
Fortunately, you can still do comparable damage by making sure your stats are distributed correctly. The optimal build for Annihilation takes time to achieve due to requiring many different types of mods and enhancements. My experience over the last few years has exponentially grown, and I’m happy to share my knowledge and experience with others. We’ve had so many changes in the last 9 years of the game, and it’s truly been a journey to experience it all.

I only played Carnage up until mid-4.0 when I decided to learn the other Marauder specs.

I have been playing the game since 1.2, and my main Marauder is the first character I made. In PVP or non-scaled content, this problem is negated, and it does comparable damage to most other classes. Unfortunately, this spec suffers from the weapon damage scaling in Nightmare compared to Force/Tech users since everything that is not a DoT is weapon damage (it suffers less than Fury or Carnage, however). This spec is one of the highest parsing specs in the game, and does the highest damage overall in Nightmare level content compared to the other Marauder specs. On top of these bonuses over other Marauder specs, Annihilation will help other classes that rely heavily on DoT abilities tremendously with its 7% internal and elemental damage debuff it applies to targets you hit Annihilate on. Its sustained damage is better than the other two Marauder specs, meaning it relies less on crit for bigger hits to do damage.

It offers more damage than the other Marauder specs in higher level raid content, as well as provides some small healing for raid utility over the other specs. With its frequent DoT spreading capabilities, you can do a lot of damage to multiple targets, but this spec excels at single-target damage as well. The more frequent uptime you have on a target, the more damage you will end up doing with this spec.

This guide is tuned towards PVE, but I will also include tips for PVP.Īnnihilation Marauder is a spec that revolves around managing damage over time (DoT) abilities to do damage. Welcome everyone to my Annihilation Marauder guide.
