Because of role-play and magic at may be not silly. Writer can implement background story for this mastery in non-lore-breaking way.
A lot of things that I do in world of “Grim Dawn” I would not want to do in real life. So I see no problem for my immersion with a new fist-fighter.
The mere fact the game has a definitive edition should clue in on people that more masteries and expansion DLCs are not coming. Because why would you release a definitive edition only to release more expansions after?
Oh. I am not so smart. I thought that if a developer can have more money then after “Definitive edition” it is possible to add new DLCs and release “Epic edition”, then to add new DLCs and release “Legendary edition”, etc.
Oh… Some movie creators manage to sell several new movies after “final” movie in a series. And some singers manage to release new albums and give concerts 20+ years after their “final” album. And some writers artificially raise from dead protagonists killed in “final” chapter of their successful series of books just to write and sell more books.
What am I about? If it would be financially beneficial, than name “Definitive edition” would not stop developers from continuing to enhance this game.
P.S. I bought “Grim Dawn” in year 2018 and I did not know about “Definitive edition” release.
And most of those are considered terrible because the band/movie series/book series had a satisfying conclusion and now it just feels like the person continuing is only doing it solely for the money.
It would be a dick move to release a definitive edition only to add more expansions after. Because i know for a fact that some people have been waiting for the definitive edition so that they can finally play the game.
And it may be that we’ll see a GD2 somewhere in the future. But for this edition the devs have made it clear there’ll be no more expansions/DLCs except for a few more smaller content updates.
Definitive Edition only came out towards the end of last year so fairly recent.
There’s an Xbox port waiting for the game to be finished so the base game and expansions can be bundled up for that launch so another reason to wrap the game up development wise.
Sadly you’ll have to do it yourself. I’ve got 4 unarmed monk style builds going right now, my most recent is playing through Hardcore. You can read about him at the bottom portion of this wicked awesome thread Here
Here is the grimtools link for Boris, remember this is Hardcore, and only level 38 and using self found gear (thats why the sub par options), however it should be noted that at near max attack speed he pounds the hell out of everything hes come up against so far.
And here is the link to my most successful Unarmed/monk style build. This one is Softcore, so much further in the game (level 80)…
Might Guy is designed after my favorite Naruto character, utilizing +% to all damage proc bonuses in order to thematically open the “8 inner gates” and close out boss fights. He has a brief opportunity for this while all the procs are enabled which grant him an insane +860% to all damage, during which he uses Mirror and Aether Cluster to elongate a temporary window of invcincibility so he can pound the boss without fear…
However… When the window closes, he is left extremely vulnerable to counter attack and can easily be killed, so he better hope his final attack ends it!
Unfortunately, using a shield was nessecary I found in later stages of the game he needed some kind of healing ability (Overguard), and so the shield had to be used. I dont feel using a shield is unlike a Monk but, needless to say it hurts the unarmed/hand to hand aspect, and leaves me wishing for the very same thing you do- A true dedicated unarmed mastery, or at least fist weapons. But hey, we do what we can with what weve got!
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Ah… I liked the story of your Tsarevich. So fun to read. I like to role-play in games. It gives me more then half of fun from gaming.
But for unarmed walkthrough I would rather use mods and edit them as I find necessary. The mod has class Monk, and the Monk has 1 skill for fist punch and 1 skill for palm strike. Also weapon slots are not empty. He can use some kind of boxing gloves.
If it does not break your immersion, then I recommend to use “NCFF” mod with its Monk mastery. Personally I use “Dawn of Masteries” mod. It includes “NCFF” mod.
EDIT:
It is not “Diablo3” mod. It is in “NCFF” mod. It is included in “Dawn of Masteries” mod.
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The game already has “unarmed” animations. We just need a weapon type that uses these animations and counts as unarmed. I don’t know how hard it would be for the devs to implement this but Zantai once corrected me on reddit when I said it was hard to add weapon types… so I assume it wouldn’t be too difficult.
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That must have been a long time ago. Any requests I’ve voiced for this have been shot down or torn up by various members on the forum. It’s not happening.
If you’re asking for it to be added into the base game, yes of course it will be shot down. I’m not advocating for that but to instead add mod support for it so modders can add it properly.
There’s already mod support, yeah, my main desire a while back was for it to be added into base game in FG
Ok you completely missed the point seeing as you actually think there’s mod support for it.
I assume what @ASYLUM101 meant that expanding the list of “Qualifying Weapons” in DBR files of game (and implementing support for this new options in game engine, of course) is not so hard. But it will allow modders to implement fully functional fist weapons later.
Currently it is possible to create special item (belt, for example) with passive or active skill with “Qualifying Weapons” set to “unarmedOnly”. So this skill would be active only if both weapon slots would be completely empty.
It is not very good option, because there will be no stats on empty slots, no components or augments could be applied. So builds with this special item may be underpowered or overpowered depending on other items used.
In “Path of Exile” game there are special items like this for builds with completely empty weapon slots. But it is absolutely different game with different possible combinations of stats and skills on items.
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Path of exile also have Fist weapons. But you’re saying there’s items in Path of Exile that are designed for builds using completely empty weapons slots?
I’ve just recently gotten back into PoE, so that’s interesting to me. What are these items and how can I get them? Are they skill gems? Or what?
Yeah, not to mention picking up a random weapon/shield will ruin your build
I saw such a build in PoE a while ago on YouTube. I will provide link later (tomorrow maybe).
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I cannot find video with exactly the same build. I found similar video, but in it a shield is used. Shield it is not necessary for build (“the build works fine without it” is written in the video at 2:15).
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Nice! I gotta figure out how to get this stuff without paying money. I’ve never even made it to level 60 in PoE yet lol.