[1.3.1] Blackdepp's Ground Slam Marauder (inexpensive)

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If you manage to get enough DEX and INT on your gear, then you can skip these nodes and put them somewhere else you like. Feel free to put the rest of your nodes wherever you like (life, damage).

Helmet:
Use a rare helmet with high life, resistances and armour.
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Chest:
A Belly Of The Beast is the best body armour for this build, but you can also run a good rare chest plate.
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Weapon:
You need a Two Handed Mace with high physical damage added and increased and attack speed.
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Gloves:
Slitherpinch takes care of sustaining mana and leeches a litte life too. It gives us a lot of DEX and litte attack speed, though it has low armor. If you have mana/life leech on jewellery you can use good rare gloves with life, resistnaces and armour, but this is the cheapest way to go.
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Boots:
Look for life, resistances and armour. Movementspeed is also nice.
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Belt:
Meginord's Gridle boosts your DPS and increases your life. If you have problems with resistances use a rare leather belt, heavy belt or rustic stash with high resistances and life.

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Amulet:
Just look for resistnaces, life and added physical damage. Try to fill up your DEX and INT with it.
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Rings:
The rings need to have life and resistances. Added physical damage or attack speed helps to boost your DPS.

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For Flasks feel free to take whatever you like but i recommend for endgame minimum 3 Bubbling Divine Life Flasks. Look for mods that remove:
-Bleeding
-Freez
-Shock
-Cursed

Other good flask options are:
-Granite Flask
-Quicksilver Flask
-Atziri's Promise (DPS & leech)
-Doedre's Elixir (to keep up the charges)
-Taste of Hate (DPS)
-Rumi's Concoction (defense)

Take whatever you like and/or can afford.

Ground Slam:
Ground Slam is your main attack. It is linked to:

-Mulistrike
-Melee Physical Damage
-Added Fire Damage
-Faster Attacks
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Enduring Cry:
You need Enduring Cry to keep up your Endurance Chages, because they are a importante factor of your physical defence. You selfcast Enduring Cry either your Endurance Charges are about to expire or your Immortal Call consumed them. It is linked to:

-Spell Echo

(Because this is only a 2L, you can combine it with Leap Slam and Faster Attacks)
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Leap Slam:
Leap Slam is used for fast movement. It helps encountering monsters and to backtracking. It is linked to:

-Faster Attacks

(Because this is only a 2L, you can combine it with Enduring Cry and Spell Echo)
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Blood Rage:
Blood Rage allowes us to gain Frenzy Charges for more attack speed and also gives us life leech. You can link it to Increased Duration if you want.
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Cast When Damage Taken:
On this character you run a high level Cast When Damage Taken to automate you defence. It is linked to:

-Immortal Call
-Increased Duration
-Devouring Totem
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Auras:
The auras on this character are Hatred, a Purity Aura (to help with resistances) and as soon as your Reduced Mana Gem is leveld up high enough you can link Herald Of Ash as well.
+ any Purity Aura
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The rest of the skill gems is optional. You can use another Cast When Damage Taken Setup or use some of the counter skills. They work pretty well with Endurance Charge on Melee Stun or Curse On Hit with Temporal Chains. For certain bosses or dangerous situations you can use the Enfeeble curse.

-Normal: Oak (+40 base life)

-Crule: Kraityn/Oak (+8% attack speed / +18% physical damage)

-Merciless: Oak (+1 Endurance Charge)

This build is fairly simple. Before engaging monsters you cast Enduring Cry to increase your physical defence. Then you attack the enemies with Ground Slam until everyone is dead. That's pretty much it.

There are however one thing you have to have a look at. Watch carefully over your Endurance Charges. If they are about to expire or are being consumed by your Immortal Call Setup you need to refresh them, to keep up your physical defence, becuase this build lacks a little armour. 6 Endurance Charges give you 24% (6*4%) physical damage medigation. Together with a little armour and a high life pool that is enough to sustain physical damage.

Against damage peaks this character runs a high level Cast When Damage Taken Setup with Immortal Call linked to Increased Duration, so that your (6) Endurance Charges are consumed and you become immune to physical damage for some time (~9 sec.). This setup also covers a Devouring Totem that consumes corpses to heal you back up. Together with good life flasks and the high base life regeneration you will be fully recovered in the blink of an eye.

This character leeches mana and life with physical damage.

To escape from dangerous situations or for faster movement use Leap Slam.

Ground Slam allows you to attack from a little distance. So if you are engaging a very dangerous enemy hold Shift and attack from your current situation, without facing the enemy to close. For these situations the Enfeeble curse also becomes usefull.