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I'd say the basic rule of thumb is while leveling, you should spend only transmutes, and that you should use them on on good base white items with sockets/links that fit your spells. You'll want to use white items that drop or sold from a merchant. Weapons should have modifiers that boost your damage (Physical%, Elem Damage, Crit, Attack speed, cast speed, etc), and armor should have HP and at least one resist, unless you're going for some Chaos Inoculation build

You'll want all other currency for end-game gear (lvl 55+), in which you'll desperately need materials for.

Well, Then I've been doing that a little wrong. I honestly, don't even bother much with magic items that much unless I am identifying them from a dungeon. I really have had very little luck with crafting them. Alterartion shards feel like a dime a dozen. I've seriously used stacks of them to buy jewlers orbs.

The only thing that feels more common than alteration shards are armour scraps.

Obviously, I haven't used any of the "rare" orbs. Fusings, Divine, Blessed, Chaos, Scouring, or Exalted. I've used a few Chromatics to get a few pieces to work for me.

Your other option is searching http://poe.xyz.is/ for specific items and try bartering that way. Most people are happy to sell mediocre gear for very cheap prices, but I prefer to use this as little as possible, normally just for a good weapon. Make sure you check out the following sites to help with currency ratios for trading: http://www.poeex.info/ & http://poecalc.com/ & http://www.ppoe.net/calc

I tried the xyz thing to search earlier this week, and I just didn't have much luck finding anything. I've only ever had luck in buying one item. I bought my freaking sweet 2h'er for 2 fuses and a scouring.



I've been using the Poeex.info to bone up on things. I hadn't heard about the others.

Gem markets already feel flooded and can be hard to sell unless you get the popular drop only ones (GMP, Chain, Elemental Hit), or high quality popular gems (freeze pulse, reduced mana).

If you need a lvl 1 enduring cry I'll be happy to transfer it to default and give to to you. Just let me know your in-game name. Alternatively you can also get it from quest rewards- just look up your class at this link:

I feel the same way. I sold an Elemental Hit for a Chaos a week or so ago, before I realized that people were fighting to get them.

Thanks for the link to the spreadsheet. That's a HUGE help. I got the Enduring Cry Last night from completing a quest. I feel pretty excited about my templar now. I'm using

Tempest Shield
Shield Charge
Glacial Hammer
Ice Nova
Enduring Cry
Immortal Call
Warlord's Mark

(Yes I know that leaves one spot open, I just have issues with mapping something to my left mouse button. IT's a wow habit)

This acutally gives me a spot for more questions!

So. I'm using Tempest Shield, which gives me Lightning Damage, but then I'm using the two Cold abilities, because I'm a fan of Freezing things, as a way for DR.

I have been thinking. Should I change over to Lightning strike, and Shock Nova? I could then work to migrate my Warlord's Mark over to Conductivity (which I have a 13% Quality on) as I'm able to get gear that allows me to link Life Leech to my abilities. That's really all I'm using the Warlord's Mark for at this point is the life life. I don't need it often, but there are still some packs that can chew through my ES and having the life leech is a pretty big help.

Here is my current build at level 24 on him.

This is my plan for the next 10 points.

The next 10 points

And the next 10 points

And the final 10 points I have planned out

i feel like it's a really nice, rounded build. I found this script on the forums that you run with tampermonkey in Chrome that allows you to get a nice succinct summary of your build.

When I get to the end of the points I have allocated, which will probably be sometime around the beginning of Merciless if it goes the same way that my Marauder has been going level wise, I will have:

21% additional Shield Block Chance
104% increased Armour
90% increased Block Recovery
115% increased Defences from equipped Shield
31% increased Elemental Damage
40% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
22% increased Melee Physical Damage
24% increased Physical Damage with One Handed Melee Weapons
104% increased maximum Energy Shield
62% increased maximum Life
12% of Block Chance applied to Spells
+2 Maximum Endurance Charge
+40 to Intelligence
+190 to Strength
+30 to maximum Life
+30% Elemental Resistances while holding a Shield
+45% to all Elemental Resistances
Never deal Critical Strikes
Your hits can't be Evaded

What I like about this build:
1.) After using Energy Shield, I like it a lot more than other things. This build will allow me to build up a MASSIVE Energy Shield, while still maintaining decent armor.

2.) 75% Resist going into Merciless to Cold, Fire, and Lightning. That offsets the penalties on those, +15. It gives me a little more leeway in my gearing, so that I can look for Chaos Resistance on pieces that may not have other resists on them, since a few pieces of Resist gear will go a long way with this.

3.) I was able to get Resolute Technique. I can't even begin to explain how happy this makes me. This actually makes me want to go more towards lightning, because Lightning Strike says that the projectiles will hit if the strike hits. And, with Shock stacking to take more damage, maybe I can kill quickly enough that the Freeze won't be needed...

4.) I should be sitting around a 45-50% chance to block. 50-50 to take no melee damage? Cool.

What I don't like about this build.

1.) I'm worried that going into merciless it will be a little light in the life department.
2.) Did I take enough Intelligence boosters? It feels a little light.

I'm not sure how fast I will level once I'm in the mid 50's, so I haven't planned that far ahead, but I would assume that my points from here on our would probably go above the templar tree, picking up the Fitness/Life Group, and then into the shield cluster above that.

While leveling I would only spend transmutations on white flasks that drop or sold from the vendor. Save your alterations for hallowed flasks (highest level flask). Be sure to upgrade them to 20% in white base form with Glassblower Baubs first! You'll also want a 20% white granite and quicksilver flask that you'll alteration then transmute for the best stats. Here's my prized flasks: http://i.imgur.com/kPulu52.jpg - that sapping hallowed health flask is literally the best flask I could ever have for one of my blood magic characters. Since I have no mana it doesn't affect me at all, and the 100% armor boost is a perfect roll.

That's what I've done. I've only rolled Alterations on them if I ended up with a bad flask. I haven't spent any of my Glassblowers yet. I'm up to 16 of them so far.

My plan, is to end up with a nice set of top flasks for health, Mana, a quicksilver, and Resist Flasks. I already have a Ruby and a Topaz, so I've got my eyes open looking for the other two. I've seen people selling them, but I have some time before I go digging into those

Yeah, I like it when I can roll Sapping Flasks. 3 of my 4 right now are Sapping, and the other is a nice resist on use. So Hollowed at 54. Well, I'm almost there on the Marauder. Even though i'm not real sure if I'm going to keep playing him. My frustration level with death on him is mounting.


Quick Edit:
If People have gear in Default that is marauder centric, I'm currently 49. I'm in the market for:

4L or better Chest. Mine is Ilvl37.
Gloves. My are 2L, and ilvl39.
Belt. My is ilvl38.
Boots: They would have to be pretty good. Mine are ilvl40, but sporting double resist, Str, and Life
Rings: both of my rings are Ilvl ~29. One is purely life, the other is +7 all res and +25 Lightning
Neck: Not sure if I want to replace it yet. But I'd be looking at an Onyx Choker with nifty stats. mine has Chaos Res and 2% Life Leech.