1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

Answering a few recent questions with my personal experiences.

The turning points in the progression will come at levels determined by your gear and playstyle. I was intimidated by the first time I spec'd Blood Magic, giving up my mana with horrible constant potion use, then I roared around like a lawnmower destroying everything in my path.

Regen is godly at lower levels when you can almost have enough passive regen to tank normal damage and Life on Hit lets you hoover up massive packs of mobs.

The next big turning point was finishing the build here and looking for my 65+ build. Giving up BM and going back to mana again was a big change. I built up to 3 auras on mana, %reduction ones with Reduced Mana, and 3 auras with a fixed cost running on a BM gem.



When you run many auras you really want to get Inner Force to make the most of it.

This was inspired by the Lawnmower build https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/213944.

Key to this is getting some Mana Leech on your gear which is not hard when you start looking for it or some cheap Uniques.



Amplify makes a huge difference to a consistent playstyle but desync hurts like a bitch.

At higher levels the incoming damage is too much for regen to help with, you need to tank it with Life Leech (by now your Life Leech will surpass Life on Hit). I dropped the smaller regen nodes and only kept the 3 big ones so you can ignore map trivialities like chaos damage/second and burning patches etc.

Those are the major changes I noticed progress through this build and onward.

My deepest thanks to Ninja for providing all his advice.

Thnx for the tips about running auras.


@Route1
I got mace dmg nodes as soon as i reached them. The reason i did that is that i started from lvl1 with a 2Hmace and never changed weapon type. No other reason.

overall nice update, gz for even better guide

It is a nice update but i would say, for does who can, use the "groundslam normal build 3.0" until level 64-66.
Then totally change for the aura's based marauder type, dropping the BM! and simply following the Lawnmower build as its the "end game build" for us marauders, the only BAD thing it is the WDF COST»very costly gear.
Because you need get the "uber gear kaom's, our to roll some pretty good gold's stats".Anyway i think the Marohi Erqi that is so famouse in the Marauder build's can be changed by a pile driver good roll, hard to get yes, but still less then the 30 exalteds perfect mahori 6L and with the High IAS much better.
A tip go untl level 66, drop the BM, get the the 6L chest use BM Gem and the reduced mana cost Gem. Now you can farm until you can get the "uber itens" and if you had the luck to get some exalteds until the level 64 get the Alpha's Howl and use The Aura gems that you need with him.

Above you can see perfect example for a question: "why human's wisemen invented PUNCTUATION". I (and probably 90% of world's popluation) are unable to read a single shit out of this post.

Would someone be so kind and TRANSLATE it into english?

NAS

It is better now NAS?

and sorry for the incoherent speech xD

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NinjaArabStrategist wrote:

I (and probably 90% of world's popluation) are unable to read a single shit out of this post.

Would someone be so kind and TRANSLATE it into english?

Funny that you bring up proper english NAS, since you have several iterations of dexternity in your guide (you mean dexterity right ?) and still haven't fixed the famous nonsensical Don’t get Armor Nodes and Elemental Adaptation by 60th level ! (you want to replace this by lvl. 60 with a before lvl.60).

I think this guide needs a 4.01 patch. :D

@lucneo
Thanks, how it's much better!

@superbobob
Yes, I humbly admit that my english is poor. I'm not native speaker nor have linguistic talent and I don't know proper collocation/pronoun/article (or whatever it is called). I would love if you would help me and check guide from gramatical/orthographical point of you. As you see I'm unable to do it myself.

I didn't have idea that things you put into example are incorrect, really. I'll correct them ASAP.

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Getting back to lucneo post - I wasn't talking about his english. I cannot blame people for bad english since mine is not better. I was talking about punctation. You probably didn't see first post, but it didn't contain a single comma, dot or even capital letter. It was impossible to judge where certain sentence ends/begins. It looked sth like this:



NAS

PS: Another thing I find myself to do often is "did saw" instead "did do". =[
PS2: For me it was always dexterNity! You destroyied my whole childhood!

Free bump and we should rename this to [Grammar Nazzi Friendly] Marauder Melee Build.

No pun intended.

Edit: Ohh the irony - spelling.