Pierce Albrecht’s Aether Ray Mage Hunter
I decided to try pierce AAR Mage Hunter. It is a meme build one cannot expect much from it. Build is enabled by Conduit of Arcane Whispers. For sustain the build uses Pulsing Shard for ADCtH to AAR. Other defenses are Maiven’s Sphere, Inquisitor Seal and % damage reduction on AAR. 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 also uses Mirror of Ereoctes and Nullfication when needed. Total pierce RR is up to -90 % (I don’t count Ravager’s helm skill - I didn’t use it). Build also uses crit damage to AAR - total is up to 137 % crit damage. % pierce damage is above 2400 % + cunning dump and DPS is 360k. But it doesn’t feel like that high unfortunately. This build can clear SR 36-37 fine and if played well.
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Mage Hunter, Level 100 (GD 1.2.1.6) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator
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_Albrecht the Piercer Mage.zip (803.5 KB)
This build is just a template. Customize it to your own liking. Crafting bonuses should be ideally to armor. You need casting speed from affixes.
AAR with passive buffs + Inquisitor Seal
SR
In SR 36-37 I finished 3 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 slow to kill.
In SR 38 you can sometimes finish within the timer but not consisently enough. You must not die to do it in time. Build becomes painfully slow here. Killing Fabius is quite slow but not dangerous. Kaisan is slower and tougher but still doable. Darius Connolay is almost unkillable. Avoid nemeses in the first three chunks. Use nullification proactively and mirror when SHTF.