01d746 No.13632290
What's the best class combination in the expansion and why is it Reaper?
5ce91b No.13632421
Be a heretic elsewhere. Purifier is the best or at least the coolest.
>pretty much invulnerable under an upgraded Seal on normal difficulty which also damages enemies if they touch it
>shoot like a madman because passives, flamestrike, word of renewal and the Seal also gives me +trillion% damage
>easy access to dual pistols and +attack speed with great passives
>combine vindictive flame with word of renewal to become Sonic the Hedgehog OC, Taken the Purifier
301067 No.13632444
So what exactly is the difference between Grim Dawn, Victor Vran, and The Adventures of Van Helsing?
fdeff2 No.13632474
How do you get some decent AoE? every aoe skill does shit damage. I don't wanna waste 5 minutes attacking individual mobs with single target.
c47851 No.13632589
>not cabalist
poison, acid, ice, frost and vitality damage, all you could ever want
>>13632474
necro's revenous earth and bone harvest pretty much destroy everything if specced correctly as well as you maximize the damage for poison, ice and vitalty. its also got a 3 sec cooldown and you could even get it lower.
34eb21 No.13632618
>>13632589
>cabalist
>all these pets
>just strolling through levels watching them take names without having to raise my hand
>>13632444
They're 3 different games the only similarity is that they're ARPGs
64caff No.13632640
>>13632444
Grim Dawn is Diablo 2 x Torchlight with a Fantasy Post-Apoc Paint Job. Expect to be put into a deep sleep from it's skill combos.
Surprisingly pc taxing.
Adventures of Van Helsing is a poorly maintained rollercoaster, with highpoints and low points, and eventually the brakes malfunction and the train flies off the rails.
Victor Vran is Slowwwwwwwww. Like Molasses going uphill in january in crutches.
7e7f9b No.13632686
>get on-hit ability enhancement through zodiacs that cause AoE fire damage
>Cabalist, so don't really do anything
>Bigguy, doggo and bird don't really die
>Put it on skeletals so some times when I re-raise I do some fire damage I guess
>All my skeletals now have a 25% chance to cast that fire AoE on hit
Cool game.
63af6b No.13632713
>>13632444
Van Helsing was too bloated to keep installed but was fine for a playthrough. Grim Dawn is fun but difficulty is either non-existant or getting one shot; and there is 0 map variety even though the game sort of expects you to play through it 3 times. Would have hugely benefited from even mirroring maps. It's the best in the genre since Diablo 2.
01d746 No.13633382
>>13632474
Just play a Death Knight for super fast clear times, man.
3e062e No.13633645
>pssh hey kid, wanna go and hunt some mages?
I'm having fun with my mage hunter, maxed flames of ignaffar, got all the ele damage from arcanist and thanks to mirror/maiven's sphere/inquis seal I'm basically immortal has long has I stand in the seal
Also it's kinda hilarious how my aura of censure crits and just outright kills trash before they can get to me, I want to get to ultimate and see how I fare there since vet/elite so far have been fairly easy
fdeff2 No.13633768
What would be a decent class to pair with inquisitor? Currently using dual wield guns and those runes you put on the ground that explode, so preferrably something that compliments that, with attack speed if possible. Occultist maybe?
But it has defferent types of damage, i need piercing and cold. Necro has some of that but it seems more spells/summon oriented.
Or just get something defensive like soldier for the passives?
01d746 No.13633797
>>13633768
Try a Cadence Inquisitor or something, I've been wondering how that would work out.
fdeff2 No.13633889
>>13633797
does markovian's advantage work with ranged weapons? And does bursting round activate with cadence? It doesn't say it's a default weapon's attack.
82cb73 No.13634680
I'm Death Knighting on my new character with a Boss Scythe no less. After taking him past normal, I'm thinking of taking my Elite Demo into Purifier.
e276bf No.13635041
>>13633889
Because cadence is not a default weapon attack. It only activates every 3rd strike tho, so 2/3 strikes are default weapon attacks and they can proc WPS. Markovians advantage works with ranged weapons too but I don't think it has any animation.
c47851 No.13635068
>>13632589
>>13632618
id like to join in the fun with my skele bros and just decimate enemies with bone harvest. shit is so satisfying seein enemies fly up in the air after getting hit by it. got my cooldown down to a second on that so i can just spam it. I hope they dont stop adding dlc. they gotta make more classes and explore the southern area of the map
c24ff5 No.13635384
>>13632290
>Reaper?
This is not how you call Battlemage
82cb73 No.13635447
>>13635403
Yeah attaching an on-attack effect to pets gives pets that on-attack ability.
7f2b53 No.13636045
Thinking of making an Infiltrator. Is there any good Inquisitor skills to level with or should I just use Amarasta's Blade Burst? Rune of Hagarrad and Rune of Kalastor both sound decent, I've heard Storm Box is good early on. Flames of Ignaffar is too mana intensive for early game I think.
bc5818 No.13636459
>Threadly reminder that you can get free skeletons
2d810e No.13636976
>>13632686
>>13632618
>>13634680
All of you heretics need Kymon.
3e062e No.13637177
>when you have to give up your 12% mov speed boots
34e8cc No.13637397
>>13632686
Wait are you telling me you can get on-hit constellations and put them on the mister skeltals?
e276bf No.13637427
>>13637397
Yes. And the damage they deal is then based on your pet damage.
34e8cc No.13637502
>>13632444
I didn't pay much attention to van helsing.
Victor Vran is a very simple game with very engaging combat. It sacrifices almost all class building and loot hunting for by far the best combat of a diabo clone I've seen. It's more of a top down action game where you just happen to be able to deck out your character with different items.
34e8cc No.13637518
What are the best items for increasing pet speed?
Are there any I can get fairly early on?
7b3498 No.13637525
426d2c No.13638236
holy shit what game is this and should i buy it?
7b3498 No.13638254
>>13638236
Yes. Buy it right now, here's the steam page. Don't forget to purcahse The Crucible DLC as well as the new Ashes of Malmouth DLC!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/219990/Grim_Dawn/
7f2b53 No.13638269
>>13638236
It's a pretty solid ARPG so if you like games like Diablo (1 & 2, fuck 3) PoE or Torchlight, get it.
7f2b53 No.13638285
Has anyone tried a gunslinger Purifier with maxed out Fire Strike line and Inquisitor WPS?
2d810e No.13638298
>>13638236
>Buy it
If you want to support the devs, yeah. It's a pretty good game. It's on GOG as well.
426d2c No.13638300
68a2f9 No.13638307
>>13638236
Pirate it before you buy it, it has a GOG release so that shouldn't be hard.
abfa9d No.13638471
>>13637525
I've been running a fire purifier build with lightning. My finished build is going to be centered around the new Mythical Ulzuin's set.
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/62avARxV
Wish I had better accessories though.
Once I put the whole set on in grim tools I almost fainted.
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/vNQQXMpN
>94% fire resist
>>13632290
Hi Edgelord
>>13632686
Good taste
829507 No.13638703
>>13637525
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/RZR98vxV
Dying is for manlets.
>>13635384
>>13632290
But you both spelled witchblade wrong. Commando is also an acceptable answer.
>>13633768
Soldier makes for extremely nasty melee pierce builds that play like a more durable blademaster, with insane single-target damage and around 70% RR. You can also go forcewave if you like yourself a more durable style, which makes you a workable DoT/tank. If you want to go ranged, demo, for fire/lightning support and the AOEs you can blast everyone with.
e7310b No.13638760
I know its a meme but I actually only play this game to fall asleep, I can be full of energy and can't last 30 minutes without passing out
abfa9d No.13638768
>>13638760
I did that with other games too. Some games are just comfy and make for good snoozes.
bc5818 No.13640594
>>13637525
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/q2MAo842
I'm don't have enough material for another haunted steel for the empowered krieg cleaver. My original haunted steel is with a death omen but I think for my vacuum cleaner build, the krieg cleaver works better (20% chance of AoE 100% lifesteal nova of 2k after bonus) compared to death omen's curse of 6% life reduction + 1000 vit damage that can activate every 2 seconds and procs the damage every 5.
842a15 No.13640766
>>13640594
Just some advice on what to do with the last Devotion points.
3 points in Behemoth for Giant's Blood. Turtle is really only good for early game.
3 points in Hawk for the %OA and %Crit.
bc5818 No.13640830
>>13640766
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/w26MmP0N
Wait that was the wrong link. It linked the other anon's build for some reason. I'm a faget
f6f709 No.13641012
lvl 28 druid here, so how the fuck do i solve for the children quest? i cant go through the door after defeating cronley. i talked to the woman, she gave me the quest but the door is unpathable
94d789 No.13641118
>>13638768
An interesting idea.
Are the games so boring theyre a natural sedative
Or is the game just so comfy, its become TOO comf?
96b6cc No.13641238
>>13636976
You mean that dead asshole with megalomaniac complex who is basically fantasy joseph smith? Or you mean crazy asshole who lives in a basement who is his god?
edc28d No.13641365
>>13636976
>those resists.
34eb21 No.13641380
>>13636976
>being a demon worshiper
>pretending to be good while following a being just as dangerous as C'thon
bc5818 No.13641398
>>13636976
Uroboruuk literally did nothing wrong
5ce91b No.13641519
>>13636976
>that yellow spirit of a deceased (((Chosen))) is totally not necromancy because he believed in god
>except it's not a god but a demon that hates humanity and openly states he'll fuck it over
>stuff with no long term bad effects like making skeletons move is worse than selling humanity out to a demon when Kymon did nothing much with the powers he sold his soul for anyway
Vigil are clearly the better guys.
96b6cc No.13641619
Can you join (((chosen))) as necromancer?
38a1de No.13641683
>>13632686
I have the Shepard's Call unlocked and it has a 25% chance to hit pet buff, but I can't even see Summon Skeletons or any of my other summons as an option when choosing a skill to apply it to.
38a1de No.13641725
>>13641683
>>13632686
Alright I did some respeccing in my devotions to test some things out. I wasn't able to bind Shepard's Call to any summons, but I was able to bind Flame Torrent to them. But I also wasn't able to bind Raise the Dead. I also wasn't able to bind Raise the Dead to Curse of Frailty, which is what I had Shepard's Call bound to.
What's the deal? These are all % on hit attacks, so what defines what can they be bound to or not?
96b6cc No.13641778
>>13641725
It works randomly because they fucked devotion system up. Sometimes you cant bind, sometimes you can but it does nothing.
5ce91b No.13641802
>>13641619
Nope, not even if you tell them you remember the 6 billion (lives lost during Grim Dawn). Only Vigil accepts everyone, though they do not like Inquisitors much they will still let you in.
38a1de No.13641854
>>13641778
Well that's gay. When you say they fucked it up does that mean it's going to be fixed or is this Working As Intended™?
96b6cc No.13641877
>>13641854
I think it will be fixed, looks like most of the problems happen around new classes so fixes might happen.
01d746 No.13642076
>>13641725
You can't bind any devotion to any skill, but instead groups of skills.
For example, you can only have Shepard's Call on an attacking move, because it procs on attack, while you can only have Turtle's Shield on a persistent effect like Menhir's Will or Veil of Shadows.
bcb57f No.13642452
>>13641725
Raise the Dead used to be On kill so it couldn't be bound to anything that didn't do damage. They probably just forgot to allow it for non damaging skills when they changed it to on attack.
bc5818 No.13642465
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/RZR91dBV
Changed my build around. Gave up completely on mana and health regen (why save up myself when I can take health and absorb mana from other people). Next 8 levels going to be to used to pump in on the lightning (now vitality) totem. Shame the totems can't actually lifesteal for me.
Based on this projection of the build, I expect this to be my endgame skill tree.
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/8NKQ1DJV
38a1de No.13642512
>>13642076
But that's not true. I have Twin Fangs bound to Raise Skeletons, Scorpion Sting bound to Summon Blight Fiend, and Flame Torrent bound to Summon Hellhound. Those are all proc on attack moves bound to pet summons, and they now trigger whenever my pet attacks and gets the proc.
I just seems weird to allow most proc attacks work this way and most others not. So far the only two I've found that I can't bind to summons are the Reaper and the Shepard's Crook.
>>13641877
Well if that does get fixed the devs will be officially cool in my book, and I will buy the game.
01d746 No.13642534
>>13642512
Those two have always been like that, you can't have your pets boost themselves or summon more pets. Design decision, I'm guessing.
96b6cc No.13642569
>>13642512
>buy the game
Just dont get crucible, its shit.
38a1de No.13642889
>>13642569
I've been using it to speedlevel new characters and get easy devotion points. If I ever see it on sale for an absurdly low amount like a dollar I'll buy it.
>>13642534
That's unfortunate. Oh well, I can keep Shepard's Call on Curse of Frailty and if I ever get a good necro pistol I'll stick devil ammo on it and use it for Raise the Dead.
Side question: I've never played an ARPG into lategame before. How crucial is building to focusing on only a few elements? Because I know my skeletons deal phys and vit damage, my blight fiend does phys and poison, my hellhound does fire and phys and my crow does phys and lightning. And most of the necro equipment I've seen just boosts vit damage or maybe aetherial.
tldr what should I build/skill on a Cabalist other than +% to pet damage/summons+curse of frailty?
bc5818 No.13643456
So any anons kills modrogen or the ravager yet?
d6a75f No.13643735
>>13637397
>>13637427
>Apostate here
Holy fuck a use for Fissure at last.
d6a75f No.13643757
>>13641802
They have unique dialogue for Apostates, actually. (Necro/Inquisitor)
Something about you having an open mind.
80cbf2 No.13643847
>>13643757
How do you level your apostate? Pet build? I suppose the sheer power of inquisitorial seal can carry that, but I see no other synergy.
d6a75f No.13643898
>>13643847
I mostly did it for the new content. Initial leveling was Word of Power, then Skeletons and the big poison zombie. Ignaffar is a wonderful tool. There's also the healing spell and Inquisitor seal, of course.
However, you are terribly squishy. It's not something I'd run in Hardcore, that's a build I'm thinking on for my Perdition run. Not sure if he should be Inquisitor/Soldier or what, because of the LOADS of acid damage.
41e460 No.13643904
Grim dawn stresses me the hell out with the skill system.
I always feel like I have to focus really hard on one specific thing or gravitate to focusing on just two active skills or I'm just splashing points around- And even at capped level I feel like I can never fully tap into a skill tree and feel incomplete.
e65bdc No.13643932
>>13643904
I feel the same way for the most part. It doesn't help that I've always had an uncomfortable compulsion to max out any particular talent in a skill tree that I'm investing points in, which is clearly not at all optimal for at least half the skills you'd be taking based on what I'm seeing in some builds I've looked at.
e276bf No.13643950
>>13643847
Inq has lots of flat damage I guess. Could be pretty okay with lots of skellies.
>>13643904
>I can never fully tap into a skill tree and feel incomplete
That's the point.
d6a75f No.13643959
>>13643904
>>13643932
You can always cheat.
I've long since deleted this character.
Is there any way to delete the shared stash entirely and totally start over? I feel a little dirty
38a1de No.13643992
>>13643959
Since you've messed with the dark arts I have a question. My Cabalist is the first character I made, which means I completely fucked up my attribute distribution. Is there a good tool to use to fix it? Grim Dawn Trained Hard looks perfect but it hasn't updated yet, and I've tried a bunch of the other cheats but they're ghetto shit that barely works with garbage interfaces.
e276bf No.13644004
>>13643959
Just delete your save file.
>>13643992
Expansion has attribute reset potions.
829507 No.13644007
>>13642889
If you're going to hang back and let your pets do the work, then +pet damage/OA/DA/resists are your main focus, but there's also a few other things like resist reduction and debuffing enemies. Most endgame pet gear will have +% all damage, so the variability in pet damage types isn't as big a deal as for other builds.
>>13643992
GD Defiler is the best option, though I believe the new version of GD stash also has this functionality. The xpac also gives you potions to reset attribute allocation if you like.
d6a75f No.13644009
>>13643992
Grim Defiler is my tool, and it's… alright. A little jank, but gets the job done. Alternatively, you can do the first side quest on the DLC content and get the potion of reshaping, which specifically rerolls your attributes.
bc5818 No.13644011
>>13643959
>make another cheat character with nothing but money
>Buy personal stash till max or as needed
>transfer shared stash to personal
>delete character
38a1de No.13644043
>>13644007
Well after I made the Cabalist and got to steps of torment I felt kind of bored, so I made a Purifier and had a lot of fun but I felt so extremely squishy that I tried to meet halfway with an Apostate but I was still getting roasted so I ended up crawling back to skeleton gangbang coordinator.
a61a61 No.13644082
>>13632290
Necro+Occult is fun? i wanna do a skelly build like Diablo2
Been playing modded Original sin 2 and i want to do something like this
d6a75f No.13644135
>>13644082
I think the max skellies is 8, but it might go higher (if you can get enough bonus points in the right skill…) and the pets can be comically powerful since Skellies have power from your main hand weapon, which is B USTED. But max you can get like 10 or so minions entirely.
a61a61 No.13644168
>>13644135
Oh nice
One more question: Can you be a summoner without depending on item summons with the skellies? i hated having to walk arround with a circus of random critters
d6a75f No.13644223
>>13644168
Skeletons starts with 3 on the base skill. You get one more, up to 8, by investing in more points. Later you get a big ass zombie, a short-lived ghost, and a few other things are hiding in Devotions.
With the Occultist, you get a big dog and a little bird, and that's roughly it. As for item summons, now there's a skeletal golem relic and a wraith in a book.
Due to the power of skellies, you're not really reliant on much outside of them.
3e062e No.13644303
Jesus fucking christ what are those Ugdenbog golems made of? a pack of those fuckers can tank more than some bosses, and their ground vines attack has a bit of tracking and hits like a goddamn truck
Also this in elite, I cant fucking wait to fight them in ultimate
a61a61 No.13644307
>>13644223
Oh, the skelly summon limit does not limit the other summons? so you could walk arround with 8 skellies + the circus of abominations?
d6a75f No.13644327
>>13644307
Oh, yeah. As far as I know there's no upper pet limit, though I could be wrong. Skellies do act a little odd after 5, but it's a visual bug. Don't worry if some seem to hang back on you.
a61a61 No.13644344
>>13644327
I guess im really buying the expansion then, thanks
f1f54c No.13644494
To everyone who bitches about Kymon being a literal demon, yada, yada.
Korvaak may be Empirion and not the other way around
01d746 No.13644542
>>13644494
Who the fuck is Korvaak, again?
d6a75f No.13644544
>>13644494
Deepest lore.
ChThon has every right to be fucking pissed, Cairn shouldn't even exist.
96b6cc No.13644567
>>13644494
He is not a demon pretending to be a god, but a god who pretends to be a demon? How is that any better? And how is that related to (((chosen)))?
f1f54c No.13644603
>>13644494
Korvaak*
I fucked up my own post.
Anyways, I wanted to ask you for some advice running a purifier. Currently I'm in my low 20's and going with maxed word of pain and maxed rune of kalastor, making my way to max ignition. But I'm getting my shit pushed in because Word of renewal is only at level 1. In any of my pyro builds I always level with Greater Fireball and Flintcore Bolts + canister bombs until I hit the soft cap at 50 and can respect to a fun build. Should I go for it? Just level with rune of kalastor until I max Inquisitor or should I still level with word of Pain, max that tree and respect in the 50's?
f1f54c No.13644770
>>13644544
Isn't that the point of the lore? That when lower being decide that they know better than the gods shit gets fucked up? Look at Solael, Bysmiel and Dreeg. They have sects upon sects in their name and their followers were the ones who probably unearthed the cult of Chton. Modgrogen is a stuck up retard that you can bitch slap into respecting you and too arrognat to admit that Urooboruk is a (((chosen))).
This is a world where all actual Gods are dipshits and those who were not mortal once are cosmic horrors. Doesn't get any more Grim than this.
>>13644567
This just means that he's a recycled primordial wash-up. The only constant in this world is that most gods die when no one believes in them any more, when the last faithful dies and forgets they ever existed. The (((chosen))) pray to Empyrion and Korvaak gets the spoils but a sect of undead worshippers can push their shit in? The Barrow people pray to Wendigo and that is enough to keep all the Underbog at bay (while the Chosen can hardly keep half of Sorrow Bastion). And the Arkovians prayed to their gods to no end but that didn't help them at all. Divinities still exist (in fact, the in game explanation for extra Devotions is that new constellations have arrived because more Gods are paying attention to Cairn) but they seem to be bound by a set of unspoken rules. Which is why, if Korvaak had any power, he wouldn't have been forgotten pre and post arkovia.
bc6e87 No.13644784
Anyone want to play co op? I'm thinking of making a tank build which means I need someone to do the damage.
It's a commando for anyone who's wondering.
829507 No.13644797
>>13644303
Their real tankiness comes from them having attack speed reduction on their attacks. You want something that relies on cooldowns and hits hard, like blitz or ring of steel, to deal with them effectively in melee.
01d746 No.13644821
>>13644784
I've been meaning to level a vitality character, sure.
bc6e87 No.13644947
>>13644821
We'll have to do it this friday, I've got work till then.
01d746 No.13644995
>>13644947
What are you, gay?
bc6e87 No.13645033
bcb57f No.13645876
>>13644135
Pets don't scale with weapon damage.
>>13644303
Just wait until aether colossi. They tank, they go fast, and they shoot shit at you. Plus, they have friends that also go fast and stun you.
bc5818 No.13645954
>>13645876
Yeah I found that the expansion enemies are a pretty good shit test for any build. I actually rehauled my build philosophy while in malmoth.
01d746 No.13645993
>>13645954
You have a build philosophy?
de48ef No.13646022
>>13645876
>Pets don't scale with weapon damage.
I could have sworn last thread we had a screencap of that.
Huh.
I think I'm going insane.
bc5818 No.13646128
>>13645993
Stuff like maintain enough mana regen to support near-constant channeling or having enough mana absorb from enemy skills to ignore mana regen altogether but channeling is relegated to be used in emergencies or when you're standing on top of the enemy's AoE spell, which will rapidly regen your mana.
You have the character build, which is your design for how skill and stat points are allocated and what skills are taken and why, while the build philosophy dictates what sort of loot your character would want and what sort of add-ons your gear would use in turn once you have enough resist in order to make your build as efficient as possible. I can have my channeling build played with mana regen or with mana absorb, but with mana regen I would be sacrificing a lot of potentially good loot to maintain my regen above sustainable threshold while if I'm after mana absorb, I can use 4 soul shards on my medal, amulet and rings and that'll get me 120% mana absorb but in turn lock out the add-ons I can use for these 4 slots but allow me more freedom in my equipment.
edc28d No.13646232
If I want to make a build tankier, what's the best option:
DA?
Physical Resistance?
Armor/Armor Absorption?
Speaking primarily as a caster in Hardcore, one of Malmouth's bosses came dangerously close to killing me when I wasn't paying attention and took a few melee hits. But also so I know what to keep in the stash for when I make a melee character.
de48ef No.13646264
How do you assign your keys?
I have my secondary attacks bound to 1 and 2, my potions to mouse 4 and 5 (right above where my thumb rests, uh, at rest) and everything else to various number keys (things like auras and minion summoning.)
bc6e87 No.13646316
>>13646232
Damage absorption, like from blast shield. It doesn't work like the turtle devotion, instead it takes that much damage away from every attack. This also makes you immune to DoT because of how it applies damage.
edc28d No.13646329
>>13646264
Use 1-5 and q-t as my hotbar. Auras and pemanent shit gets put on the Y-bar. A/S is energy/health.
01d746 No.13646368
>>13646264
My main attacks are left and right click, while my other 2 buttons on my mouse are for other attacking skills. I keep potions on R and E while using the hotbar mostly for auras and shit.
abfa9d No.13646374
>>13644603
Purifier here, max vigor and get a yellow devotion, like turtle, stag or lion. That extra HP goes a long way.
Also get the hawk devotion and dump everything on phys.
abfa9d No.13646409
>>13646374
forgot second ss
edc28d No.13646425
>>13646316
Talking in terms of equipment. I'm not a Demolitionist, the only damage absorption I could get is Blade Barrier and its pretty shit.
bc6e87 No.13646465
>>13646425
Then you probably want resists, hp and circuit breakers.
cbb30b No.13646467
>>13646374
>Purifier
>doesn't go fully leveled and improved Grenado with Ulzuin's Chosen with every levelup in Cunning
edc28d No.13646495
>>13646465
I've already got maxed resists on everything and maxed Physique/multiple HP devotions. I need general physical protection of some kind.
bc6e87 No.13646546
>>13646495
Get physical resists, armour stops at around 7k and armour absorption just helps max it out.
de48ef No.13646579
>>13646467
…Is it Cunning that would govern that? I would have thought Spirit, because of the fire damage. Or is Grenado mostly physical damage? A
abfa9d No.13646602
>>13646467
When my build is complete we'll compare it to your's then champ. May the best 'sploding man win.
bcb57f No.13646604
>>13646425
It's just not gonna happen. Armor is flat damage reduction but enemies can hit for 4k+. The new C'thon nemesis hit me for 8200 earlier today and that was after he reduced my max health by 30%. Physical resist comes in too small amounts to make much of a difference. DA stacking still leaves you open to random bursts of damage. Best bet is stacking health and percentage healing.
>>13646546
>armour stops at around 7k
wat
bc6e87 No.13646631
>>13646604
I meant that you'll probably get 7k armour at most. That's the highest I could get it by playing around with Grim tools.
829507 No.13646706
>>13646579
+% damage is the least effective way to actually improve your damage output. That's why physique beats both other stats as a point sink.
cbb30b No.13646711
>>13646579
It is. High Impact gives you 75% chance of 250% extra Physical damage, Shattering Blast gives Internal Trauma, +50% Crit Damage and doubles Pierce/Fire damage (not too much). Ulzuin's Chosen, on top of that, gives you +115% for damage with cooldown reduction procs. Didn't go Inquisitor yet, but if it works with Deadly Aim it'll be a build of the decade.
>>13646602
Indeed.
152fce No.13646988
*teleports behind you*
Nothin' personnel, kid
de48ef No.13647070
>>13646988
God, how do you keep track of things in combat? Such constant bouncing must be confusing.
3e062e No.13647107
>There is enemies that turn off your auras, you have to manually turn them on again
Ah, so this what people mean when they get triggered
bc5818 No.13647121
>>13647107
Oh ya, I'm trained to the point where if I suddenly start taking a huge chunk of damage, I look to check my aura first. Funny thing is, I can also do it it them thanks to devotion skills.
3e062e No.13647374
>>13647121
I'm actually mad and amused, mad at that cheap death I mean it's softcore so at most it's the walking back but amused at the fact that the devs had the balls to actually put that in the game, respect.
de48ef No.13647413
>>13647374
It's amazing how well-done that OH SHIT moment is in this. Almost nothing oneshots you, you almost always have a moment to react, and Constitution means that if you play well you have a fallback regardless of build, at least a few times.
01d746 No.13649217
They really need to bugtest this some more.
f1f54c No.13649255
>>13646467
Full cunny build? Now I'm interested, what's the breakdown on a Grenado purifier?
a572af No.13649532
This is nice thread
Cabalist best build. You can go full satanic vitality/chaos damage caster, poison acid plague bringer, or the ultimate minion commander. Best aesthetic
>>13644307
Theres some unique items that increase the summon limit so you can have at least 10 skels + other pets. All I ever wanted is to just run around with a party of skels like diablo 2 and grim dawn let's me do it.
7e7f9b No.13650118
>>13642889
Aren't pet boni the only relevant stats for MM?
I've taken a peek at endgame equipment, and it seems like Cabalists get items that either increase minion count for more total gains out of pet boni. There also seems to be a focus on retaliation damage, and it looks like there's a weak synergy between (double) dog with Hellfire and your fire mages.
Here's something I whipped up, mind you, I have no idea what I'm doing:
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/0V0A01rZ
2d810e No.13650191
>>13647374
>Second floor of Hargate's Laboratory.
>There's radioactive water everywhere
>Gotta go fast though them
>Character stop because my cursor hover over a barrel/enemy etc.
Forced me to lure the enemies into my position using pets, I usually just go anywhere with my twin guns blazing. Also this taught me the importance of personal riftgate.
90baa0 No.13650500
>>13650118
Pet heals are the most important thing once you have decent pet stats.
9696bf No.13652246
>>13650191
alt+click = ignore everything and run past it all.
01d746 No.13653167
I think one of the worst things about Grim Dawn is its music. It's not bad, I like to play it during my tabletop games, but you really need music that gets your blood pumping in games like this.
What do you guys listen to?
ead03b No.13653242
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>>13653167
Some of the music in grim dawn is REALLY fucking good like embed related. The issue is that they decided to have pretty much the entire soundtrack play in any area you go to so it rarely ever gets matched with any of the unique looking areas in the game giving very little personality to both the music & the areas you're exploring. This track for example would've been amazing to just have it play around the early zones around the swamp to get you in the mood for a gloomy & dark world. Instead they decided to throw a lot of fairly mediocre tracks & slapped them onto every zone so nothing feels like it stands out.
ead03b No.13653260
>>13653242
I need to re-read my sentences instead of rushing to post next time. To put it simply, taking D2 for example you've got each of the major areas paired with a single but memorable track. If you had somethng like the tristram theme playing in every other zone out of the blue like they do it in grim dawn it really would mess with the atmosphere
63f817 No.13653330
what would be a good tank build for a first playthrough? I usually go through games as a tank first until I can get the feel for them and the stats.
01d746 No.13653446
>>13653330
Soldier + Anything, honestly.
Particularly good ones might be Shaman or Necromancer - a lot of the Death Knight gear is extremely defensive and will make you pretty unkillable.
63f817 No.13653464
>>13653446
Cool, I'll go that route. Thanks
8b6355 No.13653928
>lvl60 necro feels boring
What to do?
80cbf2 No.13653948
How does damage absorption stack? If my Purifier levels up both Blast Shield and Inquisitor Seal, will they stack, will it adopt the higher value or will Blast Shield be used even if it has inferior value when it procs?
d68e5a No.13653997
>>13644082
what you do is go necro+occult and max skellies + max skellies. then you get the Reaper trait that summons skellies on hit. you assign it to the skellies. now every skellie has a 35% chance to summon another skellie (with a maximum of 3 extra skellie per skellie) on hit that scales with pet bonuses because you assigned it to skellies.
d68e5a No.13654007
>>13653997
with reaper trait i mean the last point in the reaper devotion (on the left side)
e42f10 No.13654011
8b6355 No.13654031
>>13654011
I tried it for holy fuck almost 20 years already.
bcb57f No.13654039
>>13653948
I believe flat damage absorption stacks
>>13653997
You can't assign raise the dead to pets
82cb73 No.13654130
Is there any way to speed up when out-of-combat regeneration starts? Feels like I can't go more than two seconds without taking a tick of damage in some fights.
ee68c7 No.13654240
>>13653997
You can't raise skellies with skellies. But all attack-type devotion procs can be placed on minion skills. Anything with a relatively lower chance of proccing or hits a large area is a good choice because each skellie can proc them individually. Good examples include Tsunami, Fissure, things like that. Go with what you have bonuses for.
9722ca No.13654597
>>13653997
>be running cabalist with the skeleton devotion
>decide to not summon my skeletons and check out how the devotion ones do on their own
>less than 10% of the damage of a regular necro skeleton
That constellation is fucking garbage
407565 No.13655003
>>13654597
That's because they scale off player damage and you probably don't have enough vit/aether and they also scale pretty well with levels. They're also a devotion proc which probably shouldn't be even close to the power levels of a skill that you invest a ton of skillpoints into.
They're probably still pretty mediocre as far as devotion procs go though.
e65bdc No.13656465
I'm level 27 and have only picked Soldier for my first class choice, and just killed Cronley. Should I be worried about figuring out a second class choice soon? I'm having a hard time seeing how I could benefit what I'm already doing with any of the other classes.
9b02a0 No.13656493
>>13656465
HOW FUCKING SLOW ARE YOU GOING?!
Anyway, basically soldier synergizes with basically anything.
Demolitionist, Occultist, or Shaman are the common choices.
All of them bring a lot of damage and regen. Occultist is probably my favorite that debuff they get is fantastic
9722ca No.13656659
So, my old pre-expansion character is a commando which I was running as a gunslinger, but now that the expansion dropped I made a purifier which seems way better at the dual pistols thing since I don't need to waste a slot on a marauder's belt/artifact.
I want to rebuild my original character into something else now. I was thinking something with a shield, but I also found a pretty nice purple 2h hammer with +1 to demolitionist skills. Any ideas?
e65bdc No.13656676
>>13656493
Is that really slow? I just try to go through each area in its entirety and kill everything and do any quests I find.
8b6355 No.13656898
>>13656676
As long as you not out-leveling mobs around you its fine.
606da5 No.13657032
>>13656465
Assuming you're full tilt into Soldier and running Cadence, there's nothing wrong with dipping a little into a secondary class that has really useful early skills. Off the top of my head I can think of Nightblade's Pneumo Breath which will give you %health restore and +total speed every 15 seconds, or Necro's Bone Harvest which is a gigantic fuckoff AOE you can get at 5(?) mastery.
606da5 No.13657050
>>13656465
Also note Cadence's 3rd hit is its own thing and will not stack with proc attacks like Markovian's Advantage.
fc3aea No.13657164
>>13652246
Would've been a better loading hint than "stronger enemy give better loots" etc.
I'm the kind of person who don't read wiki.
407565 No.13657236
>>13657164
>not having lmb bound to Move To
01d746 No.13657281
It only took going back to town 3 times and spending all my money on health potions, but I threw 3000 runes at Krieg until he died.
9b02a0 No.13657302
>>13657281
nice, for that achievement I just went occultist max'd evil eye and put like 2 points in curse with basically nothing in mastery, poison does work.
842a15 No.13657491
>>13656465
Most of the classes have a kind of mininal "support build" in them:
Inquisitor can go for Word of Renewal and it's third modifier Steel Resolve for a heal and all-purpose buff (that gives useful Aether and Chaos resists) along with Deadly Aim to make your crits hurt more.
Arcanist can go for a one pointer Iskandra's Elemental Exchange with the Elemental Balance modifier maxed purely for the Critz. Inner Focus gives %OA along with %spirit for any gear that might need it. You have Mirror of Ereoctes as an OH SHI.. button and Maiwens Protective Sphere for damage absorb at the cost of a bit of damage.
Occultist can use Solael's Witchfire purely for the attack speed boost even if you don't care about the chaos damage. There's that lovely resist buster Curse of Frailty that has some use in almost every kind of build and Blood of Dreeg for heals and phys and poison resists wit the Aspect of the Guardian modifier.
Demolitionist has Flame Touched which modifer Temper gives bonuses to phys and trauma along with other useful stuff. Blast Shield is an awesome defensive passive that can save your ass and Flash Bang with it's modifer is a useful defensive crowd control skill. There's even a small case for Vindictive Flame.
Shaman is a bit "eh" for a generic support class, but if you're going for two handers there's Brute Force. Mogdrogen's Pact got a buff with the expansion and now the main skill gives you extra flat physical damage and Oak Skin is useful if you're going for a lot of retaliation damage. Finally Wendigo Totem can help keep you alive.
I'm not too hooked on Nightblade as a generic support tree. Sure Pneumatic Burst is an excellent defensive buff and a heal with a rather low cooldown and you have a decent OH SHI.. button in Blade Barrier (though it does root you to the spot when in effect). But I feel you really need to play to the tree's strengths, like going for pierce over physical or having some plan that involves dual wielding.
Necro I just can't see as a generic support tree. Minions require specialization and the other skills and buffs only really work if you're going for the Necromancer's favored damage types.
9696bf No.13657729
>>13657281
You could also go Shaman and just max the swarm spell, killed him at level 9 that way.
829507 No.13658142
>>13657491
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/b28qO9KV
Here's a relatively basic physical blademaster build. Granted, I have more skills invested in the nightblade side than you would for something like S&B commando, but the investment's about on par with a CoF/Witchfire/Dreeg witchblade. It still maintains the +5 to soldier skills, has circuit breakers out the ass, and can achieve truly staggering OA/DA numbers thanks to having 1k in both stats. You lose the durability that a shield gives you, but make up for it with better AOE and slightly higher damage output. Also, it's relatively easy to swap this into a 2H build with leviathan or S&B with a little tweaking, or spec out of unknown soldier for some flexibility.
842a15 No.13658484
>>13658142
I know this is hair-splitting, but what I was trying to getting at was a secondary class you can just graft onto an existing self-contained build without much thought.
Nightblade requires some building around, unless you are grafting it onto a poison build such as DEE.
d0495a No.13658523
>>13658484
Go for a demolitionist.
Get blast shield and flame touched, replace cadence with fire strike. Thing is, cadence 3rd strikes replace WPS attacks.
ec5f05 No.13658571
Man I had forgotten how fucking strong is Olexa's flash freeze, screen wide freezing and 98% probability of starting a meteor shower it feels pretty amazing
829507 No.13658662
>>13658523
Cadence has by far the strongest pierce/physical support when it comes to autoattack skills. Also, deadly momentum is probably the single best damage skill for nightblades.
01d746 No.13659335
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>stick Meteor Shower onto the flamethrower as a Purifier
>meteors constantly stream around me while everything catches on fire and bursts into electric death
>mfw
e098fe No.13659351
>>13657236
>not having thumbstick bound to move
38a1de No.13659467
So I've realized I've completely ignored something pretty important: resistances
I guess none of the armor I equip or the skills/devotions I've taken have given me resists? Or do I have to socket components in order to get resists?
All I know is after getting 1shot three times in a row by the teleporting electric kike nigger at the end of a castle dungeon I socketed just about everything I could with lightning resist.
4700af No.13660430
>>13656659
I'm in a similar situation, I will probably turn my commando into some sort of tank support with as many auras I can put into it
5ad3a0 No.13661036
Man this game sorely needed a class like inquisitor. I'm going for a inq/demolitionist, should devotions be pure cunning/aspd for that insane crit skill, or rely a bit more on elemental damage?
96b6cc No.13661059
edc28d No.13661146
>>13659467
Resistances are pretty much the most important defensive stat. Most of the time you should prioritize stuff with good resistances over armor or any +damage bonus. Against most enemies the resistances you want are elemental (fire/cold/lightning) and pierce. The rest are more for the lategame/bosses.
bc5818 No.13661163
>>13661146
Enemies in malmouth have all the element, aether and bleeding. It's terrifying.
edc28d No.13661166
>>13661163
By Malmouth it's pretty easy to have maxed all resistances.
c2a605 No.13661290
>>13661267
IMO I think valbury is the dungeon with lowest monster population though you're fucked if you're a melee build
01d746 No.13661796
>>13661290
Valbury is piss easy if you go there after finishing Malmouth first
578d15 No.13662391
How good is Elemental Seeker?
842a15 No.13662653
>>13662391
Generally considered somewhat "meh".
578d15 No.13662762
>>13662653
What would be a better proc for a fire/lightning dual gun purifier?
e65bdc No.13662774
>>13661267
I just cleared that area up to the skeleton key door. Does it get much worse than it already was beyond there?
672b12 No.13662794
>>13662774
I hope you like damaging terrain, randomly moving AOEs, enough crystal clusters to jam a whore's cunt.
ec5f05 No.13663070
The game keeps throwing stuff that makes me want to go back to my Cabalist
829507 No.13663165
>>13662762
Solael's witchblade
>no cooldown
>decent fire damage
>-% resistance to fire
Rhowan's Crown
>elemental support
>flat resist reduction
>adds flat damage
dbdaae No.13663314
Would anyone recommend a good build with an inquisitor? What other class should I combine with it for something fun? What about constellations i should take?
I have not played Grim Dawn in a long time and heard that the constellations have had some significant changes. Last build I did was a complete acid/poison Occultist build.
a61a61 No.13663371
>>13663165
Im going to get Rhowan's Crown for sure
My plan is:
Elemental Storm on Fire Strike
Elemental Seeker on Bursting Round or Storm Spread and Fissure on the other
>>13663314
Demo+Inquisitor deals a fuckton of damage
01d746 No.13663394
68fc58 No.13664107
>>13663070
This spirits pretty god with necromancer+Shaman build.
414f16 No.13665784
>>13663394
For a BWC build, how does the aura of censure stack up against aura of conviction?
a61a61 No.13667755
Glass cannon Purifier is super fun, but if i dont get blast shield or that protective rune soon i will start getting one shotted by bosses
abfa9d No.13667887
>>13667755
What level so far?
actually, just post build.
abfa9d No.13668208
I just got a legendary from braking a vase in the Tomb of Korvaak.
Has this ever happened to anyone? Can anyone break it and confirm?
82cb73 No.13668253
>>13668208
That looks like a plot item
2a01d0 No.13668257
>>13668208
It's a fixed drop for a secret quest.
5c42b5 No.13668460
this game is now more or less what I wanted diablo 3 to be
e26b33 No.13668622
You know what I miss from titan quest ? The fountain checkpoints. Grim Dawn kinda just assumes you're a NEET or that you don't like playing in short bursts. It's especially annoying with large hidden areas in which, obviously, there are no rift portals at all.
I get why they did it, to uncasualize the formula, but still, sometimes I want to stop playing and I just can't or I'd lose all progress except unveiling the map.
e65bdc No.13668642
>>13668622
That part really annoyed me because I was having stability problems with the game due to Nvidia cards not liking it, but after fixing that it's not so bad.
abfa9d No.13668771
Feels real fucking gud when you get your endgame weapon off your first real osc attempt.
What a way to end the night.
d2f96f No.13668954
>launch game
>go to shared stash
>it's completely empty, all items and tabs gone
I just lost 3 tabs full of blues.
d2f96f No.13669036
>>13668954
>turn off cloud saves in the options
>launch game
>my character is gone
motherfucker
granted it was only level 48 but it's still gay as fuck
a2f0a9 No.13669087
>>13669036
Just reenable cloud saves and you should get your char back, same thing happened to me last night. Saw something on the GD forums about transferring from cloud to local, might try it today.
349b99 No.13669581
>>13669036
Allowing cloud save in the game used to lag it like no tomorrow. Did they fixed it, I turned off cloud save too long ago to remember what was the detail.
d2f96f No.13669678
>>13669618
>no exclusive skills
Shitto.
d86a70 No.13669778
Is cold still treated like the red-headed stepchild among the damage types?
9b02a0 No.13669810
>>13669778
what are you talking about TSS spellbreaker was incredibly powerful.
(it was also the only build that could actually use cold effectively)
But yeah, cold is still a shit element except for extremely specific builds
bc46e6 No.13669902
>>13669678
Just swap Bursting Round and two levels of Word of Renewal for Aura of Conviction you autist.
c07af7 No.13669923
>>13668208
Thanks. Now I just screencap that map and I can find it myself.
add574 No.13670372
>>13669923
It only drops on Ultimate Difficulty, and only if you do that Homestead quest to get that chick's diary first.
If you break the pot BEFORE the diary quest, you are Shit outta Luck, friendo.
38a1de No.13670507
Anyone have some advice for my Cabalist?
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/xZyDKjkV
I'm liking Blood of Dreeg after putting some points into it but I need to start taking some more offensive skills so I put a point into Pox. Otherwise I can only use Curse of Frailty to trigger devotions.
ad454b No.13670536
Does anyone have a good Cabalist build? I am, to be perfectly honest, not very good at creating builds myself, especially the devotions, those are always such a mess to figure out.
a61a61 No.13670770
>>13667887
Lv 33
Can't post build because my browser (Brave) seems unable to get the build link when I use the calculator, and I ain't using googlebotnet or sjwfox no matter what
The build takes the dual pistol passive, the dual blast and the crit buff from Inquisitor and fire strike, vindictive flame and the aura on demo, now building towards blast shield for survavibility
It's fun exploding enemies with 1.7k crits and 165% attack speed at my level
744fe9 No.13670785
>>13669810
>>13669778
I take it neither of you have seen a soulrend shadow strike build in action.
349b99 No.13670786
>>13670658
I really like the dress up system because I can put my equipments into the look of a generic soldier just doing my thing.
01d746 No.13671323
>>13670786
I'm so glad they added the Illusionist. Really, every game with a metric fuck ton of gear needs something similar.
d2f96f No.13671354
>>13671323
Too bad some equip looks like shit on a female. Also best looking body armor or what?
349b99 No.13671540
>>13671354
I like most of the generic sets. They look really good in a mundane way.
ad454b No.13671623
>>13671540
"Utilitarian" would be a good word to use here.
96b6cc No.13671735
>>13671540
I loved my armor after playing poe. I am pretty sure a lot of drops are location specific and this dropped from chtonian rift and it was awesome. poe has only dogshit or overthetop item looks and it mostly dogshit
38a1de No.13671746
Protip: do not attack the Avatar of Modrogen.
I was just curious to see what would happen!
d86a70 No.13671754
>>13671354
I need a bit of edge on my armor to achieve true happiness.
01d746 No.13671759
>>13671754
Wow, how'd you get a shot like that?
01d746 No.13672025
>>13671799
Oh, fuck that, I guess I'll just use FreeCam instead of having to make new characters on some mod.
c07af7 No.13672522
>>13671323
>Best Legendary I have is Fiendscale armor
>It's a bright, garish orangey color, like the demon just happened to be a jersey shore tan-goblin
>Thank god I can exchange the look
e65bdc No.13672547
>>13671323
I wish the way it organized available skins in the UI was better. I also wouldn't mind a way to show all possible skins in any given slot, with the ones you don't have blanked out, for the sake of making it into a potential personal objective to collect them all.
349b99 No.13672736
>>13672522
Fiendscale jacket is a best. I even use it for my current vitality build even though this build isn't ebola-chan. But the colour is seriously hurting my eyes.
c07af7 No.13672748
>>13672736
Honestly, the item I'm subbing in (Venomsomethingorother robe) makes me want to remake a missionary of Dreeg build.
38a1de No.13672999
>>13672748
Would that be a Cabalist with Blood of Dreeg line, Eye of Dreeg line, and Blight Fiend line?
c07af7 No.13673047
>>13672999
>Blight Fiend
Oh god, I forgot that exists now. I think my original build was Shaman and Occultist, with Acid and Poison the main focuses. Blood of Dreeg, Eye of Dreeg, anything else with Poison and Acid. But a Cabalist would be way way better, especially with the joys of Ravenous Earth, Blight Fiend, etc.
Part of me wants to make the Blight Fiends into suicide bombers, but I don't know how viable/energy hungry that would be.
1a2604 No.13673059
Anyone got experience with high level Necro pets? I have the skellies maxed out and they are great, but I'm curious about the others. The Reap Spirit seems good, doesn't take too many points to max out compared to other pets, and has a short cool down. Blight Fiend has been good too, especially the AOE. I'm wondering how they stack up to the Occultist pets though. I have 1 point in the Familiar and fire doggy just to pull some aggro but I'm not sure if they are worth more attention.
38a1de No.13673072
>>13673059
The Hellhound gets a hellfire aura which buffs all allies with fire damage. That and I've put points into Blood of Dreeg to heal and buff my pets further.
1a2604 No.13673355
>>13673072
I have Blood of Dreeg maxed out already. Seems too good to pass up. Getting further into occultist for Hellfire/Bonds/Aspect would probably be worth it. It looks like the skeleton mages do fire damage but I'm not totally sure on that.
349b99 No.13673470
Also for those of you who don't already know, 100% on attack activated devotion skills actually track where your cursor is to cast. This is especially valid for the people who bind their cleansing water to an AoE skill and are annoyed they never dispell the right enemy.
a61a61 No.13673546
What the fuck is this portal? it wasn't here before is it an expansion dungeon?
01d746 No.13673586
>>13673546
Port Valbury's been there for months, man.
f3d980 No.13673589
96b6cc No.13673618
>>13673586
>months
Not since release? I guess I missed that.
a61a61 No.13673621
>>13673586
>>13673589
At which level should i be going there?
349b99 No.13673758
>>13673621
At at least aether resistance 80. Otherwise you're going to be fucked by Valbury steep council rates.
e65bdc No.13673844
Is there much of an upside or downside to whether or not you spare or kill Anasteria at fort Ikon?
96b6cc No.13673903
>>13673844
Better to spare her. All you get is a little rep with black legion, but they will be maxed out 1st anyway. Everything gives rep for them. And she is a whole other faction. Unless you dont need any of her items and in that case you can have a little bit of additional mobs here and there in theory. You can also max out her reputation, buy out every item you need and kill her at last difficulty if you really want to minmax.
3866c3 No.13674267
>>13673903
Unless you're running specific arcanist builds, there's almost no point in killing her. Also, rep grinding for Anasteria consists of running the same dungeon twenty times.
349b99 No.13674307
>>13674267
You don't need to run dungeons anon. Any old atherials (aside from malmouth's) count towards her rep.
f3d980 No.13674581
>>13673844
her vendor have a good augments for any build involving Elemental/Aether damage and good weapon augments what add pure HP.
96b6cc No.13674603
>>13674307
Pretty sure you can max out every rep with just normal+nightmare difficulty if you purchase all the rep buffs on normal. Without doing stupid ass bounty quests. 1 broken piece of shit for that amount of looking for enemy? Fuck you! And rep levels are also fucked. On low level you dont have enough rep to purchase what you need, and after you gain rep you already dont need what they sell. And later reps are easier to grind, but when you gain their rep level you cant use gear because its level restricted. I pretty much never was able to purchase anything except enchants from them.
349b99 No.13674627
So this is going to be why I will continue grinding in the skeleton key dungeons isn't it?
bcb57f No.13674657
>>13674627
those only go up to level 75
349b99 No.13674685
>>13674657
still good for gathering levelling legendaries though. The actual level 75+ I'll be getting in the dungeons would instead be a bonus while this is the clear aim to me at least.
77df4d No.13674702
I'm still pissed off that you can't actually make a character that looks anything like OP's pic.
38a1de No.13675081
>>13674702
I've been of the assumption that the busty harlot in the OP is an NPC in Malmouth or possibly a boss.
a61a61 No.13675187
Woah im at almost 7k dps at lv45 without procs
Never had a build work so well so fast before
Purifier is really the best
a61a61 No.13675236
Does multiple elemental resistance reduction debuffs stack?
I plan to pick the Viper constelation for the -20% elemental resists if it stacks with the debuff from Elemental Storm (Rhowan's Crown) for a total of -52% elemental resists
01d746 No.13675327
38a1de No.13675460
96b6cc No.13675469
>>13675460
Check out some sets.
bcb57f No.13675631
>>13675236
those two will stack but not in that way. There are three types of resist reduction. X reduced resists which does not stack with others of the same type(highest value is used) and is applied before other resists. It reduces resistances directly. (50% becomes 30% in the case of 20 reduced resist)
X% reduced resists which may or may not stack with itself, unsure, and reduces resists multiplicatively. So, Viper would reduce an enemy with 50% resist down to 40%, Additionally, negative resists will be further increased by the amount (-50% becomes -60%)
Third type of resist is -X% resist. Note the minus sign which is not present in the second type. This one stacks with others like it and is applied last. It reduces resistances directly by the amount stated (50% becomes 30% in the case of -20% resist)
3866c3 No.13675661
>>13674307
Should have clarified that I meant negative rep grinding, to get to nemesis and steal her hat.
>>13675236
See >>13675631, but it'll also depend on what class combo and equipment you use. They might have independent RR options that outstrip one or both of those constellations.
01d746 No.13675707
>>13675469
I don't think there's a single set in the game that even vaguely resembles a dress.
96b6cc No.13675804
>>13675661
>>13675631
I think its important to add that even if it says so on paper it might work differently in practice especially with new classes and there is pretty much no way to know. Although you probably can test that at the dps doll.
349b99 No.13675897
>>13674657
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/nZoXMovN
those rolls worked out great. Got myself 3 new gear
38a1de No.13676448
What do you think of my Pozmage?
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/aZqBnv4N
I know the stats are all fucked, trying to find that attribute reset potion now that I've started the DLC.
ad454b No.13677497
I've got a question about resistance penalties on curses and other such skills. Can skills like curse of frailty push enemy resists into negatives?
e26b33 No.13677509
>>13674702
Now that they got illusionist it means they're working on full model customization, r-right?
e40a9a No.13677941
>>13676448
If you're still looking, talk to the new DLC npc girl in Devil's Crossing and take her sidequest. The reward is what you're after.
349b99 No.13678410
>>13677509
That reminds me, their illusionist still lacks the most important feature. I can't transform into a little girl
ae6ba1 No.13678734
>>13675081
I fully expected her to be Amala and the whole lone survivor refugee thing just an act to trick the last bits of human resistance into breaking itself via a futile assault on the biggest aetherial stronghold in the area.
e40a9a No.13678759
>>13678734
>You will never fight a hot chick in an ARPG that sheds layers of clothing as it goes between forms
There was a touhou-style shooter like this and I'm deeply frustrated I can't find it.
613d88 No.13678774
Playing a spellbinder now, using skeletons with iskandra's elemental exchange aura to buff them. Any tips for the future of such a build?
e40a9a No.13678809
>>13678774
Remember that you can bind some Devotion procs to your skellies. Focus on them, they have more synergy with your Arcanist stuff than the Fiend. If you like buffing your Skels, look into Call of the Grave and the toggled aura early in Necro. I'd advise against the triggered attacks in Necro, though, since unless you slot Necro into a melee build (Such as, say, Shaman) they're close-to-useless since you shouldn't be in melee and you should be using a wand/offhand.
IIRC, Arcanist has a panic button you will need, as well. You'll be squishy as fuck, so don't neglect defense.
01d746 No.13678822
>>13677497
Yeah, enemy resist can be as negative as you'd like.
>>13678774
>spellbinder
>using skeletons and elemental damage
Dude, what the fuck are you doing?
a61a61 No.13678891
I'm still using lv24 guns (yellow and green quality) at lv47
How the fuck iam not finding anything better? How the fuck my DPS is literally overninethousand anyways?
349b99 No.13678913
>>13678891
Anon, a DPS of 10k isn't impressive. You'll soon meet mooks that have 35k hp each.
82cb73 No.13678916
Found a lonely ghostboy in the Steps.
>>13678891
I feel you, kind of. Mostly because my lv30 scythe gives +4 to a resistance reducing skill and a fuckton of +% aether dmg. I'm wondering when I'll replace it.
f420a4 No.13678949
>>13678822
>Dude, what the fuck are you doing?
at least its better than mine, I'm currently making a defiler and using flame touched to buff them pls no bully
also mixing it with grenado, i figure grenado is a good boss killer and skeletons are only good against bosses if you have the required gear and abilities for them, otherwise they're just fodder that can farm the trash if you get the right devotion
Honestly i doubt any kind of defiler can survive ultimate mode for long in comparison to builds that focus solely on either player character bonuses or pet bonuses, not to mention the complete lack of synergy between the builds
ad454b No.13678953
>>13678822
Oh, good shit, I can mostly compare with diablo 2 in terms of mechanics (it's the ARPG I am most familiar with), where resistance breaking and capping was very involved. Also, in terms of skellingtons and elemental damage, don't forget that there's a good chance of raising fireball-chucking skelemages (the one with the wand in my screenshot). Granted, I'd still go with occultist as secondary, the curse of frailty is just too good to pass up as crowd control/target softener. It's like an amped-up Decrepify curse from D2.
01d746 No.13678961
>>13678953
I don't doubt your pets kick ass, that's what skeletons do, but there's almost no synergy for Arcanist and Necromancer with regards to pets. Ideally you should be doing metric fucktons of aether damage to everything around you, probably more than any other class combination in the game.
I mean, I thought that was obvious just from looking at the classes.
f420a4 No.13678963
>>13678949
> the complete lack of synergy between the builds
fug, i meant masteries
ad454b No.13678982
>>13678961
That much is true. The Arcanist is almost exclusively designed around dishing insane amounts of Aether (or Chaos, with the beam) damage from the main character. The occultist has the most synergy with the necromancer, but a few other classes give party buffs that could benefit skeletons.
349b99 No.13678992
>>13678982
>The occultist has the most synergy with the necromancer
Not objectively true. A lifesteal/vit/vit decay ritualist (necro+shaman) is really, really dank.
f420a4 No.13679000
>>13678963
This is the piece of shit i had planned, ignore the items i was just fucking around with them
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/d2jB7qq2
>>13678982
>But a few other classes give party buffs that could benefit skeletons.
isn't it just the shaman?
I mean every other class has significantly less pet buffs than the shaman and occultist
613d88 No.13679008
>>13678822
Fuck if I know, I just wanted to play a skeleton summoner
349b99 No.13679018
>>13679000
>isn't it just the shaman?
Nah, shaman's pet buff is one exclusive skill (and you want the necro one) and the briarthorn's aura for retaliation damage. Not quite worth it as the rest of the are selfish pet buffs.
ad454b No.13679022
>>13678992
I am not that familiar with the shaman, but is it really that good for a summon-heavy build? We are talking about a horde of summons here, not life leech (though combining life leech with an army of skeletons could be good).
01d746 No.13679027
>>13679008
Then why not pick a class that actually benefits pets, like Shaman or Occultist?
349b99 No.13679047
>>13679022
There's specific path for life leech and my build isn't exactly that. But the second skill of the wendigo totem confers and aura in its area that gives extra vit damage and chance to life leech a substantial amount from damage, not to mention it heals 5%+500 every 0.5 seconds at max level.
My build is actually a vacuum cleaner, meaning I mained wendigo totem, lightning totem morphed to vit damage, soul siphon for that sweet AoE insta heal and drain essence, of which my drain essence's dps alone is nearing 30k. I basically stand in a spot and face tank bosses while throwing down totems and sucking their soul out of them.
f420a4 No.13679048
>>13679027
I just wanted flaming skeletons with emphasis on skeletons
That and i wanted to join kymons chosen and then pick up the necromancer class just to see the dialogue
Yet for some reason no one wants to play with my great build
613d88 No.13679052
>>13679027
How would you play a spellbinder then?
f420a4 No.13679083
>>13679052
Maximize aether damage
Literally the best aether damage build from what i can see
There are harder classes to make work, like the fucking defiler
One side has pet buffs and cold/vitality damage, the other is fire/lightning/chaos damage and no pet buffs
They are literally polar opposites and the worse part is that there is literally no gear to support them apart from a green prefix/suffix that does two abilities that don't work well with each other
01d746 No.13679123
>>13679048
You can't join Kymon's as a necromancer, you dolt. They fight necromancers. Why did you pick Arcanist and not Demolitionist if you wanted flaming skeletons, anyway?
>>13679052
This: >>13679083
f420a4 No.13679136
>>13679123
because elemental damage is shit with skeletons and they might get more out of the physical damage boost of flame touched instead
Also i like blowing shit up with explosives
Also I'm pretty sure you can join them as long as you don't pick necromancer as a secondary class until after you've joined them
its made my build a hell to solo, like all i'm doing is running in circles spamming grenado
its surprisingly worked so far
01d746 No.13679151
>>13679136
Oh, shit, I thought you were the other guy for a second there, my bad.
Really, if you want to use the pets in Necromancer, you're stuck with Shaman/Occultist. Occultist is obviously the best, but Shaman still has absolutely retarded summons, plus it'll make your skeletons super tanky.
f420a4 No.13679152
>>13679136
>something awful
fug wrong pick
I thought I saved over that with the original
01d746 No.13679156
>>13679152
if you have the original, I need it too
f420a4 No.13679160
>>13679151
I already have a shaman necromancer, i just wanted to see if defiler was viable
so far its not looking like it
I mean demolition occultist summoner works out really well, i figured necro wouldn't be so bad
ad454b No.13679164
>>13679136
>That picture
Reminds me of when I watched The Black Cauldron as a kid. The Cauldron-born scene fucked me right up, was legit spooked by skeletons for years after that.
7e7f9b No.13679180
>>13678759
Caladrius Blaze?
>touhou-style shooter
For fuck's sake, anon.
ae6ba1 No.13679317
>>13679000
Soldier has Field Command and Squad Tactics.
6e9f7f No.13679328
>>13678961
Speaking of spellbinders, can you use the ray plus drain essence at the same time? I have a ton of epics that give +skills to both of those.
349b99 No.13679374
>>13679328
It would actually be cool if having levels in both channeling skills unlock a new meta skill that utilizes the stats of both skill, but I don't think you can cast both channeling skills at once.
ffdd46 No.13679478
>>13679328
You cannot, but after playing with both Flames of Ignaffar and Conflagaration, I can see why you might want a weaker channelled skill. Sometimes its just not worth it to blast all your energy away with a laser when something else can do it just as well for cheaper, keeping your energy topped off for the times when you really need it. For you, just use Drain Essence as your general purpose street sweeper, then when things get too spicy you can unleash the God-Ray.
349b99 No.13679513
>>13679478
>Sometimes its just not worth it to blast all your energy away
Mana absorb from enemy spells is a thing. I will intentionally walk into spells to have unlimited drain essense.
e26b33 No.13679531
Wait, when the hell did they add a clock to the top of the screen? I don't remember messing with any options.
a61a61 No.13679578
What would be the most fun and functional build?
pet focused builds are not fun, they are just functional
ffdd46 No.13679615
349b99 No.13679619
>>13679578
Potentially purifier dual pistol builds or the warder tank aka the "As I walk through the valley of death" build. I'm having a lot of fun with my ritualist vacuum cleaner build though.
a61a61 No.13679629
>>13679619
Already using purifier dual pistol, working great, but i wonder what to do next, i might convert my lv73 warden from years ago in something interesting (currently two-hander beefy warrior)
bcb57f No.13679953
>>13679478
>spending all those points on two skills you can't use at the same time
>>13679531
If you click the orb above your level, it will toggle a clock display.
e40a9a No.13680283
>>13679478
Playing as an Apostate, I mostly just sit back and spray Ignaffar into the melee of my skellies, waiting for everything to fall over and for shit to stop blowing up. It's worked pretty well so far.
8b6355 No.13680328
>>13679953
>spending all those points on two skills you can't use at the same time
But what if you could! New meta!
e3b3c3 No.13680765
>>13679328
>ray plus drain essence at the same time?
here is a some Legendaries what gives you Drain essence on chance hit.
349b99 No.13680881
>>13680765
Yeah but those should have a predetermined level of drain essence installed instead of using your own level of it.
Vacuum cleaner build at level 77 now. Finally maxed out all my resist after getting outcast and homestead to revered.
a61a61 No.13681094
Any lvl 50~55 wanna do steps on torment? need more Rover rep
e3b3c3 No.13681169
>>13681094
Have only high lvl characters. Its Elite right?
a61a61 No.13681189
>>13681169
my best character is lv51 (lost most of my old characters somehow)
My lv75 warden has a shitty build, not very viable
e3b3c3 No.13681317
>>13681189
Show you build.
a61a61 No.13681327
>>13681317
My lv75? i barely remember, also nevermind im almost finished farming rep
abfa9d No.13682136
Farming these fucking things is killing the game for me.
Only got 1 in these last 10 attempts.
Worst part is, I need them to make Ugdenbog leather so I can survive poison and bleed, but the shit I need to kill does poison and bleed damage.
349b99 No.13682152
>>13682136
Anon do you not have the black legion at revered? IIRC they do have armor powder for bleed and poison, or was it pierce and poison.
abfa9d No.13682219
>>13682152
Yea I have those augments on my armor.
Even now, my resists are too low.
349b99 No.13682244
>>13682219
Then you probably get rid of all those attacks speed/casting speed components and use anti-poison salve instead.
3866c3 No.13683204
>>13682136
Take the second Gloomwald rift and hug the top side of the map. You get two guaranteed stumps a couple feet apart with almost nothing to fight between them and the rift. Rinse and repeat.
01d746 No.13683591
>>13682136
>20% poison resist
>Ultimate Ugdenbog
You're just asking for a bad time, aren't you?
c833e8 No.13683731
As a Ritualist (summoner, focusing on briarthorn and skeletons), should I bother with grasping vines to trigger shepherd's call?
349b99 No.13684304
>>13683731
cheapest trigger you can do is either lvl 1 throw bugs (passes through enemies for multiple proc chance) or drain essence (attacks every 0.3 seconds). I'll argue those work better if all you want is to proc a devotion.
bc6e87 No.13684474
Rate my tank build please
http://www.grimtools.com/calc/eVLJxbdN
Also, anyone up for some grim dawn multiplayer on new characters?
d2f96f No.13684578
Man, this expansion is a literal nightmare for glass cannon builds. I especially liked a boss in the malmouth sewers that only has two attacks, one of which is an unavoidable dash that takes 95% of my hp. On veteran. The fucker spams it too
ef0462 No.13684806
>>13684474
From the looks of it, you're trying to build some sort of retaliation hybrid. However, you got a lot of foundational issues with your setup.
>mastery choice
If you want effective tanky retaliation, you should be a warder. There's really nothing that the demolitionist side does that Mog's pact won't do better, including pumping up your retaliation damage. Meanwhile, wendigo totem is nearly the end-all for tankiness.
>skills
Menhir's will and decorated soldier should not be overcapped. If something hits you hard enough to proc a circuit breaker, the extra HP restored is marginal and won't make a difference; also, commando has less options to boost health regen than witchblade or blademaster, making the regen less valuable. Similarly, the extra %physical damage is almost nothing. You're burning skill points for negligible damage and resists. Same goes for shield training, blast shield, squad tactics, and military conditioning. All of them derive very little from overcapping, often a literal 1% per skill point. The only skills worth overcapping with your build are temper, menhir's bulwark, and field command. However, because you rely on retaliation and not attacks, all that flat damage is worthless. You also don't have the assassin's dagger devotion, which is mandatory for anything with pierce/phys.
Vindictive flame is not a good skill, and most WPS offer very limited returns once you go past 6-8 points, since each is going off 25% of the time at best. By contrast, 20/16 blitz with 16/12 blindside can hit for 100k easily before factoring in RR or crits, more than your retaliation by a big margin, while knocking 250 DA off a target. You've also put no points in overguard, which any tank should have maxed. Similarly, you don't have war cry and its modifier maxed, despite doing nearly pure physical damage and wanting to reduce enemy damage. Finally, shard of beronath is terrible on phys builds, while cadence is excellent. Maxing it and overcapping deadly momentum will let you take advantage of all the flat damage you have and free up your weapon slot for something useful.
>gear
Markovian isn't a retaliation set. It's there for permanent overguard, while keeping up good damage with blitz and cadence. You should be using something like the stoneguard set, with zolhan's shield or siegrbreaker and some green pants to cover resists. If you want to go for a direct damage build, markovian's or warborn works. Figure out some way to get ADCTH too, which is miles better than extra damage blocked.
8b6355 No.13685879
What would be the fastest class combo to run the game through with? I just want to go superfast and delete hit from existence.
7e7f9b No.13685950
Here's an ominous hint:
Don't get rid of your Salt Bag.
c833e8 No.13686320
>>13684304
All right, cool. I was thinking of putting a decent amount of points in grasping vines anyway for crowd control, but I'll reconsider.
9696bf No.13686439
>>13685950
Do you have to keep it equiped?
8b6355 No.13686568
8b6355 No.13686575
>>13686568
>i have the same id as an entirely different anon
either monkeyhands fucked up or there's someone else on this network who shitposts here
16345e No.13686579
>>13686439
No, just keep it in your bank. Or make a new character to get one
349b99 No.13688785
a2ce41 No.13689009
Is sword & board blademaster a good idea? suggestions welcome
>>13688785
I always forget what the bump limit is, is it time for one?
349b99 No.13689067
>>13689009
Yeah it's pretty well into the bump limit. Post limit is 350 IIRC.
>S&B blademaster
I believe the highest damage builds pre-expansion were S&B blademaster.
a61a61 No.13689590
Transformed my lv67 i have no idea what i thought she was lv75 Warden into a Retaliator Tank
If im fighting a boss that deals mostly physical damage i can simply get up, go to the bathroom take a piss, then to the kitchen, drink some water, and when i come back the boss is dead
3866c3 No.13689637
>>13689067
S&B blademaster had the best sustained damage output, but SS spellbreaker was always the king of hitting for a 200k crit.
>>13689009
You can either go physical, pierce, or cold/frostbite. Siegebreaker is your go-to shield for all of those, but the rest of your gear and skills will vary based on which damage type you pick .
ad454b No.13691196
>>13650118
Thinking of using a build that's similar to this. Wouldn't Mend Flesh be a good choice for the raven? Also, unsure about those devotions, is the ultimate goal to reach Dying God?