[1.2.1.3] Green Rocket: 4:00 Crucible Gladiator 150-170, Ravager, Crate, SR 36 easy to gear Aether PRM Spellbinder


*Corrupting spellcraft of great Panetti with the power of Aether

Foreword

In this Panetti builds golden era that officially started… checks patch notes… two days ago not every PRM build should be a slightly worse version of Invoker PRM Mage Hunter. Some might not like this boring tug of war between Invoker’s Fire/Lightning Panetti Mage Hunter or Tri-Elemental Panetti Mage Hunter again or maybe even Cold/Lightning PRM, you guessed it, Mage Hunter again. Shooting missiles behind the safety of Inquisitor Seal, booo, boring! How about some of that intoxicating 162% crit damage over 4000 effective OA old school Spellbinder’s power instead?

The Build

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*Craft for Slow Resistance and Healing Effects

The concept

Basically the real challenge was to find defenses that are usually lacking on a Spellbinder - namely DA, hp and armor. I resolved armor issue that by taking Charriot and some %armor devotions that fit in that devotion map and then using Krieg pieces that are all heavy armor (and also give good hp bonuses). Same Charriot that addresses DA shortages goes especially well together with Arcane Will.
Another little tweak was taking Harbinger of Souls over Reckless Power. The loss of damage is really insignificant, however gains in sustain are massive since build has four weapon damage procs (major ones being Spear and Korvaak and minor ones being rings and gloves proc).

Gear/skills/devotions/levelling

Another idea was to make gear as affordable as possible. All monster infrequent greens are single rare and have the most common rare/magic affixes. Most of the legendaries are either faction items or target farmable Krieg pieces. One flexible slot is pants slot - you can get some green or craftable pants here with hp and OA (technically Krieg pieces can also be something else but build won’t be as good without them).
Skill distribution is pretty standard apart from the Exclusive skill choice I explained above.
For devotions I took Charriot that fits here like a glove and standard for Aether Spear/Korvaak.

This is the endgame build. It works as advertised once you equip required gear at character level 100 and repeat my grimtools as close as possible.

Gameplay

Build facetanks everything in Crucible (even buffless Crucible) and SR 30-31 (ex-SR 75-76). However if you are pulling multiple bosses together (which is what you should do for maximizing the damage because of the overlapping pass thru PRM shotgun effect) use active defense (Null/MoT/Mirror/Evade to reposition) more.
For Ravager fight use all 4% hp armor augments and rotate Mirror/MoT/Null/Cluster.
For Crate fight do this.

Stats

General (with Charriot’s proc and Arcane Will up)

Panetti’s damage (Arcane Will up)

Videos

1.2.1.3 SR 30-31 4:35 run

1.2.1.3 Ravager of Flesh 1:16 kill

1.2.1.3 SR 36 run

1.2.1.3 Crucible Gladiator 150-170 “naked” ex 4:25 run (no buffs/no banners)

1.2.1.3 Crate kill by RomanN1 (Poof+CPU overclock)

In conclusion

All hail Spellbinders, old kings of Aether magic!

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For those wondering… Here’s another video of interest.

[1.2.1.3] Lee’s Final Aether PRM Binder vs Crate (Poof+CPU overclock)

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totaly insane build i love it saw ur videos before u upload it in here its a blast nicely done thank you. im just wondering if you can get the same stats def , resis’s , dps if u replace krieg set with double rares like good greens.

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It is difficult to beat two piece Krieg combo especially nowadays when gloves offer casting speed. And there are not many candidates for good chests except for I guess well rolled Haunted Vestments or Chosen Robes. But then three piece Krieg set bonus is also what the doctor ordered here.

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Surely it does more than that, right? Even my half-blue built which has half the stats this thing does can do SR32 (that’s what 80 was, right?) without any problems.

Ah yeah there you go. I was about to say, the new PRM probably does SR30 naked :crazy_face:

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I gotta say, it can easily die at SR 36. Gotta be on your toes all the times with mirror/mot mirrors and try to not overextend. But overall it’s pretty versatile, you are right.

Hi mad_lee, are there any faction choices I have to make for this build (Kymons chosen for instance).

Thanks

Hi Alientank,

Faction choices really don’t matter with this build except for befriending Outcasts for their weapon augs (but also not really build defining just preferred).

Kind regards!

Speaking of that, why this augment vs Bysmiel’s shroud ?
Racial bonus ? Health ? Both ?

It comes down to 40% more damage 16 more OA from double Bysmiel augment to 400 more hp and I guess 6% more total Aetherial racial? Or maybe it counts as 12% towards PRM here, actually not sure. And I prefer extra 400 hp, build already got OA and %damage in abundance, and because I wanted to

I went for that HP.

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Thanks Mad_lee!

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What do you mean by naked ?

I mean without equipment, but it was a joke. It’s so much more powerful than before the patch, it’s a bit silly imho.
It already did old SR75 before, just very slow on the bosses. Now it deletes absolutely everything with 0 effort.

Question if I may, is Shadow Queen + green shoulders (for conversion) that much better than slathsarr medal and Krieg shoulders/other green shoulders? Thanks

PRM is pretty strong these days but you still have to put effort into making a good build out of it tho, right?

It is better because it gives more damage to PRM overall (and better stats). It’s also cheaper.

Ehh… I don’t know. I used Elementium as a joke (together with the blue hood set): Mage Hunter, Level 100 (GD 1.2.1.3) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator And it can still run SR35, though it does have some issues with some bosses, others it can facetank no problem. Seems a bit too much to me, given that it has suboptimal gear.

Thanks, if we look purely at the WD part of Slathsarr versus the Aether dmg part on Shadow Queen, Id say Slathsarr is more forgiving then due to extra sustain vs the damage? Or do you consider the WD neglectible (not sure about WD mechanics, as we already have 30% somewhere else) Thanks :slight_smile:

So can quite a few builds. Your gear could be better tho, that’s for sure.
EDIT: I think sure way to see if PRM is borked or not is to look at its single target damage. To farm fast in SR with it you still need to group up bosses, otherwise you would be slower than average top build.

There was a thread somewhere here that explained why wd to PRM is semi-useless. And even if it wasn’t 30% is really not that much. You get more leech via higher flat bonus on Shadow Queen and high OA it offers (you crit more often with a super crit skill that is Aether PRM and thus leech more). Slathzar medal is just all around worse.

Thanks so much for your insights. Really appreciate it.

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Hey I started making this build and I’m wondering if it’s possible to get pathing through the devotions, can’t seem to figure out which way to go ':smiley: