Heh, @GDStash is a joke referring to the tool to craft whatever you want and import it into the game. Join the CULT OF THE STASH today! 
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I did this and also got some resist gear from another character i had and things now r significantly better…ranged mobs r still problematic but nowhere near what i was suffering before…actually since i am trying to avoid combat and let my pets do the work i am thinking of taking points out of eye of reckoning/soul fire and investing in the phantasmal blades line…having a ranged attack can be safer and still enable me to join the battle…how would u rate that? i am not not an expert and never even used that skill before do u think this might downgrade the build somehow?
I have seen others use PB instead of EoR with this build quite successfully. Not sure how it will fair in the end as I haven’t tried it myself, but if you feel safer, - go for it. Damage is never a problem with this build. The reason I’m using EoR is that it synergizes well with this setup due to conversions, adds quite a bit of damage and some damage reduction from soulfire.
really looking forward to how this shapes up in the end…i am considering switching from eye of reckoning to phantasmal blades but confused about best point allocation and devotions…how is ur build evolving?
Oh thank you very much.
Still bashing away at this concept. I am not an expert theory crafter, but I do enjoy playing around with alternatives to the different class builds out there. The RNG gave me the fire items for the gavel and helmet from my lvl 100 farmer, so I just went with those with an existing dervish. I am currently at level 91 in ultimate and am crushing all I encounter (barring the embarrassing beating I got from the priest in steps of torment, but that was just stupidity on my part that won’t happen again - too Cocky with a fire resistant enemy).
The “Living Shadows” to me seem to be an asset to the build as I can have 3 of them up almost permanently when linked to PB. As I said, I am no expert builder, but my theory is that the belt “Cinderplate Girdle” converts the Shadows piercing damage to fire?
Shoot me down in flames if that is incorrect, but they are definitely the FIRST pets that spawn right at the targeted enemies of PB, even before the Guardians, Blades and Kitty have even thought about attacking them and even before I have used my “Pet Attack” key. Visually they appear to be hitting with fire damage, either way they are fast, hard hitting, aggressive and are my elite Ninja fast attack squad.
The devotion using Seekers may be better later with fire boosts, I dunno yet, but it is really fun to see 3 “Living Shadows” charge into the battle and get reinforced by the Immortal Army.
I really like @Contragor suggested use of the Justice set and have equipped it as I already had BOTH versions of that in my stash. I will stick with it and equip the lvl 94 version when I reach that level.
(I knew that there was gonna be some sort of use for that set somewhere 
)
Lets see what enfolds …
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That makes sense, I don’t have either of those 
This makes more sense to me now. Thank you
please remember to post ur final setup when u r done or close to it (94?) i am very interested in finding out how this version will look like in the end
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Will do, I still have yet to come across the amulet item or blueprint for “Conduit of Night Whispers”, but hopefully it will drop somewhere from my lvl 100 farmer on one of her runs 
Both Krieg and Cronley were a joke in Ultimate with this build - even with the sub-level equipment (80+)
I currently have at lvl 91. I have all the other equipment waiting for lvl 94 (bar the elusive amulet 
).
I would like to post some short video dumps of Krieg and Cronley showing how the Living Shadows proc and attack, but have no idea how to do this?
I will obviously Google this, but I know a lot of you guys have done this on the forum as well as YouTube and if if there is a nice simple uncomplicated solution I would love to hear it.
EDIT - Oh WOW, it is a “Rabbit Hole”! - As usual, so many options with so many different features out there.
I just want a SIMPLE - START and END record of a game session. I am not interested in voice over commentary or showing my image live in a box at the bottom.
A small KISS solution suggestion would be ideal.
If you have an Nvidia graphics card, I suggest using GeForce Experience -> ShadowPlay. Basically, once you install Geforce Experience and launch the game, the recording functionality is available via Alt+F9 (start and stop recording). The video files are usually saved in the video\Grim Dawn\ folder on your primary drive. Hope this helps
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That is a REALLY nice feature of Nvidia. Unfortunately I have a Radeon card. It may have a similar feature as both companies normally strive to be on a par with each other. I have not come across it, but worth a Google.
I think my card and driver are too old for that. My driver has nothing like that.
I have a HD 5800. Radeon has something called Radeon ReLive, but from reading the requirements. It does not look my card is supported.
I have found a YouTube clip that shows how to use “OBS Studio” for recording - I will give that a go.
Yeah that’s the problem with having 10 year old hardware, support for it starts getting dropped. Since that’s the case you will have to use a third party software like obs or fraps if you want to record gameplay
That OBS Studio captures the game nicely and is easy to install and use.
I am not sure the best way to post the video here as this is the first time I have tried this.
I am using a shared link, forgive me if this is the incorrect way of doing it.
The video is of lvl 92 in Ultimate with the lvl 80+ gear still, running from Direni to Darius Cronley.
I am using PB and Living Shadows in this alternative.
EDIT …
Ok, I am now able to equip my lvl 94 equipment and it really does make a vast difference 
Still looking for some decent leggings and some other fine tuned upgrades, but getting there, and the build is now ROCKING.
You can immediately see the difference here if you compare the SAME run to the above previous 80+ gear.
Nuff Said!, it smashes things to pieces with very little effort from the player, I just either charge in dealing damage, or charge out dealing damage.
As a player you have the option to stand back and let the army do what they do, or stride in and utilize the 2 “Fight or Flight” skills that actually deal damage anyway whether you are rushing in, or getting the hell out of there. They are your “Get out of Dodge” or “Here I am, Rock me like a Hurricane” options.
The build as it stands is able to charge into the battle with Ram and Vires and stick around in the melee for a while dealing damage before jetting out of danger, leaving the army to continue their damage and is quite resilient in resistances, DA and armor absorption.
@Contragor Fire build I think will probably have tons more damage to the pets that lets you stand back and watch, and as he says “You are welcome to climb in and have a few swings yourself”. This build immerses the player a little more with the fight and flight damage mechanics that requires more player interaction to add to the damage pool and encourages more " climb in and assist" gratification.
As is the norm with Grim Dawn, there is NO ultimate build with any class combo or BIS as there are in many other games I am not going to mention.
Once I am happy with the final lvl 100 build and found all the other shit I am missing, I will post Grim Tools.
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that looks nice…looking forward to a grimtools link with full setup (skill points/devotions/attributes/gear) for the final end game version when u have the time
New post (or rather EDIT), not sure if Discord triggers on edits or new posts, but see above.
I only read far enough in the posts to see that you’d considered but discarded a vitality build for this idea, but not far enough to see if anything had come from that, so my apologies if this has been addressed already. My vitality/acid build for this idea is only around level 80 for real testing, but theorycrafting says it should be plenty strong in the long run.
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/qNYXAbJZ
You’re right enough that you lose a blade spirit, but better damage conversion should about even things out in the long run, since I don’t think multiple sources of damage conversion stack additively the way you’ve implied it does. Unless that’s changed in the past couple of updates since I actually looked it up. Shrugs. The Deathstalker will be a bit weaker, since I didn’t go out of my way to convert its physical damage. The build still uses MIs, which doesn’t make me happy, but I managed to meet my minimum resistance requirements without any prefixes or suffixes at all, if only barely, so pretty much anything will be a net gain.
The armor and DA is a bit weak for my tastes, but considering combat is nearly 100% kiting it’s not a huge issue, and a vitality build means easy access to ADCtH, so its a decent trade to me. There’s also not a lot of give in the equipment, not with a vitality/acid split and trying to avoid MIs if I can. Also, since I’m lazy, I favor items with on attack effects that get procced by Night’s Chill. I can’t say it looks better than your versions (not that I didn’t try), but it shouldn’t fall behind, at least. Unless I’m missing something. Since I don’t have a completed test build yet, who knows?
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Looks pretty good to me. This needs testing, but on paper it should be very strong indeed. Nice setup! Would it be stronger than the fire pet dervish? Not sure. EoR easily adds about 100k dps to this spec if you are willing to drop a few points here and there. But even without the extra skill and its good synergy with the overall fire spec, the devotions look a bit stronger on the fire side. Plenty of mobs have high fire and vit res though, so not sure. But it should definitely be on par if not better than the acid version I posted earlier. I hope you get it to 100 and test thoroughly.