1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

Thank you for the build. Up to 48 now and things are going well. I rarely die, and it's usually due to rubber banding. Act 3 cruel is ok so far, but we'll see how it goes as I progress.

One thing is for sure though, gear is everything. You can survive for a while if your weapon dmg isn't up to par but it will catch up to you. It's really hard to find gear with the multiple red links and the stats you are looking for. I keep getting +accuracy, +evasion %, etc.. no luck!! For now just hoping t stack orbs and buy items when I see them in trade chat. I still have a ways to go to compete your base build, but I am enjoying it a lot more than my ranger in the 40s.

So with this build, it says something about having a few skills with the support gem Life On Attack, do you have to put that support gem in the linked item along with the specific skill? Like you can have it for sweep + life on attack support gem, then another item with cleave + life on attack support gem..? Is this right?

Seems like a decent build so far though, but I'm not very high level. Is it going to be good at the end-game?

Yes, and yes. Although you can't use Cleave with Maces =(

Ah good then, I was getting totally confused by getting 2 of the same gems and wondering if that was right or not - now I've just gotta find the items with enough red sockets, ha...

Yeah, shame it doesnt work with Maces, I think I'm not gunna use cleave because of that and just go full 2H mace, seems to benefit from all the right skills.

Cheers for the reply - what level is your Marauder by the way?

Thanks for this build! I'm currently lvl 42 and this build works quite well and is very fun to play with. I managed to reduce the needed nodes for the basic build by 2 like this:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEBAnEEswUtDjwPzBQgFE0UcRkuGekaOBznIPAkiyfVJ-0otTIJOlJAoEE_ROdQR1BQUeZUSVYEVw1YY1nzXz9gS2CIYVJqHmo7cql07Xrve4x8u3zZhmCMz5BVnCeezZ_LoJ2iAKZkpzCnhKgYqWisqrQvud3AGsRYxYrG2MmY0iHZYd7B37_kredS7hTvDu9O8B_yL_ZI974=

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Pesusieni wrote:

Thanks for this build! I'm currently lvl 42 and this build works quite well and is very fun to play with. I managed to reduce the needed nodes for the basic build by 2 like this:

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEBAnEEswUtDjwPzBQgFE0UcRkuGekaOBznIPAkiyfVJ-0otTIJOlJAoEE_ROdQR1BQUeZUSVYEVw1YY1nzXz9gS2CIYVJqHmo7cql07Xrve4x8u3zZhmCMz5BVnCeezZ_LoJ2iAKZkpzCnhKgYqWisqrQvud3AGsRYxYrG2MmY0iHZYd7B37_kredS7hTvDu9O8B_yL_ZI974=

I'm pretty sure the original build is setup so you can grab endurance charges if you wish to.

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reks88 wrote:

I'm pretty sure the original build is setup so you can grab endurance charges if you wish to.

Even if you do grab the endurance charge, you still use 1 less node compared to the original.

Yea. This 'lack of optimalization' was made on purpose, to make people able to pick those 30 INT node and DEX node, if they would need it somewhen =]

It also makes going into the "Iron Grip's Health" build cheaper, but that's probably a tertiary concern

If you take Bloodless and skip that 10 str, you would've traded 10 str for enemy cannot leech life.

I'm not sure if this is intentionally unoptimized or is enemy leech life not something to worry about?

Also, if you don't mind, can you give an example of the same build with 20 ish more points and completely optimized? I'm scared to put any points anywhere past what this tree has shown because I'm scared that it might be wrong XD