Maru Artifacts Choice Shares

[lavish sphinx]

Share the artifacts you’ve chosen for Maru along with your own guide. Your insights can truly help your fellow Lightbearers in the community, and they will become part of the community wiki guide!

💡 How to Join:

Simply post a screenshot of your artifact build for Maru here. Including some explanations would be even better!

🎁 Rewards:

Five lucky participants who join the event will each win a $5 gift card!

📅 Event Time:

<t:1762876800> - <t:1763967600>

[daring minnow]

So far this is what im working with, seems to be working alot for now, although my last artifact isn't what im wanting to use just for now

[idle yacht]

The "I'm going to use everything in my kit effectively" build👀

[tawny river]

Ring of abundance is useful with any overshield based character since it increases the potency of your healing and overshield. To allow for more time DPSing instead of shielding, I add ring of safeguarding since it gives more overshield. Since the build has a high duration overshield, I run ring of courage to increase my DPS and make the shields last even longer. Explosive shell is the cherry on top - it allows Maru’s primary fire to do even more damage and is useful for boss DPS too! I’m loving the new hero, such a cool concept and I hope we get more awesome characters like Maru and Jolder.

[cursive nexus]

new artifacts are just awesome

[quartz rover]

This is my build. You will get an infinite overshield stack. You just need to block a single shot in the beginning. General dmg buff not only weap dmg buff.

[topaz wigeon]

The unkillable maru build with a little bit of blast damage combined

[lime basalt]

La mejor build recomendada para Maru, vale la pena mencionar algunas sustituciones como:
1re slot- Carcasa sin piedad
2do slot- Anillo de salvaguarda
3re slot- Furia invertida
4to slot- Munición explosiva
estas sustituciones darán una buena consistencia a Maru en daño general

[molten dew]

Skill damage >>> weapon damage
Use shield to get overshield -> do damage -> do damage to gain overshield and ability recover

[weary sonnet]

Best maru in the server, trust me you will oneshot everything with this build

[blazing bridge]

Weird build I cooked up (ignore the attributes, they're almost all abysmal). Gaining overshield gives you 70% damage resistance and +41% damage, which is nothing to sneeze at. The main problem with it is that the damage resistance decays from 70% down to 28% after 10 seconds (unless you refresh overshield, which keeps it at a little over 50%), and after 20 seconds the damage resistance falls down to 10% (or 35 if you refresh the overshield). Once the damage resistance from the first two artifacts falls off, you lose 14% damage for a total of 27%, which is okay but not amazing. Also what I've been told (but haven't tested) is that for Unrelenting Evolution to re-proc, you need to fully lose the buffs and re-gain them, so this build really excels in situations where you need to do really high burst damage for 10-20s and then can fully reset for the next burst.

[crystal current]

I don't think that's true about Unrelenting Evolution at least not in the use case for Helhest where @ivory fox showed that his refreshed just by moving and then standing still again using Unrelenting in the first slot here. #1426060368433778748 message

In the video you can see the damage taken was increased after being hit a few times and then reduced again after moving then stopping which must be from the armored stacks refreshing.

[blazing bridge]

bonus build based off of @sage schooner's youtube video on their maru build. This is the one I'm actually planning to use - in his build he was using the full planetismal set but I swapped out the first two artifacts for the blazar set so I could keep more uptime on the overshield. This build spits out ridiculous damage, though - on my T2 maru with an ALH/eager aspirant GL, I was able to put out over 11 mil damage, which is similar to my friend's output on a T6 maru with the full blazar set and ALH/polyploidy. It also doesn't make your damage dependent on having overshield up, which makes it easier to use.

[unkempt panther]

Full Blazar is already pretty good, but especially in slot 3 I prefer Ring of Courage as I find it more versatile.

[ivory fox]

With overshield refreshing you won’t ever gain the damage resistance again till undaunted blazer falls off. So there is a good chance unrelenting evolution won’t refresh till after the resistance buff is lost. With hellhest I lost the resistance when I moved and regained it when ever I stopped, which wouldn’t be happening in this case.

I will give it a shot when I have time later tonight (if I don’t forget >.>)

[rigid portal]

Full Blazar has been the best setup so far for me. I have an ability setup because of Gwynn, Overshield setup because of Jolder and blast setup because of Ikora. I was able to work with them all when Maru came out

First Artifact basically gives dmg resist for 10 seconds. Second artifact keeps your overshield up all of the time. Third artifact raises the amount of overshield you get in the first place, with a damage boost. Last one is more AoE dmg and more movement speed… can’t go wrong with that.

Scattering Shell is okay if you want more heals and such, but I find you don’t need to heal as much when you have overshield all the time.
Ring of Morale is also okay, but I find having max overshield +30% for survivability more useful

[quick thunder]

Maru Fireteam build to buff weapons damage

[clear lintel]

this is my build for MARU

[arctic sorrel]

I use the tailored set. Not good substats yet but will grind for em till next ssn

[cloud mica]

This what im rocking. Lol

[wispy zephyr]

1st,2nd ,3rd 1st and 3rd my fav .ATTACK , OVER SHIELD AND HEALING.

[clear lintel]

wow nice build hi broo .. im Arkarna

[fleet osprey]

This is my setup for Maru. Jolted transit is an interesting find for her. I think it works very well if I'm not dreaming. This clears Expanse 30 fully - except the last reward but I honestly just didn't spend enough tries there. I feel she could get the last reward as well Now including all the rewards 😄

[tender briar]

I use both these sets the first are all the new ones they really are awesome for her!!!

[rigid portal]

Flexing this

[crystal current]

My build for PvP and PvE. Siphoning Blazar doesn't work in PvP, and Safeguarding Blazar's uptime in PvP can be hard to maintain. So instead I decided to go with Inverted Tenacity and Rampaging Pact in Slots 2 and 3. I'll probably end up swapping Undaunted Blazar with Chiaroscuro at some point since the uptime on Undaunted seems a bit iffy without Safeguarding Blazar.

[rigid portal]

Siphoning works in PvEvP for shifting gates. It works in Iron Bar too, but there’s just less opportunity to generate overshield by hitting enemies with explosions.

Inverted Tenacity is one of the worse ones artifacts in the game to use imo so Ring of Safeguarding would be better. Courageous Planetesimal is going to be better than Rampaging. Does that even proc for her? I’ll check tonight

[crystal current]

Yes Rampaging procs for her, so no Courageous doesn't come even close to Rampaging.

Siphoning working in Iron Bar sounds like a bug or oversight since it specifically states that you need to hit combantants. If it is intended though, then yeah it's definitely the best option.

Ring of Safeguarding with the 16s cooldown is kinda hard to work with in PvP imo. Inverted feels like a better safety net overall. I was actually using Ring of Safeguarding before swapping to Inverted.

[rigid portal]

Thing is, total health is shield and health, so inverted just falls flat due to that. The uptime on that is about the same as safeguarding in the end and it doesn’t give any over shield

[crystal current]

Fair point. I was just noticing I would get straight up Nuked with Safeguarding sometimes and was looking for more Resistance. It feels like it helps, but I guess it's no use comparing those two if Siphoning works in PvP then it's obviously the best option.

[rigid portal]

Shifting Gates wise, Siphoning is great since there are so many enemies nearby. Just run away, pill shield up and let them hit it, shoot the enemy for more overshield and so on. Get the card that gives 1% overshield whenever you defeat an enemy and the other that gives 50% overshield when you’re about to die. You have a consistent overshield if you do this in Gates

[frosty scarab]

does anyone know what the resonance split shell damage is based on? is it ability or weapon or neither?

[rigid portal]

Took me 20 seconds to find it - this is why weapon enhancement is a bit meh on her

[frosty scarab]

Thank you!

[rigid portal]

No problem! - here is a lil artifact flex. Almost 4/4 on everything just need to reroll and hope Super lands

[blazing bridge]

weirdly, the maximum damage I've been able to do in training ground is with bellicose planetismal in slot 4. I don't really understand why though - it doesn't seem like it should be doing that much for exactly this reason

[rigid portal]

It only would buff her weapon damage directly. Nothing else. You may be seeing higher weapon damage and think that translates to more damage overall, but the 25% AoE damage applies to everything she does, even the weapons. So that’s only -5% less damage than Bellicose Planet, maybe you overlooked something

Edit - I mean, I do 120k per hit with her super in Master Calamity which is a lot of damage, doing 25% less of that would be a big chunk…

[blazing bridge]

The way I was testing was to break a spread shinka shield and then see how much total damage I could get before the shield went back up. I tried tons of different artifacts and combinations and bellicose + vigilant planetismal gave me the highest total damage numbers. It doesn't make sense to me either

[rigid portal]

So basically a 10 second burst? I mean… most of your damage will be from abilities and super anyway, plus weapon mastery blasts that isn’t effected by weapon dmg at all @blazing bridge

Idk, I would just do an overall damage test. You’d only lose 5% dmg with your weapon using Planet vs Blazar, but you get 25% more dmg for super and abilities/weapon mastery blasts. That’s way more worth it to me.

[lavish sphinx]

Hey Lightbearers,
The event【Maru Artifacts Choice Shares】has concluded! A huge thank you to all Lightbearers for your participation!
The lucky winners of this event are: @tawny river @blazing bridge @quick thunder @molten dew @zealous mason. Please keep an eye on your private messages and reply promptly so that we can distribute the prizes.
To Lightbearers who didn’t win this time, don’t be discouraged—there will be more events and rewards in the future!

[rigid portal]

I won for Helhest, never got anything. What’s up :(

[tawny river]

I still haven’t received a message, idk 🤷‍♂️

[rigid portal]

They told me to be patient twice now, over the span of almost 2 months. I am patient, but 2 months is a bit late lol

[tawny river]

Ay you should charge 23.99% interest

[molten dew]

I dont remember the event, but they gave 30 bussines days to get the reward in game