Marauder question!

And kinda in general for all classes

I'm in my first time playing, level 25 marauder. I was wondering what's sort of an average DPS @ this point in the game for a marauder and other classes as well. I know sometimes it's a bit hard to gauge for certain classes/skills etc. But just trying to get an idea.

Like atm I do 499DPS with my heavy strike. My friend does significantly less damage as a ranger, same level etc. We've been playing through the game together.

For my first like 15-18 levels on the skill tree i was going mostly for defensive things. Health, resistance, etc. Then i went for dmg, now back to defensive :O

It's very weapon-dependent for physical damage. It's hard to give an estimate. Maybe somebody more familiar with levelling would be able to help.

It really depends on your play style DPS is not something solid to go by.

For instance at around lv 28 my Flicker Ranger did 1500 dps.

Killed stuff and bosses moderately fast.

My Templar only did around 600 around lv 28,

killed pretty much everything 1 shot, bosses bit longer.

My Dual wand ranger, only does 150 dps at lv 25, but I chew through everything I touch.


Really depends as long as your doing ok and you understand what you need from the passive tree, your gold.

The DPS numbers are misleading most of the time imho... A better gauge is to go an area of similar level and see how easily you kill stuff, ideally as a melee toon you want to be 1 or 2 hitting most things with your main skill, this is the standard imo.

If you reach MOC and are taking longer you either need great defenses or you will die very quickly. In my experience of POE you are better off totally specialising, so if your going defensive totally commit to it, make yourself super hard to kill. Splitting your points between def and dps imo is a waste, it will be fine for most of the game but in MOC you will get outclassed (unless you outlevel the content but that wont be possible come release I dont think whatever the endgame ends up being)