[1.3.0.8] Awakened Dreadwalker Spellbinder

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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The core of the build is Awakened Dreadwalker set, which adds onslaught effect to Drain Essence + changes Panetti’s Replicating Missile (PRM) from spammable to on-CD spell adding some damage on top. Conduit of Arcane Whispers also has similar effect on PRM, so why not combining them? On-CD PRM with all the damage modifiers + 8 onslaught stacks should hit hard…(Disclaimer - I expected much higher numbers).
The current build is here.
It can kill almost all superbosses (with empty altar). Exception is Avatar of Mogdrogen V2 - killed via kiting it, at some range the boss stops fighting and returns closer to the initial location so you can recover and start the fight once again - I can’t consider this as a true win. Uber Nerfatal took me about 50 attempts for the first kill, 3-4 attempts per kill afterwards (poor piloting, I guess).
The build pros:

  • several protection tools (passive - Maven, Aurora relic; active - Mirror or Ereoctes, Mark of Torment).
  • life drain: Drain Essence + passive life steal > 25%.
  • high OA + 2 main skills have additional crit damage multiplier.

Cons:

  • low DA / armor (low DA is partially compensated via decomposition)
  • low RR.
  • uses PRM - the worst ROI skill in the game.

This build is rather an idea that kinda works; I think there is a big room for improvement.

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I find it ironic that you just posted this since I was in the process of writing my version of the same build. Great minds think alike and all that I guess. I found the same issue with damage but my survivability seems a bit better. I managed to get closer to 3000 DA.

PRM just doesn’t have the damage even with all the multipliers to make it really worth it. I found that most times I would rather just keep channeling DE than pause to use PRM. Also it feels like PRM sometimes just doesn’t hit or do full damage even with the 4000 OA.