1.3 [Newbie Friendly] GROUNDSLAMMER BUILD

@skarbziemi

Good tip about quality reduced mana, wasn't aware of it. Mana leech rate unfortunately is not 20% as life leech but 12.5%. I won't be having a HS as a secondary solution but I hope it won't be needed and I guess I can carry a blood magic gem to use on the fly. Still trying to figure out how to find that 1% mana leech anyway.

@thesikaleon
Blood rage is only viable if you have high chaos resistance (like minimum 40%). I personally had max chaos res when I started using it because I didn't have Carnage Heart. After I got one I kept using it because I could withstand that AND the chaos dot from wearing Death's Oath as chest armor. Since some changes I made to my char I stopped using it because I dropped both on Chaos Res and socket slots. Benefits are 15% attack speed and more Lifesteal. If you are not high on chaos res and generally don't feel comfortable with the constant DoT on you, don't use it.

How do you feel about the changes in the tree ? Hope things are going well. Now your main goal is to Get Amplify and then Discipline&Training and Enforcer. It can take some time because levels come slowly now so when you can afford it remove the STR on the bottom and the life regen per charge to make your way faster. There isn't much you can remove besides those two, only the 4 points I talked about in the 3rd part of the respec as long as you willing to sacrifice 15% melee dmg and 18% All Res.

@Tslaine
You had 28 points left and you said you had 4 additional ones. This is what I suggest. Focused on more damage since that's what you wanted. Yes to extra Charge, no to life regen as long as you don't have a need for it and no to 8% Life because as you said you didn't want more life for now. 4 Points to get Reaver are inferior to the 5 points to get Butchery. For the future as long as you don't want to make big change, you have 5x8% Life points for survivability and 3x4%AttSpd points for damage. In my calculations 4%AttSpd equals ~13.5% physical damage. An option to get 4 points is if you don't have a use for the high life regen given by Troll's Blood, remove the points that lead to it and use them elsewhere.

As for your gear, it's pretty good, just need to work a bit on increasing Life. Gloves and Boots with life roll would help. Your gems are also solid though I don't like overlapping curses, you got 3 on CwdT. Keep in mind that there is a 1 curse cap on monsters unless you get extra items that allow you to apply more than 1. After that big upgrade will be to get Multi Strike and 5L, GS mainly.

It's usually worth it to 5L Marohi because it's a strong weapon, it adds range to GS and it's got high reselling value. 40 Jewellers is not the way to do it though. You will be needing ~100 jewellers in order to have a good chance you will 6 socket it first and then similar number of fusings in order to hopefully get a 5L or 6L if you extremely lucky.

@Garbapp
Solid build and items. Imo forget about 5linking your evasion chest and be on the lookout for a regular Armor rare 5L or a better rolled one that you'd like to 5L. In the tree get the Life nodes and when you have high armor chest remove 2xcrit reduction passives and get the upper path that gives big bonus to armor. As for Faster vs Fire as long as you can Faster to high level it's better because it boosts your physical part of your damage but if you don't have the necessary Dex (not easy to get) then Fire is better.

12,5%? that is even wors that I thought :( Do you know if it is 12,5
% of your max mana or of mana after reservation??

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skarbziemi написал:

12,5%? that is even wors that I thought :( Do you know if it is 12,5
% of your max mana or of mana after reservation??

12.5% of max mana

Just replaced my old gloves with new ones, same exact stats + 2% mana leech.


Looking for lvl20 reduced mana atm, soon I will be ready to test if it works or not. Wish me luck :P

EDIT: Respec'd to this. Run a couple of maps without any problems. With Hatred on I got 20k on Ground Slam and as long as I'm hitting monsters I almost never run out of mana. Survivability wise, couple of maps I run were relatively easy but nonetheless I had 0 problems and actually now that I use mana for everything I'm full HP so much of the time that I am thinking of replacing Added Fire Dmg with Melee Dmg on Full Life. It gives ~10% more dmg and it's physical, not fire so in reality it should be even bigger of a difference. Not sure about it but I'm gonna research it more. I'm also thinking about using Dominating blow maybe with Culling for single target if I manage to fit it in somewhere. I'm soloing most of the time, getting enemy auras could be useful.

@ eladir
I did not realize there was a one curse cap... hmm now what do I put in my 2 cwdt..lol
Maybe a freeze trap and summon skele or decoy?

@eladir

Sweet gloves, I was looking for ones like this but couldn't find any seller on Standard (willing to sell cheaper than 4 ex).

More physical on full life may not work for you, because You have low Area of Effect due to Concentrated Effect :/ You will propably get at least one hit before you will start spamming GS...
And lots of maps has "chaos damage over time" or burning ground, on those you will not be full life for a long time :(

If You had some mana shield than maybe it could work out...

But hell, try it and let me know. I would gladly switch added fire for some more physical...

Nice to hear that GS with mana works for You, as it works for me. BM is a waste of blood, i mean points/socket :)

@Tslaine



This items allow you to have 2 or more curses...
I think boots are not that bad :)

Hi NinjaArabStrategist

Great build- many thanks.

Just a quick question..you said 'Resolute Technique will make you forget about accuracy'.

Why do we then take the Executioner node and other nodes with accuracy?

Thanks again!

@Lorcain
Executioner is neither bad nor good. You can skip it to get to gain 1 point.

Replaced my Added Fire Dmg with a lvl19 Melee dmg on full life and the boost is huge. From 20.6k tooltip dps to 23.8k and it's now all physical which is more actual dmg since elemental damage gets mitigated more. Haven't done very hard maps yet but up till now I'm 90% of the time in full HP.

Dominating Blow with Culling also seems to be working well. I usually am solo so additional auras are nice. I have it in a 4L with increased duration and Immortall Call. I currently have low level dominating blow but I intend to get a 20L/20Q one which along with the Increased Duration bonus will keep monsters alive for like 70+ seconds.

@Panini_aux_olives- Yes thats exactly what I was thinking.


@eladir- 20.6k! I must be doing something as my(level 77) heavy strike damage is only 2600. Mind you this is my first proper build and I'm still trying to learn.