Which to use : Inernal blow or Lightning strike or Double strike?

My maurader is currently using LS but with the new unique bringer of rain helm and soon to come free respec, i'm thinking if i can re-mould my maur utilising a more efficient melee skill. any other skills apart from the above mentioned are welcome, as long as it's useable by mace-type weapon.

the 2 main items that i'll be basing my build on :


since i'm using a mace cleave is out.

i run at least 100%+ item quantity, so 1 gem slot is taken up by IQ gem. Need opinions on which other 3 gems i should use in helm, especially which main attack skill.

1.) Lightning strike + life leech/loh + added fire/lightning?(dont really need LMP since im not aiming the projectiles, mainly using the melee part of it n letting the projs do splash dmg)
2.) Infernal blow + Melee splash + life leech/loh?
3.) Double strike + melee splash + life leech/loh?

Any useful suggestions appreciated :)

Being a LSer myself, I like to go with a set up like


I use no Auras and get 13.7K DPS. Since you get two of them for free, the other 3 Gems can easily be put in there and then I would take the Life Leech Passive over near the Marauder to save a gem space. Just my 2 cents.

Edit: Not sure what shield you're using, but if you have 80 Resist in cold and lightning, I would suggest . Makes that Physical damage into fire thus increasing DPS. Plus hitting and dudes getting Enfeeble is pretty nice too.

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not sure if 2% life leech from node would be enough, main problem is that leech from node is based on physical dmg only, while leech from gem counts ele dmg as well. i'll test it out, having another dmg support gem instead of leech would help a lot for dps.

i actually never gave much though to chernobogs, been using lion remorse because i need the hp and armor coz rest of my IQ gear gives me horribly low defence n hp.

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0rochi wrote:

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not sure if 2% life leech from node would be enough, main problem is that leech from node is based on physical dmg only, while leech from gem counts ele dmg as well. i'll test it out, having another dmg support gem instead of leech would help a lot for dps.

i actually never gave much though to chernobogs, been using lion remorse because i need the hp and armor coz rest of my IQ gear gives me horribly low defence n hp.

I use a Claw and am fine with just that as my Life Leech. And that's only 3%. I do have around 6.7 Life and nearly 400 Life a Second too which helps.

I used to use Lioneye's Remorse, but needed Fire Res and had Chernoborg in my stash and just threw it on and it gave me a huge boost in DPS (around 2-3k) so O kept it on.

And if you do want so IIR/IIQ stuff, I would say just put those gems onto Double Strike with Culling Strike. Works really well that way when on bosses and yellows.

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Shocky1000 wrote:

I use a Claw

and am fine with just that as my Life Leech. And that's only 3%. I do have around 6.7 Life and nearly 400 Life a Second too which helps.

I used to use Lioneye's Remorse, but needed Fire Res and had Chernoborg in my stash and just threw it on and it gave me a huge boost in DPS (around 2-3k) so O kept it on.

And if you do want so IIR/IIQ stuff, I would say just put those gems onto Double Strike with Culling Strike. Works really well that way when on bosses and yellows.

yea well thx to most of my items having no hp and armor like perandus belt, goldwyrm boots, iq/ir jewellery with no hp... and no kaoms coz of bringer of rain helm, my hp is my main issue.

and my fire res is already way too overstacked
so i really hate fire res now lol.

but i dont have lava lash currently, if i respec into it chernobog may be worth considering.

dont need culling strike since this is my solo charc :) that's my headache now, choosing a skill that best fits my solo farming. leaning more towards infernal blow now coz LS seems more suited for a 2H build, 1H dps is pretty lacklustre especially when i already waste slots on mf. never tried dual strike though, was wondering if it could work well. btw i dont plan on using any secondary attack skill, just 1 attack skill for both mobs and single target. LS n IB shine in that aspect, and i'm hoping dual strike with melee splash would be viable enough as an option too.

Anymore suggestions? Leaning towards infernal blow since I had fun with it on my facebreaker before changing to cyclone

How about going for an extreme Frenzy build, focusing on attack speed? Frenzy - multistrike - Lifeleech/LoH - IIQ.

Use the respec to travel to the duelist area to pick up some of the good stuff there, going for something like this @70ish:
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgEBxthYY1BQjM_2SF8_VEnnUu8Oud3yL9SPGS4n7fPdrKpyqXzZWfPAGpBVp4QaOOw4OthN2J48gW8Es_AfFE2iAIx22WFXDdIhns2nMBQgUEcB5zboZKMaVWEhhO-bg1PfWNuE2WVNR36rxb2BmSt07XrvYEsFLUCg704yCSi1YIhhUp_LIWB08RjbQ5wOrSmlnrkshVoa-6qgtLT5rK9uab6n0k3AD-St3sECcXuM974GOQ==

-Should be very tanky, good amounts of life and armour, especially if you run Grace/Determination auras. Couple of the bigger shield nodes too.
-Probably go HP - 6% IAS - Frenzy charge for the bandit rewards, giving you 5 frenzy charges in total.
-Crazy attack speed, and it's a physical damage build to take advantage of the incoming buffs.
-Since you are dealing mainly physical, you might even be able to drop the Lifeleech gem and get by with the 2% from tree and some leech gloves, letting you boost damage further with Added Fire for bosses, or Melee Splash for AoE farm.
-All 3 endurance charges are directly available if you find that the helm generates charges at a useful rate.
-Probably run Anger/Wrath/Grace auras off HP and Determination & Tempest Shield on mana. Purity too depending on how mana hungry the build turns out. Maybe some manaleech on gloves would be necessary.

Not too keen on frenzy coz getting all the frenzy nodes would take a huge amount of skill points and I didnt get frenzy charge bandit reward.