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Grim Dawn Classes, Skills and Builds
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So I have been messing around with Grim Tools all day trying to get some sort of aether melee build for Necro. I kept bounding between Demo and Soldier for the other mastery (to get a spammable skill)

I think I finally put together something playable. It is by no means optimized (a few pieces are selected because I didn’t see anything better, but I am sure I am missing something).

But I did play around in Ultimate with it some, and it is fun and competent–not fantastic, but competent.

DW Aether-Firestrike Defiler
Around 2700 OA, 2k DA (not sure what I should be aiming for at 100).

I put Rifstone on one of my weps because I love mobility skills (I couldn’t really get blitz or SS to work for necro melee), and chaos strike is both fun, and decent damage for me.

The Dreadfires are for fire to aether conversion. I went with Demo as the other mastery to get firestrike as a spammable ability.

I have two piece Clairvoyant and two piece Kriegs because I didn’t see better alternatives for these slots, and the bonuses weren’t terrible (I must be missing something).

Again, I tried this out in Ultimate today and it’s not terrible. I would love suggestions though. I am sure I am overlooking something to make it more effective.

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Any suggestions?

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Maybe be more specific with your problem? Damage too low and killing stuff too slow? Having trouble staying alive and dying too fast or too much? It’s it certain types of mobs? Aetherials resisting your attacks?

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Survivability is decent, the damage is too, but between the two, I feel damage is more lacking.

I tested in the plains of strife initially, and the Aetherials didn’t seem to be resisting too much.

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I feel that 15k life, 2500 DA and 2,5k armor at lvl 100 is required to feel safe in melee on expansion .
And the dmg output of linked build dosent impress me at all.

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It’s still in concept phase