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>>16374169

Another thing the multiplayer is P2P though that means it's also available on pirated versions.

I started a Server. Look for Valalaika. No password. Feel free to drop in. I hope I can finish the game for once.

>>16374601

what's the game name?

>>16374644

I set it up as Valalaika. It's very early game, I'm mostly just rushing so I can get the higher difficulties. Veteran too.

>>16374169

nobody told me this game had spooky boobs

>>16374663

i can't see it, i assume it's coz you're using pirated version?

Is Curse of Frailty even worth it? I feel like it actively makes my Occultist build worse because of the insane aggro it draws.

>>16374732

Yeah. That's a shame, I was hoping for some company. OP even says multiplayer is p2p here >>16374212 . Oh well. At least you tried, buddy.

>>16374732

>>16374749

I haven't tested playing multiplayer with a pirated version myself but I know for a fact that other anons have reported it working.

Do you both have all the expansions? Version 1.1.1.2? Both characters are either softcore or hardcore?

>>16374742

It severely boosts the DPS of your minions. Do you use a movement augment? Glyph of Displacement and Rune of Disorder are great skills which instantly teleports you, have short CD and don't require a target.

Also you should focus entirely on pet bonuses and getting tanky, it shouldn't be a huge problem if you draw aggro for a bit.

There are also items which grant new pets, some of which have taunt. That might help in addition to your other taunt pet(s).

>>16374826

I don't know about the other anon, but I know I installed patch 1.1.1.2. Softcore character on veteran, almost level 18. Maybe I should try finding the other anon or something?

>>16374826

>Also you should focus entirely on pet bonuses and getting tanky, it shouldn't be a huge problem if you draw aggro for a bit.

Wasn't a big problem on Normal but I'm playing Elite right now and my build is falling apart. I have decent resistances but I fucking die to any major boss because they focus me.

>There are also items which grant new pets, some of which have taunt. That might help in addition to your other taunt pet(s).

I really should be getting one of those.

>>16374851

What's your second mastery to Occultist?

Are all your points in Physique? Spirit and Cunning don't help your pets deal damage and you'd only want them for the purpose of meeting the minimum requirement of some gear but most caster focused masteries have a high natural bonus to spirit when increasing mastery so everything should go into physique.

If you import your character save into grimtools and link it I could take a look and see if you're accidentally missing out on some easy way to get extra defence.

I'm building a necromancer, got 16 points in Raise skeletons and 12 points in undead legion. 14 points to spare at this point, should I invest them in reaping strike or drain essence? I like having my own army, so I'm going to focus on summoning, I'm gonna get Summon Blight Fiend, I guess saving up more points is a good idea.

>>16374875

>What's your second mastery to Occultist?

Necromancer

>Are all your points in Physique? Spirit and Cunning don't help your pets deal damage and you'd only want them for the purpose of meeting the minimum requirement of some gear but most caster focused masteries have a high natural bonus to spirit when increasing mastery so everything should go into physique.

Most of them are in physique, I put a few in spirit for minimum requirements.

>If you import your character save into grimtools and link it I could take a look and see if you're accidentally missing out on some easy way to get extra defence.

Sure, any help would be appreciated: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/m234Q4EV

>>16374896

Get mark of torment and cast it on the boss when it aggros on you, also reclaim those 8 points your aren't using for anything in the occultist mastery

>>16374749

i got the steam x64 version.

>>16374896

>>16374904

Also that pierce resist. Get revered with devil's crossing or cult of bysmiel and fix that up with armor augs

>>16374908

Well, I have the pirated version. I think it should be the same as yours. Wanna try setting up a game, and I'll try joining?

>>16374928

The pirated version is gog, you won't be able to play with steam users without some lan tunneling program

>>16374928

>>16374941

sorry mate, ran outta free time.

>>16374904

>also reclaim those 8 points your aren't using for anything in the occultist mastery

I didn't even notice that, those must be left over from when I reskilled, thanks. Sadly I can only get the pierce shit at level 90. How should I use the points? Lvl up Master of Death?

>>16374928

Sure. I'll set the name as Valalaika again, no password.

>>16374941

That makes no sense, if the pirated version, right up there in the OP, is from GOG, why did it open up to steam when I forgot to install the directory?

>>16374961

The devil's crossing one is level 70

I'd put them mark of torment and aspect of guardian to help your and your pets survivability.

>>16374963

I didn't check the op

For some weird reason, whenever I click on exit to main menu, the game crashes to desktop instead. Weird.

>>16374968

We all make mistakes

>>16374169

>Best modern diablo-like game currently on the market

How is Grim Dawn compared to Torchlight 2? I'm playing that one and having a ton of fun, might pick up Grim Dawn too.

>>16374980

Torchlight is a straight fate clone which is a diablo 1 clone. Grim dawn is a diablo 2 clone. Torchlight has specific character classes that cant be changed. Grim dawn allows mixing of classes.

>>16374980

TL2 is shit and GD is great.

>>16374972

Install c++redistr drivers amd core support etc etc.

>>16375000

>c++ redistr drivers amd core support

Is that something I can just google for, or is it in the files, tripsman?

>>16375006

Proc on attack don't proc from pet attacks unless its like a devotion you assigned to that pet. Debuffs like curse of frailty count as attacks though.

>>16375018

>Debuffs like curse of frailty count as attacks though.

Ah, that explains it. Also, thanks for the skill suggestions.

Is the Fiend Devotion worth it for the Fire Damage alone? Because at this point all my Skellies are either mage or archer, meaning that they're always in the back, meaning that Fiend proccing doesn't do shit.

>>16374896

You're spread very thin on skill points, you'll want to beef up your pets a bit.

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/lNkoWOdN

<Occultist

>Decreased Occultist mastery

>Boosted Hellhound a bit

>Casual Solael's Witchfire

<Necromancer

>Maxed Summon Blight Fiend

>Got the Taunt ability for Blight Fiend (really nigger?)

>Got Mark of Torment because it makes you really tanky

>Points in Spectral Wrath for resistance reduction

>Casual point in Ill Omen if you're surrounded or want to trigger Hungering Void devotion

>Casual point in Ravenous Earth, the best devotion proccer in the game

>Foul Earth is worth increasing more for its Resistance Reduction

<Devotions

Tried to improve them a bit. Whilst Manticore is nice, you can also get flat resistance reduction from Foul Eruption (upgrade to Ravenous Earth)

>Added Dying God

Simply an amazing dps devotion, even more so for pet builds

>Added 'Ishtak, the Spring Maiden'

Plenty of pet buffs and the Nature's Guardian proc has a chance to make pets taunt targets that hit you.

>Added Revenant

Skeletons, lots of skeletons.

These 3 alongside Shepherd's Call are the 4 main devotions I aimed for, the rest are just the best filler devotions I could find.

You could get Solemn Watcher instead of Scarab for more survivability, but you'll have to skip the optional point in Dying God.

>Gear

I added a bunch of components which you should have access to, check them out for yourself. Notably Silk Swatches and resistance auras to your weapon and off-hand.

Disclaimer

I haven't played a pet build in ages and don't know the 'optimal' setup so judge the changes I made and form your own opinion. But imo, this is far superior to before.

I don't know what pets are the best besides that the current meta pet build is entirely focused on Summon Familiar and shot gunning their orbs. But that might not be what you want to do with your build.

>>16374992

There are other factions which have multi resistance ones.

>Homestead has fire/pierce

>Black Legion has pierce/poison

>Rovers have pierce/cold

>Cult of Bysmael has 12% pierce

>Coven of Ugdenbog has pierce/chaos

>Malmouth Resistance has pierce/aether

>Cult of Solael has pierce/vitality

>>16375084

No, there are better options. Made a suggested devotion build for you >>16375088

>>16375088

>You could get Solemn Watcher instead of Scarab for more survivability, but you'll have to skip the optional point in Dying God.

Wait I'm retarded, you make Revenant pay for itself so you don't need the Chaos Affinity from the crossroads.

Use this devotion setup:

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/q2M5Ja42

>>16375090

>>16375088

>>16375124

In my defence, I followed a Cabbalist build that apparently was super outdated and I have no idea what I'm doing in this game. But that build does look better than mine, I'll try it out immediately.

>>16375088

revenant skeletons don't scale with pet bonuses

>>16375124

Interesting setup. I was thinking of running a pure necro build myself. I never really looked at devotion due to the massive map and lack of "undo points", so I never saw the Revenant constallation. That's really neat. I'll aim for that.

>>16375166

>undo points

You can respeck completely via potions, and point-by-point via npc.

>>16375174

I know about the spirit guide npc (point by point), but I wasn't aware of the potions. Thanks.

>>16375144

The skill build itself might still be okay but the main problem is that you put too many points in both masteries at once while neglecting your pets.

Also because I couldn't fit in Manticore you'll want to level up Foul Earth for the flat RR.

>>16375159

Oh shit, my bad. I'll go back and see how I'd change the build to without Revenant.

>>16375166

>>16375174

The standalone build calculator also has a nice feature called 'Ignore Devotion Requirments' under the settings option making it easier to redo some smaller changes.

If you click the exclamation mark on Grimtools to the left you're taken to the official thread with download links.

>>16375188

An offensive devotion like bat or falcon for his skeles would work nicely.

>>16375200

>>16375188

I managed to add both Bat and Bysmael's Bonds, looks really good now.

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/qNYxKWeZ

>>16374169

Is it possible for items to stop dropping once you've reached a certain level? Because I've been trying to get the recipe for Mistborn Talisman but it just won't drop for me, I also am unable to get a normal Troll Crusher.

>>16375240

Thanks again

>>16375624

Not sure about recipes but I know if you are too far above the level of an enemy they won't drop crafting materials. That talisman recipe only drops from the 2 troll bosses, one in smuggler's pass and the other in eastern marsh. If you just want a troll bonecrusher for crafting, you can buy one from a hidden vendor northwest of blood grove.

>>16375624

That blueprint is actually a boss drop from either Balegor, the Swamp King or Voldrak, the Destroyer.

https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/208

Troll Bonecrushers tend to drop from trolls, but there's also a vendor like anon above mentioned.

https://www.grimtools.com/db/search?query=troll%20bonecrusher&in_description=1&exact_match=0

>>16375647

>>16375654

>That blueprint is actually a boss drop from either Balegor, the Swamp King or Voldrak, the Destroyer.

I know and I've been farming the Smugglers Pass Shrek for what feels like forever now, but I guess I'm just really unlucky. Should I farm him on Normal or Elite? I've read on the Forums that the recipe supposedly only drops on normal because it's only level 22.

>>16375669

>I've read on the Forums that the recipe supposedly only drops on normal because it's only level 22.

That seems to be correct, just looked at his 'notable loot list' and it says it only drops for his lvl 22 version.

https://www.grimtools.com/monsterdb/265/items

>>16375705

If that were the case you'd never get it because the minimum level for that area is 25. I'm fairly sure I farmed it at max level ages ago when the cap was still 85.

>>16375669

His Area caps out at level 40 in normal so you should probably be on elite. Even then it caps out at 75 there so you're probably getting reduced drops anyway.

>>16375705

Well guess I won't be getting my item anytime soon, then.

>not naming the thread El grimmest edicion again

pathetic

>>16375965

>naming two consecutive threads the same

Now that would truly be pathetic.

I'll concede having no name at all is a shame though.

So what's a good farming strategy these days with SR being added?

I can pretty comfortably run 70-75 and while it gives me a fuckton of loot, it's also quite the time investment. Running just 1 shard seems to give pretty shit loot

I can also do 150-160 Crucible with + spawns, reset from checkpoint and do 140-150 which gives me a decent amount of loot.

Right now I'm mainly hunting blueprints because I want the 'Mythical Bernoath, Reforged' and try a physical EoR build.

>>16376065

Sorry I'll try harder next time if creating a new thread falls on me again.

>>16376296

I remember the global chat being a completely lawless shithole where even chink bots were allowed to roam freely. Did he talk to a dev or something?

>>16376313

>you will no longer encounter multiples of certain bosses at all

Thank God.

>some tougher bosses will no longer appear at lower Shards at all

Thank Christ

The only flaw of GD is that most armor sets look so similar you can hardly tell them apart.

These "fashion" pics itt only showcase it. It's either a brown coat or a brown coat with some random bullshit strapped on.

>>16376347

I agree but they've been getting better.

How do you make a pet build do high damage? I've tried speccing into devotions with resistance shread and other that proc on crits/hits, and I've tried speccing into purely defensive with some resistance shread and proc on hit with almost no daamage difference. Granted my damage to pets is only at ~900%, but at level 94 will bringing it up to over 1300% make a massive difference?

>>16376389

flat damage bonuses

>>16376347

Auras, a lot of auras.

What are the best devotions for an inquisitor + demo dual wield pistols build?

>>16377387

Is farming just shard 76 and then leaving after first boss room efficient?

>>16377629

I don't trust any man that lives in the desert and deals in "deals".

>>16377398

Yes, farming SR75-76 is insanely effecient, especially with 3 other bros. Assuming your game doesn't crash and you don't get fucked over by ridiculous mutations you're looking at about 40-50 legendaries per hour (not counting the shattered realm set).

Is there any downside to loading backup saves of hardcore characters besides the hit your pride?

>>16378104

I would just GDstash their HC status off and play as normal. Personally hate losing all that progress and not having the character anymore but resetting its status shouldn't be done

>>16378104

Hardcore mode is for faggots in the first place. What's the fucking point?

>>16378350

A unique medal

>>16378362

Is it worth the hassle? Can't you just edit your savedata?

>>16378378

If that's your point why don't you just edit in all your theorycrafted gear and set you character to max level?

Haven't played in a while (more like in few years) and the last time i only did so for 20hours or so with the… grenade lobbing spec so dont know jack sheeeeit.

If i want to "go fast", (+movement speed) what should i go with?

>>16378641

soldier + nightblade+a movement aug that also teleports you to your enemy.

>>16378641

CDR Shadowstrike build with teleports is as fast as it gets but you're gonna have to stick with being a glass cannon

>>16378684

Physical EoR is probably gonna get wrecked by monster armor. You don't benefit from elemental storm devotion. Overleveling squad tactics is very inefficient, you could put those points in rebuke or clarity of purpose.

>>16378736

Also you might want some more reflection protection like crane, owl, sigil of the bear king, or kymon accessory augments.

>>16378736

>Physical EoR is probably gonna get wrecked by monster armor

It has -39% phys from Celestial Presence, -32% from Assassin's Mark, 10% reduced from ring and 40 flat reduction from Warcry.

>You don't benefit from elemental storm devotion

Yeah wasn't sure what to do with some leftover points, I know I wont get the shred but thought the AoE internal trauma damage would be a nice bonus.

>Overleveling squad tactics is very inefficient, you could put those points in rebuke or clarity of purpose.

Nice catch, will do.

>Also you might want some more reflection protection like crane, owl, sigil of the bear king, or kymon accessory augments.

Alright I'll see what I can do.

>>16378765

Armor comes before resistances. It's mostly an issue on nemesis and super bosses since they can reach pretty high armor values.

>>16378648

>>16378706

Those seem pretty melee heavy specs, not that i dislike it but im curious how was the ranged in GD again?

I played some mediocre arpg (Viking something something similar to Victor Vran) a while ago and if you tried to go ranged with it which i didnt it'd be really frustrating at times due to camera being too close by, the game targeting shit when you just wanted to move etc etc.

Also speaking of +movement speed bonus, how high does it get with that soldier+nightblade combo? I've been meaning to replay Titan Quest lately but when i look at it and remember how it was the first time i played it through years ago there's no way im doing anything but warfare+hunting spec just for the sake of +movement speed which was the way i did it the first game just because it's such a fucking slog to run around the game on normal pace ie my interest suddenly vanes as i dont want to do the same thing over again.

>>16378790

I don't find ranged that much different from melee except it's more forgiving to be squishy since you can kite and avoid damage more effectively. You can change one of your hotkeys to a move button that you can press to ignore all targeting and just move to the location.

Character movement speed is capped at 135% which most builds can reach through devotions and movement speed on shoes. Soldier and night blade though have special skills that make them charge a target at 300% and 500% movement speed. There are also augments that you can put on your medal that give you a skill that does something similar.

>>16378875

>>16378833

So i dont necessarily need to go nb or soldier for speed if i dont want to.

From quick glance if i get around to actually playing soldier+demo seems what i'd go for even though i probably did it the first time i played years ago.

Opinions on it?

>>16378892

Yeah it's a solid combination. Inquisitor is another gun focused mastery you could combo with something like soldier or inquisitor.

The problem with both demolitionist and inquisitor is that they're both not the most durable masteries so I'd advice against combining them at least for someone that is newer to the game.

>>16378934

>Inquisitor is another gun focused mastery you could combo with something like soldier or inquisitor.

like soldier or oathkeeper*

>>16378746

>reflection protection

Where can I even see my total on the character sheet? Not finding it.

>>16378958

You have to manually add it up

>>16379129

Oh, thanks. What's a decent minimum I should aim for?

Also I can't really use the Sigil of the Bear king since I need Korvaak's to enable dual wielding. That means I'd have to use my relic for it leaving me with Blademaster's Talisman.

With Serenity (which also adds reflect damage reduction) + Korvaak's I get +1 to all and another +2 to Soulfire.

With Bear king + Blademaster I'd get +2 to EoR (which I can cap even without) and a bit more physical and trauma damage %.

Is it worth going melee with Arcanist with the melee aura buff? Or is it more suited for pets? Right now I just map magic missile to my left click instead.

>>16379423

I'd say try it out and see how it goes. Classes in GD tend to be rather accommodating to most everything. Of course that does change when it comes to the very difficult content.

>>16379271

Serenity + korvaak's is probably the way to go. With 40% reflect reduction you might actually be ok as long as you watch out for reflect heros. If you find yourself dieing too much to them or just don't want to worry about it, you could change out your ring augments for kymon's fury, trading 10% reflect damage reduction for 50ish OA which you probably have plenty of atm.

>>16379423

You can build literally anything on normal and it will work.

>>16379947

Or maybe that's 853k for two targets and ~426k is single target. Not that familiar with the dps calculator. But obviously it will overperform on some low lvl target dummies, on the other hand I have a bunch of boosts to my damage when I get hit which don't get to play their part.

>>16379947

1 point in harvestman's scythe or make sacrifices to get bard's harp

>>16380146

I could remove Panther and Owl to afford Harp, faced some reflect enemies and didn't notice my health drop at all. EoR isn't extremely bursty so I imagine my life steal helps counteract the damage nicely. I already get ~60% from Serenity, Rebuke and Solemn Watcher, if necessary I can always apply an extra augment.

>Want to craft Seal of Annihilation

<16 Chtonic seals and Ogdenbloom

Fucking hell.

>>16379947

havent played in a long time and am curious how my old build will work

where do i get this dps calc

>>16380482

It's one of the features from Grim Internals.

grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53629

Has anyone here managed to kill the Mad Queen on ultimate as a non-tank melee? Ridiculously hard. Was trying to farm the level 94 version of Mad Queen's Claw and she destroyed me, as I just can't keep up the dps to out-damage her self-heal while also avoiding the shotgun reflect.

Leveling up a tanky guy who should be able to farm it easily enough, but still would like to kill her on my Witch Hunter also.

>>16383108

I was dreading the task of having to farm the full Belgothian set. I asked around and within minutes I had traded for 3/4 pieces and a duplicate piece to transmute (completing the set). Granted I have several hundred hours on the game and tons of legendaries, you will get your set much quicker by asking around than by farming. Some bros will just give you items if you play with them for an hour or two.

>>16379423

Grim Dawn solo self found when :^) ?

>>16383108

I have the chest piece of the Vanquisher set, got a Mythical Eternal Band or Mythical Reforged Chains of Oleron to to trade for it?

https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/9028

https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/9072

>>16383536

>>16383108

Actually just updated my GrimStash and I have the mantle as well.

>>16386026

https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/12131

>>16386026

These are your options, you're not that limited.

https://www.grimtools.com/db/search?query=melee%20dual-wielding&in_description=1&exact_match=0

Mythical Korvaan's Brand is probably your best option for lvl 94.

>>16383568

I hate how you always end up pretty much looking the same despite what class you are. There's not a lot of variation.

>>16386138

>All those unfinished quests

My autism can't handle this massive amount of faggotry.

What's a fun build around cold damage? Any playstyle would be fine.

My whole bank is full of cold items and I finally want to use them for a character.

>>16389370

I'm planning a cold-damage build soon too. So far, it seems like some sort of spellbreaker would be best.

I initially wanted to do a cold/aether spellbinder, but seems like I'd have to gimp my aether output to do cold also, so might just do pure aether with that, and go with a spellbreaker of some sort for cold.

Necromancer has the 'Grave Chill' passive which converts 100% of Aether damage to cold, so maybe something with that could work.

>>16389370

Rune of Hagarrad based Infiltrator. Massive resist reduction and a big damage nuke.

>>16389416

>>16389414

I'll check them out, thank you.

>>16378773

2300-2800 armor for a nemesis. 3600-4200 for a big bad celestial.

Enemy armor doesn't really mean much when it takes so little damage off. Physical resistance is a much greater priority, Calagadra has 90% phys resistance, 50% is highest for only 2 nemesis bosses. Armor has a meaningful effect for the player, not really the enemies because the damage ranges are completely different.

>>16389522

Here is a new fiendflesh hood - composed from Pakla Skins and Murderer Hood.

My current build looks like this: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/vNQWEAMV , and I want to know where should I put the rest of the skill points. I'm aiming for cold/lightning aa character.

>>16376296

>two genders

>getting banned for being a stupid cuck that doesn't even know that gender is a linguistics term, not synonymous with sex and only recently popularized by kike psychopath 'doctor' John Money

I love when leftists eat one another.

>>16389414

TSS spellbreaker is considered very good. They're a bit reliant on gear to really shine though.

>>16394881

Nightblade has several things you could put points into that'll increase cold damage.

>>16394881

Get lethal assault. sort of a pain to keep it up but it's a big damage buff.

>>16395148

Are ~100 OA @ max level worth autistically upkeeping 4 second buff? I've been thinking more about leveling up passives a bit.

>>16395831

It's more for the flat damage, level 15 (the max level in that build currently) is 71 cold damage and another 17.75 from converting acid. 89 cold damage. That's like 70% of his mainhand weapon's damage right there. You can see for yourself the huge increase by looking at the weapon attack before and after putting points in it, 3719>6212.

>>16395890

that or get more points in pnuematic burst's synergies. +ele damage or flat % to evade is fantastic.

Do you guys think that being able to put multiple devotion spells on one ability would be too broken?

>>16398162

Not really but it will make build making more simplistic.

>>16398162

>multiple attack devotions bound to eye of reckoning

I wish

>>16398820

>>16398162

>>16399399

I think there are multiple factors to consider.

Not being able to tie multiple devotions to the same skill makes certain skill based builds more active since it creates an incentive to pick up extra skills used for the sole reason of procing devotions and makes the player push extra buttons.

On the other hand some masteries have no such skills at all (Oathkeeper for example) and if they're not paired with a mastery which does, they become very limited when it comes to choosing devotions.

Eye of Reckoning is a prime example of the latter, even if you use Necromancer or Inquisitor which have Stormbox and Ravenous Earth you're still very limited when it comes to choosing multiple proc devotions. At most you could get away with maybe 3 such devotions, 1 to EoR, 1 to Guardians and 1 to one of the previously mentioned skills.

But if you could tie multiple to devotions to one skill certain ones would become incredibly OP, especially skills like EoR, AAR or Stormbox and Ravenous Earth since they could just shit out infinite procs.

My 'balanced' solution would probably be to let players tie additional devotions to upgrades of skills, unless they're an attack replacer.

How would you put together a fire based Aegis of Menhir build? This is my take on it.

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/O2GXYeqV

It's lacking a bit in defensive devotions, not sure if I should sacrifice some stuff to make it tankier.

complete fucking newfag here, have some previous experience with D2 and PoE; suggest me some class combination/devotion thingy that plays similarly to a caster of sorts as a starter build

I updated GD up to 1.1.1.2, and downloaded the latest released edition of Grim internal, and regardless I still get the error that Grim dawn.exe is the wrong filesize. Anyone know what's up with that? Should I just downgrade Grim internals?

>>16403074

32/64 problems?

>>16403092

no idea. Grim internal is 64 yeah, and the game ought to be 64 since I ripped it from OP's link

Is the boost to internal trauma damage from cunning worth putting points into it? My main damage is from IT but I've just been putting every point into physique.

Is there a better way to farm Cronley's Gang reputation than clearing Staunton Mine, Four Hills and Cronley's Hideout with a few bounties in between?

I just reached Hated and it's a massive slog.

Just hit lvl 30 with my Oathkeeper, recommend me a good second class, I'm trash at this game.

>>16408606

>cunning

Its mostly for weapon requirements and OA. OA is the most important stat for damage. "Increases" for damage do add up, but in the end +100% damage will make you deal 5% more damage when you stack "increased damage" to 2000%.

>>16410627

Whatever has buffs for same damage types you are using or cool shit you want to use or survivability buffs you like. Or just pick whatever sounds cool for you.

>>16410523

I just did hideout. They had like 10 or so uniqe mobs. It gives around 500 rep per run.

>>16410523

Cronley's hideout is the best rinse/repeat farm method. You get Moneybag Martin + Cronley plus a handful of Star Monsters. I had a warrant from nemisis farming so it took me about 6 full runs to go from 50% to 100%.

Alright, I definitely regret combining Oathkeeper+Nightblade. Horrible combination.

>>16413957

Haven't tested it myself but it should be okay for a poison/acid build. Maybe something along these lines.

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/YZe08okV

Not super familiar with Nightblade so maybe I'm missing some good stuff.

Spent a few devotion points on stuff that seems to offer good synergy but left some over, maybe some more survivability would be nice.

Overall it's far from optimized and just something I threw together, it's more of a proof of concept showing that Dervish seems pretty solid on paper.

>>16413981

You can make dervish work, but it'd be something more like

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/4VxOgml2

>>16420682

No. Map being hidden only helps and tells you where to look for stuff like oneshot chests. Maphack only useful in generated maps, its completely useless in GD.

>>16374169

How's the multiplay?

>>16374980

GD better than TL2? Dem's fighting words!

Can anyone here help me with my skill build, please? Even though I instantly kill every normal mob, bosses take forever to kill. I tried maxing ascension but I didn't see any noticeable difference, maybe it's because I'm doing a spin to win build. Ignore the resistances, my gear is garbage at the moment because I focused on rushing through normal with this char.

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/lNkojD4N

>>16422135

well if you're having a massive issue with dps the easiest solution would be swap to a decent 2hander as you don't really benefit from your nonexistent retaliation damage or have anything that plays off your shield. Also drop all but one from guardian and put it in their reduce resistance skill. I don't quite get why you have so many points in rebuke when you have very low retaliation damage, those can be moved to more of the soldier tree, field command would help a massive amount for example. I wouldn't put the points in volcanic stride and tetonic shift, because that's very low damage return for those points at that point in time. You only need one point in resilience.

Your devotions are a bit of a mess, Eldritch fire is doing very little for you, Ghoul is alright, but you'd be better off getting something that gives flat fire/phys than anything else. I don't get the two one off points in viper and lizard.

I mean aside from that the only thing I can say is that you have some pretty bad gear for your damage type. Your belt is doing absolutely nothing for you, you have spellwoven threads which isn't doing basically anything for you.

>>16422135

It looks like you're trying to go fire damage but you have no physical to fire damage conversion anywhere, get enchanted flints or searing embers on your weapons for starters and also look out for weapons with physical to fire on them already.

>>16422135

>>16422459

Additionally, get celestial presence for RR, safeguard for more flat damage, and drop veterancy.

>>16422135

>Get a Relic, literally any Relic is better than none

>Keep an eye out for a better medal

>Put components in all your gear.

>Try to get at least one faction to revered for armor augments to help with resistances.

>If you want to use a shield, max safeguard

>Max Celestial Presence, leave Guardian's at 1

>Rebuke doesn't do much, get Rebuke and Overguard for more survivability

>Casual point in Blitz for mobility

>Veterancy is sort of bad, put those in Shield Mastery

>Look for conversion items so your EoR isn't split in 3 between physical, lightning and fire (preferably focus on physical as a Warlord)

>If you go for physical, get Assassin's Blade

>If you keep using a shield, Shield Maiden and Obelisk offer great survivability

The biggest reason for you dying often is sort of low resistances (mainly Aether and Poison/Acid), no Overguard or other skills which improve your shield usage.

Either drop your shield or get skills and devotions that synergize with it.

Repeated a bunch of points from the other anons but they also make some other good points.

>>16422361

>>16422459

>>16422477

>>16422486

>>16422135

Also Eye of Reckoning benefits the most from flat damage bonuses and attack speed, so look for that when possible. It's also a very good ability for lifesteal. Put 'Restless Remains' on your gloves for easy 3% lifesteal.

>>16336105

Get raped and kill yourself you retarded fucking faggot sack of nigger shit with down syndrome.

You deserve to be burned alive and buried in a landfill with the rest of the garbage, you subhuman shit smear.

>>16423957

What did he post that offended you so?

>>16421333

>How's the multiplay?

Dead and apparently it causes some problems like fps drops. And I dont think it would be that fun to play with someone, except crucible maybe. "Everything is fun with friends" still applies, but I say that MP would not bring any additional enjoyment to the game.

>>16424024

Shattered realms is pretty good with a buddy. One person tanks and the other person goes full glass cannon. Emphasis on cannon, don't go melee.

>>16423969

Drink bleach and shoot yourself in the mouth, you fucking failed abortion.

Starting the game for the first time. How far can I get with these skills?

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/1NXqvWX2

>>16424115

I mean, they'll get you through normal alright? You'd need to do some tweaking on exact values for each skill. Also devotions are just as important if not more important than your skill build, so try to work those more.

>>16424137

Finished devotion, but I don't like that I have three devotion skills I can't use due to lack of bindings.

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/Q2zqanAN

Added Ghoulish Hunger

Replaced Aetherfire with Eldritch Fire for -fire resist

Replaced Falcon Swoop with Meteor Shower

>>16424263

Maybe switch Throne for Mantis

>>16424263

I mean I'd say try it out. I don't want to tell you "okay ranged 2hander fire striker goes and does X,Y,Z and focuses on these specific devotions" because respeccing is very cheap in this game. What you have there is good enough to get you through vet mode without much trouble. You'll run into some trouble on elite and ultimate because of some other factors.

I will say you should probably throw a one off point into Menhir's will, because it'll keep you alive sometimes.

>>16424263

Ulzuin's wrath isn't particularly good. You may not need decorated soldier and you don't have to get demonic flames to get agonizing flames. Max thermite mines instead for RR and put a point in mortar trap and they can both proc some devotions for you. For example, fissure on mortar and flame torrent on mines. You can also probably count on at least 2-3 all skill points to one of your classes. Once you get some more skill points from gear, try to max agonizing flames for even more RR and maybe flashbang for DA shred. Get viper instead of panther and drop imp and take a point out of ghoul and torch to max chariot for more OA.

>>16424292

Menhir's will doesn't work with ranged weapons

>>16424941

Yeah, Krieg's is one of the sets that doesn't let you transmute, since it's farmed specifically and not randomly.

>>16424941

MIs can't be morphed you double nigger

>>16424954

>>16424941

My bad.They really should let you do that, though.

>>16425116

Veterancy is shit, fighting spirit is good, clarity of purpose is 1 point only, haven and rebuke are both good. Skills on vire might are useless too, its movement skill, nothing more. Aegis of menhir is good utility for 1 point, to kill random mob which stands too far when you dont want to walk to it or when you want to aggro the pack so it starts moving towards you, etc.

>>16425218

They're both good, since Eldritch Flame gives RR which helps the Meteors.

>>16425225

But I can't have both on EoR, should I put Eldritch Flames on my guardians?

>>16425228

You can, yeah.

>>16425229

Alright, guess I'll drop fiend then.

>>16425232

I haven't checked your build like some others have, so you might not need to. It depends if you have fire RR from other sources or not. It's really helpful though, especially since bosses like Shar'zul are fucking annoying with a fire-focused build.

Alright goys, this is my build right now. I got some slightly better equip so my resistances (for the most part) aren't complete garbage anymore. However, I don't know if I should go Eldritch Flame or Meteor, EF is the only thing I have enough points for atm. I also have +10 skillpoints and no idea how to spent them, what should I max next?

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/a2drkAQZ

>>16425225

>>16425218

>>16425228

Stacking Resist Reduction is always a good way to increase your damage output by a significant amount since it has the potential to put enemies on negative resistance values.

And you can't tie multiple devotion procs to EoR but something that is commonly overlooked is that the % chance of procs increases based on CD of the skill. So you can put Meteor Storm (which can only trigger every 3.8 seconds) on Judgement making it 100% chance to proc every time you cast it. The skill itself has a 5sec CD (and there are items that reduce its CD or just CD in general) giving Meteor Storm a high uptime.

I'd tie Rhowan's Crown to guardians, Eldritch Flame to EoR and Meteor Storm to Judgement.

Also getting Fissure from Magi might be a bit more troublesome (it's probably the weakest of the 4 but would probably work decently with Aegis of Menhir. Or skip it and spend it on something more defensive.

>>16425259

Get Field Command from Soldier or Judgement + Crushing Verdict from Oathkeeper.

I've heard that 2H weapons aren't ideal for EoR because most of its damage comes from flat damage and not as much from weapon damage % and it's easier to get 1H with attack speed %.

Though I'm sure it's perfectly fine for lvling since you don't have access to some of the really good gear.

With that in mind, absolutely get the Kraken devotion for now. Not only does it give you 20% attack speed but it also has X% to all damage nodes which is good for you since you're currently not able to convert all your damage into a single type.

Drop Scholar's Light and the optional from Ghoul (+15 spirit, +15 physique, +15 DA), add a blue point to the crossroad and spend 3 points in Kraken to get both 10% attack speed nodes (you can afford this right now). After that I'd probably finish Kraken.

Meteor Shower is great and worth working towards after that. And again, do not remove Eldritch Fire for the sake of Meteor Shower, use both and tie Meteor Shower to Judgement when you unlock it.

>>16425267

>>16425288

Wow, thanks. But now I'm 5 green points short of being able to skill Ulzuin's Touch. What's gonna be the next step of my devotion master plan?

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/d2jYjPjN

>>16425353

Scholar's Light and a point in the green crossroads puts you at 15. It's a decent devotion especially if you want those green affinities, I just suggested you remove it in order to prioritise Kraken since it's such a big boost for your build.

Is this game worth buying? i have some left over good goy steam money from selling CSGO shit

>>16425376

If you like Diablo clones, definitely.

>>16425372

Alright, will do.

Anyone cared about the lore?

I really enjoy the setting so far. It kind of reminds me of the Malazan novels. There are so many similarities it makes me wonder if the writer read the books too.

Black Legion and Bridgeburners are both expendables that turned into an elite division of the emperor through being battle hardened and natural selection by the harsh conditions they went through.

The way magic seems to work is kind of similar to how warrens work in Malazan. Arcanists seem to draw upon the magical power within the realm the Aetherials inhabit itself, followers of the Three draw upon the eldritch realm to name a few.

The way the Three usurped the eldritch realm, can be paralleled with how it was possible to ascend to godhood by claiming the throne of shadow.

Talking about Forgotten Gods, it positively surprised me.

I didn't expect that the faction you could join in homestead could actually turn into the main antagonists despite what was revealed with Kymon's Chosen quests. You start becoming less wary of the shady Three just to learn Korvaak was actually not as bad as you thought he was.

Now I'm left wondering how much Dreeg actually sees and how much of their plans actually are to the benefit of humanity instead of their own selfish needs. It really seems like Korvaak had a much better chance fighting C'thon or the possible threat of Yugol when even in his weakened state and being chained he managed to kick out all Three with just a few worshipers.

>>16425652

A celestial maggot. A cute little pal to take with you on adventures as a reward for getting mauled to death repeatedly by multiple nemesis bosses in the corner of a map for a few hundred floors

>>16425506

The lore seems interesting to say the least, they sure give a shit about the story.

>>16427253

>Black legion did not turn elite, they just survived.

They survived because they're elite. The Black Legion are criminals turned soldiers through mind control magic. They are 100% completely loyal to the emperor because of this. If you talk to the captain in homestead she tells you she is even aware of this herself but doesn't care and at one point she was kidnapped from the black legion by her former family but escaped and returned to service. They would die for the emperor without a second thought if they thought that was the best course of action.

>And Eldrich Sun is not the main antagonist, Chton is.

The end all, be all antagonist is Yugol, which is basically a black hole threatening to eat everything and only gods can stave it off. You learn this in the shattered realms notes. Shattered realms is what happens when your planet has no gods to fight off Yugol. Yugol is the reason Korvaak was concentrating on recovering his strength before he got betrayed and is also what he alludes to with his final words after you defeat him. Chthon is basically super Ravager.

>it would be nice if they recognized the fact that protagonist done more than everyone else combined.

Read Creed's journals. In one of the last ones he speculates your character is on the path to ascension to divinity. Mogdrogen as you mentioned asks you to clear his precious grove for him. If you talk to him again later after forgotten gods, he says some stuff about how the three have tricked you for their own gain and, if you resurrected Ravager, so has Ravager. He has even more dialogue if you killed Ravager afterwards. It's also not like other characters aren't doing anything. Particularly, Ulgrim kills the loghorean after you banish it back to the void. The witch cults are fighting korvaak's chosen and eldritch beasts through out the expansion and in the base game you frequently find death's vigil/kymon's chosen fighting each other, aetherials, and chthonians. It's a shame there aren't more notes similar to Creed's journal that shows the thoughts of other characters after you meet them or perform great deeds.

>"humans need help from satan to defeat supersatan! They will help us! But not now, later. This time they are busy

They probably actually are busy fighting Yugol or something similar. I think in the note Korvaak drops it mentions most of them went insane or something after a big war and Korvaak was one of the few that made it back to Cairn.

What do you think is the best class for playing with a single mastery? I've always choose two so I'm curious about how using just one would go. The loss of the extra stats might be annoying, but I think a lot of classes would be fine on their own. Oath is pretty solid, necro would probably be fun, soldier would probably be a little boring but fine. I haven't messed with arcanist or nightblade so I don't know about those.

>>16427994

Raven focused pet Occultist is probably pretty high tier.

Leveling a Cold Infiltrator (Inquisitor/Nightblade) caster right now. Night's Chill and Aura of Censure reduce resistance by a ton and with the new scarab shield with added elemental damage to censure aura I don't even have to attack anymore. Just running through hordes of enemies popping in 2 ticks and proccing a ton of chance on attack/hit shit I'm also wearing.

Almost feels like playing a retaliation build but it actually works against ranged.

>>16430150

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/YNn9pg9Z

>>16430356

I didn't think of making a viable endgame build with this. Even just the shield adds 120 elemental damage at lvl 55 which is insane.

Not sure if it would be a good idea to run Infiltrator if I just care about aura damage.

Gonna try to find a build that would work.

>>16427994

Demo works super easily, he's got a really solid kit.

I need some advice on gearing my Fire EoR Paladin. The issue I'm facing is capping both EoR and Soulfire at 26/26 and 22/22 respectively while also minmaxing the other equipment.

The two bigger concerns/issues I've run into are the 4-set Justicar Guard bonus and Ignaffar's Combustion Relic. I want both of these (ideally) but don't believe it's possible to max EoR and Soulfire at the same time.

>Closest I got is 25/26 and 22/22:

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/0V0R1xXN

<Maybe the relic makes up for the dps loss of not maxing EoR

>This is 26/26 22/22 without Ignaffar's Combustion

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/lNkopzDN

<A bit better defence than other version.

>This is 26/26 22/22 with Ignaffar's but no 4-set bonus

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/YVW8WaJZ

<I could skip the 4-set bonus and use Raveger's Dreadgaze for its +1 to all skills. But honestly this feels the weakest out of the 3.

>>16431572

Updated them with some skill adjustments and augment minmaxing.

>Full Justicar with Ignaffar's Combustion relic - 25/16 and 22/12

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/m2341WnV

>3-set Justicar with Ignaffar's Combustion - 26/16 22/12

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/pZrApXjV

>Full Justicar without Ignaffar's Combustion - 26/16 22/12

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/r2BYgDzN

>Alternate ring/belt setup of Justicar without Ignaffar's Combustion - 26/16 22/12

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/M2gE6r7Z

>>16432239

Fucked up, third and fourth build are the same. Also I'm the anon which posed the original question, new ID.

>Full Justicar without Ignaffar's Combustion - 26/16 22/12

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/Q2zq0JRN

>Alternate ring/belt setup of Justicar without Ignaffar's Combustion - 26/16 22/12

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/wV1413P2

These two are the ones I believe in the most.

>>16431572

>>16432239

>>16432302

Quad-posting because I'm retarded. The first and last build are basically identical besides the swapped relic and me not optimizing the augments/components very well on the former.

Updated the two I consider top contenders. Also switched the optional point from Ulzuin's Torch to a casual Empty Throne for 15% stun resistance.

>25/16 EoR with Ignaffar's Combustion

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/mN44pQQN

>26/16 EoR with Serenity

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/wV14pGM2

So it all comes down to how much much dps I lose for missing 1 point in EoR vs the tankier build with less -10% less RR, ~6% attack speed and ~40% less fire damage loss but with +1 to Oathkeeper.

Honestly leaning towards using Serenity since I don't think damage is my number 1 concern.

Also wondering about weapon components. Maybe it's worth using two Seal of Blades on both weapons for its lifesteal effect. Thoughts? I'd lose dps but gain a decent amount of tankiness both through lifesteal and its armour boost.

Alternatively I could use one Seal of Might instead 2 of Blades for the 4% physical resistance (and minor damage boost due to me converting physical to fire).

>>16434837

Alright, so 2H EoR is the way to go? Guess picking Soldier wasn't the best idea then.

>>16435867

It's always easy unless you're using sub-optimal builds or lack proper gear. That's what hardcore is for though, no mistakes allowed kinda raises the bar somewhat especially when going against superbosses. My first ravager clear using a spellbreaker took maybe 7 tries and you wouldnt have that luxury on HC

>>16435867

There's a lot of level of difficulty for content. I'm not talking about normal or elite. Shattered realms, crucible, and superbosses are all fairly challenging. If you can't do those then nemesis or roguelikes are less challenging but still give something. And below those is just basic boss farming which would be the lowest difficulty.

Where the fuck do my fps go whenever I spin the camera for more than 90 degrees?

>>16435855

what? the EoR set is one handed. A lot of people use one of the medals that let you DW melee weapons. Warlord is fine for EoR, you just need one of those medals.

>>16435867

The normal campaign is mind-numbingly easy all through veteran and most of elite. The gap between elite and ultimate is fairly large, though. I could facetank Mad Queen on elite easily, but can't kill her yet on ultimate. Mogdrogen is killable on elite, but only highly-specialized builds can take him on ultimate. Likewise, other bosses require lots of preparation too. Shar'zul reduces your fire resistance by 80% or so on ultimate, so you need to be hugely overcapped. Gargabol or w/e his name is, last boss of Ancient Grove, in spite of moving slowly, deals huge damage so is very tough for non-tanky melee builds.

Also, gladiator crucible can be extremely hard for some people. Plenty of other stuff that's hard, as well.

The main story bosses aren't nearly as difficult as some others, though. Ultimate Theodin was a breeze, same w/ ultimate log, etc.

So, if you're judging it just based on normal/elite difficulty, yeah it's very easy, but it does get harder.

>>16435855

Nah class setup just determines which damage type your build is suited for.

<Oathkeeper +

Soldier = physical /w Warborn set & Beronath (dual wielding)

Shaman = lightning /w Cyclone set (melee & caster off-hand)

Inquisitor = fire /w 2x Alladrah's Spellblade (dual wielding)

Demolitionist = see above

Occultist = chaos /w Mythical Wrath of Tenebris (two-handed)

Occultist = acid /w Mythical Agony + ?

Nightblade = cold /w Mythical Gravetouch & Chillheart (sword & board)

Shaman = bleed /w Mythical Scion of Crimson Wakes or Gutsmasher

In my opinion, Soldier, Shaman and Inquisitor are the best. I've played around with the grimtools builder a lot but only played Soldier and Inquisitor EoR builds.

I believe that the strongest builds are those focusing on something that Oathkeeper has -RR for. Those being physical, fire, bleed, vitality, poison & acid. But I question bleed EoR builds since you'll generally want bursty sources of bleed damage, not small consistent ones.

>>16438121

Why?

>>16438122

Curiosity mixed with a pinch of building autism?

>>16438364

Depending on your build, the flat dps isn't necessarily how much dps you actually do. It only takes into account the skills bound to the right/left MB.

For example, my Witch Hunter only has his profile display 30k dps, but there are poison ticks of 45-50k throughout almost all of every fight going off, which vastly boosts what the true dps is.

>>16438364

Damage per second on charsheet means pretty much nothing. You need mod to see your real dps.

>>16438364

Post your current build, also download Grim Internals (link in the OP) to test your dps for real.

>>16438590

Those guns are bad, they convert part of your physical damage to cold and vitality.

Put Devil-Touched Ammo on both weapons for its phys > fire conversion.

Put components on pants, belt, boots and shoulders.

You can use Canister Bomb ffor CC and devotion procing but don't put more than 1 point in it.

Stormbox of Elgoloth is better than Word of Pain for devotion procing.

Get Brimstone.

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/dVb9ojE2

>>16438694

Nice blank build you dumbass. Wendigo isn't that good for lifesteal purposes since the proc only ticks like once per second. It's mostly for sustain while kiting. Bat or revenant would be better, revenant even has attack speed.

anyone know when does 1.1.2.0 drop?

>>16438737

Oops I messed up the link.

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/dVb9ojE2

>>16438797

Anon, that's the exact same link and build change suggestions I made in >>16438652

If you further modified it and want input, you need to click "get link to this build" again.

>>16438797

>>16438811

Wait I just realized you're the Warlord EoR anon?

Regardless you linked the wrong build.

Here's my endgame physical EoR Warlord.

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/bVAgo1DN

>>16438665

>>16438697

If you want to increase your survivability you must increase your aether, bleeding and pierce resistance. Also remove all points from cunning and put them into physique, only get minimum needed to wield weapons.

Silk Swatch gives 18% pierce and 18% bleeding.

Also put faction resistance augments on all your gear, only your gloves currently has one.

Your armor absorption is bad, get a Scaled Hide component (+35 Armor and increases absorption by 20%).

>>16438854

Oh and I'm a big fan of Inquisitor's Seal for added survivability, but I believe you previously said you disliked using it.

>>16438811

Wait, what? I've already linked builds multiple times, why isn't it working? Is my clipboard fucked up? Should work this time.

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/62a9Yjx2

>>16438883

see:>>16438701

Brimstone doesn't suck, it's a big chunk of fire damage for you and it makes your ranged attacks do some aoe. Also, get a different belt that shit is killing your damage.

Where's the respec bitch after I finish the main story?

>>16438883

>Brimstone sucks

At 12/12 before calculating + damage % it does 60 fire damage and 65-84 chaos damage. These split into on average 6 additional damage sources. That's 360 fire damage and ~450 chaos. It's the biggest DPS increase you have access to.

Also more damage sources makes it easier to proc devotions tied to the skill itself and items which grant on-hit stuff like your amulet and relic.

>Yeah I can't stand still, I keep running and teleporting around to get away from danger

Build tankier so you can actually stand still for a while. All bosses aren't really kitable due to their speed. And having to constantly run severely impacts your dps, so you can see increasing survivability = increasing dps.

Shields are perfectly viable for gun builds if you find one with ranged bonuses.

>Stronghold Defender https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/8853

>Watcher of Erulan https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/8846 Mythical https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/8849

>Legionnaire's Rebuke https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/8839 Empowered https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/8841 Mythical https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/8843

Those are just the straight up ranged weapon shields, there are other which would fit a ranged build too.

>>16438924

I probably hammered you on this in the past, but unlock augments. It will increase your DPS and survivability a lot and is an easy task to accomplish. Just run some bounties.

I'd probably recommend starting with the Witch Gods in FG since you can grind all 3 faction vendors at the same time.

You can switch the gloves Component to Restless Remains for that sweet 3% lifesteal.

For Warlord, I'd recommend going for a physical build, you can see mine here >>16438816

But if you really want to go fire Warlord then do it, it's not bad just not ideal. In that case I imagine something similar to my Paladin fire EoR would be appropriate.

>Current in-game version

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/vNQW5glV

>Goal (just need those damned boots)

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/wV14pGM2

But my devotion setup is still a work in progress. I think I want to skip Phoenix and squeeze more survivability out of it.

>>16438957

She moves to the Witches coven when you start Ashes of Malmouth expansion.

It's an early town. Alternatively go to the Forgotten Gods expansion town and talk to that one.

>>16438975

>Spoiler

O-oh, maybe she did? Never paid attention to the NPC's name in the coven town. Could be a different one.

>>16438975

I think she allah-ackbar'd that monster that tried to wreck Devil's Crossing. Not 100% sure on that though, haven't had a new character reach AoM content in a while.

>>16439003

Yeah you have over 1k fire damage % bonus compared to your 260% physical damage.

The Firestrike skill itself deals 123% weapon damage with an extra ~60% physical damage.

Meaning your mainhand Firestrike deals 92-412 physical after damage bonuses.

The 41 fire damage on Firestrike becomes ~450 after applying your fire damage bonuses.

The 60 fire damage from Brimstone becomes 660. But also shoots out ~6 other fragments each dealing 660 damage.

The ~75 chaos becomes 253.

With this in mind and the fact that you have more fire resistance reduction (32 flat + -23%) and the fact that physical gets mitigated by armor (meaning since you don't stack physical damage hard enough, some enemies will take barely any damage at all), a single point in Brimstone does more for your damage than a single point in Firestrike.

>>16439003

If you're using a 2H I highly recommend the Kraken devotion.

Remove Assassin's Blade and the optional point from Ulzuin's Torch with Burn Damage, Burn Damage % and Fire resistance cap.

Put 3 points into Eel, remove the blue crossroad point and max Kraken.

>>16438997

She died defending Devils Crossing if you listen/read the lore.

>>16439199

Builds autism.

Interesting visual designs.

Its satisfying to nuke mobs of mobs.

This is like saying whats the appeal of Doom? You just go around shooting baddies until they die.

>>16439221

That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

>>16439199

GD does have a plot and some pretty decent world building though. Diablo clones are a hit or miss, I've beaten TL2 once and had no interest replaying it and same goes for PoE but the gameplay of GD brings enough variety to the stuff you can do that I can load it up any time and either try a new build or push an existing one to its limit.

>>16439384

The only thing that kinda bothers me about GD is not randomizing zones for a bit of variation, so replaying them gets really tiresome when you're on your tenth or so playthrough. At least you can finally start in higher difficulties now.

>>16439423

There's 3 bosses that drop specific pieces of the krieg set which makes it a common suggestion for starting characters. Vanquisher set only drops from roguelike end dungeon chest and there's the shattered realm set. Everything else is rng I'm fairly sure.

>>16439423

>>16439448

>Are do specific monsters drop specific set items?

Also specific monsters drop specific green items and they are so fucking good. And I think all components drop from specific mobs.

Also there are few "secred quest" drops. And some other less relevant stuff.

>>16441275

secret*

>>16439199

autistically tweaking out your character until it stomps shit, roleplay and room for experimentation, the last two being emphasized in GD

>>16439199

>Am I missing something?

A functioning brain cell. Kill yourself, you dumb fucking retard.

New patch is out:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/219990/discussions/0/1647665620944440633/

They fucked with some skills and devotions I use so that's pretty shitty. I really don't know what they were thinking with some of these changes.

I feel like for my first character I spread my points too far so I had more skills. Should I be focusing on improving a single skill for a bit and then moving on the next one?

>>16447542

Focus on one or two skills that share the same damage type. Also, put points in physique.

>>16447566

>one or two

I kept seeing screenshots with people with about 2-3 skills and immediately knew I was doing something incredibly retarded.

>>16445992

They were thinking of balancing the game, you fucking retard. Kill yourself.

>>16448311

45% weapon damage to canister bomb is a strange choice for that weapon. Would definitely be fun to dick around with though

>>16448384

Just at a glance if you're getting weird dps numbers, I'd say it's the damage conversion that the brimstone repeater has. But also at first glance I'd think the adversary would do more.

I'd grab a dps tracker add-on though, It's quite a pain to do manually, and OA is extremely important in the calculations

>>16448384

adversary has no damage conversion

>>16448411

also repeater has a disgusting amount of attack speed

>>16448464

You use canister bomb and grenado, so the adversary is better.. But it's that % damage conversion (and +4 to firestrike) that's making the game's DPS reading go so far off. Also the game's DPS readings are… pretty bad most of the time

>>16448398

What game version do you use? What version of GI do you use?

>>16448533

latest on both

Grim Dawn got updated yesterday and Grim Internals was last updated on May 1st.

>>16448548

Well, you'll need to wait for GI dev to update his tool for new GD version.

>>16448561

Not sure about some of the new spell effects. The new Arcane Barrier looks pretty shitty to me.

>>16448778

Is there a showcase available for the new spells? I wasn't even able to find any pictures.

>>16448478

>>16448464

Depending on where fire strike skill is at, you lose about 8%WD on your main attack without those 4 points. You're also comparing a weapon with a 225-282 damage spread to one with 196-543, almost 100 points more on average. That's not to mention that all the damage boosts are probably for fire, which just magnifies the difference. For normal, just grab whatever guns give you green numbers or more damage of your chosen type, it won't matter until the very end of Malmouth.

>>16448778

You enjoyed running around in a blue hamster ball?

By the way, here's 1.1.2.0 if anyone can't find it (CODEX release):

https://filecrypt.cc/Container/0F83194D7B.html

>>16449847

cheers anon

RIP warlord fags

Anyone tried an AAR build with the new changes yet? Was always my biggest issue with the skill, that it was utter shit for packs of enemies.

But I wonder if it's viable at all in SH since you need such an insane amount of survivability and after the mark of torment and mirror nerfs 'fixes' pre-FG it's quite a squishy build, relatively speaking.

>>16450697

Every diablo clone works like this. Once you reach the final difficulty you can buy tokens that unlock it on fresh characters though

>>16447542

Yes, but its less important for weapon damage characters. Also dont pick 2nd class before lvl 30.

>>16450697

Yeah, but it cost like 300k iron bits. There are vendor in expansion town, you can buy unlocks and trade them via shared stash to other characters. Same with crucible.

>>16450713

Whats the point then? I though difficulty unlocking was about replayability.

>>16450805

Like every diablo clone that has come before GD it pads out the amount of content it has but running through the campaign 3 times on the 17th character you're building becomes tedious so you can skip and go straight to the hardest difficulty it if you like but its not mandatory or anything. First time around you're still gonna be experiencing the game without difficulty skip so you can make your mind up on how you wanna go about it afterwards

The replayability comes from crucible, shattered realm and the hardest ultimate difficulty content so you're not getting much out of normal & elite once you've gotten gud

>>16450792

Is this really useful and general enough for that? Seems like it would depend more on how you were playing for this to be applicable or not.

>>16450792

>>16450832

Yeah it's not a universal rule, some masteries offer great boosts with just a few points or from a single skill.

But you should focus most points into a single mastery starting out since many have stronger skills deeper down the mastery line than at the start.

>>16450850

>>16450792

tbh heavily depends on whether you know what the fuck you're doing. Currently starting out as a pet cabalist for that fishy necro feel and honestly speccing into occultist around lvl 22ish to snag the elemental dmg aura from the familiar and Blood of Dregg for your skeletons is fucking baller tier

>>16450832

For new players its a good advice. The more options they have, the more they will spread skillpoints and be weaker as result. The fact that they have option to invest in 2nd class at lvl 10 really fucks many players in the ass, especially casters.

Of course if you know what you are doing this kind of advice is meaningless to you anyway.

>>16450861

All I want to do is make my oathkeeper autistic battle waifu that spouts nothing but deus vult and spares nothing.

On a side note I wish components would be ordered by level, fucking hate sifting through them.

>>16450976

I wish they picked sexier voice actors.

>>16451080

Components are not so bad, if you use grimstash to see what you need to use in specific slot, but crafting menu is fucking terrible. They should really have designed interface for normal sized monitors and keep separate version with small interface if they want to keep compatibility with midget screens.

>enemies 10 levels above me on a challenge dungeon mixed in with the rest that are 2 levels above me

What the fuck is this bullshit?

>new titan quest expansion released

>contains features the faggots devs are literally copying from grim dawn

>>16451201

Even at level 100 there are 110's in roguelikes and other endgame/secret dungeons. Better loot, higher difficulty and all that stuff. Better stack that OA if you wanna land any hits on them

>>16451201

10 levels above you is nominal, it's .8% chance more for them to hit you and .8% less for you to hit them, plus a pittance of extra health. Any well-made build isn't going to notice a difference between level 100 and 110, it's the base chassis of the monster that matters.

>>16450792

>>16450832

>>16450850

There are so many exceptions to this rule that you'd have to put it in with heavy disclaimers. Nightblade and Necromancer have hugely potent RR debuffs at 15, Shaman and Occultist have them right at level 1. It might be better to point out some good leveling skills and combos for each mastery instead.

>>16451386

>Another new TQ expansion out of nowhere

Damn, between that and GD I'll be good the rest of the year.

>All these nerfs to Eye of Reckoning

Why though? The only build with it that can be considered OP is the Cyclone one. They even reduced the players movement speed whilst spinning even further which mainly acts to reduce QoL. And I definitely don't think its damage needed to be reduced.

I know they nerfed the Cyclone set (which is justifiable) but they should have left the skill itself and Warborn alone.

The real problem with EoR is that even though there are plenty of items to support various EoR builds with different damage types and class combinations, they're for the most part not that amazing.

I'm going to try to put together a cold Dervish EoR build next with Mythical Gravetouch and Chillheart. But I don't know if a shield actually improves your defence when you're forced into Nightblade which as a class offers far inferior skills for tanking damage.

Anyone tried it yet?

>>16453478

In case you don't know, when you're fighting Alkamos, if you stop moving for about 0.75 seconds then keep moving again, he'll miss his first hit out of invis. You can do this to avoid the huge nukes he details with that hit. Just run around, stop for ~1sec, repeat. Nuke him when he's not invis.

>>16453478

Is there a point in going in before lvl 100? Also use potions for +100%exp from malmoth resistance.

>>16449830

>Not enjoying rolling through Cairn murdering everything in a giant glowing blue hamster ball

Do you not like fun?

are there any MI legendaries to farm for in normal for a pet caba? or am I just bad at the game, my skelebros get swatted by act bosses and I keep pumping in blood of dregg and bonds of bysmiel

>>16453512

>>16453523

>MI legendaries

Aren't all MIs rares at most?

>>16453523

Keep summoning around them, a lot of their skills are 180° arc. But if I remember correctly skeletons were quite fat themselves. If you want you can equip them with some healing devotion. Maybe invest in auras.

Is this any good if I thought TQ was a boring, easy slog? It was too simple to be entertaining co-op, that's hard to do. Do you actually have to think tactically at any point or is it a glorified cookie clicker because I'm tired of that shit.

>>16453541

All of normal difficulty was a cake-walk, although I still enjoyed it due to the story elements such as notes which are found in different places and detail the events of various things from the perspective of various people in the game. Elite difficulty (basically Nightmare) was somewhat easy, although several bosses gave me trouble and I did die a few times on my first playthrough.

Ultimate (hell-level) difficulty kicked my ass several times, and there are still a few bosses I cannot manage to kill on either of the characters I've gotten to max level.

Crucible, another game mode where you fight waves of enemies of ever-increasing difficulty up to 170 waves, is also quite difficult.

So, first two difficulties are fairly easy, but it ramps up a fair bit at ultimate.

>>16453541

Grim dawn is better(in every way) and slightly faster TQ. If you felt that TQ should be better and slightly faster than you will like it.

>>16453534

>health devotions

Like Bat and Behemoth?

>>16453585

Bat is good but you can't actually put 'chance on getting hit' devotions on minions.

You could however get Tree of Life and put it on yourself, which grants a healing aura.

>>16453523

In my experience skellies are just kinda squishy and can get wiped pretty quickly sometimes. I don't think they are supposed to be as tanky as some other summons.

>>16453818

I disagree with fiend if you're going for skellies; having 8 skellies out procing the fire from fiend every few seconds is extremely powerful.

>>16453829

Fair enough, the first linked build can use Bat and Fiend interchangeably since their cost and granted affinity is the same.

So Fiend for more skele dps and Bat for more skele survivability.

>>16453818

>Revenant summons minions based on player damage bonuses.

fuck

I'll play around with it after I finish wagecuckin'

Also does any anon wanna help me push into Elite on my first dude? currently in A4 veteran

>>16454187

I recognize the effect but can't put my finger on it, maybe from a component? Import and link your character and I might be able to remember.

On a side note, the Grim Internals developer mentions that keeping the DPS (both incoming and outgoing I'm guessing) meter up reduces your FPS. Didn't realize this at first and just thought I'd point it out, but maybe your framerate is fine.

>>16454233

Maybe it's the relic? Not sure.

>>16454187

That's brimstone, it only does that when you use a ranged weapon. Do you guys just take spells randomly and don't read what they do at all?

>>16453530