1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

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playingbass wrote:

Why no armor nodes?

You say armor isnt needed but I dont understand why

I was asking myself the same question... until I got to actually start properly using Enduring Cry for maintaining 4+ Endurance charges on me.
As each Endurance charge gives +10% elemental resistance AND +10% physical resistance - damage mitigation becomes a breeze and armor starts to become quite pointless (of course, every bit helps, but you'll start seeing how it does not make sense to waste precious skill points on armor)

I hope this helps :)

Is it possible to go axes?

do you have any advice on that?
you say we could use anything before taking the nodes for maces, but how should i find the dex for it?

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Drest wrote:

Is it possible to go axes?

do you have any advice on that?
you say we could use anything before taking the nodes for maces, but how should i find the dex for it?

Im 55 now and wearing a axe for 20 lvls now .... cause i crafted a 220 max dam axe and didnt manage to find any usable mace so far :(

The problem for maces:
Groundslame doesnt work with it. I LOVE sweep - no big deal for me but its kind of well "in the middle of everything". Thats fine as long as you dont get stunned or frozen your insane lifeleech (32 per hit, warlods curse, life leech nodes) keeps you alive. If you get stunned or frozen your hp inside of 10 mobs pressing sweep well drops like hell. So its dangerous to play.

Second: Axes need agi. I can wear mine with 2 agi items but its only a ~lvl 48 Basetype and needs only 53 dex. i get that from two items. Guess it will get hard to wear a better axe later cause of more agi requirment. So you need +dex on gear (making it hard to find gear) or need to waste passive skills in "big" agi nodes (their is at least one +20 node you can reach easily).

So i hope to get a good mace soon. I read that axes have higher dps than maces but they have a lot of downsides and the "free" stun of maces is usefull too i guess.

Thanks for the great newbie guide. It's very detailed and really helped me to get going.

Hi, it has probably already been answered in the 66+ pages, but ill ask anyway:

Does Ground Slam / Swipe + Increased Area Of Effect (support gem) work together?

If so, why isnt this added into the build? It seems pretty imba and safer to get additional range of the Ground Slam / Swipe attacks. U can stand some pixels futher away, and still hit mobs. Safe and secure. Thoughts?

Also, does the "Added fire damage"-support gem actually add more damage, or does it just convert a % of the original damage into fire? Lets say you have 30% added fire damage - do you do 130% damage?

It defentitly adds damage ... got a big boost from the support gem.

I guess i will get lava lash too. 30% more of ~25% (30% of 130%) my total damage should be a 7% total damage increase for 1 skillpoint?

€dit: okay its "just fire" damage that doesnt help my lifeleech and can be resisted so its kind of "low quality" damage but its still 6-7% for 1 point if i dont miss anything important.

Thanks for the guide, it has been very helpful for a newbie like me :)

What to people take for passives after they have completed the build?
Just take dmg nodes or?

Thanks for the guide. I switched from Invalesco's EK Shadow, which turned out to be very squishy. The manmode GS marauder rocks!