1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

Using MF gear and Quantity gems for both skills: GS 3.3K, HS 9.2K - with Hatred GS 4.4K, HS 12.5K

HS runs fine from my 248 mana left after Aura (28 mana cost) and w/o any mana leech in gear, you can take down a rare monster or a pack of 4-5 blues w/o the 3% leech from Warlords Mark (in case of curse-immune monsters), but you will be very low after that and it takes a while to replenish w/o a flask, so best to keep casting WarlordsM.

The lvl-nerfed Lunaris and Piety was easy with Hatred and with MF gear, i only changed my boots because i have only 50% fire res with my MF boots (with my other ones i have 77% like the rest -chaos at -60%). Stats at Piety: 4514 life, 6194 armor, 12.5K HS still using Quantity gem.

The new content feels easy too, in both lower and Upper Scepter of God i had no issues when being in the middle of large packs, my health barely moved. Only in one case i used a health flask, when faced a hard pack of blue monsters. Also almost died twice from desync, but that doen't count :P

At Dominus i changed my boots again, switched Hatred for Grace and hoped for the best. The "champions" before him were pretty easy (used a few flasks to keep life full but no close calls), but Dominus really kicked my ass (as he should do, final boss must be super hard!). Died twice, but able to kill him. Then as i changed my gear back, i saw that i forgot to switch the Quantity gem for Life Leech :/
So yea...At least now you know that you can kill Dominus with less than 10K DPS HS and maybe i could have done it without dieing...
Stats at Dominus at screenshot below.

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Now that i finished the new content, i will try first to see if i can run two Auras + having enough mana for HS (using my Alpha's Howl) without any skill tree reduction nodes, and then going BM.

All and all, i prefer using Hatred over Grace, because 4-5K Armor is not much of a deal and you are just fine without it in all cases except really hard bosses (and against them 5K armor will not make much of a difference anyways i think).

If i could run 2 Auras and still use mana for HS without having to take any skill tree nodes (ok i might use am Alpha's Howl which is not cheap, but it costs less than half of a 5L Marohi), then i feel that there is no reason to even try going pure BM. The benefits from using two of the new buffed Auras would be much too good to pass...

Besides freeing up a support gem slot for GS, i don't see another advantage in using BM at the moment. I can support 1 Aura and run HS from mana without much trouble and even without any mana leech gem or gear stat. At this point i prefer running Hatred that buffs both my GS and HS, rather than using one more dmg-giving support gem on my GS only but then i haven't tried BM in practice yet!

My Gear is unchanged, but i'll post it again (some gems are useless/not used, because i haven't used choms/jews yet):
*also note that i don't have GG gear, you can easily have twice the AR/EV rating in almost all pieces and than could change the benefits from Grace scaling...