First of all, sorry for my english.
This is an acid/poison based guide, using occultist + nightblade. The main damage is poison and acid is just secondary. The idea is to apply as much poison damage as possible with as much duration as possible, so the enemy will die slowly even if we aren’t touching it.
Videos
Loghorrean run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4ctEV0-NI&feature=youtu.be
Vs Commander Lucius: https://youtu.be/919uXhgK04k
Vs Shar’Zul, Harbinger of Chaos: https://youtu.be/LDZ7qV6lOIg
Vs Benn’Jahr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jjo2IEky5g&feature=youtu.be
Vs Fabius “the Unseen” Gonzar: https://youtu.be/4CFzhjGQx-g
Vs Valdaran, the Storm Scourge: https://youtu.be/GJgHMLzFtdU
Pros
- Cleans quickly big packs of enemies.
- High speed
- Very high damage over time.
- Has 3 skills to heal himself (+potions) and one protect us for 3 seconds making us invulnerable and reflecting damage.
- No mana problems.
Cons
- Not a lot of armor, so quite squishy.
End Gear
Weapon 1 - Runed Dagger of Dreeg + Vitriolic Gallstone
Offhand - Fiend’s Resolve + Mark of Dreeg
Head - Hood of Dreeg + Runestone
Shoulders - Mantle of Dreeg + Mutated Scales
Chest - Vestments of Dreeg + Silk Swatch
Hands - Viperfang Grips + Mutated Scales
Waist - Sash of the Immortal Sage - Bristly Fur
Legs - Nidalla’s Legwraps + Silk Swatch
Feet - Venomspin Greaves + Mark of the Traveler
Ring 1 - Ring of the Black Matriarch + Corpse Dust
Ring 2 - Ring of the Black Matriarch + Corpse Dust
Amulet - Black Gem of Dreeg + Black Tallow
Medal - Mark of Divinity + Corpse Dust
Relic - Dreeg’s Affliction
You may think the build is high deppendant on Dreeg’s set, but you don’t need to have the full set or even the set to have a powerful character. The waist is very usefull because of the resistances. Thanks to that big ammount of resistances, you can use one of Rover’s aguments (+7% Piercing Resistance and +10% Cold Resistance) in all your armor. I use Potent Outcast’s Venom (Outcast) on the weapon and offhand. Finally, I used Viloth’s Bite (Devil’s Crossing) in both rings and medal.
Skills
This build uses few skills, so it’s very comfortable and easy to play it.
Grim Dawn Calc: http://grimcalc.com/build/YKLnX90
Grim Dawn Calc with item buffs: http://grimcalc.com/build/YrimSd6
Lets comment the skills:
Offensive Skills
Curse of Frailty
Nice debuff to reduce enemy’s resistances and make them more damage. We need some points for bigger area.
Dreeg’s Infinite Gaze
It shoots eyes around us. Quickly recover skill and big radius. Very usefull to spam it. One of the main attacks of the build.
Dreeg’s Afflicted Spines
It shoots spines around us. It’s similar to Dreeg’s Infinite Gaze, but it can pass throw the enemies and deals more damage. It has also bigger cooldown.
Dreeg’s Evil Eye
Another core attack. It shoots a big eye wich explode and makes area damage. Usefull againts packs of enemies.
Shadow Strike
It deals a nice damage against one enemy, but the main reason to use this skill is that the character runs quickly to the enemy, but can’t be attacked until it makes the attack. After attack, we can use the full combo to clean the area.
Defensive Skills
Pneumatic Burst
It gives us health, speed and defense thanks to the upgrade. It has also a good recovery time.
Blood of Dreeg
It gives us health and damage thanks to the upgrade. It gives us a lot of health regen too.
Blade Barrier
Makes us invulnerable for 3 seconds. It also gives us health regen during these seconds, but we can’t move, so be prepare if the enemies are still alive atfer the effect.
Auras and Passives
Poison Aura
Small buff to our damage
Veil of Shadow
Debuff for near enemies (nice combo using curse of frailty too).
Possesion
Less damage taken and buffed damage.
Devotions
These are the selected devotions. After completing the important ones, I expent the remaining points in some useful devotions. Lets the the points:
- Crossroads (+5% HP): 2 points
- Affliction: 3 points => Veil of Shadow
- Empty Throne: 4 points
- Rat: 4 points
- Akeron’s Skorpion: 5 points
- Eye of the Guardian: 5 points => Curse of Frailty
- Spider: 5 points
- Tortoise: 5 points => Possesion
- Vultura: 5 points
- Abomination: 6 points => Shadow Strike
- Manticore: 6 points => Dreeg’s Evil Eye
Leveling Guide
Dreeg’s Evil Eye deals a lot of damage after applying Focused Gaze. It applys cooldown to the skill so you’ll play as a nuker, using that skill and moving until it you recover the skill to use it again.
After getting Mark of Dreeg component, you get a new and very useful skill with low cooldown. Use both to easy clean packs of enemies. If you are dying a lot because you use shadow strike to get in the middle of the enemies, then get Sash of the Immortal Sage to improve resistances. You can use Vestments of the Great Guardian as Vestments of Dreeg replacement.
I used 68 points in physics and 22 in spirit.
Conclusions
This guide was made to play an easy and comfortable character. You don’t need a lot of skills to use and you can spam some of them quite often. Poison damage deals damage over the time, so if you have low resistances or health, just use some skills and kite until the enemy die. There’s no need to hit him all the time because the poison of the same skill doesn’t stak, just reset the timer.
This character can play crucible too. I tried challenger up to round 100 and I had no problem. I’ll try the next 50 waves.
I’ll try to make a few videos and upload them in the next days. I’ll put a few colors to make easy to read the guide.
Greetings
