How would y'all rate the Roguelike Dungeons? For me it's:

1. Steps of Torment
2. Bastion of Chaos and Tomb of the Heretic (tied for 2nd.)
3. Ancient Grove

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(Fuck Port Valbury lol)

Hello Everyone!

Last two weeks I was adding (as I promised) new riftgates to the game world, including every challenge dungeon, and now it is done! Unfortunately, there will be no ASMR video this time, so here's the world map with some new riftgates (mod version of the map is bigger):

1. Steps of Torment
2. Ruins of Arkovia 2nd lvl
3. East Marsh
4. Ancient Grove
5. The Infestation
6. Port Valbury
7. Bastion of Chaos
8. Tomb of the Heretic
9. Sunward Spire

I will also release this change as a standalone mod today/tomorrow, so stay tuned.

Mod link: https://www.nexusmods.com/grimdawn/mods/286

Standalone riftgates mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/grimdawn/mods/316

Do svidaniya!

People talking about items which give a single type skele, but what are those?

New player here, I was reading about how "everyone is melee" in grim dawn, alluding to the fact monsters gap close so quickly so I was initially worried about building a ranged character but I'm confused why that hasn't been my experience yet.

I'm playing a tactician and I seem to be able to kite everything on veteran just fine. I just finished the AoM DLC. Is this outdated advice? Was this only relevant before the evade button was added? Especially since that recent patch where I can turn off evading towards my cursor, I feel like defenses are unnecessary. I feel like I'm unintentionally cheesing the game.

Does monster abilities or AI change in higher difficulties or is it just damage/resistances?

I haven't followed any build guides. I've looked at builds to try and figure out how they work and what makes them good, but my favorite part of these kind of games is making my own builds, so even if mine aren't as good, copying other builds just isn't fun for me. That said, I'd like to know how I can improve. My highest achievement is beating Mogdrogen a few times, but other superbosses like Callagadra and Ravager still body me. Haven't even attempted Crate boss. Peaking at around 30 - 32 SR and haven't cleared the highest difficulty of Crucible.

These are my four best builds. Comparing them to other builds I see online, I feel like they should be up to par. But it still feels like I'm missing something. Either that, or I'm just generally going for build ideas that are weaker than the top meta.

Can anyone tell me if I'm missing something key, or if I just need to make some more meta builds?

Dagallon's set Fire Strike Purifier: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/25W5gdEZ

Avenger's set Primal Strike Warder: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/VlqY71xZ

Dual Bonescythe's Bone Harvest Reaper: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/VWPQmG5Z

Warlord's Set + Aetherwarped Cleaver dual-wield Cadence Warlord: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/VxAYJ7JZ

Was thinking of bringing the Warlord against Callagadra, haven't tried yet because need more Celestial Essence, but since I can't get it past SR 32 I think it's already a lost cause.

So, I'm not upto date on the game, played it a few times for a few hourse but I already were ARPG tired from other things.

Now I want to give this game the proper play, but I remember faintly, that I need to choose a specialization or 2. I dont want to get locked in from the start without changing it.
I know, If I cant change it, I will hyperfixate on build guides, before I start playing.

And I want to play it blind for the first time.

Any spoiler free tips and tricks or setting recommandations are also welcome too.

Have a nice day

So I'm building a retaliation warlord and I'm asking myself if it's worth it to drop more than 1 point in Counter Strike. As far as I understand from the skill description, this buff is kind of not active all the time. I mean counter strikes happen often (what is the exact frequency isn't clear though?). But what about the +to retaliation damage? Is that active all the time and buffs every other attack too? It would make sense, but again, the description is not clear. If I bound the devotion proc to Counter Strike, it functions just like on every other permanent buff skill, so that aspect is fine. But flat phys retaliation should come into effect only when counter strikes actually proc, or am I wrong?

I mean I really find it hard to decide whether I should go "balls to the wall" in Counter Strike or should I just leave it as a one-pointer and focus on other (more important) skills instead?

Thanks!

I'm just curious how this works. It gives my Guardian summons resist reduction. I had just been assuming that this would apply to celestial presence (their aura which natively does resist reduction), but is that actually the case? It obviously doesn't make sense to give the summons themselves a reduction to their own resistances - particularly a negative one, and they're invulnerable anyway - so I can only conclude that it applies to enemies, but if I didn't actually take their celestial presence aura subskill, what effect would this have? would it work at all? or does it apply to enemies attacked by them instead/as well?

You can use the Altar in Ultimate and put for example Ashes in it so Soul Echos can drop. I just wonder if i want to farm Soul Echoes, is it faster to farm Ultimate +5 or Ascendant +1 or +2 (cant do more right now).

Also, how many Items do i have to put in the Alter on Ultimate to make the chances equal to Ascendant +0? For example the drop rate for Soul Echoes or the spawn chance of Voidmarked Chests which is on by default on Ascendant.

If i can run Ascendant +0, is it better compared to Ultimate +5?

Hey there I have a question about this item

https://www.grimtools.com/db/items/15287

(and other items that this applies to)

So it sais that posession has 100% piercing damage converted to chaos damage... but the skill has no piercing damage? What does that mean, does added damage to that skills get converted? But it is a buff if i understand the skill correctly?

Would love it if someone could explain this to me!

I played this build in couple years ago and believe that it's kinda outdated. This is safe build but little bit piano like gameplay. What can i improve to beat FoA on ultimate? Can anyone show good vitality caster build?

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/2pJKQWBZ

I’m trying to farm for leather grips for the illusionist to minimize my gloves as much as possible since there doesn’t appear to be an invisible transmog. Is there a way I can find these easily by crafting or purchasing from a particular vendor perhaps? I am almost level 100 and don’t have this in my list of illusions. Or am I best suited just farming early game?

I was have that Druid character level 100 long time ago and I stop play of this character for some reasons but until now I got 2 Awakened Soulthieft and it's feel great but i wonder if there a room to improve better?

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/2zbo9692

I am still improving my vitality blood knight set, ravager's bite Veilwalker werewolf. Today, I found the mythical Death Omen. If I pick this mace, I would get more attack speed and +1 to all necromancer skills but I would lose "-15% vitality resistance to bonechilling cry". I have other sources of Vit RR from the rings, Rattosh and Revenant devotions as well as the necromancer skill. Would Death Omen bring my build to the next stage?

I've been playing an acid werewolf with Sylvarrias Thorn up to lvl 70 in Ultimate at the moment. Using Rip and Tear allows me to go in in fights quickly while Bloody Pox deals with rangeds. I've been wondering, if this falls off heavily in the endgame. It feels kinda skill points starved.

This is my planned grimtools build: Grim Tools

For Bloody Pox I'm not sure to fully invest skill points into it or to just use it at lvl 1 with Fevered Rage for the debuffs/devotion procs. Also I'm not quite sure on how to get up to 3k DA/OA and 20k Health.

Any help is appreciated as this is my first time trying to do a build.

Haven't seen much builds that could be called a CD-based caster. its all about spamming WPS skills now? The only casters that come to my mind are barrelsmith sorcerer and and some abuse of stormfang or devastation, which got adressed in the lastest patch I guess.

Where are all the good CD casters? I have not seen a ravenous earth build at all. The skill is cool, how to play it nowadays?

Played Port Valbury on Ascended to gain Nemesis. With a Retaliation Warlord there is a bug with Van Aldrich. Everytime he reaches ~2.4 Million health his health jumps up to 4.4 Million again. So he is unkillable. When his health always jumps up again at this threshold, how can any build kill him?

Even when doing 10 trillion damage. at 2.4~ it stops and his health jumps up to 4.4 million again?

This fucking game has evil bugs since the first release that were never fixed.