[1.0.4+] Sledgehammer Marauder Guide - GS+HS (including Videos)

Just want to add something people sometimes forget. The high % life leech only matters when your damage is low/medium. Once your damage gets higher, your leech/sec will cap at much lower % life leech values.

I have a legacy facebreaker mara using conc effect on cyclone. He has the 2% skill tree leech passive, and nothing else in terms of life gain except passive regen. My leech caps with just this on most occasions.

My personal opinion is that Carnage Heart is a great facilitator for levelling and most pre-map content. It works for blender-style builds as you do many fast attacks with very little damage. But if you like big smashy builds, you don't need that much leech.
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bendot wrote:
Just want to add something people sometimes forget. The high % life leech only matters when your damage is low/medium. Once your damage gets higher, your leech/sec will cap at much lower % life leech values.

I have a legacy facebreaker mara using conc effect on cyclone. He has the 2% skill tree leech passive, and nothing else in terms of life gain except passive regen. My leech caps with just this on most occasions.

My personal opinion is that Carnage Heart is a great facilitator for levelling and most pre-map content. It works for blender-style builds as you do many fast attacks with very little damage. But if you like big smashy builds, you don't need that much leech.


yes but he is using vaal pact now, so its never enough leech.

And with the advent of jade flasks stacking with granite flasks, I would say taking IR again at later levels is not a bad idea. With both flasks on and determination, I saw 60k armor easy. Great for dangerous maps or olmecs / poorjoy or bosses like carnage, stormflay, museum and academy dudes, dominus etc

Like how the build came along, would want some more hp myself but it seems ok overall
As a new Player i wish i had an idea what of ur final build are the breakpoints and i should rush first, im lvl 10 now and not sure whats the best way to skill passives while leveling. thx so far and nice work, this guide helps a lot ;)
I got a Carcass Jack and was wondering if it is worth get iron reflexs or just too many points out of the way?
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Agetra wrote:
As a new Player i wish i had an idea what of ur final build are the breakpoints and i should rush first, im lvl 10 now and not sure whats the best way to skill passives while leveling. thx so far and nice work, this guide helps a lot ;)


I guess you should get resolute technique asap, and then I suggest getting blood magic passive, and using it until you get 5 link weapon and/or armor, then respeccing it.

After these two, you can choose to do the bottom and bottom-right part, or go up.

I did the bottom^^ Had no real problems leveling
Currently I am following this build to the teeth, using pretty much the exact same uniques as the OP. I'm wondering would it be viable at higher levels to spec back into RT and grab a marohi for possibly more dps?
hi im trying the build and testing some skills, what do you think of this?

Cast when damage taken (lvl1) – enduring cry (lvl 5) - WARLORDS MARK (LEVEL 5) –(immortal call)


Hatred - REDUCED MANA - Devouring Totem/rejuvenation - FASTER CASTING



just thinking that immoratll call can provide a good defence against physical reflection


and one question, is there a reason why you prefer deovuring totem to rejuvenation totem?

and why you do not use molten shell at all?
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kuo982 wrote:
Currently I am following this build to the teeth, using pretty much the exact same uniques as the OP. I'm wondering would it be viable at higher levels to spec back into RT and grab a marohi for possibly more dps?

I think marohi would be a better, but I didnt have a chance to test it yet.
Anyone can confirm this?



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ukkosen wrote:
hi im trying the build and testing some skills, what do you think of this?

Cast when damage taken (lvl1) – enduring cry (lvl 5) - WARLORDS MARK (LEVEL 5) –(immortal call)


Hatred - REDUCED MANA - Devouring Totem/rejuvenation - FASTER CASTING



just thinking that immoratll call can provide a good defence against physical reflection


and one question, is there a reason why you prefer deovuring totem to rejuvenation totem?

and why you do not use molten shell at all?


I think you didnt see that I am using Vaal Pact in my latest version of the guide. So there are not problems with reflect at all. And when I would use Immortal Call I wont be able to keep up all charges, which gives an amazing defense boost.
Vaal Pact is also the reason why I am using devouring totem. It works great with VP.

Sure you can use molten shell...but in my oppinion its only a "firework" with quite low addidtion to defense :)
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i finally got it!! thanks for answering, im first time player and i've been reading a lot but some things i missed. Thanks a lot i'll give it a try exactly as you say, thanks man cool build so far it is very fun to play with :D
Hi there i am using your build and liking it so far, but at lvl 37 iam having problems with mana. is there anything that can help that or is this just a build where u have to us flask all the time?

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