Hi, I’m new to the forum and also a newcomer to Grim Dawn, as this was the first game I’ve played of this game.
Before starting with the build, I wanted to comment that my English level isn´t very good, sorry.
Damage
This is a conjurer (Occultist + Shaman) focused in bleeding damage, a type of DoT. The damage comes from:
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- Stacking as much -RR as you can:
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Devouring Swarm(-43%) + Curse of Frailty (-47%) + Rend (-32%) + Boneblade (-10%) + Mythical Maw of the Dawned (-10%)
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Tip the Scales (20%) when procs.
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- And stacking different sources of bleeding damage:
- Bloody Pox, Hungering Maw, Decapitate, Falcon Swoop, Howl of Mogdrogen, Devouring Swarm, Blood Spine, Blood of the Sands and Rune of Violent Delights (when used).
Sustain
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15% Reduced target´s Damage from Rune of Korvan Swiftness (when used)
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18% Damage Absorption from Primal Bond
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Dryad´s Blessing
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Mend Wounds (from Wendigo Totem)
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Blood of Dreeg
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ADCtH from Devouring Swarm and Hungering Maw
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≈ 40% Physical Resistance
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≈ 20k HP
Devotions
Leveling Build
Basic Gear
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Core gear are Boneblade, Gargoyle Visage and Bloodfeast’s Mark. All of them have nice Bloody Pox modifiers and are easy to farm from Trog enemies in Mountain Deeps, Gargoyles in FG area and Bloodfeast from Tyrant´s Hold. Look for bleeding damage affixes.
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Lunal’Valgoth’s Girdle with good rolls can be very good here, but the craftable Solael Vile Girdle isn´t bad. Until you reach level 90 you can use the different Rhowari Girdle.
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Elite Malmouth Vanguard Cuirass and Elite Solael Bloodshroud Mantle are faction gear and provide bleeding damage and physical resistance.
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Scarab Shell with a physical resistance prefix.
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It has taken me a long time to find blueprints to craft good relics and medal augments. Until I could use Massacre I used Rampage and later Sanctuary.
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The rest of the gear is more flexible, look for affixes to cover your resistances, increases in OA/DA, bleed damage and HP.
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Some blue items are good, especially rings and boots, but they are random drops.
Factions
Prioritize raising your reputation with the Malmouth Resistance and the Cult of Solael to buy the chest armor, shoulders and craft the belt.
Side with Kymon´s Chosen on normal and Elite, and after buying all their important stuff, like Kymon’s Fury, you can switch sides to join Death’s Vigil or not.
Friendly with Barrowholm.
Leveling
Level 10: Shaman, Level 10 (GD 1.2.1.3) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
Level 20: Conjurer, Level 20 (GD 1.2.1.3) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
Level 35: Conjurer, Level 35 (GD 1.2.1.3) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
Level 50: Conjurer, Level 50 (GD 1.2.1.3) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
Level 75: Conjurer, Level 75 (GD 1.2.1.3) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
Level 100: Conjurer, Level 100 (GD 1.2.1.3) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
Once you have reached level 100, complete the game’s main quests (if you have not already done so) and those that reward skill or attribute points, including the first SR levels.
With this budget setup you can farm all skeleton keys dungeons, totems and bosses.
Morgoneth: https://imgur.com/a/9lHOsxI
Rashalga: https://imgur.com/a/vo5ku3B
Then you can start farming to get the final equipment.
Endgame Build
With permanent buffs
Shattered Realm
Starting at level 20, if you’re new to the game like me, try to fight the bosses 1vs1 in the boss rooms and you’ll be fine.
Up to SR 33 it works very well, I haven’t tried to go beyond that: https://imgur.com/a/a6FVaHL
You can change Living Armor for Chains of Oleron when Benn’Jarr starts to appear, but I didn’t need it and use a Hoarfrost Ointment against Moosilauke.
Celestials
Bourbon Clones: Enter and exit the room so as not to fight all the clones at the same time.
Lokarr and Crate: The 2 die very quickly but against Crate, an aether cluster saved me from dying.
Lokarr: https://imgur.com/a/kykRrZs
Crate: https://imgur.com/a/W9rQXHi
Against Mogdrogen, Callagadra and Ravager of Souls it took me about the same time to defeat them, between 7 and 8 minutes.
Modgrogen: I would have liked to repeat the fight as I made a lot of mistakes, and I probably should have tanked more.
Callagadra: https://imgur.com/a/0qGF4kK
Ravager of Souls: The most difficult combat in the game. He hits hard and fast, like Callagadra, but also, his summons are very, very annoying and killed me several times.
Thanks for reading.