1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

What sort of health pool are people running this build working with? At lvl 74 I am sitting at just a hair over 3k and it feels a little squishy compared to my 7000 es CI witch. For example I can not even tank Kole in temple 2 without getting one shotted at times. My armor is standing at 7k and I did take all of the end charge nodes. Maybe I just need a different strategy for him (leap slam?).

When farming I turn on hatred (even with blood magic) and take the hp hit but my damage goes up to 3200 dps so I can clear docks or temple fairly efficiently.

Ultimately I think I may try and pick up a 5l mahori and then socket a mana leach and try dropping blood magic. What type of health pool are people running this build working/striving for?

I have around 2,9k hp at lvl72, with Grace and Anger taking bit over 300 of that, leaving me at ~2,6k.

Thank you so much for this guide!!! It's so helpful, I'm really appreciative for this :D

Keep up the amazing work, well done!

Got 5.7k hp with Koams and hp nodes. But I do have a lot +Life on my gears.

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Irrumabo wrote:

so im lvl 50 and I feel like I am way too squishy in act 3 cruel. I have around 2000 armor with grace and am following the skill tree exactly so far. Any suggestions to improve myself?

Here is my gear:

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What the previous poster said. Get a 4-link. Right now I use heavy strike more than ground slam. I have Melee Splash, Life On Hit, Increased Melee Damage, Fire Damage. I'm at about 1600 dps with heavy trike, and just about everything and everything adjacent except blackguard soldiers die in one hit. Blackguards take 2 hits (big deal). Make sure you Warlord's Mark everything, most of the mobs in Act 3 Cruel can 3-4 shot you, so hit and hit frequently to get those HP's back.

According to the last Patchnots from 0.11, there was a Axe-passive-node Buff:

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Passive Balance:

Axe physical damage notable passives have been increased further than other weapon physical damage passives.

In my opinion those axe-specific nodes still look minor than those mace nodes. At least for a Marauder.

what a magnificent guide!!!
love it! and love you for sharing with us! ;)
great work man! ;)

is this guide of out date or still working with current patch? also is it viable at all for hardcore? with say, lots of grinding for good gear?

Also I'm new to forums, how do I "Thank", or did he literally mean just say thanks to keep this post at the top of the list?

in which case; a BIG thanks to you, what a great guide.

The orig build is still on the old patch. OP posted a note at top of first page saying he is doing some school stuff and isn't able to modify it yet, but there have been a few other people post suggestions for changes you may want to look at and work into it. It's up to you if you want to wait til he has time to work on the changes or use one of the other suggested builds.