1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

For no-crit builds Kongor's is pointless.

20% chaos from Ming's Heart is light years better than leHeups +%...

Hi there :) Nice thread, really loving it so far. Currently Lv 61, around 3.2k Life and just entered Act 2 Merciless - no problems so far.

Current Build


Items

Not perfect but working on it. :)
Gonna get a carnage heart next and then I might remove the LL gems.

Currently I run 6 endurance charges and my resists without them are 50/75/75 ... so I might be able to drop a few resist nodes if I want to rely on the endurance charges (they give me +24%).
Is this viable? Or better to be safe and have max res even without charges up?
Also might try to run more blood rage for 3 frenzy charges. Not sure though.

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skarbziemi написал:

CwDT- trigger skill gem. Upper Left Socket in helmet below.

Hi,

I am starting to have trouble in Cruel Act 3. My resists are capped, except for Chaos. Possibly my defense/armor isn't high enough? I am not sure. But it seems I die quickly to larger mobs in later sections of Act 3 such as Imperial Gardens, etc.

Here is my gear:




Tree:





I would like to get the gems shown in the post I quoted above. The CWDT gem is nice and the gems linked to it could help me. I have the vulnerability gem now. But do not have the enfeeble or CWDT. How much can I expect to spend on these? Will this help me?

If you guys could take a look at my gear and give me your thoughts I would appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

First hint: Exchange sweep and ground slam gems (put it in the 3L boots) and use ground slam as your primary attack from a distance.

Sweep requires you to get surrounded and thats probably killing you as your life leech might not be enough yet to sustain the incoming damage.

Second hint: Start using endurance charges, they give good physical damage reduction, will also help a lot. Get enduring cry for this.
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Endurance_Charge

CwDT is about 5 chaos. It will help you a lot if you combine it with defensive spells like Molten Shell. I use mine combined with Molten Shell, Rejuvenation Totem and Warlords Mark.
Just do not level it up endlessly as the trigger will start to get high around lv10 and also watch not to outlevel the gems you want to cast with it.

~b/o 4.5 exalted

thinking about buying this good price?

@jagan5454
For a Unique Marohi. Generally the highest possible pDPS 2h Mace, I've seen some above 600, Marohi can't reach that. Ming's Heart is also a lot better and also extremely expensive.

@torytrae
It is viable but definitely not ideal because you are relying in end charges and it's not easy to have them all the time on. Moreover there are items that your resistances get lowered, either by map mods or monster curses so IDEALLY you want to be ~20% overcapped in all ele resistances and that combined with charges should keep you 100% of the time on ele dmg mitigation. That is very hard to achieve though so you need find a balance between the two. Balance is a key thing in building characters.

As for Blood Rage personally when I started merciless I put emphasis on building chaos res and thus I've been using Blood Rage for a long time. You need to calculate the actual damage you will be taking from it and compare it your life regen and see if it's doable. When doing Maps you also gotta pay attention the map mods because some of them affect those calculations like the 50% life regen.

@Dacar92
Switch your tree to this. I've removed useless/weak points and added strong ones (Life leech and path of the warrior). For your next 6 levels work on finishing the big circle of Life points going from the bottom in order to get the 12% quicker. After that work your way in the Duelist area towards Master of the Arena, Acceleration and Leather and Steel. Also when you feel comfortable with your survivability get the 3 attack speed points (Berserking).

As for your gear, it severely lacks Life. Get Gear that has both Life and elemental Resistances. Don't pay too much attention in other stats like Armor, rarity etc. for now. Also try to get mov speed on your boots, it helps you to progress faster.

Gems and links are your biggest problem. You seem to have not grasped how they work exactly. Choose 1 single target skill (you got 2 now Heavy Strike and Glacial Hammer) and 1 aoe skill (you got 2 now Ground Slam and Sweep. This guide is about the first ones (HS & GS) and put those in your biggest links. Your current gear has 1 4Link and 1 3Link. In the 4L put GS with melee physical+Faster Attacks+Added Fire Damage or Life Leech or Multi Strike (need to buy this one for a few chaos). In the 3L put HS with Melee Physical+Added Fire Damage or Life Leech or Multi Strike. The only core other gems you need are Enduring Cry which gives you endurance charges that make you tankier and Leap Slam that helps you position yourself better or escape by leaping. You also need to use a curse. Popular options are Enfeeble and Warlords Mark. CwdT gem is a way to use Enduring Cry and Enfeeble automatically whenever you take damage. CwdT will also cost a few chaos but be careful to understand it's level requirement mechanics. If it's confusing to you buy it at level 1 and don't level it up. Then link with it Enduring Cry and Enfeeble both of which shouldn't be higher than level 5.

Work on all these things, if you still having problems, grind 2-3 levels in areas you can farm safely and then try to progress. If you still having problems give us an update on your situation with you level, tree and items again.

@pelll
Personally I am disappointed by how difficult it is to get good armors and weapons and 5L or 6L them. So my plan is to gather enough for a Bringer of Rain, lose a bit on the survivability side but gain on DPS and the biggest gain of all, manage to 5L++ with small cost.

Gonna change the Mace for a Marohi Erqi but need to get money first :) Then changing my chest !


Any suggestions guys? On the build i'm gonna take the few life nodes on the bottom right then go take the rest on top left :)

Hi all, i'm kind of "busy" these days, but here are the results from testing a BoR ;)
Didn't like it and i will re-sell it, so if anyone wants me to test something let me know now!

Happy Holidays to all :)

@boguaz:
Fist of all you can save one point by not "double connecting" to the Duelist area. If you also respec Executioner (it's only 12% dmg and there is a better 15% anyways in the start of our tree), then you take Acceleration for the same tree points :)

EDIT: But take Skull Cracking first!!! Also where do you want to go with that +10dex node in that area? Don't double-connect, try to find the most optimal route ;)

About gear, besides the need for better gloves, boots could had better life/res stats i think...
And i don't know about the ring, let us know how you find it!
And if only your armor had a high life stat... :/

Oh and try to get rid of those Leech gems, you have tons already from the Heart, should be good with that (maybe)...

EDIT: This is a plausible 96p tree i made, still only a quick thing i came up with and still only my personal opinion! ;)

@boguaz
Your passive tree seems to have some peculiarities but I don't think you will be having any problem to reach end game with that gear so keep doing what you're doing.

@Monty_The_3rd
Yea it seems not to be worth it. I intend to buy one BoR and try it out on my char too. Main differences will be that I won't be running IR and auras. So I will be having like a 15% to dodge, a 15% to block and something like 40% dmg reduction from armor which I will probably enhance by running 2nd granite potion instead of 2 quicksilver ones.

The biggest gains will be +Health since I'm running a Deaths Oath and of course better links. I will either be using GS+HS+Multi+Added Fire+BoR's melee+BoR's faster+BoR's blind (not useless since I can dodge) or HS on its own and a Concentrated Effect.

Negatives will be losing 12%All res, 11%AttSpeed, 45 All att and 5% Leech from Death's Oath and 27% fire and chaos res from helmet.

It's a tough call that's why I intend to not sell the current ones in case I don't like it and want to switch back. In Dom League BoRs go for 8 exalts, I currently have ~3, hoping to sell a mace for 3 exalts so I might get it soon and try it out.

Can you test GS+Conc+Melee+Multi and HS+Melee+Multi+Added without BOR DPS and then on BOR GS+HS+Multi+Added DPS on both ?