1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

Link added fire damage and multistrike. Get life leach from passives, jewelry and gloves or a wurms molt belt (cheap) so you can socket more damage gems with ground stomp. If you are farming just take the life hit and run hatred (I did this even before dropping blood magic for faster levelling). Get a carcass jack if you can afford it for the extra area range and damage.

Once you get more dps you can get by with less life leach so there is a bit of a hurdle to get over initially as you balance damage vs survivability, once you get over it your dps will skyrocket.

Building a marauder that way right now. Thanks!
Wished someone had written a build like this for ranger.
Or maybe someone already know a post for that?
Sorry my English i know...

I am following a ranger build from ZiggyD that is getting pretty good. Says its one of the easiest beginner builds. Check out the video in this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCJs79oLPk8

hi all

I really enjoyed this post, and spent some hours to lvl this kind of toon (firsts one were so ... well crappy I guess^^). I successfully did a1 merciless and beginning acte2. I am now facing a wall : should i keep on grinding on fellshrine ruins or similar area before trying hard to complete the story line (death penalty is blowing my mind sometimes^^) ?

Any advice for a fresh lvl 60 nooby ground-slamer ? Still looking for a improvement for my weapon (crafted 20 lvls ago ...), maybe someone can help me to fix it ?



Do not pay attention to gems socketed, my attacks gems are socketed in chest / gloves or boots.


I have already a quite good chest



I have (unbuff) around 2k life, 1k5 armor and resistance beetween 20 - 60 % (except chaos ...-60 % of course !!)

Have fun with your comments!!

PS : not english native speaker, sorry for any faults :)

Neat

My build

Level 86 marauder. I pretty much follow the same guidelines, with a few tweaks. I did go down and take the eva/armor nodes (cloth and chain) but I can easily re-spec out of it for a few regrets and spend the 6 points on either DPS nodes, or etc. I do take the 2h attack speed right node but I spec'd out of it so I could get cloth and chain, so next level I'll be taking the attack speed again.

Also here is my gear.

I run end game maps all the time, can solo but mostly I do with party. I run 3268 life, with 206 reserved from grace.

Ground slam is 5.5k DPS, with quantiy gem. With added fire, it's 7.6k DPS.

Heavy Strike is 11.5k DPS. With my endurance charges up I'm around 200 life per second, and 84% physical reduction from melee. Capped resistances at 77%, and +53% chaos res as well. I'm saving up for kaoms currently, so that will dramatically improve my lifepool. But I must say, my friends are always surprised at how tanky I am. I rarely die, (knock on wood) even with such low life. For some maps I swap out quantity gem for life leech, but even with 5.5k DPS it's very sufficient. You got to remember how many mobs you attack with the increased area of effect (thanks marohi's) and it's beast.

My belt and gloves need upgrades the most, but that could be done pretty easily. I'll try and 6L my marohi's someday, but it was pretty hard to 5L :D.

Is "Elemental Adaption" still worth to be taken?

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An increase from 75% to 80% would bring and 25% lower elemental damage!

Since "EA" now only grants "2% to the maxmum Elemental Resistances"...

EA still grants 10% more reduction to elemental damage. I think the node is worth it tbh.

- I say this because, what other node would you spec into?

I hope OP updates the passive tree soon.

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SamBaLam wrote:

EA still grants 10% more reduction to elemental damage. I think the node is worth it tbh.

- I say this because, what other node would you spec into?

Yes, perhaps you are right.

I refunded 3 Points and now my tree looks like this:


I'm using a carnage heart, so i need more life than usual. -> Next goal is to get those 3x 6% Life Nodes, i haven't taken yet. With active grace i have 2969 Life at the moment. Could still need more.

But i guess this is a real long term goal. The leveling goes sooo slow at the moment. 66/67 oder even 68 Maps give perhaps 1/2/3% experience. :/