Martyrdom Striker

Table of Contents

1. Primer
2. Masteries
3. Talent Tree
4. Equipment

Primer

This build revolves around a spell called Martyrdom, which scales in damage based on your total Health pool. See where this is going? This build will easily bring you from level 10 to level 60! It can easily beat dimensions up to late game, and you won't have too much trouble with the spell-immune Ender Dragon since putting a point into Overflowing Vitality will make the fight a breeze.

From Level 1-10 (Pre-Martyrdom)

Put one point into Purifying Fires to help with damage. You can weave the spell in between your basic attacks. Levels 1-10 shouldn't be too difficult, you can reach level 15-20 with ease just by following the Prelude (Overworld Chapter) in the quest book (Hotkey: P).

Primary Damage Source

• Martyrdom
• Generating Enrage Stacks

Defensive Mechanism

• Primarily Health
• Some Armor & Block Chance

Masteries

• Primary: Divine
• Secondary: Nature (Tank) or Ocean (Support)

Obviously, you want to specialize in Divine for Martyrdom. Start with a single point in Purifying Fires to help with leveling from 1-10. After, you'll want to save points to max Martyrdom ASAP, followed by a single point into Anger. Then max Enrage, Anger, then Bravery. The rest is up to you - you can choose to grab Defend for extra Armor, or grab some heal spells. It's better to max Anger/Enrage before Bravery because the armor reduction will help out with Martyrdom damage much more than the Health boost from Bravery.

Level 31 Divine Tree

Talent Tree

• We start with the left side instead of the bottom because it gives us access to Spell Damage nodes in the top while still giving us the same access to the Health Nodes in the bottom!
• We want to take advantage of the fact that Martyrdom is spell damage. So your primary nodes of focus are Spell Damage nodes and Health nodes!
• We also take advantage of Blood Mage - this way, we don't need to worry about upkeeping mana costs.
• Vampire is dependent on your second tree. I would take it if you go Nature, just because Nature's Balm applies a regen that is not affected by the -1000% Health Regen Multi, but Ocean's Nourishment buff is (so I wouldn't take it with Ocean as a second tree).
• I actually don't like grabbing Overflowing Vitality except for the Ender Dragon fight. The reason for this is because Overflowing Vitality has a whopping -20% Multi on Health. But realistically, it's probably still good as you can weave basic attacks between Martyrdom casts. It's up to you!
• Other possible nodes: Stout Defender, Steady Hand, Power Overwhelming.

Level 40 Talent Tree

Level 80 Talent Tree

Equipment

• Try to craft an Arachnon Hammer early on. It'll be helpful with mining, but more importantly, the guaranteed unique will provide a huge boost to Health and all Divine spells (including Martyrdom)!.
• Some other notable early-game uniques that help with this build: Stormclash and Shaftstop. They both provide huge bonuses to Health, and Stormclash even provides bonuses to all Divine Spells.
• Generally, you want your other pieces to provide large bonuses to Health.
• Be wary not to get too many physical attack damage modifiers as Martyrdom is technically a physical spell. You would want modifiers to all physical damage. Similarly, you'd want Spell Lifesteal and not Lifesteal to gain health from Martyrdom.