Advice on a Bloodmage/High health regen/tank marauder please!

Ok I am conflicted as which way to go with my Marauder, I know i want to get blood magic, I know i want to get high health regen and really stack that.

But I dont know after that, do i want to do 2-hander, Sword & Board, I kind of thought it might depend on the item i find, but that will leave me selecting damage passives later...

What would be your advice to do with this build, this is the base I have, but where to go with it from here is the question.

What I have so far.



Where I want to go. (kind of)

No help?

Bloodmage lol?just using BloodMagic or you wanna use spells too & spellpower|?if you want spellpower than its mostly wands but some other weapons too ^_^ .
Please be more specific next time lol...
Or you made refference to Dragon Age's bloodmage or idk?

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rocfor3 wrote:

Bloodmage lol?just using BloodMagic or you wanna use spells too & spellpower|?if you want spellpower than its mostly wands but some other weapons too ^_^ .
Please be more specific next time lol...
Or you made refference to Dragon Age's bloodmage or idk?

I think is about Blood Magic :)

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Hammer88 wrote:

No help?

Decide which type of weapon you want to use since it can affect the pathway of your nodes. I'm currently using a 2h Mace and it's pretty good since it only requires strength to use.

I can't use any dex or int type of equips/skills but so far it's been no problem.

If your going for 2h Mace so I can give some advices :D

Oops, wow yeah Blood Magic. Derp...
Ok to make my question more specific, if I go two handed, I lose the possible bonus from a shield. And if I am going a high hp regen, do I need that shield to truly tank? Or can you tank well and go two hander?
I don't want to go too heavy tank, because then I won't be able to kill anything. I just don't know what is the right balance, does that make sense?
I wish there was some way to turn a ton of health into damage.

For the highest life regen I suggest you take the nodes around Golem Blood in the duelist area rather than waste so many points on just .4% in the templar side.
I think you have more than enough damage nodes, in my opinion life % is more important since both life regen and life steal rate scale with it.

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Hammer88 wrote:

I wish there was some way to turn a ton of health into damage.

Oki doki homie ;) i got just the thing for you :>

Use DUAL (/double... X 2 !) REDBEAK weapon ;)
+ 100 % DAMAGE WHEN LOW LIFE ( under 30 % or 35 % hp forgot anyway ) = 200 % dual
with the keystone passive - PAIN ATTUNEMENT + 30 % i think spell damage on low life ( and someone told me it adds AFTER THE 200 % damage so it gets around 270 % damage because the pain attunement comes after the 2 redbeaks :D )

= epic huh?:> BUt you will have to focus on spells
OR i dont know for sure if there is any SKILL that ACTS LIKE A SPELL ( gets bonus from spell nodes/Pain Attunement too) cool a?
Try my ice spear(s) ( machinegun spear or multiple spears) witch with redbeaks & bloodmagic etc.
You can reserve lots of HP with 1-3 auras & get the bonus permanently :D . Some use a trick - bloodmagic on auras to reserve hp & use mana to cast spells but using blood magic&life leech gem & vaal pact is best,more compact (passive-skill-tree-wise)

UNtill i reach bloodmagic ,later,im using the Malachi's mask :D forgot the name ( it adds bloodmagic to all spells & stuff but the only thing that sucks/rocks depends on situation is +100% increased mana cost :D it rocks caz i can reach the pain attunement bonus faster but i need life leech+vaal pact BIGTIME )

http://www.pathofexile.com/classes/witch/view-thread/51650
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EDIT : By the way - This trick i told you is a way to turn ANY hp into damage....to answer exactly your wish to turn tons of hp into damage there is only one way so far... :) item mods that REFLECT DAMAGE TO ATTACKER.I can think of nothing else :D sorry :)
But yea now that i think of it ,i guess my method is closest to your request.Because you consume hp instead of mana & you "do - DO MORE DAMAGE " with dual redbeaks than pain attunement applies too :D
But only if you go spellcaster ;) .Im not sure if there's any skill that acts as a spell too,getting bonus from both physical & spell bonuses.

This is my main current build, haven't had much time to test it since the last few changes to passive tree.



I lost a lot of health and regen since recent nerfs to health regen. I am now down to 2000hp and 88 hp/sec (down from about 2600 and 130hp/sec). Armor went up to a dead flat 10k. With the new quest that gives you an extra passive, I would get the HP bonus from the prisoner quest.

I use frenzy to build up some haste and use a quick axe to get just shy of 2 attacks per second with 2h. Combine with stun mechanic, life leech, and debuffs I do a good job of tearing stuff up.

This is all in level 50 gear or so, I haven't had much time or luck to find better gear, but I do see the potential.