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 stacking build because the Undeniable ascendancy gives accuracy equal to twice your strength and increased attack speed based on 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 the build can be found at the top of this website.
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2. Righteous Fire & CwS Detonate Dead Chieftain (Marauder)
Righteous Fire Chieftains are improved by their 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 increased with your maximum life which also makes the build great at survival. 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 the Righteous Fire Chieftain build you can find a guide for it in the menu at the top of this webpage.
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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 increase your damage and repeatedly trigger the secondary damage explosions of Earthshatter. If you would like to try out this somewhat new Earthshatter Berserker slam build a guide for it can be found in the menu above.
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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 from 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 also not as strong defensively as some builds. If you would like to try out this somewhat new Cyclone variant build a guide for it can be found in the menu at the top of this webpage.
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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 Rage from their Berserker ascendancies. This build was nerfed for AoE damage but it still has high single target damage while maintaining solid clearing damage on multiple target fights. If you would like to try out the Lightning Strike Berserker a guide for it can be found in the menu.
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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 ascendancy doubles 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 Lightning Strike Juggernaut build a guide for it can be found in the menu at the top of this webpage.
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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 can stun nearby enemies which helps with survival. The Ground Slam of Earthshaking transfigured gem was majorly buffed and it now deals significantly higher damage than Ground Slam at the cost of having a much slower attack speed. If you're interested in trying out the Ground Slam of Earthshaking Berserker build you can find a guide for it at the top of this webpage.
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8. Frost Blades Berserker (Marauder)
The Frost Blade Berserker releases a higher number of projectiles with each attack and it's 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 has significantly lower single target damage. If you're still interested in trying out the Frost Blades Berserker you can find a guide for it in the menu.
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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 high damage staff. If you're interested in trying out the Fire Cyclone build you can find a guide for it at the top of this webpage.
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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 update 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 high damage ceiling for clearing damage while still maintaining fairly solid single target damage. If you would like to try out the Strength Stacking Kinetic Blast & Power Siphon Berserker build a guide for it can be found in the menu at the top of this website.
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That's all for this PoE guide! You can view more Path of Exile guides in the menu at the top of this page. Best of luck!​