1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

@eladir

i did what you said

still TREE not completed but it is just cause of the lvl76 i am right now

GEAR:




want to ask you about the blood rage

When i should use it? Seems like a suicide spell if i stop fighting for some seconds

+++Blood rage IS NOT a suicide if you have:

-High life regen
-some chaos resistance

*I was using it for a while, when I didn't have Pact of Vall


+++Blood Rage MAY BE a Suicide if:

-you have no life regen (via Pact of Vaal)
-have no chaos res
(this is my case now)

-also using BM gem make it little worse

*I tried BR with Pact of Vall and it was too dangerous


IMHO Blood Rage is worth using if you have lots of Frenzy Charges.
If you have default number (max 3), than the +15% attack speed and more life leech is not worth using it.

Take under consideration that life leech is capped at 20% of your max life per second.
Only Pact of Vall cancels this cap.
In my case 7% of life leech from physical was max I could utilize, that's why i choose Pact of Vaal.
If you have already caped you life leech with for example your Heart of Carnage and warlord's mark, than using blood rage have more cons than pros.

I hope it helps..

Love this build and all the great advise on here.
I have 4 points from taking some resists nodes out, and I am not sure where to go with them. I know life is key, but right now I am farming low 70s maps no problem. So I am thinking either
1) Get the life regen and 8% life up by Templer and maybe end charge?
2) Get the rest of the life nodes by scion
3) Get reaver
or
4) Go towards iron reflexs


Current build:


Equipment:



Stats:



Thank you for your advise in advance

I would go for option No1 !!


**Iron reflexes?
only if you have a strong item in mind that has evasion instead of armour, like BoR or Alpha's howl.. Cause it's a long way to get it and 3 pointless dexterity points on the way :/

**Life from scion circel- ok, but option No1 first :)

**Reaver circle?
I don't know why people keep taking it.. Maybe if that first one was 10-12% more meele instead of 15% stun... IMO not worth the skill points.

Those 2 "4% increased attack speed" points near duelist could be nice too, with this slowpoke Marohi of yours :P

Yea, if it would be + dmg I would take it first. You have a good point about Iron reflexes being so far away. When I get back later I will have to look into those atk speeds. I just got this mace like yesterday as a drop luckily, but it is very slow.

@Tslaine

Don't get me wrong, I love my slowpoke Marohi and never gonna give it away :D

I like it's skin also.

It just needs some more speed from tree and skills like multistrike or multistrike+faster attacks if you want to go full physical (like I did).

IMO you should switch added fire damage to multistrike, in your GS combo!!
You will have more dps and MUCH more life leech (from Heart).
If You, for some mysterious reason, don't want to loose added fire then I would switch faster attack to multistrike (it gives more dps and faster Marohi speed/response)

I see You have two Enduring Cry gems linked to 2 CwDT.
How does it work for You??

You know that cooling time of Enduring Cry is 1 second and those two share the same cooling time. They may interfere with eachother.

Hi,

I'm now level 74:

Current tree:



Gear:



(The gloves are my farm gloves, I have level 67 armour + eva gloves with attack speed and strengh )

I have hesitations about my future improvements.

I think I'll keep Carcass Jack for a while. I'm trying to link the five slots. I will use ground slam + melee phy + multistrike + faster attacks + concentrated effect.
So, do you think it is interesting to go to IR, in order to change the big value of evasion in armour? If I do this, I'll remove the 30 dext node to another node. Or should I finish the scion's life nodes before?

I'll try to get some armour stuff instead of boots and helm. Should I farm to buy a Mahori or Kongor? The price are quite the same in the league I play.

With ground slam and multistrike, wich one is better: added fire or faster attacks?

If you have some idea or suggestion to make my character better, I'll be pleased.

Hi,

If Ground Slam is your goal then Marohi is the only option (15lvl Increased Area cancels -30% from Concentrated effect).

You should take IR if you are going to keep Carcass Jack, or buy sth with lots of evasion like Alpha's Howl or Bringer of Rain.

With Marohi I would go for at least 5L and skill combo GS+multistrike+add meele physical+faster attack+concentrated effect = huge Aoe physical dps.
For 6L I would add "added fire damage" if you have BM keystone in your tree or BM skill if you want to drop BM from tree and run 2 auras on Mana (for example Hatered and Determination or Grace if you have IR).
You can also try to maintain GS from mana with one aura on it, but it's much harder.

Have not got a Multistrike yet is why I have added fire lol.
As for the 2 enduring cries, they seem to work just fine I may pull the one out of the high lvl cwdt and see if I still have my charges though.
I am going to attempt to at least 5L my marohi, I only have about 20 jewelers atm though so will wait till I can farm up at least 2x that before I try.

Recently found a cast when damage taken gem and I was wondering what is the best way to use this? I've been looking around a little bit for info. Seems like enduring cry, molten shield. and decoy totem are good choices but whats the best level for each of them?