1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

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zgryzolec wrote:

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@guide author:
1) nice resistances with this build, but no chaos resi. So far so good, but how's that on mercilles?
2) Iron reflexes rly worth 4 pts? I'm still early on, but I have only 200 evasion (all eq pure STR) - should I go towards reflexes or stop at diamond skin, and take these nodes lvl60+?

1. Its very painful but with enough dmg and careful play you can take them out, i had a very hard time on my way to merciless pietry, the damage they do in those areas are insane they take out my 2800 hp in the blink of a eye, however by this point i should have 3500~ but i still didnt find the right amulet and belt, and rings.. sort of.
2.You use grace with iron reflexes, as an example: i dont have armor nods yet they are the last im missing by this should really boost the 1.1k of armor i get from grace.

Also if you dont have BUY a much better hammer, really, do it.

Should do fine for a while, at least I hope it will...

419,1 dps
main hand phys. dmg = 249-377
A little slower (1.10) than my former mace.

someone can tell me why ur not going to skill bloodless + smashing blows (12% mace dmg + 6% atk speed) ?

I do, smashing blows are too cool not to have it :)

I started this build as my first char when open beta was available (coming from 230k dps d3 barbar), and i love it! Now at level 71. Have a frost pulse templar level 36, but aint as much fun :-)

Some things to mention:
weapons with a big attack speed (>1.2) makes gameplay much more enjoyable and smoother (if faster attack gem is not used). As personal preference, i use a slow 0.95 mace with faster attack gem in endgame (more % chance to stun).

Endurance charges rock! I take as much as possible, mostly because of the armor mitigation (every charge helps much more than the previous one). Also one does not have to look for resistences/armor on gear too hard.
But it's cumbersome to keep the charges up all the time.

Molten shell sucks.

I dont like frost wall.

Use vulnerability for non-trash instead of warlords mark.

Blood rage is cool for farming. Free 15% attack speed? Hell yeah!

Buy a nice weapon when you are stuck.

Always get a granite flask (+4000 armor. "Oh shit!" button) and a amethyst flask (chaos resistance).

The gems are truly easy to get, but we need at least 2x5L or 1x6L to get adequate DPS. The other socket links do not really matter much.

Looking forward to see how melee splash works with heavy strike :-)
I also need to decide if i take increased stun duration, or stun threshold reduction in the future (moar stun!!).

My gear:


Build:

hey guys,
awesome build, lots of fun but I`m at a dead end at the moment. I have a decent weapon and kiting works fine but my damage is quite mediocre at about 5500dps (heavy strike).
below you can see my build and items, would be great to get some pro tips so I can start farming maps.
I work with 7 endurance charges, Warlords Mark, Molten Shell, Heavy Strike Leap and Ground Slam.

thanks in advance!

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darkwish98 wrote:

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zgryzolec wrote:

@rsalty:
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@guide author:
1) nice resistances with this build, but no chaos resi. So far so good, but how's that on mercilles?
2) Iron reflexes rly worth 4 pts? I'm still early on, but I have only 200 evasion (all eq pure STR) - should I go towards reflexes or stop at diamond skin, and take these nodes lvl60+?

1. Its very painful but with enough dmg and careful play you can take them out, i had a very hard time on my way to merciless pietry, the damage they do in those areas are insane they take out my 2800 hp in the blink of a eye, however by this point i should have 3500~ but i still didnt find the right amulet and belt, and rings.. sort of.
2.You use grace with iron reflexes, as an example: i dont have armor nods yet they are the last im missing by this should really boost the 1.1k of armor i get from grace.

Also if you dont have BUY a much better hammer, really, do it.

I have a great hammer that I can use in 4 more levels. I just am too cheap to spend my hard earned trading orbs for a hammer at this point. I only have found cone GCP so far!

@zgryzolec
Thats a good hammer for now i guess here i what i had when i was stuck
and here is what i have now, and by the way it was a VERY huge improvement

also, i very strongly suggest the increase atk speed mod on your weapon.

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siliconlife wrote:

Some things to mention:
weapons with a big attack speed (>1.2) makes gameplay much more enjoyable and smoother

Endurance charges rock! I take as much as possible, mostly because of the armor mitigation (every charge helps much more than the previous one). Also one does not have to look for resistences/armor on gear too hard.
But it's cumbersome to keep the charges up all the time.

Molten shell sucks.

I dont like frost wall.

Use vulnerability for non-trash instead of warlords mark.

Blood rage is cool for farming. Free 15% attack speed? Hell yeah!

Buy a nice weapon when you are stuck.

Always get a granite flask (+4000 armor. "Oh shit!" button) and a amethyst flask (chaos resistance).

The gems are truly easy to get, but we need at least 2x5L or 1x6L to get adequate DPS. The other socket links do not really matter much.

Looking forward to see how melee splash works with heavy strike :-)
I also need to decide if i take increased stun duration, or stun threshold reduction in the future (moar stun!!).

I underlined the suggestion i find most usefull, thank you. I did plan to test how those work with the build but i lack slots for skills that and also i try to refrain from using too many skills. Very usefull to use vulnerability indeed, i must get a slot for this.
May i ask how blood rage works with our high HP regen?
Yes this combination of flask's sounds promising, for me i actually use two quicksilver flask's both with +15max charges = 3 times use and easy refill and dispell frozen mod, the second one has a stun recovery mod but id rather have curse immunity instead but thats hard to get. Yes this wont boost my survivability but it increased farming speed and going through content faster i dont recommend it for going through content but do use those if you are farming "safe" maps also, could be switched with pahse run(i didnt see this skill at all since cbt)

Inform us please of how this works with heavy strike i am very interested.

if you low lvl marauders need one of these nice weapons just whisper me ingame. served me quite well the last 20 levels ;)

Hi guys, i have a lvl 74 marauder but i think to have a bad dmg. Onmly 3k with HS (there is item rarity) and 2.4k with GS. I have bought a good 2h mace, 408 and now i need to fuse 5l on it.

I have 3.3k life and 123 l/s recovery. My res is 63-66-75 (i need to max the fire and cold res).

My gear


My build


I use Endurance Cry and i have 6 charges in total, then i use Anger and Grace auras.

Now i should buy:
- boots with MaxLife>Mov speed> res> iir/iiq
- Chest with Max Life> Life regen> res

For chest i haven't so much currency to buy a 5-6l so i must wait for now, for boots i can try buying it now.

What do you think? All advice welcome.