Damage engine and purpose
The 2.7.2 Marauder rework restores Sentry damage scaling. Bombardier and Custom Engineering permit five Sentries; Yang reduces high costs while Manticore scales Cluster Arrow.
Item, skill and rune names use their English game spelling for unambiguous lookup. Explanations, rotation and limitations are fully translated.
Six skills and runes
| Skill · rune | Function |
|---|---|
| Evasive Fire · Focus | Refresh Hatred, Focus and Wraps of Clarity. |
| Cluster Arrow · Loaded for Bear | Primary attack together with active Sentries. |
| Vengeance · Seethe | Important persistent buff; evaluate Dawn and cooldowns together. |
| Vault · Tumble | Fast repositioning; check Discipline demand. |
| Companion · Wolf Companion | Activate Wolf during the damage window. |
| Sentry · Polar Station | Place all available Sentries before the damage window. |
Four passive skills
Steady Aim / Custom Engineering / Cull the Weak / Ambush
Complete equipment slots
| Slot | Equipped items |
|---|---|
| Head | Marauder's Visage |
| Shoulders | Marauder's Spines |
| Amulet | Squirt's Necklace |
| Torso | Marauder's Carapace |
| Wrists | Wraps of Clarity |
| Hands | Marauder's Gloves |
| Waist | Captain Crimson's Silk Girdle |
| Legs | Captain Crimson's Thrust |
| Feet | Marauder's Treads |
| Rings | Focus + Restraint |
| Weapon | Yang's Recurve |
| Offhand | Bombardier's Rucksack |
Kanai’s Cube: separate powers
| Category | Extracted effect |
|---|---|
| Weapon Power | Manticore |
| Armor Power | Zoey's Secret |
| Jewelry Power | Ring of Royal Grandeur |
Legendary and normal gems
Legendary gems: Bane of the Trapped / Bane of the Stricken / Zei's Stone of Vengeance.
Normally use an Emerald in weapon sockets; choose the helm socket for cooldown or Life needs. Match armour sockets to missing main stat or toughness. Seasonal Soul Shards replace helm or weapon gems only in the explicitly identified seasons.
Stats, cooldowns and optimisation
Fire, Cluster Arrow/Sentry, critical stats, resource reduction and CDR. Crimson converts cost/cooldown stats into defence/damage; without Dawn Vengeance is not automatically permanent.
Complete the required legendary powers, correct runes and full set bonuses first. Cooldown reduction combines multiplicatively; do not simply add percentage rolls. Weigh a boss gem against a farming gem according to actual boss-fight length.
Rotation: preparation, damage, refresh
Step 1
Place all five Sentries productively and land Evasive Fire for protection/Focus.
Step 2
Activate Companion and Vengeance in the Fire window, then fire Cluster Arrow from safe range.
Step 3
Place new Sentries when repositioning; refresh resources and Focus/Restraint before the next volley.
Patch boundaries and verifiable context
This matching gear engine is assigned only from the live Season 25 rework. Older Marauder seasons explicitly use separate auto-Sentry/spender profiles.
During Light’s Calling, Cluster Arrow Sanctification can turn the attack into rays; use that special version then. The normal Loaded for Bear profile does not assume this temporary change.
Check before the next equipment change
Count set pieces before replacing a free armour slot. Equipping and cubing an identical legendary power does not double it. Solo Unity requires a follower wearing the other ring with immortality equipped.
This archive describes the period configuration. A current item database may show new numbers under the same name; those live tooltips do not prove historical multipliers. Old seasonal powers cannot be replayed on current non-seasonal characters.
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Sources & editorial reference date
Independently written guidance. Linked sources support verification of game systems, versions and described changes. Editorial reference date: 2026-10-23.
- Icy Veins: Marauder Cluster Arrow, authored loadout and version changelog www.icy-veins.com
- Blizzard: Season 27 Lightâs Calling Preview news.blizzard.com