothing Spices for All Resistances and more Armor.

Changelog

25th of December 2025

  • Massively improved Paragon in all variants with all the latest Preacher and Law tech.
  • Expanded FAQ with more information.

16th of December 2025

  • Added a Speed Variant utilizing my Words of Sacrifice Rally tech.

15th of December 2025

  • Added all remaining points to the Endgame and Mythic Paragon Boards.

12th of December 2025

  • Massive overhaul with full updates now that the builder is complete.

11th of December 2025

  • Build published for Season 11 - Patch 2.5.0

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