1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD
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I'm a new player who was not having fun with my first character a witch, found this guide and am loving it now.
I felt immortal at early levels with my 'boiling blood' but things got tougher as I levelled up. From the late 50s I started to feel squishy and now have to take things very carefully. My regen and even my life pool buffer seem inadequate against packs on the docks (yes I run like a girl from multiple projectile voidbearers). My stats are 60% resists appropriate to the situation before endurance charges, life ~3800, regen ~230/s, HS ~4k, GS ~2k. Carefully adhered to this guide for passives, gear stats, skills and gem combos. As a new player my gear is probably not the best but I'd really be interested in what 60+ players do to toughen their builds. Do you drop some regen for other stats? Thanks to Ninja and the other thread contributors! Build: Gear:
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Last edited by Gauhron#1846 on Mar 21, 2013, 5:47:22 AM
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" This guy has Add fire damage on his Anger. Does this even work? Because it would be op if it would work. |
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" Nope. The gems are messed up. The guy who PMed me just wanted to see the items and my build. Didn't have time to login game to rearrange the gems before linking them here. |
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Build is feasible. You should get Iron Reflexes. Don't rely on sweep. It may be usable in Normal or Curel, but this skill in Merciless is pure death. It's only because build is overpowered in Normal and Cruel, not because of Sweep. Later on, if you let critters to surround you = death. You will try that they will never touch you. Gorwarth 1. You should maximize your resistance as fast as you can. If you can oh 10th level - do it. 2. You will probably need Charges with the beginning normal act 3 3. Yes, you can skip resistances if you're able to max them without nodes. 4. I would go for Iron Reflexes just after Golem's Blood and run Grace 5. Armor nodes after 60s, imho Gauhron "yes I run like a girl from multiple projectile voidbearers" Relax. Everybody does. If they aren't already dead of course. Oh the other hand raising your resists from 60 to 80 will half damage you receive from it http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/73928 <-- [Newbie Friendly] Marauder Melee Build
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Hi everyone!
I'm following this fantastic guide, and i would like tell that it's very useful. Thanks to Ninja, again. I'm lvl 45 right now and i'm on the beginning of Act 2 Cruel. This is my build and my gear. Build.
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http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEABS0OPBQgFHEZLho4HOcg8CftKLUyCTpSQKBE51BHUFBUSVYEVw1YY1nzXz9gS2CIYVJqHmo7cql82YZgjM-QVZHOns2nMKeEqBisqrndu-3AGsbY0iHZYd-_51LvDu9O8i_z3fZI974=
I'm thinking about my next movement. I doubt between IR or health nodes in Templar tree right now, probably i will do the last one and leave IR after lvl 50. Gear.
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My next step is upgrade my 4L gloves, and get some support gems that i need. I have 80+ elemental resistences without EC and 2k life with about 70 hp/sec life regen. Note. I'm not using Vitality gem, just upgrading. I would like tell you that Berseking + Boots with Movement Speed makes game faster, i didn't think that it was for both. I read someone asking about choosing Skull Craking vs Smashing Blows but i did't found answer by NinjaArab. Greetings and sorry for my english. Check my humble shop. http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/281727 Last edited by dblancot#7969 on Mar 21, 2013, 11:50:48 AM
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Ninja could you post of a video of end game gameplay where we can see the tactics that you use?
That would really help me out a lot. |
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Hello everyone and Ninja. Thx for this build.
As i set foot into merciless grounds i started having TROUBLE, now, i am not a new player, been in beta and my most successful character was a 70ish ice witch. But the game has gotten MUCH harder since beta. My mini-story (not related to this build but i think you should read it)
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Through my journey into beating merciless and starting to farm currency/items for new builds i like and want to try(gear dependant) many of my own builds have failed halfway through cruel. I had no option left but to consult beginner builds and read a lot on the wiki to learn how skills work, so i came upon this guide and decided to try this build out since i like Mara for some reason (probably bc it was my first char in beta) and make use of it and farm currency gear for later builds, but now for the first time after my beta experience i enter merciless once again, my death count jumped from 5 to 20 starting from act 3 cruel to right after i got medicine chest in merciless. I am very sad when i die since my goal is to die as less as possible if not never die, probably everyone's goal but my PC has low specs so i die sometimes because of this but thats fine for me, whats "unpleasant" is when i obviously could have avoided death but i couldn't. Burutus brother Koel in cruel basically 1h me and now medicine chest boss is quite the same thing, also blue mobs became a huge problem die really hard and hit like a truck. Skills and stats
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I only have 1800 HP 60~ all resistances except chaos (-60%) and dmg on HS is like 600~ and GS 400~ (i switch GS with HS for the support gems to increase HS dmg when fighting bosses it goes up to 800~) I use endurance charges allmost all the time i try to as much as possible right now i wish they would last longer. Warlord's mark as curse, and LS(leap slam) from time to time, i used LS in the begining combined with my belt => 1h mobs felt like a bawss now GS is MUCH better. Grace+Iron reflexes as aura also i was wondering what auras should be used for this build since its not specified, was thinking hatred could be very usefull and maybe quit on BM keystone and use blood magic gems(obviously this for later) One last thing about my skills just now when i fought merciless medicine chest boss i used decoy totem, it got 1h by him but without it i wouldn't have been able to do this. My build and my items
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Heres the build So here are my items, they are the best i found, the belt, amu and only one ring are from my other characters which had the luck to get them. I plan to change the unique amulet with the dex one and maybe get a better one later And for the belt i was wondering if something like a HP belt with +hp mod would give me more HP. However the amulet gives quite the HP from the +100 str so i dont know if its a good idea to switch that for now. Ty for reading hope somebody can help over here. IGN : HammerBelly or HardBelly
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" I'm a pretty new player but from what I can tell, you are undergeared for Merc. |
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" That`s what i thought too. The items are all yellow, but yellow does not always grant good attributes. Most of them simply lack hp. And come on, HS 600? really? gotta change your mace. you have to do much more damage imho. HP is your main concern. Throw away those yellows, get hp attributes on items. You`ll feel the difference. Remember that every 1 hp you get from item results in way more hp on char. Higher life pool = more time to survive. Oh.. and dont facetank everyone. Even marauder needs to kite ;-) |
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well here is my gear for my 72 really need to get a better belt but im 80 on all resists and 4650 heavystrike with a 1920 groundslam 3400 hp (and i messed up and didnt take 40hp from first bandit chain :/ )
IGN Karnz Last edited by Nyquilz#4641 on Mar 21, 2013, 11:42:05 PM
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