Explosive Arrow Marauder (Updated for Release)

I guess i was blessed by RNG

6S/5l/5off

less than 10 jewelers
22 fuse
3 (!!!!) chroms

im ready for your hate ;-)

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return33 wrote:

I guess i was blessed by RNG

6S/5l/5off

less than 10 jewelers
22 fuse
3 (!!!!) chroms

im ready for your hate ;-)

I bought a 6 socket for about an exalt in nemesis. But I did beat you in fusings (less than 10) to get a 5L. Finally managed to get a GRRBB after 100ish chromes. I got a side project Quill Rain that I'm attempting to 6L so that will be fun.

Hi guy, awesome build u have here. I have made a softcore marauder to test it and i loved it. Right now, i'm farming Merciless Fellshire (lvl 59) with this passive tree.

Unlike those guys up there, RNG is not friendly with me.. Right now my gear is:


My killing speed seems ok, i shot 5 EA, Curse them and drop their Fire Resistence with the lightning arrow (i will swap to split arrow+cold damage later), almost no mobs (except bosses) survive the damage/burning.

I still have some questions:
1 - Because o Quill Rain abusive spam, i burn so much hearth in a very small amount of time, how i'm supposed to fix that?
2 - How can i run an aura without droping my health so largely? I was thinking on get a 6L, and put EA+Elemental Proliferation+Fire Pen.+Chance to Ignite+Increased Burning DMG+Blood Magic and them drop the blood magic passive to make use of mana for 2 or 3 auras.
3 - Right now i'm very happy with my Quill Rain, his speed is great... love it. Do i need to swap him later?
4 - I know my gear is just bad, what i need to aim for?

Thank you for the build and sorry for my bad english, not my native language. :)

1. its a pain but gets better with more life i guess. At ~3000 HP i regen around 120 life/sec and burn 90*4 life per second. Maybe getting that -7% manacost nod in templar next to the Amplify is a good investment too? (im didnt test it, just saying).

2. Why would you need any aura?
Cant see any big benefit of an aura for that build. Purity would be nice for +2 max res but thats about it to be honest. Maybe determination would be nice.
And Bloodmagic Gem has an enormus modifier! You will burn a lot over 200 (even 300 i guess later on) life per EA with bloodmagic gem - i dont want to burn 1000+ Life per second .... and loose a socket.

3. In another guide someone uses a +1all/+2bow skill bow .... dont know if that +3 EA level is worth the loss of attackspeed - especialy with, Attackspeed = Lifegained!

Try Split/Chain/Blind/LoH - enormous life gain, and a LOT less inc damage.

Blind works real wonders.

With around 4 APS you blind everything with split in 2 seconds....

In which order of importance should I start looking at quality gems on the EA link?

Been using 0q on everything until now since I wanted to see how the build was gonna pan out first. Loving it!

Plan is to go sort of heavy on IIR/IIQ and use 5L EA (managed to get rrbbg) with a 5L SA (sa+IIR+lgoh+cul+chain). Using culling on SA since Ive heard conflicting reports about IIR working with burn dmg, anyone that can confirm either case? Would love to drop it for blind if possible.

Im sort of lost on quality gems.

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Lysithea wrote:

In which order of importance should I start looking at quality gems on the EA link?

Been using 0q on everything until now since I wanted to see how the build was gonna pan out first. Loving it!

Plan is to go sort of heavy on IIR/IIQ and use 5L EA (managed to get rrbbg) with a 5L SA (sa+IIR+lgoh+cul+chain). Using culling on SA since Ive heard conflicting reports about IIR working with burn dmg, anyone that can confirm either case? Would love to drop it for blind if possible.

Im sort of lost on quality gems.

EA - Ele prolif - Chance to ignite - fire pen - inc. burning - conc. effect for 6 link

Split arrow - Life gain on hit - Chain - blind (6 link add culling strike & item rarity)

always try to cull the mobs instead of burning them down, even if you just use a second split arrow in a 4 link:

split arrow - Chain - culling strike - IIR/IIQ


I'm always testing variations of this build, regrets are my best friend. I'm a huge fan of life regen, my old marauder had low hp (5150) and no kaoms due to price and now legacy; however, when you regen 650 life per second it's the tits.

Right now I'm trying a to push a crazy high armor value. Only level 77 in domination and i'm broke, so super limited. hoping to hit mid to high 80's % phys reduction. Shits tough without a shield.

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Gryphyn wrote:

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Got a hold of a 16 EA, gonna look for prolif and ignite next, that extra chance to ignite seems awesome.

Didn't even think about a second 4L SA, been wondering what to do with my leftover 4L. That means I could use a blind SA, drop unwavering and the points going there and get something else juicy (I do love not being able to be stunned, but if they miss..).

Doing some piety runs atm (71 domination, 175IIR 30IIQ) and everything is a breeze except for Piety herself. Could be due to low ignite chance on a solo target. Whats some iiq/iir values I can expect to get up to as EA?

Thanks for posting your build, it looks really interesting and I'd love to try it. Just one question: what are the best skills to use to level up through normal difficulty until you can start using EA? Just equip the best 2h you can find and sweep, cleave, ground slam?

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Hoffer wrote:

Thanks for posting your build, it looks really interesting and I'd love to try it. Just one question: what are the best skills to use to level up through normal difficulty until you can start using EA? Just equip the best 2h you can find and sweep, cleave, ground slam?

If you have some currency get your hands on some cheap uniques and faceroll with whatever skill you desire:

I'm thinking why you said you like to get IR at level 45 and run Grace, but in your endgame build you don't have IR...?