[1.1.3.1] [HC] Vitality Doom Bolt Sentinel [vids]

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Hello people of Cairn. I’m here to show you another fun build, a vitality Doom Bolt spammer. So far I was able to play through all acts of ultimate, the four roguelikes, killed Lokarr and managed to do SR 50-51 on HC.

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GRIMTOOLS
new set up using Hourglass: https://www.grimtools.com/calc/DV9zRlWZ

old set up using Obelisk of Menhir https://www.grimtools.com/calc/b28jEBDZ

crucible: I kinda lack the motivation to play that mode atm

celestials (except Lokarr): Didn’t try with this meme build and don’t think it will be that nice to do.

Main Campaign Bosses and Dungeons: check twitch Vods for that, if you like to see the runs, e.g. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/446842388

Devotions

Tier 1:

  • Viper: OA, affinities
  • Hawk: OA, affinity
  • Jackal: phys res, total speed, affinity
  • Sailor’s Guide: phys res, movement speed, slow res
  • Lotus: my favorite out of the new devotions, phys res, HP, energy, improved healing
  • Bat: best tier 1 devotion in the game, insane lifesteal, %vit damage and good affinities.
    either 2 or 1 (+eel) out of the following three:
  • Panther: OA, affinities
  • Stag: movement speed, pierce res
  • Scarab: bleed res, %armor, stun res
  • Eel: DA, pierce res

Tier 2:

  • Solemn Watcher: the best overall defensive devotion, DA, armor, res

Tier 3:

  • Will of Rattosh: -RR, must have for any vit build, %vit damage, res
  • Dying God: OA, DA, %vit damage, crit damage and %vit damage on proc
    either:
  • Aeon’s Hourglass: -6s cd proc every 16s, very nice for Ascension, Blood of Dreeg, Resiliance, Doom Bolt, etc.
    or:
  • Obelisk of Menhir: very good defensive tier 3 for any build, DA, armor, stun & freeze res, armor absorbtion

Gear

mandatory

  • head: Covenant of the Three (CDR mod for DB)

  • gloves: Mythical Riftwarped Grasp (CDR and damage mod for DB)

  • weapon: Mythical Damnation (100% Chaos to Vit conversion mod for DB)

  • offhand: Mythical Codex of Violent Rifts (CDR and damage mod for DB, CDR and conversion for Judgment)

not mandatory

  • amulet: Mythical Pestilence of Dreeg (OP for acid / vitality sentinels)

  • rings: Mythical Signet of the Fallen and Voidheart for RR

  • chest: Mythical Clairvoyant’s Robe (many other options here)

  • shoulders: Rah’Zin’s (many other options here)

  • belt: Mythical Girdle of Stolen Dreams (insane OA)

  • relic: Eldritch Pact (helps out a lot with missing AoE)

  • pants: Grava’Thul’s for +3 Celestial presence (the affixes are just to overcap, not mandatory for capping, choose whatever you like more here)

  • boots: Mythical Footpads of the Grey Magi (craftable, can get nice smith bonus, many other options)

  • medal: Mythical Mark of Divinity (many ofther options here, actually the first time I’m using this medal on a char, fits nicely here imo)

Leveling

  • level using Bloody Pox, Curse of Frailty and Judgment with DB for single target dmg (vitality) or just lvl as fire Oathkeeper (Vire’s Might + Judgment)

  • rush bat devotion

  • using the new Totally Normal Bulwark is totally awesome for lvls 50+ when going the vit route

Abbreviations

DB = Doom Bolt, RR = resist reduction, OA/DA = offensive/defensive ability, CS = casting speed, CDR = cooldown reduction, HC = hardcore, HP = health points

Feedback

I’d suggest giving Mythical Damnation the same -0,5s mod for DB as Mythical Clairvoyant Wand and the Bloodsword Repeater already have (or just give it more flat damage). Also could you make Mythical Pestilence of Dreeg’s ability a proc instead of an active? This build really has to press a lot of debuff buttons. Making it work the same way as Blightlord’s proc (you did an awesome job changing that one to a proc) would be nice! Then the build could possibly make the jump from being a meme build to being an actually good build.

Final Words

Even though performance obviously can’t keep up with the meta builds the build is a lot of fun and DB is more viable than ever. I can recommend this build for anyone who is not an absolute beginner and who has nicely filled stash, the build is a lot of fun!

Have fun bolting down DOOM onto your enemies! :smiling_imp:

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Why Obelisk of Menhir when u can get Aon’s Hourglass with proc?

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/M2gGlo72

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Honestly I thought Hourglass wouldn’t be that good as DBs CD was pretty low already, but dps increase should still be substantial. Double bolt every 16s, which would be a dps increase for DB of ~15% (15 DBs instead of 13 in 16 seconds, maximum) respectively 8% (13 instead of 12 in 15 seconds, minimum). So on average a 11-12% dps increase. It’s also great for Ascension uptime (~4 seconds downtime instead of 10). Stun res would be down to 0 during downtime of ascension though, which on the other hand would be only a short time. Still need to fix that a bit (leathery hide will maybe do the job). The dps increase mentioned before will also be higher because of the higher ascension uptime. And obviously also for Dying god proc. I will definitely test that. Thx!

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Np! For me not about dmg, but u get almost the same resistance and CD proc wich helps u a lot, like u said.

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Hey, I really can’t say how this stress on tankiness played out for your build, maybe it really worked great, but did you indeed try Aeon + Oathkeeper’s Passive? You will have Ascension 24/7 with that, plus if you add Ghoul, that’s gonna have a really low cd as well. Oh, and Oathkeeper’s amazing passive Resilience would up SO often.

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The stress on tankiness worked out nicely so far (it’s HC after all), but hourglass really does seem very tempting. Ghoul though? I literally do not have a single %weapon damage spell except for bat devotion.

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This is need to be tested of course. But it worked out amazingly well for the Dervish I have posted earlier. The synergy with high CDR, Ascension, Aeon, Resilience and Ghoul is off the charts, I was amazed how build was just refusing to die in Crucible when I was testing it. Of course it’s a different kind of build that has naturally tonns of adtch, but, maybe it can work out for your build too, I don’t know.
Ghoul just gives you physical resist and monster adtch so every little piece of weapon damage starts leeching like crazy.

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I’d like an update on this!

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Build is updated and tested with Hourglass devotion.
I also added some new videos, hope you enjoy them!

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Thanks, I’m enjoying it. Do you think any changes could be made for Softcore SR?

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So idk if the following will really increase performance and I probably won’t try them as I think they are not an option in HC, but I guess they can be considered and are worth testing in SC:

  • use path of the three instead of possession
  • use different medal/boots/pants
  • use different chest/shoulder/rings, if you use path of the three instead of possession
  • change around devotions, maybe ghoul is worth it even though the build has like 0 %WD like mad_lee suggested
  • be a better pilot than me

Edit:
Ok, there is one thing that I would maybe also change in HC:

  • use second seal of might instead of symbol of solael