@mad_lee dude so many bonuses it feels like winning the lottery!
It took me 7 minutes to understand this xD
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i need blade spirits in my life Blademaster, Level 100 (GD 1.2.1.6) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator , surprisingly didn’t cost much to get some cuddly companions 
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it’s nice and all but what are you proccing with them here?
idono, if taking sands perhaps, - or bow? then having shadows on a simpler proccer in ros mebe? 
There are no devotion points for sands proc in this setup. I ditched it thru testing several devotion setups and different relics (by different I mean Nemesis).
BoW being procced by RoS is a special tech - idea is to maximise your damage when you are walking into bigger targets pixel. Blade Spirits will be doing it worse. It also makes sure you proc it as often as possible.
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Did some facelifting on Pierce Dervish for the current top20 testing. Build is much beefier now and more affordable (also a bit of extra punch). Grimtools is in the op, here are some videos with build’s current performance:
SR 30-31 4:13 run (long rooms)
Ravager of Flesh 36 seconds kill
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Lee singlehandedly getting pierce builds buffed just to get them nerfed the moment after, in infinite repeating cycles 
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I’m just over here going “ring of steel isnt even picked in the skill tree how da fuq is this wizard even using it”
like this:
Top20 testing update
Turns out I was wrong about OA scaling on this little beast. After a lot of back and forth testing settled on this spec. More OA, more HP, more CARNAGE. Having Intrepid Boots makes affix puzzle easier too. Credit to @romanN1 for helping me with testing and pitching some good ideas.
Find the updated Grimtools in the op. Here are some videos with build’s current performance:
Pierce RoS Blademaster vs. SR 30-31 5 consecutive runs w/chest openings (new spec)
Pierce RoS Blademaster vs. Ravager of Flesh 41 seconds kill (new spec)
Pierce RoS Blademaster vs. SR 36 3:10 run (new spec)
Also added link to @RSnoomak’s levelling guide for this build.
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Thanks <3 !!!
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It’s alive (but requires a lot of good ascends). Wish Soldier wasn’t such an outdated mastery. Will update the op much later after the first test patch probably.
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how far behind is BM from Reaver version
Now that we have affix rerolling, I wonder what the “all double rare” setup would look like and how much better would it perform.
I haven’t played RoS Reavers yet, but by the looks of it not far behind but might be wrong.
This one already has double rare weapons and I am not sure how easy it is to get them since I’ve heard affix rerolling doesn’t have bias. But someone told me that those weapons drop a lot in FoA. So still collecting data on what setups are realistic and why. Also all subject to change because next balancing patch should be huge.
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In usual fashion i couldn’t help but do a silly knockoff version Reaver, Level 100 (GD 1.3.0.8) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator but i’d not be surprised if it’s ofc far from the actual optimal way to handle it 
- still kinda fun lazy “duplicating” can work tho
I see of spines and of alacrity on weapons in GT and both are magic, so it seems like weapons are single rare.
To clarify, by double rare I mean both prefix and suffix are rare (= there is no such thing as “triple rare” in my vocab).
Yeah correct, it doesn’t.
On the bright side: rerolling in itself is not that costly, plus the fact that rare affix cannot be downgraded to magic. So once you hit any rare one, you’re just rerolling for another rare.
Might take some time and resources, but I’d say it’s much easier to roll for a “perfect” double rare now then get any MI from dungeon final bosses (Gargabol pistol, Alakmos rings etc).
It also helps that those items drop with bias, so it’s quite realistic to just farm for one of the perfect rare affixes and then roll for the other.
Oh I meant on the one in the video I posted above, this one:
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Both true.
Servitor Slicers drop in the chaos rifts in FoA. Easier to farm them now.
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