[1.3.0.8] Decay Aegis Sentinel - All Celestials - FoA Update

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Long time no see Crate Entertainment forums. Time to update some old favorites of mine, which means big one punch DoT builds.

This is a Voidsoul build focused on Vitality Decay. FoA brought many balance changes that affected this build, most importantly the charges on Aegis of Menhir which makes it a lot more pleasant to pilot.

I also replaced a ring and rerolled some affixes.

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Vit Aegis stats
With permanent buffs only

Vit Aegis damage
Damage with Abominable Might and Ascension

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Fishing for high crits on dummies

Dummy kill in one combo in 1.2

Gear
  • Voidsoul set and Conduit for obvious reasons. Use Seal of Blight on shield for additional flat damage and crit.
  • Weapon may seem weird but this is the best option due to conversion. +3 Second Rite is big too. Mark of Solael for additional rr
  • Ring of Vile Intent is needed to hard cap Reprisal. Part of the poison DoT is converted thanks to weapon
  • Widow’s Bit for vitality rr proc, conversion and bonus to second rite.
  • Dread Knight Legplates for +3 Second Rite
  • Basilisk Medal for crit damage
  • Valguur gloves for conversion and OA
  • I found Girdle of Stolen Dreams more useful than +1 OK belt due to high OA and to hard cap Second Rite
  • Crafted boots. “Solael’s Malice” suffix used to be necessary to hard cap Second Rite. Still a good affix, but not as mandatory.
  • Relic is Meditation because of course it is
Skills, Attributes and Devotions

Minimal physique and cunning to equip gear, rest goes in spirit for damage.

Pretty straight forward skill distribution: max main skill and rr, as well as utility skills like Ascension and BoD. Dropped excess points in Solael’s Witchfire for more flat chaos (fully converted) and % damage. I’m using DEE for damage reduction and to proc Abominable Might reliably. If you use 2x titan plating, (which you should otherwise you may have to deal with this:
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then 1 point in Rebuke is enough to deal with reflect.

Devotions are a little all over the place but all the important stuff is there: Rattosh and Manticore for rr, Abom for high %damage boost. Rest is filler. Notice that Rat’s poison is partially converted by weapon.

Performance

All videos are from 1.2 patch except the new superbosses (Dread, Neo Mog, N’erfatal). SR is smoother than before, but I haven’t recorded a new clip so remember this is the old SR scaling.

How to level this build

Play standard vitality caster. I speed leveled wearing Lokarr set and Wilhelm amulet using Boneblade, Vampiric Bonewall shield and Bloodfeast medal. Max Pox (with Fevered Rage), Sigil main node and standard support skills.

Thanks for reading, if you have any questions feel free to comment.

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I definitely need to revisit my build with the new update.

This is very cool :smiley:

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Reviving this zombie thread. Build updated for the new patch, some new videos, etc.

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I was clicking through the videos, liking that you’ve got the new bosses kill times.
And was like “ooh, even uber nerfatal!”

:rofl:

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I think that was the best performance on Uber Nerf ever :rofl: highly recommended to do so and chill somewhere in Ulo’s Springs with a hot girls :rofl:

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Thanks for this. I had a retired Sentinel and just got all the new achivements with this build

Brutal damage :skull:

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You already know I’m a big fan of the build. I’m glad it’s doing well in 1.3 :slight_smile:

Just an observation: if you switched your conduit’s suffix from chaos to aether, you could save some augment room for some juicy +4% health ones :slight_smile:

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Good point I forgot you could do that.

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Have been running this build for a few weeks (albeit without correct affixes on the MIs, with something subbed for Ring of Vile Intent which I don’t have, and just random first-off Ascended affixes on all items) and it’s been great fun!

SR30-31 runs smooth with 2-3 mins left on clock, and it is able to essentially facetank nearly all Nemeses in there. Clearing both Mogdrogen avatars, Calla, Ravager, Dread without much issue.

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Happy to report that it is now also running SR34-35 pretty easily (bit of piano playing needed) and has cleared Crucible 200!

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I know that might be a dumb question but there’s something about the conversions that I don’t understand, Voidsoul set converts Physical and Fire to Chaos and the conduit converts Physical and Fire to Vitality, How do I know which one prevails over the other?

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Not a dumb question by any means!

The conversions will split 50-50 any flat Physical and Fire Damage on Aegis itself and any that gets passed through % Weapon Damage. Any Burn will become Vitality Decay since there is no DoT for Chaos. Since this is a Vitality Decay build the conversion to Chaos only takes a small bit of damage away from the flat while the large %TDM multiplier significantly boosts the DoT damage.

With all of the other global conversations on the build, all flat Chaos will become Vitality and up to 54% of Acid/Poison will become Vitality/Decay.

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Thank you. I didn’t know that the conversion splits that make sense now.

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