Fortify Question

Hi, I am a returning player to the game and have a marauder cyclone build. My question is about fortify and how it is supposed to be used. I see a lot of people using it and suggest it, but i find other damage support gems seem to give way more dps. I have a 6L maul and when i put fortify in my dps only goes up like 1-2k. Usually I run cyclone - blood magic - melee phy dmg - added fire dmg - faster attacks and either concentrated effect or weapon elemental dmg. Thanks in advance for help.

Yeah, that sounds about right. Fortify isn't a good DPS gem because it gives increased damage, not more damage. That makes it additive with your other damage increases, meaning the real DPS increase it gives you will usually be 10% or less.

The reason people use it in their main skill is just to keep the fortify buff up permanently. If you aren't a fan of that, linking it to your movement skill is a common alternative.

hmm i see. Is the buff that good to put in over a dps gem becasue i see a lot of builds suggesting it.

Depends. 23% (with the passives) is a LOT of DR, and the idea with Cyclone specifically is that if you can already kill mobs without going back and forth over them, extra DPS on top of that makes no real difference. Obviously your single target is going to suffer a little bit, so whether that is worth the substantial extra survivability is up to you.

Also depends on your base attack speed and how willing you are to use movement skills. If you're rocking a 2h maul with 1.2 APS base, Leap Slam is just too inconvenient to use. Faster attacking weapons and/or Whirling Blades however make it much more feasible to just stick with your movement skill for Fortify. Just don't forget to refresh your duration every 5 seconds!

I use Fortify in my Leap Slam, jump in into the middle of mobs and with my 10 APS (cleave) destroy everything in one second (100K DPS)

Works very well atm.

ya i could possibly link it to my leap slam. I have 60k dps atm with hatred. I havnt played in quite a long time so I still have 6L marohi and the -atk speed and -run speed is killin me. Should I buy disfavour or a rare mace? is either axe or mace preferred over the other? the passive trees look pretty much the same.

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ya i could possibly link it to my leap slam. I have 60k dps atm with hatred. I havnt played in quite a long time so I still have 6L marohi and the -atk speed and -run speed is killin me. Should I buy disfavour or a rare mace? is either axe or mace preferred over the other? the passive trees look pretty much the same.

Disvafour it's... disvafour hit hard & looks great, if you can save enough you should go for it, i'm playing One handed so i don't know, i find Marohi Erqui too slow for my gameplay. Mace?, Axe? only thing it matters it's DPS, APS and Sockets

One handed weapons gives me a lot of APS, when you have a lot of DPS you have a good of leech too.
If you run you skill with Blood Magic, you should not put Fortify in that link too your DPS will go down very much.
Today I change Hatred for Grace (lvl 12)I lost arround 20K of DPS but with some changes in the tree i go from 47% damage reduction to 65% and now i can run higer maps, so fortify it's a plus... life go up too i'm at 5k.

Good luck!

Its a good suggestion, only problem is i use legacy kaoms.... i have almost 9k hp and great regen with it... so i need 2 hand weapon for 6 link or i would try 2 weapons.

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Its a good suggestion, only problem is i use legacy kaoms.... i have almost 9k hp and great regen with it... so i need 2 hand weapon for 6 link or i would try 2 weapons.

Oh, I didn't know that you are palying standard, so, definetly go for 2H weapon, Disfavour it's the way to go.