1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

Thanks for the build it worked great until recently.

Just like the guy before me I got stuck in Merciless Act 2. I destroyed everything that crossed me so far but now I hit a wall. Those explosive arrow guys kill me on sight for example. I can't attack without getting 2-3 arrows and they deal too much dmg in a really short time(even with 7 EC buffs).
I admit my gear is near useless (except for my weapon, ~2K groundslam and ~3,7K heavy strike) and my resists are only around 30%. I'm working on these problems but farming for better equipment or currency to buy it is damn slow. By the way I have ~2,6K hp.
Do you have any advice that could help me until I get a decent gear? I was thinking about respecing from bloodmagic and going auras but I don' really see how it would help me survive. I would get a pretty decent dmg boost but that's not what I need right now.

Note:
Warlord's Mark was a great help. The additional life steal was good but the Endurance buff refresh was priceless. I like the build but constantly refreshing EC is a pain and the curse makes it easier. Maybe this could be included in the guide.

Hi, are the 3 extra endurance charges really necessary? They take up quite a lot of skill points >< Would I be better off investing the points in life nodes?

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Bazookahero wrote:

Hi, I was wondering why you pick pick Skull cracking (15% dmg 10% stun threshold) instead of Smashing blows (12% dmg 6% attack speed)?

yeah would also like to know

+1, or maybe we could take them both?

Teppik
Dont stay still like a dump. Get familiar with explosive arrow mechanics
2hit explosion deals a lot more damage than two 1hit explosions. If they manage to tigger 5hit exposion only fire immunity can save you.

Backing to your eq. How do you want to make through merci without maxed resists? You should have 80% by now.

eddiec
Endurance charges are necesary. There are no better nodes and they are super-cheap. Wait for Mercilles and then you will love every point spend into them.

bazookahero
I cant open passive skill tree in the phone, therefore ill answer your question when ill be back in home

As a player using only self found gear I had a relativity easy time getting to merciless. However, now that I am getting towards the end of act 2 merciless I can tell my damage is lacking. I spent yesterday gaining and losing the same amount of xp. I essentially got nowhere.

I use a 1h because the 2h is just too slow. It also seems to cause a lot of desynch for some reason. My Ground slams are barely over 560. Heavy strike is maybe 800. My resists are 80% after a few endurance charges go up.

I choose to be self found. I don't really understand the currency. I have no desire to be scammed.

Thanks for the guide!

As an improvement, could you explain the pasive tree as you had in the previous version?
I mean showing what passives we must choose as leveling up through the pasive tree.

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Ravaloft wrote:

As a player using only self found gear I had a relativity easy time getting to merciless. However, now that I am getting towards the end of act 2 merciless I can tell my damage is lacking. I spent yesterday gaining and losing the same amount of xp. I essentially got nowhere.

I use a 1h because the 2h is just too slow. It also seems to cause a lot of desynch for some reason. My Ground slams are barely over 560. Heavy strike is maybe 800. My resists are 80% after a few endurance charges go up.

I choose to be self found. I don't really understand the currency. I have no desire to be scammed.

1. Get 2h weapon.
2. --link removed-- for currency ratios
3. Good 2h mace (100 increased damage) should cost you chaos or even two

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Ravaloft wrote:

As a player using only self found gear I had a relativity easy time getting to merciless. However, now that I am getting towards the end of act 2 merciless I can tell my damage is lacking. I spent yesterday gaining and losing the same amount of xp. I essentially got nowhere.

I use a 1h because the 2h is just too slow. It also seems to cause a lot of desynch for some reason. My Ground slams are barely over 560. Heavy strike is maybe 800. My resists are 80% after a few endurance charges go up.

I choose to be self found. I don't really understand the currency. I have no desire to be scammed.

will it be possible to stay out of Blood Magic passive and just link a blood magic gem to ground slam ?
i really like to run more aura to push my def even further
(might be a noob question, take it easy lol )