Playing shield wall ascendancy question

Warbringer makes the campaign and all the way to t15 maps really easy. Titan is better after when you solve the shout cooldowns.

Warbringer has a node that removes CD from warcry it's BIS for shield wall build if you don't have this node you will have to rely on hitting the wall from.close.rsmge

I always play it this way. Starting out, I first ascend to Warbringer to get the warcry no cooldown, just to be able to use shield wall earlier with infernal cry and later, fortifying cry. This allows me to easily breeze through campaign and reaching third lab. In that third lab, I either choose to switch to SoK or Titan. SoK provides me with a much higher defenses early and as I play HC, that's a very welcome choice. If my gears are good enough, I just go straight to Titan. Titan brings a lot of everything with its Hulking Form passive and I can take the Life node in third lab, making it a really tanky ascendancy. So all in all, I almost always play all three ascendancy through one shield wall character based on the gears I get.

Solving warcry CD is extremely easy as both SoK and Titan with using Rage to skip CD support (can't remember the name) + Rage gain + minimum cry power. You feel as if you don't have CD when you combine all those together.

Among these three, I think Titan is the best choice.

You don’t need to worry about War Cry cooldowns at all—just use Weapon Set 2 with a Talisman to trigger Ferocious Roar + Raging Cry + Enraged Warcry II.

With this setup, cooldowns are skipped, and you can generate Rage and Endurance Charges infinitely. It becomes extremely strong, especially when paired with Nebuloch.

Because critical damage in this area is quite limited, Titan becomes a strong choice since it gains more benefit from passives compared to other options.

Can be played on any ascendancy tbh. Smith is great for hard core, defensively and easing suffix pressure, titan has the most scaling potential and warbringer has great quality of life and is enabling early on like other comments have said.

I’m currently playing a bleed/poison shield charge/ wall build on tactician. Use herald of blood/plague with shield charge and plague bearer for clear and nuke bosses with nebuloch tech for 10m+ per shield wall. Could easily play the same build on a titan or witch hunter if I wanted to. So don’t feel too stressed about the ascendancy choice.

Smith is the easy version for hardcore or ssf because you can fix your defense really easy.

Warbringer is the best until Endgame.

Titan outscales Warbringer in Endgame (lvl 90+ and good gear)

Infernalist?

I've taken both Titan and Warbringer to endgame in different leagues.

Warbringer has an easier setup, and your main hand weapon is more or less just a stat stick. And mostly just a two button combo.

Titan has a higher ceiling in both damage and survivability, but you're going to have to work in a slam attack, I ran Sunder, for detonating the walls most of the time.

Both are completely viable, but I think you will probably have a more smooth, and fun experience with Warbringer