Marauder - [3.7] Rake's Tectonic Slam Equipment Guide - from League Start to Endgame - Forum

I've noticed a lot of players in this thread commenting on how much more expensive the prices are than what are listed throughout the guide. While this has also been true in my experience, I do feel that the guide was written accurately when it was published. However, with the buffs that were given to melee, and the increased popularity of these builds, it's only natural on the prices for melee oriented gear to inflate. The +1 Maim chests that everyone running this build desires to grab are also desired by almost (if not every) other melee build played this patch. If you haven't accepted that fact by now, then you will undeniably frustrate yourself into thinking that this has an outrageous price point to be viable. I cruised through maps all the way up to t8-t9 with the T5 gear, which was only a 15-30c investment. The Ahn's + 6 Link was carrying me through later yellows into early reds fine (albeit slow, and not as fun as I would've liked for it to have been). If you can have some patience, learn how to earn some currency, and expect for the REAL prices to be a bit higher than what Rake has posted, then you'll maintain your sanity and get to enjoy this build when it really opens up. Also, big thanks to Clarkseal for his adjustments to this build, which I believe are posted on page ~99 of this thread. If you haven't read some of the adjustment's he's made I highly recommend it for players struggling with mana issues and other concerns.	Posted by Darkrebel13#0200 on Jul 9, 2019, 5:43:46 PM Quote this Post
" steidlc wrote: Oni is a very nice weapon for the build with either Tectonic Slam or Consecrated Path. You just want to build for ignite so you always have Embrace up. You can use it right from the start and it scales with your level. It's also very inexpensive for a 6L, and allows you to use a 5L or even 4L chest. You will need enough life regen to offset the degen of Embrace, but it's not a big deal. You can see in my PoB that my regen is 2x the degen with consecrated ground. "No regen" maps are not fun, and "60% less regen" means you have to pay a little attention when your leech runs out. But it does very nice damage that is totally synergistic with a fire build. I have not looked at how much more damage I could get if I invested 20 to 40 ex in the build, with crazy foils and a 6L chest. 800k Shaper DPS on 2 ex is fine. (Close to 1M with flasks up.) And she talks to you from time to time... The other big decision is whether to go TS or CP. Tectonic with a lot of area is fun visually and great for clearing. Most of the frustrations I have heard are related to survivability. When I switched to CP, I found the same build to be a lot tankier. With CP you get consecrated ground, 4 (or more) endurance charges up all the time (assuming Warlord's Mark) and a lot of survivability from the CP leap. If you want to go Oni, you should look at dookleeto's Oni variant of this guide. He is showing twice my DPS with a similar build (although still TS) and I haven't taken the time to look closely at the differences. There are some obvious things like gem quality, but not sure beyond that. Thank you very much. I'm really really new just started playing POE this season, so I gona keep on TS and I will check the dookleeto's build.	Posted by Vmitsu#6262 on Jul 9, 2019, 10:59:19 PM Quote this Post
" steidlc wrote: Oni is a very nice weapon for the build with either Tectonic Slam or Consecrated Path. You just want to build for ignite so you always have Embrace up. You can use it right from the start and it scales with your level. It's also very inexpensive for a 6L, and allows you to use a 5L or even 4L chest. You will need enough life regen to offset the degen of Embrace, but it's not a big deal. You can see in my PoB that my regen is 2x the degen with consecrated ground. "No regen" maps are not fun, and "60% less regen" means you have to pay a little attention when your leech runs out. But it does very nice damage that is totally synergistic with a fire build. I have not looked at how much more damage I could get if I invested 20 to 40 ex in the build, with crazy foils and a 6L chest. 800k Shaper DPS on 2 ex is fine. (Close to 1M with flasks up.) And she talks to you from time to time... The other big decision is whether to go TS or CP. Tectonic with a lot of area is fun visually and great for clearing. Most of the frustrations I have heard are related to survivability. When I switched to CP, I found the same build to be a lot tankier. With CP you get consecrated ground, 4 (or more) endurance charges up all the time (assuming Warlord's Mark) and a lot of survivability from the CP leap. If you want to go Oni, you should look at dookleeto's Oni variant of this guide. He is showing twice my DPS with a similar build (although still TS) and I haven't taken the time to look closely at the differences. There are some obvious things like gem quality, but not sure beyond that. Thank you. I have checked his build. You have changed from TS to CP? Where is this build? I have been following the PoB and the Pag.1 and never found it.	Posted by Vmitsu#6262 on Jul 10, 2019, 8:47:01 AM Quote this Post
I posted some additional comments in the other build in answer to your questions there. I did switch to CP. My build is a variant of dookleeto's v3 DPS build for TS/Oni and my PoB is here. https://pastebin.com/cKCdYEbP I did not use a specific guide for CP; it was a good learning exercise for me to adapt several existing TS guides for my own purpose. If you want to stick with TS, see Clarkseal's comments on p. 98 of this thread. There's a lot of good stuff in there! Last edited by GreyLensman#5323 on Jul 10, 2019, 9:47:15 AM	Posted by GreyLensman#5323 on Jul 10, 2019, 9:37:23 AM Quote this Post
Anyone looking to sell their ele pen foil? I don't see any on POE trade right now.	Posted by dgmsti2012#5043 on Jul 11, 2019, 2:22:26 AM Quote this Post
" dgmsti2012 wrote: Anyone looking to sell their ele pen foil? I don't see any on POE trade right now. Got one for sale (you have to corrupt it to get 400+ dps).	Posted by Patryko#0331 on Jul 11, 2019, 9:05:42 AM Quote this Post
Best guide in this forum keep it up.	Posted by winsock#5001 on Jul 11, 2019, 11:47:59 AM Quote this Post
its still working ?	Posted by episom#6872 on Jul 11, 2019, 5:25:37 PM Quote this Post
Hey Guys, I got 36 challenges so almost done with the league. Just need the last few exalts to test some stuff before quitting this league. This armour is going cheap and willing to go below market price so PM me in game/forum thanks!	Posted by SolaceinSolipsism#3950 on Jul 12, 2019, 12:54:47 AM Quote this Post
Hi guys Red Elder T15 give me hard time. he just 1 shoot me with Ice Spears and died. can you please check my build and help me to understand why he so powerful against me? https://pastebin.com/6XuPGa4C Last edited by Anakin86#7149 on Jul 13, 2019, 6:08:47 AM	Posted by Anakin86#7149 on Jul 13, 2019, 5:44:46 AM Quote this Post