[0.10.4b] Bow Marauder (The Shocker (tm)) [**TO BE UPDATED SOON 1.0.0**]

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seiferoth10 wrote:
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Gorgatron wrote:
I like the idea of lightning arrow and the marauder because of the beginning life nodes. I do not wish to read the previous 46 pages but can anyone comment on how awesome this build is if they are working on it?

Uhh... very awesome? I'm not really understanding what you're asking here...


Well. I have a 36 marauder and I was going to go for the kripp freezing pulse build, so I'm not too far off so I can just respec a few points and do this build instead. It looks much more fun for me.
I am currently 60lv with similar build
farming well in docks, with 1500 hp
This build is awsome just got me a 4 linked bow to get lmp on lightning arrow and its just awsome now im trying to get a 4linked item to get elemental hit using frenzy for the attack speed and ele hit will never do more dps then frenzy in a 3 linked item.


I just have 1 question about gear im trying to get % ele damage but i lose dps if i use those items insted of 1-4 fire damage or such mods don't know if it's some bug or just that more of those give more dps then % ele damage mods.

i am only lvl 50 so might be my level thats playing games.

the build so far


Thanks for putting this amazing build on the boards, Venator! Finally, my Marauder does not scream like a little girl at approaching monsters. Ground Slam is cumbersome to use compared to split arrow. And I have not reached the full potential of this build, yet...

I just retired my lvl 62 Manmode GS Marauder in favour of the Shocker! The EK shadow is long forgotten... Bowknow is lvl 45 atm and I just stumbled upon
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which nearly doubles my damage. That bow coupled with a run-of-the-mill quiver like this
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make a great team.
If you can actually wear your gear with 0 Dex from quiver ;)

Reached merciless around lvl 50 and got a 5L with chain now ... thats well pathetic .... i slaugther mobs, ich can facetank yellow mobs with 2000 HP because of the crazy LOH (1 LA can give me like 500+ life on big groups, combine that with almost 2 attacks per second) .... i feel like n arpg should feel if you combine a lil gear + great specc - like a god :) (and i dont cry about the one lost passive point for playing a templar...)
Last edited by return33#2156 on Feb 15, 2013, 6:02:22 AM
Sorry if this has been asked before, but:

I'm poor and have Fork. How much of a draw back and I'm looking at for not using Chain? I have the rest of the Gems the build lists.
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ishikabe1 wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but:

I'm poor and have Fork. How much of a draw back and I'm looking at for not using Chain? I have the rest of the Gems the build lists.


Use pierce.
Hi Venator,

First off, thanks for the thread. This, along with some threads in the ranger subforum gave me a lot of ideas for my own build! (79 bowrauder)

Wanted to give some feedback and discuss a few things related to your build. Happy for anyone else to respond as well.

Possible minor adjustments:

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- 8% physical bow nodes rather than the 10 dex nodes near perfect aim? Only a bit of DPS but might be worth it?

- Near the templar start area, delete the elementalist node and the 4 int nodes between elementalist and celestial walker, and instead take the two AOE nodes, Amplify and the int node to the left of amplify to reconnect your tree.

You can use the extra skill point on life or celerity.

Net change:

- 40 int
- 10% ele damage

+ 20% radius on area skills (LA)
+ 8% area damage (LA splash?)
+ 8% life or movespeed.

Idea is to maximise # of chained LA hitting each mob in the pack. (as long as we can still max blue gems). Maybe this doesn't benefit LA at all, don't know the exact mechanics.


Support gems on LA:

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- Why life leech or LOH? I think your earlier responses said you are not face tanking. (Correct me if wrong)

Isn't natural regen, plus sidestepping/stutter stepping/kiting, plus sapping and/or seething flasks not enough?

I think added fire damage, faster projectiles or even lightning penetration would add DPS as the alternative. For my build, I need a blood magic gem instead of LL/LOH as I get additional DPS from other sources.

- LMP/Fork/Chain, tried all of these, I couldn't get it to work all that well. I tend to farm Lunaris 3 when not mapping, and there are lots of narrow areas and packs of 3-5 mobs. I found the additional projectiles on LMP and fork missed too often for my liking, and the chained projectiles did not seem to hit the mobs but rather shoot off in random directions. (I have RT)

Is this bugged, is it just desync? (I have ~215 ping). Confused about this one.


Thanks for reading!
IGN - Berkobob

Preferred exchange rate = 1 Exalt = 5 GCP = 15 Chaos
Any possibility u could include 30/50/80 skill points passive tree, as in what skills to take first?

How gear dependent is that build>?

IGN: Kebehsenuf
How do you effectively use blood rage?
you take 4% chaos dmg per sec.

and if i use blood rage, i should switch my boss arrow from burning arrow to Frenzy?

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