[1.1.9.7] Cold Infiltrator Build Need Help

Hello all! I am in need of some advice on my characters build. He is currently 75 and I am having some issues finding gear and forsure better weapons. Any ideas would be great. Cold items for me seem to be hard to find. I was thinking about moving to fire base but would not know where to start with changes to abilities or gear. Anyways thanks in advance as this is my first character in GD. My build is below. I am currently running on Veteran.

Hi, welcome!

Something to consider: how do you want to end up, playing dw melee, or going caster with rune of hagarrad? That is already an important choice to make before w can discuss skills.

What is already mandatory, max Night’s Chill to get hupur cold RR up. Devotion wise, take Rumor for additional RR. Next, you dont have a source of flat RR, so take Elemental Storm/Scales/Revenant for that in uour devotions

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the weapons you have are the best weapons in the game for what you’re (currently) doing

i’m guessing because you’re looking at rarity instead of stats, just by your loadout seems you don’t consider greens good, which they very much can be, when it’s an MI (like your swords and ring)

would not recommend this, atleast not for levelling, Nightblade side has basically 0 fire support without very specific items, and will end up being a bit weaker than your cold approach

Max out Night’s chill in Nightblade to get cold RR, get Murmur/Rhowan’s Crown in devotions to get more RR
would recommend lowering points in Deadly Aim to just 4, lower points in Arcane Empowerment
Chillsurge in Rune only needs 9pts for now (to reach extra projectile),
Artifact Handling is good, more points,
would suggest moar points into Shadow Strike and Nidallah’s Justifiable Ends for more SS utilization, which your swords supports too
you’re using a lot of poor/worthless components in your items, and no components in others, you wants stuff with “serious” stats, resistances, armour absorb, speed etc, dmg components in armour/jewellery is secondary not a priority use weapon comps for dmg boost like you’re doing
^belt, boots, helmet component should be replaced immediately, they are not helping you in anyway, those are just used for crafts or super low level
assuming you’re on Elite your resistances are very low, would consider addressing that very asap’ish, if you’re just on Normal/towards end of expansions i’d still consider starting to address it

cold RoH+SS infil is a totally solid levelling build and awesome fun imo, i like what you’re doing there very much :grava_yes:, could just use some slight “optimization” here and there :ok_hand:

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I thank you for your recommendations. I will keep with Cold and look at the changes you recommended. Would I be best to stay with DW melee or could i get more out of caster with off hand?

i’d personally say go dw melee
you get dual blades which offers phys res aside from flat and %dmg
you get better shadow strike utility which imo you should lean into too

the alternative for more Rune orientation could be like a wradlith shield with CDR prefix, or just cold caster offhand with phys res prefix - but it reduces your overall NB utility leaning in to purely caster, while not having conversion to ex use cold Storm Box etc
totally doable, but i think dw spectrals RoH+SS is more fun and better

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Thanks so much for the help. I am at a noob status with the game as this is my first character. I am going to make those changes you said in skills. If you have any other ideas please shoot them my way. It will always be thanked.

I noticed your comments on my components. Would you have suggestions?

ex Infiltrator, Level 75 (GD 1.1.9.7) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator (rings you can pick either)
note it still leaves you pretty low on pierce and especially poison resist for Elite
could potentially slap an antivenom in legs and gloves too, but ideally you’d fix it on an item instead
that’s where ex greens, specially MIs can come in handy, lets you farm an item until you get desired affixes, thus stats, that you wish. An example could be impervious prefix that provides both pierce and poison resist, or any prefix with either pierce/acid res and then rare suffix with the other
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augments
when you are Honoured with factions you unlock a new type of item enhancement called Augments, currently you have no augments on your weapons or jewellery, so go check the factions you’re honoured with if they have anything nice
*resist augments for resists you’re lacking would obviously be nice here, otherwise go for other stats you can benefit from

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