Path of Exile Top 10 Marauder Builds
1. Molten Strike of the Zenith Juggernaut (Marauder)
Molten Strike of the Zenith is a fairly new strength stack build that's one of the most powerful melee builds in the game.
Mapping: 10/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 9/10 Damage: 10/10 Safety: 9/10 Bosses: 10/10
Build Guide
The Strength Stacking Molten Strike of the Zenith Juggernaut is one of the highest damage melee builds in the game. Juggernaut is the preferred ascendancy for this strength stack build because of the Undeniable ascendancy which gives accuracy equal to twice your strength and increased attack speed from your accuracy. This build comes in first place once you have an attribute percent, strength percent, and increased damage per strength Simplex Amulet and the Original Sin ring which each cost close to a Mirror of Kalandra. If you would like to try out the Strength Stack Molten Strike of the Zenith Juggernaut build a guide for it can be found here Strength Stacking Molten Strike of the Zenith Juggernaut Guide.
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2. Righteous Fire & CwS Detonate Dead Chieftain (Marauder)
The Righteous Fire Chieftain is improved by its maximum life which makes it one of the tankiest builds in the game.
Mapping: 10/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 10/10 Bosses: 9/10​​​
Build Guide
With the changes to the Chieftain ascendancy in 3.25 this build is now the best Righteous Fire build in the game. The damage of Righteous Fire is greatly improved with increases to your maximum life which makes this build have excellent survivability. The Chieftain ascendancy also makes your maximum cold and lightning resistance equal to your maximum fire resistance which makes it much easier to get 90% maximum fire, cold, and lightning resistances. If you're interested in trying out this Righteous Fire build you can find a guide for it here Righteous Fire & CwS DD Chieftain Guide.
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3. Earthshatter Berserker (Marauder)
The Earthshatter Berserker has become the new melee slam meta this season and does excellent with multiple warcries.
Mapping: 9/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 10/10 Bosses: 8/10​​​​​​
Build Guide​
Earthshatter Berserkers are extremely tanky because among other reasons they have a wide area of effect slam attack that can hit enemies across the entire screen. Warcries are also very important with Earthshatter because they repeatedly trigger the secondary damage explosions from the Earthshatter gem while also increasing its damage. If you would like to try out this fairly new Earthshatter Berserker slam build a guide for it can be found here Earthshatter Berserker Guide.
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4. Rage Vortex of Berserking Cyclone Berserker (Marauder)
The Rage Vortex of Berserking & Cyclone Berserker is a fairly new Cyclone build variant that deals excellent damage.
Mapping: 10/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 9/10 Damage: 10/10 Safety: 8/10 Bosses: 10/10​​​​​​​
Build Guide
With this build you generate Ragestorms with the Rage Vortex of Berserking gem while channeling Cyclone which both deal high damage to nearby enemies. This build deals the highest single target damage of the Cyclone builds while still maintaining excellent clearing damage but it's not as strong defensively as some builds. If you would like to try out this fairly new transfigured gem build a guide for it can be found here Rage Vortex of Berserking & Cyclone Berserker Guide.
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5. Lightning Strike Berserker (Marauder)
The Lightning Strike Berserker is capable of high single target damage and comes in at fifth place in our rankings.
Mapping: 10/10 Delve: 8/10 Heist: 9/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 8/10 Bosses: 9/10​​​​​
Build Guide
Lightning Strike Berserkers have their damage increased with their stacking Rage buff from the Berserker ascendancy. This build has strong single target damage while still dealing high damage on multiple target fights. If you would like to try out the Lightning Strike build a guide for it can be found here Lightning Strike Berserker Guide.
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6. Acc. Stack Lightning Strike Juggernaut (Marauder)
The Lightning Strike Juggernaut is the best Juggernaut build in the game and the best accuracy stack build in the game.
Mapping: 10/10 Delve: 7/10 Heist: 9/10 Damage: 8/10 Safety: 10/10 Bosses: 8/10​​​​​​
Build Guide
This Accuracy Stacking Lightning Strike build has lower attack speed than the Lightning Strike Berserker but makes up for it by being stronger defensively and much easier to build on a budget. The Juggernaut ascendancies double the armour of your equipped body armour and increases your attack speed with increases to your accuracy. If you would like to try out this accuracy stacking build a guide for it can be found here Accuracy Stacking Lightning Strike Juggernaut Guide.
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7. Ground Slam of Earthshaking Berserker (Marauder)
Ground Slam of Earthshaking was buffed in 3.25 and is a great starter build that can be used all the way to the endgames.
Mapping: 9/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 9/10 Damage: 9/10 Safety: 8/10 Bosses: 8/10​​​​​​
Build Guide
Ground Slam is a strong melee slam skill with a large area of effect attack and it stuns nearby enemies which helps with survival. The Ground Slam of Earthshaking transfigured gem was majorly buffed in 3.25 and deals significantly higher damage than Ground Slam at the cost of having a much slower attack speed. If you are interested in trying out the Ground Slam of Earthshaking Berserker build you can find a guide for it here Ground Slam of Earthshaking Berserker Guide.
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8. Frost Blades Berserker (Marauder)
The Frost Blade Berserker releases a higher number of projectiles with each attack and they're solid at clearing damage.
Mapping: 8/10 Delve: 8/10 Heist: 7/10 Damage: 8/10 Safety: 7/10 Bosses: 8/10​​​​​​​​
Build Guide
The Frost Blades Berserker has a very similar playstyle to Lightning Strike except it fires significantly more projectiles on each attack. Frost Blades has better clearing damage than Lightning Strike but it also has lower single target damage. If you're interested in trying out the Frost Blades build you can find a guide for it here Frost Blades Berserker Guide.
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9. Fire Cyclone Chieftain (Marauder)
This build is an excellent starter Cyclone build that also has a strong extreme budget weapon called Ngamahu's Flame.
Mapping: 9/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 9/10 Damage: 8/10 Safety: 8/10 Bosses: 6/10​​​​
Build Guide
The Fire Cyclone Chieftain is one of the best starter builds because it has strong defensive ascendancies, a high number of increased life percent nodes in the Marauder tree, and an extreme budget starter weapon called Ngamahu's Flame. The Fire Cyclone Chieftain build can later be optimized to deal significantly more damage with a very high damage staff. If you are interested in trying out the Fire Cyclone build you can find a guide for it here Fire Cyclone Chieftain Guide.
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10. Str Kinetic Blast/Power Siphon Berserker (Marauder)
The Strength Stack Kinetic Blast/Power Siphon Berserker deals excellent damage with very high currency investment.
Mapping: 8/10 Delve: 10/10 Heist: 10/10 Damage: 7/10 Safety: 9/10 Bosses: 7/10​​​​
Build Guide
This build received a major nerf in a previous patch which made Barrage Support less effective for Power Siphon but it thankfully had a strong replacement support gem with Impale Support. The Strength Stacking Kinetic Blast/Power Siphon Berserker has multiple very expensive attribute stacking upgrades that give it a very high ceiling for clearing damage while still having fairly solid single target damage. If you would like to try out the Strength Stacking Kinetic Blast & Power Siphon build a guide for it can be found here Strength Stacking Kinetic Blast & Power Siphon Berserker Guide.
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That's all for the Top 10 Marauder Builds! For more about PoE you can view the endgame guide here Endgame Guide.
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