[1.2] Oldschool, cheap and noobfriendly "Sword&Board" Marauder

New skilltree is up. Seems like we lost some hp. Waiting for you to come up with a new tree :p

Yea, I was hoping to use this type of build for the new league, hoping someone smarter than me will theorycraft this build into the new skill tree :)

Thanks

Wtf? Looks like a completly new tree... ^^

Since the symbols for notables etc in poebuilder are all over the place atm, and I don't want to invest too much time in searching for the nodes, I'll wait a bit and think about it...

I still don't know the full implications of the lowered life in the tree. Will I actually lose life or will the increased flat gain per level outweigh this?
Do I need 150% life or will 100% be enough?
Am I good to go with those life/sword nodes or do I still need the pure life nodes?
Is bottom marauder start even worth it?
Do I want to go top left (a lot of block seems to have been removed there)?
The 2% free life leech are gone. Meh.

I like the pretty strong 10 points at the right of Ranger, Brutal Blade and Slashing Comeback, so I'll definetly want to include those. However it's a heavy point investment.

With all the Accuracy available now, I doubt I will still take Resolute Technique.

My current tree would look something like this:
click me for 101 points

First: I don't know if it's good. And this is just me clicking around in the tree without checking too much on alternative routes and making serious calculations...

It's got 33% block with at least 5% more easily available (if not BoR), 128% life, 100% accuracy (no RT), freaking 430% sword damage and 70% attack speed. ;)
RT and IR are on the path in case they are required, and I took the upper road in marauder just because the lower looked ugly as hell. ;)

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Here's another go:
Click me, 105 points
Including Scion Life wheel and block nodes there, no RT.
+42% block, enough for BoR-less max-block with Aegis Aurora
70% attackspeed
320% sword damage
100% armor
154% life
Think that's better. ;)

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I'll probably keep this post updated as I play on with this tree...
Noted a ton of crit nodes close by... Probably I'll go for a crit sword marauder next league... :)

I liked your second tree better since we are probably not going to use BoR with the new crafting changes(6 sockets!). I also love the idea of being able to crit.

I'm actually considering to go dualwielding swords with a tree like this:
click me

+37% block
+162% life (will probably use Belly of the Beast)
+460% damage (I NEED this!) ;)
+110% attackspeed
+94% armor
+60% evasion
+120% accuracy

Maybe I'll use the sick sword crit and crit multi cluster in bottom right, too.

Skills: Dualstrike+Cleave or DS+Splash

This is what i got so far for crit sword + shield:




115 points already, but there are just so many good nodes now!

My take on the subject: Click me for 112 points

Includes the insane crit nodes in the left half (some of these little nodes could be notables) at the cost of some block.
And I cut all the armor nodes you took.

Block would be around 60% with a 35% shield. Should be enough.
Insane Crit and Damage.

Okay, so am i getting this right?
The Build supposed in the first Post is still usable, until the new update shows up in 2 Days?
Becaus i started following this Build just Yesterday with reaching Level 18 so far.
So before I start leveling up further i just wanted to get a bit of clearance on this :D

But nonetheless, as far as i recall we will get am complete reset of our used Skillpoints?

@Peterlerock: Your Critbuild looks kind of interesting. Do you think, that it still will be viable without all the armor nodes? :)

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Peterlerock wrote:

I'm actually considering to go dualwielding swords with a tree like this:
click me

+37% block
+162% life (will probably use Belly of the Beast)
+460% damage (I NEED this!) ;)
+110% attackspeed
+94% armor
+60% evasion
+120% accuracy

Maybe I'll use the sick sword crit and crit multi cluster in bottom right, too.

Skills: Dualstrike+Cleave or DS+Splash

This dualwielding marauder sounds awesome, I hope you work something out once the update is out.

Dualstrike+Cleave?

Use DS for single target, cleave for AoE?