A personification of storm (1.1.2.0-1.1.8.1) - the rise of Druid (EVERYTHING+)

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Dropping Ghoul and Bat, grabbing Viper and switching Widow for Murmur frees 4 poins to grab Blizzard from Amatok, for some extra sweet orbital bombardment. It’s squishy as hell, but Unlife, Giant and Mirror give enough breathing room to kite away. Frankly, I’m not even sure what Ghoul or Bat do for a build like that. Meanwhile, Blizzard feels just so right.

Edit: nvm, I keep forgetting about Hand of Ultos. Still. Can’t recommend Blizzard enough for glass cannon.

One other question: when crafting gear for this build, what smith do you guys use?

craft for stun res

That’s Kaylon, in Steelcap District, right? According to wiki he’s the only smith that you can craft for reduced stun duration, if that is what you mean

Can you explain why casting speed is considered a priority? It doesn’t affect the totems or the anubar rings, and this is a CDR build so I would have thought “Of Falling Skies” or “Of Torrents” would be better in the off-hand.

The animation speed on cooldown skills is still effected by cast speed. For a lot of people, if it’s too low, then it feels clunky or sluggish to play with.

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I’ve heard this noted… how much of a difference does it effectively make? What would you consider to be the “minimum” CS for a CDR caster? I ask also because I’m trying to balance belts - I’m trying to consider the procs and cons of a Mythical Arcanoweave Cord vs boosting cast speed even faster with Stalwart Chains of Ygraad of the Gildam Arcanum sitting in the bank.

Chains of brandis are bis here due to vitality->lightning convertion (to convert vitality damage from bat in devotions)

Always depends on the build-main problem with CS here is because there’s no CS on trozan set, but for tss druid such cs is enough (ofc it would be great if devs could add some cs to trozan’s starkeeper)

This tss druid is the most effective tss build ever, i guess

How is this in 1.1.9.1?

Should be same as it was before. Going off of memory, none of the items the build uses have been significantly hit (if they were even touched at all) by the last couple of patches.

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Looks like a fantastic build, so I’m looking forward to using it! Thanks :slight_smile:

Unlisted video from Dmt’s channel. 6:14 naked crucible run. Patch 1.1.9.1. Sadly no GT attached.

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Druid, Level 100 (GD 1.1.9.1) - Grim Dawn Build Calculator GT link from a comment reply in the video if anyone wants it

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