The Infernal Blow HEAVY METAL Marauder - Build Guide (1.1 Updated!)

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ZiggyD wrote:

When anarchy & onslaught first launched I decided I wanted to hunt some exiles and that I wanted to do it in as manly and metal a fashion as possible. Eventually I settled on the manliest of all skills - Infernal Blow.

Prefer to Watch/Listen instead of Read? Check out the Video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9R7BzrOLBA

Passive Skill Tree

At Level 79

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAecCcQSzBS0Ocg6tEuEUIBRNGNsZLho4GlUhYCftKaUt0jIJNug62ECgQT9DnEd-TdhQR1BQUeZUSVcNWGNYr1nzXz9gS2EhZKNlTWoebmlwu3KpdO108Xbneu982YFvgziE2YTvh2qMdozPkFWQbJHOmSudgJ48nrmezaIApzCnhKgYqWiplKvFrKq0L7ndu-29gb6nwA_AGsS4xtjSIdJN1fjZYd6W3sHkredS7DjvDu9O73zyL_Pd9kj22ve-

Key Points

Resolute Technique - gives us the consistency needed for melee and allows us to spend points on defensive and damage passives instead of accuracy.

Aplify - increases the AoE radius and damage of Infernal Blow's Proc, Melee Splash & Leap Slam.

Master of the Arena - Essential for melee targeting and makes Multistike much more effective.

Iron Reflexes - Evasion to Armor fro Grace Aura as well as some gear flexibility.

Endurance Charges - With Warlord's Mark we have close to 100% uptime on endurance charges, this maxes out the defensive bonus we get.

Mana Nodes - Min max this as much as possible, I've been able to get by on very few key nodes but this will depend on your gear.

Blood Magic - used to level up to about 70 where we drop it once we get some key mana gear.

Damage & Stun - Very few damage nodes but the ones we do get are super efficient. A few key stun nodes offer a ton of survivability.

Bandit Rewards

Normal - Oak (life)

Cruel - Oak (Phys damage) OR passive point

Merci - Oak (Endurance Charge)

Leveling

Level 30 Recap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6yOgDlKQos
Level 50 Recap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPzI0hEMbuA
Level 69 Recap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLK4a9S9VNI

Skills & Support Gems

Infernal Blow

Core Supports = Melee Splash, Multistrike & Melee Physical Damage

Additional Supports = Weapon Elemental Damage, Added Fire & Life or Mana Leech

Leap Slam

Core Supports - Faster Attacks, Stun & Endurance Charge on Melee Stun

Additional Supports - Melee Physical Damage, Life Leech, Added fire.

With the addition of end charge on melee stun leap slam can easily become your primary method of endurance charge generation. See this video for an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuAu9_9w99o

Warlord's Mark

Gives us 100% uptime on endurance charges and a ton of leech. Also allows us to get super spammy with our flasks.

Enduring Cry

Essential for leveling and allows us to build initial charges and maintain ones when we cannot get warlord's mark kills. I ended up dropping this when I added endurance charge on melee stun onto leap slam. Even vs bosses it's possible to keep your charges up just by leap slamming!

Auras

Essential - Grace & Determination (or purity if needed) / Hatred / Level 4 Clarity.

Grace & determination can carry you even when your armor is extremely sub-par from gear.

Additional - Anger & Wrath (these only give marginal benefit).

Blood Rage

With our regen we can maintain this without taking damage. Use it to improve clear speed in easier content/maps.

Molten Shell or Immortal Call

Both of these are viable if you have a socket left over, personal preference for which you prefer to use. Personally I rarely end up using either.

Other Skills with potential

Glacial Hammer for Single Target or to Switch out with Infernal Blow.

Dominating Blow is pretty fun.

Decoy totem or rejuv totem.

How to Play this Build

- Enduring Cry for initial charges or whenever they are about to expire.

- Warlord's mark all the mobs you will be fighting in the next few seconds.

- Initial with leap slam (also use to escape if things get hairy). This stuns all mobs allowing for...

- Infernal Blow for the kill. Focus on enemy with highest life and the melee splash will kill the trash. You do more damage to your main target as well. Hold shift always when using this attack to ensure you hit without moving or desyncing.

- Move to next pack with leap slam. Hold shift when you leap slam to prevent arbitrary running (trust me on this). Personally I rebound shift to tab.

How to Deal with Reflect

Reflect is only dangerous with this build if you don't know how to deal with it.

Elemental Reflect - Use Leap Slam as the IB proc can kill you on larger packs.

Physical Reflect - Use Infernal Blow as multistrike splits the damage in three allowing time to leech. I have never even hurt myself with phys reflect when using IB. DO NOT LEAP SLAM PHSY REFLECT PACKS!

Dual Reflect - Hide under the covers and switch Infernal Blow for Glacial Hammer.

Gearing Guide

Weapon

Start saving for a Marohi Erqi from the beginning. I bought a 6S one for 2.5EXA and linked it for another 44 fusings. Not cheap but doable even for a casual player. Until you get the Marohi use blue maces with 90%+ phys damage and 20% quality. Marohi because of the AoE, stun and damage.

Gloves, Boots, Helm & Chest

Life Resists and Armor. Movespeed is not important on boots as we get around with leap slam.

Here's mine at the moment (I have a long way to go on the armor stat):

Belt

Defensive affixes and Stun Threshold Reduction.

Rings & Amulet

You need at least:

- 1% mana leech

- One decent base mana roll.

- One decent mana regeneration roll.

- INT/DEX on the amulet.

Everything else can be defensive or offensive stats.

Flasks

Insta Heal Flasks with Dispels. You can spam these a lot and they will stay full thanks to warlord's mark.

2x Granites of Iron Skin.

And I think that's everything! Lemme know if you have any questions and I'll try and check back here every now and then!


My Other Builds:

Ultimate Beginner's Tanky BM Ranger - http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/300860

Searing Bond + Fire Trap Templar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxSgUA9krzY