Lightning Retaliation Warlord
Last time I did lightning retal with Warder and Archon for Dawnshield set. This time it is Warlord.
There is a support in devotions for physical retal or for fire retal but not for lightning retal. And the support is also mostly for shield builds. I thus decided that the best way to approach it is to go for a hybrid retal build. Some normal lightning damage and some lightning retal damage. Thus by itself the retal damage here is not spectacular and the normal damage is also not spectacular but if you combine them it actually works. RATA skills that are used here are Counter Strike and Righteous Fervor. In devotions I went rather non conventional. The only retal one I took is Hyrian. And the rest went for support of lightning damage, attack speed and defenses. I didn’t even take any tier 3 devos. My approach also worked for Warder and Archon as well.
Warlord is the weakest of these three possible builds but they are all close to each other. It has OKish attack speed compared to the other two but it could still have more. Defensively the build uses damage absorption on Menhir’s Bulwark, damage reduction on attuned lodestone and high healing increase of 72 % which is nice for ADCtH. Mythical Avenger of Cairn amulet is also necessary defensively here due to +4 to max res. Build also has high phys res and armor. It is hard to get OA and DA though so you have to roll good items for that. And Da on this build could be better. It holds this build back a bit compared to the others. I also went for some racial damage to help the build in high SR.
I am actually quite surprised how well it all works together. And take into account that this is a blue set that will get ascended in FoA expansion. Build can do SR 90 within the timer mostly. And it can kill Ravager.
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Warlord, Level 100 (GD 1.2.1.2) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
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This build is just a template. Customize it to your own liking. Crafting bonuses are to freeze resistance.
Righteous Fervor DPS with passive buffs
SR
I finished SR 80-81 5 out of 5 times within the timer. It is easy.
In SR 85-86 I finished 5 out of 5 times within the timer. It is easy but don’t do anything stupid. Valdaran is slower but you can tank his aura fine. Iron Maiden and Aleks are slower.
In SR 90 I finished 4 out of 5 times within the timer. If you die you will be on edge with the timer. Aleks is slow, destroy his crystal ASAP. Valdaran is slow. With Ascension, Ghoul or health potion you can tank his aura. Iron Maiden is slow.
In SR 95 it can be finished with some deaths but not within the timer.
Celestials
I killed Ravager of Souls without pharma. It is slower. Avoid sunder of course.
Calagadra I think can be killed if you will have the patience to do it because it will be slow and boring and you would have to kite. I didn’t have the patience.