[3.1] JUGGERNAUT/BERSERKER 1H+Shield Max Block&Spell Block Tank, Atziri Killer+a BoR version

heya serge , ive been working on making gear for my marauder ... but ive hit a bit of a snag..

I know its good to have them both on the same thing ... but that will take a long time for me.. considering my finances..

if you had to chose between physical damage and WED which one is better and why ?
for the same amount of percentage damage ...

the choice for me is the self found belts below...

I'd take the phys one. The reason: your damage scales off of physical damage, increasing both the physical (obviously) and the elemental part of damage which is converted from physical. Also, it has a bit more flat life.

Ideally, you want a rustic with WED, ofc.

cool , makes a lot of sense now. Thanks

Hi Serge, thanks for making this guide. Been enjoying the character. But I'm not really sure where to go from here (level 78). I don't have a whole lot of wealth accumulated--maybe 2-3 ex worth in currency. What would you do next? Just continue to grind maps?
Here's the tree:

Gear:
Life is 5865, dps 4600 unbuffed/~6150 hatred, resists 78/75/78 unbuffed (to 78/78/78 charges).

First off, you should connect the templar life nodes through the weapon elemental damage nodes, I don't know why you didn't do that in the first place. So like this:

I've already seen someone do what you did, but not sure why. You get more dps by going through the WED nodes, plus, it is really advisable to pick the notable passive, Catalyse, which gives you 24% WED. After that, just go for the block nodes above the templar.

As for your items, they're fine, I'd just get a better weapon, you can buy pretty decent stuff for 1-2 ex.

78 isn't that high, you can still easily reach 85 at least by grinding high level maps. There is nothing else left for you to do anyway, so it all depends on what kind of player you are: some ppl I know just can't play after 80 because it gets boring for them, others (like myself) really like the end-game and doing high level maps. You still get decent XP (for me, it's after level 90 that's tedious) and you can get nice drops, especially if playing with a MF.

If you reach 85 and take those additional block nodes, you can start doing Atziri.

Hello !
Nice build. I'm following it.
But, i have a question.
Is it a good choice to go with Mind Over Matter + Blood Magic ?
I'm running blood magic gem with Infernal Blow because of mana issue and
it's awesome: no more issue.
So, is MoM a good choice for defensive purpose (and BM to free a slot for IF )since i don't really use my mana ?

Thanks and sorry if my question is stupide i'm pretty new.
Also, sorry if my english is weird.
Marauder 45.

MoM is when you have enough mana pool to split the part of the damage to mana first..
Even i use blood magic to run this but i have high regen and a slower weapon and i will have about 4% physical dmg leech (2% from skill and 2% from gloves ) it should cover the costs comfortably.. i run vitality to keep a high life regen rate.. I can have a full spec up and running after this race ends..

As far as i understand , the idea of this build is not to mitigate damage through stuff like mom but to avoid it from block .. the main damage mitigation is from high armor that's why you run determination and hatred for dmg.. I intend to run 3 aura vitality determination and hatred for this to work with blood magic. dont need purity as i am good on resists from gear ....
ideally id like to run 4th aura tempest shield ... by going for the reduced mana nodes along the way ... which i hope will let me run it.

Thank you for your opinion.
I'm wondering why he did not take +X% armor nodes near the starting point ?

Taking MoM makes sense only if you also use gear with energy shield and you go for Eldritch Battery. Otherwise, there's absolutely no point.

If you're referring to the armour nodes at the marauder area, it's because there's always better stuff to take for this build than just pure armour: life or block chance both beat armour in the survivability boost they give you. You should try to get high armour from gear.

Why ES + EB since mana is useless with blood magic ?