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>>14305064

>circuit breaker

Yeah that would be the Blast Shield from Demo I was considering, but I need another 22 points to reach it and I pumped Inquisitor the most because new and fun.

I was playing some pet builds before but god damn dual guns is super satisfying.

>>14305124

Hmm, I'd probably focus on getting at least one point into that next. Otherwise, your mid and late Elite and your Ultimate experiences will be miserable. Think these one-shot specials, but every monsters doing it. It's not so far as to a chore to grind towards. And if grinding for levels is boring, I'd sacrifice some points from those maxed damage skills, maybe 2 from each. At that rate, you'll get to blast shields after 5 lvls at least.

>>14304955

I just don't like this game. I want to like it, but I don't. The skills all feel shitty and only a handful of them actually scale well enough to be effective. Also, how hard is it to do random generation? Just build set pieces and shuffle them or something. I hate that the world is the EXACT SAME every playthrough.

>>14305124

My Reaper wears this amulet for this kind of occasions. Find something similar that suits your character.

>>14309794

Got some better stuff after hitting 50, these two especially for the purpose of tanking up. I had forgotten about the hidden path but finished that up.

Some mobs still make me fucking explode despite general gear improvements. Couldn't survive more than 2 ticks of this cunts aoe barrage spell so it was pretty much a gamble on how long I could stay stationary and burst before I had to run, if I was shooting when the animation started the boss wasn't at the edge of the screen, I'd die.

I've been working on a necro, it's a lot of fun so far. just me and a small party of 12 plus a wraith that's temp summon.

>>14309794

>reaper

I like the sound of that, what's your build?

>>14310525

>reaper

It's a Necromancer/Nightblade. As for the details, it's nothing special, as even at the lvl 77 I'm still using green weapons. It's a dual wield without any pets and with the focus on vitality and cold damage because of the debuffs to their resistances on sustained class skills I have. Most often used active skills besides the Shadow Strike are Bone Harvest and Amarasta Blade Burst because of the temporary buffs they trigger. The biggest downside is lack of dedicated default attack skill under the left mouse button. Notice that I'm basically playing the game on EZ mode with the mod NecroticMight which overpowers Necro builds very much - for example I have about 50% life steal on the attack of my character. Link below:

https://www.nexusmods.com/grimdawn/mods/47

r8 my flame boi

>>14307061

I agree with this anon. I have seen this game hyped for a long time so I gave it finally some time after the expansion came and played 1.0.4.1.

What a huge fucking letdown

>The world is grimdark with no colour, same background everywhere

>Enemies hard to spot thanks to bullshit like trees covering your vision forcing you to get closer so the tree actually disappears for you to see shit

>Enemies also hard to spot due to them blending with terrain

>Skills are all mostly fucking awful, they rarely scale properly

>Item stats are not explained properly and even then, they dont make sense at all

>Suffers, like most old ARPGs, from "find one or two skills active, fill the rest of your skillpoints into passives that synergizes with it"

>Lack of fucking classes when the main attraction of the game is suppossed the mixture between classes

>Skills have shit feedback and shit animations, holy shit it felt like I was playing a game from the early 90s

>Devotions are overly complex shit ALA PoE shitty tree that practically forces you to use an external builder (grim dawn tools) so you can properly use a fucking search to know where what you want may be, then be autistic enough to do that shit while resetting old points since you dont need those anymore but you needed them early to have access to the new shit

>Fucking 0 customization of a character, just male or female get fucked and then whatever loot you find or illussion that shit

>Colour for rarity and enemies that break the norm of all ARPGs

>Weapon comparison can show negative stats but when equipped can be better and improve your damage

>Needing passive skills to actually dual wield

>Game is a snorefest even in Veteran

>Hard as fuck to spot items that you can interact with unless you move in circles like an autist your mouse to spot from the 30 barrles which one you may be able to interact with

>Reset won't even let you reset the class

Why the fuck is this game so bad? Why is it filled with so much shit? Jesus fuck all this hours I have spent thinking that it will get better for nothing, all I was thinking was "I should have been playing Torchlight 2 or Diablo 2 instead". Fuck even PoE was starting to sound more atractive the more I played this awful game.

The best shit this game has to offer is the Crucible in multiplayer cause at least you can fucking skip the atrocious level design.

>>14334595

Because at least in fucking torchlight shit works as it should and the literal thousand of mods at easy disposal can make you come back to the game many fucking times.

I didn't like the style of Torchlight at the beginning but after seeing how many grimdark games not being fucking able to properly do what Diablo and PoE shame PoE is a fucking MMO in disguise do I am damn glad Torchlight looks this colourful.

Anyone have a magnet link for base game + expansion?

>>14346086

You know that there are mods for what you're whinning about, right? Several in fact

>>14346134

I'll get there eventually. I may dislike the game heavily due to the entire big pile of shit I have said previously, that however wont totally stop me from doing at least a full run.

Yes, sometimes I think that I hate myself from doing this. I felt like playing an RPG but the only ones that I have not finished that I want to play are unplayable on my PC Disgaea series after 2 and Dragons Crown so GD is the only thing left

>>14346236

>muh mods fix it

Mods to make the game more tolerable but if the game is intolerable without them that's very shitty way to view it.

t. someone who's went through the T2 campagin multiple times.

>>14346236

My main issue with GD is the fucking resistances and the whole meta around them. Without proper resistances there's all manner of shit that will gib you in less than a second on higher difficulties so you have to make sure various pieces of gear have the correct stats and that you have skill tree selections and star signs that fill in your various gaps left by the gear.

>>14346328

I value a game with the mods available to it, this is why I think TL2 is the best ARPG out there. Obviously, without mods it would just be on par with Diablo 2 with less classes.

Torchlight 2 mod scene is huge with a fuckload to choose from. You can get from fixes to the vanilla to new campaigns/areas and even new classes with quite a lot of stuff to do, no other ARPG has such a big modding scene except for Diablo 2 but the game is quite outdated (I still have it installed though) so it suffers from a lot of shit.

>Main issue of GD

The resistances have been quite the most important shit in classic ARPG since forever, but GD seem to have EVEN MORE of them. I have felt what you meant in the crucible, quite the nightmare indeed.

>>14346363

I know about the mod scene for TL2, I use quite a few of them. Bag expansion, passive tiers, and a few extra custom classes. I like that I have those options but without me taking the time to use those options the game would feel like shit for me.

Whats more is playing with other people can be a trick dick situation because not everyone will use the same mods as me.

>The resistances have been quite the most important shit in classic ARPG since forever, but GD seem to have EVEN MORE of them.

I understand it making some shit hit harder and keeping you on your toes when you go up against something that is stronger against your resistances but in many cases GD doesn't fuck around. It's not just a slight increase in damage done to you. Go up against the wrong thing and you will fucking get burnt down fast.

Because of this a lot of my strategies utlize kiting with various amounts of peek and poke to whittle them down. Feels cheap but whatever works ya know?