Pierce Albrecht’s Aether Ray Mage Hunter
I decided to try pierce AAR Mage Hunter. Build is enabled by Conduit of Arcane Whispers. For sustain the build uses Pulsing Shard for ADCtH to AAR. Healing increase helps here. Other defenses are very strong - Maiven’s Sphere, Inquisitor Seal and Horn of Gandarr. You thus have all types of damage absorption/reduction. Build also has nice physical resistance, good CC resistances and +3 to max all res from the conduit. It all makes it quite tanky. It also uses Mirror of Ereoctes and Nullfication when needed. Total pierce RR is up to -95 % (I don’t count Ravager’s helm skill - I didn’t use it). Build also uses crit damage to AAR - total is up to 112 % crit damage. % pierce damage is only slightly above 2000 % and could be better but DPS is still respectable 300k. But it doesn’t feel like that high. Some damage also comes from the cunning dump. Build also has nice racial damage to almost every racial group. This build can clear SR 36-37 fine and if played well even SR 38 most of the time.
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Mage Hunter, Level 100 (GD 1.2.1.3) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
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This build is just a template. Customize it to your own liking. Crafting bonuses should be ideally to healing increase. You need casting speed from affixes.
AAR with passive buffs + Inquisitor Seal
SR
In SR 36-37 I finished 4 out of 5 times within the timer. If you die you will not make it within the timer. Avoid Kaisan’s crystals and Aleks’ meteor otherwise you can tank it all. Some enemies are slower to kill.
In SR 38 I finished 3 out of 5 times within the timer. You must not die to do it in time. Build becomes slow here. Killing Fabius is quite slow but not dangerous. Kaisan is slower and tougher but still doable. Start avoiding obvious dangers. No boss is undoable but some are slow. Avoid nemeses in the first three chunks. Use nullification proactively and mirror when SHTF.
SR 40 can be finished with some deaths. Play it extremally safe. Fabius is still doable. First three chunks are harder than boss rooms.