“First of all, you are using a wrong conduit. You need one that gives spam mod to Aegis, preferably with Acid resist. Second of all, you need to distribute skill points as shown in the grimtools link, i.e. your Shaman mastery bar points should end with Blood pact, your Heart of the Wild should be at 10/10 and your wendigo totem should be at 12/12. You should also patch your acid resistance. Good luck with the build”
(this is from me) Also lee forgot, you should max Raging Tempest. RR is king.
Thanks a lot @tqFan, @x1x1x1x2, and Mad_Lee! I didn’t realize that the conduit spawns with different prefixes and suffixes. I guess I’m pretty new as to how the item stats work! But loving the build so far!
The retirement is postponed for an undefined but hopefully short period. This monster is still a fortress, crit damage buffs on Aegis were welcome. Here is a little video of its current performance, basically not much has changed:
You can’t (cuz then you gotta sacrifice Menhir’s proc or Hawk and then together with Panther sacrifice your OA will tank a lot) and you don’t need to: it’s really hard to die with this build already.
@lazycalm , I decided to record a video in SR90 to demonstrate build’s tankiness:
Didn’t take pharma and played a bit careless trying to facetank both Fabius and Shattered Hinass in the boss chunk. Of course if you are playing on HC and attempting SR 90 with it, take all the pharma and don’t pair the bosses.
Hmmmn, seems 1.2 definitely improved it’s performance, I was finding it a lot less tanky in 1.9.8 compared to my version. Just did a SR85-86 and died because I got too cocky in the 86 boss room lawl, but it feels a lot better than my previous runs. Died because I forgot IM’s sunder was going to be a problem and she’s best taken on 1 to 1.
Probably going to use Dark Progenitor as the medal augment now, since that allows for reduced enemy DA which means MOAR critical hits, which mine needs for higher damage.
Used this set up to kill Ravager of Flesh: Archon, Level 100 (GD 1.2.0.3) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator Needs fast reflexes though due to his sunder being very deadly and of course because due to stinking hot nights I’ve had poop sleep and so I died a lot. Handles SR86-87 pretty well though in it’s standard form. Even before the 1.2 changes iirc.
My version, which is more focused on making Aegis solidly lightning damage based.
Found hard capping the first node pays off well enough and the use of the current medal gives more sustain. Add in the flat RR from Crown and it works pretty well
But yeah, I did test your version pre-1.2 in SR80 and it was definitely suffering due to +elemental resists mutator and felt a lot more glassy than mine. That’s probably due to my ADHD induced bad piloting skills though and not cycling the defensive procs like I should. Except now your build goes through SR85-86 so much better due to the changes 1.2 introduced.
And that’s even with me getting craptastic sleep of the last month+. And had yet another 20°C night last night too, as climate change is really screwing up the normal patterns of summer weather here in NZ.
Mr. @banana_peel had the idea to bump casting speed on this one by using Dread Skull in medal and a Gargoyle Girdle with casting speed affix (and also using Will of the Fallen Kings rune that procs Targo better). I tested it and after few minor tweaks decided to update the spec: it’s indeed a little better overall. The trade off is a bit of flat retaliation damage and a bit more expensive gear (you can still use blue belt of course), but it’s definitely worth it in the end. Plus there are two affixes between belt and medal that work: Light Bringer’s and of Gildam Arcanum which makes it a bit more flexible (both affixes are among the most popular rare affixes in items pools and have around 2.2% to spawn, as corroborated by drop rates mathematician @modal).
Here is a snippet of loot tables for Gargoyle Girdle look, for example:
This is a good question! Challenge layers (as dangerous domains are called in the game files) do improve the odds of getting rare affixes (except in “easy” challenge layers).
The tables @mad_lee showed above assume no challenge layer. The relative frequency of affixes within the same tier does not change depending on challenge layer, only the chance of rare vs. magic.
For example, here are the affix combo rates on Ultimate for a Gargoyle Girdle dropped from a Hero mob (or BossChest, in SR), assuming different challenge layers:
This build is not new, this concept was implemented by Safarel in the game version 1.1.9.4 [https://youtu.be/YYHHU7hOGHc?si=XHwrTWDtMtLkDSJi]. Strange to see that no mention of this respected author of the post did not make.
Here’s an older video by banana_peel and I don’t see any mention of it in this Safarel’s vid
I guess Safarel stole it from him. Also you need PhD to figure out that you can spam Retal Aegis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEJu2FXrhUA
Haven’t seen that video or that build and it looks very different to what I did (different items, different focus in devotions).
I did get inspired by someone else’s build when putting it together more than two years ago but it was @banana_peel 's build, as you can see, he posted his video earlier than the video you mentioned:
But it’s okay that you made this mistake, shit happens.
to be real, it doesn’t matter if the build is similar… we all get inspired by each other in some way if we interact here. Of course I don’t agree or courage to do 1:1 copying and go full on out and claiming that its yours and acting like that’s normal behavior, however, in the end of all things I feel like if I make builds I never worry if it has been done or not, that would just make me a bit sick to do so.
I do remember community hated requenix who did something similarish but he is gone.
Talking about build itself here, I also did a couple spam aegis builds and it’s nice to see it performs decent, heard that u need lots of celerity suffixes to make it doable.
