2H Range Commando Pierce/Physical Focus

Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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Hey guys, I tried to make a post earlier to discuss a physical/pierce focused 2H ranged build, but it didn’t catch too much traction.

Anyone have any input, questions, or suggestions?

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If your focus is pierce/physical then I don’t see much you can use from the Demo tree (unless you would like to use Flashbang/Searing Light as a form of cc to keep them at range).

Going pure soldier actually works amazing well with that build. I know this forum (for some reason) is against going pure class but for me (as far as soldier goes) it is freaking amazingly efficient.

I maxed

  1. the whole Cadence series
  2. Field Command/Squad tactics
  3. Oleron’s Rage
  4. Warcry (with terrify)/Break Morale (this is another form of cc to be used in tandem with Flashbang if you want)
  5. Markovian’s Advantage (warning: your 3rd Cadence strike will override this. It only has a chance to proc on the first 2 hits)

The rest of the points dump them into passives. Soldier has the best passives lol. Or dip into the Demo tree for FlashBang.

It worked amazingly well for me.

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Also check out valduns set. Built for 2h physical/Pierce

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Demo tree is really helpful for maxing the physical addition of temper and for stun canister and grenado for me at least. Youre maxing physical damage so grenado is absolutely fantastic for clearing. Also, I prefer using firestrike for my main attack over cadence simply because it applies a bonus to every attack, also allowing markovian’s advantage to always trigger. My big problem at the moment is definitely survivability however. I dont know why but even with 5.5k HP in elite im getting slaughtered around lvl 67. I do 17k dps and have 1200 cunning, pretty glass cannon build however.

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If you put everything into cunning then of course you are going to have survivability issues. Key takeaway is that dead characters do 0 dps. You are going to have to go full defensive in your devotion set up and sacrifice a lot of damage stats on your gear for hp, armour and resists. Max out military conditioning and blast shield.

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I have a 2H ranged FireStrike Commando 50/50 using Oleron’s Rage

…I use Silverbolt http://gracefuldusk.appspot.com/items/8178-Silverbolt crossbow as 1) it has +2 skills 2) crossbows have piercing conversion

using a pretty random gear set such as Clairvoyants hat, Empowered essence of Beronath to give +4 all skills overall and another +2 to demo or solider depending on your belt / relic