[0.10.1g] The Groundshocker: Dual-Wield Elemental Ground Slam Marauder

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Raoul wrote:

I just wanted to be sure of something: we want to deal Elemental Damage, fine, but Ground Slam doesn't provide any, right? So the sources of those elemental damages are gear and support gems, right?

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Now then, which weapon to wield? It should also be noted that for purposes of the use of ground slam, the weapon type in the offhand is irrelevant, as only the mainhand weapon is ever swung. It should *also* be noted that because of this fact, many features of the offhand weapon will be *wholly ignored* (yes, really, ignored; see the section on idiosyncracies for further details) when using ground slam. This includes:

- The base weapon speed of the offhand weapon
- Any +% attack speed bonuses of the offhand weapon
- Any +# integer elemental damage bonuses of the offhand weapon

Yep, totally ignored! Got a super-fast, one-handed weapon with +% attack speed and +fire and +lightning damage? Worthless in the offhand! Ground slam will ignore it utterly. It will provide *absolutely no bonus* to your ground slam damage other than the simple fact that you've wielded an offhand weapon and thus benefit from the dual-wield bonus. You may as well hold a rusty spatula in your offhand.

So if that's the case, what *should* we wield? Well, we're going to want a weapon that will increase our damage. Integer elemental damage won't work for that; those are only applied when the weapon itself is swung. But *global* modifiers will work. Such as:

- +% weapon elemental damage
- +% damage on a particular element
- +N to gem levels

So *global* modifiers like "10% increased weapon elemental damage", "12% increased lightning damage", etc, will work. And what's the one weapon type that's absolutely guaranteed to give us a bonus to weapon elemental damage? Again, it's our friend the scepter!

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ghoultek wrote:

Just a few questions:
1 - If "% Increased Spell Damage" is on our off-hand weapon does it increase the damage output on the main-hand with Ground Slam?

2 - Can the elemental damage from Auras and integer elemental damage on main hand mace crit. (yes, I know you are picking Resolute Technique.)?

3 - Since Ground Slam will only use the main hand mace for attacks, how come we aren't considering daggers, wands, and spirit shields for off-hand (yes, I read about the attack speed increase when dual wielding.)?

I ask about daggers, wands, and spirit shields because they can roll (AFAIK):
- % bonuses to physical damage
- % bonuses to spell damage
- % bonuses to spell crit, Intel
- % bonuses to mana leach
- flat integer bonuses to life and mana
- % bonuses to mana regen

... and level 10 daggers have the implicit 40% Increased Global Critical Strike Chance stat. Again I know you are picking Resolute Technique in the build, but I'm quite curious as I rolled an Ele. Bow Marauder using VenatorPoE's guide and an Ele. Slammer using this guide.