The Marauder is Path of Exile's pure strength class, which means that he's great at taking hits, and even better at dishing out punishment. His melee skills encompass a wide range of assault, from massive single target damage to devastating area of effect. In this guide, poecurrencybuy aims to share the most popular builds about Marauder in Path Of Exile Betrayal League.

 

Recommended Marauder Builds

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Marauder Berserker Builds

POE 3.5 Marauder Berserker Starter Ancestral Warchief Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- High Damage, Easypeasy, Endgame

It gives us huge stats, like 20% Aoe (so we can easy play with conc effect all the time) +100 Life, over 700phys dmg and the best part "Your physical dmg can Shock"  BUT it shocks not from itself so u still need "%chance to shock" wich we get through our jewels. 

Gems Setup

Helmets.

Abyssus gives us the most adds # - # physical dmg to attacks ingame

Low Budget

Gems: CWDT -> Immortal Call -> Increased Duration -> Stone Golem

High Budget

Gems: Shield Charge -> Faster Attacks -> Fortify -> Culling Strike

Shield

Low Budget

The Great Old One's Ward is the best Physical attack dmg Shield. The Vix Lunaris is a good Quality of Life tradeoff with the "Cannot be Frozen" and with the right corruption you can go up to a lvl 25er Herald of Purity and you dmg will be nearly the same. We take Hatred and the Purity Herald. The other slot is open for your choice. e.g. a Vaal Haste, or a Portal gem etc

Gems: Herald of Purity -> Hatred -> XXX

High Budget

The Tukohama's Fortress shield is way more expensive than the Great Old One's Ward, but u get nice Life, Totem DMG, +1 Totems(!!), 300 Armor per Totem (3 Totems = 900 Armor). The Blood Magic can be a downside, but we use it anyway so... ;)

Gems: CWDT -> Immortal Call -> Increased Duration

Armours

The best and cheapest Armour for us is the Loreweave. This armour gives us a huge dps boost, some life and raises the max resistances up to 80% (and they are fix, wich means they cant go higher through flasks, but also cant go lower from map mods like -12% max res). The Belly of the Beast is good alternative with around ~ +700 life

Gems: Ancestral Warchief, -> Melee Damage, -> Damage on Full Life, -> Increased Aoe (Concentrated Effect) -> Maim -> Faster Attacks 

Switch Increased Area to Conc Effect for Hard Bosses. You can switch Faster Attacks with Ruthless if you feel you have enough attack speed (wich is also a dmg increase)

Gloves

The Facebreaker should be clear - if you can, get some with a Curse on hit corruption, Temporal Chains for defense or Elemental Weakness / Vulnerability for offence. Vulnerability is stronger at the beginning and Elemental Weakness is stronger with min-maxed gear/flasks. Instead of Vaal Lightning Trap you can also use a Vaal Cold Snap for a good and free Frenzy Charge generation.

Gems: Enduring Cry -> Increased Duration -> Blood Magic -> Vaal Lightning Trap(Vaal Cold Snap)

Boots

Low Budget

The Atziri's Steps for Spell Dodge, Life and high armour (because iron reflexes: evasion = armour). Good Alternatives are the Redblade Tramplers or some rares with resistance, life and movementspeed (e.g. if you use the Bloodgrip Amulet). The Death's Door are way more expensive but give also good Quality of Life bonus with "Cannot be inflicted with Bleeding".

Gems: Shield Charge -> Faster Attacks -> Fortify -> Blood MAgic

High Budget

Death's Door Boots is a good choice. Bleed Immunity, All Res, up to 40 STR and good Movement Speed. The only Downside is the 50% Increased Status Ailments Duration, wich can be easy compared with a Freeze Flask. Instead of Vaal Lightning Trap you can also use a Vaal Cold Snap for a good and free Frenzy Charge generation.

Gems: CWDT -> Stone Golem -> Vaal Lightning Trap(Vaal Cold Snap) -> Increased Duration

POB Links

 

• Low Budged Tree lvl 92: https://pastebin.com/QV7e7aFv
• High Budged Tree lvl 93: https://pastebin.com/XBraKAh2

 

Marauder Chieftain Builds

POE 3.5 Marauder Chieftain Starter Blade Vortex Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- Fast, Cheap, Tanky, SSF

This build very cheap to get going. And even with brigthbeak nerf it should be very fast clearer. Its tankier than elementalist but it can't kill the whole screen with inpulsas.

Gems Setup

Main: Blade Vortex-Controlled Destruction-Elemental Focus-Added Fire-Spell Echo-Combustion

Replace Spell Echo with Concentrated Effect and added Fire with Fire Penetration for guardian and shaper fights

Movement: in gloves with faster attacks link: Shield charge, Fortify, curse on hit flammability

CWDT: CastWhenDamageTaken-Immortal Call-Blood rage

Single Target Support: Orb of storms-arcane surge-combustion

Keep an eye out on arcane surge lvl so it matches the mana cost of orb of storms. Cast this on bosses and every 8 seconds to refresh your arcane surge. For orb of storms lvl 20 its arcane surge lvl 7

Auras: Herald of Ash, Clarity (lvl 12 should be enough if you use spell echo)

 

Curse Support Blasphemy-Enfeeble (defensive) or Blasphemy+ ele weakness (offensive)

POB link

• Mapping setup lvl 95: https://pastebin.com/WpiwuyB4
• Uber elder MoM setup lvl 100: https://pastebin.com/Kd639uqw

 

POE 3.5 Marauder Chieftain Starter Righteous Fire Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- Low Budget, High DPS, Cheap

Righteous Fire is a skill that lights you on fire, giving you more spell damage and burning you for a ton of fire damage per second, while also burning everything else around you in an AoE!

Gems Setup

This differ slightly from the minmax pastebin up top ^ seeing as most players won't be able to get that tier of gear.

4 Link: BBBR

(Vaal) Righteous Fire, Elemental Focus, Increased Area of Effect (Concentrated Effect for bosses),Increased Burning Damage

IF you can get an elder helm, go for Supported By Burning Damage/Conc Effect/Essence of Horror. This allows you to use Arcane Surge + Swift Affliction instead of those 2 links. Arcane Surge adds a hidden "duration" tag to RF, allowing Swift Affliction to work. This is highest DPS setup.

Another option is Elder Helmet with Essence of Horror, Burning, Conc, and 4 Blue. RF, Ele Focus, Efficacy, Inc Area for more quality of life.

3 link: RRR IN DOON CUBIYARI

Cast When Damage Taken (as high as you can get), Molten Shell (as high as your CWDT will support), Life Leech, Iron Will (from Doon itself)

4 Link: RGRR

Shield Charge, Faster Attacks, Fortify, Brutality

4 Link: RRRB

Cast When Damage Taken (as high as you can get), Vortex (as high as your CWDT will support), Immortal Call (as high as your CWDT will support), Stone Golem (as high as your CWDT will support)

3 Link: RRR

Purity of Fire, Vitality, Enduring Cry

4-5 Link: RBBB (B)
Cast When Damage Taken (Level 1), Ball Lightning (level 4), Curse on Hit (as high as you can get), Flammability (as high as you can get). If you can get the extra blue socket, Orb of Storms will allow you to manually cast a spell that also curses for EE/EO. If you don't level Flammability past the level that CWDT is trying to cast, it will not do anything.

1 Link: B
Scorching Ray (HIGH LEVEL)

PoB Link: https://pastebin.com/WP9yMTHD

 

Marauder Juggernaut Builds

POE 3.5 Marauder Juggernaut Starter Molten Strike Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- Fast Clear Speed and Damage, Tankly, Endgame

This build is more built towards people who crave a highly tanky playstyle with up to 8,5k life while still having a very solid 1.5-2 Million DPS output. 

Gems Setup

5L

[20/20] Molten Strike + [20/20] Multistrike Support + [20/20] Elemental Damage with Attacks Support + [20/20] Elemental Focus Support + [20/20] Fire Penetration Support/Ancestral Call Support

6L

[20/20] Concentrated Effect Support/Increased Area of Effect Support

Movement Setup

You can pretty much choose whatever movement skill you like best. Bloodmagic is great for no-regen maps. Foritfy procs best of Leap Slam and Shield Charge.

[20/00] LeapSlam/Shield Charge/Whirling Blades + [20/20] Faster Attacks Support + [20/20] Fortify Support Support + [20/00] Blood Magic Support

Auras

These are our auras. Aspect of the Spider needs to be enchanted to a armor piece with an open suffix through beastcrafting. Herald of Ash is also viable. But you need an additional open socket. Anger is our main damage Aura.

[21/20] Anger + [20/20] Herald of Ash

CWDT Setups

This is for a lazy golem summoning and Molten Shell.

[20/00] Cast when Damage Taken Support + [20/00] Molten Shell [Optional due to lack of Sockets] + [20/20] Summing Ice Golem + [20/00] Immortal Call

This is especially cool. The tempest shield adds another 3% Block chances and lashes out every time we block something. This greatly helps proccing our "Elemental Overload". You can also use Warlords Mark or even Poachers Mark. Depending what kind of leech you want.

[01/00] Cast when Damage Taken Support + [07/00] Tempest Shield + [05/00] Enfeeble/WarlordsMark

Utility and Boosts

The Totem-Buddy greatly boost our Attack-Speed and does some good damage himself.

[20/00] Ancenstral Protector

Blood Rage is a great tool to boost our clearspeed. On bosses like uber elder you can even sustain frenzy charges because of the many small monsters spawning. The degen effect is entirely compensated by the super-solid life regen the build has. Level it as high as your dexterity allows.

[0X/20]Blood Rage

POB link: https://pastebin.com/re1iRveU

 

POE 3.5 Marauder Juggernaut Starter Consecrated Path Build (PC,XBOX,PS4)- Low Start Cost, Easy, Endgame

This is a build that goes straight to the enemies neck.  Very few things cause an immediate threat as you stun most mobs, even also some bosses. 

This is a 100% Fire based elemental damage melee build that utilize the synergy between the Juggernauts endurance charge oriented ascendancies and the Nebuloch mace's properties. The synergy gives the build both offensive and defensive benefits from endurance charges combined with resistance penetration from gear, skill gems and the passive tree. It also reaps the benefit from the Elemental Overload node by not being based on the Resolute Technique node, but it is not a crit oriented build.

Gems Setup

To begin with I recommend using the following core gem setups:

Body Armor

Concentrated Effect + Melee Physical Damage + Elemental Damage with Attacks + Fire Penetration + Elemental Focus + Endurance Charge on Melee Stun

Take out Endurance Charge on Melee Stun if you only have a 5-link

Weapon 1

Ancestral Warchief + Elemental Damage with Attacks + Combustion

When Combustion ignites an enemy they get -19% fire resist, it adds extra damage with the main skill.

Weapon 2

Blasphemy + Enfeeble + Herald of Ash + Flammability

Here you can choose to use Enfeeble or Flammability for either a defensive or offensive curse.

Helmet

Leap Slam + Faster Attacks + Fortify Support + Blood Magic

Gloves

Blood Rage + Enduring Cry

Optional

Purity of Elements if you have trouble geting enough resists from gear

POB link: https://pastebin.com/waTrVgZq