[POE] 2h Mace Marauder

Chick

Cartwheel RIGHT
This guy had very little trouble getting through the First difficulty. it has a nice mix od dps and survivability while covering enough of the South-West tree to make picking up additional life, resistance and armor nodes easy if you find yourself dying a lot.

Until you unlock Resolute Technique it can be relatively painful as the accuracy with 2h weapons is TERRIBLE, so consider picking up some accuracy nodes then respeccing out of them, however once you have it you never, ever miss, making sure your life-leech is well stocked and those slow, heavy hits don't go to waste.

Main DPS Skills are: Heavy Strike Enhanced with Added Fire Damage and Weapon Elemental Damage, coupled with Infernal Blow slotted with Melee Splash and +Life Gain on Hit. This is primarily to thin out large packs and keep your health topped up, though making a room full of mobs detonate with one press never gets old.

In addition it uses Leap-Slam and a quicksilver flask or two to p[provide mobility,

Health is a huge issue as it's using the Blood Magic keystone which removes all mana (Mana management is a sod until you get it) and replaces it with Life use, so you can, in theory, kill yourself hitting things, but in practice there is enough passive life regen to make this harder.

Current Build @ 41

Target-Ish

This is fun, brutal, and pretty effective at ploughing through everything using minimal gear and skill. It's probably nowhere near optimal but along the right lines.
 

Emmon

Full Member
i like how if you want to you.. you can scratch a "min/max" itch in this game by staring at the skill tree for hours on end but if you wanna just kill hordes of beings as a senior citizen with a big stick and a toga called "XXKeanuHotDogzXX" it takes literally 30 seconds until that dream becomes reality.

I like using the traps and mines to create fun combos but even while playing i find myself thinking of what else to try next.. not through boredom, just imagination.
 

Emmon

Full Member
copy!

Miss! Miss! Culls copying me miss! I bet he's using the bear trap too and has kept double strike on right mouse button just from habit!
 

Cullhaven

Hernes Son
Dont use double strike or the bear trap Em, so far the fire one has been enough, with all passives so far in extra spell damage. I cant see where I'd get time to cast the bear trap, I throw 3 fire then corps ex like mad :)
 

Emmon

Full Member
ohhh the fire trap benefits from spell damage? i thought it wouldnt because of the skill text that says the trap casts the spell. And then the spell damage buffs the detonate dead damage too.. that sounds pretty cool.

Sorry for trying to "get you dun" :)

Anyone had a play with totems yet? not had a gem for them drop yet but after seeing the skill effects on a website they look good fun
 

30ftSmurf

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Anyone had a play with totems yet? not had a gem for them drop yet but after seeing the skill effects on a website they look good fun
Not much of one, but I did get a decoy totem on my new duelist which I've been using to group all the monsters together to be SMASHED IN THE FACE AND EXPLODED by infernal blow. Seems satisfying.
 

Chick

Cartwheel RIGHT
heh. my detonate-dead / double-strike Shadow was there, erm, first ?
It's tree is like this atm

No idea what i'm doing with it in general but it's fun as hell :)
Using: Flicker-Strike with +Lightning, Double-strike with +Crit and detonate dead with +LIghtning... probably want to swap that out but who cares. Flicker is fun!
 
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Chick

Cartwheel RIGHT
Good Lord what a night for drops:
First this drops. Throw 1 +sockets and 1 re-forge sockets at it and it becomes this 3-slotted beauty.
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Then my 1h dps problems disappear with this little beauty:
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and not 5 minutes later this drops and Pit kindly hands it over:
4t2i

Heavy strike now does 1450dps.....

And finally - a 4-linked socket chest drops. One orb later:
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Shazam :) Problems solved.. and nice Legendary for my Shadow
 

Chick

Cartwheel RIGHT
Stalled slightly at lvl 49 atm.
Though i've reccently hve a few nice gems drop which may boost the infernal blow (multistrike ra ther than a crappy +cold gem). Hope to get this chap out again soon to see how it rolls.
Could really do with a cast-on-hit gem for either enduring cry or molten shell. Does anyone have?
 

Swither

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Think I made a huge mistake going 2H duelist, as getting stuffed in standard at the end boss :( Not got enough re-specs to re-do to S&B or DW. Might shout for a hand to get past him or just start again and use my stuffed stash which is solid with gear now.
 
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