1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

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NinjaArabStrategist wrote:

@up
Your equipment looks ok. Hmm... Do you have problems with certain monsters, or you just die everywhere?


1. Merciless Viability
This build builds (sic!) it's defense on mechanics that is used by HardCore Players - Health Regen. I don't see other ways of increasing our defense, as health regen is imho best one. Note that you can't go through Merciless with shit-gear.
I may propose getting better (more health/regen/resistance) gear, and better weapon.

2. Chaos Damage
Chaos Damage is generally bitch. In Closed Beta only defense against it was CI or high health pool. We have this second one. Now we can ALSO build resistances again Chaos. And this i a must. Try to keep 50-75% all resistances in each difficulty.

3. 2H vs 1H
You will probably use Kaom's Hearth unique Armor for additional 1k base health. In such a case you'll need piece of equipment that is possible to get six (hopefully linked) sockets. These are two-handed weapons. Also, we have to deal damage. We won't maintain high damage with one-handed weapon.

4. Mace over other weapon types
Generally you are free to use any weapon type you want. I've chosen maces, because they are simple (only STR required), they have easly reachable damage nodes for our build (which should fir the damage difference between i.e. axes and maces). Note that we do not concentrate on stun thereshold and this isn't thing we consider for mace's superiority.

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doyoueven wrote:

2. Bandit's quest rewards: Health -> Physical Damage -> Charge/Skill Point

Do you mean first difficulty get health from oak
2nd time you get physical damage
and the last difficulty you get skill point?

Vs.

All 3 difficulties chose health?

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thomzon wrote:

Hello,

Small question about Resolute Technique; when I played in closed beta, keystone description said 'You always hit', and now it says 'Your hits can't be evaded'. Does that make a difference ? Does that mean a pure strength marauder can miss now if his accuracy rating is too low ?

Thanks.

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Xeqlen wrote:

Heres my character

Skillbuild right now: http://r35i.img-up.net/screenshot0efd.png

Screen of Gear/Status Ground slam: http://t45i.img-up.net/screenshot455a.png

Screen of Defense: http://s10i.img-up.net/screenshot4f20.png

any help?

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Concerning Iron Reflexes, I'm a bit skeptical of reaching for it myself. It takes 6 points to get there from the southern Troll's Blood cluster. Six points can also double your armor rating with zero node hopping involved. So I guess it's a question of, is your armor rating higher or lower than your evasion rating?

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Here's a question: Does Arcane Efficiency affect skills under Blood Magic? Seems like it might be worthwhile to get that 20% cluster to the south when I unspec the Blood Magic keystone and start using Blood Magic augments.