Summary
- Marauders in Path of Exile should seek out the Crusader Plate for its damage-blocking abilities and appearance in Act 6/7.
- The Astral Plate offers a slight increase in armor and a boost to all elemental damage resistance, making it a valuable armor choice.
- Players looking for a massive increase in life and fire damage should aim for Kaom's Heart, although it lacks sockets for customization.
Path of Exile has received rave reviews since its initial release in 2013 for its combat, consistent updates, and darker feel. After 10 years of updates, beginner players have an astonishing amount of items, skills, and general mechanics to get their heads around. The Marauder character class can be a good starting point for those seeking a significant health pool and melee damage.
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Marauders start with a heavily-increased Strength stat over Dexterity and Intelligence. With this strong emphasis on strength, driving forward into the heart of the enemy is a Marauder's specialty. Players will, therefore, need to know which armor to seek out if playing as a Marauder.
7 Crusader Plate
Armor: 601-691
- Required Level: 59
- Required Strength Stat: 160
Once players hit level 59, they may start to see the Crusader Plate item appearing as they explore new areas and vanquish new foes. Appearing in Act 6/7 during the latter half of the main campaign, the Crusader Plate comes with a -5% movement penalty, but this is more than made up for through its damage-blocking abilities.
There is also a unique version of this armor, the Iron Fortress, for players who take a particular liking to the base version of the armor.
6 Astral Plate
Armor: 711-782
- Required Level: 62
- Required Strength Stat: 180
A slight increase in armor compared to the Crusader Plate, the benefits of the Astral Plate lie elsewhere. The base version of this armor comes with an 8-12 % boost to all elemental damage resistance. Elemental damage includes fire, cold, and lightning damage.
The Celestial Justicar divination card will grant players a six-socket base version of this armor and can only be found at these locations:
- Bone Crypt
- Cursed Crypt
- The Coward's Trial
- The Crypt
5 Kaom's Heart
Armor: 776-892
- Required Level: 68
- Required Strength Stat: 191
A unique variant of the Glorious Plate, Kaom's Heart is a very unusual piece of armor. It grants a massive 500 increase to the life (health) of the user with a 20-40% increase in fire damage. These desirable stats are had in exchange for a piece of armor that has no sockets for any further customization.
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This can be a worthwhile trade-off for the right sort of player. If so, this armor can be acquired most easily by collecting a set of 8 of The Kings Hearts divination cards. These can be found in Caldera and Volcano.
4 Utula's Hunger
Armor: 848-1250
- Required Level: 53
- Required Strength Stat: 145
The strength of Utula's Hunger, a variant of the Majestic Plate, is in its life modifiers. This piece of armor grants a 1-3% life recovery after any kill and a 700-1000 increase in maximum life if the user has no other life modifiers on any other equipped item.
This means all weapons, off-hands, armor, and jewelry. Make sure this condition is met to get the most out of this piece of armor. There is no particular recipe to make this armor and, therefore, it must be acquired through randomized recipes or dropped loot.
3 Craiceann's Carapace
Armor: 1677-2250
- Required Level: 64
- Required Strength Stat: 152
A unique variant of the Golden Plate, Craiceann's Carapace is a piece of armor that is very limited in its availability and modifiers. Equipping it grants players an immediate level 20 Aspect of the Crab. This gives the player a crab barrier that grants a reduction in physical damage.
It can be combined with the other 3 pieces of Craiceann's armor to maximize its usefulness. All 4 pieces of armor can be acquired after defeating Craiceann in Craiceann's Cove, an end-game area.
2 Death's Oath
Armor: 1990-2502
- Required Level: 62
- Required Strength Stat: 180
Death's Oath offers a myriad of benefits and buffs to characters. Among others, it offers a 40-50 boost to all attributes, a 10-15% increase in attack speed, and a 60-70 bonus to overall life. The major benefit is access to the spell Death Aura. This spell deals massive amounts of chaos damage over time around the player. There is a smaller amount of damage inflicted on the player character as well, but it is a price worth paying.
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Death's Oath can drop anywhere but can also be created by collecting a set of 6 The Oath divination cards. These can be dropped in the following map areas:
- Carcass
- Core
- Malformation
- Phantasmagoria
- The Belly of the Beast
- The Rotting Core
1 The Brass Dome
Armor: 3321-4240
- Required Level: 65
- Required Strength Stat: 177
The Brass Dome armor is a simpler piece than many others on this list. Its massive armor stat is supported by total defense against any type of critical strike and a 1-5% bonus to all maximum elemental resistances. Players running with the Juggernaut ascendancy class can also use the Unbreakable passive skill to double the overall armor.
Acquiring this armor may prove difficult, as players will have to hope they get the item via a random drop or get lucky when using an Orb of Chance on a Gladiator Plate.
Path of Exile
- Released
- October 23, 2013
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Grinding Gear Games
- Platform(s)
- PC, Xbox One, macOS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
- Genre(s)
- Action RPG
