r/Grimdawn

having to juggle ~10 resistances, on top of armor, DA, OA, health, regen, damage and speed while leveling is just a miserable experience... and it also makes it so every item needs to have 10 lines of text (to fulfil all those stats) which makes it a pain to even read what they do

i'm at the point of just ignoring 90% of items and trying to stick with level 30 gear until my character hits a brick wall just so i don't have to engage with the itemization... but that kind of kills the sense of progression after core skills and devotions are unlocked

edit: i always get a chuckle from people saying "the game isn't for you" when i have 1200h played and have beaten sr80 on more characters than i cared to count :). builds in GD come pre-made with the sets, then it's just a matter of filling the holes in your stats with the other pieces, it's not difficult or interesting, just a massive chore (one that most people can't even do without external resources)

Oh my God! That was fun! Absolutely shat myself when I saw him have a second phase lol. Not sure if killing him on my first attempt is a good thing or not but that was so much fun. I'm gonna get a lot of hours in this!

How the hell are you supposed to kill bosses like Mogdrogen or the Dread?

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/26MwG3pN

Fought both several times and every time I've gotten either down to like... less than 10% health they fucking one tap me. The hell am I doing wrong? During my fight with the Dread until he one shot me he never took me down below 30% hp.

EDIT: Thanks for the help, was able to kill base game Mog on my second try with this updated version of the build. https://www.grimtools.com/calc/2d15El8V

I've only played diablo 3, and I never got into endgame, I just beat the campaign up through reaper of souls and god bored, lol. It's been years since then and stumbled across this on sale, base game is cheap (i'm sadly really broke so i'd probably only get base game), so i'm curious about it. I keep hearing it's considered one of the best arpg's out there atm, but what about for someone who barely knows what they're doing? How are the classes, and is it balanced enough I can play whatever I want and still be able to do everything? I guess i'm just looking for an excuse to cave and get the game, since I gotta be very stingy, lol.

Hi all! I bought the Grim Dawn Definitive Edition and trying the game out today for the first time. I went with a shaman as my first character, and do not want to follow any build guides for my first time around. I am a huge PoE 1/ D2 nerd so I am not new to ARPGs as a whole, however I will say that I am overwhelmed so far with this game.

When exactly should I consider locking in my 2nd mastery choice? Since I have never played the game before, I have no idea what my build will end up being, so I have no clue what mastery to even consider. At the moment I am enjoying running around with Primal Strike/ Savagery for single target.

Any tips?

I know some skills change colors with altered damage types but I haven’t seen cool purple skulls in this game akin in to chaos bolt from poe. I want to cover the screen in cool purple effects! Specific ik but please lmk if you know of any, thanks!

does it convert the flat damage (ex. 10 fire = 10 lightning)

or is it the percentage? or both?

Relatively new to the game, coming from the obvious others, and need advice. Following a Savage Vindicator build and pretty easy all the way to 100.

I'm now starting to do the shatterd realms. I keep seeing the prime farming is lvl 30-31 and I am struggling very hard with level 9-10. What is my problem?

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/N4DWoMRN

The Eldrun set is in a kind of weird design space in my opinion since it turns Occultist's Summon Familiar into a player scaled pet. So my thought was: why don't we triple down on those?

Presenting: The Eldrun Lightning Pet (but not really) Conjurer

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/ZDML5WWN

Archetype: Lightning Caster with a bunch of player scaled pets

Main Damage Skill: Storm Totem

Auxiliary Damage Skills: Wind Devil (4 of them), Summon Familiar (2 of them)

Resistance Reductions:

Curse of Frailty-Vulnerability (-26% Elemental)

Wind Devil Raging Tempest (-37%/-38% Elemental, depending on the Relic completion bonus roll)

Arcane Bomb devotion proc (-35% Lightning) linked to Curse of Frailty

Elemental Storm devotion proc (-32 Elemental) linked to Wind Devil

Hand of Ultos devotion Proc (20% reduced Elemental over 2 seconds) linked to Storm Totem

The idea behind the build is that we drop 5 totems at once (+4 Summons and +2 to max totems does that) and kite enemies while our 11 player scaled pets do their thing and we keep on applying Curse of Frailty to keep the crit chance high-adjacent and the enemy res low for the 5 totems to shotgun the hell out of your enemies

Admittedly the build feels a little squishy at times while pushing SR and farming SR 30-31 (though I'm coming off of a Worldkeeper acid Conjurer and Dawnkeeper Retaliation Warder which both are very tanky builds and the only other ones I've pushed into this "endgame" to date) but if you know how to interact with different Nemesis mechanics it's not all that critical and the damage output is solid while the playstyle is very different compared to most other builds

Something ive been wondering for a while, but havent been able to figure out. Do percent increases of types of damage on items affect minions?

IE: would a sword that increases fire damage by x% increase the fire damage of the hellhound?

With the launch of Loyalist pack 4.

I wish they could fix the redeem method.

It is super chunky talking to that NPC, then you do not know what you had redeemed or not.

Just recently I had tried to redeem mine.

Now that I am more invested, I consider equipping the skins.

The true reason to buy the packs is to support Crate, as most of us feel like doing, so my request might be incoherent.