1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

I'm currently 65 in Onslaught and this is what I'm aiming for:


GEAR

I have re-patched this build guys, when I get back from work later I'll post my tree.

I stayed pretty much on point with the build the way it is now - except I took a *little* different path of things (biggest thing is I left out all the resistance nodes at the beginning of the marauder tree).

edit -- here's my build (level 82)

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAnEEswUtDjwOrQ_MEuEUIBRNFHEY2xkuGekaOCECIVUhYCftKLUpLimlKvYt0jIJOQ46UjrYPAU9_ECgQT9DnE3YUEdQUFHmVElVqVYEVw1YY1nzXz9gS2CIYVJyqXTtdPF673uMfLiBb4M4hmCMdozPkFWRzpe0njyeuZ7Nnz6fy5_fogCi6qZkpzCnhKloqXOsqqy6tC-53bvtwBrG2MmY0iHUj9lh3D3ewd-_5K3nUuw47w7vTu988B_yL_Pd9kj3vg==

(says I have 22 points left on tree, however I'm level 82..so should be 18 points left if I'm not mistaken? I might have missed something, I'll check after work)

Gear

Basically I went a little more DPS route. But I stayed with basically everything else in the build, however I might go for steel skin next. I still have 3k life, and feel fine with it. The endurance charges are still huge, definitely get those!

I managed to get it copied and pasted and it seems to look good but I noticed you don't take Resolute Technique. Is that an oversight or on purpose since it was one of the main keystones in the orig build so we didn't miss.

Can you fix your link to the build? You can't click on it to go to it, have to try to copy and paste and its a bit difficult with the long line going offscreen. Am curious to see what you came up with.

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SamBaLam wrote:

I have re-patched this build guys, when I get back from work later I'll post my tree.

I stayed pretty much on point with the build the way it is now - except I took a *little* different path of things (biggest thing is I left out all the resistance nodes at the beginning of the marauder tree).

edit -- here's my build (level 82)

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAnEEswUtDjwOrQ_MEuEUIBRNFHEY2xkuGekaOCECIVUhYCftKLUpLimlKvYt0jIJOQ46UjrYPAU9_ECgQT9DnE3YUEdQUFHmVElVqVYEVw1YY1nzXz9gS2CIYVJyqXTtdPF673uMfLiBb4M4hmCMdozPkFWRzpe0njyeuZ7Nnz6fy5_fogCi6qZkpzCnhKloqXOsqqy6tC-53bvtwBrG2MmY0iHUj9lh3D3ewd-_5K3nUuw47w7vTu988B_yL_Pd9kj3vg==

(says I have 22 points left on tree, however I'm level 82..so should be 18 points left if I'm not mistaken? I might have missed something, I'll check after work)

Gear

Spoiler

Basically I went a little more DPS route. But I stayed with basically everything else in the build, however I might go for steel skin next. I still have 3k life, and feel fine with it. The endurance charges are still huge, definitely get those!

why no RT?

Anyone soloed 66 maps with this build and ok gear? And what normal places are about even difficulty with maps?

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Pavetsu wrote:

Anyone soloed 66 maps with this build and ok gear? And what normal places are about even difficulty with maps?

no problems :) but i died 1-2 times on bosses xD
generally is fine.



i did on 66-67 lv with few unlocated passives.

Gonna try and ask this one more time. So starting out i didnt know what the bandit reward was so when the quest presented it self i just killed all the bandits and got the skill point for each except on merc where i figured out what it was. I know these quests are very important but i was wondering is it going to effect to the point where it is worth starting over my character? Im a lvl 65 mara and im doing alright bout 1.9k on gs and 4.2k on heavy strike. please if anyone could answer this for me thatd be great.

I can not tell you how bad your decision was with the bandits since i have very little knowledge about the game, but as i see it even if you make an absolutely bad choice at the bandits it will be the equivalent of losing somewhere between a 0.5 and 1 skillpoint.

Would a single skillpoint make it worth it for you to start over?

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diablosbettr wrote:

Gonna try and ask this one more time. So starting out i didnt know what the bandit reward was so when the quest presented it self i just killed all the bandits and got the skill point for each except on merc where i figured out what it was. I know these quests are very important but i was wondering is it going to effect to the point where it is worth starting over my character? Im a lvl 65 mara and im doing alright bout 1.9k on gs and 4.2k on heavy strike. please if anyone could answer this for me thatd be great.

I have same problem that you've got and i think that starting everything over for like 100hp and 12% physical damage would be stupid, it depends also on amount of time that you spend playing poe every day and week, it's just about your intentions, if you want a perfect character you know what to do but if you just want to have good time playing, stop thinking about it and just play this game.

I do take RT - sorry, like I said I figured there was a few allocations that I missed! Was doing it in a hurry, or else I would of been late for work :(. I'll re-do it now!

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEAAnEEswUtDjwOrQ_MEuEUIBRNFHEY2xkuGekaOCECIVUhYCftKLUpLimlKvYt0jIJOQ46UjrYPAU9_ECgQT9DnE3YUEdQUFHmVElVqVYEVw1YY1nzXz9gS2CIYVJyqXTtdPF673uMfLh82YFvgziGYIx2jM-QVZHOl7SePJ65ns2fPp_Ln9-iAKLqpmSnMKeEqWipc6yqrLq0L7ndu-3AGsbYyZjSIdSP2WHcPd7B37_kredS7DjvDu9O73zwH_Iv8932SPe-

Still can't figure out what's wrong though. It says 21 points left, however it should only be 18 (since I'm level 82) so either my thing glitched whenever I re spec'd my own tree (I had 6 points to use because I gained 6 levels) because I reset it when I had +6 passives already to use..maybe it screwed up there? I have no idea.

But anyway, the builds pretty much the exact same, just with some more DPS one's. Those can be taken out and you can make your way up to steel skin by the duelist tree (30% armor) preference I suppose.

Btw, I run 75+ maps just fine :). My dps rose a ton with these nodes. Ground slam is now 7.4k DPS with my fire gem (5.4k with item quantity, which I usually run) but still that's pretty damn good damage with a 5L marohi's. Heavy strike is at 11.6k :).

Any critiques? I can't drop every life node, they are to valuable. But I only have 3k life (200 is taken up by Grace) but I like how I'm doing still, build is still very viable.