[1.0.0.6] Markovian/Warborn Commando - Juggernaut - high physical dmg shield build + Crucible farmer

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Questions from a old but fairly inexperienced player at the higher end.

1.) Can i start a fresh lvl1 character with this build, and follow the point / devotion setup and get to 85 comfortably? obviously with items found along the way?

2.) Do you have a guide of where i should spend points every 10 or 20 levels or so?

3.) Devotion, is there a recommend path for spending Devotion points while levelling?

4.) What item affixes should i be on the lookout for?

5.) What item enchants should i be aiming for?

Apologies if this is many questions, i have played GD for a few years, never got past lvl68 as the characters i made always fell short, i really want to get to 85 with a character and feel a sword and shield approach is going to be my best bet, as im fairly inexperienced with the games mechanics, i need help with where to put what etc.

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Hi

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Blitz is Fantastic for AOE and face smashing both early and late game. My advice early game put around 5 levels max in Cadence, 1 fighting form, slowly max Deadly momentum (very important), max blitz slowly Blitz (+1 Blindside for AOE), and then start maxing Bulwark. For leveling put Falcon Swoop on Blitz (51% chance and hitā€™s 2x) early and then Assassinā€™s mark on Cadence. You will destroy content. Remember to put some Ectoplasm in Jewlery because Blitz costs a lot early game. Don forget some life steal. Vampiric or of voracity affixes, hollowed fang, or ghould devotion 4% life steal as you level. Later on, haunted steel will do.

I wouldnā€™t level with demmo, I donā€™t find Cannister bomb to be that fast. Itā€™s spectacualr early game sure but has long CD. Blitz + Deadly momentum+ Bulwark feel very good friom start to finnish.

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Thanks for the update Superfluff, would you recommend sword and shield from the start or go with a 2h while levelling to a certain point?

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I personally like to play my builds as they are meant to as soon as possible. Go Blitz + Falcon Swoop with Deadly momentum and Bulwark with confidence and you will see why:p

But, if you want to, you can blade arc to lvl 35-40 sure. Whatever you chose use some ectoplasm because Blitz and blade arc are energy hungry

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Perfect thanks! i will play it the way you intended it to be played :slight_smile: Sword and Board from the get go!

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thank u very muchā€¦also for the quick respond :slight_smile:

just one last question, due to the drop of the ā€œShard of Beronathā€ Blueprint for me, 5 min agoā€¦not to mention the fact that i even didnt know about the very existence of a lvl 55 Legendary component Recipe^^

i wonder if its worth to be used ? the description sounds pretty nice ofc, but is it more useful than a haunted steel on the weapon? which is btw fucking useful :smiley:

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Shard of Beronath is an auto attack replacer. It also conversts 10% of physical to elemental which is very bad for this build because itā€™s a physical damage build. Not to mantion that Cadence+Deadly momentum does 100 times more damage than Shard could hope for.

Shard is good for different builds where you need an auto attack like spellbreaker witch hunter and other gimmick builds

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allrightā€¦niceā€¦that saved my last olerons blood^^

and againā€¦thank u very much :slight_smile:

greetings

Ica

edit: omfgā€¦hours later i reallize nowā€¦sry for my ultra-hard-failed-question -.- i thought the whole time it works in addition to cadence like the usual other components lol :smiley: just looked a bit upset at my olerons blood, which i crafted for these shard cause now i could need the seal bindings for other stuffā€¦so i red the shard description again while i swear like a trooper and thenā€¦bam bamā€¦my mistake jumped directly in my face^^

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hi there, first post on the forum :smiley:

first of all great guide, we have similar builds but my toon is blademaster anywayā€¦ ill try to give some advices if you dont mind

  1. your OA is kinda low imo, you can try this devotion setup to raise it min 200, just losing %6 aspeed i guess

*sadly cant post links due to its my first post, so ill try to tell the abit better tree than this

  • get panther + viper + 4 points in dire bear , is way better than your current devo setupā€¦ i was using similar to yours and this one performs noticably far betterā€¦

i have +5 or 8 k more dps than you even i am blademaster without temper, +250 more OA or 300 dont know, and +350 more da with this devo treeā€¦

  1. imo siegebreaker shield is no no no , for this build :smiley: %4 phys res from oleron + %4 from shoulders and having %100 armor absorb with 1800-1900 armor with bulwark is wayyyyyyyyy to enough to tackle whole physical damage threat content in game. phys dmg is not the concern of this build, its still unavoidable ground craps and magical dmg drops my hp, prolly its same for you tooā€¦ tho you have blast shield i have pburst and some avoid.

vanguard of the legion, is trully unbeatable for warborn setupā€¦ dont get me wrong i have tested siegebreaker its great buuuut nowhere near this legion vanguardā€¦ on the other hand skull symbol on shield totally fits warborn concept aswell lol. and due to it has crap ton of crucial resist and %DA you should give it a try.

  1. if you check my devo tree, it has viper constellation will allow you to free your ectoplasm, and you can combine it with arcane spark on medal to get more mana magement going on with ofc shiny %3 oa buffā€¦

  2. with warborn setup i see you are not %100 comfartable vs madqueen, she is bitch even with blast shieldā€¦ reason is you have -%25 life leech resistance which is one of her signature attackā€¦ she uses twin fang from bat constellation and dmg is nasty.

i highly reccommend using oblitoroxwtf its name dont remember ring to get + life leech resistance, and if you can overcap your vitality res upto +83 would help vs her too, also +pierce resistanceā€¦ if you ever used mad queen claw, i kinda think she uses mad queen claw proc attack, and her main atttack portion is pierceā€¦ thats why markovian guys always have ez time vs herā€¦

in the end classy work and great guide, and my first post goes to hereā€¦

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Hey and welcome. Thank you for the kind words and advice:)

I wrote some stuff with red

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I basically did , I found that it was a little slow up till around lvl 35 , from 35 - 40 things changed .

Now Iā€™m at lvl 65 and up to Log in Elite , tbh it has been a joy , barely losing health , probably change against Log .

I did find an Empowered bonesnap gavel and boy is that dishing out the pain .
I followed the ā€œNewā€ Grimcalc . Very easy to follow .

650 hours and still no Markovian pieces except the amulet has dropped . Traded hearts etc for the shield and had someone kindly make me the helm with my mats . Fingers crossed something else will drop .

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Superfluff - I just dinged 62 and am running Steps of Torment for the giggles. I had a S/B Blademaster that I got up to Homestead in Elite, but he was struggling with survival.

This buildā€¦even having random legendaries (except for boots), Iā€™m melting through content.

Cheers, buddy! I appreciate the effort you put into this.

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Very glad you are having a good time with it:)

@feelgodstoya Ok I put together my blademaster really fast (nevermind resists) to what I think you did and it seems itā€™s possible but only with Lethal assault maxed. I am actually intrigued by this.

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hello Superfluff, i believe the grimcalc from OP are only for markovian build
iā€™am interested to see how you distribute the extra skill points with warborn setup. :>

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You were doing something wrong than. BM is even tankyer than commando.

You can do it easily even w/o lethal assault.

This is end game S&B setup w/o lethal.

P.S. I could up OA to 3k easily at cost of some 5-6k dps.

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Ah you have dire bear. I went charriot again. Iā€™d also ry reaver calw with nadaan and blesses whetsone. has only 8k less dps but potent

Edtir: @Drizzto. Hey havenā€™t seen you around in a while. Oh itā€™s just cadence that has extra +4 and i take them out and put 2 in bulwark and 2 in Vindictive and maybe some +1 from peerless eye on military conditioning and field command i also distribute them to Vindictive or Flame touched for more OA

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Yes this setup is with dire bear :slight_smile:
But not just that. For more OA I could swap ring (for of attack one) belt (BBS) and chest component and thatā€™s alone would be something like ~300 or even more OA. If you add chariot and few pts in anatomy to that you are above 3k w/o lethal. But for shield build its not so important and this is defensive setup after all :wink:

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lol at my type-oā€™s. What do you think about the reaver setup. I also had unknown soldier in that picture for that very reason

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It will work for sure and it will give you cutting edge cuz reavers claw is faster weapon with much more +% to atc speed, nice OA bust, and there is +1 to soldiers skills. But personally I just dont like mixing two dmg types if dont have to :slight_smile:
You can try to go pierce as much as you can also and use nights chill. Tho its hard with Markovian armor.

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well i had 3.1k OAi would well over go 3.250 with greedy devos with zero buffs and olerons rage, 80 all res including stun :smiley: ofc no lethal assault or item procs and 75k dpsā€¦

with just deadly momentum and menhirs bullwark i have 79k or 78k with 80 all 76 chaos resistwhich can be 80 or 83 i just dont care atm, with 12 phys res on top of thatā€¦ using 1 crushing crownley signet of attack with 97 oa and gg flat phys dmg makes diff i guess, and since demo offers temper, nightblade also so much to offer for melee class, fumble avoid speed, more cunning and even bleed and fucking pburst :smiley:

like i said we have diff devo trees and i prolly has more pts in shield training might make differenceā€¦ and hell yeah that crownley ring aswell since flat dmg is huge for buildā€¦

and no i would never ever go chariot with this build since panther, viper, hawk and even living shadow leftover nodes offers more than chariot with lower costā€¦

  • also reason why i went bmaster was i had %19 aspeed reaver claw dropped, and i didnt wabt tı play another full pierce bm since i had 1tbh most broken melee build in game with well planned vblade build, char was planned as pierce phys hybrid, then found warborn gavellast piece i needed and turned into mace and board with nightblade, sadly :smiley:

BUUUT, going sword and board FULL pierce is kinda so hard, you def want dual wield and dual blades flat pierce node maxd, high cunning +950 min, fabius shoulder with flat pierce and get flat pierce wherever you can and gg derp claw possiblyā€¦ which is far from reality for sword and board setupā€¦

lol i but i tested reaver claw, sheet dps is lower but clear speed is better than warborn macesword proc is awesome might make diffā€¦

i was using rhowan scepter node while testing even, with blades of nadaan it outperforms set on clear speed abitā€¦ my respec cost is around 8 or 10k coins nowadays since testing tons of stuff aroundā€¦

tomorrow i can give you more details about pierce and board setup with respecing blades of nadaan and such, but you have commando i have bmaster with -pierce aura :smiley: result prolly will be diff, since last thing i care is my sheet dps in arpgs, i guess reaver claw can outperform mace setup for clear speed dont know about bosses thoā€¦ we gonna seeā€¦