[0.10.1g] The Groundshocker: Dual-Wield Elemental Ground Slam Marauder

What's your gear/skill set-up right now?

Just a suggestion. Wouldn't it be more profitable to drop Blood Magic at some point, link Blood Magic gem with Ground Slam and use all those juicy %mana auras? I mean, elemental GS can we as well used as single target skill, so in my book it is a waste to get Blood Magic only for 1 skill and ditching so many nice and helpful auras.
Just a thought tho;)

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evantide2 wrote:

What's your gear/skill set-up right now?

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Grishnak79 wrote:

Just a suggestion. Wouldn't it be more profitable to drop Blood Magic at some point, link Blood Magic gem with Ground Slam and use all those juicy %mana auras? I mean, elemental GS can we as well used as single target skill, so in my book it is a waste to get Blood Magic only for 1 skill and ditching so many nice and helpful auras.
Just a thought tho;)

I've mulled that over from time to time as well. But the truth of the matter is that there really aren't all that many auras I'd really be interested in. Hatred grants cold damage based on physical damage, and the build hardly focuses on that. Determination would be really nice, admittedly, as would Purity. But I seem to have no real survivability issues without them for the moment.

Perhaps if I ever manage to get a decent 5L armor piece, I'll take a Blood Magic gem for a spin, and spec out of the passive node for a bit.

Edit to add: Haste would probably be a significant damage boost. I'm just not sure if the damage lost by swapping out some other gem for Blood Magic would merit it.

I got a question about the intelligence requirements for the sceptres... I'm lvl 20 now and still don't have enough to use them, where are you getting your intell from?

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SOJxxStarbucks wrote:

I got a question about the intelligence requirements for the sceptres... I'm lvl 20 now and still don't have enough to use them, where are you getting your intell from?

In early levels I sported a +30 int lapis amulet. I continued wearing it until I'd finally invested enough points in int to outgrow it.

sup man. im on act 2 cruel right now and loving the build so far. need to find better scepters still and i need more life haha. i only have ~1400 life. comment on what i have to change please. thanks! i get 611 dps on ground slam with anger and wrath on.

awesome posts, I have a quick question.

do you think a S&B, hybrid ele/physical variant of this build possible ?
ie ground slam for AoE, infernal blow for single target....

and if so, would you still recommend the fastest possible weapon and stacking attack speed?

thanks

Hi,

This is the build i want to go for. How is this working out at higher levels. could you let me know your progress ? Also one question why are you not going for a weapon with more base damage on the off hand?

Did you make any recent changes to the build you posted on the first post ?

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uez wrote:

sup man. im on act 2 cruel right now and loving the build so far. need to find better scepters still and i need more life haha. i only have ~1400 life. comment on what i have to change please. thanks! i get 611 dps on ground slam with anger and wrath on.

Your mainhand weapon is all right for now, though I think you might be better off looking for a weapon with more base elemental damage even with a worse attack speed (and even if it's just a hammer).

Your offhand weapon, on the other hand, is providing you absolutely zero dps. The weapon is never swung, which means all that juicy-looking elemental damage attached to it isn't doing you squat! You're better off with just a crystal scepter, even a white one, as they have +20% implicit elemental weapon damage.

Conversely, rather than the Infusing Cloud ring, which is giving weapon elemental damage, you might instead be better off for now with a ring that gives integer (what I call "base") elemental damage, similar to your necklace. Generally on rings I look for: #-# elemental damage, +life, +resistance; the order changing based on what I'm prioritizing for the moment, survival vs. damage output. But aside from your mainhand weapon, and auras, the only other sources of base elemental damage are your rings and necklace. So it's an interesting dilemma throughout the character's career.